Contact details

• Email: yuzhaoyuan@njnu.edu.cn
• Office address: Room 401, School of Geographical Sciences, Nanjing Normal University
• Correspondence address: School of Geographical Sciences, No.1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing Normal University
• Tel: 85896439

Educational Background

• 2001-2005: Nanjing Normal University, School of Geographical Sciences, Bachelor of Science in Geographical Sciences (Teacher Training)
• 2006-2008: School of Geographical Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Human Geography (Tourism Planning), Master's degree, supervised by Prof. Yuan Linwang and Prof. Huang Zhenfang
• 2008-2011: Nanjing Normal University, School of Geographical Sciences, Doctor of Science in Cartography and GIS, supervised by Prof. Lv Guonian and Prof. Yuan Linwang

Main social part-time jobs

• 2011-2014: Nanjing Normal University, School of Geographical Sciences, Lecturer
• 2014-2020: Nanjing Normal University, School of Geographical Sciences, Associate Professor
• 2018-2019: UW-Madison, Department of Geography, Visiting Scholar, Co-supervisor: Zhu Axing
• 2020-present: Nanjing Normal University, School of Geographical Sciences, Professor

Main Research Interests

• Leader/Principal Expert of the Yangtze River Delta Innovation Demonstration Station of the United Nations Decade of the Oceans “Coastal Zone Prediction” Science Program
• Member of Expert Group of National Major Consulting Project
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Chinese Geographical Society
• Secretary General, Science and Technology Evaluation Committee, Chinese Geographical Society
• Deputy Secretary General, Specialized Committee on Information Geography, Chinese Geographical Society (CGS)
• Member of the Quantum Computing Committee of the Communications Society of China
• Executive Director of the Collaborative Innovation Center for Development and Utilization of Geographic Information Resources in Jiangsu Province
• Chairman of the Information Geography Specialized Committee of the Geographical Society of Jiangsu Province
• Member of Digital Intelligence and Complex System Specialized Committee of Jiangsu Communication Society
• Vice President of Jiangsu Geographic Information Industry Research Institute
• Deputy Director of Jiangsu Province **** Major Innovation Platform
• Deputy Director of Jiangsu Province **** Think Tank
• Deputy Director of Academic Committee, School of Geosciences, Nanjing Normal University
• Program Committee Member of the 2nd International Digital Twin Ocean Summit & Co-Chair of WG4
• 2018 CGI ENGAGE Workshop Track Chair
• 2017-Present ENGAGE Workshop Scientific Advisory Committee Member
• Program Committee Member, Conference on Neural Networks and Intelligent Computing (ICONIP)
• Program Committee Member, IEEE Digital Twin 2023 International Conference
• Guest Editor-in-Chief, Advances in Clifford Algebras
• Editorial Board Member of Journal of Asian Geography
• Reviewer of various programs of MOST/FCFC

Honours and Awards

• 1. 2024, “Basic Software for Scenario Geographic Information System”, 2023 Science and Innovation China's Pioneering Technology List-Industrial Infrastructure Field (Project Leader, Recommended by China Association for the Promotion of Industry-University-Research Cooperation (CAIRC) based on the Innovation Achievement Prize for Industry-University-Research Cooperation, 25 projects nationwide)
• 2. 2024, “Quantum Geo-computing Technology, Software and Applications”, 2023 Top 10 Research Progresses in Geoscience in China (ranked second)
• 3. 2024, Nomination Award for Young Scientists of Ocean Power (30 nationally in that year)
• 4. 2024, Innovative People of GIS in Colleges and Universities (total 10 people nationwide in the current year)
• 5. 2024, Proposer of Huawei Cup Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling Competition
• 6. 2024, Speaker of the Second China Science and Technology Youth Forum on “World Frontiers of Science and Technology” (68 people nationwide in the same year)
• 7. 2024, Outstanding Academic Worker of Chinese Geographic Society (30 people nationwide)
• 8. 2024, R&D and industrial application of key technologies for all-space (air, space, earth, and sea) satellite heterogeneous network, Second Prize of Science and Technology of the Communications Society of China (ranked fifth)
• 9. 2024, Jiangsu Province “333” Project Second Level Cultivation Objects
• 10. 2024, First Batch of Think Tank Experts of Jiangsu Society of Engineers, 2024
• 11. 2024, Outstanding Talent Cultivation Objects of the Cultivation Program for Young and Middle-aged Leading Talents of Nanjing Normal University
• 12. 2023, Gold Medal (ranked first), 8th Istanbul International Invention Fair (ISIF23), “Quantum Traveling Key Technology for Urban Traffic Simulation”.
• 13. 2023, Evaluation Expert of Science and Technology Leading Talents, China Association for Science and Technology (CAST)
• 14. 2022, Key Technology of Scenario-based Modeling, Analysis and Service of Geographic Information, Second Prize of Innovation Achievement of China Industry-University-Research Cooperation (Ranked First)
• 15. 2022, Young Science and Technology Talent of High-level Science and Technology Innovation Talent Project, Ministry of Natural Resources
• 16. 2022, Leading Expert of Jiangsu Province ****
• 17. 2022, Young Geoscience and Technology Award of the Eighth Jiangsu Provincial Geographic Society
• 18. 2022, Outstanding Teacher Award, Nanjing Normal University
• 19. 2021, Shared Geographic Information Technology and Spatial Services, Second Prize of Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Award (ranked second)
• 20. 2021, Coastal Zone Land Rectification and Ecological Utilization Technology and Application, Second Prize of Land Resources Science and Technology Award (Ranked Second)
• 21. 2021, Key Technology and Integrated Application of Geographic Information Scenario Modeling, Second-class prize of Jiangsu University Scientific Research Achievement Award (ranked first)
• 22. 2021, Key Technology and Application of Video GIS, First Prize of China Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology Award (Ranked 5th)
• 23. 2021, Key Technology Research and Application of Real View 3D Construction in Jiangsu Province, Second-class prize of China Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology Award (ranked third)
• 24. 2019, Technical Methods and Applications of Fidelity Digital Terrain Modeling and Analysis, Third-class prize of Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology (ranked sixth)
• 25. 2018, Reconstruction, simulation and prediction of geographic environment evolution, First-class prize of Natural Science of Ministry of Education (ranked fifth)
• 26. 2017, Urban GIS key technology for urban management, First-class prize of China Geographic Information Science and Technology (ranked sixth)
• 27. 2016, The Third Jiangsu Youth Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Science and Technology Award
• 28. 2016, International Clifford Award Nomination

Recent publications
     He has published more than 200 papers in leading journals in his field. Co-published two academic monographs, and the related results were selected as EGU Highlights papers. The main results of the papers are:

• 1.    Zhaoyuan Yu, Dongshuang Li，Pei Du, et al., Hypercomplex Signal Processing in Digital Twin of the Ocean: Theory and application, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2024. 41（3）: 33-48,
• 2.    Zhaoyuan Yu, Pei Du, Lin Yi,et al., Coastal Zone Information Model: A comprehensive architecture for coastal digital twin by integrating data, models, and knowledge, Fundamental Research,2024, 2667-3258.
• 3.    Zhenxia Liu, Zengjie Wang, Binru Zhao, Wen Luo, Zhaoyuan Yu*, Linwang Yuan. Teleconnection Between Coastal Phytoplankton Blooms Phenomenon in Western North Pacific and El Niño–Southern Oscillation by Time-Frequency Analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2024, 129, e2023JC020856.
• 4.    Zhaoyuan Yu; Dongshuang Li; Xu Hu; Xinxin Zhou; Wen Luo; Linwang Yuan*; A-Xing Zhu; Modeling small-granularity expressway traffic volumes with quantum walks, IEEE Transactions On Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2022, 23(10): 17077-17086. 
• 5.    Wei Chen; Jianing Zhang; Zhaoyuan Yu*; Xiquan Zhao; Structure and evolution of global lead trade network: An industrial chain perspective, Resources Policy, 2024, 90: 104735.
• 6.    Wei Chen; Xiaoyu Niu; Wenqian Ke; Zhaoyuan Yu*; Investigating the energy trade networks in the Belt and Road regions: Structures and evolution, Energy, 2023, 283: 129157.
• 7.    Zengjie Wang; Xiaoyu Niu; Zhenxia Liu; Wen Luo; Zhaoyuan Yu*; Jiyi Zhang; Linwang Yuan; A line-of-sight zoning method for intervisibility computation by considering terrain relief, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2023, 37(11): 2416-2436.
• 8.    Dongshuang Li; Liming Pan; Jian Wang; Chunhua Shi*; Zhaoyuan Yu*; Linwang Yuan; A regional attentive empirical orthogonal function analysis: An application to North Atlantic Oscillation, International Journal of Climatology, 2024, 1-11.
• 9.    Zhaoyuan Yu; Dongshaung Li; Zhengfang Zhang; Wen Luo; Yuan Liu; Zengjie Wang; Linwang Yuan* ; Lossy compression of Earth system model data based on hierarchical tensor with Adaptive-HGFDR（V1.0）, Geoscientific Model Development , 2021, 14(2): 875-887. 
• 10.    Dongshuang Li; Yuhao Teng; Xinxin Zhou; Jiyi Zhang; Wen Luo; Binru Zhao; Zhaoyuan Yu*; Linwang Yuan; A tensor-based approach to unify organization and operation of data for irregular spatio-temporal fields, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2022,36(9):1885-1904. 
• 11.    Zengjie Wang; Wen Luo; Linwang Yuan; Hong Gao; Fan Wu; Xu Hu; Zhaoyuan Yu*; Query the trajectory based on the precise track: a Bloom filter-based approach. GeoInformatica, 2021, 25(2):397-416. 
• 12.    Xu Hu; Dongshuang Li; Zhaoyuan Yu*; Zhenjun Yan; Wen Luo; Linwang Yuan; Quantum harmonic oscillator model for fine-grained expressway traffic volume simulation considering individual heterogeneity, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2022,605(1): 1-15.  
• 13.    Xu Hu; Xiaoyu Niu; Lingxin Qian; Binghuang Pan; Zhaoyuan Yu*; Analyzing the multi-scale characteristic for online car-hailing traffic volume with quantum walk, IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 2022,16(10):1328-1341. 
• 14. Zhaoyuan Yu, Linwang Yuan, Mingguang Wu, Liangchen Zhou, Wen Luo, Xueying Zhang, Guonian Lv*; Classification and description of geographic information in geographic perspective, Journal of Geoinformation Science,2022,24(01):17-24. 
• 15. Xinxin Zhou, Linwang Yuan, Changbing Wu, Peipei Han, Jing Huang, Zhaoyuan Yu*; A quantum evolutionary algorithm for spatial optimization of facility allocation, Journal of Surveying and Mapping, 2022:1-20.  16.    Dongshuang Li; Xiaoyu Che; Wen Luo; Yong Hu; Yannan Wang; Zhaoyuan Yu*; Linwang Yuan; Digital watermarking scheme for colour remote sensing image based on quaternion wavelet transform and tensor decomposition, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 2019, 42(14): 4664-4678.
• 17.    Zhaoyuan Yu; Dongshuang Li; Shuai Zhu; Wen Luo; Yong Hu; Lingwang Yuan*; Multisource multisink optimal evacuation routing with dynamic network changes: a geometric algebra approach, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 2018, 41(11): 4179-4194. 
• 18.    Dongshuang Li; Zhaoyuan Yu*; Wen Luo; Yong Hu; Xiaoyu Che; Linwang Yuan; Optimal route searching with multiple dynamical constraints-A geometric algebra approach, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2018, 7(5):No.172.
• 19.    Shuai Yuan ; Shuai Zhu ; Dongshuang Li; Wen Luo; Zhaoyuan Yu*; Linwang Yuan; Feature preserving multiresolution subdivision and simplification of point clouds: a conformal geometric algebra approach, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 2018, 41(11): 4074-4087. 
• 20.    Shuai Zhu; Shuai Yuan; Dongshuang Li; Wen Luo; Linwang Yuan; Zhaoyuan Yu* ; MVTree for hierarchical network representation based on geometric algebra subspace, Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras, 2018, 28(2).

Major Research Projects Undertaken

He has presided over 8 national projects and participated in more than 20 major national key projects such as the National Key Research and Development Program projects. The main scientific research projects are as follows:

• 1. Coastal Zone Information Model for Realistic Sustainable Management, Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (42230406), 2023/01-2027/12, under research, presided over
• 2. Complex Spatial Scene Situation Recognition and Virtual-Real Interfeed, National Key Research Program of China (2022YFB3904104), 2022/12-2025/12, under research, chair
• 3. Research on New Generation GIS Based on Geometric Algebra, Ministry of Science and Technology Project (G2022014082L), 2022/12-2025/12, under research, presiding
• 4. Quantum simulation model of urban group behavior based on multi-source ubiquitous information, National Natural Science Foundation of China (41971404), 2020/01-2023/12, under research, chair
• 5. Holographic map acquisition and location information aggregation technology, National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFB0503500), 2017/07-2021/06, completed, technical team leader
• 6. Multi-grain spatio-temporal object modeling theory, Sub-project of the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFB0502301-4), 2016/07-2021/06, concluded, chair
• 7. Representation and Modeling Methods for Multi-constrained Spatio-temporal Dynamic Networks, National Natural Science Foundation of China (41571379), 2016/01-2019/12, completed, chair
• 8. Geometric algebra-based spatio-temporal field data feature resolution and structure matching methods, National Natural Science Foundation of China (41201377), 2013/01-2015/12, completed, chair
• 9. A Geometric Algebraic Approach for Dynamic Calculation of Spatial Relationships in Complex Scenes, Youth Project of Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK2012454), 2012/07-2015/07, completed, chair
• 10. Theory and Methods for Building a New Geometric Algebraic Spatio-temporal GIS for Geographic Design, Jiangsu Six Summit Talents Project (RJFW-019), Jiangsu Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security/Economic and Information Commission, 2017/10-2020/12, completed, chair
• 11. Real-world 3D Jiangsu Construction Program, Jiangsu Provincial Institute of Surveying and Mapping Commissioned Science and Technology Services Project, Jiangsu Provincial Institute of Surveying and Mapping, 2021/09-2021/10, completed, presided over
• 12. Construction of a high-precision geo-realistic database for the government service network of Zhejiang Province, commissioned by the Zhejiang Institute of Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology (JCCHZF-2020-C029), Zhejiang Institute of Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology, 2020/11-2020/12, completed, technically responsible
   

Authorised patents and software
        We have co-edited 3 national standards, granted 5 Chinese invention patents, 3 international patents and 12 public PCT international patents. The main intellectual property rights are as follows.

• 1. Zhaoyuan Yu; et al.; Quantum computational method using destination selection for highway traffic flow distribution simulation, 2021-6-17, Australia, AU2020104438 .
• 2. Yu Zhaoyuan; et al; A traceability-oriented path coding method for remote sensing image data transmission, 2021-10-22, China, CN201911249337.5.
• 3. Yu Zhaoyuan; et al; A Method and Device for Simulating Atmospheric States in Proximity Space Based on Quantum Wandering, 2021-08-19, PCT/CN2021/113385, Accessed in USA, Japan .
• 4. Zhaoyuan Yu; et al; A method for simulating sea surface height based on quantum wandering, 2021-06-24, PCT/CN2021/102007, Entered Singapore, New Zealand.
• 5. Yu Zhaoyuan; et al; A Quantum Computing Method for Simulating High Speed Passage Traffic Distribution Taking into Account Destination Selection, 2021-06-22, Australia, PCT/CN2020/095769.
• 6. Zhaoyuan Yu; et al; A Quantum Computing Method for Simulating the Distribution of High-Speed Passing Traffic Taking into Account Destination Selection, 2020-12-16, USA, US-2021-0365606-A1.
• 7. Zhaoyuan Yu; et al; A Quantum Computing Method for Simulating Highway Traffic Distribution Taking into Account Destination Choice, 2020-12-24, Japan, JP2020573426.
• 8. Zhaoyuan Yu; et al; A Quantum Random Wandering Based Approach for Modal Fitting of Traffic Flow, 2020-11-20, USA, PCT/CN2020/130414.
• 9. Zhaoyuan Yu; et al; A method for simulating quantum resonators of random oscillations in individual-sized long-range high-speed traffic flows, 2020-11-20, USA, PCT/CN2020/130410.
• 10. Zhaoyuan Yu; et al; A method for modal decomposition of traffic flow features based on a generative-filtering mechanism, 2021-12-07, China, CN202011284157.3.
• 11. Yu Zhaoyuan; et al; A geometric algebraic coding and representation method for remote sensing image metadata, 2021-04-13, China, CN201811581542.7.
• 12. Yu Zhaoyuan; et al; A motion semantic parsing method for indoor behavioral trajectories based on passive infrared sensors, 2020-1-21, China, CN201710798850.4.
• 13. Yu Zhaoyuan; et al; A hierarchical network construction method for compressed storage of massive road network data, 2019-10-15, China, CN201710488522.4.