March 29, 2026, Filed Under: LabNewsGISense Lab at AAG 2026 GISense Lab attended the AAG 2026 conference. Dr. Kang chaired the GISER Symposium — GIScience for Human Experience & Responsibility and organized five sessions on Human Experience with Emerging Geospatial Technologies. 🏆 Congratulations to PhD student Haofeng Tan for winning the AAG IGIF Research Award and earning 3rd place in the CyberGIS Student Competition. ☀️ Kudos to undergraduate Andy Qin who was the only undergrad finalist in the GISS Student Competition. Somang Kim presented her research on fNIRS with GeoAI and Xihan Yao presented his research on personality at an event at UC Berkeley.
December 1, 2025, Filed Under: LabNewsUndergrad Andy Qin Presented at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2025 From November 3-6, undergraduate student Andy Qin traveled to Minneapolis to present at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2025. He presented his short paper “Leveraging Reinforcement Learning for Maternity Care Resource Reallocation: A Case Study in Florida” which was also featured in the poster session.
October 30, 2025, Filed Under: LabNewsGISense Lab at ACSP 2025 & Visit to the University of Minnesota On Oct. 21-26, 2025, GISense Lab members traveled to Minneapolis, Minnesota, to participate in the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 2025 Annual Conference and to visit colleagues at the University of Minnesota. Prof. Kang presented the lab’s recent work on urban soundscapes with SounDiT at ACSP, our soundscape-to-image GeoAI framework, and joined the Urban AI Roundtable organized by Prof. Xinyue Ye, contributing perspectives on Human-centered GeoAI and the role of multimodal AI in urban planning. Ph.D. student Xihan Yao presented his earlier research on urban trees and LiDAR-based microclimate modeling, showcasing how high-resolution 3D data can inform greener and more climate-resilient urban design. The GISense Lab also visited the Department of Geography, Environment & Society at the University of Minnesota, hosted by Prof. Di Zhu, and the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, hosted by Prof. Yao-Yi Chiang. We had fruitful conversations with members of the GeoDI Lab and the Knowledge Computing Lab.
April 30, 2025, Filed Under: LabNewsVisiting Scholar Koichi Ito at the GISense Lab From Feb. 1 to April 30, 2025, Koichi Ito, a Ph.D. student from the Urban Analytical Lab at the National University of Singapore, visited the GISense Lab. He worked on examining the associations between personality and the built environment using street view images.
April 10, 2025, Filed Under: LabNewsDr. Hongxu Ma at DeepMind Visited our Lab On April 9, 2025, Dr. Hongxu Ma from Google DeepMind visited the GISense Lab and had a fruitful conversation with lab members.
February 10, 2025, Filed Under: LabNewsFirst GISense Lab Group Meeting! On February 7, 2025, we officially launched the first GISense Lab group meeting at the WCP 4.160, the newly renovated space! It marks the beginning of an exciting journey for our GISense lab as we build a collaborative research environment at the intersection of GIScience, Geospatial Data Science, and GeoAI. We welcomed our new visiting Ph.D. student Koichi Ito from the National University of Singapore. Two Ph.D. students Hanqi Li and Haofeng Tan joined remotely. Two undergraduates Mathis and Albert attended the in-person meeting. Looking forward, the GISense Lab will hold regular group meetings to brainstorm new ideas, discuss progress, facilitate research collaborations, and support professional growth.
