Fuzhen Yin, PhD
Fuzhen Yin, PhD
Assistant Professor
Columbine Hall, rm. 2022
Areas of Interest
- Geographical Information Science (GIScience)
- Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI)
- Urban Complexity and Agent-Based Modeling
- Social Network Analysis
- Crisis Response, Informatics and Disaster Resilience
- Urban Geography
Education
- PhD, Urban and Regional Planning, University at Buffalo, 2024
- MRes, Spatial Data Science and Visualization, CASA, University College London, UK, 2020
- National Diploma of Landscape Architect, National Superior School of Architecture and Landscape of Bordeaux, France, 2019
- BEng, Urban Planning, Tianjin University, China, 2017
Courses Taught
- Geovisualization (GES 4070/5070)
Selected Publications
- Yin, L., Yin, F., & Silverman, R. M. (2024). Rethinking demolition plans to fight neighborhood blight in shrinking cities: Applying agent-based policy simulations. Cities, 150, 105035.
- Yin, F., Crooks, A., & Yin, L. (2024). How information propagation in hybrid spaces affects decision-making: using ABM to simulate Covid-19 vaccine uptake. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 1-27.
- Frimpong Boamah, E., Yin, F., Korosh, Z., Raja, S., Mui, Y., Bohm, M., DeHonney, A., Williams, R., & Ramos-Gerena, C. (2024). Mapping the invisible: Bridging and trusting networks in sustaining the urban food system. Cities, 146, 104750.
- Wang, C., Yin, F., Zhao, Y., & Yin, L. (2023). Making Transportation Systems in US Cities Smarter and More Inclusive: A Synthesis of Challenges and Evaluation of Strategies. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 12(2), 72.
- Yin, F., Crooks, A., & Yin, L. (2022). Information propagation on cyber, relational, and physical spaces about Covid-19 vaccine: Using social media and splatial framework. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 101887.
- Yin, L., Yin, F., & Silverman, R. M. (2022). Spatial clustering of property abandonment in shrinking cities: A case study of targeted demolition in Buffalo, NY’s African American neighborhoods. Urban Geography, 1–20.
Honors and Awards
- 2024 - Student Poster Awards, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science
- 2024 - ICA Scholarship, International Cartographic Association
- 2024 - Student Excellence Award, Urban and Regional Planning, University at Buffalo
- 2023 - Best Paper Award, Conference of The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas
- 2023 - 2nd Place Poster Competition, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science
- 2020 - Presidential Fellowship, University at Buffalo
- 2019 - French National Landscape Architect Diploma, Ministry of Culture, France
Volunteer & Service
- Reviewer
- Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
- Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER)
- International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS)