Wei Luo

Hello, I'm Luo Wei, a GIScientist, Data Visualizer, Network Scientist, and Epidemologist. I am an Assistant Professor in Geography Department at National University of Singapore. Before I joined in NUS, I was a Research Associate in Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. I received my Master degree from Geography department at University at Buffalo and PhD degree at Penn State University. I have broad training backgrounds in Geography (GIScience), Public Health (Epidemiology), Computer Science (Visual Analytics), and Network Science. My research has two major research focuses: geovisual analytics and health analytics. I proposed a new research area: geo-social visual analytics, which aims to integrate spatial analysis, social network analysis, and machine learning into visual analytics environments. I have designed and developed a series of geovisual analytics tools and high performance computational models for infectious disease transmission and control (i.e., COVID-19, Dengue, influenza, HIV), international trade, social media, crime analysis, climate change impacts, and water crisis.

Teaching Areas

• GIScience
• Geovisualization
• Spatial Programming
• GeoHealth
• Social Network
• Big Spatio-Temporal Data Analytics
• Remote Sensing

Research Interests

• Infectious Disease Surveillance, Transmission, and Control (COVID-19, Influenza, HIV, Dengue)
• Geovisual Analytics
• Social Network Analysis
• Machine Learning and AI
• Agent-based Epidemic Modeling

Companies

• Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2021)
• Research Associate Boston Children's Hospital (2019 — 2020)
• Research Associate Harvard Medical School (2019 — 2020)
• Associate Harvard University (2019 — 2020)
• Board of Director (BOD) Members The International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographical Information Sciences (CPGIS) (2015 — 2017)

Education

• Ph.D Penn State University
• M.A University at Buffalo