Kai Cao

  • Dataverse Postdoctoral Associate 2012-2014

Dr. Kai Cao is currently a lecturer in the Department of Geography at National University of Singapore. 

Kai was the Dataverse Postdoctoral Associate at the World History Center from 2012-2014 serving as the principal staff researcher for World-Historical Dataverse project. Kai, with a doctorate in Geography from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, has completed previous postdoctoral appointments at the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard and the Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

 

Education & Training

  • PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research Interests

GIScience (with Remote Sensing) and the applications, especially on the topics of spatial simulation and optimization; big data analytics; urban studies and spatial planning; spatially integrated social science.