Research Interests: Interactions between Spatiotemporal Behavior and the Built Environment; Urban Big Data and Machine Learning; Behavior-Oriented Urban Intelligence

Tanhua Jin, Professor at the Department of Urban Planning, the School of Architecture, Southeast University. She received her B.Sc. (2016) and M.Sc. (2019) degrees in Urban and Rural Planning from Southeast University, and her Ph.D. in Geography (2023) from Ghent University, Belgium, under the supervision of Academician of the European Academy of Sciences, Prof. Frank Witlox. She has undertaken academic visits at ETH Zurich and University College London (UCL), and held postdoctoral research positions at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Ghent University, funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO).

Her research focuses on the interactions between urban spatiotemporal behavior and the built environment, urban big data and machine learning methods, and intelligent urban design. Her recent work particularly explores behavior-oriented urban intelligence and multimodal human behavior sensing, with applications to urban regeneration and spatial optimization. She has published more than 30 papers in leading Chinese and international journals, including over 20 papers in top SCI/SSCI-indexed journals such as Cities, Sustainable Cities and Society, Land Use Policy, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, and Journal of Transport Geography, including two ESI Highly Cited Papers. She has received several academic and professional awards, including the Best Conference Paper Award from the Urban Data and Information Systems Committee at the 103rd Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, the Best Conference Paper Award at the Benelux Interuniversity Association of Transport Researchers (BIVEC-GIBET) Transport Research Days, the Second Prize of the Huaxia Construction Science and Technology Award, the First Prize of the 18th Jiangsu Provincial Excellent Engineering Design Award, the First Prize of the inaugural Urban Design Award of the Jiangsu Civil Engineering & Architectural Society, and the Second Prize of the Jiangsu Provincial Excellent Survey and Design Award for Urban and Rural Development.

She currently serves on the editorial boards of Urban Planning and Journal of Urban Mobility and as a reviewer for more than 20 leading international SCI/SSCI-indexed journals, including Cities, Land Use Policy, Urban Studies, Sustainable Cities and Society, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, and Journal of Transport Geography. She currently leads a national-level high-level young talent project and has previously served as principal investigator of a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO; 17% funding rate), an EU–Netherlands joint research project, and a research project supported by the ENLIGHT European University Alliance.