Scaling Deep Learning, Computer Vision, and GeoAI to engineer rigorous models grounded in physical and social
complexities.
about
As an interdisciplinary individual who dabbles in research, my work sits at the intersection of the environment, GeoAI, healthcare, and urban systems. I possess a persistent curiosity about how data, place, and equity interact. Influenced by my background in environmental studies, spatial analytics, and machine learning, I explore the design and applications of computational tools that make hidden risks visible.
My work integrates field-based sampling, remote sensing, computer vision, deep learning, spatial statistics, and civic technology. I've built systems based on Google Street View image segmentation to quantifying a variety of complex urban issues using spatial econometric modeling.
Before graduate school, I worked in telecommunications designing and splicing fiber optic cable routes in primarily suburban and rural areas, in cancer research biorepository preparing hazardous specimens and storing sensitive health data, and often in diverse local community advocacy. All of these experiences shaped my commitment to producing data and science that are technically rigorous and grounded in my lived experience and interactions.
Across every project I want to bring a reflective, systems-oriented approach: using data to predict, understand, explain, and intervene.
TESS VU
URBAN SPATIAL ANALYTICS
Education
University of Pennsylvania
Urban Spatial Analytics, Masters
Harvard University
GIS Institute, Center for Geographic Analysis
University of Utah
Environmental Science, Honors BS
University of Iowa
Edge of Space, Mission and Instrument Design for Space Flight
Oxford University
Hertford College, Consortium for Human Rights
Professional
Philly Emerging Contaminants Initiative
Community Fellow
TDS Telecommunications
Geospatial Engineer
TDS Telecommunications
GIS Intern
Huntsman Cancer Institute
Research Associate
contact
GitHub
PLACES
Boston
MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES
Philadelphia
PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES
Salt Lake City
UTAH, UNITED STATES
