Talks
Dr. Zhang regularly gives talks and presentations at conferences and universities.
Invited Talks¶
“Challenges of Integrating Generative AI into GIScience Education.” Workshop on GeoAI for Autonomous Spatial Analysis, University of Maryland. College Park, MD. June 2026.
“Understanding Geoprivacy Attitudes and Behaviors in China and the United States.” GIS Day, McGill University. Montreal, QC. November 2025.
“Towards place-based privacy: Challenges and opportunities in the smart world.” GIS Day, McGill University. Montreal, QC. November 2022.
Conference Presentations¶
“Spatial Inequality in Young Adult Indebtedness in the United States.” American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. March 2026.
“Vector-Based Super-Resolution Mapping with the Population Dynamics Foundation Model.” International Cartographic Conference (ICC). Vancouver, BC. August 2025.
“Evaluating Spatial Dependency in Regional Similarities of the Population Dynamics Foundation Model.” Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe Conference (AGILE) Conference. Dresden, Germany. June 2025.
“Generative AI and the Future of GIScience Education.” American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Detroit, MI. March 2025.
“Location privacy knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours in contemporary China.” American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Honolulu, HI. April 2024.
“A spatial-temporal public opinion analysis of IP location disclosure on Chinese social media platforms using Weibo data.” American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. March 2023.
“Place-based privacy: A humanistic reflection on solitude and anonymity.” Conference on Spatial Knowledge and Information Canada. Banff, AB. February 2023.
“Towards Place-Based Privacy: Challenges and Opportunities in the Smart World.” IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS). Hong Kong SAR, China. November 2022.
“Cyber Ethics in Platial Research.” International Symposium on Platial Information Science. Online. December 2021.
“Exploring the Intrinsic Quality Assessment Method of OpenStreetMap.” Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Toronto, ON. May 2017.
“Evaluating the Quality of the Canadian OpenStreetMap Road Networks.” American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. April 2017.
“Quality Evaluation of Volunteered Geographic Information.” Canadian Association of Geographers Ontario Division Annual Meeting. Waterloo, ON. October 2016. Best Master’s Paper.
Workshop Hosts¶
“Python for Data Analysis.” McGill GIC Workshop. April 2021.
“Data Visualization in Python.” McGill GIC Workshop. April 2021.
“Introduction to Git.” McGill GIC & CDSI Workshop. October 2020 – February 2022.
“Introduction to Python.” McGill GIC & CDSI Workshop. October 2020 – February 2022.
“Introduction to PostgreSQL.” McGill GIC & CDSI Workshop. October 2020 – February 2022.