Alamin Molla, M.Sc.

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I’m Alamin Molla, a Ph.D. student in Geographic Information Science (GIScience) at the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University. My academic journey began with a Bachelor's degree in Urban and Rural Planning (BURP) from Khulna University, Bangladesh. I then earned an M.Sc. in Geography from Auburn University, followed by a second M.Sc. in Geoinformatics and Geospatial Intelligence from George Mason University.

As an urban scientist, I am dedicated to addressing complex urban challenges using advanced spatial science, including geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI), spatial statistics, and remote sensing. I am also a certified drone pilot by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

My research focuses on urban heat, air quality, and planetary health. Currently, I serve as a graduate research assistant for the Southwest Urban Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL)—a multi-million dollars, Department of Energy-funded initiative that brings together Arizona's three public research universities, national labs, and community stakeholders.

Beyond research, I actively contribute to the academic community. I have served as a panel reviewer for NASA proposals and regularly participate in major academic conferences like the American Association of Geographers (AAG) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU), where I take on roles such as chair, co-chair, and session organizer. I also serve as a peer reviewer for multiple journals, including Nature Scientific Reports, and Urban Climate, and mentor high school and master's students to help cultivate the next generation of urban scientists.

I published a sole-author forum paper in the Journal of Thermal Biology. In the paper, I emphasized how climate change and extreme heat will potentially affect human fertility. Follow the link for details.

We published a research paper in the Urban Climate journal. We applied the eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) Machine Learning model to predict air temperature and the Geographically Weighted Regression Model (GWR) for heat exposure analysis, considering Maricopa County, Arizona, as a case study. Follow the link for details.

We published a paper in the Nature Scientific Reports. We evaluated contributions of urbanization and global climate change to urban land surface temperature while considering Lagos, Nigeria, as a case study. Follow the link for details.

We published a paper in the Sustainable Cities and Society journal. We worked on developing a multi-criteria decision support framework for outdoor heat stress management while considering the Phoenix Metropolitan Area as a case study. Follow the link for details.

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