Dr. Daniel Z. Sui

Research

Dr. Sui’s primary research interests include the integration of spatial analysis and modeling with GIS for socio-economic, public health, and environmental applications, theoretical issues in geographic information sciences, urban geography, information ecology, and emerging geographies of the information society. Dr. Sui has teaching duties in introductory and advanced GIS courses, geography of East Asia, and advanced research seminars in GIScience and urban/economic geography. Dr. Sui currently serves as the editor-in-chief of GeoJournal. Visit his personal webpage for his recent research projects and publications.

Projects

• Sui, D.Z. and J.B. Holt. 2007. Cognitive and analytical issues of applying value-by-area (cartogram) mapping in public health. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Sui, D.Z. 2006. Environmental impacts of the digital economy: From industrial ecology to information ecology. Report for the NSF's Technology for Sustainable Environment (TSE) Program.
• Sui, D.Z. 2005. Integrating the functional and regional approach in industrial ecology: Conceptual and operational issues. AT&T Foundation. 
• Sui, D.Z. and F.Q. Mei. 2005. Ecological and Environmental Planning for Guiyang. The UNDP Technical Assistance Project of “City Planning, Management and Development of China in 21st Century,”
• Miaou, S.P. and D.Z. Sui. 2004. Impacts of the Changing Demographics on Highway Transportation Safety: A Texas Initiative. Center for Transportation Safety, Texas Institute of Transportation.

Experience

• 2004-present Assistant Vice President for Research and Director for Geospatial Information Science and Technology (GIST), Office of the Vice President for Research, Texas A&M University
• Professor 2002-present Department of Geography, TAMU
• Adjunct Professor 2005-present, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Rural Public Health, Texas A&M Health Science Center
• Adjunct Professor 2004-present School of Resources Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, P.R. China
• Adjunct Professor 2002-present College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University and Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, P.R. China

Awards

• Holder of the Reta A. Haynes Endowed Chair in Geosciences, 2001-2011. Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
• Invited speaker for the 2008 Global Dialogue on Emerging Science and Technology (GDEST), The U.S. State Department, Cape Town, South Africa
• Recipient of 2007 Michael Breheny Prize for the best paper in Environment and Planning
• Invited speaker, 2007 AAAS Forum on Science & Technology
• 2006 Tod Spieker Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, May 5, 2006
• 2004-2005 ORISE Fellowship for Distinguished Scholars, awarded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), July 1, 2004
• 2004 AT&T University Fellow in Industrial Ecology, awarded by AT&T via an international competition, Jan. 20, 2004

Selected Publications

• Sui, D.Z. 2008.  The wikificaiton of GIS and its consequences, Or Angelina Jolie’s new tattoo and the future of GIS.  Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, 32(1):1-5.
• Sui, D.Z. 2007.  Geospatial technologies for surveillance: Tracking people and commodities in real-time.  Geographical Review, 97(3):3-9.
• Sui, D.Z. and Ball, M. (eds.). 2006. Geospatial Matters: Exploring the implications of a digital earth. GeoTec Media, San Francisco.
• Sui, D.Z. and Wu, X.B. 2006. Changing residential segregation patterns in a prismatic metropolis: The case of Houston. Environment and Planning B, 33:559-579 .
• Xu, Z.W. and Sui, D.Z. 2006. Small-world characteristics on transportation networks: A perspective from network autocorrelation. Journal of Geographical Systems, 9(2):153-168.

Links

• Personal webpage

Affiliations

• Member, External Expert Panel, The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
• Contributing editor for Geo World (since 2004) GIScience section editor for Sage’s Encyclopedia of Human Geography.
• Member, GIScience Model Curriculum Committee, the U.S. University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS).
• External reviewer for the GIScience program at Chinese University of Hong Kong.