Our research has been funded by local (e.g., the Town of Truckee, CA), state (e.g., the South Dakota state government), and federal (e.g., National Science Foundation) agencies. Below is a detailed list of our research interests. More details will be gradually added to this website. 

Informatics and Geospatial Information Technology

  • Geographic information systems
  • Software engineering
  • Remote sensing
  • Mobile computing
  • Machine learning
  • Cloud computing

Disasters

  • Community wildfire evacuation modeling and planning in the western U.S.
  • Wildland-urban interface and wildfire risk mapping
  • Flood inundation modeling and mapping

Public Health

  • Big data analytics (e.g., Twitter and Google Street View data)
  • ​Health equity
  • Health informatics

Transportation

  • Traffic simulation
  • Public transit
  • Accessibility research

Sustainability

  • Land use and land cover change​
  • ​Food security