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… read more 

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.

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… read more 

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.

On April 9, 2025, Dr. Hongxu Ma from Google DeepMind visited the GISense Lab and had a fruitful conversation with lab members.