Position:
Lecturer in Spatial Analysis and GIS
School:
Planning and Geography
Email:
Telephone:
+44 (0)29 208 75798
Fax:
+44 (0)29 208 74845
Location:
Room 1.54, Glamorgan Building
Dr Yiming Wang
Research Interests
- Regional science, urban economics and economic geography
- Quantitative methods: GIS, agent-based modelling and spatial econometrics
- International development theories and planning practice (focussed on China)
02/2011 “Beyond Preference: Modelling Segregation under Regulation”, at the 50th WRSA annual conference, Monterey, California, USA.
04/2009 “Implementing Farmland Preservation in China’s Urban Periphery: National Food Security and Local Livelihood Transition”, graduate student summer research grant awarded by the USC US-China Institute.
11/2008 Travel grant for attending the 55th annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International in New York City, funded by the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate.
06/2008-05/2009 “An Application of Fuzzy Urban Sets on US CMSAs” (with Eric Heikkila), funded by the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate.
05/2006-08/2006 “Fujita and Ogawa Revisited: An Agent-based Modelling Approach” (with Eric Heikkila), funded by the USC Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy.
05/2004-08/2004 “Illegal Farmland Leasing in China’s Urban Periphery”, funded by the Canadian International Development Agency through Ecoplan China project at the University of Waterloo.
Qualifications
Ph.D. in Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California, USA (2011).
Master’s in Applied Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada (2005).
Bachelor’s in Economics, Fudan University, China (2002).
Career Profile
Lecturer in Spatial Analysis and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University, UK (2009 – present).
Awards and Prizes
02/2010 14th Springer Prize for best paper presented by an early career scholar at the Western Regional Science Association (WRSA) annual conference.
02/2009 23rd Charles Tiebout Prize for the annually best PhD student paper, awarded by the WRSA.
Presentations
Conference Presentations
02/2011 “Beyond Preference: Modelling Segregation under Regulation”, at the 50th WRSA annual conference, Monterey, California, USA
02/2010 “Decomposing the Entropy Index of Racial Diversity: In Search of Two Types of Variance”, at the 49th WRSA annual conference, Sedona, Arizona, USA.
10/2009 Using Simple Concepts to Describe Complex Phenomenon: Megacities as Fuzzy Urban Sets”, at the 50th anniversary ACSP conference. Crystal City, Virginia, USA.
02/2009 “White Flight in Los Angeles County, 1960 -1990: A Model of Fuzzy Tipping”, at the annual conference of Western Regional Science Association, Napa, California, USA.
11/2008 “White Flight in Los Angeles County, 1960 -1990: A Model of Fuzzy Tipping”, at the 55thannual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.
09/2008 “Fujita and Ogawa Revisited: And then What? “, at the first PhD workshop on New Technology and Planning, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
02/2007 “Fujita and Ogawa Revisited: An Agent-based Modelling Approach” (With Eric Heikkila), at the annual conference of Western Regional Science Association, Newport Beach, California, USA.
06/2005 “The Political Ecology of Illegal Farmland Leasing in China’s Urban Periphery”, at the Annual Conference of Canadian Association of Geographers, London, Ontario, Canada.
09/2004 “Leasing the Land or Losing the Land: A Farmland Conversion Case from Hainan Province, China”, at the Annual Meetings of Ontario Division of Canadian Association of Geographers, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Invited Presentations
02/2009 “Agent-based Modelling in Urban Planning Research: Paradigm and Application”, invited by the National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) based at USC.
03/2008 “Agent-based Modelling and Urban Economics”, invited by the School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
03/2007 “Fujita and Ogawa Revisited: An Agent-based Modelling Approach” (With Eric Heikkila), invited by the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate.
Teaching Profile
Statistics and GIS (for first year undergraduate planning and geography students at Cardiff University).
GIS and Quantitative Methods (for second year undergraduate planning and geography students at Cardiff University).
Research Project (for final year undergraduate planning students at Cardiff University).