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Services

Dr. Zhang contributes to the academic community through editorial service, peer review, professional society leadership, and the organization of conferences, workshops, and scholarly events.

Departmental Services

PeriodRole
2024-presentCurriculum Committee Member, Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, UMass Amherst

Professional Services

PeriodRole
2026-presentResearch Committee Member, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)
2026-presentAt-Large Board Member, Digital Geographies Specialty Group
2025-presentAcademic Director, Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group

Editorial Activities

PeriodRole
2026-presentEarly Career Editorial Board Member, Digital Geography and Society

Conference Activities

Conference Organizers

YearSession/Conference
2026GIScience for Human Experience and Responsibility (GISER), Symposium at AAG 2026, San Francisco, CA
2025Ethical GIS in the Algorithmic Society, Workshop, Amherst, MA
2026AI Ethics and Spatial Equity (paper); Ethics in GIScience (panel); AI & Ethics in GIS Education (paper), AAG 2026, San Francisco, CA
2025Spatial Analysis for Social Good (virtual); Spatial Data Science and GeoAI Ethics: Bridging Research and Education (hybrid), AAG 2025, Detroit, MI
2025Locatio Privacy in the Digital Society, SDSS 2025, Online
2024Geoprivacy Challenges and Solutions in the Digital Society, SDSS 2024, Online
2024Responsible GeoAI I: Privacy and Fairness; Responsible GeoAI II: Justice and Accuracy, AAG 2024, Honolulu, HI
2023Geoprivacy and Ethics in Geospatial Data and GeoAI, AAG 2023, Denver, CO
2021Cyber Ethics in Platial Research, Platial’21, Online
2021Geospatial Data Science, CAG 2021, Online

Program Committee Members

YearConference
2026Spring Northeast Arc Users Group (NEARC) Conference, Amherst, MA
2026AAAI ICWSM International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc’26), Los Angeles, CA
2025The Sixth Spatial Data Science Symposium (SDSS 2025), Online
2025ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Human-Centered Geospatial Computing (GeoHCC’25), Minneapolis, MN
2025AAAI ICWSM International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc’25), Copenhagen, Denmark
2024ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Location-based Recommendations, Geosocial Networks and Geoadvertising (LocalRec’24), Atlanta, GA
2024The Fifth Spatial Data Science Symposium (SDSS 2024), Online

Peer Review Activities

YearJournal/ConferencePublisher
2026Scientific ReportsNature
2026Transactions in GISWiley
2026Humanities and Social Sciences CommunicationsSpringer Nature
2025Urban InformaticsSpringer Nature
2025Scientific ReportsNature
2025International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience’25)—
2024Scientific DataNature
2024International Journal of Geographical Information ScienceTaylor & Francis
2023Transactions in GISWiley
2023International Symposium on Platial Information Science—
2023AreaWiley
2023Digital SocietySpringer Nature
2019Big Earth DataTaylor & Francis
2018International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym’18)ACM

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