Lei Zou

AAG2026 in SF！

Excited to co-organize a session at #AAG2026: Human-Environment Interactions in Digital Twin and 3D Urban Space, part of the GISER Symposium. Join us to explore how ##GeoAI, #3D #urban data, and #digitaltwins advance urban research. 📍 Mar 20 | Nikko I, San Francisco

Please mark your calendar for the AAG 2026 Symposium on GIScience for Human Experience & Responsibility (GISER), a newly launched symposium centered on human-centered and responsible GIScience! #AAG2026 @YuhaoKang @Ray_GISer @UMassEGCS

Join us at #AAG2026 for the prestigious Waldo Tobler & TGIS Distinguished Lecture in GIScience! We are thrilled to feature prominent voices in our field. Schedule: March 18, 2026 2:30 PM - 3:50 PM PST Imperial B, Ballroom Level, Hilton (Tower 1, 2, 3), San Francisco (1/3)

During disasters, can we turn social media into actionable, location-based intelligence? Excited to share our Annals of @theAAG paper led by Dr. @BarrettBingZhou using LLMs to geolocate/classify tweets (rescue, animals, damage, shelter) across Hurricanes: doi.org/10.1080/246944…

Thank you, @CrazyAriesX (Tango) and Dr. Mark Everett (#TAMU), for two engaging guest lectures 📚 on GIS careers and a hands-on GPR field demonstration! An amazing learning experience for students in my GEOG 476 #GIS Practicum class! Students had a great time 👏

Could we see floods 🌊 evolve on streets in immersive 3D before damage happens? 📰Our new paper published in CEUS led by Dr. @rohan_debayan introduces a 4D geospatial flood digital twin to address this challenge: doi.org/10.1016/j.comp…

Join us this Friday in OMB 206! 🌎 Hao Tian, a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography, will be giving a seminar and we invite everyone in the Department of Geography to come out and join us for this exciting talk! Register by going to u.tamu.edu/Signals-2-Soci….

Hello #CPGIS members and friends! If you are attending #AAG2026 this year, we would like to cordially invite you to join out gather-together dinner! bit.ly/4agyMQ6 Venue: Imperial Palace 皇宫酒楼 Time: 18 Mar 2026, 18:00-20:00 PST

Big congrats to my PhD student @yanrayd for receiving the grant as the PI! Cannot wait to see the exciting results from this project!

I am grateful for the support from Texas A&M Institute of Data Science and Center for Teaching Excellence! Looking forward to contributing to the responsible use of AI in GIScience and beyond!

Assistant professor position in remote sensing of the built environment available at the Department of Geography, Texas A&M University bit.ly/4n2wjM4 apply by 16 Nov 2025

Assistant professor position in geography of energy available at the Department of Geography, Texas A&M University bit.ly/3J9vRhc apply by 16 Nov 2025

How do #LLMs conceptualize and execute GIS tasks compared to human experts? #GeoAnalystBench A #GeoAI benchmark for assessing large language models for spatial analysis workflow and code generation. GitHub repo: github.com/GeoDS/GeoAnaly…

📍TXGIS Day is just a month away! 🌎 Join us for five days of workshops, demonstrations, and programs celebrating the advancement of geospatial technology. Go to txgisday.org for more information!

GIS students, showcase your work at the 2026 #AAGMeeting in San Francisco! Submit to the #GISS_SG Student Honors Paper Competition 📅 Deadlines: Oct 30 (AAG abstract) | Nov 7 (extended abstract) 🏆 Prizes: $500 / $250 More info: aag-giss.org/competitions-a… #GIScience #Geography

I will be starting as an Assistant Professor at UT Austin in Jan. 2026. Very excited to build my lab, recruiting three PhD students to join us in the fall of 2026. For more info, please see the post below and our lab website: fali-lab.github.io. Please RT. Thanks!

Very proud of Binbin for her accomplishments!

🚨 Webinar Alert 🚨 Unlocking the Power of GeoAI with Python You are invited to join us for an interactive TNView (tnview.utk.edu) webinar introducing the GeoAI Python package (opengeoai.org), an open-source toolkit designed to accelerate geospatial artificial intelligence research and applications. Whether you are a researcher, practitioner, or student, this session will show you how GeoAI simplifies the integration of geospatial data and machine learning workflows. In this webinar, you will: - Discover the core capabilities of the GeoAI package, including data preprocessing, feature extraction, and geospatial deep learning workflows. - See live demonstrations on applying state-of-the-art AI models to satellite and aerial imagery. - Explore real-world use cases in building footprint extraction and surface water mapping. Event Details - Date: Friday, September 12, 2025 - Time: 10AM-12 PM ET - Location: Online - Registration: tiny.utk.edu/tnview-geoai-w… @AmericaView #geoai #geospatial #datascience

I am proud to share the first-ever #AAG #GISS newsletter 🎉 Huge thanks to @yiqiang_gis for leading this effort! I am grateful for the opportunity to serve as the chair of this vibrant group. I hope this newsletter helps strengthen connections across the #GIScience community🙌