Hi, I am Yifan, an independent developer&designer and a Ph.D. stu @Geography,UW studying the intertwined society and geographical misinformation. I got my bachelor & master degree at Wuhan University in GIS and used to worked for Bytedance as a full-stack data scientist. Currently, my research focus on conceptualize, investigate and develop sociotechnial solutions to controversial satellite imagery (i.e. AI-generated satellite imagery, competing interpretations) in and beyond mass media systems.
You can get my up-to-date cv here, and go through my past projects at archived project.
Representative Publications
- Bo Zhao, Shaozeng Zhang, Chunxue Xu, Yifan Sun & Chengbin Deng (2021) Deep fake geography? When geospatial data encounter Artificial Intelligence, Cartography and Geographic Information Science, DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2021.1910075
- Sun, Y., Ma, A., Su, H., Su, S., Chen, F., Wang, W., Weng, M., 2020. Does the establishment of development zones really improve industrial land use efficiency? Implications for China’s high-quality development policy. Land Use Policy, 104265.
- Sun, Y., Li, J., Jin, X., Xiao, H., He, Z., Su, S., Weng, M., 2019. Intra-urban excessive alcohol drinking: Geographic disparities, associated neighborhood characteristics and implications for healthy city planning. Sustainable Cities and Society, 46, 101414.
- Pi, J., Sun, Y., Xu, M., Su, S., & Weng, M. (2018). Neighborhood social determinants of public health: Analysis of three prevalent non-communicable chronic diseases in Shenzhen, China. Social Indicators Research, 135(2), 683-698.
- Su, S., Sun, Y., Lei, C., Weng, M., & Cai, Z. (2017). Reorienting paradoxical land use policies towards coherence: A self-adaptive ensemble learning geo-simulation of tea expansion under different scenarios in subtropical China. Land Use Policy, 67, 415-425.
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