Dr. Ge is a faculty co-lead of the Urban Resilience Initiative based at UCF’s downtown campus. His research is focused on urban resilience through public-private partnerships and smart technologies. Recent funded research includes smart and connected communities in risk communication, urban and education equitable resilience hubs, hurricane evacuation behaviors and logistics, socioeconomic impacts of flooding, and data syntheses for public health crises. Method expertise covers interdisciplinary research design, survey methods, quantitative analysis, and spatial analysis (GIS). His research appears in Risk Analysis, Public Administration Review, Environment and Planning B, Transportation Research Part D, Natural Hazards, Journal of Risk Research, International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, among other academic journals. He is an active university representative in the local governmental steering committees for smart cities and community resilience.