Editor Name: Connor Yuhao Wu

Designation: Assistant Professor

University: Troy University

Country: USA

Biography:

Dr. Wu (he goes by Connor) became an Assistant Professor of Geography at Troy University in August 2018. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Virginia Tech between 2016 to 2018. His postdoctoral research focused on the Alabama heat and its effects on health outcomes (e.g., preterm birth, non-accidental death, and fatal traffic accidents). Before that, he was a Research Associate at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) with the primary responsibilities to investigate the association between historical plague outbreaks and climate change from the GIS perspective. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Geography from HKU, an MSc in Geomatics (GIS) from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and a BEng in Computer Science from the Beijing Normal University. He has experience in data collection and mining, statistics, and spatiotemporal analysis with GIS and remote sensing skills.