Scopus Author: 58075863700
Contact email: Zehua.Zhang@curtin.edu.au
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3462-4025
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zehuazhang0111/
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zehua-Zhang-25
I am a Spatial Data Scientist and Sessional Academic at Curtin University. I obtained my PhD with Chancellor’s Commendation from Curtin University in Aug-2023 (PhD started in Jan-2021) and was awarded the 2023 Humanities Greg Crombie Postgraduate Work of the Year Award.
My research interests are spatial statistics / spatial data science with applications in population geography, transport geography, and land use planning, with ‘Robust geographical detector’, ‘Geocomplexity explains spatial errors’, 'The heterogeneity of spatial autocorrelation', as featured works.
[Spatial statistics, GIScience, Open Software] x [Transport, Population, Land use]'
Spatial statistics
Spatial data science
Transport geography
Disparity, inequality, and heterogeneity
Keynotes: "AI as a Research Assistant in Spatial Data Science: Daily Practice and Human Judgement", The Role of AI in HDR: Navigating Ethics, Applications, and Impact Symposium, Curtin University, September 2025
Registered as Supervisor for Higher Degree by Research (HDR), Curtin University. May 2025
Joined the International Community of Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development (SPSD) as a Youth Commission member, Year of 2025
We are organizing a special issue in “Land” (MDPI, SSCI Index, Q1 in Ecology): Harnessing the Power of Land Mapping Data for Effective Land Policy Development. Looking forward to your submission. January 2025
We are organizing a special issue in “GIScience & Remote Sensing” (IF:7.3, Taylor & Francis): Advances in Remote Sensing and GIScience for Urban Sustainability. Looking forward to your submission. January 2025
Presentation: "On the heterogeneity of spatial dependence: data generation process and modelling", Webinars on Spatiotemporal Innovation, Spatial Data Lab, Harvard University, January 2025
I am working as a Spatial Data Scientist for the National Cycling Data and Analysis Platform (NCDAP) Project Funded by ARC - Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF). November 2024
Presentation: "On the heterogeneity of spatial dependence: data generation process and modelling", Curtin EMCR Research Symposium, October 2024
Research article "On ignoring the heterogeneity in spatial autocorrelation: consequences and solutions" accepted by International Journal of Geographical Information Science in August 2024
Presentation: "Spatial big data and analysis strategies supporting Geographic Information System for Transportation (GIS-T) in conceptual design, modelling, and decision-making: A review" accepted by ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences in May 2024. Oral presentation in Perth, October 2024.
Presentation: “Research guidelines on spatial methodology development”, at Geospatial Intelligence Lab, Curtin University, Australia, January 2024
Keynotes: “Spatial effects in daily data analytics: disparity of complexity”, City+2023, Perth, Australia, September 2023
Presentation: “Rural road seal life analysis using spatial models – Robust Interaction Detector”, at MainRoads Western Australia, Australia, August 2023
Presentation: “Road surface cracking estimation and prediction using AI methods”, at MainRoads Western Australia, Australia, April 2023
Presentation: “Earth observation for land cover and human-environment interactions”, 7th SDSC & 17th 3DGeoinfo Conference, Sydney, Australia, October 2022
Presentation: “Identifying Spatial Disparities of Power-law Scaling in Nation-wide Industrial Regions”, 21st Annual Conference of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences, Nancy, France, August 2022