Faculty and Staff Information

Hongbo Yu

Assistant Professor
GIS Certificate Coordinator
Ph.D., The University of Tennessee, 2005

Address:
Department of Geography

Oklahoma State University
220 Scott Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078-4073

Phone: 405/744-9167
Fax: 405/744-5620

Email: hongbo.yu@okstate.edu

RESEARCH INTEREST

Transportation Geography
Geographic Information Systems and Science
Time Geography

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Geography, The University of Tennessee, 2005
M. Phil., Geography, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001
B.S., Geography, Peking University, 1997

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University, 2005-present

GIS Certificate Coordinator, Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University, 2006-present

Board Member of Transportation Geography Specialty Group (TGSG) of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), 2006-present

Board Member (Student Representative) of Transportation Geography Specialty Group (TGSG) of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), 2003-2005

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Yu, H. and Shaw, S-L. (2007). Exploring potential human activities in physical and virtual spaces: a spatio-temporal GIS approach. International Journal of Geographic Information Science. In press.

Yu, H. (2007). Visualizing and analyzing activities in an integrated space-time environment: temporal GIS design and implementation. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. In press.

Yu, H. and Shaw, S-L. (2007). Revisiting Hägerstrand’s time-geographic framework for individual activities in the age of instant access. In H. J. Miller (ed.) Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 103-118.

Yu, H. (2006). Spatial-temporal GIS design for exploring interactions of human activities. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 33(1), 3-19.

Yu, H. and Shaw, S.-L. (2004). Representing and visualizing travel diary data: a spatio-temporal GIS approach. Proceedings of the 2004 ESRI International User Conference, available on CD-ROM and at http://www.esri.com/library/userconf/archive.html.

GRANTS

National Science Foundation, Division of Behavioral & Cognitive Sciences (BCS). Towards a GIS-based Analytical Time-geographic Framework for Physical and Virtual Activities (Award # BCS-0616724). Co-PI (PI: Shih-Lung Shaw, The University of Tennessee at Knoxville). August 2006 - July 2008. $212,045 (OSU portion: $79,549). Project web site: http://web.utk.edu/~sshaw/NSF-Project-Website

A&S Summer Research Grant and +1 Supplement, Oklahoma State University. Incorporating Population Characteristics in Routing Decision for Radioactive Waste in Oklahoma: A GIS Approach. PI. August 2007.

Dean's Incentive Grant (DIG), Oklahoma State University. A Temporal GIS Approach for Analyzing Migration Histories. PI. July 2007.

A&S Summer Research Grant, Oklahoma State University. A GIS Implementation to Analyze the Process of Human Activities. PI. August 2006.

Dean's Incentive Grant (DIG), Oklahoma State University. Exploring Spatio-temporal Pattern Changes of Human Activities in the Information Age. PI. July 2006.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

The Association of American Geographers (AAG)

        Transportation Geography Specialty Group (TGSG)

        Geographic Information Systems and Science Specialty Group (GISSG)

        Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group (SAM)

AWARDS

2006 Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Transportation Geography from the Transportation Geography Specialty Group (TGSG) of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) 

First Place in the GIS Special Group (GISSG) Student Honor Paper Competition at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG)

Winner of the Cartography and Geographic Information Science (CaGIS) Award for Student Paper Competition at the2004 University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Annual Assembly

Robert G. Long Outstanding Graduate Student, Department of Geography, University of Tennessee

 

Last Modified: August 21, 2007

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