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The 8th International Disaster and Risk Conference (IDRC 2025)

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

Acknowledgement: This presentation was supported by IDRC 2025 Scholarship and realTRIPS project (ERC).

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Netmob 2025

Netmob 2025

Date: October 8-10, 2025

Location: Paris, France

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

Main Conference Research Authors: Wenlan Zhang, Dr Douglas R. Leasure

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

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

Acknowledgement: This presentation was supported by Netmob 2025 student travel grant and Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS), University in Oxford.

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City Plus 2025

City+ 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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11th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2025)

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

Acknowledgement: This presentation was supported by UCL CASA student travel grant.

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Netmob 2024

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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Association of American Geographers Annual Meetings 2024 (AAG 2024)

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

Acknowledgement: This presentation was supported by realTRIPS project (ERC).

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The 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)

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

Acknowledgement: This presentation was supported by realTRIPS project (ERC).

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