Han Li

Mar 28, 2025 | nature.com | Han Li |Xiaojun Tan |Linlin You |RUI ZHU |Wenqi Fan |Haohao Qu

The recent surge in electric vehicles (EVs), driven by a collective push to enhance global environmental sustainability, has underscored the significance of exploring EV charging prediction. To catalyze further research in this domain, we introduce UrbanEV — an open dataset showcasing EV charging space availability and electricity consumption in a pioneering city for vehicle electrification, namely Shenzhen, China. UrbanEV offers a rich repository of charging data (i.e., charging occupancy, duration, volume, and price) captured at hourly intervals across an extensive six-month span for over 20,000 individual charging stations. Beyond these core attributes, the dataset also encompasses diverse influencing factors like weather conditions and spatial proximity. Comprehensive experiments have been conducted to showcase the predictive capabilities of various models, including statistical, deep learning, and transformer-based approaches, using the UrbanEV dataset. This dataset is poised to propel advancements in EV charging prediction and management, positioning itself as a benchmark resource within this burgeoning field.

Oct 2, 2023 | sfstandard.com | Han Li

One year after he became a U.S. citizen, Jingchao Xiong, an immigrant from China who doesn’t speak fluent English, has decided to run for political office in San Francisco. It’s a long shot, and some people may find him eccentric, but he’s hoping to replace one of the most prominent politicians in the Bay Area: state Sen. Scott Wiener. “This is not about courage,” Xiong told The Standard in Cantonese. “It’s my mission.

Sep 29, 2023 | sfstandard.com | Han Li

David Lee wants to be a lawmaker. The San Francisco native and political activist, 54, has run unsuccessfully for the Board of Supervisors three times. But now he’s eyeing a higher office. On Friday afternoon, Lee was surrounded by current and former Chinese American elected officials in the Richmond District to announce his campaign for the 19th state Assembly district, which covers San Francisco’s west side and northwestern San Mateo County.

Sep 28, 2023 | sfstandard.com | Han Li

More than 100 families have moved out of tiny, cramped apartments in San Francisco’s Chinatown after a partnership between the city and the federal government moved aggressively to rehouse them. At a press conference on Thursday morning, Mayor London Breed announced the programs’ success in helping to relocate some of the city’s poorest tenants, many of them monolingual Chinese speakers.

Sep 20, 2023 | sfstandard.com | Han Li

More than a decade after it ceased publication, a historic newspaper that focused on Asian Americans has been reborn as a free online source for the community’s history and storytelling. AsianWeek, a weekly paper founded by John Fang in San Francisco in 1979, was considered the first major English-language outlet reporting on Asian American topics, from national politics to immigration issues to college admissions.