Fahui Wang

Fahui Wang is James J. Parsons Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University (LSU), and recipient of LSU Distinguished Faculty Award (2018). He earned a BS degree in geography from Peking University, China, an MA degree in economics and a PhD degree in city and regional planning from The Ohio State University. His research interests include GIS applications in human geography (urban, economic, and transportation), city and regional planning, and...See more

Fahui Wang is James J. Parsons Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University (LSU), and recipient of LSU Distinguished Faculty Award (2018). He earned a BS degree in geography from Peking University, China, an MA degree in economics and a PhD degree in city and regional planning from The Ohio State University. His research interests include GIS applications in human geography (urban, economic, and transportation), city and regional planning, and public policy (crime and health). His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality and the National Institutes of Health), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Department of Justice (National Institute of Justice and Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published over 120 refereed articles. He is the editor of Geographic Information Systems and Crime Analysis (IDEA Group Publishers, 2005) and co-editor (with Xun Shi) of Applications of Geospatial Information Technologies in Public Health (Higher Education Press, 2016, in Chinese) and the author of Quantitative Methods and Applications in GIS (CRC Press, 2006) and Quantitative Methods and Socioeconomic Applications in GIS (2nd ed., CRC Press, 2015). See less