CV

Education

• Ph.D in Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2025 (expected)
• M.A. in Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2022
• B.S. in Geographic Information Science, Wuhan University, 2020
  • Exchange program: Geographic Information Science and Cartography, University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2019

Work experience

• Teaching Assistant
  • Fall 2022: Geog176A - Intro. Geog. Inf. Sys., UC Santa Barbara
  • Summer Session B 2021: Geog176A - Intro. Geog. Inf. Sys., UC Santa Barbara
  • Spring 2021: Geog176C - GIS Applications, UC Santa Barbara
  • Winter 2021: Geog176B - Technical GIS, UC Santa Barbara
  • Fall 2020: Geog176A - Intro. Geog. Inf. Sys., UC Santa Barbara
• Graduate Student Researcher
  • Jan 2022 - Jul 2022: Department of Geography, UC Santa Barbara
• Teaching Associate (Instructor)
  • Summer Session B 2022: Geog176A - Intro. Geog. Inf. Sys., UC Santa Barbara

Publications

A Long Short-Term Memory-Based Approach for Detecting Turns and Generating Road Intersections from Vehicle Trajectories

Wan, Z., Li, L., Yu, H., Yang, M. (2022). A Long Short-Term Memory-Based Approach for Detecting Turns and Generating Road Intersections from Vehicle Trajectories. Sensors, 22(18):6997. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22186997

Decision tree model for extracting road intersection feature from vehicle trajectory data

Wan, Z., Li, L., Yang, M., Zhou, X. (2019). Decision tree model for extracting road intersection feature from vehicle trajectory data. Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica, 48(11): 1391-1403.

Reconstructing Individual Activity Trajectories by Hidden Semi-Markov Model

Han, Z., Wan, Z., Guo, W., & Ren, C. (2018). Reconstructing Individual Activity Trajectories by Hidden Semi-Markov Model. In 2018 26th International Conference on Geoinformatics (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

Talks

Inferring environmental drivers of animal migration path choice

February 27, 2022

Talk at American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2022, New York, NY (Online)

Teaching

GEOG 176A: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems and Science

Service

• 2022-present: Reviewer of Journal of Spatial Information Science
• 2022-present: Reviewer of Scientific Reports
• 2021-present: Reviewer of Geographical Analysis
• 2017-2018: Vice Minister of WHU Youth Volunteer Association
• 2016-2017: Member of WHU Youth Volunteer Association