School of Earth System Science
Associate professor
GIS
guangyuanzhang@tju.edu.cn
Room 315, Teaching Building No. 16, Weijin Road Campus, Tianjin University
Dr. Guangyuan Zhang, Associate Professor under the "Peiyang Scholar Program" at Tianjin University, holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Queen Mary University of London and is a recipient of the Ministry of Education's Outstanding Overseas Postdoctoral Talent Recruitment Program. His research focuses on spatiotemporal tessellation and coding, spatiotemporal intelligence, and low-altitude technology and engineering. His specific interests include discrete global grid systems (DGGS), elastic spatiotemporal grids and coding theory, as well as spatiotemporal database systems and low-altitude airspace planning and management engineering technologies. He has participated in over 10 projects or initiatives, including the National 973 Program, the National 863 Program, the National Key R&D Program, major national defense projects, and projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published more than 20 academic papers and been granted over 10 international or Chinese patents. The technologies he developed have been implemented by government departments and technology enterprises such as the Shanghai Municipal Big Data Bureau, Huawei, and China Unicom, with cumulative technology transfer results exceeding RMB 2 million. He received one First Prize for Geographic Information Science and Technology Progress in 2025, and has led or contributed to the release of six national, industry, or local standards.
- Doctoral degree| Queen Mary University of London| Computer Science| 2022
- Master’s Degree| University of Chinese Academy of Sciences| Cartography and Geographic Information System| 2019
- Bachelor’s Degree| Hefei University of Technology| Geographic Information System| 2016
- Spatiotemporal Subdivision and Coding Computational Theory
- Earth System Engineering and Digital Twin
- Spatio-Temporal Data Science and Spatio-Temporal Intelligence
- Low-Altitude Airspace Grided Planning and Management
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2026.2-Now
School of Earth System Science | Tianjin University | Associate Professor  -
2022.10-2026.1
College of Engineering | Peking University | Postdoctoral Fellow 
- Papers
- [1] Quantitative spatiotemporal impact of dynamic population density changes on the COVID-19 pandemic in China's mainland
- [2] A study of quantifying the influence of kitchen human activity on indoor air quality dynamics
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- [3] Tracking Transfer of Carbon Dioxide Emissions to Countries along the Silk Roads Through Global Value Chains
- [4] Estimation of global horizontal irradiance in China using a deep learning method
- [5] An Intelligent UAV Path-Planning Method Based on the Theory of the Three-Dimensional Subdivision of Earth Space





