Students

Ph.D. Students (Chair of Dissertation Committee)

• Wataru Morioka (Ph.D. 2023). Network Dual K Function: Exact Statistical Methods for Analyzing Co-location on Street Networks. Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). From August 2024: Assistant Professor, Salisbury University (Maryland U.S.). Awards: (1) Runner-Up in the Best Dynamic Web Map Part of the Student Map & Poster Competition, GIS Day at UIUC, 2019; (2) Research Award, AAG Applied Geography (AG) Specialty Group, 2020 AAG Annual Meeting; (3) Second Prize, 2020 Illinois GIS Day Student Poster Competition, 2020 GIS Day at UIUC; (4) Student Travel Award, AAG Spatial Analysis and Modeling (SAM) Specialty Group, 2021; (5) Graduate College Supplementary Summer Block Grant, UIUC, 2020; (6) Finalist, AAG GISience & Systems (GISS) Specialty Group Student Paper Competition, 2021 AAG Annual Meeting;(7) George Beatty Fellowship in Geography (UIUC) for 2021-22; (8) Geography Summer Field Scholarship (UIUC) for participation in the International Seminar of Urban Form 2021; (9) Third place, Doctoral-level Oral Presentation Award, 2021 West Lakes Division of the AAG Annual Meeting; (10) Third Place, Illinois GIS Day Student Poster Competition, 2021; (11) Finalist, Peter Gould Student Paper Competition, AAG Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group, 2022; (12) Third Place, Doctoral-level Oral Presentation Award, 2022 West Lakes Division of the AAG; (13) Graduate College Presentation Award, UIUC, 2022; (14) Third Prize, Student Paper Competition, AAG Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group, 2023; (15) Schlesinger Travel Grant, School of Earth, Society, & Environment (SESE), UIUC 2023; (16) Third Place, Student Poster Award, SESE Research Review, UIUC, 2023; (17) Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Graduate College, UIUC, 2022-2023; (18) Finalist, AAG William L. Garrison Award for Best Dissertation in Computational Geography, 2024; (19) Intensive Award for Statistical GIS Activities 2023, Statistical Information Institute for Consulting and Analysis, Japan.

• Jianwei Huang (Ph.D. 2023). Urban Life Under the COVID-19 Pandemic: Understanding How Individual Mobility and the Urban Environment Influence People's COVID-19 Risk and Mental Well-Being. Post-doctoral Researcher, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Awards: (1) Finalist, Peter Gould Student Paper Competition, AAG Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group, 2021; (2) Finalist, John Odland Student Paper Competition, AAG Spatial Analysis and Modeling (SAM) Specialty Group, 2022; (3) Melinda S. Meade Student Travel Award, AAG Health and Medical Geography Specialty, 2023.

• Junghwan Kim (Ph.D. 2021). Examining the Neighborhood Effect Averaging Problem (NEAP) in People's Exposure to Mobility-Dependent Environmental Factors: A Spatiotemporal Modeling Approach. Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Virginia Tech. Awards: (1) Third Place, American Planning Association (APA) Transportation Planning Division Student Paper Competition, 2018; (2) Graduate Student Conference Travel Award, UIUC, 2018; (3) Foster Fellowship, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, UIUC, 2018-2019; (4) Finalist, Research Live Competition, UIUC, 2018; (5) First Prize (Research Quality Part), Illinois GIS Day Student Poster Competition, 2018; (6) First Prize, Peter Gould Student Paper Competition, AAG Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group, 2019 AAG Annual Meeting; (7) UIUC Graduate College Conference Travel Award, 2019; (8) First Prize, Doctoral Oral Paper Competition, 2019 West Lake Division AAG Conference; (9) AAG Council Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper at a Regional Meeting, 2019 West Lake Division AAG Conference; (10) First Prize in the Research Quality Part of the Student Map & Poster Competition, GIS Day at UIUC, 2019; (11) Travel Award and Research Project Award, AAG Applied Geography Specialty Group, 2020; (12) Travel Award, AAG Urban Geography Specialty Group, 2020: (13) 2020 KAGES Student Paper Award (sponsored by the Korean Geographic Society); (14) Graduate College Block Grant Fellowship, UIUC, 2020-21; (15) Graduate College Supplementary Summer Block Grant, UIUC, 2020; (16) First Prize in the Student Research Presentation Award Competition at the Race, Ethnicity, and Place (REP) Conference, 2020; (17) Third Prize, AAG East Lake Division Presentation Competition, 2020; (18) Third Prize, AAG West Lake Division Presentation Competition; (19) First Prize, 2020 Illinois GIS Day Student Poster Competition; (20) 2021 ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI) Travel Award; (21) 2021 KSEA-KUSCO Graduate Scholarship; (22) John Odland Award (First Prize in the SAM Student Paper Competition at the 2021 AAG Annual Meeting), AAG Spatial Analysis and Modeling (SAM) Specialty Group.

• Dong Liu (Ph.D. 2021). Multi-faceted Measurements of Job Access Inequality for Transit-based workers. Research Assistant Professor, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science & Institute of Future Cities, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Awards: (1) Schlesinger Travel Grant, School of Earth, Society, & Environment, UIUC, 2019; (2) Runner-Up in the Research Quality Part of the Student Map & Poster Competition, GIS Day at UIUC, 2019; (3) First Prize, Outstanding Poster Award, School of Earth, Society, & Environment (SESE) Research Review at UIUC, 2020; (4) Marion G. Russell Graduate Fellowship, UIUC, 2020-21; (5) Graduate College Supplementary Summer Block Grant, UIUC, 2020; (6) Second Prize, 2020 Illinois GIS Day Student Poster Competition; (7) Finalist, Peter Gould Student Paper Competition, AAG Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group, 2021; (8) China-U.S. Scholars Program (CUSP) Grant for Conference Participation and Research Travel, Institute of International Education (IIE).

• Lirong Kou (Ph.D. 2020). Listening to Urban Sound: Understanding Human Mobility, Individual Sound Exposure, and Psychological Well-Being. Assistant Professor, School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China. Awards: Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant, Graduate College, UIUC, 2019; (2) Travel Award, AAG Urban Geography Specialty Group, 2019; (3) Ferber and Sudman Dissertation Awards, Graduate College and the Survey Research Laboratory (SRL), UIUC, 2019; (4) 2020 Peter Gould Student Paper Award, AAG Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group; (5) 2020 Melinda S. Meade Graduate Student Travel Award, AAG Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group; (6) Graduate College Supplementary Summer Block Grant, UIUC, 2020.

• Fabian-Surya-Pramudya (Ph.D. 2020). A Comparative Study of Significant Wave Height Estimation Over the Open Ocean and Coastal Waters Using Sentinel-1 SAR Imagery.

• Yoo Min Park (Ph.D. 2019). Spatiotemporal Approaches to Understanding Environmental Justice and Multi-Contextual Segregation. Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Connecticut. Awards: (1) Peter Gould Student Paper Award, AAG Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group, 2014; (2) Third place, Korean Environment Institute International Student Paper Competition, 2015; (3) First Prize, AAG GIS Specialty Group Student Paper Competition, 2016; (4) Block Grant Fellowship, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, UIUC, 2016-2017; (5) Travel Award, AAG Spatial Analysis and Modeling (SAM) Specialty Group, 2017; (6) Sim Student Travel Award, Korean-American Association for Geospatial and Environmental Sciences (KAGES), 2017; (7) Travel Award, AAG Urban Geography Specialty Group, 2017; (8) AAG Dissertation Research Grant, American Association of Geographers, 2017; (9) Messina Stanley Graduate Scholarship, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, UIUC, 2017; (10) KAGES Student Paper Award, Korean-American Association for Geospatial and Environmental Sciences, 2017; (11) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) Grant, Geography and Spatial Sciences Program, National Science Foundation, 2017; (12) Marion G. Russell Fellowship, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, UIUC, 2018-2019; (13) John Odland Award (First Prize in SAM Student Paper Competition), AAG Spatial Analysis and Modeling (SAM) Specialty Group, 2018; (14) Graduate College Conference Travel Award, UIUC, 2018; (15) Block Grant Fellowship, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, UIUC, 2018-2019; (16) Jacques May Thesis Prize, AAG Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group, 2020.

• Jue Wang (Ph.D. 2019). Addressing the Uncertain Geographic Context Problem by Advanced Spatial Analysis Approaches Based on GIS and GPS for Environmental Health Studies. Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Mississauga. Awards: (1) Finalist, Peter Gould Student Paper Competition, AAG Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group, 2017; (2) Second place in Honors Student Competition, AAG GIS Specialty Group, 2018; (3) Student Research Fellowship, AAG Applied Geography Specialty Group, 2018; (4) Graduate College Conference Travel Award, UIUC, 2018; (5) First Prize, AAG GIS Specialty Group Student Paper Competition, 2019 AAG Annual Meeting; (6) ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI) Travel Award, 2019; (7) Finalist, 2020 AAG William L. Garrison Award for Best Dissertation in Computational Geography.

• Rebecca Shakespeare (Ph.D. 2019). "Everything Around Me has Skyrocketed": Using Qualitative GIS to Understand Middle-Income Renters' Perception of Housing Price, Neighborhood Change, and (Im)mobility in New York City. Lecturer, Department of of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University. Awards:(1) Block Grant Fellowship, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, UIUC, 2016-2017; (2) Marion G. Russell Fellowship, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, UIUC, 2017-2018; (3) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) Grant, Geography and Spatial Sciences Program, National Science Foundation, 2018; (4) Community Geography Fellow, NSF-funded Community Geography Workshop at Georgia State University in Atlanta, 2019.

• Kangjae Lee (Ph.D. 2019). Integration of GIS and Machine Learning Techniques to Investigate the Impact of Environmental Context on Travel Modes. Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. Awards: (1) UIUC Graduate College Travel Award, 2016; (2) Illinois Informatics Institute Travel Award, 2016; (3) Finalist, SAM Student Paper Competition, 2017 AAG Annual Meeting; (4) 2018 Sim Student Travel Award, Korean-American Association for Geospatial and Environmental Sciences (KAGES); (5) Finalist, GIS Specialy Group Student Paper Competition, 2019 AAG Annual Meeting; (6) 2019 KSEA Student Paper Award, Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA).

• Li Xu (Ph.D. 2019). Advanced Space-time Integration for Knowledge Discovery in Human Mobility Studies. Senior Data Scientist at Pitney Bowes. Awards: (1) Second Place Award, Student Paper Competition, AAG GIS Specialty Group, 2017; (2) First Prize in the John Deere SMART Co-Creation Series Hackathon, 2017 (applied deep learning models and computer vision algorithms to identify downed or fallen crops (corn and wheat) due to wind or other reasons and the direction in which these crops fell).

• Yuhan Cui (Ph.D. ongoing).

• Yang Liu (Ph.D. ongoing).

• Liuyi Song (Ph.D. ongoing).

• Wanying Song (Ph.D. ongoing).

• Lixian Su (Ph.D. ongoing).

• Linsen Wang (Ph.D. ongoing).

• Zhenchuan Yang (Ph.D. ongoing).

• Changda Yu (Ph.D. ongoing).

• Lingwei Zheng (Ph.D. ongoing).

• Timothy L. Hawthorne (Ph.D. 2010). A People-Centered GIS Analysis of Healthcare Accessibility and Quality-of-Care. Associate Professor and Graduate Director, Department of Sociology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida. Awards: (1) Ray Travel Award, Ohio State University, Winter 2008, Winter 2009, Summer 2009, Winter 2010; (2) University/Community Service-Learning Grant for Course Development and Enhancement, the Service-Learning Initiative of the Ohio State University, 2008; (3) Student Travel Award, AAG Urban Geography Specialty Group, 2008; (4) Alumni Grant for Graduate Research and Scholarship (AGGRS) from the Graduate School of the Ohio State University, 2008; (5) “Outstanding Community Outreach by a Graduate Student” Award, Council of Graduate Students of the Ohio State University 2009; (6) Career Development Grant, Council of Graduate Students of the Ohio State University 2010; (7) AAG Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group Travel Award, 2010; (8) AAG Urban Geography Specialty Group Travel Award, 2008, 2009, 2010; (9) First Prize in the “Applied Geography Class Exercise Competition” from the AAG Applied Geography Specialty Group, 2010; (10) Student Award for Excellence in Community Service, The Ohio State University Service Learning Initiative, 2010; (11) E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Fellowship Award, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, 2010; (12) The Columbus Foundation Neighborhood Partnership Grant for “Mapping the Past and Future in Near East Columbus: A Focus on Youth and the Arts” with the Mt. Vernon Avenue District Improvement Association: 2010-2011; (13) “Columbus Food Access Network Urban Gardening Project” Grant for Asset-Based Communities with Central Community House from the United Way.

• Guoxiang Ding (Ph.D. 2009) Deriving Activity Patterns from Individual Travel Diary Data: A Spatiotemporal Data Mining Approach. Director of Research, Hartford Group, Hartford, Connecticut. Awards: (1) First place in Student Poster Competition and Student Travel Award, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Summer Assembly, College Park, Maryland, October 20-33, 2004; (2) Student Travel Award, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) 2005 Summer Assembly, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, June 28-July 1, 2005; (3) AAG GIS Specialty Group Student Paper Competition finalist, 2007; (4) ESRI/ORNL Student Travel Award, GIScience 2008 Conference, Park City, Utah, September 23-26, 2008.

• Suzanna Klaf (Ph.D. 2009) The Critical Geographies of Educational Reform: Policy, Power, and Pedagogy. Associate Director of Faculty Programs and Services at the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), Columbia University. Awards: (1) Urban Geography Graduate Student Fellowship, AAG Urban Geography Specialty Group, 2007; (2) Ray Travel Award, Ohio State University, 2008.

• E. Eric Boschmann (Ph.D. 2008) Getting to Work: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Metropolitan Area Working Poor Employment Access. Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Denver. Awards: (1) National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) Grant, 2007; (2) Urban Geography Graduate Student Fellowship, AAG Urban Geography Specialty Group, 2006; (3) Presidential Fellowship, Ohio State University, 2008.

• Sunhee Sang (Ph.D. 2008) Examining Commuting Patterns and Spatial Mismatch by Occupation and Gender: Disaggregate Journey-to-Work Model. Assistant Professor-Adjunct, Department of Geography, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.

• Luksamee Jeawetchasil (Ph.D. 2008) Gender Roles and Household Interactions in Chauffeuring Children to School in the Portland Metropolitan Area.

• Annemarie Bodaar (Ph.D. 2008) Cities and the ‘Multicultural State’: Immigration, Multi-ethnic Neighborhoods, and the Socio-spatial Negotiation of Policy in the Netherlands. Policy Analyst, City of the Hague, the Netherlands. Award: National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) Grant, 2003.

• Jae Yong Lee (Ph.D. 2008) Socio-Spatial Exclusion Based on Human Activities and Social Networks in Space-Time: A Case Study of Koreans in Columbus, Ohio. Director of the Presidential Council for Future & Vision, and Associate Research Fellow at the Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS), Seoul, South Korea.

• Fang Ren (Ph.D. 2007) Geovisualizing and Modeling Physical and Internet Activities in Space-Time: Toward Integrated Analysis of Activity Patterns in the Information Age. Chair and Professor of Geographic Information Science, University of Redlands, Redlands, California. Award: Student Travel Award, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) 2006 Summer Assembly, Vancouver, Washington, June 28-July 1, 2006.

• Jason VanHorn (Ph.D. 2007) Geovisualizing Terror: The Geography of Terrorism Threat in the United States. Professor and Director of Master of Science in GIScience Program, Department of Geology, Geography, and Environmental Science, Calvin University, Grand Rapids. Award: Research Grant, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University, 2006.

• Hyun-Mi Kim (Ph.D. 2005) Gender and Individual Space-Time Accessibility: A GIS-based Geocomputational Approach. Research Fellow, Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation (KICE), Seoul, South Korea. Award: Student Travel Award, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Summer Assembly, Pacific Grove, California, June 16-20, 2003.

• Irene Casas (Ph.D. 2002) Towards a Learning ATIS: Intelligence-Assisted Travel Decision Support System Using Neural Networks. Professor, School of History and Social Sciences, Louisiana Tech University.

• Jiyeong Lee (Ph.D. 2001) A 3-D Data Model for Representing Topological Relationships Between Spatial Entities in Built Environments. Professor of GISciences, Department of Geoinformatics, University of Seoul, South Korea. Awards: (1) First place in Student Paper Competition, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Summer Assembly, Buffalo, New York, June 20-24, 2001; (2) First place, AAG GIS Specialty Group Student Paper Competition, 2001.

• Joe Weber (Ph.D. 2001) Evaluating the Effects of Context and Scale on Individual Accessibility: A Multilevel Approach. Professor, Department of Geography, University of Alabama. Awards: (1) Best Dissertation Award, AAG Transportation Geography Specialty Group (TGSG), 2002; (2) Second place in Student Poster Competition, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Summer Assembly, Buffalo, New York, June 20-24, 2001.

Masters Students (Chair of Thesis Committee)

• Jun Li (M.A. 2010; co-advised). Spatial-temporal Modeling of Ambient PM Concentration in Ohio and Franklin County.

• Jaclyn Sineri (M.A. 2010; co-advised). Assessment of Particulate Matter Exposure in Franklin County, Ohio: A Comparison of Static and Dynamic Approaches.

• Johnathan Rush (M.A. 2009) A Visualization Strategy for Analyzing High Volumes of Space-Time Activity Data.

• Wei Chen (M.A. 2009; co-advised). The Design and Implementation of a Web-based GIS for Political Redistricting.

• Dan Ransberger (M.A. 2009) Improving Disaster Response Mechanisms: Detecting Transport Network Obstructions Using LiDAR Data.

• Gabriela Maldonado (M.A. 2008) Using Geographically Weighted Regression to Explore the Relationship between Late-Stage Diagnosis of Breast Cancer and Accessibility to Breast Cancer Screening Centers in the Chicago Metropolitan Region.

• Loren Kenda (M.A. 2006). The Spatial Mismatch and Skills Mismatch Hypotheses: A Study of the Columbus Metropolitan Area.

• Peter Morgan (M.A. 2006; co-advised). Stadium Funding and the Political Process.

• Robert Forrest (M.A. 2004). The Sampling Theorem, Resolution and Scale in Geographic Information Science.

• Madhuri Sharma (M.A. 2004) A Study of Gender and Racial Differences in Trip Chaining Behavior in Columbus, Ohio.

• Melissa Williams (M.A. 2004) A Flash Flooding Hazard Analysis: Utilizing a GIS to Investigate Physical and Climatic Variables Related to Surface Runoff Production in West Virginia.

• Farida El-Hennawy (M.A. 2003) September 11th and the Geography of Muslim Identities: A Study of the Muslim Women in Columbus, Ohio.

• Sunhee Sang (M.A. 2002) The Effect of Travel Time Ratio on Individual Accessibility: A Study Of Gender Differences in Space-Time Constraint.

• Ben Schmitz (M.A. 2001) The Effects of Geographic Masks on the Results of Spatial Analysis of Confidential Public Health Data.

• Xiaodong Hong (M.A. 1997) Modeling Physical and Individual Accessibility within GIS: An Analysis of Urban Structure in Franklin County, Ohio.

• Luksamee Jeawetchasil (M.A. 1997) Geographical Information System (GIS) Application as a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) for Dinner Restaurant Site Selection and Evaluation.

• Bradley Shellito (M.A. 1996, OSU) Choosing Destinations in an Urban Environment: A Heuristic Approach. (Ph.D. 2001, Michigan State University)