Jasper Zongrong Li
Portrait
Logo Ph.D. in Geographic Information Systems

I'm an interdisciplinary researcher interested in applying GeoAI methods to advance urban science, understand human-environment interactions, and leverage street view and remote sensing for urban perception and analysis. Research Interests

I am currently a Ph.D. student in Geographic Information Systems at Texas A&M University, advised by Prof. Lei Zou in the TAMU GEAR Lab. I previously earned my Master of Science in Spatial Data Science at the University of Southern California, advised by Prof. Siqin Wang and Prof. Yi Qi. I hold a Bachelor of Economics in Finance from Nanjing Audit University.

I am also a Research Assistant at HKUST(GZ), working in the AI4City Lab with Prof. Wufan Zhao. Previously, I worked as a Data Science Intern at City of Hope under the supervision of Dr. Jay Yang and as a Research Assistant at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, advised by Prof. Zhiwei Li.

I am looking for collaborators and interns interested in GeoAI, Spatial Analysis, and their applications in urban science and human-environment interaction. My goal is to develop novel tools, algorithms, and methodologies to empower future researchers in exploring Urban Science and understanding the dynamic relationship between humans and their environments. If you are interested in collaborating, please feel free to reach out via email or WeChat.

Curriculum Vitae
Google Scholar GitHub WeChat Twitter LinkedIn ORCID
Education
  • Texas A&M University
    Texas A&M University
    Ph.D. in Geographic Information Systems
    Aug. 2025 - Present
  • University of Southern California
    University of Southern California
    M.S. in Spatial Data Science
    Aug. 2023 - May. 2025
  • Nanjing Audit University
    Nanjing Audit University
    B.A. in Economics, Finance
    Sep. 2018 - Jul. 2022
Honors & Awards
  • 2025 AAG GISS Student Paper Competition Honorable Mention
    Mar. 2025
  • 2025 EIP Student of the Year Award
    Mar. 2025
  • Most Suitably Applied Analysis Methodology Award
    Feb. 2025
  • Bronze medal in Kaggle's Child Mind Institute - Detect Sleep States
    Jan. 2024
  • Outstanding Graduate Award
    Jun. 2022
  • Provincial Champion of The World Mandarin Debating Championship
    Sep. 2020
Experience
  • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
    Research Assistant - AI4City Lab
    Aug. 2024 - Present
  • Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Research Assistant - Spatial Data Lab
    May. 2024 - Sep. 2024
  • City of Hope
    City of Hope
    Data Science Intern
    Feb. 2024 - May. 2024
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Research Assistant
    Sep. 2023 - May. 2024
  • NetEase Youdao
    NetEase Youdao
    Data Analyst Intern
    Jan. 2023 - Apr. 2023
News
2025
Our BuildingView paper has been accepted to ACM SpatialDI 2025.
Mar 27
Won "Honorable Mention" in 2025 AAG GISS Student Paper Competition. Details
Mar 25
Won "2025 EIP Student of the Year Award", with name permanently inscribed on a USC Spatial Sciences Institute plaque. Details
Mar 18
Won the "Most Suitably Applied Analysis Methodology" award at the 2025 LA Geospatial Summit Story Map
Feb 28
📌 Tutorial: Convert Foursquare's 104M+ POI Dataset from GeoJSON to Shapefile for ArcGIS Pro. 👉 Check it out
Feb 06
Presented at the 2025 Young Scholar Symposium on Spatiotemporal Data Science by Harvard Spatial Data Lab. Link Here
Feb 01
Developed a pre-trained DeepLabV3+ model for satellite image segmentation using the OpenEarthMap dataset, bridging the gap in globally diverse satellite imagery analysis. Open source
Jan 17
Selected Publications (view all )
GPS-Sat2SVI: GPS-Based Remote Sensing with Style Consistency for Street View Image Generation
GPS-Sat2SVI: GPS-Based Remote Sensing with Style Consistency for Street View Image Generation

Zongrong Li, Wufan Zhao# (# corresponding author)

Ongoing 2025

GPS-Sat2SVI: GPS-Based Remote Sensing with Style Consistency for Street View Image Generation

Zongrong Li, Wufan Zhao# (# corresponding author)

Ongoing 2025

ViT-Based Attention Mechanism Uncovers Disparities in Urban Economic Landscapes Across Cities
ViT-Based Attention Mechanism Uncovers Disparities in Urban Economic Landscapes Across Cities

Zongrong Li, Jinyi Wang, Junhao Xu, Bingchen Li, Siqin Wang# (# corresponding author)

Ongoing 2025

ViT-Based Attention Mechanism Uncovers Disparities in Urban Economic Landscapes Across Cities

Zongrong Li, Jinyi Wang, Junhao Xu, Bingchen Li, Siqin Wang# (# corresponding author)

Ongoing 2025

Integrating Earth Observation Data Into the Tri-environmental Evaluation of the Economic Cost of Natural Disasters: A Case Study of 2025 LA Wildfire
Integrating Earth Observation Data Into the Tri-environmental Evaluation of the Economic Cost of Natural Disasters: A Case Study of 2025 LA Wildfire

Zongrong Li, Haiyang Li, Yifan Yang, Siqin Wang#, Yinxin Zhu (# corresponding author)

Under review, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation(JAG) 2025

[Paper]

Integrating Earth Observation Data Into the Tri-environmental Evaluation of the Economic Cost of Natural Disasters: A Case Study of 2025 LA Wildfire

Zongrong Li, Haiyang Li, Yifan Yang, Siqin Wang#, Yinxin Zhu (# corresponding author)

Under review, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation(JAG) 2025

[Paper]

Buildingmultiview: Extracting 11 Multi-Scale Building Characteristics from Satellite and Street View Imagery with Large Language Models
Buildingmultiview: Extracting 11 Multi-Scale Building Characteristics from Satellite and Street View Imagery with Large Language Models

Zongrong Li, Yunlei Su, Filip Biljecki, Wufan Zhao# (# corresponding author)

Under review, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation(JAG) 2025

[Paper]

Buildingmultiview: Extracting 11 Multi-Scale Building Characteristics from Satellite and Street View Imagery with Large Language Models

Zongrong Li, Yunlei Su, Filip Biljecki, Wufan Zhao# (# corresponding author)

Under review, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation(JAG) 2025

[Paper]

StreetviewLLM: Extracting Geographic Information Using a Chain-of-Thought Multimodal Large Language Model
StreetviewLLM: Extracting Geographic Information Using a Chain-of-Thought Multimodal Large Language Model

Zongrong Li, Junhao Xu, Siqin Wang#, Yifan Wu, Haiyang Li (# corresponding author)

Under review, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation(JAG) 2024

[Paper] [Code]

StreetviewLLM: Extracting Geographic Information Using a Chain-of-Thought Multimodal Large Language Model

Zongrong Li, Junhao Xu, Siqin Wang#, Yifan Wu, Haiyang Li (# corresponding author)

Under review, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation(JAG) 2024

[Paper] [Code]

Multi-source tri-environmental conceptual framework for fire impact analysis
Multi-source tri-environmental conceptual framework for fire impact analysis

Zongrong Li, Qiluo Li, Haiyang Li, Siqin Wang#, Yi Qi# (# corresponding author)

Urban Informatics 2024

[Paper] [Code] [Story Map]

Multi-source tri-environmental conceptual framework for fire impact analysis

Zongrong Li, Qiluo Li, Haiyang Li, Siqin Wang#, Yi Qi# (# corresponding author)

Urban Informatics 2024

[Paper] [Code] [Story Map]

BuildingView: Constructing Urban Building Exteriors Databases with Street View Imagery and Multimodal Large Language Model
BuildingView: Constructing Urban Building Exteriors Databases with Street View Imagery and Multimodal Large Language Model

Zongrong Li, Yunlei Su, Wufan Zhao# (# corresponding author)

Accepted to ACM SpatialDI 2025

[Paper] [Code]

BuildingView: Constructing Urban Building Exteriors Databases with Street View Imagery and Multimodal Large Language Model

Zongrong Li, Yunlei Su, Wufan Zhao# (# corresponding author)

Accepted to ACM SpatialDI 2025

[Paper] [Code]

All publications