Milad Malekzadeh

I am a Lecturer at Tampere University and a quantitative geographer working at the intersection of GIScience, human mobility, urban environments, well-being, and artificial intelligence. My research uses spatial big data and AI to understand how people move through, perceive, and experience cities.

Research and teaching in GIS, spatial data science, human mobility, AI, and sustainable urban development; supervision of students; research project development and management.

GIScience, spatial analysis, human mobility, mobility data, GeoAI, large language and vision-language models, urban planning, urban well-being, transport, geoprivacy, and spatial big data.

2026

1. Malekzadeh, M. (2026). Can AI reduce gender bias? The case of AI-generated audio conversations in Google’s NotebookLM. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 23, 101246. DOI: 10.1016/j.chbr.2026.101246. 
2. Malekzadeh, M. (2026). Bringing Back the Front Desk: A Bounded Case for AI-First Public Services. Digital Government: Research and Practice. DOI: 10.1145/3821442. 
3. Malekzadeh, M., Väisänen, T., Panori, A., Royuela, V., & Järv, O. (2026). How regional characteristics drive various human mobility types across Europe. Nature Communications, 17, 6667. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-73288-6. 
4. Malekzadeh, M., Reuschke, D., & Long, J. A. (2026). Exposure to green and blue spaces during travel does not have immediate effect on subjective happiness and stress. Travel Behaviour and Society, 43, 101191. DOI: 10.1016/j.tbs.2025.101191. 
5. Malekzadeh, M., Kestens, Y., Blanford, J. I., Perchoux, C., Mostafavi, M. A., McKenzie, G., & Kim, E. K. (2026). Ethical guidelines for geoprivacy: A framework for researchers and ethics committees. International Journal of Health Geographics, 25. DOI: 10.1186/s12942-026-00460-y. 
6. Malekzadeh, M. (2026). Urban planners should not be afraid of AI. Cities, 168, 106497. DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106497. 

2025

1. Malekzadeh, M. (2025). Add a ‘speculation box’ to research papers. Nature, 646(8083), 38. DOI: 10.1038/d41586-025-03186-2. 
2. Malekzadeh, M. (2025). You are more than your current research. Nature Human Behaviour, 9, 2411. DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02316-0. 
3. Malekzadeh, M., Smith, L., Reuschke, D., Farber, S., & Long, J. A. (2025). Urban mobility and carbon emissions: Decoding the influence of sociodemographic factors, trip-level built environment, and travel behaviour of workers in three UK cities. Cities, 167, 106321. DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106321. 
4. Malekzadeh, M., Ha, H. J., Sila-Nowicka, K., Brum-Bastos, V., Lee, J., Demšar, U., & Long, J. A. (2025). How can we make GPS tracking studies more open, reproducible, and collaborative? A vision for the OpenGPS platform. Data in Brief, 60, 111603. DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2025.111603. 
5. Malekzadeh, M., Reuschke, D., & Long, J. A. (2025). Quantifying local mobility patterns in urban human mobility data. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 39(5), 975–998. DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2024.2389410. 
6. Malekzadeh, M., Willberg, E., Torkko, J., & Toivonen, T. (2025). Urban attractiveness according to ChatGPT: Contrasting AI and human insights. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 117, 102243. DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2024.102243. 

2024

1. Malekzadeh, M., & Long, J. A. (2024). Mobility deviation index: Incorporating geographical context into analysis of human mobility. Journal of Geographical Systems, 26(3), 427–448. DOI: 10.1007/s10109-024-00444-1. 

2023

1. Malekzadeh, M., & Long, J. A. (2023). A network community structure similarity index for weighted networks. PLOS ONE, 18(11), e0292018. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292018.