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Alexis at GIScience 2025 poster session

Alexis presented his poster on his PhD work, Use of Pretrained Language Models for Geographic Information Retrieval, as a poster at the GIScience 2025 Poster session. Congratulations Alexis!

Nayomi presenting at GIScience 2025

Nayomi presented her PhD research at GIScience 2025 in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her abstract on Transparent and reusable semantic enrichment of place name data in Australia is archived on Zenodo. Well done Nayomi!

3 acceptances to GIScience 2025

Congratulations to the team, especially Nayomi, Alexis, and Nenad, on having three contributions accepted for presentation to GIScience 2025 in New Zealand. They accepted submissions are:

Congratulations to Zaffar!

Congratulations from the whole Geographic Knowledge Lab go to GKL Steering Committee member Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse on being awarded the Peter Woodgate Award at the recent Locate 2025 Conference in Brisbane. Named in honour of… Read More »Congratulations to Zaffar!

Major new funding for “MapTalk”

Ozzy has led the successful initiative to secure major new research translation funding for his “MapTalk” technology. In an announcement from the Australian Economic Accellerator Announced on March 3rd 2025 https://www.aea.gov.au/news/aea-ignite-grants-support-nationally-significant-research, the project “MapTalk: A… Read More »Major new funding for “MapTalk”

FILTER project kick off

The FILTER project (Framework for Integrated Land and Transport Evaluation of Precincts) kicked off with its first team meeting in January 2025. This project aims to establish a robust methodology incorporating clear metrics and benchmarks… Read More »FILTER project kick off

Happy Holidays

The Geographic Knowledge Lab has had a very successful year, welcoming new researchers (Nayomi and Prawal) and our newly formed steering committee, an award for our Dynamic Vicmap project, Alexis passing his first PhD milestone,… Read More »Happy Holidays

IJGIS paper published

Congratulations to Mohammad for publishing his first IJGIS (International Journal of Geographical Information Science) journal paper from his PhD, on geospatial question-answering (geoQA) using probabilistic spatial reasoning. Kazemi Beydokhti, M., Duckham, M., Griffin, A. L.,… Read More »IJGIS paper published