Yalin Yang

Research Associate & GIS Programmer

West Virginia GIS Technical Center
West Virginia University

yy00021@mail.wvu.edu

+1-607-374-9844

330 Brooks Hall

Morgantown, WV 26506

https://gisyaliny.github.io/

Education

2019–2024   Ph.D. in Geospatial Information Sciences.
2017–2019   M.A. in Geography.
2013–2017   B.S. in Geographic Information Science.

Academic Appointments

2024–Present   Research Associate, GIS Programmer,
2024–2024   Senior GIS Analyst, City of Dallas
2021–2024   GIS Administrator, GAIA Lab, UT Dallas
2019–2024   Teaching Assistant, Department of GIScience, UT Dallas
2018–2019   Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, Binghamton University

Publications

2025
Griffith, D. A., Conway, C., Gamarra, A., Hutchison, M., Kim, D., & Yang, Y. (2025). Political Districts Versus Customized Polygons: Implementing Geographic Tessellation Stratified Random Sampling. Transactions in GIS, 29(2), e70019.
2025
Yang, Y., Wu, Y., Yuan, M. (2025). Simulation‐Tested Spatial Association Mining of Co‐Location Patterns From Multiple Point‐Feature Classes. Transactions in GIS, 29(7), e70145.
2024
Maxwell, A. E., Farhadpour, S., Das, S., & Yang, Y. (2024). geodl: An R package for geospatial deep learning semantic segmentation using torch and terra. PLoS One, 19(12), e0315127.
2024
Yang, Y., Wu, Y., & Yuan, M. (2024). What Local Environments Drive Opportunities for Social Events? A New Approach Based on Bayesian Modeling in Dallas, Texas, USA. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 13(3), 81.
2023
Wu, Y., Yang, Y., & Yuan, M. (2023). Understanding the role of geographical environments in emergency dispatches with GPS trajectories. Abstracts of the ICA, 6, 276.
2022
Wu, Y., Yang, Y., Yuan, M. (2022). Analyze emergency-vehicle dispatches in Dallas, Texas, USA. Unknown Journal.
2022
Yang, Y., Wu, Y., Yuan, M. (2022). Quantifying the impacts of social infrastructure on human networks. Unknown Journal.
2019
Yang, Y. (2019). A Framework for Analyzing Real-Time House Rent Using Open Data. Master's thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton.

Grants & Awards

2024
Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure Workshop Scholarship National Science Foundation
2024
Betty and Gifford Travel Award University of Texas at Dallas
2023
AAG Student Travel Grants American Association of Geographers (AAG)
2023
Betty and Gifford Travel Award University of Texas at Dallas
2023
I-GUIDE Summer School Travel Award National Science Foundation
2023
Pioneer Student Research Grants. University of Texas at Dallas
2022
ICA Scholarship. International Cartographic Assoication (ICA)
2022
Pioneer Student Research Grants. University of Texas at Dallas
2022
Esri EIP student of the Year Award. ESRI
2021
Ph.D. Research Small Award. University of Texas at Dallas
2019
Pioneer Student Research Grants , University of Texas at Dallas
2019
AAG-UCGIS Summer School Travel Award , University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)