Joynal Abedin

Position: Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences
Email: j.abedin@lsu.edu
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Degrees

Ph.D. (2025) Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

MSc. (2020) Human Geography and Environment, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

BSc. (2018) Geography and Environment, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

 

Research Interests:

GIScience; Spatial Data Science; Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI); Remote Sensing; Natural Hazard and Disaster Risk Assessment; Climate Change Adaptation and Community Resilience; Environmental Health and Exposure Assessment; Human–Environment Interactions; Spatial Statistics and Geospatial Modeling.

 

Awards & Honors

2025 CaGIS Ph.D. Student Scholarship, Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS)
2025 Graduate Student Excellence in Research Award, Texas A&M University.
2025 1st Position, Graduate Student Research Competition (Poster), Student Research Week 2025, Texas A&M University.
2024 2nd Position, Texas GIS Day 2024 Graduate student presentation competition.
2024 Travel Grant, AAAS Section E Travel Grant for the AAAS Conference in Boston 2025.
2024 Travel Award, NSF funded Cyber-Training for Disaster Management Workshop, CO.
2024 NSF I-GUIDE Summer School 2024, UCAR, Boulder, CO with travel award.
2024 NSF I-GUIDE 2024 Virtual Poster Competition Winner (Co-author).

 

Selected Publications

Zhou, B., Zou, L., Yang, M., Lin, B., Mandal, D., Abedin, J., Cai, H., Ji S., Klein, A., & Tian, H. (2026). Rapid Disaster Response and Damage Estimation with Social Media and Pretrained Large Language Models: Insights from Multiple Hurricanes. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 116(3), 501-523.

Yang, Y., Zou, L., Zhou, B., Li, D., Lin, B., Abedin, J., Yang, M. (2025). Hyperlocal disaster damage assessment using bi-temporal street-view imagery and pre-trained vision models. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 121, 102335.

Lin, B., Zou, L., Yang, M., Zhou, B., Mandal, D., Abedin, J., Cai, H., Ning, N. (2024). Progress in understanding human-COVID-19 dynamics using geospatial big data: a systematic review. Annals of GIS, 1-21.

Mandal, D., Zou, L., Wilkho, R.S., Baig, F., Abedin, J., Zhou, B., Cai, H., Gharaibeh, N., Lam, N.S.N. (2024). PRIME: A CyberGIS platform for resilience inference measurement and enhancement. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 114, 102197.

Abedin, J., Zou, L., Yang, M., Rohli, R., Mandal, D., Qiang, Y., Akter, H., Zhou, B., Lin, B., Cai, H. (2024). Deciphering Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of Flood Exposure in the United States. Sustainable Cities and Society, 105444.

Zhou, B., Zou, L., Yang, M., Lin, B., Mandal, D., Abedin, J. (2024). Overlooked voices under lockdown: Mapping humanitarian needs in 2022 Shanghai COVID-19 outbreak. Cartography and Geographic Information Science.

Mandal, D., Zou, L., Abedin, J., Zhou, B., Yang, M., Lin, B., Cai, H. (2023). Algorithmic uncertainties in geolocating social media data for disaster management. Cartography and Geographic Information Science.

Lin, B., Zou, L., Duffield, N., Mostafavi, A., Cai, H., Zhou, B., Tao, J., Yang, M., Mandal, D., Abedin, J. (2022). Revealing the Global Linguistic and Geographical Disparities of Public Awareness to Covid-19 Outbreak through social media. International Journal of Digital Earth, 15(1). 868-889.

Zhou, B., Zou, L., Mostafavi, A., Lin, B., Yang, M., Gharaibeh, N., Cai, H., Abedin, J., & Mandal, D. (2022). VictimFinder: Harvesting rescue requests in disaster response from social media with BERT. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 95, 101824.

Yang, M., Zou, L., Cai, H., Qiang, Y., Lin, B., Zhou, B., Abedin, J., Mandal, D. (2022). Spatial–temporal land loss modeling and simulation in a vulnerable coast: A case study in coastal Louisiana. Remote Sensing, 14(4), 896.

Rabby, Y. W., Li, Y., Abedin, J., & Sabrina, S. (2022). Impact of land use/land cover change on landslide susceptibility in Rangamati municipality of Rangamati District, Bangladesh. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 11(2), 89.

Rabby, Y. W., Hossain, M. B., & Abedin, J. (2021). Landslide susceptibility mapping in three Upazilas of Rangamati hill district Bangladesh: application and comparison of GIS-based machine learning methods. Geocarto International, 37(12), 3371-3396.

Billah, M. M., Rahman, M., Abedin, J., & Akter, H. (2021). Land cover change and its impact on human–elephant conflict: A case from Fashiakhali forest reserve in Bangladesh. SN Applied Sciences, 3(6), 1-17.

Hassan, M.M., Ash, K., Abedin, J., Paul, B.K., Southworth, J. (2020). A Quantitative Framework for Analyzing Spatial Dynamics of Flood Events: A Case Study of Super Cyclone Amphan. Remote Sensing, 12(20): 3454.

Abedin, J., Rabby, Y.W., Hasan, I., Akter, H. (2020). An Investigation of the Characteristics, Causes, and Consequences of June 13, 2017, Landslides in Rangamati District Bangladesh. Geoenvironmental Disasters, 7(23): 1-19.

Abedin, J., Khatun, H. (2020). Impacts of Flash Flood on Livelihood and Adaptation Strategies of the Haor Inhabitants: A Study in Tanguar Haor of Sunamganj, Bangladesh. Dhaka University Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 8 (2019).

Book Chapters

Zou, L., Mostafavi, A., Zhou, B., Lin, B., Mandal, D., Yang, M., Abedin, J., Cai, H. (2024). GeoAI for Disaster Response. In Handbook of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (pp. 287-304). CRC Press.