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
