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Technische Universität München

Nianhua Liu

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Mag. M.Sc. Nianhua Liu

Maps Make Magic!

Research Interests

  • Mixed Reality Maps Design and Usage
  • UI & UX in Maps
  • Usability & HCI in Maps

Educational Background

  • Since 10.2022, Doctoral Researcher, Chair of Cartography and Visual Analytics, TUM, Germany

  • 2020.10-2022.06, Master Degree, Z_GIS, University of Salzburg, Austria

  • 2020.10-2022.06, Master Degree, Department of Geoinformatics, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic

  • 2019.07-2019.10, Research Assistant, University of Alberta, Canada

  • 2015.08-2020.06, Bachelor Degree, Geographic Information Science, Sun Yat-sen University, China

 

Working Experience

 

Volunteering

  • Since 03.2022, UN Mapper: Coordinate Chinese volunteers group to translate mapping tutorials

  • Since 09.2022, YouthMappers at TU Munich: Founder of chapter

  • 2018.12-2019.10, Mapbox China: Completed Chinese tutorials related to Mapbox GL JS for Web apps 

 

Teaching

  • Spatial Visual Analytics (summer - Geodesy and Geoinformation M.Sc.)
  • Spatial Data Integration (summer - Geodesy and Geoinformation M.Sc.)
  • Supervision of master thesis (Carto M.Sc., Geodesy and Geoinformation M.Sc.)

Journal Paper Publication

  • Liu, N. and Strobl, J., 2022. Impact of neighborhood features on housing resale prices in Zhuhai (China) based on an (M) GWR model. Big Earth Data, pp.1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2022.2031543

  • He, Y., Pu, H., Liu, N., Zhang, Y. and Sheng, Y., 2022. An Analysis of Food Accessibility of Mountain Cities in China: A Case Study of Chongqing. Applied Sciences, 12(7), p.3236. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12073236

 

Conference & Presentations

  • Liu, N., Feng, Y., Wang, S., and Meng, L.: The Impact of Maps on Climate Information Communication: An Empirical User Study on Social Media Trustworthiness, Abstr. Int. Cartogr. Assoc., 7, 92, doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-7-92-2024, 2024.
  • Liu, N., Liu, B., Feng, Y., & Meng, L. (2023). Comparative User Experiments in Cognitive Pitfalls of Climate Change Information. Abstracts of the ICA, 6, 143. https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-6-143-2023
  • Liu, N., Salazar, J., Chen, C., Wang, S., Netek, R., Popelka, S., & Meng, L. (2023). Using Eye-tracking to Evaluate Visual Behaviours on GIS Enhanced Football Animations. Abstracts of the ICA, 6, 144. https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-6-144-2023, 2023.
  • Gao, Y., Gella, G. W., & Liu, N. (2022). Assessing the Influences of Band Selection and Pretrained Weights on Semantic-Segmentation-Based Refugee Dwelling Extraction from Satellite Imagery. AGILE: GIScience Series, 3, 36. https://doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-3-36-2022
  • Wang, S., Liu, B., Zhang, C.,Liu, N., & Meng, L. (2023). Visualizing indoor layout for spatial learning using Mixed Reality-based X-ray vision. Abstracts of the ICA, 6, 267. https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-6-267-2023, 2023.

 

Awards and Grants

  • IFRC Limitless Academy (reach Phase 3)
  • Best Student Presentation Award & Travel Grant Award at AsiaCarto 2024
  • German Cartographic Society (DGfK) Scholarships for EuroCarto 2024
  • Honorary award in CYBERCARTOGRAPHY Competition 2022, AGILE, ICA, and ISPRS
  • Best paper award in 11th and 13th GeoMundus Conference
  • Mapathon Winner of 13th GeoMundus Conference
  • Mapbox China Top Developer 2018

 

Membership

  • EIT Urban Mobility - Doctoral Training Network
  • NFDI4Earth - Academy fellow
  • ISPRS WG IV/5: Member in ISPRS Working Group - Geovisualization, Augmented And Virtual Reality
  • ISDE: Member in International Society for Digital Earth
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