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Lan Mu, University of Georgia

Dr Lan Mu is a geography professor and the director of the GIScience Certificate Program at the University of Georgia (UGA). She also holds a courtesy appointment with the College of Public Health. Leading GIS.HEAL (GIScience for Health and Environment Analytics Lab), Lan drives efforts to promote geographical thinking in health and environmental studies, effectively bridging STEM approaches with social science research. Her research encompassed GIScience, health and environment, geospatial analysis for physical, socio-economic and social media data, environmental planning, and cartography and geovisualisation.

Lan collaborates with experts across public health, epidemiology, medicine, agricultural economics, computer science and other disciplines to develop innovative geospatial analyses of complex health and environmental issues. Her work has been supported by NIH, NSF, USDA, UCGIS and UGA.

Jielu Zhang, University of Georgia

Jielu Zhang is a PhD candidate in the Geography Department and a master’s student in the Computer Science Department at the University of Georgia (UGA). Jielu’s research focuses on geographically explainable AI, geographical health and environment, spatial optimisation for health facilities, and remote sensing foundation models.