Peng Luo

Postdoc, SCL

Peng Luo earned his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Munich and was a former visiting researcher at the University of Oxford. Peng's research interests focus on using geographic domain knowledge for urban analysis, particularly considering the unique characteristics of geographic data, such as sparsity and bias. His research experience includes spatial prediction, human mobility analysis, and visual AI.

Selected publications

Leading author

  1. Luo, P., Song, C., Li, H., Zhu, D., Duarte, F., 2025. Modeling shared micromobility as a label propagation process for detecting the overlapping communities. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
  2. Luo, P., Li, Y., Li, Z., Song, Y.  & Meng, L., 2025. Measuring univariate effects in the interaction of geographical patterns.International Journal of Geographical Information Science
  3. Luo, P., Chen, C., Gao, S., Zhang, X., Majok Chol, D., Yang, Z., & Meng, L., 2025. Understanding of the predictability and uncertainty in population distributions empowered by visual analytics. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 1–31.
  4. Luo, P., Song, Y., Zhu, D., Cheng J. and Meng L. A Generalized Spatial Heterogeneity Model for Interpolation.2022. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 37(3), 634-659 (Top 10 read at 2023)
  5. Luo, P., Song, Y., Huang, X., Ma, H., Liu, J., Yao, Y. and Meng, L., 2022. Identifying determinants of spatio-temporal disparities in soil moisture of the Northern Hemisphere using a geographically optimal zones-based heterogeneity model. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 185, pp.111-128
  6. Luo, P., Song, Y. and Wu, P., 2021. Spatial disparities in trade-offs: economic and environmental impacts of road infrastructure on continental level. GIScience and Remote Sensing, 58(5), pp.756-775.
  7. Luo, P., Zhang, X., Cheng, J. and Sun, Q., 2019. Modeling population density using a new index derived from multi-sensor image data. Remote Sensing, 11(22), p.2620.