Sisi Wang

Siqin (Sisi) Wang is an Associate Professor at Spatial Sciences Institute, University of Southern California and a Visiting Scholar at Center of Geographic Analysis, Harvard University. Dr Wang is also affiliated to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia) as an Adjunct Senior Lecturer and the University of Queensland (Australia) as an Honorary Lecturer/Research Fellow. From April 2022 to July 2023, she also was a JSPS Research Fellow with the University of Tokyo, Japan. She completed her PhD in Geography at University of Queensland. Dr. Wang’s research interests are in GIScience, spatiotemporal big data analytics, computational social science, digital health geography, human-centered GeoAI, human mobility and migration, smart cities and human-climate interactions and she has published extensively in these areas. Her co-first author 2021 paper on human mobility and COVID-19 transmission received the 2022 Best Paper Award and Most Downloaded Paper from the Annals of GIS in 2023. She was awarded as the 2024 Geospatial World 50 Rising Stars and 2022 Top 20 Global Frontier Science and Technology Young Scientist. Her professional roles include service as the Associated Chair for the Spatial Data Lab affiliated with Harvard CGA, as the Vice Chair of the Young Scientist Innovation Network for International Society for Digital Earth, as the Vice President of GTU (International Geographical Honor Society) USC Chapter. She is the editorial board member of International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation and International Journal of Digital Earth, and the reviewer for 20+ international journals.