UT Public Health Coalition Fall Seminar Series

Yuhao Kang, PhD | College of Liberal Arts, Dept. of Geography & the Environment | Dr.  Kang directs the GISense Lab at the University of Texas at Austin. The Geospatial Intelligent Sensing and Mapping (GISense) Lab focuses on modeling and understanding human-environment relationships at place and tackling real-world challenges (e.g., spatial-socio inequity, public health, housing, crime, climate change) in urban systems with spatiotemporal big data analytics, geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI), and maps and geovisualizations. As the director of the GISense Lab, Dr. Kang has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals such as the International Journal of Geographical Information Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He has served as associate editor of Computational Urban Science, editorial board member of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and has been a reviewer of over 50 academic journals, such as Nature Communications and Nature Human Behaviour. 

Ryan C. Moore, PhD | School of Information | Dr. Ryan Moore is Assistant Professor in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin. His research examines media and technology use across the lifespan, with a particular focus on older adults. He is interested in identifying how individuals — especially older adults — can effectively use media and technology to pursue everyday goals, as well as understanding ways to help build resilience to threats such as online scams and other forms of deception. Dr. Moore uses a variety of methods in his work, including large-scale digital trace data, online and lab experiments, surveys, content analysis, and computational linguistics. Before joining UT Austin, he earned a PhD from Stanford University, where he was a member of the Stanford Social Media and Lifespan Development Labs. He also spent a year at the Stanford Center on Longevity.