Jiannan Cai
Jiannan Cai
Associate Professor
College of Surveying and Geo-Informatics
Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Email: jncai@tongji.edu.cn
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Selected Publications
Selected Publications
You can also find my publications on my Google Scholar and ResearchGate profiles.
Edited Book
Edited Book
Theories and Methods of Geospatial Association Pattern Mining. Min Deng, Jiannan Cai, Zhanjun He, Yuanfang Chen (Eds). Beijing: Science Press. 2023. (地理空间关联模式挖掘的理论与方法. 邓敏, 蔡建南, 何占军, 陈袁芳 著. 北京: 科学出版社. 2023.)
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
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2025
Jiannan Cai, Mei-Po Kwan. 2025. Revealing the complex dynamics of social disparities in personal transit availability considering human mobility and neighborhood effect averaging. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 115(3), 620-639. (Link)
Jiannan Cai, Mei-Po Kwan. 2025. Individual environmental exposure dynamics through the lens of neighborhood effect averaging. Urban Human Mobility: Practices, Analytics, and Strategies for Smart Cities (1st Edition), Xiao Huang, Xinyue Ye, Kathleen Stewart, Subasish Das (Eds). (Link)
Haoran Ma, Yan Zhang, Qinyu Cui, Mei-Po Kwan, Jiannan Cai*. 2025. Perceived distance to greenery affects psychological restoration. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. doi: 23998083251362610. (Link)
Yan Zhang, Mei-Po Kwan, Jiannan Cai, Jianying Wang, Peifeng Ma. 2025. CrossGraphNet: a cross-spatiotemporal graph-based method for traffic speed reconstruction using remote sensing vehicle detection. International Journal of Digital Earth, 18(1), 2528640. (Link)
Dong Liu, Zihan Kan, Mei-Po Kwan, Jiannan Cai, Yang Liu. 2025. Assessing the impact of socioeconomic and environmental factors on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic based on GPS-enabled mobile sensing and survey data. Health & Place, 92, 103419. (Link)
2024
Jiannan Cai, Mei-Po Kwan. 2024. The universal neighborhood effect averaging in mobility-dependent environmental exposures. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(45), 20030-20039. (Cover paper) (Link)
Wenzhen Li, Jiannan Cai, Gengze Liao, Mei-Po Kwan, Lap Ah Tse. 2024. Individual-level noise exposure and its association with sleep quality and duration: A cross-sectional study using real-time data. Science of The Total Environment, 955, 177047. (Link)
Yang Liu, Mei-Po Kwan, Jianying Wang, Jiannan Cai. 2024. Confounding associations between green space and outdoor artificial light at night: systematic investigations and implications for urban health. Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, 100436. (Link)
Jiangyu Song, Suhong Zhou, Dan Zou, Mei-Po Kwan, Jiannan Cai, Junwen Lu. 2024. Non-linear associations between noise level and people's short-term noise annoyance in different activity contexts. Environmental Research, 260, 119772. (Link)
Wenkai Liu, Haonan Cai, Weijie Zhang, Sheng Hu, Zhangzhi Tan, Jiannan Cai, Hanfa Xing. 2024. Enhancing bivariate spatial association analysis of network-constrained geographical flows: An incremental scale-based method. Spatial Statistics, 63, 100852. (Link)
Mengjie Zhou, Mengjie Yang, Tinghua Ai, Jiannan Cai, Zhe Chen. 2024. Rethinking the null hypothesis in significant colocation pattern mining of spatial flows. Journal of Geographical Systems, 26, 375-405. (Link)
Zihan Kan, Mei-Po Kwan, Jianwei Huang, Jiannan Cai, Dong Liu. 2024. A spatial network-based assessment of individual exposure to COVID-19. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 114(8), 1693-1703. (Link)
2023
Jiannan Cai, Mei-Po Kwan. 2023. Understanding social inequality in individual perceived exposures to air pollution in residential and visited neighborhoods: A study using association rule mining. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 113(10), 2392-2416. doi: 10.1080/24694452.2023.2236190. (Link)
Jiannan Cai, Mei-Po Kwan, Zihan Kan, Jianwei Huang. 2023. Perceiving noise in daily life: How real-time sound characteristics affect personal momentary noise annoyance in various activity microenvironments and times of day. Health & Place, 83, 103053. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103053. (Link)
Zherong Wu, Xinyang Zhang, Jiannan Cai, Peifeng Ma, Hui Lin, Mei-Po Kwan. 2023. Understanding spatially non-stationary effects of natural and human-induced factors on land subsidence based on InSAR and multi-source geospatial data: A case study in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. International Journal of Digital Earth, 16(2), 4404-4427. (Link)
Zihan Kan, Mei-Po Kwan, Jiannan Cai, Yang Liu, Dong Liu. 2023. Nonstationary relationships among individuals' concurrent exposures to noise, air pollution, and green space: A mobility-based study using GPS and mobile sensing data. Health & Place, 83, 103115. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103115. (Link)
Qiaoli Wang, Zijun Li, Jiannan Cai, Mengsheng Zhang, Zida Liu, Yu Xu, Rongrong Li. 2023. Spatially adaptive machine learning models for predicting water quality in Hong Kong. Journal of Hydrology, 622, 129649. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129649. (Link)
Qiaoli Wang, Jiannan Cai, Feng Gao, Zijun Li, Mengsheng Zhang. 2023. Pollution level, ecological risk assessment and vertical distribution pattern analysis of heavy metals in the tailings dam of an abandon lead–zinc mine. Sustainability, 15(15), 11987. doi: 10.3390/su151511987. (Link)
2022
Jiannan Cai, Mei-Po Kwan. 2022. Detecting spatial flow outliers in the presence of spatial autocorrelation. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 96, 101833. doi: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2022.101833. (Link)
Yuanfang Chen, Jiannan Cai*, Min Deng. 2022. Discovering spatio-temporal co-occurrence patterns of crimes with uncertain occurrence time. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 11(8), 454. (Link)
Wenkai Liu, Qiliang Liu, Min Deng, Jiannan Cai, Jie Yang. 2022. Discovery of statistically significant regional co-location patterns on urban road networks. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, doi: 10.1080/13658816.2021.1981335. (Link)
Jianwei Huang, Mei-Po Kwan, Jiannan Cai, Wanying Song, Changda Yu, Zihan Kan, Steve Hung-Lam Yim. 2022. Field evaluation and calibration of low-cost air pollution sensors for environmental exposure research. Sensors, 22(6), 2381. (Link)
Yiwen Guo, Jiannan Cai*, Yuanfang Chen, Min Deng, Bin Zhao. 2022. Spatial scan statistic method for discovering regional network co-location patterns. Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University, 47(9): 1383-1389. (in Chinese) (Link)
2021
Jiannan Cai, Min Deng, Yiwen Guo, Yiqun Xie, Shashi Shekhar. 2021. Discovering regions of anomalous spatial co-locations. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 35(5), 974-998. (Link) (Codes)
Qiliang Liu, Wenkai Liu, Min Deng, Jiannan Cai, Yaolin Liu. 2021. An adaptive detection of multilevel co-location patterns based on natural neighborhoods. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 35(3), 556-581. (Link)
2020
Jiannan Cai, Yiqun Xie, Min Deng, Xun Tang, Yan Li, Shashi Shekhar. 2020. Significant spatial co-distribution pattern discovery. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 84, 101543. doi: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2020.101543. (Link)
Yiqun Xie, Jiannan Cai, Rahul Bhojwani, Shashi Shekhar, Joseph Knight. 2020. A locally constrained YOLO framework for detecting small and densely distributed building footprints. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 34(4), 777-801. (Link)
Jamal Golmohammadi, Yiqun Xie, Jayant Gupta, Majid Farhadloo, Yan Li, Jiannan Cai, Samantha Detor, Abigail Roh, Shashi Shekhar. 2020. An Introduction to Spatial Data Mining. The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (4th Quarter 2020 Edition), John P. Wilson (Ed.). doi:10.22224/gistbok/2020.4.5. (Link)
Zhanjun He, Min Deng, Jiannan Cai, Zhong Xie, Qingfeng Guan, Chao Yang. 2020. Mining spatiotemporal association patterns from complex geographic phenomena. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 34(6), 1162-1187. (Link)
Min Deng, Jiannan Cai*, Wentao Yang, Jianbo Tang, Xuexi Yang, Qiliang Liu, Yan Shi. 2020. Spatio-temporal analysis methods for multi-modal geographic big data. Journal of Geo-information Science, 22(1), 41-56. (in Chinese) (Link)
2019
Jiannan Cai, Min Deng, Qiliang Liu, Yuanfang Chen, Zhanjun He, Jianbo Tang. 2019. A statistical method for detecting spatiotemporal co-occurrence patterns. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 33(5), 967-990. (Link)
Jiannan Cai, Min Deng, Qiliang Liu, Zhanjun He, Jianbo Tang, Xuexi Yang. 2019. Nonparametric significance test for discovery of network-constrained spatial co-location patterns. Geographical Analysis, 51(1), 3-22. (Link)
Yuanfang Chen, Jiannan Cai*, Qiliang Liu, Min Deng, Xueying Zhang. 2019. A nonparametric test-based approach for mining spatio-temporal co-occurrence patterns of urban crimes. Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University, 44(12), 1883-1892. (in Chinese) (Link)
2018
Jiannan Cai, Qiliang Liu, Min Deng, Jianbo Tang, Zhanjun He. 2018. Adaptive detection of statistically significant regional spatial co-location patterns. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 68, 53-63. (Link)
Zhanjun He, Min Deng, Jiannan Cai, Qiliang Liu. 2018. A context-based association rules mining method for multiple event sequences. Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University, 43(5), 766-772. (in Chinese) (Link)
2017
Min Deng, Jiannan Cai, Qiliang Liu, Zhanjun He, Jianbo Tang. 2017. Multi-level method for discovery of regional co-location patterns. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 31(9), 1846-1870. (Link)
Min Deng, Zhanjun He, Qiliang Liu, Jiannan Cai, Jianbo Tang. 2017. Multi‐scale approach to mining significant spatial co‐location patterns. Transactions in GIS, 21(5), 1023-1039. (Link)
2016
Jiannan Cai, Qiliang Liu, Feng Xu, Min Deng, Zhanjun He, Jianbo Tang. 2016. An adaptive method for mining hierarchical spatial co-location patterns. Acta Geodaetica et Cartograhica Sinica, 45(4), 475-485. (in Chinese) (Link)
2015
Jiannan Cai, Min Deng, Qiliang Liu, Jianbo Tang, Jincai Huang. 2015. A comparative study of uncertain data clustering algorithms for geoscience applications. Geography and Geo-Information Science, 31(6), 8-14. (in Chinese) (Link)
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