Mingshu Wang
Welcoming Dr Mingshu Wang as a DAFNI Fellow!
Mingshu is a Reader in Geospatial Data Science at the University of Glasgow. His research sits at the exciting intersection of geospatial analytics, artificial intelligence, and infrastructure-relevant urban and environmental systems. He also convenes six postgraduate taught Geomatics programmes, with input from an external advisory board comprising representatives from industry and government.
Advancing GeoAI for infrastructure resilience
Mingshu comments, “I am delighted to be selected as a DAFNI Fellow and to join colleagues across the UK working on the resilience of national infrastructure systems. My Fellowship will focus on developing GeoAI-enabled workflows that turn complex geospatial and infrastructure data into decision-ready evidence for scenario-based analysis.
“Through the Fellowship, I aim to contribute reusable datasets, transparent models and practical tools to the DAFNI platform, while strengthening collaboration across academia, government and industry.”
He is one of 10 new DAFNI Fellows selected from 116 applicants for this nationally competitive programme. The Fellowship provides £10,000 to support staff time, travel, knowledge exchange and dissemination, alongside opportunities to build networks through workshops, conferences and community engagement.
Mingshu will use his Fellowship to amplify the visibility, uptake, and impact of the DAFNI platform whilst advancing policy-relevant research on national infrastructure resilience.
This includes integrating his existing GeoAI and spatial network models into the DAFNI platform as reusable, well-documented workflows, and working closely with the DAFNI User Liaison team to ensure that outputs are interoperable, reproducible, and accessible. The assets will serve as exemplar resources for scenario-based analysis of transport, urban, and infrastructure systems under climate and socio-economic stress.
He was recently listed on the inaugural UK GEO100 list, a network that brings together leading figures from government, industry, and academia working at the intersection of geospatial data, infrastructure, and policy.
Mingshu explores cities from a people-centric perspective through two scales: at the macro scale, he quantifies the relationship between urban spatial structure and city-regional economic, social, and environmental performance; at the micro scale, he investigates the relationship between the built environment and collective human behaviours.