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Yeran Sun

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Yeran Sun
University of Lincoln
Senior Lecturer in Geography

Biography

Dr Yeran Sun is a Senior Lecturer in Geography since 2022. Prior to joining University of Lincoln, he was a Lecturer at Swansea University (2020-2022) and a Research Associate at University of Glasgow (2016-2019).

His research fields include Urban Informatics, Urban Remote Sensing, Urban Transport, Health Geography, and Big Data Analytics. These studies have been published in journals such as Environment and Planning B, Computers Environment and Urban Systems, Sustainable Cities and Society, Journal of Transport & Health, and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and in ‘Complex Networks and Dynamic Systems: Transportation Analytics in the Era of Big Data’ as book chapters.

Research interests

  1. Transport and Mobility
  2. Healthy Built Environment
  3. Geospatial Big Data Analytics
  4. GeoAI

Education

  • PhD - Heidelberg University 2015
  • MSc - University of Chinese Academy of Sciences 2011
  • BSc - Northwest University (China) 2008

Publications

[1] Hu, Xuke, Sun, Yeran, Kersten, Jens, Zhou, Zhiyong, Klan, Friederike and Fan, Hongchao (2023) How can voting mechanisms improve the robustness and generalizability of toponym disambiguation. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 117 . p. 103191. ISSN 1569-8432
[2] Sun, Zhao-Yong, Deng, Min-Xin, Li, Dongdong and Sun, Yeran (2023) Characteristics and driving factors of carbon emissions in China. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management . ISSN 1360-0559
[3] Yeran Sun, Shaohua Wang*, Yu Wang. Estimating local-scale urban heat island intensity using nighttime light satellite imageries. Sustainable Cities and Society.
[4] Zhang, Xucai, Sun, Yeran, Guan, Fangli, Chen, Kai, Witlox, Frank and Huang, Haosheng (2022) Forecasting the crowd: An effective and efficient neural network for citywide crowd information prediction at a fine spatio-temporal scale. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 143 . p. 103854. ISSN 0968-090X
[5] Hu, Xuke, Zhou, Zhiyong, Sun, Yeran, Kersten, Jens, Klan, Friederike, Fan, Hongchao and Wiegmann, Matti (2022) GazPNE2: A general place name extractor for microblogs fusing gazetteers and pretrained transformer models. IEEE Internet of Things Journal . p. 1. ISSN 2327-4662
[6] Hu, X., Zhou, Z., Sun, Y., Kersten, J., Klan, F., Fan, H. and Wiegmann, M. (2022) GazPNE2: A general place name extractor for microblogs fusing gazetteers and pretrained transformer models. IEEE Internet of Things Journal . ISSN 2372-2541
[7] Dong, Zhengbin, Yun, Yanwen, Sun, Yeran and Wang, Fenglong (2022) Building use-wellbeing associations: A spatial perspective. Cities, 121 . p. 103493. ISSN 0264-2751
[8] Dong, Z., Yun, Y., Sun, Y. and Wang, F. (2022) Building use-wellbeing associations: A spatial perspective. Cities, 121 . ISSN 0264-2751
[9] Zhai, J., Wu, W., Yun, Y., Jia, B., Sun, Y. and Wang, Q. (2021) Travel satisfaction and rail accessibility. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 100 . ISSN 1361-9209
[10] Sun, Y. and Thakuriah, P. (2021) Public transport availability inequalities and transport poverty risk across England. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 48 (9). pp. 2775-2789. ISSN 2399-8083
[11] Sun, Y., Hu, X. and Xie, J. (2021) Spatial inequalities of COVID-19 mortality rate in relation to socioeconomic and environmental factors across England. Science of the Total Environment, 758 . ISSN 0048-9697
[12] Sun, Y., Wang, S., Xie, J. and Hu, X. (2021) Modeling Local-Scale Violent Crime Rate: A Comparison of Eigenvector Spatial Filtering Models and Conventional Spatial Regression Models. Professional Geographer, 73 (2). pp. 312-321. ISSN 0033-0124

Projects

[1] Major Program (42171214) — awarded £59483 by The National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2022
[2] Discipline Hopping for Environmental Solutions (PO 4060266913) — awarded £6335 by NERC in 2021
[3] Major Program (20ZDA037) — awarded £95173 by The National Social Science Foundation of China in 2020

Awards

1.AGILE Grant (Scholarship) - Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) 2014