Faculty Profile for Dr. Yihong Yuan

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Dr. Yihong Yuan
Associate Professor — Dept of Geography & Environmntl Studies
ELA 2203
phone: (512) 245-3208
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Biography Section

Biography and Education

 Ph.D. in Geography (Geographic Information Science), University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, 2013
(Specialization: Big data analytics, human mobility modeling, spatio-temporal data mining, and knowledge discovery)

M.A. in Statistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, 2013

B.S. in Geographic Information System, Peking University, China, 2009

Teaching Interests

 Geographic Information Science; Big Geodata and Urban Computing; Front-end and Back-end Programming

Research Interests

 Spatial-temporal Data Mining; Travel Behavior Modeling; Machine Learning; Geocomputation

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Yang, M., Yuan, Y., & Zhan, F. B. (2023). Explore Urban Interactions based on Floating Car Data – A Case Study of Chengdu, China. Annals of GIS. https://doi.org/10.1080/19475683.2023.2166109
  • Liu, J., & Yuan, Y. (2024). Exploring Dynamic Urban Mobility Patterns from Traffic Flow Data Using Community Detection. Annals of GIS, 30(4), 435–454.
  • Yuan, Y., & Wylie, A. G. (2024). Comparing Machine Learning and Time Series Approaches in Predictive Modeling of Urban Fire Incidents: A Case Study of Austin, Texas. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 13.
  • Yuan, Y., Chow, T. K. E., Wang, P., & Wang, F. (n.d.). A review of third-party traffic data for public and private use: opportunities and challenges. Advances in Transportation Studies.
  • Wang, P., & Yuan, Y. (2024). Analyzing Key Factors Influencing Human Mobility Before and During COVID-19 With Explainable Machine Learning. Transactions in GIS, 29(1).

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Best Paper for Map Use/Information Graphics, Applied Geography Conference. 2022
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Top 20 Finalist, Global Young Scientist in GIScience, The 3rd Global Young Scientist Forum. 2022
  • Award / Honor Recipient: College of Liberal Arts Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching, Texas State University. 2021
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Achievement in GIS Award, Society for Geographic Information Science. 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Award of Honor, Texas State University. 2020

Selected Grants

  • Yuan, Yihong (Principal). Service-learning Mini-Grant, Service Learning Excellence Program, Texas State University, $300. (Funded: 2016). Grant.
  • Yuan, Yihong (Principal). Characterizing Human Mobility from Mobile Phone Usage, Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara, Institutional (Higher Ed), $6667. (Funded: 2013). Grant.
  • Summers, Lucia (Principal), Yuan, Yihong (Co-Principal). Can hotspot policing reduce emergency response times while preventing crime? Using machine learning to improve the effectiveness of directed police patrol, Texas State Center for Analytics and Data Science, Texas State University, $1000. (Submitted: December 22, 2023, Funded: 2024 - 2025). Grant.
  • Luo, Xiaohua (Principal), Wang, Feng (Co-Principal), Yuan, Yihong (Co-Principal). National Summer Transportation Institute, Federal Highway Administration, Federal, $64760. (Submitted: September 2024, Funded: December 2024 - September 2025). Grant.
  • Yuan, Yihong (Principal). Advancing Spatial Analytical Methods through the Integration of Explainable Machine Learning, Texas State University, $3000. (Submitted: 2024, Funded: November 2024 - November 2025). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Member
Executive Board of Texas State Center for Analytics and Data Science
2024-Present
Reviewer / Referee
International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology
2022-Present
Reviewer / Referee
International Journal of Digital Earth
2021-Present
Editorial Review Board Member
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
2020-Present
Reviewer / Referee
Urban Remote Sensing
2020-Present