Faculty

Yi Qiang

Dr. Yi Qiang is an Associate Professor at the School of Geosciences, University of South Florida. He also serves as an Affiliate Graduate Faculty at Department of Geography and Environment at University of Hawaii at Manoa.  Dr. Qiang's primary research area is in GIScience and spatial data science, with focuses on spatio-temporal modeling, geocomputation/visualization, disaster resilience assessment, and coupled natural and human (CNH) systems. His current projects cover topics on multi-scale spatio-temporal data modeling, community and infrastructure resilience assessment, sustainable agriculture, and climate/disaster-driven human migration. His research projects are funded by NSF, USDA, NOAA and State of Florida.

Current Students

Xiang Li

Research Assistant
PhD student in Geography and Environmental Science and Policy
Interests: human mobility in natural disasters and climate change

Cong Ma

Research Assistant
PhD student in Geography and Environmental Science and Policy
Interests: Environmental health

Md Zakaria Salim

Research Assistant
PhD student in Geography
Interests: Damage assessment, social vulnerability assessment

Alumni

  ​ Radhika Bhandari 

MA in Geography
Graduated in 2024

  ​Megan Grove

MA in Geography
Graduated in 2024
Currently at Pike Engineering

Jinwen Xu

PhD in GEP
Graduated in 2023
Currently a Postdoc Scholar at University of California - ​Berkeley

Linbo Han

MA in Geography
Graduated in 2023
Currently a PhD student in Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Collaborators

Meridian Lab, University of Colorado at Boulder

Algorithms and Parallel Computing Group, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

GEAR Lab, Texas A&M University

RSGIS Lab, Louisiana State University