Ninghua Wang

Academics: I am Ninghua Wang, or Nathan. I am a 2nd year Ph.D. student from the joint geography program of San Diego State University and University of California, Santa Barbara. Yes, I spend my Ph.D. in two gorgeous beach towns.

Research: I am fascinated by geographic patterns. I enjoy reading maps are formed, e.g. urban structures, human travel trajectories, and state boundaries. Complex science provides lots of insights of explaining (and generating) those interesting patterns.

Expertise As a geographer, I am also good at making maps. I have a suite of mapping software. Also if you have any issue related to spatial analysis(means you need to work with spatial data), let me know. I may provide some suggestion.

I want a deeper understanding of complex science, its history and current development. Also I would like to expend my knowledge in Information Theory. It would be great if I can come up with a paper when I am done with SFI summer school.

Project I just came up an idea of study the boundaries of African countries using spatial ABM. The boundaries of African countries, drew two centuries ago in the age of imperialism, was once considered arbitrary but remain quite stable till now. I am wondering simple boundary negotiation principle may apply to the case here. So I would like to prove it with a spatial ABM.