Faculty Profiles

Yuan, Y., Wang, P., McKenzie, G., Sun, M., Xu, Y., & Priyanka. (2025). Human mobility in the post-pandemic world. In Urban Human Mobility-Practices, Analytics, and Strategies for Smart Cities (pp. 221–235). CRC Press.

Yuan, Y., Chow, T. K. E., Wang, P., & Wang, F. (2025). A review of third-party traffic data for public and private use: opportunities and challenges. Advances in Transportation Studies, 63, 185–202.

Yuan, Y., Wang, P., & Summers Rodriguez, L. S. (2025). Comparing the spatio-temporal patterns of crime incidents based on time series analysis: a case study of Austin, Texas (pp. 1–7).

Wang, P., Yuan, Y., & Myint, S. W. (2025). Developing mobility zones based on heat exposure and vegetation condition: a tale of two transportation modes. International Journal of Digital Earth, 12(2), 2552878.

Lee, Y., Cooverji, F., & Yuan, Y. (n.d.). Exploring the spatiotemporal patterns of shared bicycle usage: a case study of MetroBike in Austin, Texas. Computational Urban Science.

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.

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), e13271.

Bobo, R. T., Chow, T. K. E., & Yuan, Y. (2024). Floor-level occupancy estimation of a multi-story building using coarse Wi-Fi data. Papers in Applied Geography, 1–27. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2024.2407069

Jiang, Y., Yuan, Y., & Han, S. Y. (2024). An entropy-based measurement for understanding origin-destination trip distributions: a case study of New York City taxis. Big Earth Data, 8, 673--702. https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2024.2363548

Liu, J., & Yuan, Y. (2024). Exploring dynamic urban mobility patterns from traffic flow data using community detection. Annals of GIS, 30(4), 435–454.

Ramos, C., & Yuan, Y. (2024). Neighborhood-scale wildfire evacuation vulnerability in Hays County, TX. Geographies, 4(3), 481–499.

Bin Asad, K. M., & Yuan, Y. (2024). The impact of scale on extracting individual mobility patterns from location-based social media. Sensors, 24(12).

Yuan, Y., & Wang, P. (2024). Web Mapping System for Election Precinct Search User Manual.

Zhang, P., Lee, H.-M., Yuan, Y., & Shah, V. (2024). Impact of social ties and sentiment on microblog topic popularity.

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, 29(1), 37–53. https://doi.org/10.1080/19475683.2023.2166109

Bin Asad, K. M., & Yuan, Y. (2023). The impact of scale on extracting urban mobility patterns using texture analysis. Computational Urban Science, 3, Article #33.

Yuan, Y., & Wylie, A. G. (2023). Analyzing the spatial-temporal patterns of fire data using machine learning methods. In The 31st International Cartographic Conference (Vol. 6,  Article #289). Copernicus Publications.

Xing, X., Yuan, Y., Huang, Z., Peng, X., Zhao, P., & Liu, Y. (2022). Flow trace: A novel representation of intra-urban movement dynamics. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 96, 101832.

Yuan, Y., & Xu, Y. (2022). Modeling activity spaces using big geo-data: progress and challenges. Geography Compass, 16(11), e12663.

Ekeanyanwu, C. V., Bose, P., Beavers, M., Yuan, Y., & Obisakin, I. F. (2022). Modeling and mapping flood hazard with a flood risk assessment tool: a case study of Austin, Texas. Journal of Geographic Information System, 14(4), 332–346.

Wang, X., & Yuan, Y. (2021). Modeling human activity spaces from location-based social media: a case study of Weibo. The Professional Geographer, 73, 96–114.

Liu, Y., Gao, S., Yuan, Y., Kang, C., Kang, Y., & Wang, K. (2021). Methods of social sensing in urban studies. In Urban Remote Sensing (pp. 71–89). Wiley-Blackwell.

Yuan, Y. (2021). The impact of scale on spatial connections: an exploratory analysis. In Proceedings of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) (Vol. 4, pp. 1–5).

Liu, Y., Yuan, Y., & Zhang, F. (2020). Mining urban perceptions from social media data. Journal of Spatial Information Science, 51–55.

Yuan, Y., Lu, Y., Chow, T. K. E., Ye, C., Alyaqout, A., & Liu, Y. (2020). The missing parts from social media enabled smart cities: who, where, when, and what. Annuals of Association of American Geographers, 110, 462–475.

Yuan, Y., Qiang, Y., Bin Asad, K. M., & Chow, T. K. E. (2020). Point pattern analysis. In The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (1st Quarter 2020 Edition). https://doi.org/10.22224/gistbok/2020.1.13

Chen, L., Zhu, D., Chen, X., Yao, X., Yuan, Y., & Liu, Y. (2019). Quantifying the scale effect using semi-variogram. PloS One, 14(11).

Liu, Y., Yuan, Y., & Gao, S. (2019). Modelling the vagueness of areal geographic objects: A categorization system. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 8(7).

Chow, T. K. E., & Yuan, Y. (2019). GIS APIs. In The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (2nd Quarter 2019 Edition).

Yuan, Y., & Mills, D. A. (2019). Exploring urban dynamics from Bluetooth tracking data: a case study of Austin, Texas (Vol. 153(2), pp. 1–6).

Yuan, Y., Wei, G., & Lu, Y. (2018). Evaluating gender representativeness of location-based social media: a case study of Weibo. Annals of GIS, 24(3), 163–176.

Yuan, Y., & Le Noc, M. (2018). Exploring urban mobility from taxi trajectories: a case study of Nanjing, China (pp. 1–6). Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications (DATA), SciTePress.

Yuan, Y., & Wang, X. (2018). Exploring the effectiveness of location‐based social media in modeling user activity space: A case study of Weibo. Transactions in GIS, 22(3), 930–957.

Yuan, Y. (2017). Exploring spatial decay effect in mass media and social media: a case study of China. In D. A. Griffith, Y. Chun, & D. J. Dean (Eds.), Advances in GeoComputation (pp. 133–142). Springer.

Yuan, Y. (2017). Modeling inter-country connection from geotagged news reports: A time-series analysis. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) (pp. 183–190). Springer.

Yuan, Y., Kang, C., Cao, P., & Liu, Y. (2017). A review of big geodata analytics in human mobility modeling. In Frontier of GIS (pp. 167–189). Higher Education Press.

Yuan, Y., Liu, Y., & Wei, G. (2017). Exploring inter-country connection in mass media: a case study of China. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 62, 86–96.

Yuan, Y., & Raubal, M. (2016). Analyzing the distribution of human activity space from mobile phone usage - an individual and urban-oriented study. International Journal of Geographic Information Science, 30(8), 1594–1621.

Yuan, Y., & Raubal, M. (2016). Exploring georeferenced mobile phone datasets - a literature survey. Geography Compass, 10(6), 239–252.

Yuan, Y., & Medel, M. (2016). Exploring international travel behavior from geotagged photos:  a case study of Flickr. PloS ONE, 11(5).

Yuan, Y., & Wei, G. (2016). Evaluating demographic representativeness of location-based social media: a case study of Weibo (pp. 1–4).

Dedeaux, L. A., Schwartz, B. F., & Yuan, Y. (2016). Applying Data Mining Techniques to Capture Outliers in Hydraulic Head Data: Edwards Aquifer, Central Texas. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting.

Ahas, R., Anto, A., Yuan, Y., Raubal, M., Smoreda, Z., Yu, L., … Zook, M. (2015). Everyday space-time geographies: using mobile phone based sensor data to monitor urban activity in Harbin, Paris and Tallinn. International Journal of Geographic Information Science, 29(11), 496–520.

Yuan, Y., & Raubal, M. (2014). Measuring similarity of mobile phone user trajectories - a spatio-temporal edit distance method. International Journal of Geographic Information Science, 28(3), 496–520.

Yuan, Y., & Raubal, M. (2014). Project report: characterizing human mobility from mobile phone usage. In Swiss National Science Foundation.

Yuan, Y., & Raubal, M. (2013). Investigating the distribution of human activity space from mobile phone usage. Mobile Ghent 2013.

Yuan, Y., Raubal, M., & Liu, Y. (2012). Correlating mobile phone usage and travel behavior – a case study of Harbin, China. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 36(2), 118–130.

Yuan, Y., & Raubal, M. (2012). Similarity measurement of mobile phone user trajectories - a modified edit distance method (pp. 1–5).

Yuan, Y., & Raubal, M. (2012). Extracting dynamic urban mobility patterns from mobile phone data. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) (Vol. 7478, pp. 354–367). Springer.

Yuan, Y., & Raubal, M. (2012). A framework for spatio-temporal clustering from mobile phone data. In C. de Runz, T. Devogele, & J. Perret (Eds.) (pp. 22–26).

Yuan, Y., & Raubal, M. (2011). Extracting clustered urban mobility and activities from georeferenced mobile phone datasets. In T. Cheng, P. Longley, C. Ellul, & A. Chow (Eds.) (pp. 21–23).

Liu, Y., Yuan, Y., Xiao, D., Zhang, Y., & Hu, J. (2010). A point set based approximation for areal objects - case study of representing localities. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 34(1), 28–39.

Yuan, Y., & Liu, Y. (2010). Modeling temporal uncertainty of events: a descriptive perspective. In R. Purves & R. Weibel (Eds.) (pp. 1–5).

Yuan, Y., & Raubal, M. (2010). On correlation between mobile phone usage and travel behavior: a case study of Harbin, China. In R. Purves & R. Weibel (Eds.) (pp. 1–4).

Yuan, Y., Weghe, N. V. d., & Billen, R. (2010). Spatio-temporal knowledge discovery from georeferenced mobile phone data. In B. Gottfried, P. Laube, & A. Klippe (Eds.) (pp. 121–126).

Kang, C., Gao, S., Lin, X., Xiao, Y., Yuan, Y., Liu, Y., & Ma, X. (2010). Analyzing and geo-visualizing individual human mobility patterns using mobile call records. https://doi.org/10.1109/ GEOINFORMATICS.2010.5567857

Chen, K., Lin, X., Yuan, Y., Li, R., & Liu, Y. (2009). Representation and management of type information in digital gazetteers. Geography and Geo-Information Science, 25(5), 6–11.

Liu, Y., Li, R., Chen, K., Yuan, Y., Huang, L., & Yu, H. (2009). KIDGS: A geographical knowledge-informed digital gazetteer service. https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293495

Yuan, Y., & Gao, Y. (2008). Object-oriented modeling and implementation technologies of spatio-temporal data. Geography and Geo-Information Science, 28(3), 41–44.

Liu, Y., Yuan, Y., & Zhang, Y. (2008). A cognitive approach to modeling vague geographical features – a case study of Zhongguancun. Journal of Remote Sensing, 12(2), 370–377.