Rate My Professor Monteza Karimzadeh

Morteza Karimzadeh is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder, holding affiliate assistant professor appointments in Computer Science and Information Science. He received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 2018, M.S. from KN Toosi University of Technology in Iran in 2011, and B.S. from Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University in Iran in 2008. As a spatial data scientist, his research spans geographic information retrieval, machine learning, geovisualization, and visual analytics. Karimzadeh integrates data science with social and environmental sciences to advance sustainable and equitable practices. His methodological developments apply geospatial artificial intelligence to domains including sea ice mapping, human mobility analysis, social media analytics, energy resilience and production, crisis management, situational awareness, precision agriculture, and digital humanities. He emphasizes human-centered approaches, incorporating visual analytics, explainable AI, and human-in-the-loop machine learning for geospatial applications.

Karimzadeh's publications demonstrate substantial impact in spatiotemporal analysis and visual analytics. Notable works include 'The United States COVID-19 Forecast Hub Dataset' (2022, 187 citations), 'GeoTxt: A Scalable Geoparsing System for Unstructured Text Geolocation' (2019, 135 citations), 'GeoCorpora: Building a Corpus to Test and Train Microblog Geoparsers' (2018, 95 citations), 'A Spatiotemporal Machine Learning Approach to Forecasting COVID-19 Incidence at the County Level in the USA' (2023, 63 citations), and 'Spatiotemporal Prediction of COVID-19 Cases Using Inter- and Intra-County Proxies of Human Interactions' (2021, 53 citations). Additional contributions cover sea ice classification, air pollution forecasting, remote sensing, and epidemiological modeling. He teaches courses such as Machine Learning & Spatial Data, Statistics and Geographic Data, Advanced Geovisualization and Web Mapping, and Geographic Information Science: Spatial Modeling. Karimzadeh supervises graduate students across Geography and Computer Science.