Professor Yan Liu is a Geographical Information Scientist and a Quantitative Human Geographer with expertise in urban modelling, GIS, and spatial (big) data analytics
Her research themes are centred on (1) modelling urban systems through complex systems modelling and geo-simulation incorporating cellular automata (CA) and agent based modelling (ABM) to describe, understand, simulate and predict urban change processes and dynamics; and (2) spatially integrated urban and societal studies incorporating spatial data mining and big data analytics
The nature of her research is inherently multi-disciplinary, since the output of her research has a wide impact across physical/environmental and social sciences