August 2023 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang who will work on a collaborative project titled “Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Medium: Information Integrity: A User-centric Intervention” awarded by NSF. This project will continue lab’s past NSF RAPID to combat misinformation with user-centric approaches!
July 2023 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang will lead the 3-yr research project on “Spatial Explanation and Planning for Resilience of Community-Based Small Businesses to Environmental Shocks“, awarded by NSF Humans, Disasters, and Built Environment (HDBE) Program!
May 2023, Congratulations to our Dr. Haiyan Hao who graduated this Spring and has a post-graduate placement as an assistant professor in computational social science in CUHK (Shenzhen)!
April 2023, Congratulations to our Dr. Haiyan Hao who received the Paul and Malea Zwick Graduate Student Award, and our PhD Candidate Shangde Gao‘s Ulla Rydberg Award for their excellent work! (link)
February 2023, Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang who joined the Editorial Board of ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering!
December 21, 2022, Dr. Yan Wang, invited presenter and Roundtable discussant. The 1st IACP Planning Research & Career Development Symposium: Smart and Resilient Cities / Career development roundtable: planning job market and research grant application. Gainesville, FL.
December 15, 2022, Dr. Yan Wang, invited participant and group leader for roundtable discussion. NSF-funded AI in Transportation Workshop: The Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence-Empowered Methods and Solutions to Urban Transportation Challenges Phase II: Best Practice, Education, and Workforce Development. Gainesville, FL.
October 26, 2022, Dr. Yan Wang, invited presenter and panel discussant. NSF-funded Workshop: Smart Curb Digital Twin: Inventorying Curb Environments using Computer Vision and Street Imagery. 2nd Annual International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence (IEEE DTPI 2022). Smart City Digital Twins Convergence (by invitation only) Boston, U.S.
October 11-12, 2022, Dr. Yan Wang, NSF SCC PI Meeting, Lighting Talk & Poster: PG: SmartCurb: Building Smart Urban Curb Environments. Weblink: https://sccvo.org/projects/smartcurb-building-smart-urban-curb-environments. Arlington, VA.
10-01 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang, Shangde, and Dr. Webster, whose paper titled “Causal Modeling of Descriptive Social Norms from Twitter and the Physical World on Expressed Attitudes Change: A Case Study of COVID-19 Vaccination” has been accepted for publication by Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking!
09-11 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang, Dr. Seungbeom Kang and Haiyan. Their two-year survey research for “Examining “Digital” Vulnerability to Flooding among Subsidized Housing Residents in Florida” has been accepted for publication by the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction!
09-08 Congratulations to Haiyan, who will represent our lab to attend the NSF-funded SUMMEER workshop.
09-01 Congratulations to Dr. Wang, who has been invited to attend the NSF-funded workshop on “Smart City Digital Twins“. Haiyan and Dr. Wang’s paper titled “Smart Curb Digital Twin: Inventorying Curb Environments using Computer Vision and Street Imagery” has also been accepted by the IEEE DTPI 2022 conference!
08-26 Welcome Silas Achidago and Korey Arsenault join the UAR lab in 2022 Fall as our new master students!
07-08 Congratulations to Shangde and Dr. Wang, whose research on “Explainable deep learning powered building risk assessment model for proactive hurricane response” has been published by Risk Analysis. (link)
05-25 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang on receiving the UF Excellence Awards for Assistant Professors!
05-17 Congratulations to Dr. Wang and Ziyi whose research abstract for Planning Public Electric Vehicle Charging Stations for Curbs in Urban Amenity Centers (Track: Transportation & Infrastructure Planning) has been accepted by ACSP 2022!
03-10-2022 Dr. Yan Wang, Haiyan and Shangde presented their research on the CI and CRC Joint Conference in Arlington, VA!
08-11 Welcome Goshtasb Shahriari-Mehr and Ziyi Guo join the UAR lab in 2021 Fall as our new PhD students!
08-01 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang whose collaborative research on “SCC-PG: SmartCurb: Building Smart Urban Curb Environments” is awarded by NSF Smart and Connected Communities Program!
06-20 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang whose research article, Measuring Resilience of Human–Spatial Systems to Disasters: Framework Combining Spatial-Network Analysis and Fisher Information, has been selected as 2021 JME’s Honorable Mention Award. (https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%29ME.1943-5479.0000782)
06-10 Haiyan, and Dr. Wang have presented their recent research on urban resilience at 2021 CUPUM conference. (https://www.cupum2021.org/)
05-26 Shangde, Haiyan, and Dr. Wang have presented their recent research at the 18th ISCRAM conference (International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management). (preprint #1, preprint#2)
04-28 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang and Haiyan Hao whose research “Assessing Disaster Impact in Real Time (ADIR): A Data-Driven System Integrating Human, Hazards, and the Built Environment” has been selected by UF’s Office of Strategic Communications & Marketing as a recipient of Research Promotion Initiative award!
04-23 Congratulations to Shangde Gao and Dr. Yan Wang whose research papers titled “Modeling U.S. Health Agencies’ Message Dissemination on Twitter and Users’ Exposure to Vaccine-related Misinformation Using System Dynamics” and “Loss of Resilience in Human Mobility across Severe Tropical Cyclones of Different Magnitudes” have accepted by ISCRAM2021!
03-04 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang who wins 2020 DCP Faculty Research Excellence Award!
01-30 Congratulations to Shangde whose first paper has been accepted for publication by Natural Hazards.
01-20 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang who has received Weather-Ready Research Fellowship (funded by NOAA and NSF) from Natural Hazards Center (link).
01-13 Rebuild Florida GPS grant proposal “Upper Suwannee River Resilience Plan for Columbia County and the Town of White Springs” has been selected by the FDEO for funding (link). Dr. Yan Wang will contribute to the resilience research part.
12-07 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang whose NSF-funded research on social media misinformation was featured in WJCT radio broadcast (link).
11-19 Dr. Yan Wang presents lab’s research titled “Towards Resilient and Smart Cities: Data-Driven Urban Analytical and Geovisualization System for Events Detection” on UFTI/STRIDE webinar (Resilience and Sustainability group).
09-22 Congratulations to Fang Yao who just successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation! Dissertation Title: Developing a Data-Driven System for Tracking and Visualizing Urban Geo-Topics: From Retrospective to Real-Time.
09-14 Congratulations to Dr. Wang and Haiyan, whose research on “Examining Risk and Crisis Communications of Government Agencies and Stakeholders during Early-Stages of COVID-19 on Twitter” has been accepted for publication by Computers in Human Behavior.
08-12 Congratulations to Dr. Wang whose research has been shared on DCP’s front page! Check this: https://dcp.ufl.edu/news/the-truth-is-out-there/
08-11 Congratulations to Fang and Dr. Wang whose research “Towards Resilient and Smart Cities: A Real-Time Urban Analytical and Geo-Visual System for Social Media Streaming Data” is accepted by Sustainable Cities and Society!
07-02 Congratulations to Haiyan and Dr. Wang whose research Leveraging Multimodal Social Media Data for Rapid Disaster Damage Assessment is accepted by International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction!
07-02 Congratulations to Fang and Dr. Wang whose research “Domain-Specific Sentiment Analysis for Tweets during Hurricanes (DSSA-H): A Domain-Adversarial Neural-Network-Based Approach” is accepted by Computer, Environment and Urban System!
07-01 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang whose collaborative research on ” SCC-PG: Coordinated Safety Management Across Smart Communities” is awarded by NSF Smart and Connected Communities Program (link)!
06-29 Congratulations to Haiyan Hao and Dr. Yan Wang whose research Hurricane Damage Assessment with Multi-, Crowd-Sourced Image Data: A Case Study of Hurricane Irma in the City of Miami is published by ISCRAM 2020 Conference Proceedings – 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (link)!
06-25 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang whose research abstract/highlights of “Examining Emergent Patterns in Twitter COVID-19 Risk Communication Congruency and Misinformation Diffusion” was accepted by Natural Hazards Center Annual Workshop! (link)
05-2020 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang whose research “RAPID: Dynamic Interactions between Human and Information in Complex Online Environments Responding to SARS-COV-2” is awarded by NSF! (nsf award link)
04-2020 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang whose research “Examining Digital Vulnerability to Flooding Among Subsidized Housing Residents in Florida” is awarded by Mitigation Matters Research Program of Natural Hazards Center (link)!
04-2020 Congratulations to Ms. Haiyan Hao and Dr. Yan Wang who have the preliminary work entitled “Hurricane Damage Assessment with Multi-, Crowd-Sourced Image Data: A Case Study of Hurricane Irma in the City of Miami” accepted by the 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management ISCRAM 2020!
03-2020 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang has been nominated for Excellence Awards for Assistant Professors!
12-2019 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang who have the technical paper “Measuring Resilience of Human-Spatial Systems to Disasters: A Framework Combining Spatial-Network Analysis and Fisher Information” accepted by ASCE’s Journal of Management in Engineering. (link)
11-2019 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang who have the manuscript “Conceiving Resilience: Lexical Shifts and Proximal Meanings in the Human-Centered Natural and Built Environment Literature from 1990 To 2018” accepted by Developments in the Built Environment! <preprint available>
10-2019 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang who presented the BETerm Preliminary study outcomes at ACSP!
09-2019 Congratulations to Fang Yao and Dr. Yan Wang who have the manuscript “Tracking Urban Geo-Topics based on Dynamic Topic Model” accepted by Computer, Environment and Urban System! This research advances the JCCE paper<link> by adding tracking function based on DTM.
08-2019 Welcome our new PhD students Haiyan and Shangde to join the Urban Complexity and Resilience Lab!
07-2019 Congratulations to Fang Yao who passed her PhD Qualifying Exam and becomes a PhD candidate!
03-2019 Congratulations to Fang Yao who received Paul and Malea Zwick Graduate Student Award! The award recognizes a student who has best integrated innovative use of technology into their solution for urban and regional planning problems or research.
03-2019 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang who publishes the technical paper “DUET: Data-Driven Approach Based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation Topic Modeling” at the Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering! <Check the paper: link>
01-2019 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang whose research was awarded by DCP INITIATIVES: RESEARCH SEED GRANTS!
01-2019 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang who was officially awarded by NSF RAPID “RAPID: Discovering Crises Within Crises – Real-Time Detection, Tracking and Visualization of Emergent Crises in Hurricanes” as a sub-award PI at the University of Florida!
11-2018 Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang who won the Global Fellows Program Seed Grant awarded by the University of Florida International Center!