🎉 Since May 2026, I have been an Assistant Professor in (Geo)AI and Regional Development at Lund University.
Welcome!
I am Ye Hong, an Assistant Professor in (Geo)AI and Regional Development at Lund University, based at the Department of Human Geography in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, affiliated with the Mobility Information Engineering (MIE) Lab at the Chair of Geoinformation Engineering. I also held a joint appointment at the University of Zurich’s Department of Geography, where I worked with the Urban Analytics Group.
I received my Doctor of Science degree from ETH Zurich, under the supervision of Prof. Martin Raubal and Prof. Konrad Schindler. Before that, I obtained a master’s degree in Geomatics from ETH Zurich and a bachelor’s degree in Geographic Information Science and Remote Sensing from Sun Yat-sen University, China.
Research directions @Lund combine human mobility, urban computing, and network science ideas. I develop GeoAI methods to study mobility behavior and its links to social, environmental, and urban contexts. The goal is to understand how mobility patterns shape spatial inequalities, and to provide support for more sustainable and inclusive transport and urban planning.
📰 News
- 05.2026 🎉 I started my position as Assistant Professor in (Geo)AI and Regional Development at Lund University, at the Department of Human Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, in May 2026. This appointment is part of the Lund University Programme for Global Excellence.
- 04.2026 Paper Bidirectional yet asymmetric causality between urban systems and traffic dynamics in 30 cities worldwide published in Nature Communications.
- 05.2025 Gave a talk at STRC '25: Causal Inference for interpretable and robust deep learning in mobility analysis.
- 05.2025 Paper A causal intervention framework for synthesizing mobility data and evaluating predictive neural networks published in TRIP.
- 05.2024 Gave a talk at STRC '24: Towards realistic individual activity location demand synthesis using deep generative networks.
- 04.2024 Paper Is a 15-Minute City Within Reach? Measuring Multimodal Accessibility and Carbon Footprint in 12 Major American Cities published in Land Use Policy.
📄 Publications
Is a 15-Minute City Within Reach? Measuring Multimodal Accessibility and Carbon Footprint in 12 Major American Cities
Land Use Policy, 2025
