Yi Wang

Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
Peking University

Education

Peking University
Sep 2022 - Jun 2026 (Expected)
Ph.D. in Cartography and Geographic Information System
Beijing, China
Supervisors: Yu Liu, Fan Zhang, and Shanjun Mao
Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Jul 2025 - Jan 2026
Visiting Student in Artificial Intelligence
Singapore
Supervisors: Ivor W. Tsang and Jing Li
Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Sep 2019 - Jun 2022
M.S. in Surveying and Mapping
Beijing, China
Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Sep 2015 - Jun 2019
B.S. in Surveying and Mapping
Beijing, China

Research Interests

Geo-Spatial Artificial Intelligence
Spatio-Temporal Data Mining
Social Sensing

Biography

Yi Wang is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, under the supervision of Prof. Yu Liu, Prof. Fan Zhang, and Prof. Shanjun Mao. During his doctoral studies, he visited the Centre for Frontier AI Research at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore, collaborating with Prof. Ivor W. Tsang and Dr. Jing Li. His primary research interests include Geo-Spatial Artificial Intelligence, Spatio-Temporal Data Mining, and Social Sensing.

Yi Wang has served as the Principal Investigator for the National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Student Basic Research Project (Ph.D. Student). He has been honored with the National Scholarship, Leo KoGuan Scholarship, and Lin Chao Geography Scholarship, among other awards. He was also selected as a "Rising Star in GIS" (Rank 1) at the College GIS Forums of China. His research has been published in prestigious international journals in the fields of geographic information systems and artificial intelligence, including IEEE TPAMI, ISPRS JPRS, IEEE TITS, IEEE TGRS, and Information Fusion. In terms of academic service, he has served as a Program Committee Member for ACM SIGSPATIAL conferences and has provided peer review services for over 20 renowned international journals and conferences in the fields of geography and spatiotemporal modeling, including IEEE TPAMI, ISPRS JPRS, TR Part E, IJGIS, IEEE TAI, and PR.

Selected Publications

A Gravity-informed Spatiotemporal Transformer for Human Activity Intensity Prediction
Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Zhang, F., Kang, C., Ruan, S., Zhu, D., Tang, C., Ma, Z., Zhang, W., Zheng, Y., Yu, PS., Liu, Y.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2025), 48(3), 2380-2397
A Multi-view Graph Neural Network for Building Age Prediction
Wang, Y., Zhang, Y., Dong, Q., Guo, H., Tao, Y., Zhang, F.
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2024), 218, 294-311
TTSR: A Transformer-based Topography Neural Network for Digital Elevation Model Super Resolution
Wang, Y., Jin, S., Yang, Z., Guan, H., Ren, Y., Cheng, K., Zhao, X., Liu, X., Chen, M., Liu, Y., Guo, Q.
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2024), 62, 4403719-4403738
A Hypergraph-based Hybrid Graph Convolutional Network for Intracity Human Activity Intensity Prediction and Geographic Relationship Interpretation
Wang, Y., Zhu, D.
Information Fusion (2024), 104, 102149
Adaptive Spatiotemporal InceptionNet for Traffic Flow Forecasting
Wang, Y., Jing, C., Huang, W., Jin, S., & Lv, X.
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2023), 24(4), 3882-3907
A Gravity-informed Spatiotemporal Transformer for Human Activity Intensity Prediction
Wang, Y.#, Wang, Z.#, Zhang, F., Kang, C., Ruan, S., Zhu, D., Tang, C., Ma, Z., Zhang, W., Zheng, Y., Yu, PS., Liu, Y.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2025), 48(3), 2380-2397
A Multi-view Graph Neural Network for Building Age Prediction
Wang, Y.#, Zhang, Y.#, Dong, Q., Guo, H., Tao, Y., Zhang, F.
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2024), 218, 294-311
TTSR: A Transformer-based Topography Neural Network for Digital Elevation Model Super Resolution
Wang, Y.#, Jin, S.#, Yang, Z.#, Guan, H., Ren, Y., Cheng, K., Zhao, X., Liu, X., Chen, M., Liu, Y., Guo, Q.
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2024), 62, 4403719-4403738
A Hypergraph-based Hybrid Graph Convolutional Network for Intracity Human Activity Intensity Prediction and Geographic Relationship Interpretation
Wang, Y., Zhu, D.
Information Fusion (2024), 104, 102149
Adaptive Spatiotemporal InceptionNet for Traffic Flow Forecasting
Wang, Y., Jing, C., Huang, W., Jin, S., & Lv, X.
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2023), 24(4), 3882-3907
SHGCN: a hypergraph-based deep learning model for spatiotemporal traffic flow prediction
Wang, Y., & Zhu, D.
Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on AI for Geographic Knowledge Discovery (2022), 30-39
Attention based spatiotemporal graph attention networks for traffic flow forecasting
Wang, Y., Jing, C., Xu, S., & Guo, T.
Information Sciences (2022), 607, 869-883
Spatiotemporal graph convolutional network for multi-scale traffic forecasting
Wang, Y., & Jing, C.
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (2022), 11(2), 102
Spatio-Temporal dynamic hypergraph neural network for large-scale medium and long-term online precipitation forecasting
Wang, Z., Lin, Z., Huang, W., Wang, Y.*, Huang, T., Zhang, F., Huang, Z. and Liu, Y.
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2026), 64, 3001217
Learning from leading indicators to predict long-term dynamics of hourly electricity generation from multiple resources
Wang, Z.#, Wang, Y.#, Jia, F.#, Zhang, F., Klimenko, N., Wang, L., He, Z., Huang, Z., & Liu, Y.
Neural Networks (2025), 186, 107268
Spatiotemporal Fusion Transformer for large-scale traffic forecasting
Wang, Z.#, Wang, Y.#, Jia, F.#, Zhang, F., Klimenko, N., Wang, L., He, Z., Huang, Z., & Liu, Y.
Information Fusion (2024), 107, 102293
Taming spatial heterogeneity in angular domain: A framework for urban vitality forecasting
Jiang, Y.#, Wang, Y.#, Wang, Z., Liu, Y., Su, Y., Chang, Y., Zhang, B., Zhao, X, Zhang, F., Huang, Z., Dong, Z.
Transactions in GIS (2026), 30(2), e70222
PhenoSR: A semantic-aware super-resolution network for flexible reconstruction of RGB images from UAV
Zhang, R., Jin, S., Wang, Y., Zhang, J., Yao, J., Wang, Y., Zhao, R., Su, Y., Wu. J., Wang, X., Jiang, D.
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2025), 228, 582-602
A Deep Multi-scale Neural Networks for Crime Hotspot Mapping Prediction
Lv, X., Jing, C., Wang, Y., Qin, M., Jin, S., Wu, S., & Xu, G.
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (2024), 109, 102089
Efficient large-scale vegetation mapping at the formation level using multi-source data: A case study in Beijing, China
Xu, J., Huang, Y., Cheng, K., Wang, Y., Hu, T., Guan, H., Chen, Y., Ren, Y., Chen, M., Yang, Z., Wang J., & Guo, Q.
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2025), 225, 36-51
A Transformer-based Multi-modal Model for Urban-Rural Fringe Identification
Jia, F., Dong, Q., Huang, Z., Chen, X. J., Wang, Y., Peng, X., Guo, Y., Ma, R., Zhang, F., & Liu, Y.
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (2024), 17, 15041-15051
A Lightweight Multi-layer Perceptron for Efficient Multivariate Time-series Forecasting
Wang, Z., Ruan, S., Huang, T., Zhou, H., Zhang, S., Wang, Y., Wang, L., Huang, Z., & Liu, Y.
Knowledge-Based Systems (2024), 288, 111463
A Deep Neural Network for Spatiotemporal Prediction of Theft Crimes
Lv, X., Jing, C., Wang, Y., & Jin, S.
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (2022), 48, 35-41
Spatiotemporal graph convolutional neural networks for metro flow prediction
Jin, S., Jing, C., Wang, Y., & Lv, X.
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (2022), 43, 403-409

Honors & Awards

Rising Star Award
College GIS Forums of China, 2025.10
Leo KoGuan Scholarship
2025.9
National Scholarship
2024.9
Lin Chao Geography Scholarship
2023.9

Academic Services

Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
  • International Journal of Geographical Information Science
  • Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Neural Networks
  • Knowledge-Based Systems
  • Information Sciences
  • Expert Systems with Applications
  • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
  • Process Safety and Environmental Protection
  • Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English)
  • iScience
  • International Journal of Digital Earth
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • Geo-spatial Information Science
  • Spatial Statistics
  • Scientific Reports
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Computers and Electrical Engineering
  • Cluster Computing
  • International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
  • Computational Urban Science

Conference Reviewer

  • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Program Committee Member

  • ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on AI for Geographic Knowledge Discovery

Research Funding

Prediction and Symbolic Interpretation for Multi-modal Spatiotemporal Interactions
National Science Foundation of China Youth Student Basic Research Project (Ph.D. Student)
Role: Project Leader | Status: Ongoing