Yanbing Chen

RESEARCH AREA

• Cartography, Multi-scale Visualization, Web Mapping, Information Visualization

EDUCATION

• M.S., Cartography and GIS, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2025 (Expected)
• B.S., Geography and Economics, McGill University, 2023

AFFILIATION

• UW Cartography Lab (CartLab)
• GISphere
• McGill Roger Tomlinson Lab for GIScience (Undergrad Alumni)
• McGill Geographic Information Center (Former Team Member)

MAP GALLERY

• [Power BI] “Wisconsin Car Crash Dashboard” – An Interactive Dashboard Map showing traffic accidents in Wisconsin.
• [Figma | Leaflet] “Forgotten Tongues: Interactive Atlas of Extinct Languages” – Mapping 3000 dying languages
• [Mapbox GL JS] “A historical storymap for California Gold Rush” – Story Map about history of Chinese immigrant in U.S.
• [ArcGIS Pro | AI] “To Incarcerate or to Educate?” – Cost of inmates in U.S. states with their spending on education.
• [ArcGIS Pro | AI] “Just Another Day in America” – The Map designed for UW-Cartography Lab 2024 Map Challenge.
• [ArcGIS Pro | AI] “Behind Bars” – A map showcasing a comparison of incarceration rates across U.S. states.
• [ArcGIS Pro | AI] “Vermont Trails” – A Vermont Hiking Guide.
• [ArcMap] “Chinese Restaurants in Barbados” – The Map designed for Project: Chinese Immigrants in Barbados.

PUBLICATIONS

• Kang, Y., Wang, Y., Zhang, J., Liu, H., Rao, J., Liu, Y., Zhou, B., Chen, P., Chen, Y., Tong, X., & Ye, S. (2023). GISphere: A Crowd-Sourced Database of Global GIS Graduate Education. CPGIS 2023 short paper.
• Sengupta, R., Vankeerberghen, G., Wen, R., Rao, J., Chen, Y. (2023). GIS‐enabled historiography to determine travel routes during the Western Han period via agent‐based models and least‐cost path analysis. Transactions in GIS, 27(4), 1090–1103.

CONFERENCE AND PRESENTATION

• Raster-to-Vector Heat Maps: Multiscale Visualization Approach to Mapping with Big Geospatial Data (NACIS 2024)
• Investigating Mobility and Research Themes through Faculty Hiring Network in GIScience(UCGIS symposium 2024)
• Facilitating Global Connections in Geographic Information Science Education, Research, and Practice (AAG 2024)
• Digital Cartography and Historical Insights: Mapping a New Course for the Past in the Digital Age (AAG 2024)
• Academic Recruiting in GIScience: Demographics, Mobility and Hierarchy (SKI Conference Canada 2023)
• Mobile Tracker of Volunteered Geographic Information; Using Story Map as Visual Storytelling (McGill GIS Day 2022)

GRANTS AND AWARDS

• 2024 Graduate Student 1st Place​ Petchenik Map Competition

• 2024 UW-Madison Digital Salon, Map Admitted

• 2024 CAGIS Rising Award, The Cartography and Geographic Information Society. Kang Y., Chen Y., Zhou B., Gu Z.  Characterizing and Promoting Cartography and GIS Graduate Programs through Research Theme Discovery and Online Seminars

• 2024 Master’s Student Research Grant, AAG Cartography Special Group
• 2024 Travel Grant, NACIS
• 2024 Scholarship for CaGIS & UCGIS Symposium, International Cartographic Association
• 2024 Trewartha Conference Travel Awards, University of Wisconsin – Madison
• 2023 University Graduate Fellowship, University of Wisconsin – Madison
• 2022 Dean’s Honour List, Arts Research Internship Awards, Arts Undergraduate Awards, McGill University