Biography

Wei Kang is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas. 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, disaster resilience, and neighborhood dynamics. 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

Department of Geography and the Environment, University of North Texas

Jul 2022 – Present Denton, Texas
 
 
 
 
 

Recent Publications

(2022). Spatial dynamics. Handbook of Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences.

(2022). The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Businesses in the US: A Longitudinal Study from a Regional Perspective. International Regional Science Review.

DOI URL

(2022). The PySAL Ecosystem: Philosophy and Implementation. Geographical Analysis.

DOI URL

(2021). Robust empirical Bayes approach for Markov chain modeling of air pollution index. Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering.

Contact

  • ENV 320J, 1155 Union Circle, Denton, Texas 76203
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