Jonny Chao

Research

Selected studies, a complete publication list, verifiable research indicators, and patents in marine spatiotemporal intelligence.

Selected research

8
publications
5
first / co-first author
53
OpenAlex citations

Citation counts are from OpenAlex. For papers without a positive citation count, journal or indexing information is shown instead; Google Scholar links run a live title search. OpenAlex · July 2026

2025First author

TransFish

TransFish: day-level forecasting of fishing effort distribution via transformer on multi-source data

Fuses historical fishing distributions, ocean hydrology, and chlorophyll data with ResNet and Transformer to forecast day-level fishing effort for the coming week.

Journal IF 5.9 · CiteScore 10.0
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2024First author

HiTrip

HiTrip: Historical trajectory interpolation for trawlers via deep learning on multi-source data

Reconstructs two-hour historical vessel tracks at three-minute resolution by combining VMS records with ocean hydrological fields.

13 OpenAlex citations
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2021First author

Fishing Chronology

Short-term prediction of fishing effort distributions by discovering fishing chronology among trawlers based on VMS dataset

Introduces fishing chronology to identify a small indicator fleet whose current behavior predicts near-future fishing-effort distributions.

24 OpenAlex citations
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Publications

Journal articles 5

2025 TransFish: day-level forecasting of fishing effort distribution via transformer on multi-source dataReviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 35, 1143–1170 · First author · Journal IF 5.9 · CiteScore 10.0 2024 HiTrip: Historical trajectory interpolation for trawlers via deep learning on multi-source dataOcean Engineering, 292, 116588 · First author · 13 OpenAlex citations 2024 HyFish: hydrological factor fusion for prediction of fishing effort distribution with VMS datasetFrontiers in Marine Science, 11, 1296146 · Third author · 5 OpenAlex citations 2023 Echo-ID: Smartphone Placement Region Identification for Context-Aware ComputingSensors, 23, 4302 · Co-first author · 2 OpenAlex citations 2021 Short-term prediction of fishing effort distributions by discovering fishing chronology among trawlers based on VMS datasetExpert Systems with Applications, 184, 115512 · First author · 24 OpenAlex citations

Conference papers 3

2023 VDU: VMS Dataset Upsampling via Multi-Source Data Fusion for TrawlersOCEANS 2023 - Limerick · Second author · Indexed in IEEE Xplore 2021 HIT: Hybrid Interpolation for Trawlers based on Deep LearningOCEANS 2021: San Diego - Porto · Second author · 2 OpenAlex citations 2020 Trawler Fishing Track Interpolation using LSTM for Satellite-based VMS Traces2020 Global Oceans: Singapore - U.S. Gulf Coast (OCEANS 2020) · First author · 7 OpenAlex citations

Patents

01

Method for short-term fishing-effort distribution prediction based on fishing chronology

Invention patent · Granted

02

Historical vessel-trajectory dataset upsampling method with hydrological data fusion

Invention patent