RESEARCH GRANTS & FUNDINGS 

• National Science Foundation (NSF), # 2427242, Municipal Fiscal Health and Resilience to Coastal Flooding, Grant Amount: $499,653, FY:2025-2028,
  Current Status: Funded
  My role: PI

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA), “Unearthing the Urban Agriculture–Environment Connection: Implications for Practice and Policies” Grant Amount: $300,000, Period of Grant Award: FY 2024 – 2026, Current Status: Funded
  My role: Co-PI

• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), “Greening Camden: Educating, Empowering, and Enriching Communities for Climate Action and Cleaner Air”
  Grant Amount: $100,000. Period of Grant Award: FY2024-2026. Current Status: Funded
  My role: Co-PI

• New Jersey State Office of Planning Advocacy, “Impact Assessment of the draft Final State Development and Redevelopment Plan 2024 Update” ; Grant Amount: $200,000. Period of Grant Award: FY2024-2025Current Status: Funded
  My role: Co-PI

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOK REVIEW, AND BOOK CHAPTER

 Note: Students and Mentees are Underscored.

2025

• He, Q.* (2025). Contextualizing Crime as an Environmental Stressor on Mental Health In Urban Community: A Scoping Review, Social Science and Humanities Open. Vol 12, 101765, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.101765 

• He, Q., Wu, L., Lee, C.,  Zhu, C., Bai, W., Guo, W., & Ye, X. (2025). Greener the safer? Effects of Urban Green on Community Safety and Perception of Safety Using Satellite and Street View Imagery Data Analysis. Journal of Criminal Justice. Volume 97, 102372, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102372

• He, Q. & Li, J.(2025). How do Crime and Neighborhood Environment affect Transit Ridership? Evidence from Five Metropolitan Cities in the Texas Triangle, Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Volume 29,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2024.101311

• Wu, L., He, Q., Zhu, C., Huang, X., & Ye, X. (2025), Direction-specific Population Mobility Improves Urban Crime Modeling: Evidence from Houston, TX; New Research in Crime Modelling and Mapping Using Geospatial Technologies (edited by Michael Leitner) [Book Chapter] 

2024:

• Tahmasbi, B., Hajian, P., Tahmasbi, F.,  & He, Q. (2024), Measuring integrated accessibility for sustainable mobility: a fuzzy set approach case study; Computational Urban Science 4 (35), https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-024-00146

• Li, J., He, Q., & Pan, Q. (2024), Crime, environments, service characteristics, and transit ridership: a multilevel analysis; Transportation, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-023-10459

2023:

• Best, K.,  He, Q., Reilly, A., Niemeier, D., Anderson, M., & Logan, T. (2023), Demographics and risk of isolation due to sea level rise in the United States;
  Nature Communications 14 (1), 7904; 

• Best, K., He, Q. Reilly, A., Tran, N., & Niemeier, A. (2023), Rent affordability after hurricanes: Longitudinal evidence from US coastal states; Risk Analysis 1 (13), https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full

• Borjigin, S., He, Q., Niemeier, A.; (2023), COVID-19 transmission in US transit buses: a scenario-based approach with agent-based simulation modeling (ABSM); Communications in Transportation Research 3, 100090;12

• Jakar, G., Gordon, K., & He, Q. (2023), The Temporal and Spatial Relationships Between Professional Sport Events and Reported Vehicular Crashes: An Analysis of Cleveland, Ohio; Sport Management Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/14413523.2022.21; 6

• He, Q. (2023) Cities for Life: How Communities Can Recover from Trauma and Rebuild for Health by Jason Corburn; Journal of Planning Literature, 37 (3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0885412222110245

2022

• Covid-19 pandemic impacts on essential transit riders: findings from a US Survey; He, Q., Rowangould, D., Karner, A., Palm, M., & LaRue, S.; Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 105, 103217; 88;

• The roles of built environment and social disadvantage on the geography of property crime; He, Q., Li, J.; Cities,121 (103471), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.10 

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