Enbo Zhou

• Jan 2025
  My new paper titled “Locating and Orienting Facilities with Anisotropic Coverage” has been published in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems.
• Jul 2024
  My new paper titled “Facility Layout and Spatial Configuration Efficiency Assessment” has been published in Networks and Spatial Economics.
• Jun 2024
  I graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a PhD in Geography.
• 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).
• Jan 2024
  One coauthored paper titled “Balancing Workloads through Co-location in Covering Problems” has been published in Geographical Analysis.
• Oct 2023
  I received a certificate from the Summer Teaching Institute for Associates at UC Santa Barbara.
• Aug 2023
  My mentee Lyndsey Umsted in the data science capstone class will present our project “Understanding and modeling human mobility response to California wildfires” at SIGKDD 2023 SoCal Data Science Day.
• Aug 2023
  I joined the Climate Hazards 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 the 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 full-time L4 return offer.

I work broadly in GeoAI and spatial optimization, with an emphasis on methods that are both scalable and interpretable for real-world decision making.

• Locating and orienting facilities with anisotropic coverage
  Enbo Zhou, Alan T. Murray, Jiwon Baik, Jing Xu
  Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
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• Facility Layout and Spatial Configuration Efficiency Assessment
  Enbo Zhou, Alan T. Murray
  Networks and Spatial Economics
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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 (Oral presentation)
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• 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
  Geoinformatics 2016 (Oral presentation)
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• Investigating street accident characteristics and optimal safe route recommendation: A case study of New York City
  Enbo Zhou, Shanjun Mao, Mei Li
  Geoinformatics 2017 (Oral presentation)
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• Jack Dangermond Travel Scholarship (UCSB Geography)
• Regents Fellowship (UCSB)
• Outstanding Graduate Awards (Peking University)
• May 4th Scholarship (Peking University)