Chen Chu
Spatial Data Scientist.

Los Angeles
Hi! I am Chen Chu
(初晨), I am a first-year Computer Science Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California(USC), advised by Professor Cyrus Shahabi. I am passionate about developing SOTA AI models to solve spatial problems, which involved trajectory modeling and prediction, spatial representation learning.
Standing at the frontier that bridges spatial data science and Artificial Intelligence, I believe the next turning point of spatial AI will be brought by a unified representation learning method of space and spatial entities.
Prior to my Ph.D., I earned my Master degree from State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System(LREIS), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(UCAS), where I was supervised by Professor Feng Lu and Associate Professor Hengcai Zhang.
My research interests include Human Mobility Modeling, Spatially Representation Learning, Generative AI.
Please feel free to reach out! chenchu@usc.edu
selected publications
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Awards
Jun 30, 2024 | 2024 Outstanding Graduates of IGSNRR, CAS (top 5%) |
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Nov 16, 2023 | 2023 Second place at ACM SIGSPATIAL Student Research Competition graduate track |
Nov 12, 2023 | 2023 ACM SIGSPATIAL Student Travel Grant |
Oct 23, 2023 | 2023 First Class Director’s Scholarship of IGSNRR, CAS (top 15%) |
Oct 20, 2023 | 2023 First Class Academic Scholarship of IGSNRR, CAS |
Jun 1, 2023 | 2023 Merit Student of University of Chinese Academy of Science |
Dec 31, 2022 | 2022 Merit Student of University of Chinese Academy of Science |
Dec 1, 2022 | 2022 Academic Scholarship of IGSNRR, CAS |
Jan 1, 2022 | 2022 Outstanding Student Award of University of Chinese Academy of Science |
Jul 1, 2021 | 2021 Principal’s Scholarship of Yunnan University (10 out of all 4000+ undergraduate students) |
Jun 1, 2021 | 2021 Outstanding Bachelor’s Thesis Award of Yunnan University . |
Dec 31, 2020 | 2020 Chinese National Scholarship (top 0.5%) |
Jun 1, 2020 | 2020 Excellent Student Cadre of Yunnan Province |
Blogs
Nov 16, 2023 | We won the second place at SIGSPATIAL 2023 Student Research Competition |
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May 21, 2023 | Speech at GIS China 2023 |
Mar 1, 2023 | My basketball career |
Jul 20, 2019 | My parents are invited to deliver a speech at the graduation ceremony of YNU. |
Jul 20, 2019 | Studying at Lancaster University |