Tao Cheng
Professor of Geoinformatics
Researches spatio-temporal data mining and AI for urban mobility and geoinformatics.
Tao Cheng's lab at UCL works on time series, anomaly & spatio-temporal data and data management & big data. 54 papers since 2023, 1 at top venues, mostly AAAI and Knowledge-Based Systems.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 14/ year
- at T1 venues
- 2%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 14 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 15 papers2025 · T1 0
- 7 papers2024 · T1 0
- 18 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: AAAI, Knowledge-Based Systems, npj Digital Medicine
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Time series, anomaly & spatio-temporal data15 papers
- Data management & big data13 papers
- spatio-temporal data1 paper
- geomatic0 papers
- geomatic engineering0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202614 papers
- Reliability Engineering & System SafetyBayesian spatio-temporal modeling of Arctic maritime incidents with integrated nested Laplace approximation (opens in a new tab)
- Remote Sensing Applications: Society and EnvironmentCLIP the landscape: Automated tagging of crowdsourced landscape images (opens in a new tab)
- TRANSACTIONS IN GISCyberGeoAI For Intelligent Spatial Decision Support
- Computational Urban ScienceDisentangling the impacts of collective mobility of residents and non-residents on burglary levels (opens in a new tab)
- Transportation Research Part C: Emerging TechnologiesDual-RSRAE: Enhancing ship inspection operations through dual robust subspace recovery auto-encoder in port state control (opens in a new tab)
- Transportation Research Part A: Policy and PracticeEvaluating local-area transport interventions through mobile phone GPS data: a framework and case study of low traffic neighbourhoods (opens in a new tab)
- JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT GEOGRAPHYFrom individual trajectories to system flows: A multimodal mobility analysis framework using mobile phone application data
- ITSCMSD-LLM: Predicting Ship Detention in Port State Control Inspections with Large Language Model (opens in a new tab)
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DIGITAL EARTHMultimodal spatial co-occurrence knowledge representation for virtual trajectory classification
- Reliability Engineering & System SafetyRevealing higher-order interactions through multimodal irreversibility in flood-affected transportation networks (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of Transport GeographySpatiotemporal dynamics of local transport greenhouse gases using mobile phone data: A framework for emissions estimation, allocation, and determinants identification (opens in a new tab)
- TRANSACTIONS IN GISToward Causal Reasoning in GeoAI: A Three-Tier Framework for Spatial Decision Support
202515 papers
- Engineering Applications of Artificial IntelligenceA deep learning-driven network for joint low-light enhancement and deblurring in maritime surveillance systems (opens in a new tab)
- Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City ScienceA reproducible pipeline for activity-based travel demand generation in England (opens in a new tab)
- Knowledge-Based SystemsA unified multi-subgraph pre-training framework for spatio-temporal graph (opens in a new tab)
- Computational Urban ScienceAdvancing translational human dynamics research: bridging space, mind, and computational urban science in the era of GeoAI (opens in a new tab)
- Computational Urban ScienceCorrection: Advancing translational human dynamics research: bridging space, mind, and computational urban science in the era of GeoAI (opens in a new tab)
- Artificial Intelligence ReviewEmpowering scientific discovery with explainable small domain-specific and large language models (opens in a new tab)
- GIScienceEnriching Location Representation with Detailed Semantic Information (opens in a new tab)
- SIGSPATIAL '25: ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information SystemsInto the Unknown: Applying Inductive Spatial-Semantic Location Embeddings for Predicting Individuals' Mobility Beyond Visited Places (opens in a new tab)
- ISPRS International Journal of Geo-InformationMulti-Channel Spatio-Temporal Data Fusion of ‘Big’ and ‘Small’ Network Data Using Transformer Networks (opens in a new tab)
- Transactions in GISMulti-Domain Virtual Trajectory Classification Based on Spatiotemporal and Semantic Fusion (opens in a new tab)
- Computers, Environment and Urban SystemsMulti-modal contrastive learning of urban space representations from POI data (opens in a new tab)
- CARMA - International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and AnalyticsPublic Attitudes Toward COVID-19 NPIs in Singapore: Insights from Twitter-Based Sentiment and Demographic Analysis (opens in a new tab)
20247 papers
- Applied Ocean ResearchAn efficient model for small object detection in the maritime environment (opens in a new tab)
- GISRUKCapturing high street dynamics on a finer scale: a case study in the context of COVID-19 (opens in a new tab)
- RESPIRATORY RESEARCHCD147 induces asthmatic airway remodeling and activation of circulating fibrocytes in a mouse model of asthma
- Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City ScienceDigital twins on trial: Can they actually solve wicked societal problems and change the world for better? (opens in a new tab)
- npj Digital MedicineEstimating the household secondary attack rate and serial interval of COVID-19 using social media (opens in a new tab)
- International Journal of Infectious DiseasesEyeglasses and risk of COVID-19 transmission—analysis of the Virus Watch Community Cohort study (opens in a new tab)
- International Journal of Disaster Risk ReductionSemantics-enriched spatiotemporal mapping of public risk perceptions for cultural heritage during radical events (opens in a new tab)
202318 papers
- ISPRS International Journal of Geo-InformationApplying Dynamic Human Activity to Disentangle Property Crime Patterns in London during the Pandemic: An Empirical Analysis Using Geo-Tagged Big Data (opens in a new tab)
- Earth-Science ReviewsArtificial intelligence and visual analytics in geographical space and cyberspace: Research opportunities and challenges (opens in a new tab)
- International Journal of EpidemiologyCohort Profile: Virus Watch-understanding community incidence, symptom profiles and transmission of COVID-19 in relation to population movement and behaviour (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on GeoinformaticsCustomer Profiling Based on Mobile Apps GPS Data : A Case Study on Westfield Shopping Malls (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of Occupational Medicine and ToxicologyDifferential Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Occupation: Evidence from the Virus Watch prospective cohort study in England and Wales (opens in a new tab)
- Front Public HealthExploring public sentiment and vaccination uptake of COVID-19 vaccines in England: a spatiotemporal and sociodemographic analysis of Twitter data. (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Sensors JournalFatigue Detection for Ship OOWs Based on Input Data Features, from The Perspective of Comparison with Vehicle Drivers: A Review (opens in a new tab)
- GIScienceFinding Feasible Routes with Reinforcement Learning Using Macro-Level Traffic Measurements (opens in a new tab)
- Transactions in GISFramework for constructing multimodal transport networks and routing using a graph database: A case study in London (opens in a new tab)
- GISRUKRevealing the relationship between human mobility and urban deprivation using geo-big data: a case study from London in the post-pandemic era (opens in a new tab)
- ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote SensingScreening the stones of Venice: Mapping social perceptions of cultural significance through graph-based semi-supervised classification (opens in a new tab)
- PLOS ONESensing dynamic human activity zones using geo-tagged big data in Greater London, UK during the COVID-19 pandemic (opens in a new tab)
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