Biography

Wei Kang is an Assistant Professor at the University of California Riverside. Her research interests are methodological - spatial statistics/econometrics, as well as empirical - housing, urban & neighborhood change, inequality, growth, and sustainability. Her current projects focus on housing and open source spatial data science. She is the core developer and maintainer of the widely used open-source spatial analysis python library – PySAL.

Interests

  • GIScience & Spatial Statistics & Spatial Econometrics & Urban Data Science
  • Housing & Urban and Neighborhood Dynamics & Sustainability
  • Economic Growth/Mobility & Spatial Inequality

Education

  • PhD in Geography, 2018

    Arizona State University

  • MSc in Cartology and GISystem, 2014

    Peking University

  • BSc in Geographic Information System, 2011

    Wuhan University

Academic Appointment

 
 
 
 
 

Assistant Professor

School of Public Policy, University of California Riverside

Jul 2024 – Present Riverside, California
 
 
 
 
 

Assistant Professor

Department of Geography and the Environment, University of North Texas

Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 Denton, Texas
 
 
 
 
 

Recent Publications

(2024). Race/Ethnicity and Employment Insecurity: Impacts of COVID-19 on the US Labor Force and Beyond. Population Research and Policy Review.

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(2024). Maternal residential exposure to solvents from industrial sources during pregnancy and childhood cancer risk in California. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health.

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(2023). Small businesses and government assistance during COVID-19: Evidence from the paycheck protection program in the U.S.. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.

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(2023). Cross-regional analysis of the association between human mobility and COVID-19 infection in Southeast Asia during the transitional period of ``living with COVID-19''. Health & Place.

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Contact

  • INTS 4143, 900 University Ave, Riverside, CA 92507
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