陶然，武汉大学遥感信息工程学院教授，博导，国家级青年人才计划入选者。回国前曾任美国南佛罗里达大学长聘副教授、美国地理学家协会Cyberinfrastructure 分会主席、美国自然科学基金NSF研究项目负责人和评审专家等职务。陶博士长期致力于空间统计、地理空间人工智能、地理流大数据的基础理论与领域应用相关研究，在国际上率先发展了一套较为完善的地理流大数据时空分析、挖掘与建模的方法体系，包括新的地理流空间测度的方法、地理流探索式空间分析方法和空间交互模型。提升了地理流大数据在防疫抗灾、智慧出行、城市与区域规划等重要领域的应用水平。

研究方向：地理空间人工智能、空间统计模型与方法、大数据时空分析与挖掘、人类移动性、地图学与空间数据可视化、大模型与生成式AI、交通地理、城市地理、健康地理。谷歌学术主页：https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WUk8QDAAAAAJ&hl=en

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近期代表性论文（学生作者）：

• Ran Tao, Jean-Claude Thill. (2025). A Reciprocal Statistic for Detecting the Full Range of Local Patterns of Bivariate Spatial Association. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1-22.

• Yuzhou Chen, Ran Tao*, Qiwei Ma, Mingshu Wang. (2025). Shrinking cities in China's urban network: a data-driven exploration of migration and investment flows. Applied Geography.

• Yuzhou Chen, Qiwei Ma, Ran Tao*. (2025). Addressing the Fixed Effects in Gravity Model based on Origin-Destination Pairs. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 1-21.

• Peng Chen, Xiankui Yang, Feng Hao, Ran Tao^*. (2025). Decoding Electric Vehicle Adoption using XGBoost and SHAP Analysis. Travel Behaviour and Society.

• Zhenzhi Jiao, Ran Tao^*. (2025). Geographical Gaussian Process Regression: A Spatial Machine Learning Model Based on Spatial Similarity. Geographical Analysis

• Zhenzhi Jiao, Ran Tao^*. (2025). Geographical Graph Attention Networks: Spatial Deep Learning Models Based on Spatial Similarity. Transactions in GIS.

• Ran Tao, Xiankui Yang, Feng Hao, Peng Chen. (2024). Demographic Disparity and Influences in Electric Vehicle Adoption: A Florida Case Study. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. 136: 104465.

• Qiwei Ma, Anqi Liu, Yuzhou Chen, Ran Tao*. (2024). Border Effects for Domestic Travel in China during COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Transport Geography, 116, 103857.