The Social, Spatial, and Dynamic Analysis Lab

People

PI

• Zack W. Almquist, Professor, UW

Graduate Students

• Zach Brown, PhD Student in Sociology, UW
• Yehong Deng, PhD Student in Sociology, UW
• Elizabeth Nova, PhD Student in Sociology, UW (DSDT Fellow)
• Brandon Morande, PhD Student in Sociology, UW

Alumni

• Ihsan Kahveci, PhD Sociology - Postdoc, Oxford University, UK
• David Coomes, PhD Epidemiology (DSDT Fellow)
• Aja Sutton, PhD Geography - Postdoc Stanford University
• June Yang, PhD Sociology - Research Scientist at CSDE & eScience, UW
• Connor Gilroy, PhD Sociology - Blue Rose Research
• Larisa Ozeryansky, PhD, Interdisciplinary Studies - Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Public Health

Posters

Forced Displacement of People Experiencing Homelessness: Housing and Movement Outcomes after Encampment Clearances
Morande, B., Serry, K., Hagopian, A., & Almquist, Z. W. (2026). Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting. Winner, PAA 2026 Best Poster Award (P08 — Data and Methods / Applied Demography / Other). [PDF]

Spatial-temporal Analysis of Particulate Exposure in Those Experiencing Homelessness Compared to the Housed Population in Seattle, WA
Deng, Y., Gassett, A. J., Bi, J., Sutton, A., Kaufman, J. D., Flaxman, A. D., Hagopian, A., & Almquist, Z. W. (2026). Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting. [PDF]

Current Funding

• 2022-2027     Almquist, Z. (PI). “CAREER: Measuring and Modeling the Multi-Modal Networks and Demographics of People Experiencing Homelessness.” Grant #SES-2142964, NSF Social and Economic Sciences (SES), Sociology. $500,000.
• 2024-2026 Almquist, Z.W. (Lead-PI), Hagopian, A., Hebert, P., McCormick, T., Yang, J., Kajfasz, O., Rothfolk, J., Carey, C. ``Community-driven Enumeration and Needs Assessment of People Experiencing Homelessness: A high-frequency method for enumeration and needs assessment of the unsheltered population of people experiencing homelessness Community-driven Enumeration and Needs Assessment of People Experiencing Homelessness: A high-frequency method for enumeration and needs assessment of the unsheltered population of people experiencing homelessness.” University of Washington Population Health Initiative’s Tier 3 Pilot Grant Program with support from CSDE and Sociology. $217,593.

Past Funding

• 2022-2023     Hagopian, A., Kajfasz, O., Zhao, B., Hebert, P., Almquist, Z., Luo, G. and Dobra, A. “Innovating better methods to enumerate individuals experiencing homelessness.” The University of Washington Population Health Initiative’s Tier 2 Pilot Grant with support from CSDE and the Department of Health Systems and Population Health. $106,822.
• 2022-2023     Williams, N., Almquist, Z.W., Crowder, K., Curran, S., Ellis, M. Herting, J., and Louie, P. “Feasibility Study for Puget Sound Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing Data Project: Sound Data for a Healthy Sound.” Royalty Research Fund (RRF), University of Washington. $39,192.
• 2022-2023     de la Iglesia, H., Martin, M. and Almquist, Z.W. “Sleep health in people experiencing homelessness.” University of Washington Population Health Initiative’s Tier 1 Pilot Grant Program with support from CSDE and the Department of Biology. $38,468.91.
• 2020-2024     Curran, S.R. (PI), McCormick, T. (Co-PI), Wakefield, J. (Co-PI), Almquist, Z. (Co-PI).”T32 Data Science for Demographic & Population Health Training at the University of Washington.” Grant #5T32HD101442-04, NIH NICHD. $1,824,000.
• 2020-2023     Jones, J.H. (PI), Kline, M. (Co-PI), Smaldino, P. (Co-PI), Moya, C. (Co-PI), and Almquist, Z.W. (Co-PI). “RAPID: Coupled Contagion, Behavior-Change, and the Dynamics of Pro and Anti-Social Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Grant #BCS-2028160, NSF, Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Cultural Anthropology (CA). $233,283.
• 2019-2022     Nicholas Sidiropoulos, N. (PI), Xiao Fu (Co-PI), and Zack W. Almquist(Co-PI). “Geometric Factorization Tools for Community Mining” Award #W911NF-19-1-0407, Army Research Office. $550,000.
• 2014-2017     Zack W. Almquist (PI). “Scalable Temporal Network Models with Population Dynamics: Estimation, Simulation, and Prediction.” Award #W911NF-14-1-0577, Young Investigator Program, Army Research Office. $146,079.
• 2017     Zack W. Almquist (PI). “Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program/High School Research Apprenticeship Program.” Addendum to Award #W911NF-14-1-0577, Army Research Office. $18,000.
• 2016-2017     Zack W. Almquist (PI). “Demographic Opportunity Structures in Activity-Based Online Social Networks.” Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry, and Scholarship, Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Minnesota. $40,708.
• 2014-2015     Jack DeWaard (Co-PI) and Zack W. Almquist (Co-PI). “Internal Migration and Recovery from the Great Recession in Urban Minnesota Counties and Neighborhoods.” CURA Faculty Interactive Research Program, University of Minnesota. $45,000.
• 07/2014         Zack W. Almquist (PI) and Glen Meeden (Co-PI). “A Bayesian Approach to Finite Population Sampling for the Social Sciences: Applications to Sample Weighting and Small Area Estimation.” Population Center Proposal Development Grant, University of Minnesota. $8,000.
• 2013-2014     Carter T. Butts (PI) and Zack W. Almquist (Co-PI). “Doctoral Dissertation Research: Dynamic Network Models for the Scalable Analysis of Networks with Missing or Sampled Joint Edge/Vertex Evolution.” Grant #SES-1260798, NSF, Social & Economic Sciences (SES), Methodology, Measurement and Statistics (MMS). $15,140.