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

PLACES

Boston

MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES

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Philadelphia

PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES

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Salt Lake City

UTAH, UNITED STATES

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