Dr Yao Shen is an Associate Professor in Urban Analytics, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Director in the Sino-UK Joint Lab for Urban Science, Director in the Centre for Urban Science and Planning (CUSP), Tongji University, Honorary Fellow, at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis （CASA）, University College London, and Associate Editor for the journal - Transactions in Urban Data, Science, and Technology . He obtained his PhD from The Bartlett, UCL and then worked as a Research Associate at CASA, UCL, before he joined Tongji. His research interests cover spatial analytics, urban modelling, complex network, data science, urban geometry, visualisation, and urban planning. He was elected to the Shanghai Rising-Star Program (2021) and Pujiang Program (2018). Until now, he is now supervising 5 Chinese national projects and published more than 40 articles in international journals. He has been serving as a reviewer for more than 30 international journals and as guest editors for 6 international journals.