Wenlan Zhang

张文澜

Spatial data scientist working on AI for Good

PhD Researcher, UCL CASA · Research Assistant, University of Oxford

Wenlan Zhang

About

Her PhD, “Quantifying Digital Injustice: The Utility of Digital Footprint Data in the Global South,” examines how digital and geospatial data represent people and places, and which populations may be systematically missed, using computational and spatial approaches to identify, quantify, and mitigate these biases.

More broadly, her work spans urban data science, population and mobility measurement, spatial inequality, and machine learning, with a focus on using emerging forms of digital data and AI to support more robust and equitable evidence for policy-making.

Her PhD is supervised by Prof. Chen Zhong, Prof. Mark Pelling, and Dr. Faith Taylor.