Dr Filip Biljecki is jointly appointed as an Associate Professor 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 200 peer-reviewed articles, which have been cited over 13,000 times, and some of the work has been translated into practice such as implementation in standards. His research and teaching have been recognised through multiple international awards, and he has supervised dozens of students, leading them to publications in leading journals and placements at top universities and organisations. He delivered invited talks at more than 150 universities and organisations worldwide. Filip serves the community through associate editor roles in two journals in urban studies: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems & Landscape and Urban Planning.

His background is in Geomatic engineering. Filip holds a PhD degree (with highest honours) 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 full list of his publications is available here.

Additional appointments and service (past and present)

• Computers, Environment and Urban Systems – Associate Editor
• Landscape and Urban Planning – Subject Associate Editor (Urban Analytics)
• Cities – Editorial Board Member
• International Journal of Geographical Information Science – Editorial Board Member
• 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
• Scientific Data – Editorial Board Member
• Transactions in GIS – Editorial Board Member
• PLOS ONE – Academic Editor for Geoinformatics
• World Economic Forum, Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization – Fellow (2018-2020)

Awards and honours (selected)

• Gill Memorial Award by the Royal Geographical Society (UK), 2026
• Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA), 2025
• College Educator Award AY2023/2024, 2025
• 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