| SAM Lab Research Group |
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| Graduate Studies |
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Contact me at suzanad@sfu.ca to explore opportunities related to graduate studies at the MSc or PhD levels under my supervision and to join the SAM Lab Research Group. The research is in the field of Geographical Information Systems and Science, more particularly in theoretical and applied aspects of spatial analysis and modeling of complex dynamic geospatial systems. The integration of GIS, geographic automata (cellular automata or agent-based) models, artificial intelligence and soft computing methods are used to represent human-environment interactions to solve environmental problems related to land-use and land-cover change, urban sprawl, ecological, forest and/or coastal landscape processes. |
| SAM Lab Graduate Students |
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Alysha van Duynhoven - MSc student BSc (SFU) Alex Smith - PhD student, BSc, MSc (Waterloo) Cao Cora Cong - MSc student, MEng (Kyushu), BSc (Wuhan) Shuoge Shen - MSc student, BSc (Wuhan) Taylor Anderson - PhD candidate, MSc (SFU), BSc (Waterloo) |
| SAM Lab Alumni |
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Frederick Lafrance - 2018 MSc, BEng (Laval), Visiting
Research Scholar Vers une plateforme cartographique web 2D/3D-dynamique pour la participation citoyenne |
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Alysha van Duynhoven - 2018 BSc (SFU) NSERC USRA, Research
Assistant Geocomputational methods for land cover change |
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Kendra Munn - 2017 BSc (SFU) NSERC USRA, Research Assistant Multi-dimensional modeling of urban environment |
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Olympia Koziatek - 2016 MSc, BA (SFU) Four-dimensional geospatial approaches for modeling vertical urban growth |
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Anthony Lee - 2015 BA (SFU) SFU VPR USRA, Research Assistant Modeling urban environment using CityEngine |
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Mileva Samardzic
- 2014-2015 Research Assistant DSc, BEng (University of Belgrade) Machine Learning methods for modeling forest insect infestations |
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Anthony Jjumba - 2015 PhD (SFU), MSc (SFU), BEng (Makerere)
Towards four-dimensional modeling of geospatial phenomena: An integration of voxel automata and the geo-atom theory |
| Bryn
Montgomery - 2015 MSc (SFU), BSc (San Francisco) Expanding and comparing GIS-based multicriteria decision making methods: A soft computing logic for agricultural land suitability evaluation |
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Tyalor Anderson - 2015 MSc (SFU), BSc (Waterloo) Geographic automata systems approaches for simulating forest insect infestation: A case study of the emerald ash borer |
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Kris Hatch
- 2014 MSc (SFU), BSc (UC Santa Barbara) Integrating soft computing, complex systems methods, and GIS for modeling urban land-use change |
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Mileva Samardzic - 2013
Visiting Research Scholar BEng (University of Belgrade) Forecasting Land use change with data-driven models |
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EunTaek Lim - 2013 Visiting Research Scholar MSc (University of Wageningen) Opinion based model and land use change |
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Micah Brahman - 2013 Post Doctoral Fellow PhD (UC Santa Barbara), MA (UC Santa Barbara), BS (U Minnesota, Twin Cities) Modeling traffic movements in urban environment |
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Richard Minardi - 2012 MSc (SFU), BA (Arizona) Modeling land-use change with logic scoring of preference method, GIS and cellular automata |
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Terence Lai - 2011 MSc (SFU), BSc (SFU) Moldelling spatial dynamics of landslides: Integration of GIS-based cellular automata and multicriteria evaluation methods |
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Liliana Perez - 2011 PhD (SFU), MSc (Bogota), BEng (Bogota) Approaches for modeling spatial dynamics of forest insect disturbances: The integration of GIScience, complex systems and swarming intelligence |
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Anthony Jjumba - 2009 MSc (SFU), BEng (Makerere) An agent-based model for the simulation of urban land-use change at a cadastral scale |
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Christopher Bone - 2009 PhD (SFU), MSc (SFU), BSc (Toronto) Integrating complexity science and artificial intelligence: GIS, agents and reinforcement learning for modeling forest cover change |
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Verda Kocabas - 2008 PhD (SFU), MSc (Istanbul), BCP and BSc
(Ankara) Towards integration of Bayesian Networks with geographic information systems and complex systems theory for urban land use change modelling |
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Sonja Aagesen - 2007,
Research Assistant MA (SFU) Modeling dynamics of early societies with complex systems |
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Shivanand Balram - 2006-2007 Post Doctoral Fellow PhD (McGill), MPhil (Cambridge), BSc (Guyana) Collaborative GIS and spatial complexity |
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Jasper van Vliet - 2006 Visiting Research Scholar MSc (University of Wageningen) Development of variable grid cellular automata model for regional growth |
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Shahram Yassemi - 2006 MSc (SFU), MSc (Idaho), BSc (Wisconsin) Development of a GIS-based spatial decision support system for forest fire management |
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Daniel Stevens - 2005 MSc (SFU), BSc (Toronto) Integration of an irregular cellular automata approach and geographic information systems for high-resolution modelling of urban growth |
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Christopher Bone - 2005 MSc (SFU), BSc (Toronto) Fuzzy-constrained GIS-based cellular automata model of dynamic complex systems: A case study of forest insect infestations |