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Chaowei Yang is affiliated with George Mason University in the United States, focusing on Environmental Science and Engineering. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Civil and Structural Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Modeling and Simulation, and Artificial Intelligence.

The primary topics explored by this researcher involve COVID-19 epidemiological studies, the impact of COVID-19 on air quality, Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization, Data-Driven Disease Surveillance, Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis, COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts, and Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures.

Recent publications include the following papers:

  • Spatiotemporal impacts of COVID-19 on air pollution in California, USA (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Taking the pulse of COVID-19: a spatiotemporal perspective (2020, International Journal of Digital Earth)
  • The Impact of Policy Measures on Human Mobility, COVID-19 Cases, and Mortality in the US: A Spatiotemporal Perspective (2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
  • Spatiotemporal event detection: a review (2020, International Journal of Digital Earth)
  • Individual-Level Fatality Prediction of COVID-19 Patients Using AI Methods (2020, Frontiers in Public Health)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Chaowei Yang include:

  • Dexuan Sha
  • Qian Liu
  • Yun Li
  • Hai Lan
  • Zifu Wang

The most common publication venues for this scientist are:

  • International Journal of Digital Earth
  • Remote Sensing
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
  • Data

Best Publications

  • Big Data and cloud computing: innovation opportunities and challenges

    Chaowei Yang;Qunying Huang;Zhenlong Li;Kai Liu

  • Spatial cloud computing: how can the geospatial sciences use and help shape cloud computing?

    Chaowei Yang;Michael F. Goodchild;Qunying Huang;Doug Nebert

  • Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure: Past, present and future

    Chaowei Phil Yang;Robert Raskin;Michael F. Goodchild;Mark Gahegan

  • Geographic information system

    Chaowei Yang;Menas Kafatos;David W. Wong;Henry D. Wolf

  • Big Data in Natural Disaster Management: A Review

    Manzhu Yu;Chaowei Yang;Yun Li

  • Performance‐improving techniques in web‐based GIS

    Chaowei Phil Yang;David Wong;Ruixin Yang;Menas Kafatos

  • Utilizing Cloud Computing to address big geospatial data challenges

    Chaowei Yang;Manzhu Yu;Fei Hu;Yongyao Jiang

  • Spatiotemporal patterns of COVID-19 impact on human activities and environment in Mainland China using nighttime light and air quality data

    Qian Liu;Dexuan Sha;Wei Liu;Paul R. Houser

  • Using spatial principles to optimize distributed computing for enabling the physical science discoveries.

    Chaowei Yang;Huayi Wu;Qunying Huang;Zhenlong Li

  • Redefining the possibility of digital Earth and geosciences with spatial cloud computing

    Chaowei Yang;Yan Xu;Douglas Nebert

  • Taking the pulse of COVID-19: a spatiotemporal perspective

    Chaowei Yang;Dexuan Sha;Qian Liu;Yun Li

  • Deep learning for real-time social media text classification for situation awareness – using Hurricanes Sandy, Harvey, and Irma as case studies

    Manzhu Yu;Qunying Huang;Han Qin;Chris Scheele

  • Introduction to distributed geographic information processing research

    C. Yang;R. Raskin

  • Distributed geospatial information processing: Sharing distributed geospatial resources to support digital earth

    Chaowei Yang;Wenwen Li;Jibo Xie;Bin Zhou

  • Spatial Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach

    Chaowei Yang;Qunying Huang

  • Big Spatiotemporal Data Analytics: a research and innovation frontier

    Chaowei Yang;Keith C. Clarke;Shashi Shekhar;C. Vincent Tao

  • An active crawler for discovering geospatial Web services and their distribution pattern-A case study of OGC Web Map Service

    Wenwen Li;Chaowei Yang;Chongjun Yang

  • Spatiotemporal event detection: a review

    Manzhu Yu;Myra Bambacus;Guido Cervone;Keith C. Clarke

  • A spatiotemporal indexing approach for efficient processing of big array-based climate data with MapReduce

    Zhenlong Li;Fei Hu;John L. Schnase;Daniel Q. Duffy

  • A graph-based approach to detecting tourist movement patterns using social media data

    Fei Hu;Fei Hu;Zhenlong Li;Chaowei Yang;Yongyao Jiang

  • High-performance computing for the simulation of dust storms

    Jibo Xie;Jibo Xie;Chaowei Phil Yang;Bin Zhou;Qunying Huang

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. S. Wong
David W. S. Wong George Mason University
Menas Kafatos
Menas Kafatos Chapman University
Thomas S. Huang
Thomas S. Huang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paul R. Houser
Paul R. Houser George Mason University
Michael F. Goodchild
Michael F. Goodchild University of California, Santa Barbara
Songqing Chen
Songqing Chen George Mason University
Min Chen
Min Chen South China University of Technology
Keith C. Clarke
Keith C. Clarke University of California, Santa Barbara
Hongjie Xie
Hongjie Xie The University of Texas at San Antonio
Qingquan Li
Qingquan Li Shenzhen University

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