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Doctor Wenbin Zhang

Dr Wenbin Zhang

Senior Research Fellow

Accepting applications from PhD students.

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Email: WB.Zhang@soton.ac.uk

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Publications
Publications

Publications

22 publications
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Geospatial foundation-model embeddings improve population estimation unevenly across space and scale
Wenbin Zhang, Eimear Cleary, Francisco Rowe, Somnath Chaudhuri, Maksym Bondarenko, Shengjie Lai & Andrew J. Tatem, 2026
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2605.01650
Type: other
Interactions of SARS-CoV-2, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus influence epidemic timing and risk
Yonghong Liu, Xiaoli Wang, Mengyao Li, Eimear Cleary, Zhifeng Cheng, Wenbin Zhang, Ying Shen, Hui Yao, Jiatong Han, Nick W. Ruktanonchai, Andrew J. Tatem, Shengjie Lai, Quanyi Wang & Peng Yang, 2026, Nature Communications Medicine , 6(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s43856-026-01504-x
Type: article
Urban–rural disparities in geographic healthcare accessibility: a comparative study of Nigeria and Zambia
Weixuan Fang, Wen-Bin Zhang, Dorothea Woods, Heather Chamberlain, Winfred Dotse-Gborgbortsi, Iyanuloluwa Deborah Olowe, Marcello Schiavina, Borys Nosatiuk, Rhorom Priyatikanto, Maksym Bondarenko, Joachim Maes, Lewis Dijkstra, Andrew J. Tatem & Alessandro Sorichetta, 2026, Journal of Urban Health, 103, 431-442
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-026-01077-z
Type: article
An entropogram-based Random Field model for categorical geospatial data prediction
Wen-Bin Zhang, Yong Ge, Xuan Wan, Shengjie Lai & Peter M. Atkinson, 2026, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 1-18
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2026.2650365
Type: article
Assessing context-dependent effectiveness of heat adaptation through human mobility under different heatwave regimes
Haiyan Liu, Siqin Wang, Chunzhu Wei, Wenbin Zhang, Andrew J. Tatem & Shengjie Lai, 2025, Sustainable Cities and Society, 136
DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2025.107066
Type: article
High spatial resolution building characteristics for the Global South: insights from the Google Open Buildings Temporal Dataset (2016-2023)
Rhorom Priyatikanto, Heather Chamberlain, Maksym Bondarenko, Wenbin Zhang, Natalia Tejedor Garavito & Andrew Tatem, 2025, Gates Open Research
DOI: 10.12688/verixiv.1584.1
Type: article
A stochastic approach to integerize floating-point estimates in gridded population mapping
Wen-Bin Zhang, Alessandro Sorichetta, Charlie Frye, Natalia Tejedor-Garavito, Weixuan Fang, Duygu Cihan, Dorothea Woods, Gregory Yetman, Jason Hilton, Andrew J. Tatem & Maksym Bondarenko, 2025, International Journal of Geographical Information Science
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2025.2568721
Type: article
Assessing the impacts of gridded population model choice on degree of urbanisation metrics
Wen Bin Zhang, Dorothea Woods, Iyanuloluwa Deborah Olowe, Marcello Schiavina, Weixuan Fang, Graeme Hornby, Maksym Bondarenko, Joachim Maes, Lewis Dijkstra, Andrew J. Tatem & Alessandro Sorichetta, 2025, Cities, 166
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106293
Type: article
Scaling geospatial data from the perspective of complexity: exploring the scaling behavior of the entropogram
Wen-Bin Zhang, Yong Ge, Shengjie Lai & Peter M. Atkinson, 2024, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 114(10), 2264-2280
DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2024.2377227
Type: article
Optimizing the detection of emerging infections using mobility-based spatial sampling
Die Zhang, Yong Ge, Jianghao Wang, Haiyan Liu, Wen-Bin Zhang, Xilin Wu, Gerard B.M. Heuvelink, Chaoyang Wu, Juan Yang, Nick W. Ruktanonchai, Sarchil Qader, Corrine W. Ruktanonchai, Eimear Cleary, Yongcheng Yao, Jian Liu, Chibuzor C. Nnanatu, Amy Wesolowski, Derek A.T. Cummings, Andrew J. Tatem & Shengjie Lai, 2024, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 131
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2024.103949
Type: article