Yi Qiang |
Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
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Introduction
Since the first Industrial Revolution, the ever developing transportation have liberate human beings from their villages of birth to the entire globe, and a few even to the moon. As an idividual that was luckily born in such an era, I have ever lived in four countries, 8 cities, covering 3 continent so far. I have left my footprints in 15 countries and hundres of cities. My travelling record can already be used as a statistic sample for many interesting studies. In 1980, geographical information science (GIS) emerged as a new discipline. Thousands of students in geography departments have seen the illusion of a door through which they could jump away from geography to a subject that sounds more fashionalbe and closer to those fortune-making subjects such as IT, computer science and planing. I was just one of them. Though my current state is still far different from his IT friends, it seems that I am equiped with more spatial thinking skills, by which he can better answer the 'where' questions. Since now his mobility has been significantly limited by his daughter, he realised that it is a good time to sit down and take a look at the patterns of his travels and try to discover the underlying factors. In the reminder of this article, of transportation has greatly
My footprints
Dept. of Geography, Ghent University, Belgium
Research assistant (Sept. 2007 - Dec. 2007)
e-Science Institute, the University of Edinburgh, UK
Other employments
May 2007 - Aug. 2007, Housekeeper, Pollock Hall residence (3 star hotel), Edinburgh, UK
Nov. 2005 - Jan. 2006, Internship, Standard Chartered bank, Beijing branch, China
Education
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University of EdinburghUK |
MSc. by research in Geographical Information Science (2006-2007)
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Beijing Normal University
China |
BSc. in Geographical Information Systems
BA. in Law (minor, 2002-2006)
Publications
Peer-reviewed Journals
Qiang, Y., Chavoshi, S.H., Logghe, S., De Maeyer, P., & Van de Weghe, N. (2013) Multi-scale Analysis of Linear Data in a Two-Dimensional Space, Information Visualization (In press).
Qiang, Y., Delafontaine, M., Versichele, M., De Maeyer, P., & Van de Weghe, N., (2012) Interactive Analysis of Time Intervals in a Two-Dimensional Space, Information Visualization,vol. 49, no. 3, pp 265-280
Qiang, Y., Delafontaine, M., Neutens, T., Stichelbaut, B., De Maeyer, P., & Van de Weghe, N., (2012) Analysing imperfect temporal information in GIS using the Triangular Model, The Cartographic Journal, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 255-272.
Qiang, Y., Delafontaine, M., Asmussen, K., Stichelbaut, B., De Tré, G., De Maeyer, P. & Van de Weghe, N. (2010) Modelling Imperfect Time Intervals in a Two-Dimensional Space, Journal of Control and Cybernetics, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 983-1010.
Conference proceedings
De Tré, G., Bronselaer A., Billiet C. Qiang Y. Van de Weghe N., De Maeyer P. Pons, E. J.and Pons O.(2012) Visualising and handling uncertain time intervals in a two-dimensional triangular space, In proceedings of the 2nd world conference on soft computing, Baku, Azerbaijan, pp.585-592
Asmussen,K., Qiang, Y., De Maeyer, P., Van de Weghe, N. (2009). Triangular Model for Studying and Memorising Temporal Knowledge, In proceedings of International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Madrid, Spain. pp. 1849-1859.
Qiang, Y., Reitsma, F. & Van de Weghe, N. (2009) Towards a General Temporal Ontology for Knowledge Integration, In proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, Funchal. Portugal. pp. 275-280.
Qiang, Y., Asmussen, K., Delafontaine, M., De Tré, G., Stichelbaut, B., De Maeyer, P. & Van de Weghe, N. (2009) Visualising rough time intervals in a two-dimensional space, In proceedings of 2009 IFSA World Congress / EUSFLAT Conference, Lisbon, Portugal. pp. 1480-1485
Book Chapter
Brodaric, B., Reitsma, F. & Qiang, Y. 2007, SKIing with DOLCE: toward an e-Science Knowledge Infrastructure, in Formal ontology in information systems, C Eschenbach, M Gruninger (ed.), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. pp. 208-219
Monograph
Qiang, Y. Modelling Temporal Information in a Two-Dimensional Space: An Visualization Perspective. Ph.D. Dissertation. Ghent University.
Invited talks and conference presentations
'Comparing the Land Use Land Cover Change between the South and North Louisiana Using Data Mining’, the 29th RSGIS workshop in Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, April 2013
Multi-Scale Analysis of Linear Data in a Two-Dimensional Space’, workshop of space-time cube, Enschede, the Netherlands, June 2012
'Visualising and analysing time series data in GIS', the Workshop of Geospatial Visual Analytics: Focus on Time (GeoVa(t)), Guimarães, Portugal, May 2010
'Triangular Model for Studying and Memorising Temporal Knowledge’, International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Madrid, Spain, Nov. 2009
Towards a General Temporal Ontology for Knowledge Integration’, the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, Funchal. Portugal, Oct. 2009
Professional skills (Keywords)
Programming
Java, C++, Python, Visual Basic
Database Management System
sOracle (Spatial) DBMS, MS Access, MySQL and PostGIS.
GIS development
ArcGIS, Matlab and AutoCAD, ArcGIS server, OpenLayers and Google maps APIs.
Spatial data analysis
Exploratory spatial data analysis, spatial regression, interpolation, geospatial visual analytics, multi-criteria analysis
GIS packages
ArcGIS, AutoCAD, MapInfo, ArcView, Quantum GIS, Grass GIS, ENVI and Matlab.
Semantic Web
sRDF, OWL, OWL-S ,WSMO, Service-Oriented Archetecter, (Semantic) Web Services
Statistics and data mining
Exploratory data analysis, regression, clustering, factor analysis, principal component analysis, discriminant analysis, SPSS, SAS, Decision Tree, Artificial Neural Network, ruleset learning
Environmental modelling
Agent-based modelling, Cellular Automata, Repast, NetLogo, Matlab
Remote sensing
image registration, rectifying, classification, fusion and mosaicking.
Land surveying
GPS, Total Stations
Office
Microsoft office suite
Web editing
HTML, CSS, ASP, ASP.Net, Perl, Javascript, Flash, Adobe Photoshop
Languages
English, Chinese, Dutch