Our PhD students in the Department of Geography at the University at Buffalo are exploring some of today's most pressing challenges, from climate change and environmental sustainability to urban development, public health and geospatial technology. Get to know the emerging scholars behind this work, discover their research interests and connect with students who share your academic passions.
| Name | Areas of Study | ||
| Festus Adegbola | festusad@buffalo.edu | Remote Sensing, Species Conservation, Ecology | |
| Poushali Bhattacharjee | poushali@buffalo.edu | Urban and Regional Planning, International Development Studies | |
| Drumond Dzakuma | drumondd@buffalo.edu | Medical geography, Non-communicable diseases, Urban health, Health disparities, Migration, Socio-spatial determinants of health, Substance use, Spatial epidemiology. | |
| Faithwin Gbadamosi | figbadam@buffalo.edu | Environmental epidemiology, Sustainability, Global health | |
| Adam Grodek | aegrodek@buffalo.edu | Fluvial Geomorphology, GIS, geospatial data, machine learning/deep learning, fish, experimental methods | |
| Arden Ireland | ardenire@buffalo.edu | Land Use/ Land Cover Change, Remote Sensing, Ecosystem Dynamics, Economic Geography, Critical Ecology | |
| Jiyeon Kim | jiyeonki@buffalo.edu | GIS, GeoAI, Disaster Resilience, Walkability | |
| Jeongwon Lee | jlee367@buffalo.edu | Spatial Analysis, GIS, Environmental Exposure Assessment, GeoAI | |
| Mengqi Li | mli243@buffalo.edu | Disaster Resilience; Urban Analytics; GeoAI; Human Mobility | |
| Xunhuan Li | xunhuanl@buffalo.edu | Energy justice, energy transition, uneven development, political economy and ecology | |
| Yu-Chia Lin | yuchiali@buffalo.edu | Political Ecology; Economic Geography; Environmental Governance; Science, Technology, and Society; Distant Water Fishery | |
| Jianqiao Liu | jliu222@buffalo.edu | Remote Sensing, Agroforestry classification, Water quality monitoring | |
| Jing Miao | jingmiao@buffalo.edu | Remote sensing; Mangrove ecology | |
| Shuyang Sun | shuyangs@buffalo.edu | Feminist Geographies; Political Ecology; Critical Perspectives on Sustainable Development; Migration; Technology | |
| Boyu Wang | bwang44@buffalo.edu | Agent-Based Modeling, Geographic Information Science, Machine Learning, Urban Simulation | |
| Suiyuan Wang | suiyuanw@buffalo.edu | Remote Sensing & GIScience, Spatio-temporal Urban Monitoring, Coupled Human-Environment Interaction | |
| Yifan Wang | ywang252@buffalo.edu | Geospatial Ontology, Disaster Management, Spatial Semantics | |
| Jingyu Wu | jingyuwu@buffalo.edu | Spatial Analysis, Environmental Exposure Assessment, Public Health, Climate change | |
| Mollie Wugetemole | wugetemo@buffalo.edu | Formal ontology; Spatial ontology; Spatial and spatio-temporal representation and reasoning; Formal theories of geographic information | |
| Liyue Zhang | liyuezha@buffalo.edu | GeoAI, Disaster Resilience | |
| Ying Zhou | yzhou59@buffalo.edu | Urban Studies, Spatial Analysis | |
| Rongxuan Zhu | rongxuan@buffalo.edu | Urban Geography, Geographic Information Science, GeoAI |