Rate My Professor Zhonghua Zheng

Dr Zhonghua Zheng is an Assistant Professor (permanent position) in Data Science and Environmental Analytics in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Manchester. He also serves as Co-Lead for Environmental Data Science and AI at the Manchester Environmental Research Institute and as an Editor for the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. He is a member of the Department Leadership Team, serving as External Advisory Board and Employability Lead, and a member of the Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee.

Zheng completed a PhD in Environmental Engineering in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Computational Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2020, following Master of Computer Science and Master of Science degrees in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from the same institution and a BEng in Biosystems Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2015. His postdoctoral positions include an Advanced Study Program Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in 2022 and a Postdoctoral Research Scientist role at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University from 2021 to 2022. His research focuses on environmental data science, urban weather and climate, air quality and atmospheric aerosols, and agriculture-environment nexus systems, employing data science, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and high-performance computing. Since early 2025, he has secured over £1,000,000 in research funding as Principal Investigator. He holds additional roles including Fellow of Advance HE, Vice Chair of the American Meteorological Society Artificial Intelligence Committee, and membership in the UK Research and Innovation Talent Peer Review College and the Natural Environment Research Council Peer Review College. He has received awards such as the University of Manchester Open Research Award in 2025 and the Aerosol Science Career Development Grant from The Aerosol Society.