Bin Jiang

Who is Bin Jiang?

Bin Jiang is Professor in geographic information science, geographic information systems or geoinformatics at the University of Gävle, Sweden. He is affiliated to the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm through the KTH Research School at Gävle. He has been coordinating the Nordic Network in Geographic Information Science, and has organized a series of NordGISci summer schools for the Nordic young researchers. He is the founder and chair of the International Cartographic Association Commission on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling, and has established an ICA workshop series on the research topic. He is also an associate editor of the international journal: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. He has developed the Head/tail Breaks a new classification for data with a heavy-tailed distribution.