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Professor Alison Heppenstall is a leading academic in Geocomputation and Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow, specializing in AI/ML methods applied to geographical problems. Her roles include being a Professor of Geocomputation and an ESRC-Alan Turing Fellow. She holds affiliations with the Alan Turing Institute and the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics.
Education: BA Archaeology (University of Durham), MSc and PhD in Geocomputation/AI (University of Leeds).
Research focuses on agent-based modeling, microsimulation, uncertainty quantification, and urban digital twins. She develops AI tools for health policy, transport systems, and sustainable cities.
Recent work includes studies on electric vehicle behaviors, housing market dynamics, and pandemic policy simulations. She co-leads the AI4CI Hub for smart cities and contributes to the SIPHER consortium on health policy modeling.
Awards include the 2022 Computational Economics Prize and ESRC-Turing Fellowship. Her grants include EPSRC-funded projects on exascale computing and AI for collective intelligence.
Advises PhD students in geocomputation and urban analytics. Leads the development of synthetic population datasets for health and policy analysis.
