My great honor to be elected as an AAG Fellow❤️ It is also an inspiration to continue my journey to make contributions to GIScience! Many thanks to my mentors, students, and colleagues!

We ❤️ clean water! A UMN CSE team has been chosen as a Phase I #NSFfunded Convergence Accelerator to develop new low-cost, portable water sensing technology using AI. Partners: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, tribal partners, Geosyntec, Freshwater z.umn.edu/aquasense24 U of M Research

[240212-240216] Our team participated in the Critical-MAAS Hackathon workshop held from February 12th to 16th, sponsored by DARPA. It was great to meet other collaborators in-person! For more information about the project, check out this link: knowledge-computing.github.io/criticalmaas-w…

I will be giving a keynote on Spatial AI and Its Applications in an Interdisciplinary World tomorrow 4/17 3 pm at the Waldo Tobler Distinguished Lecture in GIScience at AAG. Come join us and say hi in 311 (Kaua`i), Third Floor, Hawai'i Convention Center.

I will be giving a keynote on Spatial AI and Its Applications in an Interdisciplinary World tomorrow 4/17 3 pm at the Waldo Tobler Distinguished Lecture in GIScience at AAG. Come join us and say hi in 311 (Kaua`i), Third Floor, Hawai'i Convention Center. #aag2024 #geoai #umn

#SIAMSDM24 SIAM Data Mining is a wrap!!! Thank you all who contributed your time, work, ideas, and participation towards making the conference a success!

Fresh off the press! 🗞️ Felicidades Alhelí Calderón Villarreal, MD, PhD, MPH and co-authors on this incredible piece that focuses on the lived experiences of people who inject drugs along the Tijuana-San Diego border region! This piece advocates for WaSH access to be part of harm reduction efforts 🩵

Thrilled to join the AAG SAM-SG Board. Thank you Mei-Po Kwan for your strong nomination. Looking forward to contributing! Spatial Analysis and Modeling Group - AAG

So glad to be back American Association of Geographers 2024 to share research progress, meet friends, and visit beautiful #Hawaii!!! NUS Geography

This Friday at PAKDD, I will present our work, led by Arash Hajisafi, on Dynamic GNNs for Precise Seizure Detection and Classification from EEG Data. Come say hi! pakdd2024.org/detail-program…

[240513-240515] Our team has participated in the CriticalMAAS Hackathon workshop from May 13th - May 15th sponsored by DARPA!

I am excited to speak at the panel on Explanation and Understanding of Geospatial AI this Friday at Harvard's conference on EVALUATING THE SCIENCE OF GEOSPATIAL AI. Join us online: gis.harvard.edu/event/evaluati… Professor Shashi Shekhar will give a keynote! UMN Computer Science & Engineering #UMNProud

Our work with David Rumsey on historical map text spotting is accepted in KDD2024🎉. Check out the teaser on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=De_HXH…

We are thrilled to share that Yijun Lin presented her work, 'Hyper-Local Deformable Transformers for Text Spotting on Historical Maps,' at KDD 2024! You can watch the recorded KDD talk and read more about her work here: 📽️:youtube.com/watch?v=De_HXH… 📎:dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…

Congratulations Yaoyi Chiang for being selected as a Fellow of the Institute of the Environment (IonE)! The recognition highlights your impactful contributions to environmental research. 📎:environment.umn.edu/news/2024-affi…

🚀 Excited to share our research on Context-Aware Trajectory Anomaly Detection at ACM SIGSPATIAL GeoAnomalies’24! 🗓️ Date: Oct. 29 11:00-11:20 📍 Location: Conference Room 2 Congrats to Haoji Hu, Jina Kim, Jinwei Zhou, Sofia Kirsanova, Janghyeon Lee, and Yaoyi Chiang 🎉

Our paper presents a context-aware approach that integrates agent IDs and Points of Interest (POI) data, enabling more accurate agent-level anomaly detection in trajectories. #SIGSPATIAL2024 #UMNProud

1/2 ✨ICDAR25 MapText Comp has released the test dataset✨, with submission deadline at April 1, 2025. 👉 rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=32&com=int…

2/2 The winning methods will be featured in the ICDAR Proceedings Paper, and winners will have the opportunity to receive certificates on stage at the ICDAR conference in Wuhan!🥳