Yan Liu
Associate Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
The University of Queensland
Australia
Biography
Associate Professor Yan Liu is a Spatial Scientist and Human Geographer, specialising in Geographical Informational Science (GIS), spatial data analytics and complex systems modelling. She received her PhD from the University of Queensland in 2001 and worked at the National Institute of Education at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and at the Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Wuhan, China). Her research areas include complex systems modelling and geo-simulation focusing on cellular automata based urban modelling, spatial (and big) data analytics, public participatory GIS (PGIS/PPGIS), spatially integrated social science research as well as GIS applications in coupled human and environmental systems. She is also an Affiliate Academic at the Institute for Social Science Research of the University of Queensland and a Research Fellow of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course (the Life Course Centre). A/Professor Liu's research is multi-disciplinary in nature whereby output of this research has a wide impact across the physical/environmental science as well as social science. Her current research interest focus on CA and agent based urban modelling as well as integrating spatial data mining and big data analytics to enhance our understanding on social spatial issues, as she believes that spatial approach is a novel focus for cross-disciplinary interaction and research in the social and behavioural sciences.
Research Interest
• Public policy • Real-time detection and sampling of contaminants • Remote sensing and geospatial analysis • Risk assessment for workplace and community hazards •
Publications
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Feng, Yongjiu, Chen, Xinjun and Liu, Yan (2016) The effects of changing spatial scales on spatial patterns of CPUE for Ommastrephes bartramii in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Fisheries Research, 183 1-12.
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Zolkafli, Amirulikhsan, Brown, Greg and Liu, Yan (2017) An evaluation of the capacity-building effects of participatory GIS (PGIS) for public participation in land use planning. Planning Practice and Research, 1-17.
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Zolkafli, Amirulikhsan, Liu, Yan and Brown, Greg (2017) Bridging the knowledge divide between public and experts using PGIS for land use planning in Malaysia. Applied Geography, 83 107-117.
