Publications

Journal 

• Huang Y, Lee J. (2025). Delay in COVID-19 Vaccinations: The Role of Travel Time to Vaccine Sites. COVID. 5(5):70. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/covid5050070

• Naderi, H., Abbasian, Z., & Huang, Y., 2025. Disparity between expected spatial accessibility and actual travel time to vaccination sites: Implications for COVID-19 immunization delays. SSM-Population Health, 30, 101804. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2025.101804

• Kuchavaram, M., Huang, Y. 2025. GIS-based Platform for Near Real-Time Prediction of Mosquito Distribution. Transactions in GIS, DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.70009 

Journal 

• Huang, Y., Hu, Z., Guerro, A., Brennan, E., and Gonzales, X., 2024. Prevalence of Depressive Symptoms in a Predominantly Hispanic/Latinx South Texas Community in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Healthcare , 12, 2035. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12202035 

• Lee, K., Zhao, M, Monahan, L, and Huang, Y. 2024. Sociodemographic Disparity Patterns of Perceived Stress and Resilience Among Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners During the Prolonged COVID-19 Pandemic. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 20 (105034). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nurpra.2024.105034

• Huang, Y., Lee, J., et al., 2024. Sociodemographic and Geographic Disparities in COVID-19 Booster Vaccination in Nueces County, Texas, USA, Heliyon (Cell Press). 2024 Mar 30;10(6):e27763, doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e27763; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e27763

• Lee., J. and Huang, Y. 2024. Social Vulnerability and COVID-19 Pandemic Outcomes: Evidence from Spatial Quantile Regression. The Review of Regional Studies. 54, 27-52. https://doi.org/10.52324/001c.117217.

• Lee, K., Zhao, M., Boham, M., Cong, X., Huang. Y. 2024. Impact of Digitalized Community-based Square-Stepping Exercise Program (DC-SSEP) on Cognitive and Balance Functions among Older Adults: A Pilot Study. Interdisciplinary Nursing Research, 3(1):p 9-16, March 2024. | DOI: 10.1097/NR9.0000000000000053

• Zhao, M., Lee, K., Huang, Y. 2024. Development and psychometric testing of the Coronavirus Awareness and Preparedness Scale: A cross-sectional study. Health Science Reports http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.1857.

Peer-Reviewed Proceedings 

• Naderi, H., Z., Abbasian, Z., Huang, Y., 2024. Multi-Scale Demographic Analysis of Covid-19 Booster Vaccination Rates using Graph Neural Networks. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), Washington, DC, USA.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData62323.2024.10825296

• Naderi, H., Z., Abbasian, Z., and Huang, Y., 2024, A Comparative Analysis of Survival Models to Predict COVID-19 Booster Vaccine Uptake: The Influence of Geography and Demography, CaGIS+UCGIS Symposium 2024, Columbus, Ohio State University.

Journal 

• Lee, J., and Huang, Y., 2022. COVD-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: The Role of Socioeconomic Factors and Spatial Effects. 10, 352.Vaccines.  https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10030352

• Lee, J., and Huang, Y., 2022. COVID-19 Impact on U.S. Housing Markets: Evidence from Spatial Regression Models, Spatial Economic Analysis. DOI: 10.1080/17421772.2021.2018028

• Wetz, M., Powers, N., Turner, J., and Huang, Y. 2022. No Widespread Signature of the COVID-19 Quarantine Period on Water Quality across a Spectrum of Coastal Systems in the United States of America. Science of the Total Environment, 807, 150825. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150825.

Peer-Reviewed Proceedings 

• Naderi, H., Abbasian, Z. , and Huang, Y., 2023. Measuring Spatial Accessibility of COVID-19 Vaccination Sites. International Conference on Recent Advances in Medical, Medicine and Health Sciences., Houston, August 3-4, 2023.

• Su, L, Huang, Y., and Hu, Z., 2023.  Comparison on Geospatial Interpolation Methods for Generating Coastal March Substrates from Lidar Point Clouds. 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. July 16-23. Pasadena, California, 2023.

Journal 

• Zhao, M., Monahan, L., Monahan, M., Huang, Y., Mathur, S. 2021. The Early Response to the Coronavirus-Surveys in Southern Texas. Global Journal of Health Science, 13(10).

• Powers, N., Pinchback, J., Flores, L., Huang. Y., Wetz, M., Turner, J. 2021. Long-term Water Quality Analysis Reveals Correlation between Bacterial Pollution and Sea Level Rise in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 166, 112231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112231

• Zhao, M., Kee, L, and Huang, Y., 2021. A Critical Appraisal: Development and Use of Perceived Stress Scale in U.S. Immigrants. Journal of Nursing Measurement. https://doi.org/10.1891/JNM-D-19-00091.

• Huang, Y., Meyer P., Jin, L. 2019. Spatial access to health care and elderly ambulatory care sensitive hospitalizations. Public Health, 169, 76-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2019.01.005

• Su, L., Huang, Y.. 2019. Seagrass resource assessment using WorldView-2 imagery in the Redfish Bay, Texas. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 7, 98; doi:10.3390/jmse7040098

• Huang, Y., Meyer P., Jin, L. 2018. Neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics, health spatial access, and emergency department visits for ambulatory care sensitive conditions for elderly. Preventive Medicine Reports, 12, 101-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2018.08.015.

• Hu, Z.Y., Hu, H.D., and Huang, Y., 2018. Association between nighttime artificial light pollution and sea turtle nest density along Florida coast: a geospatial study using VIIRS remote sensing data. Environmental Pollution, 239, 30-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2018.04.021

• Huang, Y., 2016. Conceptually Categorizing Geographic Features from Text based on Latent Semantic Analysis and Ontologies. Annals of GIS, 20(4), DOI: 10.1080/19475683.2016.1144648

• Huang, Y., and Bian, L., 2015. Using Ontologies and Formal Concept Analysis to Integrate Heterogeneous Tourism Information. IEEE Trans. Emerging Topics Computing. 3(2): 172-184

• Huang, Y., and Meyer P., 2012. Mapping Spatial Variations of Health Insurance Coverage in the Coastal Bend, Texas. Journal of Maps, DOI:10.1080/17445647.2012.745382

• Bian, L., Huang, Y., Lee, G., Lim, E., Mao, L. 2012. Modeling Individual Vulnerability to Communicable Diseases – Framework, Design, and Implementation. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102 (5):1016-1025.  https://www.jstor.org/stable/23275576

• Su, L., Huang, Y., Chopping, M., Rango, A., and Martonchik, J., 2011. Variations in reflectance with seasonality and viewing geometry: Implications for semi-arid vegetation mapping with MISR data, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 32(23), 8183-8193 

• Huang, Y., and Bian, L., 2010. Ontology-driven Tour Planning Systems: A Conceptual Framework. Environmental and Planning B. 37, 483-499. https://doi.org/10.1068/b340

• Huang, Y., 2009. Toward Semantic Interoperability in Travel Planning on the Semantic Web: Learning a Reference Ontology from Online Heterogeneous Tourist Attractions Classification Systems. Information Technology & Tourism. 11(1), 51-66.

• Huang, Y. and Bian, L., 2009. A Bayesian Network and Analytic Hierarchy Process Based Personalized Recommendations for Tourist Attractions over the Internet. Expert Systems with Applications, 36, 933-943. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2007.10.019

• Huang, Y. and Su, L., 2006. A Fast Algorithm for Constructing Multi-resolution Representations of Linear Features to Support the Progressive Transmission of Vector Map Data. GISciene & Remote Sensing , 41 (3), pp. 197-217.

Peer-Reviewed Proceedings 

• Huang, P., and Huang, Y., 2020. Spatial-temporal patterns of total suspected matters (TSM) in the Yellow River Estuary. The 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Sept. 26, Oct. 2020.

• Su, L., Huang, Y., and Hu, Z., 2020. An Empirical Study on Fully Convolutional Network and Hypercolumn Methods for UAV Remote Sensing Imagery Classification. The 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Sept. 26, Oct. 2020.

• Clary, C. and Huang, Y., 2014. Spatial access to substance abuse treatment for low-income and minority households: a case study in Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas. HealthGIS 2014: 49-56

• Huang, Y., Su, L. and Jeffress, G, 2012.  An Error Analysis for UAV Remote Sensing. The 20th International Conference on Geoinformatics, Hong Kong, June 15 – 17.

• Huang, Y. 2011. A Latent Semantic Analysis-based Approach to Geographic Feature Categorization from Text. Fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

• Lupher, B, Rietz, L., Lyle, S. D., Huang, Y., Smith, R. A., Concannon, K., 2011. Modeling Habitats of Mosquitoes Using Remote Sensing and GIS: Improving Public Health through Vector Prevention, The 2011 URISA GIS in Public Health Conference, Atlanta. June 29, 2011.