I am a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, advised by Dr. Le Wang.

My research interests include:

• Remote Sensing & GIScience
• Fine-scale Population estimation
• Fine-resolution (Spatial & Temporal) Urban studies
• Time-series analysis
• Coupled Human-Environment Interaction

🔥 News

• 2024.06 🎉🎉 Present at State of the Map US 2024 conference in Salt Lake, Talk Link

• 2024.04 🎉🎉 Student Honors Paper Competition Award (1st place), Remote Sensing Specialty Group, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers

📖 Educations

• 2020.08 - Now, Geography and Environmental Studies (STEM), State University of New York, at Buffalo
• 2018.12 - 2019.12, Appl of GIS/RS in Environ Sci, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
• 2015.09 - 2019.06, Human Geography and Urban-Rural Planning, Henan University

📝 Publications

• Wang, S and L. Wang. (2023). A novel framework for mapping updated fine-resolution populations with remote sensing and mobile phone data. In review.

💼 Professional Appointment

• 2024-Now Research Assistant Research Project: Neighborhood impacts of recreational cannabis legalization: A spatial and sentimental analysis in physical and cyber spaces, The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, University at Buffalo
• 2023-Now Research Assistant Center for Urban Studies, University at Buffalo.
• 2021-2023 Teaching Assistant Department of Geography, University at Buffalo.
• 2019 Research Assistant Delaware Tribe’s Historic Preservation Office, USA.

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2024.06 Travel Scholarship, State of the Map US conference (OpenStreetMap).
• 2024.04 Student Honors Paper Competition Award (1st place), Remote Sensing Specialty Group, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers.
• 2024.04 AAG Student Travel Grants, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers.
• 2021-2024 Graduate School Conference Travel Grant, State University of New York at Buffalo.
• 2023-2024 Tuition Scholarship Center for Urban Studies, University at Buffalo.
• 2021-2022 Tuition Scholarship Department of Geography, University at Buffalo.
• 2019 Excellent Student Award Henan University.
• 2017 Provincial Outstanding Volunteer Team Award China Land Science Society funded project: Voluntary Activities in Village Land-Use Planning, in Chang yuan County, Henan Province, China; complete the master plan, landscape guide map, and manual

🧑‍🏫 Teaching Experience

• Spring 2023 GEO 479/559 GIS for Environmental Modeling (Lab Sections) (UB)
• Spring 2023, Spring 2022 GEO 381 Cartography (Lab Sections) (UB)
• Fall 2022 GEO 483/553 Remote Sensing (Lab Sections) (UB)
• Fall 2021 GEO 481/506 Introduction to Geographical Information System (Lab Sections) (UB)

💬 Conference Presentation

• Wang, S and L. Wang. (2024). Continuous monitoring of high spatial and temporal resolution impervious surfaces based on PlanetScope time series. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Honolulu, Hawaii. April 16-April 20, 2024.
• Wang, S and L. Wang. (2024). Continuous monitoring of high spatial and temporal resolution impervious surfaces based on PlanetScope time series. Spring 2024 Colloquial Series, Department of Geography. March 29, 2023
• Wang, S and L. Wang. (2023). A novel framework for mapping updated fine-resolution populations with remote sensing and mobile phone data. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Denver, CO. March 23-March 27, 2023.
• Wang, S and L. Wang. (2023). A novel framework for mapping updated fine-resolution populations with remote sensing and mobile phone data. Spring 2023 Colloquial Series, Department of Geography. March 3, 2023
• Wang, S and L. Wang. Mapping population distribution at the building level using multi-source data. UB Geography & UB Libraries Celebrate Earth Day 2022 (Virtual). April 22, 2022.
• Wang, S and L. Wang. Mapping fine-scale population distribution at the building level using improved geographical random forest with multi-source data. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) (Virtual). Feb. 25-March 1, 2022.
• Wang, S and L. Wang. Mapping fine-scale population distribution at the building level using improved geographical random forest with multi-source data. Spring 2022 Graduate Student Lightning Talks, Department of Geography (Virtual). Feb. 18, 2022

💻 Internships

• 2023-2024 Research Assistant Center for Urban Studies, University at Buffalo
• 2021-2023 Teaching Assistant Department of Geography, University at Buffalo
• 2019 Research Assistant Delaware Tribe’s Historic Preservation Office, USA

💼 Affiliations

• 2023-2025 Student Co-director Association of American Geographers (AAG), Remote Sensing Specialty Group (RRSG)
• 2023 Committee member Graduate Student Employees Union (GSEU) Spring Contract Bargaining Committee
• 2020-2023 Member International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS)
• 2021-2023 Member University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)