Curriculum Vitae. Qunshan Zhao

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1 Contact Details Curriculum Vitae Qunshan Zhao School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning Arizona State University Tempe, AZ , USA Phone: Website: Academic Appointments 2017-present Postdoctoral Research Associate, Spatial Analysis Research Center (SPARC), School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University Project: Social, Economic, and Environmental Resilience Knowledge Exchange in Maricopa County, Arizona, supported by Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Supervisor: Dr. Elizabeth A. Wentz Research Associate, Teaching Assistant, and Instructor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University Project: CNH: Feedbacks between Human Community Dynamics and Socio-ecological Vulnerability in a Biodiversity Hotspot, supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No Project: Innovation in the Measurement of Community Contextual Features, supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under Grant No. 1R21HD Supervisor: Dr. Scott T. Yabiku Education 2017 Ph.D. Geography, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, USA American Association of Geographers J. Warren Nystrom Award for the Most Outstanding Research Paper Based Upon a Recent Dissertation. Dissertation: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Tree Locations and Arrangements for Improving Urban Thermal Environment. Dissertation advisors: Drs. Elizabeth A. Wentz (chair), David J. Sailor, Zhihua Wang 2015 M.A. Geography, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, USA 2013 B.E. Remote Sensing Science and Technology, Wuhan University, School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan, Hubei, China 1 Zhao Apr 2018

2 Research Interests Empirical: Urban Green Infrastructure; Community Resilience; Human Activity Space; Urban and Regional Planning; Human and Environmental Systems. Methodology: Geographic Information Science; Remote Sensing; Spatial Optimization; Spatial Statistics; Urban Climate Modeling and Instrumentation. Study Area: United States, Nepal, China, Canada. Publications Refereed Journal Articles 2018 Zhao, Q., Sailor, D. J., & Wentz, E. A. (2018). Impact of tree locations and arrangements on outdoor microclimates and human thermal comfort in an urban residential environment. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 32, Zhao, Q., Yang, J., Wang, Z., & Wentz, E. A. (2018). Assessing the cooling benefits of tree shade by an outdoor urban physical scale model at Tempe, AZ. Urban Science, 2(1), Yabiku, S. T, Glick, J. E., Wentz, E. A., Ghimire, D., & Zhao, Q. (2017). Comparing paper and tablet modes of retrospective activity space data collection. Survey Research Methods, 11(3), Kuai, X., & Zhao, Q. (2017). Examining healthy food accessibility and disparity in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Annals of GIS, 23(2), Zhao, Q., Wentz, E. A., & Murray, A. T. (2017). Tree shade coverage optimization in an urban residential environment. Building and Environment, 115, Zhao, Q., & Wentz, E. A. (2016). A MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER) Imagery for Urban Heat Island Research. Data, 1(1), Zhao, Q., Myint, S. W., Wentz, E. A., & Fan, C. (2015). Rooftop surface temperature analysis in an urban residential environment. Remote Sensing, 7(9), Submitted Journal Articles Works in Progress 2018 Zhao, Q., Kelley, S., Kuby, M. J., Xiao, F., & Kim, J. (2018). Multi-scale hydrogen refueling station location modeling: Central Connecticut. To be submitted to International Journal of Hydrogen Energy Zhao, Q., Li, Y., Myint, S.W., Nelson, T., Wentz, E. A., Hu, Y., & Wang, F. (2018). Examining spatial association of crime, facilities, and night lights. To be submitted to Remote Sensing of Environment Zhao, Q., Conrow, L. & Wentz, E. A. (2018). Impact of urban green infrastructure on residential housing price. To be submitted to Landscape and Urban Planning Zhao, Q., Wentz, E. A., Fotheringham, A. S., Yabiku, S. T., Hall, S. J., Murphy, S., & Clark, M. (2018). Spatial, social and ecological factors driving the distribution of invasive plant species in community forest ecosystems in subtropical Nepal. To be submitted to Applied Geography Wang, Z., Zhao, Q., Fan, C., Myint, S. W., & Yu, L. (2018). Land cover 2 Zhao Apr 2018

3 impacts on urban warming: A longitudinal study in a desert city using geographically weighted regression. To be submitted to PLoS One Wang, Z., Zhao, Q., Fan, C., & Myint, S. W. (2018). Exploring the cooling benefits from high-rise building in a desert city. To be submitted to Building and Environment Glick, J. E., Wentz, E. A., Yabiku, S. T, & Zhao, Q. (2018). Gender segregation of human activity space in Nepal. To be submitted to Demography Yabiku, S. T., Sullivan, A., York, A., Zhao, Q., Glick, J. E., Hall, S. J., Ghimire, D., & An, L. (2018). Drivers of prohibited natural resource collection in a protected area invaded by the mile-a-minute weed (Mikania micrantha). To be submitted to Conservation Biology Dhuyvetter, E., Keith, H., Blumenfield, D., Dyer, E., Watkins, L., Zhao, Q., & Hondula, D. (2018). Tree health and heat vulnerability analysis in Ajax, Canada. To be submitted to Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Clark, M., Zhao, Q., Sullivan A., Yabiku, S. T., York, A., Ghimire, D., An L., Murphy, S., and Hall, S. J. (2018). Social and ecological drivers of invasive plant species distribution in a biodiversity hotspot in subtropical Nepal. Manuscript in preparation Kena, F., Bajaj, V., Kandala, S., Miller, J., Salla, R., Kuby, M., Tong, D., Mu, W., & Zhao, Q. (2018). Voting precinct design tool: Resource optimization for election administrators. Manuscript in preparation. Referred Book Chapters 2018 Zhao, Q., Fischer, H., Luo, W., & Wentz, E. A. Community resilience in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA: the analysis of indoor heat-related death and urban thermal environment. Book Chapter for Geospatial Technologies for Urban Health, Springer. (Chapter proposal accepted, under preparation) Refereed Conference Proceedings 2016 Zhao, Q., Wentz, E. A., Fotheringham, A. S., Yabiku, S. T., Hall, S. J., Glick, J. E., Dai, J., Clark, M., & Heavenrich, H. (2016). Semi-parametric Geographically Weighted Regression (S-GWR): a Case Study on Invasive Plant Species Distribution in Subtropical Nepal. In 9th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Montreal, Canada Wentz, E. A., & Zhao, Q. (2015). Assessing validation methods for building identification and extraction. In 2015 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE) (pp. 1-4). IEEE Zhao, Q., Wentz, E. A. & Murray, A. T. (2014). Shade optimization in a desert environment. In 8th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Vienna, Austria Zhao, Q., & Kuai, X. (2012). Land use classification and accuracy assessment based on image fusion of TM and SPOT5. In 18th China Symposium on Remote Sensing. (In Chinese) 2012 Kuai, X., & Zhao, Q. (2012). Wetland image classification of remote sensing based on support vector machine. In 18th China Symposium on Remote Sensing. (In Chinese) 3 Zhao Apr 2018

4 Research Grants External Funding Submitted 2018 Ventilation based Planning Methods to Respond Urban Haze Supported by Multi-source Spatial-temporal Big Data, National Nature Science Foundation of China (830,000 in Chinese Currency, Co-PI. PI: Dr. Qingming Zhan) 2018 SCC: Strengthening Communities Social Insulation to Reduce Indoor Overheating Risks, National Science Foundation ($1,983,823, Postdoctoral Scholar. PI: Dr. David Hondula) Funded 2017 Dissertation Research Grant, American Association of Geographers ($1,000, PI) 2016 Imagery Grant, DigitalGlobe Foundation (12 high resolution remotely sensed imagery of QuickBird, WorldView-1, WorldView-2 and GeoEye-1, PI) 2016 Imagery Grant, European Space Agency (1 high resolution remotely sensed imagery of SPOT 6, collaborated with researchers at Center for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI) in United Kingdom, Co-PI. PI: Dr. Sean Murphy) Internal Funding Submitted 2018 Nighttime Light Image Analysis for Tracking Energy System Reconstruction and Resilience in Puerto Rico, Institute for Social Science Research, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University ($8,000, Co-PI. PI: Dr. Clark Miller) Funded 2017 Graduate Grants for Research in Urban Ecology and Urban Systems Research, Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP- LTER), Arizona State University ($4,000, PI) 2016 JumpStart Research Grant, Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA), Arizona State University ($500, PI) 2015 Graduate Grants for Research in Urban Ecology and Urban Systems Research, Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP- LTER), Arizona State University ($4,000, PI) 2015 Matthew G. Bailey Scholarship Award, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University ($1,500, PI) Teaching Interests Geographic Information Science; Remote Sensing; Spatial Analysis and Statistics; Location Modeling and Spatial Optimization; Sustainable Urban Environment. Teaching Experience Spring 2017 Instructor for GIS 461/561: Optimization Fundamentals for Spatial Analysis. (Hybrid course, overall course evaluation: 1.5/5.0, co-teach with Dr. Heather Fischer) 4 Zhao Apr 2018

5 Fall 2013 Teaching Assistant for GPH 370: Geographic Information Technologies. (Lab leader and grader, overall course evaluation: 2.5/5.0) Note: Course evaluation score ranging from high (1.0) to low (5.0). Students Advised Master s Yalin Qu Arizona State University ( , with NSF CNH project) Fan Xiao Arizona State University ( , with NSF CNH project) Undergraduate Jessica Jia (Barrett Honors Student) Arizona State University (2015) Sydney Tirella Arizona State University (2015, with NIH R21 project) Invited Presentations 2018 J. Warren Nystrom Award Presentation, American Association of Geographers, USA. Impact of tree locations and arrangements on outdoor microclimates and human thermal comfort in an urban residential environment. April 11, SPARC Brown Bag, Arizona State University, USA. Designing a sustainable urban environment by spatial data science and urban climatology. Nov 14, Graduate Grant Lighting Talks, CAP-LTER, Arizona State University, USA. Impact of tree locations and arrangements on outdoor microclimate and human thermal comfort in the urban desert environment. May 4, Dr. Chao Wang and Dr. Yu Yao s group, School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, USA. Fund yourself in the graduate school. May 3, Dr. Kevin Gurney s group, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, USA. Unveiling the myth of creating sustainable urban desert residential environment. March 15, Conference Presentations and Posters 2018 Zhao, Q., Fischer, H., Luo, W., & Wentz, E. A. Community resilience in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA: the demographic understanding of heat vulnerable population with utility assistance. GIScience 2018, Melbourne, Australia, August 28-31, (Presentation, upcoming) 2018 Zhao, Q., Fischer, H., Luo, W., & Wentz, E. A. Community resilience in Maricopa county, Arizona, USA: the analysis of heat vulnerable population and urban green infrastructure. The 10 th International Conference on Urban Climate, New York, New York, USA, August 6-August 10, (Presentation, upcoming) 2018 Zhao, Q., Fischer, H., Luo, W., & Wentz, E. A. Community resilience in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA: the analysis of indoor heat-related death and urban thermal environment. UCGIS 2018 Symposium and CaGIS AutoCarto, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, May 22-May 24, (Poster, upcoming) 2018 Zhao, Q., Sailor, D. J., & Wentz, E. A. Impact of tree locations and arrangements on outdoor microclimates and human thermal comfort in an urban 5 Zhao Apr 2018

6 residential environment Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, April 10-April 14, (Presentation) 2018 Fischer, H., Zhao, Q., Luo, W., & Wentz, E. A. Heat mappers: public participation in the SEER (Social, Economic, and Environmental Resilience) knowledge exchange Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, April 10-April 14, (Presentation) 2018 Zhao, Q., Yang, J., Wang, Z., & Wentz, E. A. Assessing the cooling benefits of tree shade by an outdoor urban physical scale model at Tempe, AZ. Urban Climate Research Center 1 st Annual Student Poster Competition, Tempe, Arizona, USA, April 3, (Poster) 2018 Zhao, Q., Sailor, D. J., & Wentz, E. A. Impact of tree locations and arrangements on outdoor microclimates and human thermal comfort in an urban residential environment. The 20 th Annual CAP-LTER Poster Symposium and All Scientists Meeting, Skysong, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, January 5, (Poster) 2017 Zhao, Q., Kuby, M. J., & Xiao, F. Optimal hydrogen station location for central Connecticut by using trip-based modeling at the regional scale. UCGIS 2017 Symposium, Arlington, Virginia, USA, May 23-May 25, (Poster) 2017 Yabiku, S. T., Sullivan, A., York, A., Zhao, Q., Glick, J. E., & Hall, S. J. Protected areas and illegal natural resource collection Annual Meeting of Population Association of America, Chicago, Illinois, USA, April 27-April 29, (Poster) 2017 Zhao, Q., Yang, J., Wang, Z., & Wentz, E. A. Assessing the cooling benefits of tree shade by a microclimate physical scale model site at Tempe, AZ Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, April 5-April 9, (Presentation) 2016 Zhao, Q., Wentz, E. A., Fotheringham, A. S., Yabiku, S. T., Hall, S. J., Dai, J., Clark, M., & Heavenrich, H. Semi-parametric geographically weighted regression (S-GWR): a case study on invasive plant species distribution in subtropical nepal. GIScience 2016, Montreal, Canada, September 27-30, (Poster) 2016 Yabiku, S. T, Glick, J. E., Wentz, E. A., & Zhao, Q. Methods for collecting, measuring, and modeling activity spaces 2016 Annual Meeting of Population Association of America, Washington D.C., USA, March 31-April 2, (Presentation) 2016 Zhao, Q., Wentz, E. A., Fotheringham, A. S., Yabiku, S. T., Hall, S. J., & Dai, J. Socio-ecological factors influence to invasive plant species distribution in community forests ecosystems in subtropical Nepal 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, California, USA, March 6 Zhao Apr 2018

7 29-April 2, (Presentation) 2015 Zhao, Q., Zhan, S., Kuai, X, & Zhan, Q. Spatio-temporal analysis of urban heat island and urban metabolism by satellite imagery over the Phoenix metropolitan area AGU 2015 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, December 14-18, (Poster) 2015 Zhao, Q., Yabiku, S. T., Hall, S. J., Wentz, E. A., Glick, J. E., & Dai, J. Socioecological factors influence to invasive plant species distribution in community forests ecosystems in subtropical Nepal Institute for Social Science Research Poster Contest, Tempe, Arizona, USA, December 3, (Poster) 2015 Zhao, Q., Myint, S. W., & Wentz, E. A. Rooftop surface temperature analysis in urban residential environment Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois, USA, April 21-25, (Presentation) 2015 Zhao, Q., & Wentz, E. A. Assessing validation methods for building identification and extraction. JURSE 2015, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 30- April 1, (Presentation and poster) 2015 Zhao, Q., Wentz, E. A., & Murray, A. T. Tree shade optimization in an urban desert environment. The 17 th Annual CAP-LTER Poster Symposium and All Scientists Meeting, Skysong, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, January 16, (Poster) 2014 Murray, A. T., Zhao, Q., & Wentz, E. A. Shade optimization in a desert environment. GIScience 2014, Vienna, Austria, September 23-26, (Presentation) 2014 Zhao, Q., Wentz, E. A., & Murray, A. T. Shade optimization in a desert environment Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, Florida, USA, April 8-14, (Presentation) 2012 Zhao, Q., & Kuai. X. Land use classification and accuracy assessment based on image fusion of TM and SPOT5. The 18 th China Symposium on Remote Sensing, Wuhan, Hubei, China, October 20-23, (Presentation) 2012 Kuai, X., & Zhao, Q. Wetland image classification of remote sensing based on support vector machine. The 18 th China Symposium on Remote Sensing, Wuhan, Hubei, China, October 20-23, (Presentation) Honors and Awards Awards 2018 J. Warren Nystrom Award (An outstanding paper based upon a recent dissertation in geography), American Association of Geographers ($1,000) 2017 University Graduate Fellowship, Arizona State University ($1,800) 2017 Graduate Excellence Awards, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University ($200) 2016 Finalist of Landscape Specialty Group Student Presentation Competition, 7 Zhao Apr 2018

8 American Association of Geographers University Graduate Fellowship, Arizona State University ($5,000) 2013 Geographical Sciences TA award, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University ($610) Fellowship for Academic Excellence, Wuhan University 2011 First Prize in Social Science Research, Youth Research Center at Wuhan University Trimble Scholarship, Wuhan University Outstanding Student, Wuhan University Travel Grants 2017 Graduate College Preparing Future Faculty Travel Award, Arizona State University ($300) Graduate College Travel Award, Arizona State University ($350, $500 twice) 2015 Conference Travel Grants, CAP-LTER, Arizona State University ($460) 2015 Individual Travel Funding, Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA), Arizona State University ($950 each, twice) 2014 John F. Lounsbury Student Travel Scholarship, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University ($300) Professional Service Journal Reviewer Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (1) Landscape and Urban Planning (2) Energy Policy (1) IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (2) PeerJ (2) Journal of the American Water Resources Association (1) Ecosystem Health and Sustainability (1) Annals of GIS (1) Advances in Research (1) Book Chapter Reviewer Integrating Scale in Remote Sensing and GIS, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Conference Proceeding Reviewer The Conference Proceeding of Second International Conference on Energy Engineering and Environmental Protection (EEEP 2017), Sanya, China. The Conference Proceeding of International Conference on Physics, Mathematics and Statistics (ICPMS 2018), Shanghai, China. Professional Service Board Member, Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers Bibliography Committee Member, International Association for Urban Climate 2017 Session Chair and Co-organizer, Urban green infrastructure: geospatial and 8 Zhao Apr 2018

9 climate application, 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Science Advisor, NASA DEVELOP National Program 2015 Session Co-Chair, Applications of urban remote sensing, Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE) 2015, Lausanne, Switzerland Geospatial Technology Consultant, Solargold Energy Corporation. University Service Secretary, ASU Student Chapter of American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Travel Grant Proposal Reviewer, Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA), Arizona State University 2014 MAS-GIS/MUEP Program Brochure Design and Translate, the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University Technical Skills Programming language: Python, R, SQL GIS and mapping: ArcGIS, QGIS, CARTO Remote Sensing: ENVI, ERDAS, ecognition, Google Earth Engine Statistics: Minitab, SPSS, GeoDa, GWR, Weka Optimization: CPLEX, Gurobi, LINGO, Xpress Microclimate numerical simulation: ENVI-met, RayMan Other: SketchUp, AutoCAD, MATLAB, Microsoft SQL Server Professional Society Membership American Association of Geographers Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences International Association for Urban Climate IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing American Geophysical Union 9 Zhao Apr 2018