Teaching

2025

• Guest Presentation. “Enhancing Accessibility: Geospatial Analysis of Veterans Affairs Healthcare Services” Salem Research Institute and R&D Service Research Week. Salem, Virginia. May 13. (with Dr. Mengxi Zhang)  

• Invited Presentation. “Generative AI: Opportunities and Challenges for GIScience Research and Education” The Virginia Tech Office for GIS and Remote Sensing Research 2025 Symposium. Blacksburg, Virginia. April 11.  

• Guest Lecture. “Generative AI and Urban Planning: Opportunities and Challenges” Department Brownbag Talk. Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas. April 4.

• Guest Presentation. “Enhancing Access to Pain Management: A Geospatial Approach to AAPM” Presentation to the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM). Austin, Texas. April 3. (with Dr. Mengxi Zhang and Dr. Liz Courtney)

• Invited Lecture. “Generative AI and Urban Planning: Opportunities and Challenges” SPDS Cluster Activity: Guest Talk on Generative AI and Urban Planning. Spatial Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Online, March 13. 

• Invited Lecture. “Generative AI and Geospatial Analysis Methods: Potential Implications for Hospitality & Tourism Management Research” Hospitality & Tourism Management Department Graduate Seminar, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, February 7.

• Invited Panelist. “Geographic limitations of Generative AI tools: Implications for research and education” AI and the Social Sciences: Geography Webinar. Social Science Education Consortium, Online, February 18. 

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2024

• Invited Panelist. “The role of privacy concerns, perceived benefits, and trust in citizens’ acceptance of street-view image collection by local planning agencies” Spatial Data Science Symposium, Online, October 23, 2024.

• Invited Talk, 2024 Research Talk hosted by KSEA-EC and KAGES, "Exploring Potential Capabilities and Limitations in Generative AI: Implications for Geographic Research and Education​" June. 25. Online. 

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2023

• Invited Keynote Speech, Virginia Tech Course Design Clinic, "Classroom management strategies to promote positive learning environments: PEEC Model" Virginia Tech, Dec. 18.  

• Invited Panelist, Digital Twins Webinar Series 6: Ethics, "Digital Twins for Understudied Cities: Small- and Medium-sized Cities in the U.S." Dec. 18. Online.

• Invited Panelist, GISalon International webinar, "Recruiting and Mentoring Grad Students in GIScience and Cartography" Dec. 11. Online.

• Invited Lecture, Data Science for Planners (UP 517), Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Nov. 14. Online.

• Department Colloquium, Department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Sep. 29. 

• Invited Lecture, Universal Design (RED 4664), Department of Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management, Virginia Tech, Apr. 25. 

• Invited Lecture, Practicing Sustainability (GEOG 4444), Department of Geography, Virginia Tech, Feb. 20. 

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2022​

• Departmental Colloquium, Department of Geography & Sustainability, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Nov. 3.

• Smart City & Data Science International Research Webinar, Department of Urban Planning and Engineering, Yonsei University, South Korea, Oct. 26. Online.

• Research Seminar, The Korean Geographical Society, South Korea, May. 19. Online. 

• Research Seminar, Department of Geography, Kyung Hee University, South Korea, Apr. 18. Online. 

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2021

• Csillag Seminar, Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Oct. 27. Online.

• Departmental Colloquium, Department of Geography & GIS, University of Cincinnati, Oct. 1, Online. 

• GIScience and Geoprivacy Issues, Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, Jun. 4,  Online.

• Introduction to 4-step traffic demand modeling, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mar. 4. Online.

• Urban Data Analysis Seminar, Department of Geography and Environment, Western University, Canada, Feb. 9. Online.