Portfolio

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY MAP.




—— Reference Map ——

Scenic Yosemite
National Park

A cartographic
tribute to the
birthplace of the
national park idea

Land Flowing with
Milk and Honey

A non-political and
non-religious map
calling for peace in
Israel and Palestine

University of Georgia
Campus Map with
Safety Rate and
Bike Lane Info

For the application for a
UGA Sustainability Grant

Great North
American Eclipse
on 4.8.2024

1st Place of Student Maps
(University and Postgraduates)
in Esri UC 2024 Map Gallery

Zibo Map of Culture
and Tourism

Best Cartographic Design in
2023 NACIS Map Competition;
Atlas of Design Vol.7; Cartography
SIG Excellence Award in Esri UC

Trilingual Map of
Taiwan, “Scenic
Formosa Island"

Most Innovative Map and
Cartography Excellent Award
in 2023 Esri User Conference

—— Multivariate Map ——

Climate
Visualized

Exploratory webmap
visualizing Köppen-Geiger
climate classification
with interactive features

Köppen Climates
Visualized

Comprehensive infographic
of Köppen-Geiger climate
classification with monthly
temperature & precipitation

Global Temperature
Patterns

Bivariate mapping of
global temperature
mean and range using
WorldClim dataset

United States of
Rising Hazards

NACIS 2025 Best Dynamic Map;
Honorable Mention of
Digital Map Award in
CaGIS Map Competition

United States of
Blooming Risks

Best Thematic Map
Award in WLIA
2025 Map Contest;
Featured in local libraries

United States of
Natural Disasters

NACIS 2024 Best Research Map;
Best Cartography Award,
Most Innovative Map in Esri UC;
Runner-Up in WLIA and BCS

—— Hurricane Map ——

Active Hurricane
Tracker

A practical web app tracking
global active tropical cyclones for
emergency use with cartographic
and meteorological considerations

Identifying Places with
Power Outages after
Hurricane Helene

Based on comparison
of satellite images before
and after the storm

Multimodal Social
Media Data Learning
and Visualization
for Hurricanes

Research poster presented on
CaGIS + UCGIS Symposium 2024

Visualizing
Historical
Hurricanes in
Contiguous U.S.

Best Print Map in 2022
CaGIS Map Competition

Revealing
Hurricane
Harvey 2017

Geovisualization of twitter-
based trajectories;
on Esri Map Book Vol.39

Rescaled Symbol
Design for
Trajectories

Innovative twitter-based
visualization of 2017
Hurricane Harvey

—— Disaster & News Map ——

U.S. Power Outage after
2026 Winter Storm

Rapid news mapping
practice visualizing
power outages after
Jan 2026 winter storm

Visualizations on
U.S. Winter Storm

Static maps and web app
visualizing NOAA Winter
Storm Severity Index
for Jan 2026 storm

Live U.S. Wildfire
Visualization

Web map visualizing
real-time wildfire
activity across the U.S.
including type and area

Map Series of
Global News

Serving MADNEWS articles;
Mapping area includes
Turkey, Israel/Palestine,
Ukraine, China, Egypt

Map Series of
Domestic News

Serving MADNEWS articles;
Mapping area includes
southeastern U.S., Texas,
Oklahoma, entire U.S.

Map Series of
Local News
(Madison Area)

Serving MADNEWS articles;
Topic includes covid, assault, event,
administration, political protest

—— LEGO Map ——

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A Mini Gallery
of LEGO Style
Topographic Maps

Runner-Up of Mapping
Poster Award in WLIA
2025 Map Contest

Lego Style
Map Quilt
for NACIS 2024

Contributing one
map quilt tile in
Seattle-Tacoma Area

LEGO Map of
North America

Best Student Map in
WLIA 2025 Map Contest;
Collected by American
Geographical Society Library

Physical Geography
of Arizona
in LEGO Style

3D rendered graphics with labels;
winner of college student project,
AGIC Symposium Maps Contest

LEGO Map of
Colorado

Winner of Student
Artistic Section in
GISCO Mapping Contest;
one brick = 10 sq mi

LEGO Map of
Wisconsin

Featured in Esri UC Plenary Session;
Most Unique Map, Best Student Map,
President’s Choice, People’s Choice
(Adult) in WLIA 2024 Map Contest

—— Historical Map ——

Sun Yat-sen University
(SYSU) Centenary
Memorial Map

Runner-Up of Reference
Map Award in WLIA
2025 Map Contest

Historic Railroads in
Menominee and
Shawano Counties, WI

(Grayscale Version) Best Black
and White Map Award in
WLIA 2025 Map Contest

Chinese Badgers
during WWII at
Madison and Shanghai

Mapping the stories of
Chinese Badgers at the two
places during World War II

"Early Chinese
Badgers in Madison"
Campus Tour Map

Guidebook for family members of
past Chinese alumni hosted by
Center for East Asian Studies

"Early Chinese
Badgers (1907-1920)"
Static and Interactive
Map Series

Visualizing hometown and Madison
address of UW Chinese alumni

Map of Lifetime
Footprint in
Memory of My
Grandfather

Best Black & White Map in WLIA
2024; Grayscale memorial map

—— Web Map ——

UNDP SIDS
Geospatial
Dashboard

Participated Mapbox-based
web map development
during internship at UNDP

Madison Area
and Wisconsin
Covid Pandemic
Dashboards

Honorable Mention, Digital Map
Award in CaGIS Map Competition

U.S. Historical
Hurricanes
Geovisualization

Group project of interactive
map application based on
Leaflet and D3 package

Ancient Chinese
Style Web Map

Basemap design with
ancient Chinese fonts, icons,
and color scheme
based on Mapbox Studio

"Not Gone
with the Wind"
Esri Storymap

A story of the unexpected
Hurricane Harvey using
Esri StoryMaps narrative

Harry Potter
Themed
Web Map

Mapbox-based customized
web map with H.P. related
sites in the U.K.

—— Covid Map ——

Mapping Twitter
Sentiments
Towards Covid

Value-by-alpha map of
sentiments with twitter
representativeness level

Georgia Fights
Against Covid

Bivariate choropleth map
visualizing the covid case
per capita v.s. vaccination
rate in recent week

Mapping Twitter
User Trajectories
During Covid-19

Exploration with 5 million
trajectories regarding covid-19
using Kepler.gl tool

—— Mapping Activity ——

Multi-Hazard
Map Quilt
for NACIS 2025

Contributing a tile
visualizing the risks of
multiple natural hazards

Floods of Lava
in Washington
(Watercolor)

For Atlas-At-A-Conference event
during NACIS 2024 Conference;
finished during Night-In Session

Mapping U.S.
Historical
Lynchings

Tangible and digital flow maps
of incident sites and news;
2024 Design Challenge

"The United States
of Wisconsin"

Re-structure the de-structured
U.S. states into Wisconsin;
1-hour map collage activity
during NACIS 2023

Evolution of
the Great Plains

Animations of subtle
topography on surface of
loess tableland in Nebraska;
2023 Design Challenge

Thematic Map
Type ABCs
Through Games

Cartography Curriculum
Design for K5 Education;
2022 Design Challenge

—— Map Series ——

Historical
Map Series for
"Shanghai Dérive"

Designed for guided tour
of historic sites in Shanghai
(more info on RedNote)

30-Day Map
Challenge in 2025

30 entries posted on
LinkedIn, Instagram, X & Bluesky
with #30DayMapChallenge
in November 2025

30-Day Map
Challenge in 2024

17 entries posted on
X, Bluesky & LinkedIn with
#30DayMapChallenge
in November 2024

Instagram Account
@AI.MAPS Posting
AI-Generated Maps

Maps include geographic faults;
simply enjoy but do not
use for reference purpose

Map Products
during Internship
at Institute for
Local Self-Reliance

67 Static Maps of various
types in multiple projects

Static Map Series
for Covid-19
Pandemics in
Madison Area

Over 800 daily infographics
with maps for MADNEWS

—— Personal Map ——

Inverted
Street
Hierarchy

Illuminating the fragmented
biking network of
Athens, Georgia

My Summer 2025
On Two Wheels

Mapping distinct
biking routes
across the Bay Area

Biking and Walking
Tracks During 5-Day
Trip at Chicago in
2024 Christmas

Simple map design in Christmas's
theme colors of red and green

Our Spatial Memories
of the United States

An abstract network of
personal footprints with
transportation mode
in 2015-2024

Mapping My Biking
Journey with
Distance of Distinct
Traveled Paths

Winner of Mapping Masterminds
Competition (Maps), ISU GIS Day

Unlock Madison
by Bike

Mapping my yearly
cycling/scooting tracks
in Madison and vicinity
(Sep 2023 - Aug 2024)

Bilingual Map of
Athens (GA)
and Vicinity

Practically serving Chinese
student communities at
the University of Georgia

Transit Map Style
"Home Metro Map"

Innovative graphic design of
transit map in memory of 2020
home quarantine days
within apartment unit

"When Badger
Meets Bulldog"

Personal map product
illustrating my past and future
road trip routes between
UW-Madison and UGA

—— Artistic Map ——

3D Stereoscopic
Maps of Globe

Fun experiments of
chromostereopsis and
Stereogram of 3D Globe
in red and blue colors

Low-Poly Style
Graphic Design of
Lower 48 U.S. States

Digital graphic design
with a watercolor
painting version

Hand-drawn
Watercolor Maps
with Calligraphy

Beginner's exercise
painting of various
places around the world

Acrylic Painting of
Wisconsin Topography
on Hook Art Canvas

Artistic representation of
topography in Wisconsin with
Celtic style calligraphy

Map-making in
Seal-Carving
Calligraphy

Engraving maps on seal stone
material as image stamps:
China, Wisconsin, and Zibo

Heart Shape
Dual Maps

Romantic graphic design
of dual cities (both U.S.
and hometown in China)
with same map scale

—— Craft Map ——

Laser Cut
Wisconsin Map

A laser cut topographic
map of Wisconsin
using HDF board
with 3D legend

Collage of Antique
World Map with
Typography

Individual letters from old
magazines forms the
names of all the continents

Ginkgo Painting of
North America

Painted with topographic
color scheme on a
fan-shape ginkgo leave
under conic projection

Ginkgo Painting
of World Map in
Hemispheres

North and south pole maps
under azimuthal projection
with marker painting

Wisconsin Map
on Solar Printed
Cotton Bandana

Made with local flowers
and fronds during a
bike-and-craft activity

Happy Mappy
Halloween

Maps carved on pumpkins,
including a world map,
Wisconsin, Georgia, Madison,
and the Great Lakes


As an "Atlas", I keep enriching myself.