Ying Tu

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and Urban Studies

Education

Ph.D., Tsinghua University (2024)

Areas of Specialty

  • GIS and spatial data science
  • Human–environment interactions
  • Climate adaption and sustainability

Selected Publications

Tu, Y., Rafols, R., Xu, Y., Butler, N., Ababneh, L., Tao, F., Ramanathan, V., Houlton, B.Z., & Liao, C. (2026). Scaling up enhanced rock weathering for equitable climate change mitigation. Communications Sustainability, 1(1), 32.

Tu, Y., Chen, B., Liao, C., Wu, S., An, J., Lin, C., Gong, P., Chen, B., Wei, H., & Xu, B. (2025). Inequality in infrastructure access and its association with health disparities. Nature Human Behaviour, 9(8), 1669-1682.

Tu, Y., Wu, S., Chen, B., Weng, Q., Bai, Y., Yang, J., Yu, L, & Xu, B. (2024). A 30 m annual cropland dataset of China from 1986 to 2021. Earth System Science Data, 16(5), 2297-2316.

Tu, Y., Chen, B., Yang, J., & Xu, B. (2023). Olympic effects on reshaping urban greenspace of host cities. Landscape and Urban Planning, 230, 104615.

Tu, Y., Chen, B., Lang, W., Chen, T., Li, M., Zhang, T., & Xu, B. (2021). Uncovering the nature of urban land use composition using multi-source open big data with ensemble learning. Remote Sensing, 13(21), 4241.

Ying Tu
Contact Information
Emailying.tu@uconn.edu
Office LocationPhilip E. Austin Building, Room 423
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Research Interests
  • Intersections of infrastructure access climate change and human health to support equitable infrastructure systems and climate-resilient sustainable communities.