Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Board Members of Smart Cities

Smart Cities (ISSN: 2624-6511) is pleased to add the following researchers to the 2025 Early Career Editorial Board and congratulates them on becoming part of the Smart Cities community!

Dr. Hugo Wai Leung MAK	Affiliation: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST); The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong Website: https://www.math.cuhk.edu.hk/people/academic-staff/hwlmak Interests: geospatial and urban data analytics; remote sensing; GNSS & satellite informatics; data science and machine learning; smart and sustainable city development
Dr. Lorenzo Mario Pastore	Affiliation: Sapienza, University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy Website: https://research.uniroma1.it/researcher/5ac8c549d74671cb4b3ad6dc66d0e5fb5d7a748b6797695504eb3f16 Interests: smart energy system; hydrogen; energy system; energy planning; combined heat and power; techno-economic analysis; energy policy; energy economics; distributed energy systems; Power-to-Gas; power-to-heat
Dr. Laura Cirrincione	Affiliation: Department of Engineering University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze Bld 990128, Palermo, Italy Website: https://www.unipa.it/persone/docenti/c/laura.cirrincione Interests: innovative envelope; building components; green roofs; indoor comfort; energy consumption; building modelling; simulation models; building energy efficiency; european environmental brands; tourism sector; agritourism; nearly zero energy buildings (NZEB)
Dr. Matthew Chua Chin Heng	Affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119228, Singapore Website: https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/dbmi/faculty/asst-prof-matthew-chua/ Interests: artificial intelligence; autonomous systems; data science
Dr. Weikai Ren	Affiliation: Institute of Energy, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Interests: machine learning; complex network; energy system; petroleum engineering; sensor system
Dr. Carlos Cruz	Affiliation: Electronics Department, University of Alcalá, 28801 - Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain Website: https://www.uah.es/en/estudios/profesor/Carlos-Cruz-de-la-Torre/ Interests: cooperative smart community; scheduling algorithm; consumer preferences; renewables; sensors; hardware; detectors
Dr. Yuanyuan Guo	Affiliation: School of Architecture and City Planning, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510206, China Website: http://arch.gzhu.edu.cn/info/1113/5545.htm Interests: urban transportation and land use; shared mobility; resilient transport; travel behavior; gis and urban data analysis
Dr. Xin-Chen Hong	Affiliation: School of Architecture and Urban-Rural Planning, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China Website: https://jzxy.fzu.edu.cn/info/1004/1065.htm Interests: social computing; environmental impact assessment; smart habitat
Dr. Yin Zhang	Affiliation: School of Architecture, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu 610225, China Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0299-9482 Interests: green building; smart city; built environment; building physics; urban planning
Dr. Yinlong Liu	Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City, University of Macao, Macao, China Website: https://www.fst.um.edu.mo/personal/zxyang/group/ Interests: smart city; artificial intelligence; autonomous navigation
Dr. Davut ERTEKİN	Affiliation: Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bursa Technical University, Bursa G-Block/ 306, Turkey Website: https://sayfam.btu.edu.tr/en/davut.ertekin Interests: power electronics; renewable energy sources; artificial neural network; control; grid integrations; energy management
Dr. Ashfaque Chowdhury	Affiliation: School of Engineering and Technology, Central Queensland University, Gladstone 40939, Australia Website: https://staff-profiles.cqu.edu.au/home/view/142?ignoreLogin=1 Interests: smart energy; smart building; decarbonisation of energy systems; renewable energy integration
Dr. Guangyin Jin	Affiliation: National Innovative Institute of Defense Technology, Academy of Military Sciences, Beijing 100091, China Website: tps://jinguangyin.github.io/Guangyin-Jin.github.io// Interests: spatio-temporal data mining; urban computing; GeoAI; intelligent transportation
Dr. Geetika Aggarwal	Affiliation: School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Teesside University, Middlesbrough TS1 3BX, UK Website: https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/persons/geetika-aggarwal Interests: Internet of Things; wireless communication; AI; sustainable smart systems; 6G and beyond
Dr. Manuela Minetti	Affiliation: Department of Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Genoa, Via Balbi 5 - Genoa 16126, Italy Website: https://rubrica.unige.it/personale/UUNOUl5p Interests: energy management system; inverter control; microgrid; renewable energy community
Dr. Abderahman Rejeb	Affiliation: Department of Corporate Leadership and Marketing, Kautz Gyula Faculty of Business and Economics, Széchenyi István University, 9026 Győr, Hungary Website: https://kgk.sze.hu/addressbook/person/id/1090443/ Interests: technology applications; smart cities; sustainable cities; new technologies
Dr. Gang Xu	Affiliation: School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China Website: https://jszy.whu.edu.cn/xugang4/en/index.htm Interests: urban studies; urban geography; complex urban system
Dr. He Li	Affiliation: Department of Sciences and Informatics, Muroran Institute of Technology, Hokkaido 050-8585, Japan Website: https://u.muroran-it.ac.jp/enes/~heli/ Interests: cloud computing; software defined networking
Dr. Zia Ullah	Affiliation: School of Electric Power and Architecture, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030031, China Website: http://e.a.sxu.edu.cn/xkjs/zyjs/lyy/fjs4/04461929541e4294b4feeb7572fb3213.htm Interests: smart grids; power system optimization; renewable energy integration; distributed generation; hybrid energy systems; electric vehicles; smart energy management; demand response; energy storage systems; power system planning and control; microgrids; smart city infrastructure; sustainable energy systems; energy policy and planning; grid-connected systems; multi-objective optimization; simulation and modeling of power systems.
Dr. Shishuo Xu	Affiliation: Beijing University Of Civil Engineering And Architecture, Beijing 102627, China Website: https://faculty.bucea.edu.cn/pub/xushishuo/yjfx/ff8080817a2ed8ae017ba4e6ac7b07a4.htm Interests: open data; GIS; Geosocial Media; Event Detection; spatiotemporal analysis