Fahui Wang had his B.S. in geography from Peking University, China, and both his M.A. in economics and PhD in city and regional planning from the Ohio State University. He was a recipient of the LSU Rainmaker Award for outstanding research, scholarship and creative activity (2015), LSU Distinguished Faculty Award (2018), LSU Distinguished Research Master Award (2022), and the CPGIS Distinguished Scholar Award (2023). He was elected as a fellow of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) in 2025. He is among the top 1% most-cited researchers in Geography in the world.
Research Interests
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human geography (urban, economic, and transportation)
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city and regional planning
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crime analysis
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public health
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spatial analytics in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Selected Publications
Selected Books
Wang, F. and L. Liu. 2024. Computational Methods and GIS Applications in Social Science (3rd ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. ISBN 9781032285184 (406 Pages). Visit https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/4CM7V4 for access to related data and program files.
Liu, L. and F. Wang. 2024. Computational Methods and GIS Applications in Social Science— Lab Manual. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press (284 Pages)
Wang, F. and C. Wang. 2022. GIS-Automated Delineation of Hospital Service Areas. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. ISBN 9780367202286 (208 Pages)
Selected Papers in 2026
Zeng, Y., F. Wang, and S. Chen. 2026. Disparities of children’s obesogenic environments in Louisiana. International Journal of Health Geographics 25(1), 36
Liu, L. and F. Wang. 2026. Physics-informed graph learning for spatially contiguous and capacity-constrained hospital service area delineation. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 128, 102459.
Liu, L., T. Onega, E. L. Moen, A. N. A. Tosteson, R. E. Smith, Q. Wang, L. Cowan, F. Wang. 2026. Telehealth Infrastructure for Cancer Care in the United States. Scientific Data 13, 881. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07063-z
Li, H., F. Wang, R. Zhang, A. Qin, E. Javan, R. Reddy, L. Harper, P. Hung, Y. Kang. 2026. Measuring maternal healthcare accessibility in Florida by a data-driven extension of V2SFCA. Health & Place 98, 103608
Liu, L. and F. Wang. 2026. Detecting cross-boundary regional collaboration in China by network community scanning with human mobility data. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 53, 163-179
Liu, L. and F. Wang. 2026. Reconciling 2SFCA and i2SFCA via distance decay parameterization. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 40, 1479-1496.