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A running log of talks, publications, and milestones, organized by year. The current year is expanded by default; click any previous year to expand it.
2026
2026-07-13 - Joined the Early Career Editorial Board of Digital Geography and Society
2026-06-30 - Joined the Research Committee of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)
2026-06-24 - Completed the AWS AI Practitioner Challenge on Udacity
2026-06-15 - Presented at the Workshop on GeoAI for Autonomous Spatial Analysis
2026-06-04 - Received the Open Education Initiative (OEI) Grant from UMass Amherst Libraries
2026-05-26 - Published a chapter titled Generative AI and the Future of GIScience Education with Dr. Grant McKenzie and Dr. Junghwan Kim in the book Geography According to Foundation Models
2026-04-30 - Published a journal article titled Citizen Science and Geoprivacy: Empirical Analysis of Location Masking in Large-Scale Crowdsensing Networks with Dr. Yue Lin and Qian Fang Yeap in The Professional Geographer
2026-04-28 - Awarded the Mutual Mentoring Grant from UMass Amherst Office of Faculty Development
2026-04-27 - Elected as an At-Large Board Member of the Digital Geographies Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers (AAG)
2026-04-03 - Published a journal article titled Polarized geoprivacy attitudes on Chinese social media: Evidence from Weibo with Dr. Grant McKenzie in Digital Geography and Society
2026-03-31 - Joined the Program Committee of the Spring Northeast Arc Users Group (NEARC) Conference
2025-03-17 - Organized paper and panel sessions on GeoAI ethics and the GIScience for Human Experience and Responsibility (GISER) Symposium at the AAG Annual Meeting in San Francisco
2026-02-24 - Joined the Program Committee of the AAAI ICWSM International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc 2026)
2025
2025-12-05 - Organized the thematic session Location Privacy in the Digital Society at the Sixth Spatial Data Science Symposium
2025-11-19 - Presented at the GIS Day event hosted by McGill University
2025-08-22 - Presented an abstract titled Vector-Based Super-Resolution Mapping with the PopulationDynamics Foundation Model in the 32nd International Cartographic Conference in Vancouver, Canada
2025-06-17 - Joined the Program Committee of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Human-Centered Geospatial Computing (GeoHCC’25)
2025-05-04 - Presented a poster titled Evaluating Spatial Dependency in Regional Similarities of the Population Dynamics Foundation Model in the 28th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science in Dresden, Germany
2025-04-25 - Organized the Ethical GIS in the Algorithmic Society Workshop in Amherst
2025-04-14 - Joined the Program Committee of the AAAI ICWSM International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc 2025)
2025-04-06 - Received the Generative AI Nanodegree from Udacity
2025-03-24 - Elected as the Academic Director of the Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers (AAG)
2025-03-24 - Organized virtual and hybrid sessions on GeoAI ethics at the AAG Annual Meeting in Detroit
2024
2024-11-05 - Received the Community, Democracy and Dialogue Grant from the UMass Amherst Office of Equity and Inclusion
2024-10-23 - Organized the thematic session Geoprivacy Challenges and Solutions in the Digital Society at the Fifth Spatial Data Science Symposium
2024-09-24 - Joined the Program Committee of the 8th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Location-based Recommendations, Geosocial Networks and Geoadvertising (LocalRec 2024)
2024-04-19 - Received the First Place Award at the Saarinen Paper Competition hosted by the Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers (AAG)
2024-04-18 - Received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Digital Geographies Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers (AAG)
2024-04-16 - Organized Responsible GeoAI sessions at the AAG Annual Meeting in Honolulu
- Zhang, H., & McKenzie, G. (2026). Polarized geoprivacy attitudes on Chinese social media: Evidence from Weibo. Digital Geography and Society, 10, 100170. 10.1016/j.diggeo.2026.100170
- Lin, Y., Yeap, Q. F., & Zhang, H. (2026). Citizen Science and Geoprivacy: Empirical Analysis of Location Masking in Large-Scale Crowdsensing Networks. The Professional Geographer, 1–11. 10.1080/00330124.2026.2656680
- Zhang, H. (2025). Vector-Based Super-Resolution Mapping with the Population Dynamics Foundation Model. Abstracts of the ICA, 10, 1–2. 10.5194/ica-abs-10-321-2025
- Zhang, H., & McKenzie, G. (2025). Evaluating Spatial Dependency in Regional Similarities of the Population Dynamics Foundation Model. 10.5281/ZENODO.15335930