剑桥大学土地经济系，博士，2022

2024-至今，中国人民大学公共管理学院，讲师

2022-2024，英国剑桥大学土地经济系，Research Associate

2023-至今，Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 编委

期刊审稿人：Cities, Land Use Policy, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Springer Nature), Journal of Urban Planning and Development, Cartography and Geographic Information Science, PLOS ONE, Transactions in GIS, Geo-spatial Information Science, Big Data & Society, Knowledge and Information Systems.

研究领域：

土地利用感知与动态模拟，城市智能治理与政策评估、地理数据科学与空间智能。

科研项目：

[1]国家自然科学基金面上项目，典型改革试点区农村宅基地经营性流转的特征分析、效应测度与治理优化，2024-2027，主要参与

[2]欧盟“地平线2020”计划项目（EU-Horizon 2020），eMOTIONAL Cities：Mapping the cities through the senses of those who make them, 2021-2025，子课题骨干

[3]清华大学--剑桥大学合作研究基金项目（Cambridge and Tsinghua sign joint research initiative)， Sustainability and Future Emerging Technologies, 2019-2020，主要参与

[4]英国数字建造中心微观项目（Centre for Digital Built Britain Mini Project)，Crowdsourcing Data in Mining Spatial Urban Activities, 2018, 共同主持

期刊论文（*为通讯作者）：

[1]Niu, H.*, Tu, X., and Silva, E. A. (2023). “Using Decision Tree Methodologies to Explore Determinants of Health and Well-Being at the Regional Scale: The Case Study of London.” Built Environment, 49(2), 279-297.

[2]Niu, H.*, and Silva, E. A. (2023). “Understanding Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Urban Activities Across Demographic Groups Through Geotagged Social Media Data.” Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 100. doi:10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2022.101934

[3]Chen, Y., Niu, H.*, and Silva, E. A. (2022). “The Road to Recovery: Sensing Public Opinion Towards Reopening Measures with Social Media Data in Post-lockdown Cities.” Cities, 104054. doi:10.1016/j.cities.2022.104054

[4]Niu, H.*, and Silva, E. A. (2021). “Delineating Urban Functional Use from Points of Interest Data with Neural Network Embedding: A Case Study in Greater London.” Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 88. doi:10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2021.101651

[5]Niu, H.*, and Silva, E. A. (2020). “Crowdsourced Data Mining for Urban Activity: Review of Data Sources, Applications, and Methods.” Journal of Urban Planning and Development. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000566

书籍章节：

[1]Silva, E.A., Liu, L., Kwon, H.R., Niu, H., Chen, Y., & Reis, J. (2022). What’s New in Urban Data Analytics? In A. Rae & C. Wong (Eds.), Applied Data Analysis for Urban Planning and Management (pp. 12-23). SAGE Publications.

[2]Silva, E.A., Liu, L., Kwon, H.R., Niu, H., & Chen, Y. (2021). Hard and Soft Data Integration in Geocomputation: Mixed Methods for Data Collection and Processing in Urban Planning. In S. Geertman & J. Stillwell (Eds.), Handbook of Planning Support Science (pp. 37-55).

荣誉奖项：

[1]剑桥大学数据冠军Data Champion，2022

[2]剑桥大学圣埃德蒙学院James Claydon奖 (经济学或相关学科优秀博士奖) ，2022

[3]剑桥大学圣埃德蒙学院学术奖学金，2021

[4]国家留学基金委员会奖学金，2018

[5]全国优秀城乡规划设计奖(三等奖)，2015