Haosheng Huang is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer, and Leader of the Research Group "Location Based Services" at the GIScience Center of the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland. Previously, he was a researcher and lecturer (Univ.Ass. Dr.techn.) at Research Group Cartography, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria.  

Haosheng is currently the Chair of the ICA Commission on Location Based Services, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Location Based Services (Taylor & Francis). He is also members of editorial board of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI, MDPI), Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis (Springer), and Urban Planning (Cogitatio).

Haosheng received a Ph.D. degree (with Distinction/Honours) in Geoinformation from TU Wien in 2013. He holds MSc and BSc degrees in Computer Science from the South China Normal University.

His name in Chinese is: 黄浩生

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Research Group "Location Based Services"

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

• Geographic Informaiton Science (GIScience) and Cartography
• Location Based Services (LBS), Indoor/Outdoor Navigation Systems
• Spatial Cognition
• Computational Mobility and Activity Analytics
• Urban Informatics