Affiliations
- Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Champaign, IL 61820, USA
- CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies, UIUC
- Department of Business Administration, UIUC
- Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
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Education
- 1994 Ph.D. Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara
- 1989 M.A. Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles
- 1985 B.SoSci. Geography, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Professional Service
- Editor, Annals of the Association of American Geographers (Methods, Models, and GIS Section) (2006-present).
- Chair, International Geospatial Health Research Network (2015-present).
- Associate Editor, Travel Behaviour and Society (2013-present); Geographical Analysis (2003-2012).
- Editorial boards, Journal of Transport Geography (2008-present); Applied Geography (2014-present); International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS) (2014-present); Geographical Analysis (2000-2002; 2012-present); Gender, Place and Culture (2003-2006); The Professional Geographer (2005-2010).
- President, International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS) (2014-2015).
- General Chair, GIScience 2012 International Conference.
- Charter Member, Community Influences on Health Behavior Study Section, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health (NIH) (2010-2014).
- Advisory panelist or reviewer of grant proposals for 14 U.S. National Science Foundation programs, U.S. National Institutes of Health, European Research Council, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Australian Research Council, Austrian Science Fund, Research Foundation of Flanders, Royal Geographical Society (U.K.), Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, and Swiss National Science Foundation (1995-present).
- National Councillor, Association of American Geographers (AAG) (2005-2008).
- Chair, AAG Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group (2014-15) and AAG GIS Specialty Group (2005-2006).
Honors and Awards
- Alan Hay Award in Transport Geography, Transport Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) (2017)
- Distinguished Scholar Award, International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS) (2017)
- Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2016) [More Information]
- E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Award, American Association of Geographers (2016) [Citation]
- Melinda S. Meade Distinguished Scholarship Award, AAG Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group (2016)
- Outstanding Service Award, AAG Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group (2015)
- Distinguished Scholarship Honors, Association of American Geographers (2011) [Citation]
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (since 2009)
- Belle van Zuylen Chair, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands (2009)
- University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Research Award (2005)
- Edward L. Ullman Award, AAG Transportation Geography Specialty Group (2005)
- Fellow, Royal Geographical Society (UK) (since 2004)
- Plenary Speaker, Centennial Presidential Plenary Session at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (2004)
Teaching
- Advanced GIS
- Business Applications of Geographic Information Science
- GIS for Social Science and Business Research
- Design and Implementation for Geographic Information Systems
- Graduate Seminar in Advanced GIS