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EDUCATION

·         Ph.D.: Geography Department, State University of New York at Buffalo. GIS and Urban & Regional Analysis

·         M. S., LREIS, Institute of Geography, Chinese Academic of Sciences, China, 1998, GIS And Remote Sensing Applications

·         B. S., Department of Geography, Peking University, China, 1995, Urban Planning and Economic Geography

·         Minor, Department of Law, Peking University, China, 1995, Jurisprudence

PUBLICATIONS

·         Yan, Jun and Jean-Claude Thill. (forthcoming). Visual Data Mining in Spatial Interaction With Self-Organizing Maps. Environment and Planning B.

·         Yan, Jun and Jean-Claude Thill. (forthcoming). Visual Exploration of Spatial Interaction Data With Self-Organizing Maps. In P. Agarwal and A. Skupin (editors). Self-Organizing Maps: Applications in Geographic Information Science. John Weily & Sons, London.

·         Yan, Jun and Jean-Claude Thill. 2007. Visual Exploration in U.S. Airline Market Structures. Papers of Applied Geography Conferences (2007) 30: 10-19. (pdf)

·         Caitlin Hager and Jun Yan. 2007. Commuting Analysis in a Small Metropolitan Area – Bowling Green Kentucky. Papers of Applied Geography Conferences (2007) 30: 86-95. (pdf)

·         Thill, J.-C., G. Rogova, and J. Yan. 2004. Evaluating Benefits and Costs of Intelligent Transportation Systems Elements from a Planning Perspective. In E. Bekiaris, and Y.J.  Nakanishi (editors). Economic Impacts of Intelligent Transportation Systems – Innovations and Case Studies. Research in Transportation Economics – vol. 8, Elsevier, Oxford. pp. 571-603.

·         Thill, J.-C., G. Rogova, and J. Yan. The ITS Options Analysis Model (ITSOAM). Windows application, User’s Guide, Technical Documentation, and Workbooks. New York Department of Transportation, Albany, NY, 2004.

·         Yan, Jun and Gaohuan Liu. 1999. Developing A Management Information System for Migration Management: A Case Study in Zigui, Hubei Province. Sustainable Development of Three-Gorge Region. Science Publish, Beijing, China.

·         Yan, Jun and Gaohuan Liu. 1999. Urban Growth as a Solution for Migration Resettlement. Sustainable Development of Three-Gorge Region. Science Publish, Beijing, China.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

·         Jean-Claude Thill and Jun Yan. 2007. Modeling Benefits of Incident Management Systems with the ITS Options Analysis Model (ITSOAM), a Tool for Economic Analysis. In the proceedings of 2007 World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS).

·         Tope, Shweta, John All, Andrew Ernest, and Jun Yan. 2006. Using GIS to Identify Biological Warfare Agents as Threats to Drinking Water Supplies. 2006 Asian Pacific GIS User Conference. Hong Kong. January 2006.

·         Oyana, J. Tonny, Deepthi Boppidi, Jun Yan and Jamson S. Lwebuga-Mukasa. 2005. Spatial Data Mining in GIS-based Medical Databases. 8th International Conference on GeoComputation, Ann Arbor, Michigan. August 2005.

·         Oyana, J. Tonny, Deepthi Boppidi, Jun Yan and Jamson S. Lwebuga-Mukasa. 2005 Exploration of Geographic Information System-based Medical Databases with Self-Organising Maps: A Case Study of Adult Asthma. 13th Annual Conference of GIS Research UK, London UK. April 2005

·         Yan, Jun and Jean-Claude Thill. 2004. Geographic Changes in Market Share of the US Domestic Airlines. In the proceedings of 51st Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, 2004. Seattle, Washington, 2004.

·         Yan, Jun and Jean-Claude Thill. 2003. Discovering Geographic Patterns in Trans-Border Commodity Distribution Using Self-Organizing Maps. Paper submitted to Student Paper Competition of GIS Specialty Group of AAG. AAG annual meeting 2003.

·         Thill, Jean-Claude, Galina Rogova, and Jun Yan. 2001. Delay Modeling for Corridor-Level Benefits Evaluation of VMS Deployments. In the proceeding of 80th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 2001.

·         Yan, Jun. 1999. Benefit/Cost Analysis in Local ITS Projects. Paper presented in Geoinformatics'99 (Ann Arbor: MI: 99).

RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

·         Caitlin Hager and Jun Yan*. 2007. Commuting Analysis in a Small Metropolitan Area – Bowling Green Kentucky. Presented in 2007 Applied Geography Conferences. Indianapolis Indiana.

·         Yan, Jun * and Stuart Foster. 2007. Data Organization and Similarity Measure in Mining Spatio-Temporal Data. Presented in 2007 AAG annual meeting. San Francisco California.

·         Yan, Jun*. 2007. Traffic Accident Patterns in Bowling Green Kentucky. Presented in Bowling Green Warren County MPO Technical Advisory Meeting. Bowling Green KY.

·         Thill, Jean-Claude * and Jun Yan. 2007. Modeling Benefits of Incident Management Systems with the ITS Options Analysis Model (ITSOAM), a Tool for Economic Analysis. 2007 World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS). Seattle, Washington. June 2007.

·         Yan, Jun *. 2006. GIS Programs at Western Kentucky University. Presented in the 2006 Middle Tennessee Forum on GIS. Nashville Tennessee.

·         Yan, Jun* and Stuart Foster. 2006. Visual Data Mining in Historical Drought Data: A Case Study in Kentucky. Presented in 2006 AAG annual meeting. Chicago Illinois.

·         Yan, Jun*. 2005. Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of U.S. Domestic Airline Market. Presented in 2005 AAG annual meeting. Denver. Colorado.

·         Yan, Jun and Jean-Claude Thill*. 2004. Geographic Changes in Market Share of the US Domestic Airlines. Presented in 51st Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International. Seattle, Washington.

·         Yan, Jun and Jean-Claude Thill. 2004. Exploring Geographic Changes in US Domestic Airline Market. Presentation in AAG annual meeting 2004.

·         Yan, Jun. 2003. Discovering Geographic Patterns in Spatial Interaction. Presentation in AAG annual meeting 2003.

·         Yan, Jun, Julie Hwang, and Jean-Claude Thill. 2002. Geo-referencing the Fatal Accident Reporting System. Presentation in AAG annual meeting 2002.

·         Thill, Jean-Claude, and Jun Yan. 2001. Modeling Benefits of Incident Management Systems. Presentation in RSAI 2001.

·         Yan, Jun. 1999. Incorporate GIS-T into ITS. Presentation in Geoinformatics'99 (Ann Arbor: MI: 99).

COURSES TAUGHT

Western Kentucky University

Geog110 Honors World Regional Geography

Geog110 World Regional Geography

Geog 319 GIS

Geog 417/417(G) GIS Analysis & Modeling

Geog 419/419(G) GIS Applications Development

Geog 477/577 Special Topics in GIS

Geog 423/423(G) Transportation Planning

Geog 443/517 Geospatial Databases

Geog 492/520 Advanced Geostatistics

Geog 577 Internet GIS

 

Buffalo State College

Geo309 Urban Geography

 

State University of New York at Buffalo

Geo420/520 Lab Transportation Modeling and GIS

Geo381/550 Lab Cartography

Geo485/551 Lab Cartographic/Geographic Visualization

RESEARCH

  Projects        

·         2006-present. Visual Data Mining of Time-Series Climatic Data

·         2006-2007. Bowling Green Commute Study.

·         2006. WKU Transit Ridership Study.

·         2005-2007. Bowling Green Traffic Accident Study.

·         2005-2007. Geographical Analysis of Crime, Bowling Green, Kentucky

·         2002-2003. Intelligent Transportation System Benefit and Cost, New York State. (Dr. Thill, Jean-Claude; New York DOT).

·         Summer, 2001. Highway Fatalities and Air Medical Transport Services: A Pilot Project. (Dr. Thill, Jean-Claude; CUBRC).

·         2000-2001. Detection and Prediction of Geographical Changes in Crime Rates. (Dr. Peter Rogerson; NSF)

·         1998-2000. Intelligent Transportation System Benefit and Cost, New York State. (Dr. Thill, Jean-Claude; New York DOT).

·         1997-1998. Projects Supported for Sustainable Development of the Yellow River Delta. (Prof. Liu, Gaohuan; World Bank and Government of Dongyin City, Shandong Province, PRC).

·         1996-1997. Migration Resettlement for Zigui County, Three-George Area. (Prof. Liu, Gaohuan; Government of Zigui County, Hubei Province, PRC).

·         1995-1996. Migration Management Information System for Zigui County, Three-George Area. (Prof. Liu, Gaohuan; Government of Zigui County, Hubei Province, PRC).

·         1994-1995. Urban Planning for Xinxiang County. (Prof. Feng, Chuanchun; Government of Xinxiang County, Henan Province, PRC).

·         1994. Regional Planning for Luoyang City. (Prof. Zhou, Yixin; Government of Luoyang City, Henan Province, PRC).

  Thesis