► Director of the Spatiotemporal Innovation Lab for Big Data, an affiliate lab to the Future Data Lab in the Center of Geographic Analysis► Developed sentiment analysis on social media (e.g., GeoTweets and Weibo) in KNIME► Served as the lecturer in the KNIME-related workshops hosted by Spatial Data Lab.

► Published 12 peer-reviewed journal articles, with six of them as the sole, first, or corresponding author.► Covered approximately 90% of the courses included in the GIS Major curriculum, receiving an average student evaluation of 6.87 (out of 7.0).► Taught Geography & GIS courses, delivering 12-15 credits each Spring or Fall semester, including online and onsite sections.► Introduced and annually organized GIS Day (https://www.gisday.com) at Troy University since 2019, making it the only institution in Alabama to host this global event in the GIS field.► Conducted semesterly visits to local high schools to advocate for the GIS major in Alabama.► Served as an elected voting member on the Troy University Undergraduate Academic Council (2021-2023).

► Geocoded map and conduct spatial analysis on birth and death records in AL and VA.► Developed GIS and statistical models to investigate the association between heat waves and adverse health outcomes (e.g., preterm birth, low weight birth, and non-accidental death).► Developed spatial and statistical models to investigate health environmental priorities in rural and urban communities in AL, USA.► Applied MODIS satellite images to provide high spatial resolution temperature data for the heat wave-related research► Analyzed the relationship between adverse health outcomes and mining disturbances in VA Appalachia

► Developed GIS models on the ArcGIS platform to examine the association between climate change and plague outbreaks in pre-industrial Europe.► Developed GIS and statistical models in ArcGIS, SPSS, and R to examine the relationship between volcanic eruptions worldwide and plague outbreaks in Europe.► Developed GIS and statistical models by using panel data to evaluate the contribution of climate change on cannibalism in China.► Developed GIS and wavelet analysis in Matlab to examine the association between plague outbreaks and environmental factors in Northwest China.

► Assisted in organizing academic conferences (e.g., The 17th and 18th International Conference Of Hong Kong Society For Transportation Studies) and the Transportgraphy Workshop.► Designed and conducted tutorials on Transport Geography.► Provided technical support to more than 30 undergraduate students to design and build websites.► Designed and undertook observational surveys on roads to observe more than 600,000 road users.► Designed a questionnaire survey with an additional observational portion and managed a 48-member team to conduct the survey to more than 3,000 motorcyclists.► Developed a computer program in Visual Basic language and the program is used in more than 10 elderly centers in Hong Kong to help local academics to investigate how the elderly cross the roads.

► Launched an investigation on effects of the Probationary Driving License Scheme on Motorcycle Safety in Hong Kong.

► Participated in developing network analysis for the management of underground pipelines as a sub-system of the Geo-database Management System in Yangjiang Nuclear Electrical Power Plant in Guangdong province, China.