Education

2015 - 2019 PhD Geography, University of Maryland, College Park
2014 - 2015 PhD Geography, University of Iowa
Advisor: Dr. Kathleen Stewart

2012 - 2014 MS Geography, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Employment

2022.8 - now Assistant Professor The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

2022.1 - 2022.7 Research Associate Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope

2020 - 2021 Postdoctoral Research Fellow School of Public Health and Longevity Science, UC San Diego

2019 - 2020 Postdoctoral Research Fellow for a project on spatial burden of typhoid fever, School of Medicine, Stanford University

2018 - 2019 Research Assistant for a project of Adding Geospatial Analytics to the MPower Opioid Use Disorders Project, Dean’s Research Iniative, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland-College Park

2016 - 2018 Research Assistant for a project of National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS), Center for Substance Abuse Research, University of Maryland-College Park

2014 - 2015 Research Assistant for a project on Geographic Variability of Kidney Transplantation in the United States, VA Office of Rural Health-Central Region, The University of Iowa

2013 - 2014 Research Assistant for University at Buffalo Regional Institute and Urban Design Project, SUNY Research Foundation

2012 - 2013 Research Assistant for Hurricane Sandy Damage Assessment, Landscape-based Environmental Analysis & Modeling (LESAM) Lab, SUNY Research Foundation

Awards

2017&2019 Excellence in Graduate Research Award, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland-College Park
2017 Jacob K. Goldhabor Travel Award, University of Maryland-College Park
2016 Melinda S. Meade Graduate Student Travel Award of the Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers
2015 Dean’s Fellowship, University of Maryland-College Park
2015 Dean’s supplemental award, University of Maryland-College Park