Yijing Li

Dr. Yijing Li is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Informatics at King’s College London, Department of Informatics. She joined King’s in 2018 and previously held roles at the University of Warwick and China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong. Her research focuses on spatial analysis of urban crime, counter-terrorism strategies, climate change impacts on crime, and risk management using big data. She holds a PhD in Geography of Crime from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in Urban Ecology from Peking University.

Her work integrates theories from sociology, criminology, and economics with quantitative and qualitative methods. Key research areas include crime patterns during pandemic lockdowns, One Belt One Road security strategies, and environmental sustainability assessments. She has authored over 30 publications, including studies on London’s crime dynamics, spatial disparities in crime data, and vegetation change modeling using remote sensing.

Dr. Li is affiliated with the Centre for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) London and the Computing Education Research Centre (CERC). She has supervised interdisciplinary projects on employability in data science programs and collaborated with organizations like Transport for London and Westminster City Council. Her recent work examines health resilience in European countries post-pandemic and employs Bayesian models to analyze crime patterns during lockdowns.