2026

1. Targeted County-Level Interventions Achieve Epidemic Control Without Statewide Lockdowns

   Haridas K. Das , Tao Hu, Mauricio Santillana , and Lucas M. Stolerman

   medRxiv, 2026

2025

1. Continuous monitoring of waterbody change detection in Oklahoma using Landsat time series

   Huong Pham , Samuel Cheng , Tao Hu, and Chengbin Deng

   Remote Sensing Letters, 2025
2. Assessing buprenorphine treatment utilization and SAMHSA DATA waiver provider distribution in 2021: a real-world analysis in California

   Yun Wang , Tao Hu, Chih-Hung Chang , Matthew Heshmatipour , Jeff Jianfei Guo , Moom R Roosan , and 1 more author

   Scientific Reports, 2025
3. Human Mobility and Public Health

   Tao Hu, Yaxiong Shao , and Changzhen Wang

   In Urban Human Mobility: Practices, Analytics, and Strategies for Smart Cities , 2025
4. Harnessing the power of multi-source media platforms for public perception analysis: insights from the Ohio train derailment

   Tao Hu, Xiao Huang , Yun Li , and Xiaokang Fu

   Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 2025
5. FAIR principles in workflows: A GIScience workflow management system for reproducible and replicable studies

   Tao Hu, Taiping Liu , Venkat Sai Divyacharan Jarugumalli , Samuel Cheng , and Chengbin Deng

   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2025
6. Spatiotemporal analysis of heat-related emergency department visits and hospitalizations in Florida (2005–2021): A Bayesian change point detection approach

   Ehsan Foroutan , Saeid Niazmardi , and Tao Hu

   Sustainable Cities and Society, 2025
7. Revealing key factors of heat-related illnesses using geospatial explainable AI model: A case study in Texas, USA

   Ehsan Foroutan , Tao Hu, and Ziqi Li

   Sustainable Cities and Society, 2025
8. Examining the relationship between health literacy and the primary source of information for healthcare services among rural residents

   Xuewei Chen , Tao Hu, Rose W Njoroge , Ming Li , and Gary Kreps

   Health Behavior Research, 2025

2024

1. Crowdsourcing Geospatial Data for Earth and Human Observations: A Review

   Xiao Huang , Siqin Wang , Di Yang , Tao Hu, Meixu Chen , Mengxi Zhang , and 5 more authors

   Journal of Remote Sensing, 2024
2. Assessing heat vulnerability in Philadelphia using geographically weighted principal component analysis (GWPCA): A geospatial big data-driven approach

   Ehsan Foroutan , Tao Hu, Fan Zhang , and Hongbo Yu

   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2024
3. GPT, large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence (GAI) models in geospatial science: a systematic review

   Siqin Wang , Tao Hu, Xiao Huang , Yun Li , Ce Zhang , Huan Ning , and 3 more authors

   International Journal of Digital Earth, 2024
4. Using smartphone user mobility to unveil actual travel time to healthcare: An example of mental health facilities

   Lixiaona Yu , Tao Hu, Taiping Liu , and Yunyu Xiao

   Health & Place, 2024
5. Mapping the landscape and roadmap of geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) in quantitative human geography: An extensive systematic review

   Siqin Wang , Xiao Huang , Pengyuan Liu , Mengxi Zhang , Filip Biljecki , Tao Hu, and 25 more authors

   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2024

2023

1. Examining the effect of housing density and composition on residential burglary in Wuhan, China

   Han Yue , Tao Hu, and Lian Duan

   Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2023
2. Urban traffic flow prediction: A dynamic temporal graph network considering missing values

   Peixiao Wang , Yan Zhang , Tao Hu, and Tong Zhang

   International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2023
3. A global portrait of expressed mental health signals towards COVID-19 in social media space

   Siqin Wang , Xiao Huang , Tao Hu, Bing She , Mengxi Zhang , Ruomei Wang , and 5 more authors

   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2023
4. Understanding public perspectives on fracking in the United States using social media big data

   Xi Gong , Yujian Lu , Daniel Beene , Ziqi Li , Tao Hu, Melinda Morgan , and 1 more author

   Annals of GIS, 2023
5. Not a waste: Wastewater surveillance to enhance public health

   Anna Gitter , Jeremiah Oghuan , Anuja Rajendra Godbole , Carlos A Chavarria , Carlos Monserrat , Tao Hu, and 5 more authors

   Frontiers in Chemical Engineering, 2023
6. Making waves: Integrating wastewater surveillance with dynamic modeling to track and predict viral outbreaks

   Tin Phan , Samantha Brozak , Bruce Pell , Jeremiah Oghuan , Anna Gitter , Tao Hu, and 5 more authors

   Water Research, 2023
7. Spatiotemporal Bayesian Regression

   Ortis Yankey , Tao Hu, Han Yue , Peixiao Wang , and Xiao Xu

   In Spatiotemporal Analytics , 2023
8. Public surveillance of social media for suicide using advanced deep learning models in Japan: time series study from 2012 to 2022

   Siqin Wang , Huan Ning , Xiao Huang , Yunyu Xiao , Mengxi Zhang , Ellie Fan Yang , and 5 more authors

   Journal of medical internet research, 2023
9. Actionable Environmental Science Through Social Media Platforms

   Tao Hu, Xiao Huang , and Siqin Wang

   In Actionable Science of Global Environment Change: From Big Data to Practical Research , 2023
10. A 4D Theoretical Framework for Measuring Topic-Specific Influence on Twitter: Development and Usability Study on Dietary Sodium Tweets

    Lingchao Mao , Emily Chu , Jinghong Gu , Tao Hu, Bryan J Weiner , and Yanfang Su

    Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2023

2022

1. Human mobility and COVID-19 transmission: a systematic review and future directions

   Mengxi Zhang , Siqin Wang , Tao Hu, Xiaokang Fu , Xiaoyue Wang , Yaxin Hu , and 5 more authors

   Annals of GIS, 2022
2. The times, they are a-changin’: tracking shifts in mental health signals from early phase to later phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia

   Siqin Wang , Xiao Huang , Tao Hu, Mengxi Zhang , Zhenlong Li , Huan Ning , and 5 more authors

   BMJ Global Health, 2022
3. A multi-view bidirectional spatiotemporal graph network for urban traffic flow imputation

   Peixiao Wang , Tong Zhang , Yueming Zheng , and Tao Hu

   International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2022
4. Exploring the impact of under-reported cases on the COVID-19 spatiotemporal distributions using healthcare workers infection data

   Peixiao Wang , Tao Hu, Hongqiang Liu , and Xinyan Zhu

   Cities, 2022
5. A hybrid data-driven framework for spatiotemporal traffic flow data imputation

   Peixiao Wang , Tao Hu, Fei Gao , Ruijie Wu , Wei Guo , and Xinyan Zhu

   IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022
6. Urban-regional disparities in mental health signals in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic: a study via Twitter data and machine learning models

   Siqin Wang , Mengxi Zhang , Xiao Huang , Tao Hu, Zhenlong Li , Qian Chayn Sun , and 1 more author

   Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2022
7. Urban–rural disparity of social vulnerability to natural hazards in Australia

   Siqin Wang , Mengxi Zhang , Xiao Huang , Tao Hu, Qian Chayn Sun , Jonathan Corcoran , and 1 more author

   Scientific reports, 2022
8. Measurement of contagion spatial spread probability in public places: A case study on COVID-19

   Lu Chen , Xiuyan Liu , Tao Hu, Shuming Bao , Xinyue Ye , Ning Ma , and 1 more author

   Applied Geography, 2022
9. Subways and the Diffusion of Knowledge: Evidence from China

   Qiao Wang , Xiuyan Liu , Fan Zhang , and Tao Hu

   China & World Economy, 2022
10. Social media mining under the COVID-19 context: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

    Xiao Huang , Siqin Wang , Mengxi Zhang , Tao Hu, Alexander Hohl , Bing She , and 5 more authors

    International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2022
11. Challenges and opportunities of the spatiotemporal responses to the global pandemic of COVID-19

    Chaowei Phil Yang , Shuming Bao , Wendy Guan , Kate Howell , Tao Hu, Hai Lan , and 5 more authors

    Annals of GIS, 2022
12. Traffic condition estimation and data quality assessment for signalized road networks using massive vehicle trajectories

    Peixiao Wang , Tong Zhang , and Tao Hu

    Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 2022

2021

1. A spatial–temporal network analysis of patent transfers from US universities to firms

   Tao Hu, and Yin Zhang

   Scientometrics, 2021
2. A spatiotemporal data collection of viral cases for COVID-19 rapid response

   Dexuan Sha , Yi Liu , Qian Liu , Yun Li , Yifei Tian , Fayez Beaini , and 5 more authors

   Big Earth Data, 2021
3. Spatiotemporal characteristics and factor analysis of SARS-CoV-2 infections among healthcare workers in Wuhan, China

   Peixiao Wang , Hui Ren , Xinyan Zhu , Xiaokang Fu , Hongqiang Liu , and Tao Hu

   Journal of Hospital Infection, 2021
4. Estimating unreported COVID-19 cases with a time-varying SIR regression model

   Zhenghong Peng , Siya Ao , Lingbo Liu , Shuming Bao , Tao Hu, Hao Wu , and 1 more author

   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
5. Spatiotemporal Differences of COVID-19 Infection Among Healthcare Workers and Patients in China From January to March 2020

   Peixiao Wang , Xinyan Zhu , Wei Guo , Hui Ren , and Tao Hu

   Ieee Access, 2021
6. A bibliometric analysis and network visualisation of human mobility studies from 1990 to 2020: Emerging trends and future research directions

   Siqin Wang , Mengxi Zhang , Tao Hu, Xiaokang Fu , Zhe Gao , Briana Halloran , and 1 more author

   Sustainability, 2021
7. Human Mobility Data in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Characteristics, Applications, and Challenges

   Tao Hu, Siqin Wang , Bing She , Mengxi Zhang , Xiao Huang , Yunhe Cui , and 5 more authors

   International Journal of Digital Earth, 2021
8. ODT FLOW: Extracting, analyzing, and sharing multi-source multi-scale human mobility

   Zhenlong Li , Xiao Huang , Tao Hu, Huan Ning , Xinyue Ye , Binghu Huang , and 1 more author

   Plos one, 2021
9. Geographical detector-based spatial modeling of the COVID-19 mortality rate in the continental United States

   Han Yue , and Tao Hu

   International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021
10. Revealing public opinion towards COVID-19 vaccines with Twitter data in the United States: spatiotemporal perspective

    Tao Hu, Siqin Wang , Wei Luo , Mengxi Zhang , Xiao Huang , Yingwei Yan , and 5 more authors

    Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2021
11. The spatiotemporal interaction effect of COVID-19 transmission in the United States

    Lingbo Liu , Tao Hu, Shuming Bao , Hao Wu , Zhenghong Peng , and Ru Wang

    ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021
12. Spatiotemporal Estimation of COVID-19 Outbreak Using Infection Data of Healthcare Workers

    P Wang , T Hu , S Bao , H Liu , and X Zhu

    2021
13. Building an Open Resources Repository for Covid-19 Research (preprint)

    Tao Hu, Weihe Wendy Guan , Xinyan Zhu , Yuanzheng Shao , Lingbo Liu , Jing Du , and 5 more authors

    2021

2020

1. Spatiotemporal patterns of COVID-19 impact on human activities and environment in mainland China using nighttime light and air quality data

   Qian Liu , Dexuan Sha , Wei Liu , Paul Houser , Luyao Zhang , Ruizhi Hou , and 5 more authors

   Remote Sensing, 2020
2. Taking the pulse of COVID-19: A spatiotemporal perspective

   Chaowei Yang , Dexuan Sha , Qian Liu , Yun Li , Hai Lan , Weihe Wendy Guan , and 5 more authors

   International journal of digital earth, 2020
3. Racial segregation, testing sites access, and COVID-19 incidence rate in Massachusetts, USA

   Tao Hu, Han Yue , Changzhen Wang , Bing She , Xinyue Ye , Regina Liu , and 2 more authors

   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020
4. Building an Open Resources Repository for COVID-19 Research

   Tao Hu, Weihe Wendy Guan , Xinyan Zhu , Yuanzheng Shao , Lingbo Liu , Jing Du , and 5 more authors

   Data and Information Management, 2020
5. Examining the change of human mobility adherent to social restriction policies and its effect on COVID-19 cases in Australia

   Siqin Wang , Yan Liu , and Tao Hu

   International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020
6. How does scholarly use of academic social networking sites differ by academic discipline? A case study using ResearchGate

   Weiwei Yan , Yin Zhang , Tao Hu, and Sonali Kudva

   Information Processing & Management, 2020

2019

1. Human action recognition based on scene semantics

   Tao Hu, Xinyan Zhu , Wei Guo , Shaohua Wang , and Jianfeng Zhu

   Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2019
2. Human interaction recognition using spatial-temporal salient feature

   Tao Hu, Xinyan Zhu , Shaohua Wang , and Lian Duan

   Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2019
3. Bridging open source tools and Geoportals for interactive spatial data analytics

   Bing She , Tao Hu, Xinyan Zhu , and Shuming Bao

   Geo-spatial Information Science, 2019
4. Development and implementation of a dynamic and 4D GIS based on semantic location model

   Xinyan Zhu , Tao Hu, Xinyue Ye , Wei Guo , Liang Huang , Hanjiang Xiong , and 4 more authors

   Geo-spatial Information Science, 2019
5. A systematic spatial and temporal sentiment analysis on geo-tweets

   Tao Hu, Bing She , Lian Duan , Han Yue , and Julaine Clunis

   Ieee Access, 2019

2018

1. Depth sensor based human detection for indoor surveillance

   Tao Hu, Hao Zhang , Xinyan Zhu , Julaine Clunis , and Gelan Yang

   Future Generation Computer Systems, 2018
2. Modelling the effects of street permeability on burglary in Wuhan, China

   Han Yue , Xinyan Zhu , Xinyue Ye , Tao Hu, and Sonali Kudva

   Applied geography, 2018
3. Urban crime prediction based on spatio-temporal Bayesian model

   Tao Hu, Xinyan Zhu , Lian Duan , and Wei Guo

   PloS one, 2018