University Management
Resume:
Xiaobai (Angela) Yao
Curriculum Vitae
Room ***, Department of Geography
706-***-****, Fax 706-***-****
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602 -2502
Email: ****@***.***
Assistant Professor 08/2002- present
Department of Geography, University of Georgia
EDUCATION
PhD, Geography (GIS and Urban Regional Analysis), 1997-2002
University at Buffalo, the State University of New York
MS (with Distinction), GIS for urban applications, 1995-1997
International Institute of Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC), the Netherlands
BS (with Top Honor), GIS for urban planning and management, 1986-1990
Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping (WTUSM) now Wuhan University, China
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Qualitative GIS ; Urban Land Use and Transportation Modeling ; Spatial Data Mining
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Yao, X. Reasoning Qualitative Spatial Relations in GIS. In M. Madden (ed) Manual of Geographic
Information Systems. 1st edition. ASPRS publisher. (Forthcoming)
Yao, X. and J.C. Thill. Neuro-Fuzzy Modeling of Context-Contingent Proximity Relations.
Geographical Analysis: An International Journal of Theoretical Geography. (Forthcoming)
Jiang, B. and Yao, X. Location-Based Services and GIS in Perspective. Computers, Environment and
Urban Systems. (In Press)
Yao, X. and Thill, J.C. 2006. Spatial Queries With Qualitative Locations In Spatial Information
Systems. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 30(4):485-502.
Yao, X. and Thill, J.C. 2005. How Far Is Too Far A Statistical Approach To Proximity Modeling.
Transactions in GIS. Vol. 9(2): 157-178.
Yao, X. and B.Jiang. 2005. Visualization of Qualitative Locations. Cartography and Geographic
Information Science. 32(4):219-229.
X.Yao curriculum vitae, page 2
Thill, J.C. Kretzschmar, W.A., Casas, I. and Yao, X. 2005. Detecting geographic and socio-economic
associations in English dialect features with self-organising maps. In Agarwal, P. and Skupin, A.
(Eds) Self-Organising Maps: Applications in Geographic Information Science, Wiley.
Thill, J.C. and Yao, X. 1999. Urban Land Management in Transitional Countries: A Decision Support
Prototype for Shanghai. In J.C. Thill (ed) Spatial Multicriteria Decision Making and Analysis: A
Geographic Information Sciences Approach, Brookfield, VT: Ashgate. pp. 175-197.
Fu, L. Yao, X. 1995. Constructing the Place Name Information Systems in Shanghai. Shanghai Urban
Planning (in Chinese).
SELECTED GRANTS
Principal Investigator. Investigating Urban Spatial Transformation in Post-Reform Beijing, China.
National Geographical Society. $12,000. 2006-2007.
Co-organizer with Amit Sheth, Lynn Usery, and Budak Arpinar.Homeland Security Workshop grant.
University Consortium for Geographic Information Sciences. $15,000. 2003.
Principal Investigator. President Venture Fund. President s Office. Examining Potential Demand of
Public Transit for Commuting Trips. $1,644. 2006.
Sarah Moss Fellowship (Faculty Development Grant). University of Georgia. Agent-Based Modeling.
$5000. 2004-2005.
Principal Investigator. Faculty Research Grant. University of Georgia Research Foundation. Spatial
Data Mining for Proximity Modeling. $5,500. 2003.
Principal Investigator. University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. Mark Diamond
Research Grant. Qualitative Georeferencing for Geospatial Information Systems. $1,200, 2001-2002.
SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS
2005. ESRI-UCGIS Young Scholar Award. UCGIS.
2004. Sarah Moss Fellowship Award. University of Georgia, 2004-2005.
2004. Nominee (to represent SUNY Buffalo) of Outstanding Dissertation in Social Science and
Education for the 2004 NAGS (Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools) s Outstanding
Dissertation Award.
2003. Invited participant with travel grant, UCGIS Visualization and Knowledge Discovery
Workshop. Lansdowne, VA. Nov. 17-20, 2003.
2002. Best Paper Award (first place), GIS Specialty Group Student Paper Competition, AAG Annual
Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.
2000. Student Travel Award to the conference of "GIScience 2000, Savannah, GA, NCGIA.
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