Wenzhuo Pan · 潘文卓
Bringing AI systems into high-accountability fields such as building inspection and testing — requirements, prototype, code, deployment and operations, end to end by one person. My background connects atmospheric science, urban planning and GIS; AI-assisted engineering brings that domain judgement into working systems.
From an idea to something you can open and verify.
Ontology + versioned identity rules + SHACL gate + frozen evidence + controlled read-only MCP, with an Ontop OBDA virtual knowledge graph as the control. R&D trial.
16 classes / 34 properties / 11,123 triples · Conforms: True
HEIC → three-tier OSS images → vision-LLM pre-annotation → human review → Word. Curtain wall and foundation pit share one chain; the report draws only confirmed boxes.
714 originals · 83.6 s · peak memory 4.3 G → 821 MB
GFS initial state → FuXi (NVIDIA Earth-2) → 7-day, 168-hour multi-variable charts; a single retrospective case, about 24 minutes of pure inference and 34 end to end. Research figures, not a forecast service.
Seven days, six variables, full configuration ↗
Each one lands on an artifact you can open and check.
OWL / SKOS / SHACL; versioned identity rules; answers replay with their evidence.
Raw image → review → Word; only confirmed boxes drawn, defects renumbered per facade.
FuXi / Earth-2 inference and charting from a GFS initial state, single case.
Gates, measurement, handoff; the execution spec is the only licence to build.
More than ten systems run single-handed; every release can roll back.
From industry need and prototype to production.
Virginia Tech (USA) · MURP, Urban and Regional PlanningNUIST · M.S. Atmospheric Science
Spatial data, physical processes, then meaning and evidence: a connected practice of turning domain knowledge into useful systems.
A listed company: AI applications for building inspection and testing; an auditable AI core; a spec-driven multi-agent method.
A Shanghai university: first lead on nearly ten GIS database and online GIS platform projects, about half hands-on; one granted invention patent.
A Hong Kong university: built and tuned WRF / WRF-Chem / CMAQ on an HPC platform; SCI paper.
Urban data analytics and spatial planning; an all-English environment.
The meteorological bureau of a provincial capital: a city disaster-prevention plan and an urban waterlogging warning system.
An information-science start; numerical modelling and scientific computing at master’s level.
From weather balloons to Pangu-Weather, from GIS surveys of historic buildings to AI charts, from supercomputing rooms to cloud GPUs.
I work across atmospheric science, urban planning, GIS and industry AI. The connection is practical: understand the domain, define the product, and use AI-assisted engineering to deliver a result whose evidence can be checked.
Three things I keep coming back to.
For two years in Blacksburg, Saturday at Lane Stadium was the loudest place in town: before kickoff the whole stadium jumps to “Enter Sandman”, sixty-odd thousand people shaking the stands. Twelve or thirteen hours away now, I still check the Hokies score first thing. Go Hokies.
Photos: Lane Stadium panorama (2016), User:B, CC BY-SA 4.0; The Drillfield, towards Newman Library, Eric T Gunther, CC BY 3.0. Wikimedia Commons, resized and cropped.
I was admitted to Pratt and nearly moved to Brooklyn. I visited twice that autumn and winter: red brick, blue sky, golden leaves. Out of the subway there was a busy street market; the further in you walked, the quieter it got — lively, but not Manhattan-loud, and not Blacksburg-quiet either. In the end I stayed in Blacksburg. The yellow on this site is Pratt’s yellow.
Photos: Pratt Institute Main Building, Bmzuckerman, CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons, resized and cropped); Brooklyn brownstones, Santeri / Unsplash.
A history-and-geography buff; Ray Huang is my favourite. He argued that one of modern China’s knots was that it could not yet be “managed in numbers”. I have carried that line for years, and most of what I do seems to push the same way: turning what lives in a domain into something that can be counted and traced.
Because I loved it, I spent five years on architectural heritage conservation at a Shanghai university — GIS archives of historic buildings, survey-data management, risk assessment — and wrote some of it up (in Chinese):
Photos: East Siwenli, along Datian Road, Livelikerw, CC BY-SA 3.0; A shikumen lane in Shanghai (2012), Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikimedia Commons, resized and cropped.
