Dr. Chuanglin Fang obtained his Ph.D. in Geography in 1998 from the
Institute of Geography at the Chinese Academy of Sciences-National Planning
Committee. Dr. Fang is a professor of the Institute of Geographic Science and
Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also a Distinguished
Professor of “Changjiang Scholars” and “Tianshan Scholars” and a doctoral
faculty. Dr. Fang is currently a member of the International Society of City
and Regional Planners, executive council member of the Regional Science Association
(RSA) China Division, director of the Human Geography Specialty Committee of
the Chinese Geographic Society, Vice President of the Chinese Urban and Rural
Development Think Tank Association, executive council member of the Chinese
Urban Science Association, executive council member of Chinese Urban Economics
Studies, council member of Chinese Urban Planning Association, council member
of China’s Urbanization Promotion Association, and council memberof the
China’s Geographic Society. In recent years, Dr. Fang has mainly engaged in the
research and teaching of urban geography, sustainable development of urban
agglomerations, the process of urbanization and its impact on the
eco-environments. Dr. Fang has served and is still serving as the principal
investigator of over 120 various projects funded by the Chinese National
Natural Science Foundation (Key Projects), Chinese National Social Science
Foundation (Key Projects), and the Chinese National “973” Projects, among many
others. Dr. Fang is a very prolific scholar with a publication record of over
20 edited manuscripts or monographs, and over 330 peer-reviewed journal
articles (among them, 50 are published in journals that are indexed in
SCI/SSCI).
Dr. Danlin Yu obtained his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of
Wis-consin-Milwaukee in 2005. He is currently a tenured Associate Professor of
Urban Geography and GIS at Montclair State University. Dr. Yu’smain research
areas include urban and regional development planning, spatial data analysis,
geographic information science and technology, geocomputation, simulation of
complex systems, big data mining and analysis and its application in human and
natural systems. So far, Dr. Yu has published more than 60 journal
articles/book chapters in these areas in both Chinese and English, among them,
more than 40 papers are published in SCI / SSCI indexed journals. Dr. Yu’s
research in these areas has gained domestic and international influences. Dr.
Yu has been actively using R language to write freely available spatial data
analysis software packages. He is one of the co-authors of the SPGWR package
that is for Geographically Weighted Regression Analysis. The package has
already received a wide range of applications in the world. Since 2008, Dr. Yu
was invited by the Georgia National Science Foundation as international
evaluation experts. Dr. Yu currently serves as an Associate Editor for the
Journal of Urban Planning and Development since 2012. From 2013 onwards, Dr. Yu
was awarded the “Tianshan Scholar” title by the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous
Region, and housed in Xinjiang University.