ABOUT ME

I am an assistant professor at Department of Geography and Urban Sustainability, College of Humanities and Social SciencesUnited Arab Emirates University (UAEU). My research interests are:
1. Urban Redevelopment
2. Flood Hazards
3. Agro-geoinformatics
4. WebGIS and OnlineGIS
5. Geospatial Information Interoperability

EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor2025 - Present
Department of Geography and Urban Sustainability, United Arab Emirates University, UAE

Research Assistant Professor2022 - 2024
Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, George Mason University, USA

EDUCATION

George Mason University2022
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Earth System and Geoinformation Sciences

Ohio University2014
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Geographic Information Science / Economics

AWARDS


Outstanding PhD Student Award2022
George Mason University

First-Prize Award in Best Student Paper Competition2017
The Sixth International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics (Agro-Geoinformatics 2017)

Safe Neighborhoods won one of the twenty cash awards in the Hexagon IGNITE Challenge2016
Hexagon Geospatial

Regina L. Bloemer Scholarship in Geography2013
Department of Geography, Ohio University

Scholarship for U.S.-Sino Agro-geoinformatics summer schools2012 - 2014
George Mason University