Assistant Professor
Urban Resilience, Social Vulnerability,
Urban Computing, Spatial Data Science, GeoAI
Office:
AAB 1227
Tel:
(852) 3411 7208
Fax:
(852) 3411 5990
Email:
weizhai@hkbu.edu.hk
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS2017-2021 Ph.D., Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida, United States
2017-2020 M.Eng., Computer Engineering, University of Florida, United States
2015-2017 M.Eng., Urban Planning, Tsinghua University, China
2010-2015 B.Eng., Urban Planning, Hunan University, China
TEACHINGGeography and the Contemporary World
Urban Planning
RESEARCH INTERESTSUrban Resilience
Social Vulnerability
Urban Computing
Spatial Data Science
GeoAI
Website: https://skywalkerzhai.github.
ACADEMIC AWARDS
2021, Paul and Malea Zwick Graduate Student Award, University of Florida
2020, Best Poster Award, 2020 DCP Research Symposium, University of Florida
2020, Outstanding International Student Award, University of Florida
2020, Travel Awards, The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
External Grant
Microsoft AI for Earth Grant (2020.11-2021.11), “Evaluation and Prediction of American’s Mobility under Extreme Weather Events using Artificial Intelligence.” US$ 10,000. PI
Peer-reviewed Publications
Zhai, W., Fu, X., Liu, M., & Peng, Z. R. (2021). The impact of ethnic segregation on neighbourhood-level social distancing in the United States amid the early outbreak of COVID-19.Urban Studies, 50183. (https://doi.org/10.1177/
Zhai, W., Peng, Z. R., & Bai, X. (2021). Prototypical Resilience Projects for Postdisaster Recovery Planning: From Theory to Action.Journal of Planning Education and Research, 0739456X211048928. ( https://doi.org/10.1177/
Zhai, W., & Yue, H. (2021). Economic resilience during COVID-19: An insight from permanent business closures.Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 0308518X211055181. (https://doi.org/10.1177/
Zhai, W., Liu, M., Fu, X., & Peng, Z. R. (2021). American Inequality Meets COVID-19: Uneven Spread of the Disease across Communities. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1-21.
Bai, X., Steiner, R. L., & Zhai, W. (2021). Beyond Neighborhood Design: Exploring the Effects of Smart Growth on Older Adults’ Travel Behavior over Time. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 0739456X211020352.
Fu, X., & Zhai, W. (2021). Examining the spatial and temporal relationship between social vulnerability and stay-at-home behaviors in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sustainable cities and society, 102757. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212)
Yuan, F., Li, M., Liu, R. , Zhai, W., Qi, B. (2021). Social Media for Enhanced Understanding of Disaster Resilience during Hurricane Florence. International Journal of Information Management.
Zhai, W., Peng, Z. R. (2020). Damage assessment using Google Street View: Evidence from Hurricane Michael in Mexico Beach, Florida. Applied Geography.
Zhai, W., Peng, Z. R. , & Yuan, F. (2020). Examine the effects of neighborhood equity on disaster situational awareness: Harness machine learning and geotagged Twitter data. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 101611.
Zhai, W., Liu, M., & Peng, Z. R. (2020). Social distancing and inequality in the United States amid COVID-19 outbreak. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.
Zhai, W., Peng, Z. R. (2020). Where to buy a house in the United States amid COVID-19? Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 0308518X20946041.
Gu, C., Ye, X. , Cao, Q., Guan, W., Peng, C., Wu, Y., & Zhai, W. (2020). System dynamics modelling of urbanization under energy constraints in China. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1-16.
Bai, X., Zhai, W., Steiner, R. L., & He, Z. (2020). Exploring extreme commuting and its relationship to land use and socioeconomics in the central Puget Sound. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 88, 102574.
Zhai, W., Bai, X., Shi, Y., Han, Y., Peng, Z. R., & Gu, C. (2019). Beyond Word2vec: An approach for urban functional region extraction and identification by combining Place2vec and POIs. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 74, 1-12.
Zhai, W., Bai, X., Peng, Z. R., & Gu, C. (2019). From edit distance to augmented space-time-weighted edit distance: Detecting and clustering patterns of human activities in Puget Sound region. Journal of Transport Geography, 78, 41-55.
Zhai, W., Bai, X., Peng, Z. R., & Gu, C. (2019). A bottom-up transportation network efficiency measuring approach: A case study of taxi efficiency in New York City. Journal of Transport Geography, 80. 102502.
Zhai, W. (2018). How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood, by Peter Moskowitz. Journal of the American Planning Association, 84(2), 203-203.
