Suiyuan Wang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography at the State University of New York at Buffalo, advised by Dr. Le Wang. Her research and dissertation focus on leveraging knowledge-driven insights from spatial-temporal urban monitoring to promote equitable neighborhood development. She specializes in using advanced geographic information science (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) techniques to monitor urban changes, identify socioeconomic and environmental equity issues, and explore effective strategies for creating sustainable urban environments.
My research interests include:
- Remote Sensing & GIScience
- Fine-scale Population estimation
- High Spatial & Temporal Urban change detection (Impervious Surfaces)
- Time-series analysis with cutting-edge Deep Learning methods
🔥 News
- 2025.05 🎉🎉 Solo instructor for GEO 120 Maps: Earth from Above Syllabus Link
- 2024.08 🎉🎉 My first publication about how to use Remote Sensing and Mobile Phone Data to map monthly population, Open Access! Paper Link
- 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 (UB)
- 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
Published
- Wang, S., & Wang, L. (2024). A Novel Framework for Mapping Updated Fine-resolution Populations with Remote Sensing and Mobile Phone Data. Journal of Remote Sensing, 4, 0227. (IF: 8.8)
- Yin, L., Wang, S., Patterson, K. L., Silverman, R. M., & Rehman-Veal, A. (2024). Marijuana Dispensary Locations and Neighborhood Characteristics in New York City. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 14(1), 4.
- Patterson, K. L., Silverman, R. M., Rehman-Veal, A., Yin, L., & Wang, S. (2024). Building the Prison to Legal Drug Dealing Pipeline: A Comparative Analysis of Social Equity Policies in Recreational Cannabis Licensing. Societies, 14(6), 88.
- L’Huillier, J. C., Boccardo, J. D., Stewart, M., Wang, S., Myneni, A. A., Bari, A. A., … & Noyes, K. (2023). Gun violence revictimization in New York State: what increases the risk of being shot again?. Journal of trauma and acute care surgery, 10-1097.
In progress
- Wang, S., & L. Wang. (2025). Continuous monitoring of high spatial and temporal resolution impervious surfaces based on PlanetScope time series. Remote Sensing of Environment. (Submitted in Aug 2025, Under Review)
- Yin, L., Silverman, R. M., Wang, S., Patterson, K. L., & Rehman-Veal, A. (2025) Using ChatGPT to Enhance the Public Participation Process: An Analysis of Public Comments about the U.S. DEA’s Proposal to Reschedule Marijuana. (Planned submission by September 2025)
- Yin, L., Wang, S., Patterson, K. L., Silverman, R. M., & Rehman-Veal, A. (2025) Exploring Media Perspectives and Public Sentiments of New York State Recreational Marijuana Legalization: Analyzing New York Times and Twitter Data using ChatGPT. (Planned submission by October 2025)
🎖 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, UB.
- 2023-2024 Tuition Scholarship Center for Urban Studies, UB.
- 2021-2022 Tuition Scholarship Department of Geography, UB.
- 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
💼 Professional Appointment
- 2024-2025 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, UB
- 2023-2024 Research Assistant Center for Urban Studies, UB.
- 2021-2023 Teaching Assistant Department of Geography, UB.
- 2019 Research Assistant Delaware Tribe’s Historic Preservation Office, USA.
🧑🏫 Teaching Experience
- Spring 2025 GEO 120 Maps: Earth from Above (Solo Instructor, 97 students)
- Spring 2023 GEO 479/559 GIS for Environmental Modeling (Lab Sections)
- Spring 2023 Spring 2022 GEO 381 Cartography (Lab Sections)
- Fall 2022 GEO 483/553 Remote Sensing (Lab Sections)
- Fall 2021 GEO 481/506 Introduction to Geographical Information System (Lab Sections)
💬 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
💻 Professional Appointments
- 2023-2024 Research Assistant Center for Urban Studies, UB
- 2021-2023 Teaching Assistant Department of Geography, UB
- 2019 Research Assistant Delaware Tribe’s Historic Preservation Office, USA
💼 Affiliations
- 2024-2026 Vice president Geography Graduate Student Associate, UB
- 2023-2025 Student Co-director Remote Sensing Specialty Group (RRSG), Association of American Geographers
- 2023 Committee member Graduate Student Employees Union (GSEU) Spring Contract Bargaining Committee, UB
- 2020-2023 Member International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS)
- 2021-2023 Member University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)