News & Updates
Recent News
[2025.10] Invitation to Present on the session of AAG 2026 Symposium on Spatial AI and Data Science: Frontiers and Applications: GeoAI for Multi-source Geospatial Data Fusion and Analysis. This session aims to advance the application of GeoAI for multi-source data processing. We seek to explore methods that address the distinctive characteristics of various data types and offer practical solutions for their analysis. We invite researchers to share their work, showcasing innovative approaches to multi-source data integration and analysis. Additionally, we aim to engage potential new users interested in these methodologies, fostering deeper multidisciplinary interactions on this topic.
[2025.09] Co-organizing in AAG 2026 Symposium on Spatial AI and Data Science: Frontiers and Applications in 2026 AAG Annual Meeting. This symposium focused on cyberGIS and geospatial data science at AAG annual meetings since 2011. A suite of paper/panel sessions and workshops will address cutting-edge advances of cyberGIS, spatial AI and data science, and data-intensive geospatial understanding derived from spatial and spatiotemporal data synthesis.
[2025.08] Leading a project about “Predicting and Mapping Floods through Geospatial Data Fusion and Machine Learning” in I-GUIDE Summer school. This project focuses on developing advanced methodologies for flood prediction and mapping using geospatial data fusion and machine learning techniques.
[2025.07] Attending USGS 2025 CEGIS Annual Research Meeting. Giving an oral presentation about “Machine learning for urban flood inundation mapping”.
[2025.07] Serving as one of the Guest Editors for a Special Issue in Remote Sensing (MDPI) Innovations in Remote Sensing Image Analysis, focusing on cutting-edge developments in remote sensing image analysis.
[2025.06] Attending I-GUIDE Forum 2025, Chicago, Illinois, USA, on June 17 - 19, 2025. Giving a poster presentation about “Uncovering the impact of building spatial-functional information on urban livability using machine learning”.
[2025.04] Attending HDR Imageomics All-hands meeting, with NextGen Leaders Fellowship.
[2025.03] Hosting a session AAG 2025 Symposium on Spatial AI & Data Science for Sustainability: Deep Learning Approaches for Multi-Source Data Processing and Analysis on 3/27/2025 from 12:50 PM to 2:10 PM Eastern Time in 356, Level 3, Huntington Place.
[2025.02] PhD defense Deep learning methods for multiple building use and urban livability evaluation from multimodal geospatial data held on 2/20/2025 from 12:30 PM to 13:30 PM CET Time, Waaier, 4, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.
[2024.05] Attending European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2024, and giving poster presentation about Building hierarchical use classification based on multiple data sources with a multi-label multimodal transformer network at ESSI – Earth & Space Science Informatics session on 3/27/2025 from 12:50 PM to 2:10 PM Eastern Time in 356, Level 3, Huntington Place.
[2023.05] Attending Joint Urbana Remote Sensing Event, and giving an oral presentation “Building Usage Classification Using a Transformer-based Multimodal Deep Learning Method” at Deep learning approaches for multi-temporal and multi-modal data processing and analysis for urban areas session.
Research Opportunities
Collaborations: Interested in interdisciplinary research collaborations focusing on urban sustainability, smart cities, and geospatial data science.
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