Scope

Working Group 8 aims to estimate the ground-level air pollutants with those harmful to human health using big data and artificial intelligence, and highlight the aspects from the perspective of data science or application by producing high-resolution and high-quality air pollution, climate, and health data sets.

Co-Chairs

Bin Zou, Central South University

Steve Hung Lam Yim, Nanyang Technological University

Secretary

Jing Wei, University of Maryland

Invited Experts, alphabetical by First Name

Gholamreza Goudarzi, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences

Guannan Geng, Tsinghua University

Hung Chak Ho, The University of Hong Kong

Kai Chen, Yale University

Kaixu Bai, East China Normal University

Md Firoz Khan,Bangladesh North South University

Meng Gao, Hong Kong Baptist University

Peng Jia, Wuhan University

Qiangqiang Yuan, Wuhan University

Yuanjian Yang, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

Zongwei Ma, Nanjing University

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