After winning two best student paper awards at the 12th Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies and the 16th International Conference on Geoinformatics, Dr. Tang U Wa, a fresh PhD graduate from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Macau (UM), has won his third Best Student Paper Award (Third Prize) at the URISA 2008 Annual Conference in New Orleans, USA.
Established in 1963, the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) is an authoritative organization whose members consist of government officials in the United States and Canada, administrative staff and technicians in the IT industry and scholars from higher education institutions. URISA is committed to help the US and the Canadian Governments to improve the quality of urban life through the use of geographic information technologies.
Having been awarded Third Prize at the 2008 URISA Student Paper Competition, Dr. Tang’s paper titled “Data Capture and Data Mining of Urban Air Pollution: The Building-Based Approach” proposed an innovative building-based approach that can better predict the complex spatial variation of traffic emission, urban geometry, dispersion and air (noise) pollution. The Review Committee believes that Dr. Tang’s approach may initiate a new methodology for data mining of urban spatial data for environmental assessment.
The paper Dr. Tang presented at the conference is a part of his doctoral dissertation supervised by Professor Wang Zhishi.
Caption: Tang U Wa (right) won his third best student paper award at the URISA 2008 Annual Conference in the United States
