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TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:
• Sustainable urban and regional development in China
• Landscape and urban planning
• Spatial simulation and modeling in planning and decision-making, in particular, spatial decision support systems (SDSS)
• Critical infrastructure protection (CIP)
DEGREES:
Post Doctoral Fellow, 1990, University of California at Berkeley
PhD, 1989, University of California at Berkeley
MRP, 1986, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
BS, 1982, Beijing Normal University
PROFILE:
I joined the Geography and Earth Sciences faculty at UNCC in 1990. My professional activities have since been found in several areas of scholarly inquiry—sustainable urban and regional development in China; landscape and urban planning; spatial simulation and modeling in planning and decision-making, in particular, spatial decision support systems (SDSS); and critical infrastructure protection (CIP). I was the PI or Co-PI of more than 40 research projects that are funded by various local, state, and federal governmental agencies as well as private organizations. My scholarly contributions appeared in International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Environment and Planning B, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Journal of Environmental Management, and Landscape and Urban Planning. I served on the editorial board of Environment and Planning B, and am currently on the editorial board of Landscape and Urban Planning. In 2002, I was a visiting professor at the Department of Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara, and a research fellow at National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) at Santa Barbara. I am a Zi-Jiang endowment adjunct professor of urban ecology and planning, and a Zi-Jiang endowment research fellow at the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urbanization and Eco-Restoration (KLUER), and the Chinese Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science, East China Normal University.
I take my greatest professional pride in the students that I had the privilege to teach and/or work with. I served as academic advisor of over 40 graduate students who successfully completed their master’s theses. A substantial portion of my scholarly contributions is co-authored with students as one (not the only, of course) evidence of their achievements in the pursuit of academic degrees at the doctoral, master’s, or bachelor’s levels. A large number of students who took my classes and/or worked with me started their careers in the areas of GIS/planning research, development, applications, and education in both public and private sectors across the country. Many of them stayed on and moved up.
I am fortunate to be able to work with colleagues in many other disciplines. My recent collaborators include scholars from academic fields of computer science, information technology, sociology, ecology, economics, civil and environmental engineering, mathematics, and land science and technology.
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