Yijing Li (2008)

Yijing read PhD in Geography of Crime at St John’s 2008-12, after completing a MSc in Urban Ecology at Peking University 2005-08. She is currently a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department of Informatics at King’s College London.  

Yijing has over 15 years’ teaching and research experience in higher education and is leading an interdisciplinary urban data scientists’ team to integrate diverse data into tangible analytical workflows, in order to generate data-driven evidence for policy making. They work closely with partners from public sectors, industry and charity organisations, telling urban stories with real-life data on health, safety, mobility, sustainability and resilience.

While at St John’s, Yijing was the Treasurer for the SBR (postgraduate society).