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SCRI Research: Big Data for Smart Tourism

The initiative aims to couple different sources of tourism big data to obtain an improved understanding of tourist activity patterns in and cross cities. The insights will be further used to support local and regional tourism planning, and develop tourism recommendation systems for domestic and international…

SCRI Scholars won 2021 Smart 50 Awards

In late August, Prof. Charles Wong and Prof. John Shi from SCRI were honoured with the 2021 Smart 50 Awards for their smart city projects. It is the first time that LSGI research team has seized the prestigious awards. The Smart 50 Awards recognize 50 of the most innovative and influential smart cities’ projects…

Press sharing on SCRI smart cities related research

On 26 April, a press conference was conducted at PolyU by Prof. John Shi, Chair Professor of LSGI and Director of Smart Cities Research Institute to share a number of cutting-edge patented technologies and research by his research group. These projects help address various societal issues, including the…

SCRI Scholars Publish the Book Urban Informatics

The new book entitled Urban Informatics has been edited by Prof. Wenzhong Shi (Chair Professor of LSGI), Prof. Michael Goodchild (University of California, Santa Barbara), Prof. Michael Batty (University College London), Prof. Mei-Po Kwan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Dr. Anshu Zhang (Research…

SCRI scholars ranked as the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists by Stanford University

We are glad to share that four academic staff from SCRI are listed among the top 2 % scientists in the world according to a report by Stanford University in early 2021. The listed SCRI scholars are: Prof. John Shi, Chair Professor of LSGI and Director of SCRI, Dr. Xiaolin Zhu, Assistant Professor of LSGI and…

SCRI Research: Logistics Big Data for Intra-Urban Goods Movement Patterns

This research proposes an analytical framework for exploring intra-urban goods movement patterns by integrating spatial analysis, network analysis and spatial interaction analysis. Using daily urban logistics big data (over 10 million orders) provided by the largest online logistics company in Hong Kong…

SCRI scholars excel at Geneva Inventions Expo

In a special virtual edition of the 48th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, the Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days were held from 10 to 14 March 2021. Gold Medals have been awarded to Prof. John Wenzhong Shi and Dr Charles Man-sing Wong of the Department of Land Surveying and…

SCRI Research: Smart City Platform 4D comprehensive spatiotemporal data infrastructure

In a smart city, intelligent machines communicate with each other via the Internet of Things (IoT) and their sensors collect data every second.  To facilitate the smooth running of a smart city, such IoT data are geotagged, so that we know where the data are captured. But in a vertical city like Hong Kong…

The 2nd International Conference on Urban Informatics, ICUI 2019