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”
Both Nayomi and Prawal successfully passed their first PhD Milestone this week, the important Confirmation of Candidature. Presenting on their first year’s work, each had to present their case for confirmation to an internal panel… Read More »Congratulations to Prawal and Nayomi
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
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
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
The GKL team participated in the November OGC Metadata Code Sprint. Our approach was to focus on the semantic data enrichment, including metadata mapping, using RML. We picked creating an up-to-date placenames knowledge graph for… Read More »OGC Code Sprint
PhD candidate Alexis Horde Vo passed is first PhD milestone, his Confirmation of Candidature (CoC) seminar on October 23 2024. Alexis is co-supervised by Matt Duckham in the Geographic Knowledge Lab and Dr Estrid He… Read More »Alexis Horde Vo Confirmation of Candidature
The Dynamic Vicmap project, a collaboration between, were winners of the 2024 Geospatial Excellence Award for Innovation, together with collaborator FrontierSI, the Victorian Department of Transport and Planning, and SmartSat CRC. The winners of the… Read More »Dynamic Vicmap wins award!
Matt was part of a panel of four expert speakers at the Victorian Geospatial Conference in Melbourne on Generative AI and its Impact on Industry.
Yaguang (Ozzy) Tao presented his ground-breaking work on natural language queries to spatial databases in a presentation “MapTalk: A Conversational AI for Geospatial Datasets” at the Victorian Geospatial Conference in Melbourne. Great work Ozzy!