Xun Zhou

Xun Zhou, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow
Department of Business Analytics
Tippie College of Business
The University of Iowa

Office: S280 PBB
21 East Market Street, Iowa City, IA 52242-1994
xun-zhou@uiowa.edu | 319-384-3335

Dr. Xun Zhou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Analytics, Tippie College of Business at The University of Iowa. He is also an affiliated faculty member with the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics (IGPI) and the Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences (AMCS) programs. Xun received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2014, advised by Prof. Shashi Shekhar. Prior to that, Xun received his M.S. and B.E. degrees both in Computer Science and Technology from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China in 2009 and 2007, respectively. He is a senior member of the IEEE.


Opening: I'm looking for self-motivated students to work on spatial data mining and machine learning topics. Interested students should contact me with CV and transcript. Strong programming skills and Math/Stats/CS/EE background preferred.

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Selected Publications (Full List) (Google Scholar)

[EGIS]
Encyclopedia of GIS, 2nd Edition. 2017 (co-editor-in-chief).
Comprehensive reference book with over 200 peer-reviewed articles from 60 subfields. Over 220k downloads on Springer.com.
[SDM'19]
Dissecting the Learning Curve of Taxi Drivers: A Data-Driven Approach (Best Applied Data Science Paper Award)

Acknowledgement

My research has been supported by NSF, NVIDIA Corporation, and the Safer-Sim University Transportation Center.