Smart Cities
for Good

Smart Cities for Good (SCG) is a research group that aims to solve urban social and environmental challenges through smart city technologies.

Goals

Goal #1

We aim to advance our fundamental understanding of the complex role of human mobility in people’s exposure to environmental factors and health-promoting environments by using and developing innovative geospatial data science methods.

Challenges

Smart City
Technologies

Innovative Geospatial Data Science Methods
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Geospatial Big Data
Smart Sensor
High-performance Computing
Internet of Things (IoT)

Members

Director: Dr. Junghwan Kim (Virginia Tech)

Members:
- Shashank Karki (Ph.D. Geospatial and Environmental Analysis Student, Virginia Tech)
- Meghan Albritton (Ph.D. Geospatial and Environmental Analysis Student, Virginia Tech)
- Grace Lee Casado, M.S. (MD Candidate, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine)
- Andrea Renshaw (VT Small Grains Breeding Program, Virginia Tech)
- Fabiha Rahman (M.S. Geography Student, Virginia Tech)
- Zach Sherman (M.S. Geography Student, Virginia Tech)
- Abdul-Azeez Ademola Lawal (M.S. Geography Student, Virginia Tech)
- Rory Smith (M.S. Geography Student, Virginia Tech)
- Sandesh Sharma-Dulal (M.S. Geography Student, Virginia Tech)
- Vaidhyanathan Chandramouli (M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Student, Virginia Tech)
- Sophiya Gyanwali (M.S. Geography Student, Virginia Tech; Now at Ph.D. Student at Arizona State University)
- Will Jones (Undergraduate Student, Virginia Tech)
- Nami Jain (Undergraduate Student, Virginia Tech)
- Keegan Miller (Undergraduate Student, Virginia Tech)
- Hardy Siregar (Undergraduate Student, Virginia Tech)

Recent Collaborators:
- Dr. Jinhyung Lee (Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environment, Western University)
- Dr. Kee Moon Jang (Postdoctoral Researcher, Senseable City Lab, MIT)
- Dr. Ismini Lourentzou (Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech)
- Dr. Brendan David-John (Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech)
- Dr. Gregg Gonsalves (Associate Professor, Yale School of Public Health)
- Dr. Benjamin Howell (Assistant Professor, Yale School of Medicine)
- Dr. Mengxi Zhang (Assistant Professor, Department of Health Systems and Implementation Science, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine)
- Dr. Ruichuan Zhang (Assistant Professor, Myers-Lawson School of Construction, Virginia Tech)
- Dr. Michael S. Bloom (Professor, Department of Global and Community Health, George Mason University)
- Dr. Tegwyn Brickhouse (Professor, Department of Dental Public Health & Policy, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry)