team

Ana Basiri

Professor of Geospatial Data Science

Ana works on developing (theoretical and applied) solutions to the challenges of ‘new forms of data’ such as missingness and biases. She is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Chair of Geospatial Data Science at the University of Glasgow, and the Editor in Chief of Journal of Navigation.

Mingshu Wang

Senior Lecturer in Geospatial Data Science

Mingshu is a Senior Lecturer (Tenured Associate Professor) in Geospatial Data Science at the School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow.

Yunus Serhat Bicakci

Research Associate

Yunus Serhat is a Research Associate in Geospatial Data Science at the School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow. His research focuses on integrating geoinformation and computer vision with LLMs and Multimodal LLMs to push the boundaries of AI capabilities.

Joe Shingleton

Research Software Engineering Scientist

Joe is a research software engineer and data scientist, currently working on geo-locating textual data using natural language processing.

Ian Turton

Research Software Engineer

Ian is currently looking at the back end of a system to estimate building heights from missing GNSS signals. Despite training as a geophysicist, he has been learning to be a computational geographer for the last 30 years.

Meiliu Wu

Lecturer

Dr. Meiliu Wu is a Lecturer (Tenured Assistant Professor) in Geospatial Data Science at the School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK.

Piet Gerrits

PhD candidate

Piet Gerrits is a PhD candidate at the School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow. His research focuses on the use of geospatial data and machine learning to understand population dynamics in Turkey and Bulgaria.

Miguel Fidel Pereira

PhD candidate

Merve Polat Kayali

PhD candidate

Merve focuses on the visualisation of missing geospatial data using Augmented Reality

Yu Wang

PhD candidate

Yu specializes in the intersection of urban studies and telecommunications.

Xinyi Yuan

PhD candidate

Xinyi focuses on the application of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in cities and society.

Dominick Sutton

PhD candidate

Dominick's research interests are in missing data and how it can affect the use of data in analytics, business decision-making and AI systems.

Rui Deng

PhD candidate

Rui's current work focuses on developing explainable GeoAI models for processing geospatial data.

Xinyan Xian

PhD candidate

Xinyan's research focuses on the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and urban big data in spatial optimization.

Ziqi Li

Lecturer in Geospatial Information Science

Ziqi's research focuses on the methodological development of spatially explicit statistical and machine learning models.

Edo Barbieri

PhD candidate in Geospatial Data Science

Edo's research mainly focuses on Big Data Quality and Data Missingness.

Jeremiah J. Nieves

Research Software Engineer and Data Scientist

Jeremiah currently leads the Geospatial Data Science Technology and Infrastructure sub-group while also designing and implementing secure and efficient data pipelines/mobile applications/workflows for research analyses and data collection.

Guy Solomon

Research Associate in Mathematics of Cities

Guy currently works on the mathematics of cities, with a particular emphasis on minority groups. His broader interests relate to the evolution of city systems over time, mathematical and statistical modelling, and economic development.

Matt Johnston

Research Assistant

Matt is currently working to enhance the social and environmental outcomes of developments in data science and artificial intelligence with evidence-based policymaking advocacy.

Lorna Gee

Administrative Assistant

Lorna is the first port of call for the Geospatial Data Science team, responsible for the planning, co-ordination, liaison and administrative implementation of all related activities and initiatives within the department.