Shuai Zhou

Education 

Ph.D. in Rural Sociology and Demography, The Pennsylvania State University, 2022 (EST.) 

M.S. in Rural Sociology and Demography, The Pennsylvania State University, 2019 

Bio sketch 

Shuai Zhou is a Ph.D. candidate in Demography and Rural Sociology at the Pennsylvania State University. Zhou is a trained demographer and rural sociologist who also has expertise in geospatial analytics. His research interests include planned relocation, environmental migration, and computational and spatial analysis of big data using open-source solutions on High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms. Zhou also writes tools for his research and makes them publicly available under open-source license. He develops GPS2space: a Python library for building spatial data and constructing buffer- and convex hull-based activity space and shared space from raw GPS data. 

Contact information 

Email: sxz217@psu.edu 

Website: https://shuaizhou.net/