Presentations

2024      Lin, B., Zou, L., Yang, M., Zhou, B., Mandal, D., Abedin, J. Understanding human-COVID-19 dynamics using Geospatial Big Data: a systematic literature review. AAG 2024 Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii.

2024      Zhou, B., Zou, L. STEP toward responsible GIScience: paradigms, purposes, and challenges.AAG 2024 Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii. SAM Student Travel Award.

2024      Yang, M., Zou, L., Li, W., Cai, H., Lin, B., Zhou, B. Sleepless cities under social isolation:geographically and temporally revealing circadian rhythm disorders through social media. AAG 2024 Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii. John Odland SAM student paper competition finalist.

2024      Mandal, D., Zou, L., Abedin, J., Zhou, B., Cai, H., Baig, F. Enhancing disaster resilience in the cyberinfrastructure era: CyberGIS for customizable resilience measurement and improvement. AAG 2024 Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii. Jeanne X. Kasperson Student Paper Award.

2024      Abedin, J., Zou, L., Mandal, D., Yang, M., Akter, H., Zhou, B., Lin, B. Deciphering the dynamics of flood risks: a comprehensive geospatial and temporal assessment in the contiguous

2023      Mandal, D., Zou, L., Wilkho, R.S., Abedin, J., Zhou, B. A CyberGIS platform for resilience inference measurement and enhancement. AGU Fall Meeting 2023. San Francisco, California. (Poster)

2023      Zou, L., Zhou, B., Lin, B., Mandal, D., Yang, M., Abedin, J., Cai, H. Smart disaster response with GeoAI and Big Data. AGU Fall Meeting 2023. San Francisco, California.

2023      Abedin, J., Zou, L., Yang, M., Zhou, B., Lin, B. Exploring the spatiotemporal trends of flood exposure in the Contiguous United States. Urban Climate Solutions Workshop. College Station, Texas.

2023      Zhou, B., Zou, L. Enhancing urban resilience to climatic hazards using social media and GeoAI. Urban Climate Solutions Workshop. College Station, Texas.

2023    Zhou, B., Zou, L., Lin, B., Yang, M., Mandal D., Abedin, J., Cai, H. Social Media Reactions Reveals Spatial and Temporal Discrepancies during Hurricanes. 2023 Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers, Denver, CO, March 23-27.

2023    Abedin, J., Zou, L., Cai, H., Yang, M., Akter, H., Mandal, D., Lin, B., Zhou, B. Deciphering Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of Flood Exposure in the United States. 2023 Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers, Denver, CO, March 23-27.

2023    Mandal, D., Abedin, J., Zou, L., Yang, M., Zhou, B. Evolving Geographical Disparities of Community Disaster Resilience in the United States. 2023 Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers, Denver, CO, March 23-27.

2023    Lin, B., Zou, L., Cai, H., Yang, M., Zhou, B. Sensing the Pulse of the Pandemic: Demographic Disparities of Public Sentiment toward Covid-19 through Social Media. 2023 Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers, Denver, CO, March 23-27.

2023    Yang, M., Zou, L., Abedin, J., Lin, B., Zhou, B. Simulating Coastal Land Losses and Gains Using Neighborhood Effect Optimized Convolutional Neural Networks (NeoCNN) and Cellular Automata. 2023 Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers, Denver, CO, March 23-27.

2023    Zhou, Z., Hu, Y., Zou, L., Cai, H., Zhou, B. Understanding community resilience in the 2021 Texas Winter Storm through Home-dwelling Time Records Derived from Mobile Phone Location Data. 2023 Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers, Denver, CO, March 23-27.

2022    Abedin, J., Zou, L., Cai, H., Yang, M., Akter, H., Mandal, D., Lin, B., Zhou, B. Spatial-Temporal Changes of Flood Exposure in the United States. AGU Fall Meeting 2022.

2022    Mandal, D., Zou, L., Cai, H., Lin, B., Zhou, B., Abedin, J., Yang, M. Uncertainties in Geolocating Social Media Data for Disaster Research. AGU Fall Meeting 2022.

2022    Mandal, D., Zou, L., Cai, H., Abedin, J., Yang, M., Lin, B., Zhou, B. Evolving Geographical Disparities of Community Disaster Resilience in the United States. AGU Fall Meeting 2022.

2022      Lin, B., Zou, L., Yang, M., Zhou, B. Multi-Granular Geovisualizations of Public Perceptions of COVID-19 through the Lens of Twitter. AutoCarto 2022.

2022      Mandal, D., Zou, L., Cai, H., Lin, B., Zhou, B., Abedin, J., Yang, M. Uncertainties in Geolocating Social Media Data for Disaster Research. AutoCarto 2022.

2022      Zou, L., Zhou, B., Gharaibeh, N., Meyer, M., Cai, H., Lin, B., Mandal, D. VictimFinder: harvesting disaster rescue requests from social media with AI. 2nd Disaster PRIMR Conference, Danton, TX.

2022      Zou, L., Lam, N.S.N., Cai, H., Zhou, B. Social media for emergency rescue: analysis of rescue requests on Twitter during Hurricane Harvey. AAG 2022 Annual Meeting, Virtual.

2022      Abedin, J., Zou, L., Cai, H., Mandal, D., Lin, B., Yang, M., Zhou, B., Brown, T. Spatial-temporal changes of flood risk in the United States. AAG 2022 Annual Meeting, Virtual.

2022      Yang, M., Zou, L., Lin, B., Zhou, B., Abedin, J., Mandal, D. Simulating land loss and land gain by integrating neighborhood effect and deep learning with cellular automata. AAG 2022 Annual Meeting, Virtual.

2022      Lin, B., Zou, L., Cai, H., Zhou, B., Yang, M., Mandal, D., Abedin, J. Revealing the linguistic and geographic disparities of public awareness to Covid-19 outbreak through social media. AAG 2022 Annual Meeting, Virtual.

2022      Cai, H., Lin, B., Zou, L., Mandal, D., Zhou, B. Community awareness and sentiment inequalities during Winter Storm Uri. AAG 2022 Annual Meeting, Virtual.

2022      Mandal, D., Zou, L., Cai, H., Lin, B., Zhou, B., Yang, M., Abedin, J. A modular machine learning platform for resilience inference measurement and enhancement (PRIME). AAG 2022 Annual Meeting, Virtual.

2022      Zou, L., Lin, B., Yang, M., Zhou, B., Cai, H. Revealing the geographical disparities of global Covid-19 awareness and its health effects through social media. International Symposium on Geospatial Approaches to Combating Covid-19, Virtual/Florence, Italy. Best Paper Award.

2022      Zhou, B., Zou, L., Yang, M., Lin, B., Mandal, D. Overlooked Voices under Strict Lockdown: Mapping Humanitarian Needs in 2022 Shanghai COVID-19 Outbreak. AutoCarto 2022.

2022      Zhou, B., Zou, L., Lin, B., Yang, M. Analysis of linguistic and geographic disparities across hurricane related rescue request social media data. AAG 2022 Annual Meeting, Virtual.

2021      Zhou, B., Zou, L., Lin, B., Yang, M. VictimFinder: Harvesting rescue requests in disaster response from social media with BERT. AAG 2021 Annual Meeting, Virtual. 1st Place in the GISS Student Paper Competition.

2021      Zou, L., Zhou, B., Lin, B., Lam, N.S.N., Mihunov, V. Analyzing rescue requests on social media to enhance disaster response and resilience. The 28th International Conference on Geoinformatics (CPGIS 2021), Virtual.

2021      Lin, B., Zou, L., Yang, M., Zhou, B. Revealing the long-term global awareness of Covid-19 and its effects on public health through the lens of social media. AAG 2021 Annual Meeting, Virtual. SAM Student Travel Award.

2021      Yang, M., Zou, L., Lin, B., Zhou, B. Modeling the spatial dynamics of land loss in the Louisiana Coastal Zone. AAG 2021 Annual Meeting, Virtual. SAM Student Travel Award. 

2013      Yao, L., Zhou, B. Development and Tests of Low Cost MMS. LBS 2013, Shanghai, China.