Our Research Projects

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Previous Research
Reducing human impacts of flash flooding research 2019–2022
Flood Risk Human Impacts

Reducing the Human Impacts of Flash Floods

Developing microdata and causal models to understand human impacts from flash flooding and support improved disaster mitigation, preparedness, and resilience planning.

Research Assistant · Award: $350,000
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Selected Publications

Selected publications highlighting research in GeoAI, disaster response, spatial data science, and geospatial intelligence.

GeoAI Foundation Models 2026
Measuring the Spatial Explicitness of GeoAI and Geospatial Foundation Models: A Systematic Review and Future Roadmap
Bing Zhou et al. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
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Disaster Response Large Language Models 2026
Rapid Disaster Response and Damage Estimation with Social Media and Pretrained Large Language Models: Insights from Multiple Hurricanes
Bing Zhou et al. Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
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Street View Damage Assessment 2025
Hyperlocal Disaster Damage Assessment Using Bi-Temporal Street-View Imagery and Pre-Trained Vision Models
Yifan Yang, Lei Zou, Bing Zhou et al. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems.
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NLP Toponym Recognition 2023
TopoBERT: A Plug and Play Toponym Recognition Module Harnessing Fine-Tuned BERT
Bing Zhou, Lei Zou, Yingjie Hu, Yi Qiang, Daniel Goldberg. International Journal of Digital Earth.
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BERT Disaster Response 2022
VictimFinder: Harvesting Rescue Requests in Disaster Response from Social Media with BERT
Bing Zhou et al. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems.
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