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Mingguan Wu Professor

Bio: 

Work experience

May, 2008 - Present, School of Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Postdoctoral Fellow, Associate Professor, Professor

2015.2-2016.2, Visiting Scholar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Field of research

Primarily engaged in research on cartography and geographic information systems, with current focus on the research and application of spatio-temporal big data visualization, AI-driven cartography, map style transfer, green mapping, and sound mapping. Research outcomes have been successfully applied in sectors such as power, surveying and mapping, and transportation.

Academic positions

  • 1. International Cartographic Association (ICA) Specialized Committee on User Experience, Vice Chair (October 2024 - present)
  • 2. Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Virtual Geographic Environment (Nanjing Normal University), Deputy Director (March 2019 - present)
  • 3. Professional Committee of Cartography and GIS, Chinese Geographical Society, Vice Chairman (October 2019 - present)
  • 4. Surveying, Mapping and Geographic Information Society of Jiangsu Province, Vice President (March 2023 - present)
  • 5. Academic Working Committee, Jiangsu Society of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation, Director (October 2023-present)
  • 6. Journal of Annals of GIS, Deputy Editor-in-Chief (February 2020-present)
  • 7. Journal of Modern Surveying and Mapping, Editorial Board Member (December 2023-present)
  • 8. Journal of Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology, Standing Editorial Board Member (April 2024-present)
  • 9. Member, Group Standards Working Group, Chinese Geographical Society (April 2024–present)

Facilitation of projects

  • 1. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 42371443, Project name: Style Migration Method from Image to Vector Map, 2024.01-2027.12, under research, presided. 2.
  • 2. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 41971417, Project Title: Automatic Color Setting Method for Maps Based on Streaming Learning, 2020.01-2023.12, under research, presided by.
  • 3. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 41571433, Project title: Visual variable similarity-driven symbolic rendering method for spatio-temporal data, 2016.01-2019.12, completed, presided.
  • 4. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 41271446, Project name: Research on map color management method coupling color gamut mapping and color profile transformation, 2013.01-2016.12, completed, presided over.
  • 5. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Youth Program, 40901186, Project name: Research on 3D free topological model based on Pongjialai dyad, 2010.01-2012.12, completed and chaired.
  • 6. National 863 Oriented Project, 2009AA12Z228, Project Name: Urban Spatial Information System Grid Integration and Intelligent Service Technology, 2009.01-2011.06, Completed, Sub-topic Leader.
  • 7. China Electronics Technology Group (CETG), Project Name: Map Symbol Database System, 2013-2014, responsible person.
  • 8. Nanjing Transportation Information Center (NJTIC) outsourcing project, project name: Nanjing Transportation Geographic Information Sharing Platform Portal System, 2011-2012, responsible person.

Awards and Honors

  • 2025, First Chen Shu-Peng Outstanding Paper Award (Corresponding Author), Journal of Geoinformation Science
  • 2025, Outstanding Reviewer of the Year, Journal of Geoinformation Science
  • 2025, Third Prize, Anhui Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award (3rd Author)
  • 2024, Journal of Location Based Services Best Paper Award
  • 2023, Jiangsu Province Science Speech Expert
  • 2023, First Prize of Scientific Progress of State Grid Nanrui Group (Sequence 3)
  • 2022, Special Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of Geographic Information Industry Association (Sequence 10)
  • 2021, Second Prize of Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Program (Sequence 3)
  • 2019, Nanjing Normal University Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award (second prize)
  • 2018, Honorary Expert of Jiangsu TV's Strongest Brain
  • 2017, First Prize of Geographic Information Science and Technology Progress of China GIS Industry Association (Sequence 13)
  • 2016, Jiangsu Province “Six Summit Talents” (Class C)
  • 2016, The Third Jiangsu Youth Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Science and Technology Award
  • 2015, Nanjing Normal University Young Leading Talents
  • 2015, The First Jiangsu Province Excellent Young Science and Technology Workers in Surveying, Mapping and Geographic Information
  • 2012, Outstanding Young Key Teachers of Nanjing Normal University's “Blue and Blue Project”.
  • 2010, First Prize of National Defense Science and Technology Progress (Sequence 4)

Awards for students

  • 2025, 19th Challenge Cup China Mobile National College Student Extracurricular Academic and Scientific Works Competition, Grand Prize (Second Advisor)
  • 2025, Ordnance Survey Student Award (Highly Commended), UK
  • 2025, 2nd Star Lake Cup Map Design Competition Student Group (Thesis Track), Best Thesis Award
  • 2025, Second “Xinghu Cup” Map Design Competition Student Group (Thesis Track) Grand Prize
  • 2025, Second “Xinghu Cup” Map Design Competition Student Group (Thesis Track) First Prize
  • 2025, 14th National College Student GIS Application Skills Competition Grand Prize (Second Advisor)
  • 2024, First Yangtze River Delta Creative Map Design Competition Merit Award
  • 2024, First Prize in the Student Group of the First “Star Lake Cup” National Map Design Competition
  • 2022, Grand Prize of National College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Intelligence Competition in Surveying and Mapping Disciplines
  • 2021, Grand Prize of Jiangsu Province Colleges and Universities Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information Innovation and Development Competition
  • Second-class prize of Excellent Thesis for Undergraduate Students of Surveying and Mapping in Jiangsu Colleges and Universities, 2021.

Representative international journal articles

  • 1.    Shangjing Jiang, Mingguang Wu*, Lai Zhicheng, &Pu Qiuxiang. (2025). Mapping with a sense of place: a crowdsourced image-based color generation approach. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, ,1-21.
  • 2.    Yuan Ding, Chen Dongming, Zlatanova Sisi, Mingguang Wu*, Kai Cao,..., &Yang Yingbao. (2025). Simplifying complex landmark models with holes for 3D maps: a topological perception-based approach. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE, ,1-34.
  • 3.    Shangjing Jiang, Zhang Haiping, Haoran Wang, Zitong Li, Chuantang Ren, & Mingguang Wu*. (2025). Measuring intercity symbol permeation to reveal the spatial structures of cultural diffusion and absorption among cities. CITIES, 161,105839.
  • 4.    Sun Yanjie, & Mingguang Wu*. (2025). Flexible style transfer from remote sensing images to maps. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 139,104566.
  • 5.    Sizhuo Gao, Mingguang Wu*, Ziming Cheng, &Robert E. Roth. (2025). Do Blue Light Filters Reduce Visual Fatigue When Using Digital Maps? An Eye Tracking Experiment to Promote Vision Health. TRANSACTIONS IN GIS, 29(2),e70008.
  • 6. Lige Qiao, &Mingguang Wu. (2024). An exploratory tag map for attributes-in-space tasks. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 133,104127.
  • 7. Mingguang Wu, Lige Qiao, Zhenhan Wu, Zeyu Hou, Chen Shuhan, &Lv Guonian. (2024). What can cartographers learn from artistic paintings when stylizing maps? A preliminary synthesis from the perspective of visual neuroscience. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, ,1-20.
  • 8. Mingguang Wu, Sun Yanjie, &Xia Xianqin. (2024). Computational assessment of the aesthetic quality of map colors. Transactions in GIS.
  • 9. Robert E. Roth, Arzu Çöltekin, Luciene Delazari, Bradley Denney, André Mendonça,..., &Mingguang Wu. (2024). Making maps & visualizations for mobile devices: A research agenda for mobile-first and responsive cartographic design. Journal of Location Based Services, ,1-71.
  • 10. Mingguang Wu, Guonian Lv, Lige Qiao, Robert E. Roth, &A. Xing Zhu. (2024). Green Cartography: A research agenda towards sustainable development. Annals of GIS, 30(1),15-34.
  • 11. Mingguang Wu, Sun Yanjie, &Shangjing Jiang. (2024). Adaptive color transfer from images to terrain visualizations. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 30(8),5538-5552.
  • 12. Mingguang Wu, Ziming Cheng, &Cheng Wei. (2023). An Experimental Evaluation of Kernel Density Estimation to Choose Categorical Map Colours. The Cartographic Journal, ,1-17.
  • 13. Lige Qiao, &Mingguang Wu. (2023). Light mode and dark mode: Which one is suitable when using public‐facing web maps? An experimental evaluation using eye‐tracking. Transactions in GIS, 27(2),516-540.
  • 14. Mingguang Wu, &Lige Qiao. (2022). Designing Metaphorical Multivariate Symbols to Optimize Dockless Bike Sharing. The Cartographic Journal, 59(3),220-238.
  • 15. Mingguang Wu, Sun Yanjie, &Yaqian Li. (2021). Adaptive transfer of color from images to maps and visualizations. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 49(4),289-312.
  • 16. Sun Yanjie, Mingguang Wu, Liu Xiaoyan, &Zhou Liangchen. (2022). High-Precision Dynamic Traffic Noise Mapping Based on Road Surveillance Video. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 11(8),441.
  • 17. Han Yangli, Mingguang Wu, &Robert Roth. (2020). Toward green cartography & visualization: a semantically-enriched method of generating energy-aware color schemes for digital maps. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 48(1),43-62.
  • 18. Mingguang Wu, Lv Guonian, &Kun Zhang. (2018). A Similarity-Based Approach for Improving the Efficiency of Drawing Spatiotemporal Point Features. The Cartographic Journal, 57(1),57-69.
  • 19. Mingguang Wu, Chen Taisheng, Hong Wang, Lv Guonian, Huien Li,..., &Yi Tao. (2019). An Artificial Bee Colony-based Algorithm to Automatically Create Colour Schemes for Geovisualizations. The Cartographic Journal, 56(2),161-174.
  • 20. Mingguang Wu, Zhu A. Xing, &Li He. (2018). Improving the Quality of Cartographic Colour Reproduction Using the Self-Organizing Map Method. The Cartographic Journal, 55(3),273-284.
  • 21. Mingguang Wu, Chen Taisheng, Hong Wang, Lv Guonian, &A. Xing Zhu. (2018). An adaptive approach to create on-demand color schemes for mapping quantitative geographic data. Color Research and Application, 43(4),569-585.
  • 22. Mingguang Wu, Chen Taisheng, Lv Guonian, Menglin Chen, Hong Wang, &Haoyu Sun. (2018). Identification and formalization of knowledge for coloring qualitative geospatial data. Color Research and Application, 43(2),198-208.
  • 23. Mingguang Wu, Chen Taisheng, Zhang Kun, Jing Zhimin, Han Yangli,..., &Lv Guonian. (2018). An Efficient Visualization Method for Polygonal Data with Dynamic Simplification. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 7(4),138.
  • 24. Mingguang Wu, Zheng Peibei, Lu Guonian, &Zhu A. Xing. (2017). Chain-based polyline tessellation algorithm for cartographic rendering. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 44(6),491-506.
  • 25. Mingguang Wu, Axing Zhu, Zheng Peibei, Lili Cui, &Zhang Xueying. (2017). An improved map-symbol model to facilitate sharing of heterogeneous qualitative map symbols. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 44(1),62-75.

Representative Chinese Journal Papers

  1. 1. Mingguang Wu, Lige Qiao, & Guonian Lü. (2024). Theory of Map Visual Variables from the Perspective of Visual Neuroscience. *Acta Geographica Sinica*, (09), 2191-2205.
  2. 2. Mingguang Wu, Yanjie Sun, & Guonian Lü. (2022). Map Style Transfer: Concept, Review, and Prospects. *Journal of Wuhan University (Information Science Edition)*, 47(12), 2069-2084.
  3. 3. Mingguang Wu, & Ziming Cheng. (2023). An Adaptive Energy-Saving Display Method for Electronic Maps Considering Visual Hierarchy. *Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica*, 52(11), 1983-1993.
  4. 4. Mingguang Wu, Yanjie Sun, Wei Lu, & Jingwen Wang. (2024). Sound Maps: Element Analysis and Symbolization Methods. *Journal of Geo-Information Science*, 26(01), 56-71.
  5. 5. Mingguang Wu, Peibei Zheng, & Guonian Lü. (2016). Inertial Function Description and Triangulation Method for Linear Objects. *Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica*, 45(3), 372-378.
  6. 6. Mingguang Wu. (2015). A Spatial Index Driven by Spatial Distribution Patterns. *Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica*, 44(1), 108-115.
  7. 7. Mingguang Wu, Peibei Zheng, & Lili Cui. (2015). A SOM Neural Network Method for Gamut Mapping in Electronic Maps. *Acta Electronica Sinica*, 43(6), 1108-1112.
  8. 8. Mingguang Wu. (2014). A Point Data Symbolization Process Model Driven by Visual Variable Similarity. *Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica*, 43(12), 1274-1279.
  9. 9. Mingguang Wu. (2012). A Study on Gamut Mapping Methods Across Media for Maps. *Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica*, 41(2), 291-297.
  10. 10. Mingguang Wu, Taisheng Chen, Shanshan Tan, Qi Luo, Guonian Lü, & Yehua Sheng. (2011). A Data Structure for Linear Map Symbols Based on the PostScript Imaging Model. *Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica*, 40(5), 662-667.

Contact

E-mail: wmg@njnu.edu.cn

Address: School of Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, No. 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing (North), China