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2026
How Nancy Pelosi Got Me into AI Trading
AI’s Environmental Bargain
Local Economic Spillovers from Drone Delivery Infrastructure
2023
Bringing underserved communities life-saving aid
Bayesian hierarchical modeling for actigraph data
Green space, tree canopy, parks, and life expectancy
2022
Co-kriging brake and tire-wear metals
GIS for Misaligned Variables
Elemental composition of particles across Los Angeles
Jun 5, 2026EssayForward Future Originals
AI’s Environmental Bargain
AOC’s jar of brown water was misleading. But the conversation she started is important.
Jan 2026PreprintSSRN
Local Economic Spillovers from Drone Delivery Infrastructure: Evidence from Ghana’s GH3 Distribution Hub
A preprint on local economic effects around drone delivery infrastructure and Ghana’s GH3 distribution hub.
Oct 2024ArticleEnvironmental Research: Health
Risks of source and species-specific air pollution for COVID-19 incidence and mortality in Los Angeles
A Los Angeles analysis linking source- and species-specific air pollution risks with COVID-19 incidence and mortality.
Dec 20, 2023PerspectiveScience Robotics
Bringing underserved communities life-saving aid through aerial logistics
A perspective on aerial logistics for access to medical supplies and other life-saving aid in underserved communities.
Dec 2023ArticleAnnals of Applied Statistics
Bayesian hierarchical modeling and analysis for actigraph data from wearable devices
A Bayesian hierarchical modeling framework for analyzing actigraph data collected from wearable devices.
Mar 2023ArticleEnvironment International
The association of green space, tree canopy and parks with life expectancy in neighborhoods of Los Angeles
A neighborhood-scale Los Angeles study of green space, tree canopy, parks, and life expectancy.
Oct 2022ArticleEnvironment International
Co-kriging with a low-cost sensor network to estimate spatial variation of brake and tire-wear metals and oxidative stress potential in Southern California
A Southern California sensor-network analysis of brake and tire-wear metals and oxidative stress potential.
2022DissertationUCLA eScholarship
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Misaligned Variables: Advances in Small-Area Analyses for Environmental Health Sciences
A dissertation on spatial analysis methods for environmental health questions where geographic variables do not align cleanly.
Jan 1, 2022ArticleEnvironmental Pollution
Elemental composition of fine and coarse particles across the greater Los Angeles area: Spatial variation and contributing sources
A study of fine and coarse particle composition across greater Los Angeles and the sources contributing to that spatial variation.
Aug 2021ArticleEnvironment International
Spatial analysis of COVID-19 and traffic-related air pollution in Los Angeles
A Los Angeles spatial analysis of COVID-19 patterns and traffic-related air pollution.
Jan 2021PreprintarXiv
Bayesian hierarchical modeling and analysis for physical activity trajectories using actigraph data
The arXiv preprint version of the actigraph modeling work, available as a locally embedded PDF.
Dec 2020ArticleEnvironmental Science & Technology Letters
Decreases in Near-Road NO and NO2 Concentrations during the COVID-19 Pandemic in California
An analysis of how near-road nitrogen oxide concentrations changed during the COVID-19 pandemic in California.
Jul 2017ArticleEnvironmental Health Perspectives
Levels and Determinants of DDT and DDE Exposure in the VHEMBE Cohort
A cohort study of DDT and DDE exposure levels and determinants in the VHEMBE cohort.
Aug 2016Conference abstractISEE Conference Abstracts
Spatial Determinants of Bike Mode Share in American Cities: Potential for Health and Environmental Co-Benefits
A conference abstract on spatial determinants of bike mode share and potential health and environmental co-benefits.
May 2015ArticleEnvironment International
Populations potentially exposed to traffic-related air pollution in seven world cities
A seven-city analysis of populations potentially exposed to traffic-related air pollution.
Jul 2014ArticleEnvironment International
mSpray: a mobile phone technology to improve malaria control efforts and monitor human exposure to malaria control pesticides in Limpopo, South Africa
A mobile-phone technology paper for improving malaria-control operations and monitoring pesticide exposure in Limpopo, South Africa.
Sep 2013Conference abstractISEE Conference Abstracts
mSpray: Using cell-phone technology to monitor population exposure to pesticides used for malaria control
A conference abstract on cell-phone technology for monitoring exposure to pesticides used in malaria control.
Feb 7, 2013ArticleEnvironmental Health
Cyclist route choice, traffic-related air pollution, and lung function: a scripted exposure study
A scripted exposure study of cyclist route choice, traffic-related air pollution, and lung function.