Zhang, Zhe
individual record
Assistant Professor
Positions:
- Assistant Professor, Geography, College of Arts and Sciences
overview
Dr. Zhang's primary research area is Geographic Information Science and within it, a focus on Cyberinfrastructure, knowledge-driven spatial decision-making, spatial uncertainty modeling, human-centered Geospatial Artificial Intelligence, and social sensing. Dr. Zhang's research aims to develop scalable, sustainable, and intelligent decision support systems to advance spatial knowledge discovery in various application domains such as disaster resilience, critical infrastructure protection, agricultural risk management, and public health surveillance.
education and training
- Ph.D. in Geoinformatics (with distinction), Aalto University - (Helsinki, Finland) 2016
- M.S. in Geomatics, Helsinki University Central Hospital - (Helsinki, Finland) 2009
selected publications
Academic Articles15
- Li, D., Zhang, Z., Alizadeh, B., Zhang, Z., Duffield, N., Meyer, M. A., ... Behzadan, A. H. (2024). A reinforcement learning-based routing algorithm for large street networks. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS). 38(2), 183-215.
- Song, Z., Chapman, P., Tao, J., Chang, P., Gao, H., Liu, H., Brannstrom, C., & Zhang, Z. (2023). Mapping the Unheard: Analyzing Tradeoffs Between Fisheries and Offshore Wind Farms Using Multicriteria Decision Analysis. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 114(3), 536-554.
- Li, D., & Zhang, Z. (2023). MetaQA: Enhancing human-centered data search using Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) language model and artificial intelligence.. PLoS ONE. 18(11), e0293034-e0293034.
- Huang, X., Xu, Y., Liu, R., Wang, S., Wang, S., Zhang, M., ... Li, Z. (2022). Exploring the spatial disparity of home-dwelling time patterns in the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic via Bayesian inference.. Transactions in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). 26(4), 1939-1961.
- Cui, W., Hu, N., Zhang, S., Li, D., Martinez, L., Goldberg, D., Gueneralp, B., & Zhang, Z. (2022). Analyzing spatial variations of heart disease and type-2 diabetes: A multi-scale geographically weighted regression approach. Computational Urban Science. 2(1), 34.
Chapters2
- Heikkila, H., Kuikka, M., Peralta, J. L., Rahikkala, A., Singh, V., Zhang, Z., & Poudyal, A. (2011). Dynamic Service Design in Healthcare. Neuvo, Y., & Ylonen, S. (Eds.), Bit Bang 3. Entrepreneurship and Services. 172-190. Aalto ARTS Books.
- Amin, P., Heikkila, H., Hyvamaki, T., Korolyk, A., Parkkinen, J., Zhang, Z., & Nangini, C. (2011). Infopreneur- from nomads to knowmads. Neuvo, Y., & Ylonen, S. (Eds.), Bit Bang 3. Entrepreneurship and Services. 8-31. Aalto ARTS Books.
Conference Papers5
- Zhang, Z., Li, D., Song, Z., Duffield, N., & Zhang, Z. (2023). Location-Aware Social Network Recommendation via Temporal Graph Networks. Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Location-based Recommendations, Geosocial Networks and Geoadvertising. 58-61.
- Armstrong, M. P., Wang, S., & Zhang, Z. (2019). The Internet of Things and fast data streams: prospects for geospatial data science in emerging information ecosystems. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 46(1), 39-56.
- Huang, H., Zhang, Z., Li, Q., Zhang, Y., & Wang, S. (2018). High Resolution Remote Sensing Based Ecological Indicators for Evaluating Urban Ecological Quality. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2018.
- Zhang, Z., Sunila, R., & Virrantaus, K. (2010). A SPATIO-TEMPORAL POPULATION MODEL FOR ALARMING, SITUATIONAL PICTURE AND WARNING SYSTEM. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. 38, 69-74.
- Zhang, Z., & Virrantaus, K. (2010). Analysis of Vulnerability of Road Networks on the Basis of Graph Topology and Related Attribute Information. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, Advances in Intelligent Decision Technologies. 4, 353-363.
in the news
- Construction Science Professor Develops Unique App To Gauge Flood Levels Texas A&M Today August 26, 2020
- NSF Grant Supports Texas A&M's Acquisition Of High Performance Computing Platform Texas A&M Today August 26, 2020
researcher on
Co-Principal Investigator1
recent teaching activities
- GEOG360 Natural Hazards Instructor
- GEOG392 Gis Programming Instructor
- GEOG478 Webgis Instructor
- GEOG491 Research Instructor
- GEOG665 Gis Modelling Instructor
Email
zhezhang@tamu.edu
First Name
Zhe
Last Name
Zhang