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General Information

Full Name Qingqing Chen
Languages English (Fluent), Mandarin (Native)

Education

  • 2021 - present
    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geography
    University at Buffalo, United States, Advisor Dr. Andrew Crooks
  • 2014 - 2015
    Master of Science (M.Sc.), Physics
    National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • 2010 - 2014
    Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics
    Minjiang University, China

Experience

  • 06/2022 - present
    Research Assistant (US)
    Department of Geography, University at Buffalo
  • 05/2018 - 01/2021
    Research Associate (Singapore)
    Singapore University of Technology and Design
  • 10/2015 - 03/2018
    Research Engineer (Singapore)
    Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre

Professional Services (Reviewed Papers for Journals)

  • 2025
    • Cities & Health
  • 2024
    • International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS)
    • Computational Urban Science (CUSC)
  • 2023
    • Environment and Planning B - Urban Analytics and City Science (EPB)
    • PLOS ONE
    • Annals of the American Association of Geographers (AAG)
  • 2022
    • Environment and Planning B - Urban Analytics and City Science (EPB)
    • PLOS ONE
  • 2021
    • Environment and Planning B - Urban Analytics and City Science (EPB)

Funding and Awards

  • 2024
    • OpenAI Researcher Access Program Award, US
    • NSF-funded Travel Award of 2024 AAG Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure Workshop, US
    • GSA Conference Funding Award, UB, US
    • PhD Fellowship, Department of Geography, UB, US
  • 2023
    • Quantitative Finance Women's Mentorship Program, Morgan Stanley, US
    • Travel Award of 2023 I-GUIDE Summer School Program, US
    • Hugh W. Calkins Award, Department of Geography, UB, US
    • Finalist of the 1st Art of Research competition, UB, US
    • Student Academic Excellence, UB, US
    • Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of Geography, UB, US
    • Tuition Scholarship & Teaching Assistantship, Department of Geography, , US
  • 2022
    • Tuition Scholarship & Teaching Assistantship, Department of Geography, UB, US
  • 2021
    • PhD Excellence Initiative Fellowship, Department of Geography, UB, US
  • 2012
    • Excellent Student Cadre, Minjiang University of China
    • The First Prize Scholarship, Minjiang University of China
  • 2011
    • The First Prize Scholarship, Minjiang University of China
    • Pacemaker to Merit Student, Minjiang University of China

Technical Skills

  • Data Science
    • R (Proficient in tidyverse, ggplot, spatial libraries, interactive visualization dashboard, package development, and project management)
    • Python (Familiar with NumPy, and pandas)
    • Spatial Statistics (Familiar with spatial autocorrelation, spatial regression modelling and network analysis)
    • Machine Learning (Familiar with regression, dimension reduction, clustering and classification)
    • Text mining (Good at sentiment analysis, tf-idf statistic, n-grams, topic-modelling, co-occurrence analysis & named entity recognition)
    • Statistics (Proficient in descriptive and inferential statistics)
  • Tools
    • ArcGIS Pro, Tableau, Elasticserach, Bash, Git, Markdown, Jupyter Notebooks, Anaconda