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Benny Chin 陳威全

a Geographer, Cartographer, & GIScientist

Academic publications

some serious works

Open source projects

coding, coding, coding

Medium
articles

part-time writting

Academic Experience

August 2024 -- Present

National University of Singapore

GIS Unit, Department of Geography
Focusing on teaching GIS.

- Lecturer
April 2022 -- July 2024

National University of Singapore

GIS Unit, Department of Geography
Focusing on health geography, spatial vulnerability analysis, and human mobility studies.

- Research Fellow
January 2021 -- March 2022

Singapore University of
Technology and Design

Advanced Architecture Laboratory & Sustainable Urban Mobility Research Laboratory, Cities Sector
Various studies on human dynamics and urban vibrancy analysis.

- Research Fellow
June 2019 -- December 2020

Singapore University of
Technology and Design

Applied Complexity Group, Cities Sector
Various studies on vertical displacement analysis, spatial data analysis, agent-based analysis.

- Research Fellow
September 2018 -- December 2018

National Taiwan University

Wenlab, Department of Geography
Various projects on health geography and spatial structure analysis.

- Research Fellow
September 2014 --
August 2018

National Taiwan University

Wenlab, Department of Geography
Various projects on human mobility & spatial epidemiology topics.

- Ph.D. Student & Candidate
July 2013 -- August 2014

National Taiwan University

Wenlab, Department of Geography
Spatial data processing & visualization.

- Research Assistant

Some words from Benny

First, I'm a geographer. I'm a Malaysian. I was born in Penang. When I was 9, I moved to Selangor with my family. I continued my study at Taipei after graduated from Pin Hwa High School, Klang. I finished my undergraduate and master degree in NTU, Taiwan. I continued studying as a PhD. student at the same institute after I worked as a research assistance for a year. Then, I went back to my family at Johor Bahru, Malaysia before I joined SUTD, Singapore as a research fellow in 2019. Starting from 2022, I work as a research fellow at NUS, Singapore. Maybe moving around, meeting new people, and blending into different cultures, made me a geographer who's nature is to explore the world and places.

Second, I'm a cartographer. I made maps most of the time ever since I was a graduate student. I made maps for text book, for research articles, and also two wall size maps for the Geography Department, NTU. In addition to those are static-printed map, I also make interactive-web maps. I joined a research project which used web-map as the main tool for the early-warning system.

Third, I'm a GIScientist. GIS is not just a mapping tool. It is a system for gathering and presenting geographical information, and a platform for exploring the geographical-spaces. There are already so many analyzing methods for solving many types of problems. But, I believe this is just the beginning of the rising of GIS. In the age of BIG DATA, with the help of more and more computing power, there are still uncountable information await for digging from the geographical data.

In simple words, I'm a guy who like thinking about connected spaces, working with computer, playing with data, drawing map, and writing some codes.

me at Wuling Farm, Taichung, Taiwan.

Me at Wuling Farm, Taichung, Taiwan.
Wei Chien Benny, CHIN