Zhe (Sarina) Zhang
Assistant Professor
Dr. Zhang is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. Her primary research area is Geographic Information Science and within it, a focus on Cyberinfrastructure, knowledge-driven spatial decision-making, spatial uncertainty modeling, human-centered Geospatial Artificial Intelligence, and social sensing. Dr. Zhang's research aims to develop scalable, sustainable, and intelligent decision support systems to advance spatial knowledge discovery in various application domains such as disaster resilience, critical infrastructure protection, agricultural risk management, and public health surveillance.
Dr. Zhang currently serves as the Vice Chair for Cyberinfrastructure specialty group in American Association of Geographers. She leads the CyberGIS & Decision Support Systems Research Initiative in the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS). She also serves as an associate editor and a guest editor for Computational Urban Science and Transactions in GIS journal. She has published peer-reviewed articles in several leading GIScience journals such as the International Journal of Geographic Information Sciences, International Journal of Digital Earth, Cartography and Geographic Information Science, International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, and PlosOne journal. Her previous projects have been supported by several agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Department of Transportation(U.S. DOT), National Geographic Society, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) .
Diya Li, PhD Student
(Geoinformatics,
China University of Geosciences)
ZhenLei Song, PhD Student (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University)
Jikun Liu, PhD Stduent
(Applied Urban Science and Informatics,
New York University)
Yuhang Xie, PhD Student
(Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University)
Nanzhou Hu, Master Student
(Geoinformatics, Southwest Jiaotong University, China)
Jared King, Master Student
(Environmental Geosciences, Texas A&M University)
Shuyang Zhang, Master Student
(Petroleum Engineering, Southwest Petroleum
University, China)
Other Members
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Jinhyun Bae, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning (Ph.D. student, Co-advising)
Ziyi Zhang, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (Ph.D. student, Co-advising)
Wencong Cui, Department of Geography, (Ph.D. student, Co-advising)
Sydney Butler, Department of Atmospheric Science, Texas A&M University (Co-Advising)
Zahra Ghorbani, Department of Construction Science, Texas A&M University (Co-Advising, gradated)
GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS TECHNICIANS
Kelly Corzo, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
Harshita Chaudhary, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University
Shashwat Tripathi, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
Jian-Siang Hong, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
Zeyu Wang, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
Joseph Flores, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University (undergraduate student)
Karthik Lella, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Texas A&M University
Jasmine Paredes, Environmental studies, Texas A&M University
Francesco Previto, Business Administration and Management Information System, Texas A&M University
Katelyn Wallace, Geosciences, Texas A&M University
Naga Prasanth Padarthi, Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University
Lasyasri Shilpi, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
Pei Chen, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University
Marcus Sanders, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
Ziyi Zhang, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
Yuhan Cheng, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
Diya, Zhenlei, and Ziyi won the first prize in Texas A&M Data Science Student Competition!
Group photo in 2021.