Research
The School is excited to introduce three new faculty, Dr. Yanmei Li from the Ohio State University, Dr. Diana Mitsova Boneva from the University of Cincinnati and Dr. Asli Ceylan Oner from Virginia Tech.
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Dr. Yanmei Liyli22@fau.eduAssistant Professor Dr. Yanmei Li joined FAU’s School of Urban and Regional Planning in July 2008 as an Assistant Professor. She holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the Ohio State University and a Master’s degree in Regional Economics from Beijing Normal University in China. Dr. Li has worked as an Assistant Professor for two years at Western Kentucky University and has taught various courses in Statistics, Geography and Urban Planning. She has actively participated in the plan-making process of local communities, and served on multiple advisory committees on planning in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She has led and involved in projects in adaptive reuse of historic buildings and Habitat for Humanity eco-village conceptual plan. Dr. Li’s research interests focus on advanced quantitative methods of spatial statistics and econometrics, housing and community development, and real estate and urban economics and finance. She is very interested in policies related to affordable housing, sustainable community development, housing programs for people with special needs, historic preservation, and housing rehabilitation. She is also interested in the relationship between housing market, racial minorities and immigrants. She has conducted extensive research in residential mortgage default and foreclosure and its impact on neighborhood quality and stability. Her research on foreclosure and neighborhood stability has received significant attention from local media, policy makers, and research organizations. |
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Dr. Diana Mitsovadmitsova@fau.eduAssistant Professor Diana Mitsova holds a Ph.D. in Regional Development Planning from the University of Cincinnati and a Master of Public Affairs from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis. She joined the School of Urban and Regional Planning in August 2008 as an Assistant Professor. She has professional experience in geographic information systems applications, GPS data collection and image processing. She had worked on environmental and public health-related projects funded by the World Bank and the European Commission in her native Bulgaria. Dr. Mitsova has a background in research design, statistical and spatial analysis, as well as geographic information systems. Her research focuses on historical and projected patterns of land cover change, open space conservation, water resource management, and environmental planning and modeling using geographic information systems, interactive computer simulation and spatial-statistical methods. Her expertise in spatial data analysis includes cellular automata, spatial regression modeling, Monte Carlo methods, geostatistics and integrated statistical/GIS models. Recently, she used a cellular automata – Markov chain model to project future patterns of urbanization in the Greater Cincinnati area and incorporated the principles of “green infrastructure” in the modeling framework. She is also interested in locational patterns of urban activities, transportation and air quality, and environmental justice. She intends to examine the environmental policies in the post-socialist countries of Eastern Europe. |
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Dr. Asli Ceylan Oneraoner@fau.eduAssistant Professor Dr. Asli Ceylan Oner joined the School of Urban and Regional Planning at FAU in August 2008 as an assistant professor. She received her Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in Environmental Design and Planning in 2008. She holds master degrees from the London School of Economics and Political Science in Cities, Space and Society; and from Ball State University in Architecture and MBA. She has Bachelors in Architecture from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey. Dr. Oner’s main research interests include globalization, locational strategies of transnational advanced producer service firms, planning and governance of global cities, and metropolitan growth and decentralization. She is also interested in comparative urbanization and European cities. Dr. Oner is a member of the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC), centered in the Geography Department at Loughborough University in England. In GaWC, she participated in various projects related to transnational firms and global urban networks. She also took part in different projects in the Metropolitan Institute of Virginia Tech related to metropolitan decentralization of US cities. Dr. Oner has taught introductory courses in urbanization and development and senior level courses in European urbanization. |
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