Zhanghong

• 2007-2011: Ph.D. (Cartography and Geographic Informaiton Science), Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

• 2004-2007: MSc. (Human Geography), Hubei University.

• 2000-2004: BA. (Tourism Management), Hubei University, 

• Sep. 2023-: Associate Professor, School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University

• Jul. 2020-Aug.2023: Associate Professor, School of Urban and Regional Science, East China Normal University

• Mar. 2011-Jun. 2020: Associate Professor of GIS, Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University

• Oct. 2010-Apr. 2011: Research Associate, School of Hotel and Tourism Management (Dr. Mimi Li) , the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

• Jan. 2010-Jun. 2010: Visiting Scholar, Levich Institute (Prof. Hernán A. Makse), City College of New York

Dr. ZHANG Hong is an associate professor at the School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University. She also works at the Institute for Global Innovation Studies and the Institute of Cartography, both at East China Normal University.    Dr. ZHANG earned her Bachelor's degree in Tourism Management in 2004 and her Master's degree in Human Geography in 2007, both from Hubei University. She obtained her Ph.D. in cartography and GIS from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2011. She has held several academic positions, including a research associate at the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2011 and an associate professor at the Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering of the Southwest Jiaotong University from 2011 to 2020.   

   During her professional experience, Dr. ZHANG has led funding from various sources, such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai, the Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Project, and the Soft Science Foundation of Shanghai. She has authored over 70 papers, including over 30 SCI/SSCI papers. Her papers have been published in several journals, including the International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Journal of Transport Geography, and Applied Geography. Her research interests include urban evolution, spatial complexity, and digital humanities.

 Urban Evolution, Spatial Complexity, Digital Humanities.

For undergraduate students

Cartography, Global Transportation Geography

Digital Humanities and Spatial Modeling

For graduate students

Geographic Modeling Methods

Geographic Information Analysis

• The Mechanisms and Simulation of Fractal Evolution of Urban Street Networks, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2022-2025, RMB 530,000

• Self-organization Structure and Mechanisms of Symplastic Growth of Road Networks Based on Complex Network Theory, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2012-2014, RMB 230,000

• The Spatio-temporal Evolution, Multi-layer Interaction and Driving Force Transformation of Urban Scientific and Technological Innovation, Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai, 2022-2024. RMB 200,000

• Geographic Knowledge Graph construction and Hybrid Intelligence Parsing Method for Urban Science and Technology Innovation, Soft Science Foundation of Shanghai, 2022-2023. RMB 100,000

• The Evaluation and Optimization of Tourism Resources Exploitation of Shanghai, Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Program, 2021-2022. RMB 80,000

• The Exploitation and Tour Route Design of Linpan Rural Landscape in Western Sichuan Province based on Big Data, The High Technology Research and Development Program of Chengdu,2020-2021. RMB 10,000.

• The Spatial Configuration and Accessibility of the Tourism Resources of Sichuan, Program of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province, China , 2020-2021, RMB 100,000

• Internet Panoramic Location Map Composition Agreement and the Technology of Modeling and Mapping, Sub project under National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program), 2013-2015, RMB 309,600

• Visual Analytics for the Complexity of Urban Transportation Systems, The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, 2011-2013, RMB 200,000

Selected Publications

• Hong Zhang*, Tian Lan, Zhilin Li. 2022, Fractal evolution of urban street networks in form and structure: a case study of Hong Kong. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 36(6):1100-1118. 

• Hong Zhang, Zhilin Li*. 2011, Weighted ego network for forming hierarchical structure of road networks. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 25(2):255-272. 

• Hong Zhang, Shan Xu, Chengliang Liu*, Xuan Liu. 2021, Near “real-time” estimation of excess commuting from open-source data: Evidence from China’s megacities. Journal of Transport Geography, 91. 

• Hong Zhang, Peichao Gao, Tian Lan, Chengliang Liu*. 2021, Exploring the structural fractality of road networks by different representations. Professional Geographer, 7(2):348-362. 

• Hong Zhang, Yanyu Chen, Peichao Gao*, Zhiwei Wu. 2020, Mapping the changing Internet attention to the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 in China. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 52(4):691-694.  

• Hong Zhang, Zhiwei Wu, Tian Lan, Yanyu Chen, Peichao Gao*. 2020, Calculating the Wasserstein metric-based Boltzmann entropy of a landscape mosaic. Entropy, 22,381.  

• Hong Zhang, Zhiwei Wu*. 2020, A head/tail breaks-based method for efficiently estimating the absolute Boltzmann entropy of numerical raster data. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 9, 103.1-13.  

• Hong Zhang, Zhilin Li*. 2012, Fractality and self-similarity in the structure of road networks. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102(2): 350-365. 

• Tian Lan*, Zhilin Li, Hong Zhang. 2019, Urban allometric scaling beneath structural fractality of road networks. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 109(3):943-957. 

• Bihong Yang, Hong Zhang*, Fei Fan, Ruijie Huang. Mapping the structural evolution of intercity patent transfer constrained by space: a case study of China, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 2024. 

• Tian Lan, Hong Zhang*, Zhilin Li. 2022. Exploring the evolution of road centrality: A case study of Hong Kong from 1976 to 2018. Applied Geography. 146:102767. 

• Peichao Gao, Hong Zhang*, Zhiwei Wu. 2021, Wasserstein metric-based Boltzmann entropy of a landscape mosaic: a clarification, correction, and evaluation of thermodynamic consistency. Landscape Ecology, 36:815-827.  

• Chengliang Liu, Bangjuan Wang,  Hong Zhang*, 2023. Mapping the spatial organisation of air transport network by WENA-MLST analysis, Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, DOI: 10.1080/23249935.2023.2261044 

• Ziwei Jiang, Xi Tang*, Hong Zhang*. 2023. GeoInfographic design of the multi-spatiality of borders: A case study of epidemic prevention and control in Ruili, China. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. 50(4): 1126–1129.  

• Zhengwen Wang, Hongli Yin, Fei Fan, Yingfeng Fang , Hong Zhang* , 2022. Science and technology insurance and regional innovation: evidence from provincial panel data in China, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, DOI: 10.1080/09537325.2022.2053518. 

• Zongyuan Weng，Fei Fan，Bihong Yang，Hong Zhang*. 2023. Regional differences and drivers of patent transfer-in between Chinese cities: a city absorptive capacity perspective.  Technology Analysis & Strategic Management. Accepted.

• Bangjuan Wang, Hong Zhang, Chengliang Liu*, 2022. Where are equity and service effectiveness? A tale from public transport in Shanghai. Journal of Transport Geography. 98: 103275. 

• Peichao Gao, Hong Zhang, Zhiwei Wu*, Jicheng Wang. 2021, A Joint Landscape Metric and Error Image Approach to Unsupervised Band Selection for Hyperspectral Image Classifification. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 19:5505805. 

• Peichao Gao, Hong Zhang*, Zhiwei Wu, Jicheng Wang. 2020, Visualizing the expansion and spread of coronavirus disease 2019 by cartograms. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 52(4):698-701. 

• Chengliang Liu*, Jiaqi Xu, Hong Zhang*. 2020, Competitiveness or Complementarity? A Dynamic Network Analysis of International Agri-Trade along the Belt and Road. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 13:349-374.  

• Chengliang Liu*, Jiaqi Wang, Hong Zhang*. 2018, Spatial heterogeneity of ports in the global maritime network detected by weighted ego network analysis. Maritime Policy and Management, 45(1): 89-104. 

• Chengliang Liu, Jiaqi Wang, Hong Zhang*, Meiyuan Yin. 2018, Mapping the hierarchical structure of the global shipping net4work by weighted ego network analysis. International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics, 10(1): 63-86.  

• Weiwei Cao, Xiangnan Feng, Hong Zhang*. 2019, The structural and spatial properties of the high-speed railway network in China: a complex network perspective. Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management,  9: 46-56.

• Chengliang Liu, Dezhong Duan* , HongZhang*. 2014, Relationships between fractal road and drainage networks in Wuling mountainous area: another symmetric understanding of human-environment relations. Journal of Mountain Science, 11(4):1060-1069.