Fangzheng Lyu
Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolFangzheng Lyu is an Assistant Professor and GIScientist with nine years of experience specializing in GIScience, geospatial data science, high-performance geospatial computing, and multi-scale urban dynamics. He holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and transitioned from research and teaching there to a faculty role at Virginia Tech in 2024, blending deep academic rigor with practical software engineering roots from an earlier stint as a software engineer at NetEase. Fangzheng’s work sits at the intersection of geography and computing, translating complex spatial problems into scalable, high-performance tools and analyses. Based in Blacksburg, Virginia, he brings international training—from Hong Kong to Berkeley and Northwestern exchanges—and a track record of moving between research, teaching, and applied development.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Summer School, Summer School at University of California, BerkeleyThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)High School, High School at Hangzhou No.2 High SchoolStudent Exchange, Student Exchange at Northwestern UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Geography, Master of Science - MS, Geography at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese, JapaneseProgramming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CarnivalBug/carnivalbug.github.io
Jun 2022 - Dec 2024
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:388 pushes in 2 years 6 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
CarnivalBug/data_fusion
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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