Research

Working papers

Leading author publications

[12] Distilling human mobility models with symbolic regression
  Hao Guo#, Weiyu Zhang#, Junjie Yang, Yuanqiao Hou, Lei Dong, Yu Liu
  Geographical Analysis, in press. [arXiv] [code]

[10] RegionGCN: Spatial-Heterogeneity-Aware Graph Convolutional Networks
  Hao Guo, Han Wang, Di Zhu, Lun Wu, A. Stewart Fotheringham, Yu Liu
  Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2025. [arXiv] [code] [exposition]

[9]   Tackling spatial heterogeneity in geographical analysis: An overview (空间异质性建模方法)
  Hao Guo, Lei Dong, Lun Wu, Yu Liu
  Acta Geographica Sinica (地理学报), 2025. [exposition]

[5]   Extending regionalization algorithms to explore spatial process heterogeneity
  Hao Guo, Andre Python, Yu Liu
  International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2023. [arXiv] [code] [exposition] [errata]

[1]   Understanding China’s urban system evolution from web search index data
  Hao Guo#, Weiyu Zhang#, Haode Du#, Chaogui Kang, Yu Liu
  EPJ Data Science, 2022. [code] [exposition]

Other publications

[11]   GWRBoost: A Geographically Weighted Gradient Boosting Framework for Enhanced Explainable Quantification of Spatially Varying Relationships
  Han Wang, Zhou Huang, Hao Guo, Ganmin Yin, Yi Bao, Xiao Zhou, Yong Gao, Linna Li
  Annals of the American Association of Geographers, in press.

[8]   A multi-view graph neural network for building age prediction
  Yi Wang*, Yizhi Zhang*, Quanhua Dong, Hao Guo, Yingchun Tao, Fan Zhang
  ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2024.

[7]   Downscaling spatial interaction with socioeconomic attributes
  Chengling Tang, Lei Dong, Hao Guo, Xuechen Wang, Xiao-Jian Chen, Quanhua Dong, Yu Liu
  EPJ Data Science, 2024. [code]

[6]   Constructing topology-constraint distance cartograms with application on spatial interaction data
  Tianyou Cheng, Hao Guo, Xiao-Jian Chen, Quanhua Dong, Chaogui Kang, Yu Liu
  Transactions in GIS, 2024. [code]

[4]   Quantifying spatially-varying impacts of public transport on NO2 concentrations with big geo-data
  Han Wang, Xiao Zhou, Hao Guo, Quanhua Dong, Zhou Huang
  Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2023.

[3]   On spatial effects in geographical analysis (地理分析中的空间效应)
  Yu Liu, Keli Wang, Xiaoyue Xing, Hao Guo, Weiyu Zhang, et al.
  Acta Geographica Sinica (地理学报), 2023.

[2]   A note on GeoAI from the perspective of geographical laws (从地理规律到地理空间人工智能)
  Yu Liu, Hao Guo, Haifeng Li, Weihua Dong, Tao Pei
  Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica (测绘学报), 2022.

Talks

[5]   空间交互中的分区域重力模型 (in Chinese). 第二十届中国地理信息科学理论与方法学术年会（专题报告）, 厦门, 2025.11.
[4]   On commuting duration and the daily travel time budget. NetMob 2025 (Data challenge track, Oral), Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, 2025.10. [extended abstract]
[3]   顾及空间异质性的地理回归方法 (in Chinese, with Prof. Yu Liu). 中国地理学会地理模型与地理信息分析专业委员会2024年学术年会（专题报告）, 北京, 2024.8.
[2]   Distilling geographic laws from human mobility data. Urban Data, Science and Technology Workshop (Doctoral student presentation), Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2024.6.
[1]   一种面向知识提取的空间聚类与分区域回归框架 (in Chinese, with Prof. Yu Liu). 第十七届中国地理信息科学理论与方法学术年会（专题报告）, 杭州, 2021.10.