Bin Chen is an Associate Professor in the Division of Landscape Architecture, Director of Future Urbanity & Sustainable Environment (FUSE) Lab at the University of Hong Kong. He obtained his BSc in Geographical Information System from Wuhan University, and his PhD in Global Environmental Change from Beijing Normal University. Before joining HKU, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Davis.

Prof. Chen has been broadly trained in geospatial science and environmental science. He is passionate about tackling a range of pressing local, regional and global environmental change challenges using exceptional quantitative, analytical, and computational skills, with the ultimate goal of contributing to a sustainable and healthy world.

Prof. Chen’s research leverages geospatial big data, data-model fusion, and advanced interdisciplinary approaches to investigate the interaction loops between environmental change, human activities, and public health. Specifically, his major research includes the remote sensing of built and natural environmental changes; modelling of human-environment spatiotemporal interaction; and impact of environment and human activities on public health. He has published over 80 refereed publications in top journals such as Science, Nature family (Sustainability, Communications, Human Behaviour, Cities), and PNAS. His achievements have received international recognition, including being ranked in the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University (2021-2024), Top 1% Scholars by Clarivate (2024), and Geospatial World 50 Rising Stars (2024), and receiving the International Society of Digital Earth Young Scientist Award, American Association of Geographers Early Career Award in Remote Sensing, and HKU-100 Scholars Award.