Faculty
Peter Chen
Associate Professor
Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and Urban Studies
Research Interests: GIS, Health Geography, Transport Geography
Ran Xu
Associate Professor
Department of Allied Health Sciences
Research Interests: Statistics, Machine Learning, Social Network Analysis
Graduate Students
Ailing Jin
Ph.D. Student
Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and Urban Studies
Research Interests: Air Pollution, Health Geography, GIS
Drew Thomas
Ph.D. Student
Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and Urban Studies
Research Interests: Transportation, Accessibility, Health Geography
Gaofei Zhang
Ph.D. Student
Department of Allied Health Sciences
Research Interests: Climate and Health, Epidemic Modeling, Human Mobility
Visiting Scholars
Xiaobei Chen
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Research Interests: Environmental Perceptions, Psychological Sciences
Graduated Students
Weixuan Lyu (PhD 2026)
Visiting Assistant Professor
Stetson University
Research Interests: Health Geography, Community Studies, Qualitative GIS
Congcong Miao (PhD 2026)
Assistant Professor
Binghamton University
Research Interests: Computer Vision, GeoAI, Human Mobility, Spatiotemporal Modeling
Aaron Adams (PhD 2024)
Assistant Professor
Marshall University
Research Interests: GIS, Health Geography
Yunhe Cui (PhD 2024)
Data Science Engineer
JP Morgan Chase
Research Interests: GeoAI, Transportation Geography, Human Mobility, GIS
