Scholar
Gengchen Mai
Google Scholar ID: X2Wfl1UAAAAJ
Assistant Professor of GIScience and GeoAI, University of Texas at Austin | Google Research
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,805
H-index
37
i10-index
74
Publications
20
Co-authors
124
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Publications: First-author paper accepted to ICML 2023
- - Awards: 2023 AAG J. Warren Nystrom Award
- - Projects: TorchSpatial accepted to NeurIPS 2024 benchmark and dataset track
- - Student Achievement: Zhangyu Wang won the best paper award at COSIT 2024
Research Experience
- - Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin (starting June 1st, 2024)
- - Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Georgia; Affiliated Professor and Graduate Program Faculty at the Department of Computer Science, UGA; Member of the UGA Environmental Artificial Intelligence Faculty Cluster and Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture (IIPA), UGA
- - Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL), Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, working with Prof. Stefano Ermon
- - Completed five AI/ML research-based internships at Esri Inc., SayMosaic Inc., Apple Map, and Google X
Education
- - Ph.D. in Cartography and Geographic Information Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Advisor: Prof. Krzysztof Janowicz
- - B.S. in Geographic Information System, School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University
Background
- - Research Interests: Spatially Explicit Artificial Intelligence & GeoAI, Geographic Question Answering, Deep Learning on Remote Sensing, Urban Data Science, Computational Sustainability, GeoEthics and AI Ethics, Knowledge Graph, Natural Language Processing, Geographic Information Retrieval, Machine Learning/Deep Learning, GIScience, Spatial Data Mining, Spatial Statistic/Analysis
- - Professional Fields: Geographic Information Science, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
- - Introduction: Currently a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, and the director of SEAI Lab. Also a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google Research.
Miscellany
- - Looking for 1-2 fully-funded Ph.D. students to join SEAI Lab
- - Personal interests not mentioned
