Dr. Xiang Chen

University of Connecticut

Dr. Xiang "Peter" Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Connecticut, USA. He received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree at Beijing Normal University, China, and earned a Ph.D. in geography at The Ohio State University. His research interests are focused on GIScience and community health. He employs GIS instruments and big data analytics to unveil the socioeconomic and health inequalities across urban communities. His topical area is food access, evaluating if community members have equitable access to healthy, affordable food provisioning. His latest project employs a deep learning model for deriving the nutritional information of restaurant from food images, which portrays the nutrition foodscape in Hartford, CT.