Xinyue Ye is a Harold Adams Endowed Professor of Urban Planning and GIS at Texas A&M University (TAMU), USA. He serves as the Faculty Fellow of Strategic Initiatives for The Division of Research at TAMU. He received his Ph.D. in Geographic Information Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara, in 2010. He is the Director of the Center for Geospatial Sciences, Applications, and Technology (GeoSAT) established by the Texas A&M Board of Regents, and the Founding Director of the TAMU system-wide Urban Artificial Intelligence Lab, the sole urban-themed lab funded by the Texas A&M Institute of Data Science. He is also among the world’s top 2% of scientists, according to Stanford University. His research integrates computational social science, urban data science, and geospatial artificial intelligence to address issues ranging from infrastructure resilience and climate change to social justice and community perceptions, underscoring the dynamic interplay between technology, policy, and human behavior in shaping sustainable and livable cities.