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Assistant Professor
Dr. Yamada's CV
Office: Orson Spencer Hall, Room 211C
Phone: (801) 585-3177
Fax: (801) 581-8219


Email: ikuho.yamada@geog.utah.edu

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  Education

 
Ph.D., Geography, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, 2004
M.E., Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan, 1999
B.E., Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan, 1997
  Research Interests

 
Spatial statistics and quantitative methods
Geographic information systems and science
Medical and health geography
Urban transportation
  Courses Taught

 
GEOG 3090/5090 Introduction to Medical Geography (Spring semesters)
GEOG 5160/6160 Spatial Modeling with GIS (Spring semesters)
GEOG 6000 Spatial Statistics (Fall semesters)
GEOG 6960 Seminar, Detection and Monitoring of Spatial Clusters
GEOG 6960 Seminar, Network-based Spatial Analysis
  Publications

 
Yamada, I. and J.-C. Thill. "Local Indicators of Network-constrained Clusters in Spatial Patterns Represented by a Link Attribute." The Annals of the Association of American Geographers. In press.
Zick, C.D., K.R. Smith, J.X. Fan, B.B. Brown, I. Yamada, and L. Kowaleski-Jones. "Running to the Store? The Relationship between Neighborhood Environments and the Risk of Obesity." Social Science and Medicine. In press.
Brown, B., I. Yamada, K. Smith, C. Zick, L. Kowaleski-Jones, and J. Fan. "Mixed Land Use and Walkability: Variations in Land Use Measures and Relationships with BMI, Overweight, and Obesity." Health and Place, 15, 2009, 1130-1141.
Siebeneck, L.K., R.M. Medina, I. Yamada, and G.F. Hepner. "Spatial and Temporal Analyses of Terrorist Incidents in Iraq, 2004-2006." Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 32 (7), 2009, 591-610.
Yamada, I., P.A. Rogerson, and G. Lee. "GeoSurveillance: A GIS-based System for the Detection and Monitoring of Spatial Clusters." Journal of Geographical Systems (a special issue), 11 (2), 2009, 155-173.
Smith, K.R., B.B. Brown, I. Yamada, L.R. Kowaleski-Jones, C.D. Zick, and J.X. Fan. "Walkability and Body Mass Index: Density, Design, and New Diversity Measures." American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 35 (3), 2008, 237-244.
Yamada, I. and J.-C. Thill. "Local Indicators of Network-constrained Clusters in Spatial Point Patterns." Geographical Analysis, 39 (3), 2007, 268-292.
Rogerson, P. A. and I. Yamada. "Approaches to Syndromic Surveillance When Data Consist of Small Regional Counts." The 2003 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference Proceedings (as a supplement of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report), 53 (Suppl.), 2004, 79-85.
Yamada, I. and J.-C. Thill. "Comparison of Planar and Network K-functions in Traffic Accident Analysis." Journal of Transport Geography, 12, 2004, 149-158.
Rogerson, P. A. and I. Yamada. "Monitoring Change in Spatial Patterns of Disease: Comparing Univariate and Multivariate Cumulative Sum Approaches." Statistics in Medicine, 23 (14), 2004, 2195-2214.
Yamada, I. and J.-C. Thill. "Enhancing Stated Preference Surveys in Transportation Research: The Contribution of Geographic Information Systems." Transportation Planning & Technology, 26 (5), 2003, 377-396.
Yamada, I. and P. A. Rogerson. "An Empirical Comparison of Edge Effect Correction Methods Applied to K-function Analysis." Geographical Analysis, 35 (2), 2003, 97-109.
Okabe, A. and I. Yamada. "The K-function Method on a Network and its Computational Implementation." Geographical Analysis, 33 (3), 2001, 271-290.
Yamada, I. and A. Okabe. "The K Function Methods on a Network." Theory and Applications of GIS, 8 (1), 2000, 75-82 (in Japanese).
Yamada, I. and Y. Sadahiro. "An Empirical Analysis of Consumers’ Evaluation on Department Stores." Journal of Applied Regional Science, 3, 1998, 49-60 (in Japanese).
  Grants and Awards

 
Conference Grant, National Poverty Center & Economic Research Service. Co-investigator (PIs: Jessie X. Fan and Lori R. Kowaleski-Jones, Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah), 2008.
National Institutes of Health Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant (R21), National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Co-investigator (PIs: Lori R. Kowaleski-Jones and Ken R. Smith, Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah), $275,000, 2008-2010.
Winner of the Population Association of America poster competition, 2007.
Research Support Grant, Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy. Principal investigator, $16,000, 2006-2007.
Winner of the Regional Science Association International dissertation competition, 2005.
Full scholarship to attend "Advanced spatial demography" workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Rostock, Germany). Invited by Dr. Daniel Griffith. November 2005.
Winner of Emerging Scholar Paper Competition, Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group of AAG, 2005.
CSISS Workshop Scholarship, Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science, 2001.
International Student Scholarship, Heiwa Nakajima Foundation (in Japan), 2000 - 2002.