The Department of Geography, our GIS programmes (Grad Cert in Applied GIS & MSc in Applied GIS) and three of our undergraduate students are feature in a news article that has just been posted on the NUS webpage by NUS’s Communications Office entitled “More educational pathways to develop geoscience talent pipeline and deepen capabilities”. Here […]
Read MoreThe GIS Unit and GeoSpatialX Lab had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Tao Cheng and her SpaceTimeLab members for a vist on April 24 2023. Both teams present their research projects and explore the potential collaboration opportunities. A/P Wang Yi-Chen, Dr Luo Wei and Dr Hao Tang attended the discussion. Here is a group photo of the presentation […]
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Read MoreOn 30 September, A/P Wang Yi-Chen (Visiting Scholar to the Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age (HDMA)) will give a seminar talk at San Diego State University on her ongoing project funded by NUS Reimagine fund with the topic “Assessing Spatiotemporal Vulnerability of COVID-19 in Singapore”. Please refer to link below for more […]
Read MoreThe One Health & Outbreak Surveillance Symposium 2021 is organised by the Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Research (CIDER), under the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health in partnership with the NUS Department of Geography. Several international GIS and spatial health professors are invited to speak in the plenary sessions. Dr Luo Wei […]
Read MoreThe field of computational social science has gained much traction in recent years with the widespread availability of big data and profound leaps in computational power and methods, leading to ground-breaking impacts on social science research by academics and its policy implications for societies and nations. The Global Forum of Computational Social Science, jointly organized […]
Read MoreDr. Luo Wei will present the research on “Revealing public opinion towards COVID-19 vaccines with Twitter data in the United States” in the special session on Geographical Computing of Infectious Diseases in the 17th China Geoinformation Science Theory and Method Academic Annual Conference. The conference will be held in Hangzhou from October 15 to 17, 2021. […]
Read MoreFrom 6-17 September, Associate Professor Wang Yi-Chen from NUS Geography GIS Unit participated in the Regional Geospatial Youth Forum: GeoEducation I session to share geospatial education in NUS and career opportunities in Singapore, also in the forum as moderator is Mr Josef Tan, an alumnus of MSc in Applied GIS Programme. It was a really […]
Read MoreUCGIS Symposium 2021: Advancing GIScience-informed Policy Solutions GIScience-Informed Evaluations of COVID-19 Policy Responses Description: In the absence of a vaccine, non=pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) have been widely employed by government jurisdictions at various levels via guidelines or mandate to slow the spread of COVID-19. Many of these interventions have a geographic component meant to mitigate personal contact […]
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