Xiang (Peter) Chen

Associate Professor

Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and Urban Studies

Education

Ph.D., The Ohio State University (2014)

Areas of Specialty

• GIS, Spatial Analysis & Modelling
• Health Geography
• Transport Geography

Selected Publications

Xu, R., Huang, X., Zhang, K., Lyu, W., Ghosh, D., Li, Z., & Chen, X.* (2023). Integrating human activity into food environments can better predict cardiometabolic diseases in the United States. Nature Communications, 14(1), 7326.

Chen, X., Ye, X., Widener, M. J., Delmelle, E., Kwan, M. P., Shannon, J., … & Jia, P. (2022). A systematic review of the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) in community food environmental research. Urban Informatics, 1(1), 22.

Chen, X., Zhang, A., Wang, H., Gallaher, A., & Zhu, X. (2021). Compliance and containment in social distancing: Mathematical modeling of COVID-19 across townships. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 35(3), 446-465.

Chen, X.*, & Jia, P. (2019). A comparative analysis of accessibility measures by the two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 33(9), 1739-1758.

Chen, X.*, & Kwan, M. P. (2015). Contextual uncertainties, human mobility, and perceived food environment: The uncertain geographic context problem in food access research. American Journal of Public Health, 105(9), 1734-1737