Degree Recipients
Name | Year | Quarter | Degree | Dissertation / Thesis | Chair | Committee |
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Noi, Evgeny | 2025 | Fall | PhD | Mapping Mobility Disruptions: Understanding Human Movement in Crisis Contexts |
Murray | Dodge, Meiring |
Rowlett, Jake | 2025 | Fall | PhD | Ireland’s Skellig Michael and Star Wars: A Tour of Filming Sites, Fandoms, Festivals, and Futures |
Aitken | Gardner, Bosco, Sweeney |
Shi, Hui | 2025 | Fall | PhD | Spatial, Emotional, and Temporal Aspects of Activity and Travel Behaviors |
Goulias | Baylis, Dodge |
Turner, William | 2025 | Fall | PhD | From Climate to Food Security: Advancing climate-based tools for agricultural assessments and advisories in food insecure areas of Africa |
Jones | Funk, Husak, Baylis |
Wang, Zhangyu | 2025 | Fall | PhD | Spatial Dependency in GeoAI: Curse or Blessing? |
Janowicz | Mai, Caylor |
Cho, Seonga | 2024 | Summer | PhD | Challenges and Solutions in Multi-objective Spatial Optimization Involving Continuous Space Siting |
Murray | Dodge, Church |
Eyelade, Damilola | 2024 | Summer | PhD | Multiscale Analysis of Watershed Modeling Inputs: Ona River Basin, Nigeria |
Loaiciga | Funk, Clarke |
Solgi, Ryan | 2024 | Summer | PhD | Machine Learning Applications in Computational Geoscience, Remote Sensing, and Hydroinformatics |
Loaiciga | Bozorg-Haddad, Zhang |
Zhou, Enbo | 2024 | Spring | PhD | The impact of Orientation in Spatial Optimization for Urban Planning |
Murray | Nelson, Chu |
Burtner, Susan | 2023 | Winter | PhD | Network and computational approaches for measuring human interaction |
Murray | Cassels, Dodge, & Nall |
Asoni, Ettore (SDSU) | 2022 | Summer | PhD | Territory, Personhood, and Immigration Law: Legal Geographies of Immigration and Border Control |
Swanson | Aitken, Sweeney, & Hajjar |
Cai, Ling | 2022 | Fall | PhD | Time Representation and Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs |
Janowicz | Caylor & Goulias |
Coello, Merissa | 2022 | Summer | MA | Mountain Wave Behavior in V-shaped Valleys and the Intensification of Sundowner Downslope Winds |
Carvalho | Ding & Jones |
Jin, Chanwoo (SDSU) | 2022 | Fall | PhD | Understanding Human Mobility and Urban Dynamics with Big Geospatial Data Analytics |
Nara | Murray, Tsou, & Church |
Johnson, Mike | 2022 | Summer | PhD | The Role of Spatial Data Science in Continental Scale Hydrology: Twelve Case Studies in Data Models, Data Structures, Modeling, and Model Evaluation |
Clarke | Caylor, Loaiciga, & Blodgett |
Kennedy, Elizabeth (SDSU) | 2022 | Fall | PhD | El Salvador in Motion: Socioeconomic Causes of Child Migration |
Weeks | Alves, Jankowski, & Sweeney |
Liu, Zilong | 2022 | Winter | MA | Geoparsing: Solved or Biased? An Evaluation of Geographic Biases in Geoparsing |
Janowicz | Caylor & Goulias |
Loerch, Andy (SDSU) | 2022 | Summer | PhD | image acquisition and analysis, artificial intelligence, and timeliness assessment Improving disaster response with aerial imagery through UAS-based |
Stow & Siegel | Nara & Frew |
McBride, Elizabeth | 2022 | Winter | PhD | A Theory-Based Approach to Travel Behavior Analysis Using Pattern Recognition and Latent Group Identification Techniques |
Goulias | Montello & Nylund-Gibson |
Montini, Tessa | 2022 | Winter | PhD | The Dynamics and Variability of the South American Low-Level Jet |
Jones | Carvalho & Ding |
Nash, Deanna | 2022 | Summer | PhD | Dynamics of Atmospheric Rivers in High Mountain Asia: Influences on Precipitation, Lightning and Landslides |
Carvalho | Ding & Jones |
Stiefel, Maximilian | 2022 | Winter | PhD | Three Essays on Climate Risk |
Sweeney | Cassels & Pulver |
Van Den Abbeele, Sigrid | 2022 | Fall | MA | Assessing the Impact of Residential Segregation and Population Composition on the County-Level Supply of Federally Qualified Health Centers |
Cassels | Ackert & Baylis |
Wan, Zijian | 2022 | Spring | MA | Explicit and implicit movement similarity and their applications in movement analysis |
Dodge | Singh & Goulias |
Williams, Emily | 2022 | Summer | PhD | Interrogating the 'science of climate accountability': Allocating responsibility for climate impacts within a frame of climate justice |
Lopez-Carr | Carvalho, Funk, & Pulver |