Dandong Yin

#223B, 1606 Melrose Valley Ct., Urbana, Illinois 61801

dyin4@illinois.edu (217) 898-4657 http://dyin.tk

Education

Exp. 2019: PhD (Geographic Information Science), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2017: M.S. (GIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2014: B.S. (GIS), Peking University, China
2014: B.S. (Economics), Peking University, China

Journal Publication

2017: Yin, J., Yin, D., Wang, S., "Delineate urban boundaries in Great Britain from the network of Twitter user spatial interactions", International Journal of Geographical Information Science

2016: Ehlschlaeger, C. Browne, D., Myers, J., Burkhalter, N., Baxter, C., Gao, Y., Yin, D., Hiett, M. "From Data to Decision with Analytic Frameworks: Presenting Data Errors and Uncertainties for Operational Planning", Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin

2015: Yin, D., Du, S., Wang, S., Guo, Z., "A Direction-Guided Ant Colony Optimization Method for Extraction of Urban Road Information From Very-High-Resolution Images", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

Conference Proceedings

2017: Terstriep, J., Liu, Y., Yin, D. "Container Usage within CyberGIS". Container Analysis Environment Workshop. August 14 - 16, 2017, Urbana, IL

2017: Yin, D., Liu, Y. Y., Padmanabhan, A., Terstriep, J., Rush, J., Wang, S. (2017) "A CyberGIS-Jupyter Framework for Geospatial Analytics at Scale". Best Paper Finalist The First Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) Conference, July 9 - 16, New Orleans, LA
2016: Yin, D. and Wang, S. "Sensing Spatial Structures through Large-scale Social Media". The Association of American Geographers 112nd Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, March 29 – April 2, 2016

2016: Yin, J., Lu, B., Yin, D. and Wang, S. "A Scalable Visual-analytics Approach for Studying Mobility Networks: Revealing Hierarchical Structures in Taxi Mobility Flows of New York", International Conference on CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science, Urbana, Illinois, USA, July 26-28, 2016

2016: Casler, N., Soltani, K., Hu, H., Lu, B., Yin, D., Liu, Y. and Wang, S., "Multigrid Framework for Large Scale Global Raster Analytics", International Conference on CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science, Urbana, Illinois, USA, July 26-28, 2016

2016

Yin, D., Gao, Y., Ehlschlaeger, C., Zwicky, W., Burkhalter, J., Drigo M. "Geographic High Performance Computing for Demographic Analysis", GIS Day 2016, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, November 15, 2016

Professional Experience

Jul. 2017

Visiting Scholar, Key Laboratory for Natural Resources and Environment Information Systems, Zhejiang University, China

2017

Guest Specialist, College of BioSystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, China

2017

Invited Speaker, Department of Geographic Information Science, Central South University, China

2017-present

Organizing Committee Member, Agent-Based Modeling Webinar Series

2017

Guest Participants, Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) 17: A Symposium That Advances the Science of ABM

2016-present

Peer Reviewer, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

2016-present

Peer Reviewer, International Journal of Remote Sensing

2016

Student Attendee, Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling and Complexity, Santa Fe Institute

2014-present

Project Leader, Cyberinfrastructure & Geospatial information laboratory, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Human mobility data mining from 1.3 TB social media data
Hadoop-based point-in-polygon library using quad-tree
Deployed Apache Spark on ROGER, the CyberGIS supercomputer

2013–2014

Project Leader, National Innovation Program for Undergraduates, Peking University, Beijing, China.

Developed a new algorithm for road detection in very-high-resolution image with heavy noise

2013

Research Intern, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Lead development of a MATLAB library for studying convengence and divergence of component-wise interpolation with different kernel functions

2012–2013

Project Leader, Beijing Key Lab of Spatial Information Integration and 3S (Remote Sensing, GPS and GIS) Applications, Peking University, Beijing, China.

Teaching Experience

Fall 2017

Cloud Service Supporter, provide cloud-based GIS platform services for multiple classes at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Advanced GIS: Geospatial Problem Solving (GEOG 479), Department of Geography and GIS
Big Data Empirical Economics (ACE 592), Department of Agriculture and Consumer Economics

May. 2017

Mentor, UCGIS Summer School 2017 featuring Collaborative Problem Solving with CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mar. 2017

Lecturer, CyberGIS-Jupyter Workshop, Department of Geography and GIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jan. 2017

Invited Lecturer, Programming in GIS (GEOG 489), Department of Geography and GIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sep. 2016

Invited Lecturer, CyberGIS (GEOG 595), Department of Geography and GIS, Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Selected Academic Projects

2016

Identifying and tracking trucks from video using convolution neural network with Google TensorFlow

Best solution to Caterpillar Inc. challenge.

2016

Image classification using convolution neural network on CIFAR-100 dataset

Top 3 in computer vision class competition

2014

ShpSlicer: a distributive P2P storage system for Shapefiles

Implemented map-reduce framework on geographical data with attributes

2013

Hermes: a cross-platform P2P instant messager

Peer detection, messaging and file-transfer

2012

Ginus: a desktop Cartography and GIS software

Implemented sets of compuational geometry functionalities
Heterogeneous layer compilation and management

2012

MapNote: an Android app for multi-media geo-blogging

Associate texts, photos, audios and videos with real locations on map
Using SQLite database and Google Map API

Awards and Scholarships

2017: JupyterCon 2017 Student Scholarship ($3,000)

2017: Student Travel Award ($1,500), Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) Conference 2017

2017: Research Review Oustanding Poster Award, 3rd place in Geography and GIS, School of Earth, Society and the Environment Research Review, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2016: Microsoft Azure Data Science Research Award ($20,000)

2016: Cash Prize Winner ($10,000), Disparate Data Challange hosted by National Geospatial Intelligence Agency

2016: Top 5%, TripAdvisor College Programming Challenge

2016: Summer Field Research Scholarship ($1,000), Department of Geography and GIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2014: Outstanding Graduates, Peking University, China

2013: Wusi Scholarship, Peking University, China

2011: Merit Student, Peking University, China

2008: First Prize, National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces, Zhejiang, China

Techinical Skills

Language

C, C++, Java, Python, R, Bash, MATLAB, SQL, Scala, Ocaml, Lisp, Sed, Awk

Development

Qt, Android, Git, HTML + Javascript + CSS

HPC

MPI, OpenMP, Hadoop, Spark

AI

Scikit-learn, Tensorflow, MatConvNet

Writing

Markdown, $\LaTeX$, Jupyter