Luo Wei

Dr. Luo Wei is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), holding joint appointments in the Department of Geography (Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences) and the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. His research focuses on spatial epidemiology, infectious disease modeling, phylogeography, and health inequality. He leads a multidisciplinary team combining expertise in geography, public health, computational biology, statistics, and environmental sciences.

Dr. Luo's educational background includes a PhD and Master’s in Geography from The Pennsylvania State University and University at Buffalo, respectively. His work bridges geospatial analytics with public health challenges, particularly in understanding disease transmission dynamics and intervention strategies for pathogens like COVID-19, influenza, dengue, and HIV.

Research interests include spatiotemporal disease surveillance, geo-social interaction patterns, and the application of big data and machine learning in health systems. Key contributions include pandemic modeling during the global health crisis and exploring vaccine efficacy and public opinion using social media analysis.

Awarded the Waldo-Tobler Young Researcher Award for GIScience contributions, his research has been published in high-impact journals such as Physics Reports and JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. His career includes a Research Associate role at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School (2019–2020).

Dr. Luo actively collaborates across disciplines, advancing geovisual analytics tools and frameworks like MapReader. He teaches courses in spatial big data, geocomputation, and GIScience.