People

Lab members

A small group of geographers, designers, and computational researchers working on the meaning of place.

Director

Bo Zhao Professor of Geography · Director

Humanistic GIS · Fake Geographies · GeoAI

Liz Peng Doctoral Student · UW Geography

Critical theory · feminist GIS · queer studies · migration

Tongwei Xu Doctoral Student · UW Geography

Digital geographies · platform studies · music geography

Alexander Kirchmeier Graduate Student · UW Geography

Critical human geography · justice · urban studies · GIS

Jiaxin Feng PhD 2024 · UW Geography

Dynamic human emotions toward geographic environments — EEG + GIScience

Xiaoqi "Steven" Bao MA 2023 · UW Geography

Rhythmanalysis of Seattle's Black-owned restaurants during COVID-19 · UW Distinguished Thesis Award (Social Sciences) · AAG Marble Fund Awardee

Yifan Sun Ph.C. 2020 · UW Geography

Spatial misinformation · neural sensing of place

Tyler McCrea MA 2020 · UW Geography

Materialist spatial analysis of data centers