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2024 AAG-GISSG Student Honors Paper Competition Result

I hope you are having a fantastic time at the AAG 2024 Annual Conference. 


On behalf of the AAG Geographic Information Science and Systems (GISS) Specialty Group, I am very pleased to announce the winners of this year’s student honors paper competition: 


Graduate Group


1st place ($700):


Nemin Wu, University of Georgia, Spatial-temporal Explicit Deep Gravity Model (STExDGM) for Origin-Destination Flow Generation


2nd place ($450):


Hao Tian, Texas A&M University, Unveiling Human Mobility Dynamics during Heat Waves Using Mobile Phone Location Data in the Houston Metropolitan Area


3rd place ($300):


Jacob Kruse, University of Wisconsin–Madison, The Spatially-Weighted Temporal Rich Club: Identifying Rich Clubs in Spatiotemporal Interaction Networks


Honorable mentions ($200 each):


Yifei Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara, An Advanced Time-geographic Approach for Analyzing Spatio-temporal Interactions between Turkey Vultures


Hanlin Zhou, University of Toronto, Associating Dynamic Built Environmental Exposures and Active Transport


Congratulations to all student winners!  Many thanks to the GISS BOD review committee and all participants for joining us yesterday! 


We are looking forward to next year’s student paper competition!  


AAG-GISS BOD