Faculty Profiles

Colleges and Departments

Dr. Yihong Yuan

  • Associate Professor at Dept of Geography & Environmntl Studies, College of Liberal Arts

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Member, Executive Board of Texas State Center for Analytics and Data Science. 2024 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, National Science Foundation, Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation Division. 2019 - Present.
  • Member, Member of Award Committee, Chinese Professional in Geographic Information Systems. 2025 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Geo-spatial Information Science. 2024 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 2023 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Annals of GIS. 2023 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology. 2022 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Political Geography. 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.
  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 2020 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Sensors. 2020 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Natural Hazards. 2020 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. 2020 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation. 2019 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 2019 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Tourism Management. 2019 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Geomatica. 2019 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Cities. 2018 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, PLoS One. 2018 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Ecological Informatics. 2018 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Urban Technology. 2017 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Nature (human behavior). 2017 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Spatial Information Science. 2017 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, National Science Foundation (NSF), Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics Division. 2017 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Transport Geography. 2017 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2016 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Sustainability. 2016 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Spatial Cognition and Computation. 2016 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Hospitality Management and Tourism. 2015 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. 2015 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Spatial Science. 2015 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Tourism Geographies. 2015 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Kartographische Nachrichten (Journal of Cartography and GeoInformation). 2015 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Global Ecology and Conservation. 2015 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 2014 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Current Urban Studies. 2014 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Intelligent Information Management. 2014 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 2014 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Location Based Service. 2014 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Science and Information Conference. 2014 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Transportmetrica A: Transport Science. 2014 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications. 2014 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 2013 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 2013 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography. 2013 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Transactions in GIS. 2013 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, AGILE Conference. 2012 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, International Journal of Library and Information Science. 2012 - Present.

2026

  • Member, Graduate Committee. 2025 - 2026.
  • Member, Colloquium Committee. 2025 - 2026.

2025

  • Chair, GESSRS / PANGEA Committee. 2023 - 2025.
  • Session Organizer, Annual Conference of the American Association of Geographers. 2025.
  • Poster Judge, PANGEA Conference. 2025.
  • Member, Scientific Committee, ISPRS/ISDE Conference on Geo-digitalization for Sustainable Development Goals. 2025.
  • Editor, Big Earth Data. 2024 - 2025.
  • Member, Undergraduate Committee. 2023 - 2025.
  • Speaker, National Summer Transportation Institute. 2021 - 2025.

2024

  • Member, Program Committee, AGILE Workshop on Humans in the City: Artificial Intelligence Research and Urban Environments (AI-HUE '24). 2024.
  • Member, Establishing a New Data Science Center Work Group. 2022 - 2024.

2023

  • Member, Graduate Committee. 2022 - 2023.
  • Chair, Recruitment and Communications Committee. 2022 - 2023.

2022

  • Member, Ad hoc Online Education Committee. 2021 - 2022.
  • Member, Scholarships and Awards Committee. 2021 - 2022.

2021

  • Member, Quality Enhancement Committee. 2019 - 2021.
  • Member, Urban Geography Position Hiring Committee. 2021.
  • Member, Graduate Committee. 2020 - 2021.
  • Member, Site Selection Committee, Chinese Professional in Geographic Information Systems. 2020 - 2021.
  • Faculty Advisor, Society of Geographic Information Science (SoGIS). 2015 - 2021.
  • Chair, Education Committee, Chinese Professional in Geographic Information Systems. November 2019 - January 2021.

2020

  • Member, Undergraduate Committee. 2019 - 2020.

2019

  • Session Organizer, Annual Conference of the American Association of Geographers. 2019.
  • Member, International Steering Committee, International Conference of GeoInformatics. 2019.
  • Member, Technical Committee, International Workshop on GeoComputation for Social Sciences and Intelligent Space Information Service. 2019.
  • Member, Scholarship Committee. 2018 - 2019.
  • Member, Technical Committee, International Workshop on Geocomputation for Social Sciences and Intelligent Space Information Service. 2018 - 2019.

2018

  • Other, Board Member of Director, Chinese Professional in Geographic Information Systems. 2016 - 2018.
  • Member, Colloquium Committee. 2017 - 2018.

2017

  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE International Conference on Spatial Data Mining (ICSDM). 2017.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Ubicomp Conference. 2017.
  • Member, Undergraduate Committee. 2016 - 2017.
  • Member, Diversity Committee, Department of Geography. 2016 - 2017.
  • Session Chair and Organizer, Annual Conference of the American Association of Geographers. April 2017.
  • Presenter, Service Learning Excellence Program. February 2017.

2016

  • Member, Graduate Committee. 2015 - 2016.
  • Member, Cartography Search Committee. 2015 - 2016.
  • TxState Representative and Presenter, GIS Day Event, Blinn College. November 2016.
  • Presenter, Support Women in Geography (SWIG) Weekly Meeting. October 2016.

2015

  • Member, Conference Program Committee, Science and Information Conference (SAI). 2015.
  • Member, Scholarships/Awards Committee. 2014 - 2015.
  • Member, Communications and Recruitment Committee. 2014 - 2015.

2014

  • Member, Conference Program Committee, Science and Information Conference (SAI). 2014.

2013

  • Reviewer / Referee, Elsevier (GeoGIS Book Proposal). 2023 - 2013.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Bentham E-books. 2013.
  • Reviewer / Referee, ICTs for health and wellbeing E-book. 2013.