People

Faculty

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Peter Chen

Associate Professor

Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and Urban Studies

Research Interests: GIS, Health Geography, Transport Geography

peter.chen@uconn.edu

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Ran Xu

Associate Professor

Department of Allied Health Sciences

Research Interests: Statistics, Machine Learning, Social Network Analysis

ran.2.xu@uconn.edu

Graduate Students

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Ailing Jin

Ph.D. Student

Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and Urban Studies

Research Interests: Air Pollution, Health Geography, GIS

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Weixuan Lyu

Ph.D. Student

Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and Urban Studies

Research Interests: Health Geography, Community Studies, Qualitative GIS, Mixed-Methods

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Drew Thomas

Ph.D. Student

Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and Urban Studies

Research Interests: Transportation, Accessibility, Health Geography

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Gaofei Zhang

Ph.D. Student

Department of Allied Health Sciences

Research Interests: Climate and Health, Epidemic Modeling, Human Mobility

Graduated Students

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Congcong Miao (PhD 2026)

Assistant Professor

Binghamton University

Research Interests: Computer Vision, GeoAI, Human Mobility, Spatiotemporal Modeling

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Aaron Adams (PhD 2024)

Assistant Professor

Marshall University

Research Interests: GIS, Health Geography

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Yunhe Cui (PhD 2024)

Data Science Engineer

JP Morgan Chase

Research Interests: GeoAI, Transportation Geography, Human Mobility, GIS

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