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:
1st place:
– Yibo Zhao, University of Wisconsin- Madison; Paper title: “Enhanced Origin-Destination Flow Prediction via Community Detection and Graph Attention Networks for Diverse Mobility Patterns”
2nd place (tied):
– Zhangyu Wang, University of California Santa Barbara; Paper title: “LocDiffusion: Identifying Locations on Earth by Diffusing in the Hilbert Space”
– Zhongfu Ma, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Paper title: “Gravity-Informed Deep Flow Inference for Spatial Evolution in Panel Data”
Honorable Mentions:
– Yifan Yang, Texas A&M University; Paper title: “Hyperlocal Disaster Damage Assessment Using Bi-Temporal Street-View Imagery and Pre-Trained Image Processing Models”
– Jasper Li, University of Southern California; Paper title: “StreetviewLLM: Extracting Geographic Information Using a Chain-of-Thought Multimodal Large Language Model”
Finalists:
– Dan Qiang, McGill University; Paper title: “Mobility Vitality: Measuring urban vibrancy through active and micro-mobility modes”
– Pawan Thapa, University of Alabama; Paper title: “Medial Axis Transform Method for River Centerlines Extraction and Width Estimation”
– Haoyu Wang, University of Texas at Austin; Paper title: “Search space reduction using species distribution modeling with simulated and sampled pollen signatures”
– Shiyan Zhang, The Pennsylvania State University; Paper title: “Enhanced urban PM2.5 prediction: Applying quadtree division and time-series transformer with WRF-chem”
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