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Current profile

Interdisciplinary scientist building data infrastructure for AI-driven sustainability research.

My work sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, geoscience, sustainability economics, and social well-being. Over the last three years I have focused on building research-ready data infrastructure at global scale, then using it to produce empirical AI and sustainability research.

Academic Visiting Assistant Professor, Kyushu University

Industry Chief Data Scientist & Head of AI Research, aiESG Inc.

Location Fukuoka, Japan

Open software GWPR.light, HappyToGo, and Zhixiang

Research infrastructure

Data systems that support a high-output research pipeline.

Global News Corpus

Approximately 200 million multilingual news articles over five years, stored in PostgreSQL with automated daily ingestion.

Well-being Micro-Database

Gallup World Poll, Global Flourishing Study, and DHS alignment at tens-of-millions respondent scale through ADB collaboration.

Geospatial Stack

MODIS, CMIP6, population, land cover, air pollution, and greenness grids for long-term climate and demographic projection.

Social Risk Database

A prototype corporate social-risk database built from global news, with stronger entity resolution and scoring planned.

AI Agent Workflows

Gemini-based agents for cross-survey variable alignment, with literature screening and robustness-checking agents on the roadmap.

Compute

Dedicated PostgreSQL data server, Google Cloud Platform compute, and access to shared 4xH100 GPU nodes for large-model experiments.

Current research directions

AI models for environmental prediction, ESG text, and global well-being.

Climate forecasting

Deep learning for high-resolution, scenario-aware temperature prediction

Global monthly 5-km forecasts for 2000-2100 using MODIS and CMIP6, with 500-m downscaling and vegetation-index transfer learning planned.

Human well-being

Large-scale survey alignment and socio-environmental analysis

Cross-survey harmonization for research on gender, greenness, pollution, loneliness, rural-urban disparity, and parental relationships.

ESG and finance

News-driven financial and ESG time-series modeling

Event-level modeling of news impacts on stock prices, investor sentiment, ESG tone, and corporate social-risk signals.

Open-source software

Research and productivity tools designed to make data work, writing, and planning more reproducible.

I maintain GWPR.light on CRAN and publish open-source tools for spatial statistics, AI-assisted academic submission workflows, and personal schedule planning.

Published on CRAN

GWPR.light

The first R package for geographically weighted panel regression, reused across my own environmental and well-being studies.

install.packages("GWPR.light") CRAN

Open-source | Python

HappyToGo

A web-based tool for generating academic manuscript submission documents, including cover letters, title pages, highlights, CRediT statements, and declarations.

python STAGE/app.py GitHub

Open-source | Flask + JS | MIT

Zhixiang

A personal schedule management assistant for adding tasks through natural language or voice, arranging them on a timeline, and using Gemini AI to plan the day.

./Zhixiang/init.sh GitHub

Selected publications

Recent papers across climate, ESG, geoscience, and well-being.

2026

Publication records

Peer-reviewed journal articles.

#	Year	Title	Journal	Role	DOI
1	2026	Beyond the heat: Nonlinear and uneven climate change impacts on mental health	Sustainable Cities and Society	First author, JCR Q1	10.1016/j.scs.2026.107273
2	2026	A Link between ESG Topic Emphases in Security Report and Stock Price	Journal of Cleaner Production	First author, JCR Q1	10.1016/j.jclepro.2026.148017
3	2026	Impact of climate change on farmland NPP: Evidence from multi-scenario projections in Japan	Journal of Environmental Management	Co-author, JCR Q1	10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.128452
4	2026	Demographic Decline and Resurgence in the Aging Century	Humanities and Social Sciences Communications	First author, JCR Q1	10.1057/s41599-026-06605-5
5	2026	Environmental Disclosure Dimensions and Japanese Firm Valuation: Volume, Sentiment, and Market Heterogeneity	Business Strategy and the Environment	First author, JCR Q1	10.1002/bse.71323
6	2026	Corporate Governance Disclosure Volume, Sentiment, and Topic Tone: Heterogeneous Associations with Firm Valuation	Strategic Business Research	First author	10.1016/j.sbr.2026.100237
7	2026	Greenhouse gas emissions and GHG textual relevance in corporate annual reports	Forthcoming	First author	Forthcoming
8	2025	Impacts of community attachment and community livability on environmental activity according to XGBoost and SHAP	Cities	First author, JCR Q1	10.1016/j.cities.2024.105559
9	2025	Human Mobility and Environmental Factors	Journal of Industrial Ecology	First author, JCR Q1	10.1111/jiec.70031
10	2025	City-level Population Prediction in Japan from 2020 to 2100 by Machine Learning	Expert Systems with Applications	First author, JCR Q1	10.1016/j.eswa.2025.128005
11	2025	Low Well-Being among Middle-Aged People: Inherent or External Factors	Humanities and Social Sciences Communications	First author, JCR Q1	10.1057/s41599-025-05708-9
12	2025	Forecasts and Insights into Japan's Fiscal Future	Machine Learning with Applications	First author, JCR Q1	10.1016/j.mlwa.2025.100699
13	2025	ESG emphasis of top companies in East and Southeast Asian countries unveiled by deep learning	Green Technologies and Sustainability	First author, JCR Q1	10.1016/j.grets.2025.100296
14	2025	A spatial machine learning approach to valuing development and greenness in well-being	Sustainable Cities and Society	First author, JCR Q1	10.1016/j.scs.2025.107007
15	2024	ESG Tendencies From News Investigated by AI Trained by Human Intelligence	Business Strategy and the Environment	First author, JCR Q1	10.1002/bse.4089
16	2024	Investor's ESG tendency probed by pre-trained transformers	Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management	First author, JCR Q1	10.1002/csr.3055
17	2024	Mental health and natural land cover: a global analysis based on random forest with geographical consideration	Scientific Reports	First author, JCR Q1	10.1038/s41598-024-53279-7
18	2024	Infrastructure distribution in cities and the improvement of the well-being of citizens in Japan	Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure	Co-author	10.1080/23789689.2024.2403882
19	2023	Gridded Datasets for Japan: Total, Male, and Female Populations from 2001-2020	Scientific Data	First author, JCR Q1	10.1038/s41597-023-01989-4
20	2023	Natural land cover positively correlates with COVID-19 health outcomes	BMC Public Health	First author, JCR Q1	10.1186/s12889-023-15484-3
21	2023	Income raises human well-being indefinitely, but age consistently slashes it	Scientific Reports	First author, JCR Q1	10.1038/s41598-023-33235-7
22	2023	Inappropriate nighttime light reduces living comfort	Environmental Pollution	First author, JCR Q1	10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122173
23	2022	Impacts of air pollution on COVID-19 case fatality rate: a global analysis	Environmental Science and Pollution Research	First author, JCR Q2	10.1007/s11356-021-18442-x
24	2022	Estimating monthly global ground-level NO2 concentrations using geographically weighted panel regression	Remote Sensing of Environment	First author, JCR Q1	10.1016/j.rse.2022.113152
25	2022	Global malaria infection risk from climate change	Environmental Research	First author, JCR Q1	10.1016/j.envres.2022.114028
26	2022	The Ultimate Owner of Environmental, Social, and Governance Investment	Frontiers in Sustainability	Co-author	10.3389/frsus.2022.909239
27	2022	Enhancing the mechanical stability of composite electrodes by regulating the volume of active material using a prelithiation strategy	Journal of Energy Storage	Co-author, JCR Q1	10.1016/j.est.2022.104390
28	2021	Land cover matters to human well-being	Scientific Reports	First author, JCR Q1	10.1038/s41598-021-95351-6
29	2021	Spatial Variability of the Relationship between Air Pollution and Well-being	Sustainable Cities and Society	First author, JCR Q1	10.1016/j.scs.2021.103447
30	2021	Contribution of on-road transportation to PM2.5	Scientific Reports	First author, JCR Q1	10.1038/s41598-021-00862-x

Contact

Open to academic collaboration, software collaboration, and research infrastructure discussions.

c.li@aiesg.co.jp GitHub ORCID Google Scholar

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