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Farewell Mohammad

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

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”