Heng Zhou was born in Wuhu, Anhui Province, China. He studied geospatial sciences at the Department of Spatial Sciences, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Australia (MSc:2014-2016, PhD:2016-2020). His research interests are transportation and tourism-related statistical analysis (Discrete Choice Analysis, Data Mining & Machine Learning), geospatial sciences and GIS applications (Spatial Visualisation, Spatial Analysis and Modelling).