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I am currently a visiting associate research professor at UNC-Charlotte, but live in Philadelphia where I am involved with the Drexel Urban Health Collaborative, and teaching geospatial data science courses at the University of Pennsylvania. I serve as the editor in chief for Cartography and Geographic Information Science

I am still engaged to research around the Charlotte area, specifically (1) modeling the spatial variation of water contaminants in Gaston County using Bayesian Geostatistical Modeling and Machine Learning (with Jiaxin Liu, Ph.D. student) – funded by the NCDOJ (2) understanding disparities in access to day care services in Mecklenburg County (with colleagues in Sociology).

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Biostatistics, Cluster Detection, Uncertainty
Visualization, Epidemiology
Google Scholar  –  CV (pdf)


CURRENT TEACHING
Independent Study with Jiaxin Liu (Spring 2024)

Courses not offered recently (last offered)
GIS Programming -undergraduate & graduate (Spring 2023)
Spatial Epidemiology-graduate (Spring 2023)
Medical Geography -undergraduate (Fall 2022)
GIScience & Technology –graduate (Fall 2023)
Spatial Database -undergraduate & graduate (Fall 2022)
Spatial Optimization -graduate (Fall 2020)
Place-based Geographic COVID-19 Research Perspectives
and Realities for Practice -undergraduate & graduate (Fall 2020)


EDUCATION
M.Sc. Health Sciences (Biostatistics), Erasmus University, NL  (2022)
Ph.D. Geography, State University of New-York at Buffalo (2005)
M.S. Industrial Engineering (Operations Research), State University of New-York at Buffalo (2004)
M.A. Geographical Information Systems, State University of New-York at Buffalo (2001)
Licenciaat (B.S.) in Geografie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (1999)

CURRENT STUDENT
Jiaxin Liu (Ph.D): Health, Geocomputation, Machine Learning

STUDENTS who GRADUATED:
 Yu Lan (Ph.D.) 2022; Jing Deng (Ph.D) – 2020; Michael Desjardins (Ph.D) -2020; Claudio Owusu (Ph.D)-2020; Gregory Docekal (M.A.) – 2019; Alexander Hohl (Ph.D) – 2018; Ari Whiteman (Ph.D) – 2018; Coline Dony (Ph.D.) – 2016; Elizabeth Major (M.A.) – 2017; Michael Desjardins (M.A.) – 2016; Miriam McManus (M.A.) – 2016; Kelly Brawn (M.A.) – 2015; Derek Marsh (M.A.) -2014; Kathryn Zyger (M.A.) -2014; Coline Dony (M.A.) -2012; Hongmei Zhu (M.A.) -2012; Scott Whittington-2011; Joshua Wexler (M.S.) -2012; Shuping Li (M.A.) -2010; Sisi Yan (M.A.) -2010.

last updated: March 2024