Zhe(Sarina) Zhang

Assistant Professor
GIScience, decision science, applied mathematics, spatial uncertainty, big data and CyberGIS, disaster management
Research
Selected Publications
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[1] 2020 Zhang, Z., 2020. Thematic accuracy. The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (2ndQuarter 2020 Edition) John P. Wilson(ed). https://gistbok.ucgis.org/bok-topics/thematic-accuracy-assessment
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[2] 2020 Li, D., Chaudhary, H., and Zhang, Z., 2020. Modeling Spatiotemporal Pattern of Depressive Symptoms Caused by COVID-19 Using Social Media Data Mining. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(14), 4988. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17144988
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[3] 2019 Zhao* J., Zhang*, Z., Sullivan, C., Identifying anomalous nuclear radioactive sources using Poisson Kriging and mobile sensor networks, PLoS ONE 14(5), e021613 (*Contributed equally to this work)
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[4] 2019 Zhang, Z., Geospatial Software Institute: A Knowledge Hub for Driving Sustainable Geospatial Software Ecosystem. The 3rd NSF Workshop on Conceptualizing a National Geospatial Software Institute.https://gsi.cigi.
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[5] 2019 Zhang, Z., Hu, H., Yin, D., Kashem, S., Li, R., Cai, H., Perkins, D., and Wang, S. A CyberGIS-enabled multi-criteria spatial decision support system: a case study on flood emergency management. International Journal of Digital Earth, 12(11): 1364-1381
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[6] 2019 Armstrong, M., Wang., S., and Zhang., Z. 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.
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[7] 2018 Seppänen, H., Luokkala, P., Zhang, Z., Torkki, P., and Virrantaus, K. Critical infrastructure vulnerability- a method for identifying the infrastructure service failure interdependencies, Internation
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[8] 2017 Zhang, Z., Demsǎ, U., Wang, S., and Virrantaus, K. A spatial fuzzy influence diagram for modelling spatial objects’ dependencies: a case study on tree-related electric outages. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 32(2): 349-366.
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[9] 2016 Zhang, Z., and Virrantaus, K. Use of fuzzy decision-making approach in analysis of the vulnerability of street network for disaster management. Nordic Journal of Surveying and Real Estate Research, 11(2): 7-19.
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[10] 2014 Zhang, Z., Demsǎ, U., Rantala, J., and Virrantaus, K. A fuzzy multiple- attribute decision making modelling for vulnerability analysis on the basis of population information for disaster management. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 28(9): 1922-1939.
Education
2016 Doctor of Science (with distinction) in Geoinformatics, minored in applied mathematics, Department of Built Environment, Aalto University (before Helsinki University of Technology), Finland
2009 Master of Science (Technology) in Geomatics, Department of Surveying, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
2005 Bachelor of Environmental Engineering, Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Courses
GEOG 678 Web GIS (online & in class)
GEOG 660 Applications in GIS (online)
GEOG 665 GIS Modeling (online)
GEOG 695 Frontiers in GIScience (in class)
GEOG392/676 GIS Programming (In class, Fall 2020)