Zhixuan Qi

Greetings from Ann Arbor! I am a Research Associate at the University of Michigan, where I work with Xiaofan Liang on computational approaches to understanding and interpreting zoning and land-use regulation.

Before joining UM, I completed my Master's in Information Science with a concentration in Urban Tech at Cornell Tech, where I was extremely fortunate to work with Anna Scaglione and Nikhil Garg.

I am broadly interested in how people experience cities, and how those experiences reveal deeper patterns of equity, governance, and technological change. My work approaches these questions through quantitative and computational methods (Read more in the projects tab).

My recent projects investigate how emerging technologies are reshaping the urban environment, with a focus on two dimensions:

I hold a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from Beijing University of Technology, which my friends and I still insist is the best school in Beijing.