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 data-driven and computational methods, with two themes that shape most of what I do:

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.