- New Publication in IJGIS: Spatial CoT, Guiding LLM Reasoning with Spatial Core Concepts
We are excited to share that our new paper, “Spatial CoT: A Spatial Concept Transformation Guided LLM Reasoning Framework for Complex Geospatial Question Answering”, led… read more - New publication: GAIR: Location-aware self-supervised contrastive pre-training with geo-aligned implicit representations
SEAI Lab PhD student Zeping Liu has published a new paper, “GAIR: Location-aware self-supervised contrastive pre-training with geo-aligned implicit representations,” in the ISPRS Journal of… read more - Congratulations to Jielu Zhang and Zeping Liu on Receiving AAG 2026 Awards
At the AAG 2026 Annual Meeting, SEAI Lab members received multiple prestigious awards. Among them, Dr. Jielu Zhang was honored with the William L. Garrison… read more - Dr. Junfeng Jiao Delivers a Talk on “Austin Digital Twin: AI-Powered Urban Simulation”
On October 29, 2025, Dr. Gengchen Mai invited Dr. Junfeng Jiao from the School of Architecture to deliver a talk titled “Austin Digital Twin: AI-Powered… read more - One Paper Accepted by NeurIPS 2025
🚀 Excited to share that our paper “LocDiff: Identifying Locations on Earth by Diffusing in the Hilbert Space” led by Dr. Zhangyu Wang has been… read more - Dr. Gengchen Mai Wins $300,000 National Science Foundation Research Grant
Dr. Gengchen Mai has been awarded a $300,000 Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics Research Grant from the National Science Foundation. This grant will fund Mai’s research… read more - Congratulations to Lab Member Zeping Liu for Receiving the Amazon AI PhD Fellowship
We are thrilled to announce that Zeping Liu, PhD student in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas at Austin… read more - Congratulations to Dr. Mai for being named one of Geospatial World’s 50 Rising Stars of 2025!
Gengchen Mai has been named one of the Geospatial World 50 Rising Stars 2025. Launched in 2021, the Geospatial World Rising Stars initiative aims to showcase… read more - Congratulations to our lab member Jielu Zhang on successfully defending her PhD!
We’re beyond proud to celebrate our lab member, Jielu Zhang, on the successful defense of her PhD! Even more exciting—Dr. Zhang will be joining Harvard… read more - Congratulations to our lab member Zhangyu Wang for his achievement in the AAG GISS Student Paper Competition!
At the AAG 2025 Annual Meeting on March 25, Zhangyu presented his paper titled “LocDiffusion: Identifying Locations on Earth by Diffusing in the Hilbert Space”… read more - Excited to share our latest review paper on GeoAI
Our paper, covering the past, present, and future of GeoAI, has been published in the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. Thanks to… read more - Congratulations to Qian Cao on UGA GIS Day 2024
Congratulations to Qian Cao for winning the First Place Award at the Student Lightning Talk Competition during UGA GIS Day 2024! Hosted by the College… read more - Congratulations to Dr. Gengchen Mai and Zeping Liu on UT GIS Day 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Gengchen Mai for receiving the University of Texas Libraries Map & Geospatial Collections Explorer Fellowship! Congratulations to lab member Zeping Liu for… read more
Spatially Explicit Artificial Intelligence Lab
