Jing Kang Author

Jing Kang is a geographer and climate change researcher, who serves as an assistant professor at Waseda University. Leveraging remote sensing and GIS, she works to quantify, monitor, and detect complex climate-environment-human relations and land surface processes. She extensively collaborates with scholars across various fields to address interdisciplinary climate change challenges. She obtained her PhD from Beijing Normal University in 2017. She is a member of IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing and International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences.

Ming Zhang is a Professor and the Program Director of Community and Regional Planning in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. He obtained his B.E. and M.E. from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, a master’s degree and GIS Certificate from the State University of New York at Albany, and a further M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT.

Takahiro Tanaka is a Professor at the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, Japan. He obtained his master’s and PhD degrees from Yokohama National University. He is a member of the Architectural Institute of Japan, The City Planning Institute of Japan, Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture, GIS Association of Japan, The Society of Heating, Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan, and Heat Island Institute International.