Mei-Po Kwan

Professor of Business Administration

Contact

2070 Natural History Building

1301 W Green St

Urbana, IL 61801

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Educational Background

Ph.D., Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1994
M.A., Urban Planning, University of California at Los Angeles, 1989

Positions Held

Affiliated Faculty, CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013 to present
Professor, Department of Business Administration, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013 to present
Professor, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013 to present

Recent Publications

Kwan, M., Zhang, X., Tang, L., & Kan, Z. (2018). Estimating and visualizing vehicle fuel consumption and emissions using GPS big data. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15 (4).
Kwan, M., Mei-Po Kwan and Tim Schwanen (Ed.) (2017). Geographies of Mobility: Recent Advances in Theory and Method. ( pp. 264). London: Routledge.
Kwan, M., Waldmann, C., Clifford, J., & Bai, Y. (2017). Geoscience and the technological revolution IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine.
Kwan, M., Lee, ., & Lee, K. (2017). Location-based service using ontology-based semantic queries: A study with a focus on indoor activities in a university context Computers, Environment and Urban Systems.

Other Publications

Articles

Kwan, M., & Schwanen, T. (2017). Selected Studies on Urban Development Issues in China. Urban Geography, 38 (1).
Kwan, M., Xu, L., Wang, S., & McLafferty, S. (2017). Predicting demand for 311 non-emergency municipal services: An adaptive space-time kernel approach Applied Geography, 89 133-141.
Kwan, M. (2016). Algorithmic geographies: Big data, algorithmic uncertainty, and the production of geographic knowledge Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 106 274-282.
Kwan, M. (2014). International Perspectives on Research Directions in Geography and Urban Sustainability Asian Geographer, 31.

Books and Monographs

Kwan, M., Wang, D., Richardson, ., & Zhou, C. (2015). Space-Time Integration in Geography and GIScience: Research Frontiers in the US and China. Dordrecht: Springer.

Honors and Awards

Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2009 to present

Grants

I have received about US$24 million support as PI or co-PI from sources including the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Transportation., 1994-2017

Teaching Interests

Teaching Interests: Geographic information systems and science (GIS); Business Applications of Geographic Information Science.

Research Interests

Research Interests: Geographic information systems and science (GIS); Environmental health; Human mobility; Sustainable cities; Information and communication technologies (ICT).