Empowering Human Dynamics Research with Social Media and Geospatial Data Analytics / Human Dynamics in Smart Cities (PDF)

Atsushi Nara [Ph.D., Arizona State University], Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, San Diego State University; Associate Director, Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age (HDMA). His research interests are in spatiotemporal data analytics, modeling behavioral geography and complex urban and social systems, and geospatial computation. He served on the editorial boards of Computational Urban Science. His recent research projects study human mobility, disaster responses, evacuation decision support systems, air pollution, food environment, and geocomputational education.



Ming-Hsiang Tsou [Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder], Professor, Department of Geography, San Diego State University; Founding Director, Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age (HDMA). His research interests are in big data, human dynamics, social media, visualization, and internet Geographic Information Systems (GIS). He is co-author of Internet GIS, a scholarly book published in 2003 by Wiley and served on the editorial boards of the Annals of GIS (2008-), Cartography and GIScience (2013-), the Professional Geographers (2011-2019), and International Journal of Geographic Information Science (2019-). His recent NSF research projects focus on health disparities, disaster responses, and spatial social networks.