The Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program (DDETFP) awards annual fellowships to students pursuing degrees in transportation-related disciplines, and, this year, Geography graduate student Yihong Yuan was awarded $5000 (including $1500 to cover travel costs to the 2013 Annual Transportation Research Board meeting in Washington DC).
Yihong scored a double by also winning a UCSB Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship. These fellowships are awarded to exceptional doctoral students from all academic disciplines who have advanced to candidacy and who are in the final stages of completing their dissertation. This award provides a $6,667 stipend plus payment of in-state tuition and health insurance (UCSHIP) for one quarter to allow the awardees more time to finish their dissertations.
According to Yihong, “My research focuses on spatial-temporal data mining and knowledge discovery based on mobile phone usage. The objective is to develop a generalizable framework for extracting and characterizing human mobility patterns from georeferenced mobile phone datasets. This research will enhance our understanding of the relationship between human mobility and Information & Communication technologies, as well as providing insights for modeling urban mobility patterns in the age of instant access.”
Yihong goes on to state, “I am really honored to be receiving these two prestigious awards. It provides me a great opportunity to focus on my research and make a contribution to the field. I hope that one day the results of this research can be potentially utilized by makers of environmental and transportation policies in order to direct people to more sustainable behaviors, as well as business people in the Location-Based Services market.”
Kudos to Yihong!
