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Dr Siqin Wang
Dr

Siqin Wang

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Overview

Background

Dr Wang is currently appointed as Honorary Research Fellow / Lecturer at UQ, double affiliated to RMIT University as Senior Lecturer. She is holding Ph.D in Geography, University of Queensland, Australia, 2018; M.S. in GIS, Northern Illinois University, USA, 2011; B.S. in Urban Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University, China, 2009. Before joining UQ in 2015, she worked as a Geographic Information System (GIS) analyst (2011-2012) in Arizona State Government, USA, and a GIS manager (2012-2015) eTour International, a private IT sector in Hawaii, USA. She has been working as an Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2018-2020) and as an Associate Lecturer (2021-2022) at UQ. She was nominated by the Australia Academy of Sciences as the Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2021. I have been involved in teaching in six courses at UQ: GEOM 2001 Introduction of Geographic Information Analysis (lecturer and course coordinator); GEOM 3003/7002 Spatial Modelling and Analysis (lecturer and course coordinator); GEOM 1001 Fundamentals of Geographic Information and Technologies (lecturer and tutor); GEOG2001 Human Mobility and Migration, GEOG 2205/7205 Global Population Issue, and GEOG 3205 Applied Demography.

Availability

Dr Siqin Wang is:
Available for supervision

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Research interests

  • GIScience

    Developing and applying framework and methods of GIScience (i.e., urban modelling, remote sensing, and spatial analysis) and spatiotemporal big data analytics (e.g., geospatial artificial intelligence, geoinformatics, and big data mining) to understand computational social science and human-environment interactions in the domain of digital health geography, human settlement, human mobility and migration, social vulnerability and inequality, human responses to climate change.

Research impacts

Since Dr Wang's PhD conferral in 2018, she has published +50 journal articles (as the leading and corresponding author in 35), four book chapters, and one media outlet. She has been working on four Australian Research Council projects and international projects with collaborators from +20 universities in the USA, UK, Canada, China, Japan, UK, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Qatar. Her publications include the Top One Journal in Human Geography Progress in Human Geography (IF 6.766, 1/84 in Human Geography), Journal of Environmental Management (IF 5.647, 6/128 in Environmental Science), Cities (IF 4.802, 7/65 in Urban Studies), Transport Policy (IF 3.382, 16/149 in Tranportation), Applied Geography (IF 3.508, 10/84 in Geography), and Environment and Planning A (IF 2.855, 12/84 in Geography).

Dr Wang is the principal investigator and co-investigator in research projects funded by the Australian Urban Research Institute and Network and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. She was awarded as the Top 20 Global Cutting-edge Technology Young Scientist 2022; First Prize and People’s Choice in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences Poster Competition, University of Queensland, 2015; Honour Membership in Gamma Theta Upsilon, the International Geographic Honour Society (since 2011), AAG First Prize Award (2011) and AAG Travel Fund (2011). She currently acts as the Associated Chair, Spatial Data Lab affiliated to Centre of Geographic Analysis, Harvard University; the Vice Chair of the Young Scientist Innovation Network for Digital Earth of ISDE (International Society for Digital Earth); the editorial board member of the International Journal of Digital Earth (08/2022), the guest editor in International Journal of Earth Observation and Geoinformatics, and the reviewer in 20+ international journals.

Works

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68 works between 2009 and 2025

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2025

Journal Article

Spatially integrated social sciences: opportunities for computational urban science

Wang, Siqin and Corcoran, Jonathan (2025). Spatially integrated social sciences: opportunities for computational urban science. Computational Urban Science, 5 (1) 11, 1. doi: 10.1007/s43762-025-00170-4

Spatially integrated social sciences: opportunities for computational urban science

2025

Journal Article

ComHazAsTC-RRE: Compound Hazard Assessment of Tropical Cyclones within Repeatable, Reproducible, and Expandable Framework

Zhou, Ziying, Yang, Saini, Wang, Siqin, Liu, Xiaoyan, Hu, Fuyu, Wu, Yaqiao and Chen, Yu (2025). ComHazAsTC-RRE: Compound Hazard Assessment of Tropical Cyclones within Repeatable, Reproducible, and Expandable Framework. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 136 104314, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.jag.2024.104314

ComHazAsTC-RRE: Compound Hazard Assessment of Tropical Cyclones within Repeatable, Reproducible, and Expandable Framework

2025

Journal Article

Reducing the social inequity of neighborhood visual environment in Los Angeles through computer vision and multi-model machine learning

Wang, Siqin, Yoo, Jooyoung, Cai, Wenhui, Yang, Fan, Huang, Xiao, Sun, Qian Chayn and Lyu, Shaokun (2025). Reducing the social inequity of neighborhood visual environment in Los Angeles through computer vision and multi-model machine learning. Sustainable Cities and Society, 119 106062, 106062-119. doi: 10.1016/j.scs.2024.106062

Reducing the social inequity of neighborhood visual environment in Los Angeles through computer vision and multi-model machine learning

2025

Journal Article

Editorial: Multilevel medical security systems and big data in healthcare: trends and developments

Fan, Fei and Wang, Siqin (2025). Editorial: Multilevel medical security systems and big data in healthcare: trends and developments. Frontiers in Public Health, 12, 12. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1516102

Editorial: Multilevel medical security systems and big data in healthcare: trends and developments

2025

Journal Article

Crowdsourcing geographic information for terrorism-related disaster awareness and mitigation: perspectives and challenges

Chukwu, Michaelmary, Huang, Xiao, Wang, Siqin, Yang, Di and Ye, Xinyue (2025). Crowdsourcing geographic information for terrorism-related disaster awareness and mitigation: perspectives and challenges. Geo-spatial Information Science, 1-18. doi: 10.1080/10095020.2024.2442088

Crowdsourcing geographic information for terrorism-related disaster awareness and mitigation: perspectives and challenges

2024

Journal Article

Vivid London: Assessing the resilience of urban vibrancy during the COVID-19 pandemic using social media data

Chen, Meixu, Liu, Yunzhe, Ye, Zi, Wang, Siqin and Zhang, Wenjing (2024). Vivid London: Assessing the resilience of urban vibrancy during the COVID-19 pandemic using social media data. Sustainable Cities and Society, 115 105823, 105823. doi: 10.1016/j.scs.2024.105823

Vivid London: Assessing the resilience of urban vibrancy during the COVID-19 pandemic using social media data

2024

Journal Article

Does increased temperature affect residential mobility? A 20-year nationwide evidence in Australia

Wang, Siqin, Cai, Wenhui, Sun, Qian Chayn and Liu, Yan (2024). Does increased temperature affect residential mobility? A 20-year nationwide evidence in Australia. Cities, 149 104965, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.104965

Does increased temperature affect residential mobility? A 20-year nationwide evidence in Australia

2024

Journal Article

Mapping the landscape and roadmap of geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) in quantitative human geography: An extensive systematic review

Wang, Siqin, Huang, Xiao, Liu, Pengyuan, Zhang, Mengxi, Biljecki, Filip, Hu, Tao, Fu, Xiaokang, Liu, Lingbo, Liu, Xintao, Wang, Ruomei, Huang, Yuanyuan, Yan, Jingjing, Jiang, Jinghan, Chukwu, Michaelmary, Reza Naghedi, Seyed, Hemmati, Moein, Shao, Yaxiong, Jia, Nan, Xiao, Zhiyang, Tian, Tian, Hu, Yaxin, Yu, Lixiaona, Yap, Winston, Macatulad, Edgardo, Chen, Zhuo, Cui, Yunhe, Ito, Koichi, Ye, Mengbi, Fan, Zicheng ... Bao, Shuming (2024). Mapping the landscape and roadmap of geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) in quantitative human geography: An extensive systematic review. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 128 103734, 1-17. doi: 10.1016/j.jag.2024.103734

Mapping the landscape and roadmap of geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) in quantitative human geography: An extensive systematic review

2024

Journal Article

Horizontal and vertical inequity of multi-modal healthcare accessibility in the aging Japan in the post-COVID era: a GIS-based approach

Wang, Siqin and Sadahiro, Yukio (2024). Horizontal and vertical inequity of multi-modal healthcare accessibility in the aging Japan in the post-COVID era: a GIS-based approach. International Journal of Digital Earth, 17 (1) 2310731. doi: 10.1080/17538947.2024.2310731

Horizontal and vertical inequity of multi-modal healthcare accessibility in the aging Japan in the post-COVID era: a GIS-based approach

2024

Journal Article

GPT, large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence (GAI) models in geospatial science: a systematic review

Wang, Siqin, Hu, Tao, Xiao, Huang, Li, Yun, Zhang, Ce, Ning, Huan, Zhu, Rui, Li, Zhenlong and Ye, Xinyue (2024). GPT, large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence (GAI) models in geospatial science: a systematic review. International Journal of Digital Earth, 17 (1) 2353122. doi: 10.1080/17538947.2024.2353122

GPT, large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence (GAI) models in geospatial science: a systematic review

2023

Journal Article

Toward a comprehensive understanding of eye-level urban greenness: a systematic review

Yan, Jingjing, Huang, Xiao, Wang, Siqin, He, Yiyi, Li, Xiao, Hohl, Alexander, Li, Xiaojiang, Aly, Mohamed and Lin, Beiyu (2023). Toward a comprehensive understanding of eye-level urban greenness: a systematic review. International Journal of Digital Earth, 16 (2), 4769-4789. doi: 10.1080/17538947.2023.2283479

Toward a comprehensive understanding of eye-level urban greenness: a systematic review

2023

Journal Article

Remote collaborative process optimization in research and design of industrial manufacturing

Wang, Siqin and Li, Qingdu (2023). Remote collaborative process optimization in research and design of industrial manufacturing. Autonomous Intelligent Systems, 3 (1) 10. doi: 10.1007/s43684-023-00056-4

Remote collaborative process optimization in research and design of industrial manufacturing

2023

Journal Article

School-housing nexus in urban China: a comparative study of the effect of school districts on commercial and Danwei housing prices

Wang, Siqin, Li, Yuxiao and Gao, Zhe (2023). School-housing nexus in urban China: a comparative study of the effect of school districts on commercial and Danwei housing prices. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 17 (2), 417-438. doi: 10.1007/s12061-023-09544-9

School-housing nexus in urban China: a comparative study of the effect of school districts on commercial and Danwei housing prices

2023

Book Chapter

Actionable environmental science through social media platforms

Hu, Tao, Huang, Xiao and Wang, Siqin (2023). Actionable environmental science through social media platforms. Actionable science of global environment change: from big data to practical research. (pp. 355-371) edited by Ziheng Sun. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-41758-0_13

Actionable environmental science through social media platforms

2023

Journal Article

Landscape of multiculturalism in Australia: Tracking ethnic diversity and its relation with neighbourhood features in 2001–2021

Wang, Siqin, Cai, Wenhui, Sun, Qian (Chayn), Martin, Catherine, Tewari, Shilpi, Hurley, Joe, Amati, Marco, Duckham, Matt and Choy, Suelynn (2023). Landscape of multiculturalism in Australia: Tracking ethnic diversity and its relation with neighbourhood features in 2001–2021. Applied Geography, 160 103114, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.103114

Landscape of multiculturalism in Australia: Tracking ethnic diversity and its relation with neighbourhood features in 2001–2021

2023

Journal Article

Health-integrated heat risk assessment in Australian cities

Wang, Siqin, Sun, Qian Chayn, Huang, Xiao, Tao, Yaguang, Dong, Chunyu, Das, Shinjita and Liu, Yan (2023). Health-integrated heat risk assessment in Australian cities. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 102 107176, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.eiar.2023.107176

Health-integrated heat risk assessment in Australian cities

2023

Journal Article

Diverged landscape of restaurant recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

Wang, Siqin, Huang, Xiao, She, Bing and Li, Zhenlong (2023). Diverged landscape of restaurant recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. iScience, 26 (6) 106811, 106811. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106811

Diverged landscape of restaurant recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

2023

Journal Article

Unpacking the inter- and intra-urban differences of the association between health and exposure to heat and air quality in Australia using global and local machine learning models

Wang, Siqin, Cai, Wenhui, Tao, Yaguang, Sun, Qian Chayn, Wong, Paulina Pui Yun, Huang, Xiao and Liu, Yan (2023). Unpacking the inter- and intra-urban differences of the association between health and exposure to heat and air quality in Australia using global and local machine learning models. Science of The Total Environment, 871 162005, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162005

Unpacking the inter- and intra-urban differences of the association between health and exposure to heat and air quality in Australia using global and local machine learning models

2023

Journal Article

Public surveillance of social media for suicide using advanced deep learning models in Japan: time series study from 2012 to 2022

Wang, Siqin, Ning, Huan, Xiao, Huang, Xiao, Yunyu, Zhang, Mengxi, Yang, Fan, Sadahiro, Yukio, Liu, Yan, Li, Zhenlong, Hu, Tao, Fu, Xiaokang, Li, Zi and Zeng, Ye (2023). Public surveillance of social media for suicide using advanced deep learning models in Japan: time series study from 2012 to 2022. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25 e47225, 1-14. doi: 10.2196/47225

Public surveillance of social media for suicide using advanced deep learning models in Japan: time series study from 2012 to 2022

2023

Journal Article

A global portrait of expressed mental health signals towards COVID-19 in social media space

Wang, Siqin, Huang, Xiao, Hu, Tao, She, Bing, Zhang, Mengxi, Wang, Ruomei, Gruebner, Oliver, Imran, Muhammad, Corcoran, Jonathan, Liu, Yan and Bao, Shuming (2023). A global portrait of expressed mental health signals towards COVID-19 in social media space. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 116 103160, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.jag.2022.103160

A global portrait of expressed mental health signals towards COVID-19 in social media space

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