Hi, This is Zhongfu Ma. Welcome to my website!
Zhongfu Ma is a PhD student in the Department of Geography, Environment and Society (GES), University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (UMN), and a member of the Geospatial Data Intelligence (GeoDI) Lab.
Before I came to UMN, I obtained a B.S. in Geographic Information Science from China University of Geosciences, Beijing, and studied in the Spatial Data Science program at the Spatial Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California.
My research interest lies in detecting, inferring, and interpreting spatial evolutionary processes, using current machine learning or deep learning methods.
Researches
Publications
Ma, Z., & Zhu, D. (2025). Collective flow-evolutionary patterns reveal the mesoscopic structure between snapshots of spatial network. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 39(1), 86-117.
Zhu, D., Ma, Z. (2025). Towards the Spatial Evolution between Distribution Snapshots: A Network Perspective. In X. Huang, X. Ye, K. Stewart, & S. Das (Eds.), Urban Human Mobility: Practices, Analytics, and Strategies for Smart Cities (Chapter 15). CRC Press. ISBN: 9781032821627.
Zhao, P., Ma, Z., Chen, J., Law, R., Zhang, Y., & Liu, Y. (2023). Depicting urban multi-scale tourist activity spaces using digital footprints for smart destinations. Current Issues in Tourism, 26(18), 2965-2980.
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