News
- [Jan 2024] My new paper titled “Mapping 3-D classroom seats based on partial object point cloud completion” has been accepted in Cartography and Geographical Information Science (CaGIS), see paper link!
- [Jan 2024] One coauthored paper titled “Balancing Workloads through Co-location in Covering Problems” has been published in Geographical Analysis, see paper link.
- [Oct 2023] I received a certificate from Summer Teaching Institue for Associates at UC Santa Barbara.
- [Aug 2023] My mentee Lyndsey Umsted in the data science capstone class (Course Website) will present our project Understanding and modeling human mobility response to California wildfires at SIGKDD 2023 SOCAL DATA SCIENCE DAY.
- [Aug 2023] I joined Climate Hazard Center at UCSB as a graduate student researcher to help climate scientists correct station precipitation observations using statistics and machine learning.
- [Jun 2023] I will teach GEOG W12 Maps and Spatial Reasoning and CMPSC 16 Problem Solving with C++ in Summer 2023.
- [Dec 2022] I finished a software engineering intern (machine learning) on geo-document retrieval at Google.
- [Sep 2022] I finished a PhD software engineering intern (machine learning) in Ads Core ML team at Meta Inc.
- [Sep 2021] I finished a research engineering intern (computer vision) on object detection at Uber AI and received a fulltime L4 return offer.
Education
- PhD 2018 - now, Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara
- MS 2015 - 2018, Cartography and GIS, Peking University
- BS 2011 - 2015, GIS & Economics, Peking University
Research Interests
- GeoAI: spatial representation learning, self-supervised learning, explainable AI, remotely sensed data information extraction
- Spatial Optimization: facility siting, heuristics for non-convex optimization
Working Experiences
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Research Assistant
Graduate Student Researcher in Climate Hazards Center, August 2023 - , UC Santa Barbara
Graduate Student Researcher with Dr. Keith Clarke, Jul 2019 - Mar 2020, UC Santa Barbara
Graduate Student Researcher with Dr. Vena Chu, Sep 2018 - Jun 2019, UC Santa Barbara
Research Assistant with Dr. Shanjun Mao and Mei Li, Sep 2015 - Jun 2018, Peking University -
Instructor/Teaching Associate
CMPSC 16 Problem Solving I (Course Website, Summer 2023), CS department at UC Santa Barbara
GEOG W12 Maps and Spatial Reasoning (Summer 2023), Geography Department at UC Santa Barbara -
Teaching Assistant
CMPSC 190DF/PSTAT 197C Capstone Project in Data Science (Course Website, 2023 Spring), Computer Science/Statistics department at UC Santa Barbara
CMPSC 190DE/PSTAT 197B Capstone Project in Data Science (Course Website, 2023 Winter), Computer Science/Statistics department at UC Santa Barbara
GEOG 111C Smart Green Cities (2022 Spring), Geography department at UC Santa Barbara
GEOG W12 Maps and Spatial Reasoning, (2022 Winter, 2021 Fall, 2020 Spring & Fall), Geography department at UC Santa Barbara
GEOG 113 Polar Environments, (2021 Spring), Geography department at UC Santa Barbara
GEOG 3 Oceans and Atmosphere, (2021 Winter), Geography department at UC Santa Barbara
GEOG W8 Global Warming, (2020 Summer), Geography department at UC Santa Barbara
Advanced Geographical Information System, (2016 Spring), School of Earth and Space Sciences at Peking University -
Industry Experiences
Software Engineer Intern, Sep 2022 - Dec 2022, Google
PhD Software Engineer Intern, Jun 2022 - Sep 2022, Meta (previously Facebook)
Software Engineer Intern, Jun 2021 - Sep 2021, Uber
Selected Publications
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Mapping 3-D classroom seats based on partial object point cloud completion
Enbo Zhou, Alan T. Murray, Jiwon Baik
Cartography and Geographic Information Science.
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Balancing Workloads through Co-location in Covering Problems
Jing Xu, Alan T. Murray, Richard L. Church, Ran Wei, Hongchu Yu, Jiwon Baik, Enbo Zhou
Geographical Analysis.
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LiDAR Data Segmentation using Deep Learning for Indoor Mapping
Enbo Zhou, Keith C Clarke, Joel Salzman, Haoyu Shi, Bryn Morgan
AutoCarto 2020.
[PDF] Oral Presentation -
Overview of Contributions in Geographical Analysis: Waldo Tobler
Alan T Murray, Jing Xu, Jiwon Baik, Susan Burtner, Seonga Cho, Evgeny Noi, B Amelia Pludow, Enbo Zhou
Geographical Analysis.
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PAM spatial clustering algorithm research based on CUDA
Enbo Zhou, Shanjun Mao, Mei Li, Zhenming Sun
24th International Conference on Geoinformatics. Geoinformatics 2016.
[PDF] Oral Presentation -
Investigating street accident characteristics and optimal safe route recommendation: A case study of new york city
Enbo Zhou, Shanjun Mao, Mei Li
25th International Conference on Geoinformatics Geoinformatics 2017.
[PDF] Oral Presentation
Services
- Journal Reviewers: Transactions in GIS, Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy.
Professional Society Memberships
- American Association of Geographers (AAG)
- The Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS)
- The International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS)
- University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)
Selected Awards
- Jack Dangermond Travel Scholarship (UCSB Geography)
- Regents Fellowship (UCSB)
- Outstanding Graduate Awards (Peking University)
- May 4th Scholarship (Peking University)