His main research interests include Geospatial Big Data Analytics, Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI), GIScience theory, Human Mobility and Spatial Networks. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles in prominent journals (e.g., PNAS) and conference proceedings, including 12 Web of Science Core Collection highly cited papers. He is the recipient for various fellowships, grants, and awards at the university and national/international levels, including the ‘Waldo Tobler Young Researcher Award’ in GIScience selected by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the UCGIS ‘Early-Mid Career Research Award’, the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Spatial Analysis and Modeling (SAM) Specialty Group Emerging Scholar Award, The U.S. Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) Doctoral Scholarship, the International Cartographic Association (ICA) Scholarship, The Jack & Laura Dangermond Graduate Fellow, UCSB Geography Excellence in Research, AAG International Geographic Informational Fund, UW-Madison Undergraduate/Faculty HILLDALE FELLOW Award, UW-Madison H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship, NSF Grant, Microsoft AI for Earth Grant, and Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Grant, etc. He is an Associate Editor of Annals of GIS (2018-2022) and International Journal of Geographical Information Science (2023 – Now), and International Encyclopedia of Geography (2022-Now). Editor Board Members of Scientific Reports (Nature), Scientific Data (Nature), Plos One (2018-2022), Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Transactions in GIS, Geoinformatica, and serves as a peer reviewer and guest editors for a couple of high-impact academic journals. He has co-organized several workshops, symposiums, and paper sessions in AAG, ACM SIGSPATIAL, and GIScience.