Maosu Li

PhD | GISer | Researcher | He/Him

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Room E1-506

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

Nansha, Guangzhou, China

Hi, thanks for visiting my website! ๐Ÿ‘‹

I am Maosu (Eric) Li (ๆŽ่Œ‚็ฒŸ), an Assistant Professor at the Thrust of Urban Governance and Design, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou).

My research interests lie in AI + 3D GIS-based Smart City Applications through i) 3D City Information Modeling, ii) Machine Learning, and iii) Data Management and Analysis.

Please find my full CV here ๐Ÿ‘ˆ.

Languages: Chinese and English

Email address: maosuli@hkust-gz.edu.cn

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Recruitment Alert!!! ๐Ÿ“ข ๐Ÿ“ข ๐Ÿ“ข

Dr. Li is offering positions for Postdocs, RAs, visiting students/scholars, and fully funded PhD students.

๐Ÿ’ป Background: 3D GIS, computer science, photogrammetry and remote sensing, spatial/geographic statistics, EEE, Robotics, computational urban planning, or computational architectural/urban design.

๐ŸŒŸ Advantage: Strong research experience in 3D GIS, City Information Modeling (CIM), AI, graph methods, EEE, Robotics, and Large Language Models (LLMs).

๐Ÿ’ป Research directions:

โ€“ 1) 3D GIS/CIM/AI-assisted smart city and digital twin applications
โ€“ 2) 3D CIM-supported urban big data AI and statistical analysis

๐Ÿ“‚ How to apply:

โ€“ Required: (i) cover letter, (ii) CV, (iii) research proposal, and (iv) academic transcript(s).
โ€“ Optional: Published papers, programming demos, and GitHub repositories.

๐Ÿ“ฉ Please email your materials to maosuli@hkust-gz.edu.cn with the subject line: โ€œPhD/Postdoc/RA/Visiting Application - Research Direction [1 or 2] - [Your Name]โ€.

Feel free to contact me for research collaboration and making friends.

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News

Apr 29, 2026 Photorealistic 3DCIMs enable urban landscape assessment from Arbitrary Viewpoints ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ. Our fourth paper on Multi-Perspective Landscape Analytics was just published at the IJGIS ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ.
Apr 24, 2026 My great honor to join the ACM SIGSPATIAL CHN Committee as an Executative Member ๐Ÿซถ.
Jan 19, 2026 My great honor to be appointed as an Honorary Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong ๐Ÿซถ.
Aug 20, 2025 My great honor to win the HKU Foundation Award for Outstanding Research Postgraduate Students 2023-24. Honored to be in the top 10 of around 300 PhDs at HKU in that year.

Featured Awards

  • 2024.11
    IEEE GRSS Excellent Dissertation Award (First Prize)
    IEEE GRSS Hong Kong Chapter
  • 2024.4
    Gold Medal
    49th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva
  • 2023.8
    Best Conference Paper Award (First Place)
    Global Smart Cities Summit cum The 3rd International Conference on Urban Informatics
  • 2023.7
    ICUI Smart Cities Innovation Competition (Individual Champion)
    The International Society for Urban Informatics
  • 2021.5
    Esri Young Scholars Award (Champion in Hong Kong)
    Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri)

Selected Publications

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    Multi-perspective assessment of greenery visibility from streets, windows, and drones using deep learning and CIM
    Siyuan Meng,ย Maosu Li*,ย Jinfeng Xie,ย andย Fan Xue
    International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2026
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    Influence of objective and perceived exposures to urban nature on peopleโ€™s happiness
    Maosu Li,ย Song Guo,ย Fรกbio Duarte,ย Ashutosh Kumar,ย Norimasa Kobori,ย Fan Xue,ย Weimin Zhuang,ย Anthony GO Yeh,ย andย Carlo Ratti
    npj Urban Sustainability, 2026
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    Efficient and accurate assessment of window view distance using City Information Models and 3D Computer Vision
    Maosu Li,ย Fan Xue,ย andย Anthony GO Yeh
    Landscape and Urban Planning, 2025
    Bib PDF
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    CIM-WV: A 2D semantic segmentation dataset of rich window view contents in high-rise, high-density Hong Kong based on photorealistic city information models
    Maosu Li,ย Anthony GO Yeh,ย andย Fan Xue
    Urban Informatics, 2024
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    A room with a view: Automatic assessment of window views for high-rise high-density areas using City Information Models and deep transfer learning
    Maosu Li,ย Fan Xue,ย Yijie Wu,ย andย Anthony GO Yeh
    Landscape and Urban Planning, 2022
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