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H-L YuHwa-Lung Yu

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Geography
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-4493

Phone: (619) 594 8286
Fax: (619) 594 4938
e-mail: hlyu@mail.sdsu.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005.

Major: Environmental Modeling

Minor: Statistics

Dissertation title: Development and Implementation of Knowledge Synthesis Methods for Stochastic Natural Systems

Research Advisor: Dr. George Christakos

Research Interests

      1. Environmental Health Systems Modeling and Prediction.

      2. Human Exposure and Integrative Risk Assessment.

      3. Spatiotemporal Stochastics and Geostatistics.

      4. Environmental Epidemiology and Space-Time Disease Distribution Modeling.

      5. Temporal GIS and Numerical Development of Advanced Functions.

      6. Environmental Fate and Transport (atmospheric pollutants, subsurface contaminants etc.).

Publications

Book:

 

  • Christakos, G., R. A. Olea, M. L. Serre, H-L Yu, and L. Wang, 2005. Interdisciplinary Public Health Reasoning and Epidemic Modeling: The Case of Black Death.  Springer-Verlag, New York, NY.

 

Papers in Refereed Scientific Journals:

 

  • Yu, H-L and G. Christakos, 2005. “Porous media upscaling in terms of mathematical epistemic cognition.” SIAM-Applied Mathematics, vol. 66 (2), 433-446.

 

  • Yu, H-L, G. Christakos, K. Modis and G. Papantonopoulos, 2007.  “Composite solution of a physical equation representing the three-dimensional geothermal field in Nea Kessiani (Greece)”. J. Geophysical Research.  Accepted-In press.

 

  • Yu, H-L and G. Christakos, 2006. “Spatiotemporal modelling and mapping of the Bubonic plague epidemic in India.” International J. of Health Geographics, 5:12.  (No. 3 among the 10 most Highly-accessed papers for 2006).

 

  • Yu, H-L, A. Kolovos, G. Christakos, J-C Chen, S. Warmerdam and B. Dev, 2006. “Interactive Spatiotemporal Modelling of Health Systems: The SEKS-GUI Framework”, J. Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment Special Volume on Medical Geography as a Science of Interdisciplinary Knowledge Synthesis under Conditions of Uncertainty.  Accepted-In press.

 

  • Christakos, G., R. A. Olea, and H-L Yu, 2007. "Recent results on the spatiotemporal modelling and comparative analysis of Black Death and Bubonic Plague epidemics". J. Public Health. Accepted-In press.

 

  • Yu, H-L, J-C Chen and G. Christakos, 2007. “BME space-time mapping of residential level ambient PM10 and Ozone exposures at multi-temporal scales in North and South Carolina”.  J. Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment.  Accepted-In press. 

 

  • Yu, H-L and G. Christakos, 2006. “Dealing with spatiotemporal heterogeneity: the stochastic BME-  model.” Technometrics. Submitted.

 

Papers in Refereed Volumes:

 

  • Modis, K., Yu, H-L and G. Christakos, 2006, R. Stewart and G. Papantonopoulos.  “Novel tools in geothermal energy research”. In Geothermal Energy Research Frontiers, Columbus, F. (ed.), Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge, NY. Accepted-In press.

 

  • Yu, H-L, G. Christakos and J-C Chen, 2007.  “Recent developments in air pollution modeling and prediction”. In Air Pollution Research Trends, Columbus, F. (ed.), Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge, NY. Accepted-In press.

 

 

Presentations in Conferences, Workshops, Invited talks and Reports.

 

  • Yu H-L and G. Christakos, 2007.  “Integrated spatiotemporal modelling and mapping of natural systems”, American Assoc. of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, April 17-21.

 

  • Yu H-L, 2006. “Knowledge synthesis methods for spatiotemporal modeling” Invited Talk, Dept. of Geography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, April 6.

 

  • Yu H-L, 2005. “Knowledge synthesis methods for stochastic natural systems: the comparison of spatiotemporal characteristics between Black Death and Bubonic Plague.” Invited Talk in Dept. of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, December 6.

 

  • Marc L. Serre and H-L Yu, 2003. “Spatiotemporal analysis of particulate matter following the WTC disaster: Initial Results using a geostatistical approach.” Research Report, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Environment (CISE-Rep. 1103), Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

 

  • Marc L. Serre, S. J. Lee, and H-L Yu, 2002. “Toxicokinetic modeling using space-time mapping of exposure fields with existing health outcome data in a measurement error model.” External Advisory Committee meeting of the Center of Environmental Health and Susceptibility at UNC - Pilot Project Program, September 12.

 

  • Yu H-L, C-H Chen, and Y-C Tan, 2002. “Applied spectral method on random field generation.” Proceedings of the 13th Hydraulic Engineering Conference, Yunlin, Taiwan, July 31-August 1.

 

  • Yu H-L, C-H Chen, and Y-C Tan, 2002. “Applied the random walk method to solute pollutant transport in heterogeneous porous media”. The Ninth International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan, April 3-5.

 

  • Yu H-L, C-H Chen, and Y-C Tan, 2001. “Computer simulation of solute transport in heterogeneous porous media”. The Conference of Agricultural Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan, December 16.

 

  • Yu H-L, C-H Chen, Y-C Tan, 2001. “Applied the random walk Method to predict solute contaminant transport in groundwater”. Proceedings of the 12th Hydraulic Engineering Conference, Taiwan, July 12-13.

 

  • Lee, C-Y, H-L Yu, and M-D Su, 1997. “Application of GIS network analysis-A case study on campus garbage pickup”. The Conference of Agricultural Engineering, Tainan, Taiwan, December 16-17.

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