Introduction
I am a Ph.D. ABD in Geography Department at Penn State University and a research assistant in the GeoVISTA Center with my advisor Dr. Alan M.Maceachren. Since the college year, my interests are always on GIScience. My Ph.D research area is framed within a new interdisciplinary field: geovisual analytics. Specifically, my research focuses on developing new geo-social visual analytical methods that combine geovisualization and visual analytics with spatial analysis, social analysis, and epidemic models to take advantage of human intuition, decision-making ability and computational power with such traditional methods to facilitate, and enable insight gaining process, as well as aid decision-making in related applications. More information can be found in my CV or by sending me an email.
Recent Activity:- 08/07/12 Received an NSF Award to present a poster in CyberGIS'12.
- 05/30/12 Presented a lightning talk: The Integration of Geography and Social Network Contexts. In UCGIS 2012 Symposium
- 04/27/12 Received 1st place, E. Willard Miller Award Paper Competition, Department of Geography
- 03/31/12 Attended No Boundaries Conference as A Panel Discussant
- 03/25/12 Attended Graduate Exhibition
- 11/16/11 Passed Ph.D Comprehensive Exam
- 10/06/11 GeoSocialApp website launched.
- 10/05/11 Received an NSF Travel Grant to attend ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011.
- 09/22/11 Received an Academic Enrichment Award from The Ruby S.Miller Endowment Fund in Geography.
- 08/27/11 Wei Luo, et al: ACM LBSN Workshop: Spatial-Social Network Visualization for Exploratory Data Analysis http://t.co/IKNtlca
- 04/19/11 passed my proposal defense.
- 03/15/11 Ph.D committee has been decided.
- 02/03/11 posted on the White House Website by chance.
- 11/29/10 passed my candidacy exam.