Since 2015, the GIBD lab has been a leader or key participant in 31 grant projects, amassing more than $13 million in total funding, over $1.9 million of which has been the lab’s direct portion. Its funding sources are diverse, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Taylor Geospatial Institute, NOAA Sea Grant Consortium, NASA, and the South Carolina Department of Social Services, among others.
Current Projects
2023-2028, The impacts of HIV-related service interruption during COVID-19 pandemic in South Carolina, National Institutes of Health (NIH). PI: Shan Qiao, Co-I: Zhenlong Li, Jiajia Zhang, Bankole Olatosi, Sharon Weissman, Xiaoming Li. ($3,521,311; To Penn State: $571,377)
2023-2024, Developing a Novel Wheelchair Mobility Index for Wheelchair Users using Street View Imagery and Artificial Intelligence, NaNDA at University of Michigan/NIH. PI: Zhenlong Li, Co-I: Shan Qiao, Xiaoming Li ($21,130; To Penn State: $21,130)
2023-2024, Examine the geographic and racial disparities of COVID-19 impact on obesity-related behaviors using cellphone-based place visitation data, Social, Behavioral, & Economic COVID Coordinating Center, University of Michigan/NIH, PI: Zhenlong Li, Co-I: Andrew T Kaczynski, Shan Qiao, Bankole Olatosi, Jiajia Zhang, Xiaoming Li ($29,948; To Penn State: $29,948).
2023-2025, Developing a SMART Geospatial Tool to Classify Building Archetype at Community Level towards Digital-Twins of Disaster Resilience (DTDR), Taylor Geospatial Institute, Institutional PI: Zhenlong Li (PI: Grace Yan at Missouri S&T) ($200,000; To Penn State: $75,000)
2023-2025, Visualizing and predicting new and late HIV diagnosis in South Carolina: A Big Data approach, National Institutes of Health (NIH), PI: Xiaoming Li & Jiajia Zhang, Co-I: Zhenlong Li, Bankole Olatosi, Sharon Weissman, Shan Qiao, ($699,122; To Penn State: $114,390)
2023-2025, Patterns and predictors of racial/ethnic disparities in HIV care continuum in the South, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Co-I: Zhenlong Li, Jiajia Zhang, Bankole Olatosi, Sharon Weissman, Xiaoming Li, PI: Xueying Yang ($409,637; To Penn State: $27,798)
Past Projects
2022-2023, Developing a novel network-based big data approach to measure healthcare utilization disparity: A feasibility study, BDHSC Pilot Project Program, BDHSC-PP2022-16, PI: Zhenlong Li, Co-I: Shan Qiao, Bankole Olatosi, Jiajia Zhang ($30,000).
2022-2023, Delivering Comprehensive and Sustainable HIV/AIDS Clinical and Community Services to Achieve HIV Epidemic Control in Subnational Units in Nigeria (USC Subaward), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), PI: Xiaoming Li., Co-PI: Bankole Olatosi, Co-I: Zhenlong Li, Shan Qiao, Jiajia Zhang, Sharon Weissman et al. ($444,172)
2022-2023, Creating a GIS-Based Siting Tool for South Carolina Mariculture Site Selection, NOAA Sea Grant Consortium at South Carolina, PI: Zhenlong Li, Co-PI: Cuizhen Wang, $52,620 ($34,993 from SeaGrant, $17,627 match).
2022-2023, A novel data-driven approach to empirically link structural racism and healthcare access and utilization in South Carolina, UofSC OVPR Racial Justice and Equity Research Program, 135400-22-59464, PI: Zhenlong Li, Co-Investigators: Shan Qiao, Bankole Olatosi, Jiajia Zhang, Xiaoming Li, $14,981
2021-2023, Patterns and Predictors of Viral Suppression: A Big Data Approach, National Institutes of Health (NIH), R01AI164947, MPI: Bankole Olatosi and Jiajia Zhang; Co-Investigators: Zhenlong Li, Sharon Weissman, Jianjun Hu, Xiaoming Li, ~$3,500,000
2021-2023, Identifying a COVID-19 patient cohort based on Twitter data for PASC symptoms analysis, BDHSC Pilot Project Program, #BDHSC-2021-11， PI: Shan Qiao, Co-PI: Zhenlong Li, Sharon Weissman Liang Chen, Xiaoming Li, $34,000
2020-2023, Big Data Driven Clinical Informatics & Surveillance – A Multimodal Database Focused Clinical, Community, & Multi-Omics Surveillance Plan for COVID19, National Institutes of Health (NIH), 3R01AI127203-04S1, Co-PI: Zhenlong Li, Sharon Weissman, Neset Hikment, Jianjun Hu, Jiajia Zhang; MPI: Xiaoming Li and Bankole Olatosi, $1,252,550,
2020-2023, Rapid Estimation of Visitation Activities in U.S. National Parks by Mining Big Social Media Data, USC ASPIRE Program, PI: Zhenlong Li, Co-PI: John Kupfer, $14,846
2019-2023, Big Data Analytics of HIV Treatment Gaps In South Carolina: Identification and Prediction, National Institutes of Health (NIH), R01AI127203, Co-I: Zhenlong Li, Sharon Weissman, Jianjun Hu, Jiajia Zhang; MPI: Xiaoming Li, Bankole Olatosi, $3,259,978
2019-2023, Big Data Health Science Center (BDHSC), University of South Carolina Excellence Initiative, Zhenlong Li (Co-I, Geospatial Core), Xiaoming Li (PI), ~$3,000,000
2023, Accessibility Analysis and Visualization of the Children and Youth Foster Care in South Carolina, South Carolina Department of Social Services (SCDSS). PI: Zhenlong Li ( $34,479)
2023-2024, Neighborhood Mobility Assessment for Wheelchair Users using Street View Imagery and Artificial Intelligence, USC SPARC Program. 135400-23-62713, PI: Zhenlong Li (Student: Huan Ning) ($4,992)
2020-2022, RAPID: Monitoring the Spatial Spread of COVID-19 through the Lens of Human Movement using Big Social Media Data, National Science Foundation (NSF), 2028791, PI: Zhenlong Li , Co-PI: Dwayne E. Porter, Xiaoming Li, $108,717
2020-2022, A Preliminary Study of using Social Media to Monitor the Spatial Propagation of COVID-19 and Quantify the Effectiveness of the Control Measures, USC COVID-19 Funding Initiative, PI: Zhenlong Li, Co-PI: Bankole Olatosi, Xiaoming Li, $13,017
2020-2021, XSEDE Startup Resource Allocation for A Scalable Online Visual Analytic System for Big Climate Data Analysis, National Science Foundation (NSF), Zhenlong Li (PI), $1,051.2
2019-2020, Analyzing Human Mobility Patterns during Hurricane Matthew Evacuation using Social Media Data, SPARC Program (PhD researcher: Yuqin Jiang), Zhenlong Li (PI/Advisor), $5,000
2018-2019, Social Sensing of Disaster Extents and Impacts of Hurricane Florence, Horne LLP, Zhenlong Li (PI), $5,000
2017-2019, Enhancing Situational Awareness by Mining Big Social Media Data in Near-real Time for Disaster Management, USC OVPR ASPIRE I, Zhenlong Li (PI), Amir Karami (Co-PI), $14,861
2018, Prototyping a Near Real-time Flood Mapping System with Social Sensing and Big Data Computing, CAS Research Initiative, Zhenlong Li (PI), $3,400
2017-2018, Computational Analysis of the US 2016 Presidential Election in Social Media, USC Office of The Provost, Zhenlong Li(Co-PI), Amir Karami (PI), $15,019
2017, When, Where, and Who: Mining Billions of Tweets to Understand Celebration Patterns of US Holidays, Magellan Scholar Program (Student Researcher: Daniel Newsome), Zhenlong Li (PI), $3,000
2017, Prototyping a Cloud-based Spatial Web Portal for Parallel Analytics of Big Climate Data, Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Testbed, Zhenlong Li(PI), Fei Hu (Co-I), $6,981
2016-2017, Developing a High-Performance Query Analytical Framework for Big Climate Data Analysis, USC ASPIRE I, Zhenlong Li(PI), $14,457
2015-2016, Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Flood Impact by Integrating Satellite, VGI, and Social Media Data: Rapid Assessment of the October Flood, USC Floods Seed Grant, Zhenlong Li (PI), Cuizhen Wang, Christopher Emrich, Diansheng Guo (Co-PI), $18,477
2015-2016, A Computational Framework for Tracking Reports, Opinions, and Feelings of People in Social Media Before, During and After a Natural Disaster, USC Floods Seed Grant, Zhenlong Li(Co-PI), Amir Karami (PI), $12,000
2014-2015, Hadoop Middleware for Processing Big Climate Data, NASA/NSF, Zhenlong Li (Co-PI), Chaowei Yang (PI), $45,000
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