cv

General Information

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

Education

  • 2021 - 2025
    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

Professional Services (Reviewed Papers for Journals)

  • 2025
    • Cities & Health
    • Health Informatics
    • Big data & Society
    • Discover Public Health
    • Journal of Supercomputing
    • International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
    • Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (CEUS)
    • Environment and Planning B - Urban Analytics and City Science (EPB)
  • 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 (Annals)
  • 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

  • 2025
    • Research Development Fund (NZ$60,000), University of Auckland, NZ ("S²-scape:Integrating Sound–Smell Patterns for Inclusive and Healthy Urban Walks"; PI:I-Ting Chuang; Co-PI:Qingqing Chen")
    • Teaching Assistantship (US$12,837.05), Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, US
    • AAG Travel Award, Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group, US
    • AAG Annual Award, Applied Geography Specialty Group, US
  • 2024
    • Researcher Access Program Award (US$5,000), OpenAI, US
    • AAG NSF-funded Travel Award for Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure Workshop, US
    • GSA Conference Funding Award, University at Buffalo, US
    • PhD Fellowship (US$27,932.71), Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, US
    • Finalist of John Odland Paper Competition, Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group, US
  • 2023
    • Hugh W. Calkins Award (US$2,000), Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, US
    • NSF-funded Travel Award of I-GUIDE Summer School Program, UCAR-NSF, US
    • Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, US
    • Student Academic Excellence, University at Buffalo, US
    • Quantitative Finance Women’s Mentorship Program, Morgan Stanley, US
    • Teaching Assistantship (US$40,130.41), Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, US
    • Finalist of the 1st Art of Research Competition, University of Buffalo, US
  • 2022
    • Teaching Assistantship (US$40,427.98), Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, US
    • Research Development Fund (NZ$25,000), University of Auckland, NZ (“Streets for people:Footpath width inventory through imagery detection for Auckland CBD”; PI:I-Ting Chuang, Co-PI:Qingqing Chen)
  • 2021
    • PhD Excellence Initiative Fellowship (US$44,793.16), Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, 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