Di Zhu
GIScience | GeoAI | Spatial Thinker
Assistant Professor of GIScience
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Hi, this is Di Zhu. Welcome to my website!
I am an Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Science (GIScience) in the Department of Geography, Environment and Society (GES), University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (UMN), and the director of Geospatial Data Intelligence (GeoDI) Lab.
I have a PhD in Cartology and GIScience from Peking University (PKU), a B.S. in Geographic Information Systems, and a B.Ec. in Economics also from PKU. My research focuses on GIScience, Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI), Spatial Networks, Social Sensing, and Urban Complexities.
I serve as a faculty member at the Minnesota Population Center (MPC), an executive committee member of the Master of GIS program at UMN, an affiliated professor at UMN Data Science Initiatives (DSI), a Board Member at the CPGIS, the Associate Editor of Computational Urban Science, and a Faculty Scholar at Center for Transportation Studies (CTS), UMN. I was a graduate research assistant at the Spatial-temporal Social Sensing (S3) Lab, PKU from 2015-2020 and a visiting researcher at SpaceTimeLab, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering, University College London (UCL), between 2018 -2019.
