Dr Filip Biljecki is jointly appointed as faculty at the Department of Architecture (College of Design and Engineering) and the Department of Real Estate (NUS Business School) at the National University of Singapore. He is the founder and the principal investigator of the NUS Urban Analytics Lab. In 2020 he was appointed as NUS Presidential Young Professor. Filip has published more than 130 peer-reviewed articles. At NUS he has been awarded for teaching and research multiple times, and has supervised dozens of students leading them to publications in leading journals and placements at top universities and organisations. He delivered talks at more than 100 universities and organisations worldwide, e.g. MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley, Peking, Tsinghua, University of Tokyo, Princeton, Hong Kong University, Seoul National University, and ETH Zurich.

His background is in Geomatic engineering. Filip holds a PhD degree (with highest honours) in 3D GIS from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, where he also did an MSc in Geomatics. In between, he accummulated industry experience as well, and has served as a consultant for companies and governments in the implementation of spatial data infrastructures. The list of his publications is available here.

Additional appointments

• Open Geospatial Consortium, 3DIM DWG – Co-Chair
• International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, WG IV/1: Spatial Data Representation and Interoperability – Chair
• Future Cities Lab Global at the Singapore-ETH Centre – Principal Investigator
• University of Liverpool, Department of Geography and Planning, Geographic Data Science Lab – Honorary Research Fellow
• NUS Institute of Data Science – Faculty Affiliate
• NUS Sustainable and Green Finance Institute – Research Affiliate
• NUS Institute of Real Estate and Urban Studies – Research Affiliate
• Landscape and Urban Planning – Editorial Board Member
• Scientific Data – Editorial Board Member
• Transactions in GIS – Editorial Board Member
• PLOS ONE – Academic Editor for Geoinformatics
• International Journal of Digital Innovation in the Built Environment – Editorial Board Member
• Open Geospatial Data, Standards and Software – Editorial Board Member (2018-2021)
• World Economic Forum, Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization – Fellow (2018-2020)

Awards and honours (selected)

• 3D GeoInfo best paper award, 2023
• Urban Informatics Paper of the Year Award, 2023
• CDE Young Researcher Award (NUS), 2023
• College Teaching Excellence Award (NUS), 2023
• School Teaching Excellence Award (NUS), 2021
• Top 2% scientists worldwide (Stanford University)
• Presidential Young Professorship (NUS), 2020
• buildingSMART International Special Distinction Winner for Innovation, 2019
• EuroSDR (association of European national mapping and cadastral agencies, and universities) award for the best PhD thesis related to GIS in Europe, 2017
• PhD degree conferred with highest honours (given at Dutch universities for top 5% best theses), 2017
• 3D GeoInfo best paper award, 2017
• Austrian Academy of Sciences – Young Researcher Award in GIScience, 2016