The group bade a fond farewell to Mohammad Kazemi Beydokhti this week, who started a in new position at spatial innovators and consultants Veris. Mohammad recently completed his PhD, as well as his outstanding postdoctoral… Read More »Farewell Mohammad
From 1 January 2026, GKL steering committee member Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse has been appointed as an Adjunct Industry Professor in the Department of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences at RMIT University. The whole GKL team congratulates… Read More »Professor Mohamed-Ghouse appointment
GKL was delighted to host renowned KR researchers Professor Tony Cohn from the University of Leeds and Dr Simon Vandevelde from KU Leuven to give talks in the lab this week. Prof Cohn also gave… Read More »Visit from Prof Tony Cohn and Dr Simon Vandevelde
Congratulations to GKL PhD researchers Alexis Horde-Vo and Nayomi Ranamuka who both passed their second PhD milestones last week with flying colours. A video of Alexis’ milestone talk is available to watch below and on… Read More »Alexis and Nayomi second milestone
Matt gave a keynote entitled “Rerouting … Finding ways to create impact with GI science” to GIScience 2025. Although Matt was unable to travel in person to the conference, in Aotearoa New Zealand, he presented… Read More »Matt’s GIScience 2025 Keynote
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 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!
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 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!
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”