Jie Feng 冯杰

Jie Feng

I am an Assistant Professor at Zhongguancun Academy. My research lies at the intersection of spatial intelligence, agentic intelligence, and urban science.

My work moves beyond passive urban analytics toward spatial agents that can perceive multimodal environments, reason over geospatial context, simulate human behavior, and support decisions in open, dynamic cities.

I have published 40+ papers at venues including KDD, ICLR, ICCV, and ACL, with 5000+ citations and recognition from UbiComp, INFORMS, Stanford Top 2%, Tsinghua Shuimu Scholar, and ACM SIGSPATIAL China.

I received my B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University in 2016 and 2021, respectively, under the supervision of Prof. Yong Li. Before joining ZGC Academy, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tsinghua University and a researcher at Meituan.

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30+ CCF-A / Core A* Papers
8+ Influential Papers
5000+ Citations

Spatial Intelligence

Spatial intelligence for open environments, connecting multimodal reasoning, geospatial intelligence, world models, physical AI, and real-world applications.

Agentic Intelligence

Agentic intelligence for embodied and socially grounded agents, multi-agent systems, reinforced reasoning, social simulation, and deployable decision support.

Urban Science

Urban science through analytics, human-behavior modeling, time-series learning, urban governance, and spatio-temporal data mining.

PhD Openings

ZGC PhD openings for 2026 enrolled students and 2027 applicants. Contact: fengjie@bza.edu.cn.

Selected Publications

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ICLR 2026

CityLens: Benchmarking Large Vision-Language Models for Urban Socioeconomic Sensing

Tianhui Liu, Hetian Pang, Xin Zhang, et al.

Spatial IntelligenceUrban Science
NeurIPS 2025

TrajAgent: An LLM-Agent Framework for Trajectory Modeling via Large-and-Small Model Collaboration

Yuwei Du, Jie Feng, Jie Zhao, Yong Li

Agentic IntelligenceUrban Science
ICCV 2025

UrbanLLaVA: A Multi-modal Large Language Model for Urban Intelligence with Spatial Reasoning and Understanding

Jie Feng, Shengyuan Wang, Tianhui Liu, Yanxin Xi, Yong Li

Spatial IntelligenceUrban Science
KDD 2025 Research

CityGPT: Empowering Urban Spatial Cognition of Large Language Models

Jie Feng, Tianhui Liu, Yuwei Du, et al.

Spatial IntelligenceUrban Science

News

2026-05

Two papers accepted by KDD 2026

UrbanWell was accepted to the D&B Track and OpenCity was accepted to the AI4S Track.

2026-05

Silver Reviewer for ICML 2026

Recognized as a Silver Reviewer for ICML 2026.

2026-05

DynaOD accepted by IJCAI 2026

DynaOD was accepted by IJCAI 2026. Congratulations to Jie Zhao and Xianqi Dai.

2026-04

AI Agent Behavioral Science published

Our survey on AI agent behavioral science was published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

2026-01

CityLens accepted by ICLR 2026

CityLens was accepted by ICLR 2026. Congratulations to Tianhui Liu.

2025-09

Embodied world models survey released

We released a new survey about embodied world models with a regularly updated paper list.