Check out the video for my latest paper on metro maps, this time with Tim Janiak: Algorithmically-Assisted Interactive Metro Map Design. If you're at ACM SIGSPATIAL next week, come say hi! youtube.com/watch?v=OkiOr9…

Which embedding space should we use? Mining moving behaviors from massive trajectories could be daunting, especially in an unsupervised setting. Congrats to Haoji for his paper "Clustering Human Mobility with Multiple Spaces" accepted to IEEE BigData.

less browsing and more searching for finding the maps you want: cse.umn.edu/college/news/u… Jina Kim min

The #NLP Seminar Series continues this Friday with 🌴Muhao Chen🌴 from USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science. Tune in via Zoom to hear their talk titled "Robust and Indirectly Supervised Information Extraction." Details: z.umn.edu/NLPSeminarChen

#UMNproud of Yao-Yi Chiang's team!

The first SpEx AI session series at AAG 2023 turned out to be very successfully! Thanks to all the organizers X Angela Yao Yao-Yi Chiang and Zhangyu Wang

We’ve received the best paper award at UCGIS! Thanks Doc Rock for organizing and thanks College of Sci & Eng for the support! Besides, special thanks to my advisor Yaoyi Chiang for giving me always your valuable comments!

We're pleased to share that Wherobots.ai raised $5.5 million in a seed funding round. We're opening signups for the beta review of our Apache Sedona powered spatial data platform. Wherobots aims to help every organization extract value from data using space and time.

We are organizing a National Academies workshop exploring the intersection of #AI and #EnvironmentalHealth (6/14-6/15) Learn more about the workshop and RSVP: bit.ly/3CdSR7R Remote and in-person!

CU Boulder has an awesome open postdoc position to work on the creation of novel large-scale geospatial data infrastructure for settlement, the built environment, and the population at fine resolution and over long time periods. Apply here: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail…

We're #UMNProud of Ph.D. student Jina Kim for winning First Place in the Graduate category of the Association for Computing Machinery Student Research Competition at SIGSPATIAL 2023! Read more here: z.umn.edu/KimSIGSPATIAL23

My first undergraduate, Ryan Ko @im_koogusry, received an honorable mention in CRA URA. He co-authored multiple interesting papers, including CoEdit, Cobbler, Writing-Decoding, Meta-crafting, etc. ⚠️ Currently, he is applying for CS PhD programs on RLHF, LLM alignment, etc!! ⚠️

To ring the new year, we have a new publication fresh off the press! 🔥🗞️ bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

ChatGPT: Thrilled to share the $3.2M DARPA contracts to advance AI in predicting mineral deposits. We will revolutionize the mining industry, offering new insights into Earth's resources. Stay tuned for groundbreaking discoveries! #AI #Mining #DARPA #GeoAI #SpatialAI

Excited about text detection and recognition? Join us for the ICDAR24 Competition on Historical Map Text Detection, Recognition, and Linking! 🗺️ Hosted by UMN Computer Science & Engineering, Grinnell College, EPITA, IGN, and EHESS. Details: rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=28&com=int… #ICDAR24

📅 Save the date! Training and validation data drop on Feb 1st. Don't miss out on the chance to showcase your skills in text spotting. Sign up now! Follow @ICDAR24_MapText for the latest updates. David Rumsey #TextSpotting #OCR #TextDetection #Recognition

Inspired by our UMN friend Yaoyi Chiang, we just decided to list our animal staff on our lab website: luka-group.github.io/people.html

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 🩵

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…

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