About Me

Yihong was born in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China. She received her PhD in Geographic Information Science (2013) and MA in Statistics (2013) from the University of California Santa barbara, B.S in Geographic Information System (2009) from Peking University, Beijing. She is currently continuing her research in the data science field and very enthusiastic about mining structured information from unstructured data.

Her research interests include big geo-data analytics, human mobility modeling, spatio-temporal data mining, geographic knowledge representation and discovery, etc.