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Oct 13, 2026 🎉 My first research grant as PI! Excited to share that my project “GeoAI for Vienna Liveliness 2026” has been awarded funding by the Hochschuljubiläumsfonds der Stadt Wien. An exciting first step, and hopefully the start of many more to come! 🚀
Oct 12, 2026 ✈️ Great news! I’ve received a Travel Award for ACM SIGSPATIAL 2026! 🎉 Looking forward to presenting our work, catching up with old friends, and meeting new faces in the GIScience community. See you at SIGSPATIAL!
Sep 18, 2026 🎉 Our paper “How Geographic Information Influences Vision-Language Model Judgments of Urban Scenes” has been accepted as a full research paper to the 9th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on AI for Geographic Knowledge Discovery (GeoAI ‘26)!
Aug 05, 2026 🎉 Two papers accepted to ACM SIGSPATIAL 2026
Jul 16, 2026 📄 Our perspective article on “Advancing urban sustainability with visual intelligence” is accepted to Science Bulletin 🎉🎉
Apr 26, 2026 📢 Call for Papers: Special Issue on GeoAI for Urban Sustainability (TUS)
Apr 25, 2026 ⏰ Deadline Extended: Geography According to Foundation Models @ AGILE 2026
Apr 10, 2026 🗺️ I will present a poster at EGU General Assembly 2026 in Vienna, Austria (May 4, 2026). See you at Hall X5, board X5.176! 👋
Apr 08, 2026 📢 Call for Papers: Geography According to Foundation Models @ AGILE 2026
Mar 01, 2026 🏛️ I started my position as a University Assistant Postdoc at the University of Vienna! 🎉🎉
Dec 13, 2025 📄 Our paper on “Learning street view representations based on a spatiotemporal contrastive learning framework” is accepted to Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 🎉🎉
Nov 04, 2025 🏆 I am honored to receive the DAAD AI-Net Postdoc Fellowship! 😁😁
Sep 16, 2025 📄 Our paper on “Representation learning for geospatial data” is accepted to Annals of GIS 🎉🎉
Jun 18, 2025 📄 Our paper on “Measuring Urban Physical Environments Using Image Deep Features: A Case Study” is accepted to Cities 🎉🎉
May 19, 2025 I successfully defended my PhD thesis!
Apr 16, 2025 📄 Our paper on “Intelligent Computational Representation of Urban Imagery” (in Chinese) is accepted to Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University 🎉🎉
Dec 01, 2024 📄 Our paper on “No “true” greenery: Deciphering the bias of satellite and street view imagery in urban greenery measurement” is accepted to Building and Environment 🎉🎉
Apr 17, 2024 Presentation on 2024 AAG Annual Meeting
Sep 23, 2023 📄 Our paper on “Comprehensive urban space representation with varying numbers of street-level images” is accepted to Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 🎉🎉
Jan 06, 2023 ✈️ I am starting my visit at the MIT Senseable City Lab as a visiting Ph.D. student! 🎓