I am Rongxiang Su, a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography at the University of California Santa Barbara, advised by Dr. Konstadinos Goulias and Dr. Somayeh Dodge. My research is focused on understanding human collective mobility patterns and travel behavior using spatio-temporal analytics, statistical models, and machine learning techniques. I am also interested in advancing time geographic-based approaches to trace human contacts and investigating human interaction patterns in space and time using big GPS tracking data. |
[NEWs]
- [June 7, 2021] Our paper "Understanding senior’s daily mobility patterns in California using human mobility motifs" was accepted for publication in Journal of Transport Geography!
- [March 31, 2021] I will give a presentation at 2021 AAG Annual Meeting on April 8 (Thursday, 9:50 AM PDT).
- [March 23, 2021] Our paper "ORTEGA: an object-oriented time-geographic analytical approach to trace space-time contact patterns in movement data" was accepted for publication in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems!
- [March 2, 2021] Our paper "Unveiling daily activity pattern differences between telecommuters and commuters using human mobility motifs and sequence analysis" was accepted for publication in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice!
- [Feb 19, 2021] Our paper "Evolution of the Chinese Spring Festival Travel network during the COVID-19 early outbreak" was accepted for publication in Transportation letters: the International Journal of Transportation Research! This research was supported by UCSB MRCI grant.
- [Jan 7, 2021] I will give two poster presentations at 2021 TRB Annual Meeting on January 26 (1:00 PM- 2:30 PM ET, Event title: 1203 - Advances in Travel Behavior Research) and January 27 (2:30 PM- 4:00 PM ET, Event title: 1305 - Information and Communication Technologies, Activity and Travel).
- [Oct 1, 2020] Our paper "Pattern recognition of daily activity patterns using human mobility motifs and sequence analysis" is now officially online in Transportation Research Part C.
- [June 17, 2020] I was awarded the Multidisciplinary Research on the Coronavirus and its Impacts (MRCI) grant from UCSB graduate school this week! This grant will support my research on COVID-19's impact on inter-city travel in mainland China.