Origin story
- Geography & GIScience BA at Binghamton University, SUNY.
- Dual-degree MCP + MUSA at UPenn Weitzman School of Design.
- Research fellow under Prof. Erick Guerra on travel behavior & smart mobility.
About me
City planner. Spatial analyst. GIS enthusiast.
I'm Zhanchao Yang—building maps that reveal how cities function.
Research focus
- Travel behavior modeling & human mobility data mining
- GeoAI & remote sensing for urban planning
- Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) & smart mobility
- Geostatistics, spatial analysis & agent-based modeling
Teaching
- TA for MUSA 5000: Statistical Methods for Urban Data (Fall 2025)
- TA for MUSA 5080: Public Policy Analytics (Fall 2025)
- TA for CPLN 5920: Public Policy Analytics (Spring 2026)
- Former EML mentor at Binghamton's English Language Institute