Associate Professor in #GeospatialDataScience #EnvironmentalHealthSciences at Gong Lab @PennStateBBH and @icds_psu.
State College, PA
Joined May 2009
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How can social media improve crime prediction? Our new paper introduces a GIS-based spatio-temporal cokriging approach to integrate social media data for more accurate crime forecasts.
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#GIS #UrbanAnalytics #CrimeAnalysis
My lab
@PennStateBBH
is recruiting Ph.D. students starting 26Fall! Job ad & program flyer can be found at xigong.wordpress.com. If you're interested in #GeospatialDataScience and #EnvironmentalHealthScience, please don't hesitate to contact me at [email protected].
My lab is seeking a motivated postdoctoral scholar with research interests in Environmental Health Sciences and Geospatial Data Science to join the team. Detailed job ad is as follows. Welcome to apply for this position! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PS…
Congratulations to my PhD advisee, Yanhong Huang
@Yanhong13203853, on another publication as lead author in Journal of Hazardous Materials! So proud of her continued success and contributions to the field. The full-text access till June 3 is here bit.ly/44CYpYR
Maternal exposure to PM2.5-bound metals may impact newborn hearing! 📢
@XG_GIS Our study of 140K+ births found higher risks of hearing screening failure linked to metals like mercury & chromium.
bit.ly/44CYpYR 👈
#EnvironmentalHealth #MaternalHealth #HearingHealth
Thrilled to share that I'll be joining Penn State
@penn_state as an Associate Professor in @PennStateBBH & @icds_psu in Jan 2025! I will continue my work on #GeospatialDataScience & #EnvironmentalHealthScience. Looking forward to this exciting next chapter!🎉
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Gong lab @PennStateBBH is recruiting Ph.D. students starting 25Fall and postdocs! Job ad coming soon. If you're interested in #GeospatialDataScience and #EnvironmentalHealthScience, please don't hesitate to contact me at [email protected]. More info at xigong.wordpress.com/
Detailed job ad about the Ph.D. and Postdoc positions and the Ph.D. program flyer can be found at my website xigong.wordpress.com/ Please don't hesitate to contact me at [email protected].
I’m deeply grateful to my wonderful colleagues and friends at UNM for your unwavering support and help over the past 8.5 years. I will miss you all dearly and look forward to continuing our collaborations in the future!
Looking forward to the interesting presentation. My PhD advisee Yanhong Huang @Yanhong13203853 from @UNM_GES and @aspireUNM is on this team. Way to go!
Next up from the @NSFiGUIDE VCO series! Join I-GUIDE Summer School Team 6 for a presentation and demonstration of their work with "Introduction to the GeoAI Foundation Model and its Application" coming up January 31st at 11am CT!
Register here! rb.gy/29m8vh
Glad to work with @GuimingZhang on this important work on VGI. Thanks for leading the work, Dr. Zhang!
Co-authored with @XG_GIS and @DiZhu_Patrick, our recent work explores the patterns and drivers of VGI contributors' social interactions in iNaturalist. It was picked up by the iNaturalist December News Highlights (inaturalist.org/posts/88064-…)
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Interested in sports fans' spatiotemporal behavior and theoretical tendencies? Welcome to today's ASPIREational Talk. I will share our case study of NBA fans in Applied Geography. The @NBA new season will tip off tonight, seems the right time for the topic :) @aspireUNM @UNM_GES
The full paper is here: "Exploring dynamics of sports fan behavior using social media big data - A case study of the 2019 NBA Finals".
@UNM_GES @unmasresearch
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Thank @advanceunm for promoting our Level II UNM Grand Challenge Level 2 Child Health Team advance.unm.edu/faculty-fanf…. Thank @UNM @UNMResearch for supporting our efforts to develop a systematic, data-driven approach to prevent child maltreatment in New Mexico. @UNM_GES @aspireUNM
Our SISS lab team (rb.gy/us929) developed a neural network approach (pruned-FNN) for estimating air pollution exposure that can balance accuracy, complexity, and usability. Paper published in
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Shoutout to my RAs Lin Liu and Yanhong Huang
@Yanhong13203853. Really appreciate the help from my collaborators, Drs. Bin Zou, Yeran Sun @YeranSun, Li Luo, and Yan Lin. The full-text access to a view-only version is rdcu.be/dlTwu.
Our SISS lab team (rb.gy/us929) just published a paper on the impact of PM2.5 metal component exposure on low birth weight link.springer.com/article/10…. It contributes to understanding the environmental factors affecting newborn health. @UNM_GES @aspireUNM @SagesUnm
Congratulations to my PhD advisee Yanhong Huang @Yanhong13203853 on her first paper as leading author. The full-text access to a view-only version is rdcu.be/dkf3q.