Dr. He Jie is the director of Laboratory for Spatial Humanities and Computational Places (SHACP Lab) and associate director of the Digital Design Institute.  He’s research interests concentrate on spatial analysis and computation on social, humanities and environmental phenomena, including urban, landscape, heritage and behavior, form disciplines of urban planning to historical geography in various topics including landscape history and archeology, pedestrians, geodesign, visual landscape, etc. He is one of the leading scholars in spatial humanities and HGIS (historical GIS) of China and East Asia. He teaches spatial technologies and academic research courses in both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the University. Dr. He is also an experienced architect and urban planner. His design works and publications has won national and provincial awards in Mainland China and Hong Kong. Besides his works, Dr. He is also engaged in outdoors activities, including cycling, skiing, diving, climbing, hiking, etc. as part of the exercitation as a landscape architect as well as an environmentalist.