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ICSC 2026

Date: September 3, 2026

Location: Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Session: Digital and Computational Demography

Title: Who is Missing? Deprivation and Coverage Gaps in Meta's Crisis Population Data

Authors: Wenlan Zhang, Prof. Chen Zhong, Dr. Yanbo Pang

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DEBIAS Workshop and Symposium

Date: July 8, 2026

Location: University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

Title: From Street View to Waste Indicators: Where Does Data Bias Enter?

Authors: Wenlan Zhang, Prof. Chen Zhong

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Waste at Margins Workshop

Date: June 4, 2026

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Title: Accumulated Waste Piles Mapping with ML

Authors: Wenlan Zhang, Prof. Chen Zhong

With: APHRC, KDI, UN-Habitat, Community Mappers, and UCL

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IDRC 2025

Date: October 22–24, 2025

Location: CYENS Centre of Excellence, Nicosia, Cyprus

Title: Is Waste Blocking Our Cities? A Multisource Approach to Understanding Flood Disruption in Nairobi

Authors: Wenlan Zhang, Prof. Chen Zhong

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Netmob 2025

Date: October 8–10, 2025

Location: Paris, France

Title: Decomposing International Migration Flows with Mobile Trace Data: Trends, Seasonality, and Shocks

Authors: Wenlan Zhang, Dr Douglas R. Leasure

Data Challenge: Integrating Temporal Context into User Profiling: A Preliminary Study with Doc2Vec

Authors: Wenlan Zhang, Adam (ZhengZi) Zhou, Andrew Renninger

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City Plus 2025

Date: September 29–30, 2025

Location: Oxford, UK

Title: Mapineq Workshop

Workshop Team: Dr. Douglas Leasure, Wenlan Zhang, Xiang Ao

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IC2S2 2025

Date: July 21–24, 2025

Location: Norrköping, Sweden

Title: AI for Spatial Justice: Multimodal and Street View Imagery Uncover Waste Disparities in Nairobi's Informal Settlements

Authors: Wenlan Zhang, Prof. Chen Zhong, Prof. Qunshan Zhao

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Netmob 2024

Date: October 7–9, 2024

Location: Washington DC, US

Title: Unveiling Urban Travel Patterns: A Comparative Analysis of Smart Card and Mobile App Data

Authors: Dr. Sveta Milusheva, Wenlan Zhang

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AAG 2024

Date: April 16–20, 2024

Location: Honolulu, Hawai'i, US

Title: A Data-Driven Approach for Identifying Open Dumping Sites in the Global South

Authors: Wenlan Zhang, Dr. Angela Abascal, Dr. Chen Zhong, Dr. Qunshan Zhao

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GIScience 2023

Date: September 12–15, 2023

Location: Leeds, UK

Title: Digital Injustice: A Case Study of Land Use Classification using Multi-source Data in Nairobi, Kenya

Authors: Wenlan Zhang, Dr. Chen Zhong, Dr. Faith Taylor

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