Dr. Rui Cao is currently a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI) and the Smart Cities Research Institute (SCRI), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He leads the Responsible Urban Intelligence Research Group. He is specialized in GIScience and particularly interested in GeoAI and Urban Informatics, with an ultimate goal of contributing to sustainable and human-centered smart cities for the benefit of society. He has published extensively on the topic of urban sensing and analytics based on multi-source spatio-temporal big data. He has led and participated in several research grants funded by NSFC, Microsoft, Tencent, etc. He is a member of ACM SIGSPATIAL, CCF, CPGIS, IEEE, and ISUI, and has served as a reviewer for NSFC and BELSPO, as well as many prestigious international journals.

The information of our group members can be found here. We invite motivated students and researchers to join, please contact Dr. Rui Cao for inquiry.