Xun Zhou

Past Ph.D. Students:

Dr. Amin Vahedian Khezerlou (Ph.D. in Business Analytics, 2014-2019)
Thesis topic: Mining Big Mobility Data for Urban Large Event Analytics.
Now Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University
Dr. Yichen Ding (Ph.D. in Business Analytics, 2017-2022)
Thesis topic: Predicting and Understanding Road User Behaviors through Big Geo-Referenced Egocentric Video Data Analytics.
Dr. Haoyi Xiong (Ph.D. in Geography 2023, co-advised with Prof. David Bennett)
Thesis topic: Big Spatiotemporal Data Analytics of Traffic Congestion Propagation Patterns.
Bang An (Ph.D. in Business Analytics, 2020-2024)
Thesis topic: Machine Learning Solutions to Urban Incident Forecasting and Understanding on Spatiotemporal Data.
Now Post-doc Research Associate at Georgia Institute of Technology
Han Bao (Ph.D. in Informatics, 2019-2024)

Past Master Students

Past Undergraduate Students

Xinyi Li (BBA. Business Analytics and Information Systems, Honor Thesis, 2019).
Featured in the 2019 University of Iowa "Dare To Discover" Campaign.
Admitted to Johns Hopkins University MS program.
Yuqi Sun (BS, Informatics, directed research project 2018).
Admitted to CMU MS program.
Ling Tong (BBA. Business Analytics and Information Systems, 2017)
Admitted to University of Iowa PhD program in Business Analytics.

High School Students:

Jeffrey Chiu, mentored in the UI Secondary Student Training Program (SSTP) Summer 2018. Admitted to Harvard Class of 2023.
Jiajie (Jason) Ma, mentored in the UI Secondary Student Training Program (SSTP) Summer 2017. Admitted to Haverford College Class of 2022.

Ph.D. Thesis Committees:

Xiangyu Wang (Informatics, ongoing)
Menghai Pan (Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, external member)
Zhongrun Xiang (Civil and Environmental Engineering, ongoing)
Christopher Junk (Political Science, ongoing)
Xiaoxuan Zhang (Computer Science, 2018)
Wenjun Wang (Business Analytics, 2016)
Fahrettin Cakir (Business Analytics, 2016)

Master Thesis Committees: