Wei Tu is senior associate research fellow at the Lab of Spatial Smart Sensing and Service, Shenzhen University, China. He is a visiting scholar at the Senseable City Lab, MIT . He obtained the Ph.D from State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University , China.

His research interests focus on the urban informatics, including data-driven human activity-mobility (i.e., taxi GPS, bus GPS, smart card data, social media, data, mobile phone data, and etc.), multi-source geospatial data fusion, and smart applications in the cities worldwide.

He is always looking for motivated students interested in GIS, computer science, and urban studies. Please contact him for details!

Education:
2013    Ph.D, Geographic Information Science, Wuhan University, China
2009    M.S., Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, China
2007    B.S., Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, China

Professional Service:

• Co-Chair of IV/10 Work Group Advanced Geospatial Applications for Smart Cities and Regions, ISPRS
• Member of American Association of Geographers
• Member of China Computer Federation
• Technical committee of Smart Cities, World Transport Convention

Contact:
Science and Technology building Room 1402
Nanhai Avenue 3688
Shenzhen 518060, P.R. China
Email: tuwei@szu.edu.cn