Xiang Li
Ph.D.
I earned my PhD degree in Geography and Environmental Science and Policy from University of South Florida
Interests: Human Mobility, Disaster Resilience, Climate Change, GeoAI, GIS, Big Data & Remote Sensing of Environment
Ph.D.
I earned my PhD degree in Geography and Environmental Science and Policy from University of South Florida
Interests: Human Mobility, Disaster Resilience, Climate Change, GeoAI, GIS, Big Data & Remote Sensing of Environment
13 Jul 2026
Li, W., Wu, X., Meng, Z., Li, X., Song, W., & Zhao, P. (2026). Pervasive seasonal divergence in lagged responses of vegetation growth to compound drought-heat stress on the Tibetan Plateau. Frontiers in Plant Science, 17, 1879954. Article Link The...
Compound drought-heat stress Vegetation response Tibetan Plateau Lag response SHAP
29 Apr 2026
Li, X., Qiang, Y., Huang, X., Zou, L., & Cai, H. (2026). Natural disasters and human migration in the United States: Insights from automated machine learning and explainable AI. Journal of Environmental Management, 406, 129796. Article Link The highlight of...
Human Migration Natural Disasters AutoML Explainable AI SHAP
30 Jun 2025
Li, X., & Qiang, Y. (2025). Natural Disasters and Urban Human Mobility. In Urban Human Mobility (pp. 40-50). CRC Press. Chapter Link ABSTRACT This chapter highlights the critical value of analyzing urban human mobility during natural disasters, focusing on how...
Human Mobility Disasters Urban Areas
17 Jun 2025
Zhang, Z., Xiong, J., Li, X., Li, Y., & Liu, J. (2025). A SAR-based flood mapping approach: application of SAR-SIFT registration and modified DeepLabV3 segmentation in flood hazard assessment. Geocarto International, 40(1), 2512188. Article Link The highlight of this article...
Image semantic segmentation SAR Deep learning Flooded area
08 Apr 2025
Han, L., Qiang, Y., Ma, C., Li, X., Salim, Z., Bhandari, R., … & Jin, H. (2025). Spatial Pattern and Socioeconomic Factors of 2022 Monkeypox Outbreak in the United States. The Professional Geographer, 1-12. Article Link The highlight of this...
Monkeypox Infectious disease Social disparities Spatial analysis
14 Apr 2024
Authors: Xiang Li, Yi Qiang, Guido Cervone Article Link The highlight of this article Study area and dataset Methods Results Some ideas for future work 1. The highlight of this article Generate a framework to use human mobility data to...
SafeGraph Weekly Pattern Evacuation pattern in Hurricane Ian
This is the story map of GEE which I hosted in Dec 2022. I introduced some basic information of GEE and gave some training examples for GEE.
Google Earth Engine ArcGIS StoryMaps JavaScript
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Under the leadership of Dr. Qiang and Dr. Landry, I worked on this project using statistical methods and tools to monitor water quality in five Florida nature preserves. One of my main tasks was to perform python program development so that statistical analyses could be performed in a more efficient manner.
GitHub Python
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