PhD Candidate Wins Esri Young Scholar's Award 2017

Zhang Jingyuan, PhD candidate in DOA, has won the Singapore’s Esri Young Scholar Award 2017. Jingyuan won with her entries: (1) Using GIS to evaluate accessibility and equity of parks in compact cities: a case study in Singapore, and (2) Research on urban walkability assessment and its applications: a case study in Futian District, Shenzhen, China. ESRI gave this assessment: “Our panel of judges – which consisted of industry practitioners form both commercial and government organisations – have found your research quite compelling and showed best practice use of GIS technology to address real-world challenges”.

Jingyuan is invited to attend the ESRI User Conference in San Diego to receive the award from the founder and president ESRI. This is the second time DOA’s PhD student has won the award. The award was won by Dr. Rahim Abdul Rahman in 2014, who was then also a PhD student in the dept.