Ms. Weixuan Lyu

University of Connecticut

Weixuan Lyu is a second-year doctoral student in Geography at the University of Connecticut (UConn). Weixuan’s research focuses on perceived food environments and health inequity. Her current project employs a mixed-method approach combining a structured survey and GIS modeling techniques to analyze how people perceive their potential food space at the individual level. Participants’ perceived food space is measured and visualized in the context of GIS, compared with their actual food activity space, and further correlated with their food security status and sociodemographic variables to reveal how food perception is moderated by individual characteristics. Weixuan’s research is funded by the Africana Studies Institute at UConn. Prior to her doctoral studies, Weixuan received her Master of Science degree in application of geographic information science from East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science in geographic information science from Henan University.