Somayeh Dodge will be giving a talk on "Movement as a Marker: Measuring social behavior and exposure through movement" on Wednesday, October 8 in HSSB 1173.
Wed October 8 PSTAT Seminar 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, HSSB 1173 Speaker: Somayeh Dodge, UCSB
Somayeh Dodge, UCSB
Associate Professor, Geography;
Associate Director of UCSB Center for Spatial Studies and Data Science
https://somayehdodge.info/
Title: Movement as a Marker: Measuring social behavior and exposure through movement
Abstract:
Movement serves as a powerful marker of social behavior and environmental exposure, offering unique insights into how individuals engage with one another and with the spaces they inhabit. Patterns of movement reveal the rhythms of daily life, shape opportunities for interaction, and influence access to resources and social contexts. This talk highlights how spatial data science approaches can measure and model these dynamics across settings ranging from human social systems to ecological environments.
Bio:
Somayeh Dodge is an Associate Professor of Spatial Data Science in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also serves as Co-Associate Director of the Center for Spatial Studies and Data Science. She earned her PhD in Geography with a specialization in Geographic Information Science (GIScience) from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, in 2011. Her research develops data analytics, knowledge discovery methods, modeling approaches, and visualization techniques to study movement behavior in dynamic human and ecological systems. She is the recipient of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Early–Mid Career Research Award (2025), a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award (2021), and the Emerging Scholar Award from the Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) (2022).