Curriculum Vitae

Lei Dong

Contact Information

Email: arch.dongl(at)gmail.com | Homepage: donglei.org | Weibo: @LEI_DONG

Research Interests

City, complexy systems, computational social science, data science

Academic Positions

• 2017-2021, Post-Doctoral Fellow, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University
• 2018-2020, Visiting Scholar and Research Affiliate, Senseable City Lab and Sustainable Urbanization Lab, MIT

Industry Experiences

• 2021- , Founder, Maptable
  • A new database, mapping tool, and data marketplace created for everyone
• 2017-2021, Co-founder, QuantUrban
  • Data science for urban development
• 2017-2018, Co-founder, Stardust.ai
  • Human-in-the-loop, crowd-sourcing for AI data
• 2015-2017, Data Science (Intern), Big Data Lab, Baidu Research

Education

• 2011-2017, Ph.D., School of Architecture, Tsinghua University
  • Dissertation: Mobile Phone Location Data and Urban Studies [Download, 13.7MB]
  • Advisor: Professor Youguo Qin
  • 2014-2015, Visiting Fellow, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
• 2008-2012, B.Econ., School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
• 2007-2011, B.Arch., summa cum laude (top 2%), School of Architecture, Tsinghua University

Publications (selected)

• Full list: Google Scholar | ResearchGate

+: Equal contribution; *: As the corresponding author

• The universal visitation law of human mobility.

  • Markus Schläpfer+, Lei Dong+*, Kevin O’Keeffe+, Paolo Santi, Michael Szell, Hadrien Salat, Samuel Anklesaria, Mohammad Vazifeh, Carlo Ratti, and Geoffrey B. West
  • Nature 593(7860):522-527 (2021).
  • News & Veiws | Project Web | Preprint | Slides | Data and Code

• Understanding the mesoscopic scaling patterns within cities.

  • Lei Dong, Zhou Huang, Jiang Zhang, and Yu Liu*
  • Scientific Reports (2021).

• Quantifying urban areas with multi-source data based on percolation theory.

  • Wenpu Cao, Lei Dong*, Lun Wu, and Yu Liu
  • Remote Sensing of Environment (2020).

• Predicting neighborhoods’ socioeconomic attributes using restaurant data.

  • Lei Dong, Carlo Ratti, and Siqi Zheng*
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 116(31):15447-15452 (2019).
  • Project Web | Slides | Data and Code

• Measuring economic activity in China with mobile big data.

  • Lei Dong, Sicong Chen, Yunsheng Cheng, Zhengwei Wu, Chao Li, and Haishan Wu*
  • EPJ Data Science 6(1):29 (2017).
  • Media hit: New Scientist, Bloomberg, Business Week, Economist, Forbes, CNN, and MIT Tech Review.

• Simple spatial scaling rules behind complex cities.

  • Ruiqi Li, Lei Dong, Jiang Zhang*, Xinran Wang, Wen-Xu Wang*, Zengru Di, and H.E. Stanley*
  • Nature Communications, 8(1841) (2017).
  • Media hit: MoneyScience, Complexity Digest, Sohu, and Swarma Club.

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A PDF version of the Curriculum Vitae is here (Oct. 2021).