Hengshan Li is a postdoctoral researcher at the Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) at the Singapore-ETH Centre. 

As a cognitive psychologist with GIS background, Hengshan holds a Ph.D. degree in Spatial Information Science and Engineering from the University of Maine, received his M.S. and B.S. in Cartography and GIS from Wuhan University (Wuhan, China) in 2006 and 2003. From 2006 to 2010, Hengshan worked as a GIS software engineer in the Geographic Information Center of Zhejiang (Hangzhou, China). 

Hengshan has published in Spatial Cognition, International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Indoor Spatial Awareness, International Workshop on Spatial Knowledge Acquisition with Limited Information Displays, and ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Map Interaction. View his publication here.

Research  

1. Improve our understanding of the perceptual and cognitive processes underlying pedestrian movement and wayfinding behavior (individuals and crowd) by empirical research and simulations. 
2. Investigate how environmental factors affect human mental representation of multi-level built environments and provide evidence-based design interventions for architects. 
3. Develop and evaluate user-friendly visualization interfaces that augment humans’ ability to build multi-level cognitive maps and provide new human-computer interaction (HCI) principles for cognitively motivated visualization techniques for developing indoor navigation systems.

Awards

University of Maine Chase Distinguished Research Assistantship (CDRA) (2013-2014) 
University of Maine Janet Waldron Doctoral Research Fellowship (UMDRF) (2014-2016)