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Dissertations & Theses

Ph.D. Dissertations

Qian Huang (2022), Spatial and Age Disparities in COVID-19 Outcomes (Committee: Drs. Susan Cutter, Zhenlong Li, Kevin Bennett, Jan Eberth, Jerry Mitchell)

Grayson Morgan (2022), sUAS and Deep Learning for High-resolution Monitoring of Tidal Marshes in Coastal South Carolina, (Committee: Drs. Susan Wang, Zhenlong Li, Michael Hodgson, Steve Schill )

Jiang Y. (2022), Quantifying Human Mobility Patterns During Disruptive Events with Big Data(Committee: Drs. Zhenlong Li, Susan Cutter, Michael Hodgson, Qunying Huang )

Huang, X. (2020), Remote Sensing and Social Sensing for Improved Flood Awareness and Exposure Analysis in the Big Data Era (Committee: Drs. Susan Wang, Zhenlong Li, Michael Hodgson, David Hitchcock)

Derakhshan, S. (2020) Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Earthquake Recovery (Committee: Drs. Susan Cutter, Cuizhen Wang, Zhenlong Li, Melanie Gall)

Martin, Y. (2019), Leveraging Geotagged Social Media to Monitor Spatial Behavior During Population Movements Triggered by Hurricanes (Committee: Drs. Susan L. Cutter, Zhenlong Li,  Jerry T. Mitchell, Christopher T. Emrich)

Master Theses

Fulham A. (2023). Sentiment analysis of Swedish and Finnish twitter users’ views toward NATO pre- and post- 2022 2nd Russian invasion of Ukraine (Committee: Drs. Zhenlong Li, Carl Dahlman, Robert Kopack)

Ning H. (2019). Prototyping A Social Media Flooding Photo Screening System Based On Deep Learning and Crowdsourcing (Committee: Drs. Zhenlong Li, Michael E. Hodgson, Cuizhen Wang)

Vayansky, I. R. (2018). An Evaluation of Geotagged Twitter Data during Hurricane Irma using Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling for Disaster Resilience. (Committee: Drs. Sathish A.P Kumar, Zhenlong Li, William Jones )

Pham. E. (2018). Analysis of Evacuation Behaviors and Departure Timing for October 2016’s Hurricane Matthew. (Committee: Drs. Susan L. Cutter, Christopher Emrich,  Zhenlong Li )

Campbell. R.  (2018). Tweets About Tornado Warnings: A Spatiotemporal & Content Analysis (Committee: Drs. Susan L. Cutter, Zhenlong Li, Gregory Carbone)

Windsor M. (2017). A Web-based Decision Support Platform for Community Engagement in Water Resources Planning (Committee: Drs. Zhenlong Li, Jean Taylor Ellis)

Jiang Y. (2016). Urban Accessibility Measurement and Visualization—A Big Data Approach (Committee: Drs. Diansheng Guo, Zhenlong Li, Michael E. Hodgson)

Undergraduate Theses (Honors and Graduate with Distinction)

Finn Hagerty (2021), Tracking Population Movement using Geotagged Tweets to and from New York City and Los Angeles during the COVID-19 Pandemic,  (Committee: Drs. Zhenlong Li, Amir Karami)

Murph R. (2019), Steering Clear of Single-Occupancy Vehicles: Campus Transportation Demand Management Strategies for the University of South Carolina (Committee: Drs. Conor M. Harrison, Zhenlong Li)