Ming-hsiang Tsou
Founding Director at Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age (HDMA)
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolMing-hsiang Tsou is a geographer and research-driven founder who directs the Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age and serves as a tenured professor at San Diego State University, bringing over two decades of academic leadership to GIScience and human dynamics. He blends theoretical research in social media, big data, and mobile GIS with practical impact—leading NSF-funded projects (including a $1.3M grant) and spinning novel analytics into a startup, PathGeo. His work bridges disciplines (GIScience, public health, sociology, communication) to model spatiotemporal human behavior for applications like disaster response and disease surveillance. Tsou has influenced the field through textbooks, editorial roles, and participation on U.S. National Academy of Sciences committees, shaping research and policy on geotargeted alerts and geospatial priorities. He is notable for institutionalizing K-12 and community college GIS education via the GeoTech Center and for building a transdisciplinary research center that operationalizes social media signals into actionable real-world maps. Based in San Diego, he combines deep domain expertise with an entrepreneur’s focus on turning geospatial research into tools and services.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
B.S. Geography, B.S. Geography at National Taiwan UniversityM.A. Geography, M.A. Geography at University at BuffaloPh.D. Geography, Ph.D. Geography at University of Colorado Boulder
Chinese, English
Github Skills (11)
san7
diego6
gmail4
health3
python3
data-science2
health-data2
big-data2
data-mapping1
leaflet1
mapping-tools1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
HDMA-SDSU/HDMA-SocialMediaAPI
Dec 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes in 3 years 9 months
mingtsou/geog583
Feb 2020 - Feb 2024
Web Mapping @ Oregon State University
Contributions:63 pushes in 4 years
geographyoregonmappingmaporegon-state-university
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