Wenfei Xu

Wenfei Xu is an assistant professor in GIScience and Urban Data Science in the Department of Geography at UCSB and the Director of the Urban Data Research Lab. Her research examines how housing policies, practices, institutions, and technologies have influenced urban inequality, with a focus on methods in spatial data science. She works on topics in social-spatial stratification, segregation, race and ethnicity, data science, mapping, and neighborhood change in the United States.