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