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Smart Cities
for Good

Smart Cities for Good (SCG) is a research group that aims to solve urban social and environmental challenges through smart city technologies. 

Goals

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Goal #1

We aim to advance our fundamental understanding of the complex role of human mobility in people’s exposure to environmental factors and health-promoting environments by using and developing innovative geospatial data science methods. 

Challenges

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Smart City 
Technologies

  • Innovative Geospatial Data Science Methods

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • Geospatial Big Data

  • Smart Sensor 

  • High-performance Computing

  • Internet of Things (IoT)

Members

  • Director: Dr. Junghwan Kim (Virginia Tech)

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  • Current Members:

    • Shashank Karki (Ph.D. Geospatial and Environmental Analysis Student, Virginia Tech)

    • Meghan Albritton (Ph.D. Geospatial and Environmental Analysis Student, Virginia Tech)

    • Gunjan Barua (Ph.D. Geospatial and Environmental Analysis Student, Virginia Tech)

    • Grace Lee Casado, M.S. (MD Candidate, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine)

    • Irene Chang (MD Candidate, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine)

    • Andrea Renshaw (VT Small Grains Breeding Program, Virginia Tech)

    • Fabiha Rahman (M.S. Geography Student, Virginia Tech)​

    • Zach Sherman (M.S. Geography Student, Virginia Tech)

    • Abdul-Azeez Ademola Lawal (M.S. Geography Student, Virginia Tech)

    • Rory Smith (M.S. Geography Student, Virginia Tech)

    • Sandesh Sharma-Dulal (M.S. Geography Student, Virginia Tech)

    • Vaidhyanathan Chandramouli (M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Student, Virginia Tech)

    • Sophiya Gyanwali (M.S. Geography Student, Virginia Tech; Now a Ph.D. Student at Arizona State University)

    • Will Jones (Undergraduate Student, Virginia Tech)

    • Acadia Lewis (Undergraduate Student, Virginia Tech)

    • Nami Jain (Undergraduate Student, Virginia Tech)

    • Meixian Li (Undergraduate Student, UIUC)

    • Miguel Pires (Undergraduate Student, University of Lisbon)

  • Previous Members:

    • Keegan Miller (Undergraduate Student, Virginia Tech)

    • Hardy Siregar (Undergraduate Student, Virginia Tech)

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  • Recent Collaborators:​

    • Dr. Jinhyung Lee (Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environment, Western University)​

    • Dr. Kee Moon Jang (Postdoctoral Researcher, Senseable City Lab, MIT)

    • Dr. Ismini Lourentzou (Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech)

    • Dr. Brendan David-John (Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech)

    • Dr. Gregg Gonsalves (Associate Professor, Yale School of Public Health)

    • Dr. Benjamin Howell (Assistant Professor, Yale School of Medicine)

    • Dr. Mengxi Zhang (Assistant Professor, Department of Health Systems and Implementation Science, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine)

    • Dr. Ruichuan Zhang (Assistant Professor, Myers-Lawson School of Construction, Virginia Tech)

    • Dr. Michael S. Bloom (Professor, Department of Global and Community Health, George Mason University)

    • Dr. Tegwyn Brickhouse (Professor, Department of Dental Public Health & Policy, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry)

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International Symposium of
Spatiotemporal Data Science, 2024
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SEDAAG Conference, 2024
 

©2024 by Junghwan Kim

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