10-Year Impact Award

Location-Based and Preference-Aware Recommendation Using Sparse Geo-Social Networking Data - Jie Bao (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA), Yu Zheng (2Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China), Mohamed Mokbel (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA)

Best Paper Award

Maximum Entropy Bridgelets for Trajectory Completion John Krumm (Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA)

Best Paper Runners-Up

  • TorchGeo: Deep Learning with Geospatial Data, Adam Stewart (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA), Caleb Robinson (Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA), Isaac Corley (University of Texas at San Antonio, TX, USA), Anthony Ortiz (Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA), Juan Lavista Ferres (Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA), Arindam Banerjee (University of Texas at San Antonio, TX, USA)
  • Modeling the Small-World Phenomenon with Road Networks - Michael Goodrich, Evrim Ozel

Best Poster

Estimating Counterfactual Treatment Outcomes over Time in Complex Multiagent Simulation - Keisuke Fujii (Nagoya University and RIKEN, Japan), Koh Takeuchi (Nagoya University and RIKEN, Japan), Atsushi Kuribayashi (Nagoya University, Japan), Naoya Takeishi (HES-SO and RIKEN, Switzerland and Japan), Yoshinobu Kawahara (Kyushu University and RIKEN, Japan), Kazuya Takeda (Nagoya University, Japan)

Best Poster Runner Up

“Deep Geometric Neural Network for Spatial Interpolation” Minxing Zhang (Emory University, Atlanta, GA USA), Dazhou Yu (Emory University, Atlanta, GA USA), Yun Li (Emory University, Atlanta, GA USA), Liang Zhao (Emory University, Atlanta, GA USA)

Best Demo

Wind Awareness for Energy Consumption in Drone Simulations - Noah Kelleher (Iowa State University, Ames, IA USA), Ricardo Ramirez (Iowa State University, Ames, IA USA), Adnan Salihovic (Iowa State University, Ames, IA USA), Nathan McKay (Iowa State University, Ames, IA USA), Jonathan Kelly (Iowa State University, Ames, IA USA), Hengwei Chen (Iowa State University, Ames, IA USA), Goce Trajcevski (Iowa State University, Ames, IA USA)

Best Vision Paper

Causal Inference for Interpretable and Robust Machine Learning in Mobility Analysis - Yanan Xin (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), Natasa Tagasovska (Prescient Design, Genentech | Roche, Basel, Switzerland), Fernando Perez-Cruz (Swiss Data Science Center, Zürich, Switzerland), Martin Raubal (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)

Vision Paper – 2nd Place

“Geospatial Accessibility and Inclusion by Combining Contextual Filters, the Metaverse and Ambient Intelligence” Yaron Kanza (AT&T, New York, NY, USA) Balachander Krushnamurthy (AT&T, New York, NY, USA) Divesh Srivastava (AT&T, New York, NY, USA)

Vision Paper – 3rd Place

Electric Vehicle Charging: It Is Not as Simple as Charging a Smartphone - Saeed Nasehibasharzad (University of Melbourne, Australia), Farhana Choudhury (University of Melbourne, Australia), Egemen Tanin (University of Melbourne, Australia), Lachlan Andrew (University of Melbourne, Australia), Hanan Samet (University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA), Majid Sarvi (University of Melbourne, Australia),

GIS Cup Winner

“Challenges in Building Extraction from Airborne LiDAR Data: Ground-truth, Building Boundaries, and Evaluation Metrics” Hunsoo Song (Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA) Jinha Jung (Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA)

GIS Cup – 2nd Place

An Unsupervised Building Footprints Delineation Approach for Large-Scale LiDAR Point Clouds - Xin Xu (University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA)

GIS Cup – 3rd Place

Deep Semantic Segmentation for Building Detection Using Knowledge-Informed Features from LiDAR Point Clouds - Weiye Chen (University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA), Zhihao Wang (University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA), Zhili Li (University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA), Yiqun Xie (University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA), Xiaowei Jia (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA), Anlin Li (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

Student Research Competition (Graduate) Winner

Toward a Unified Deep Model for Trajectory Analysis - Mashaal Musleh (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA),

Student Research Competition (Graduate) – 2nd Place

Quantum Classifiers for Remote Sensing - Johann Maximilian Zollner (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

Student Research Competition (Graduate) – 3rd Place

Choosing Feature Selection Methods for Spatial Modeling of Soil Fertility Properties at Field Scale - Caner Ferhatoglu (Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA)

Student Research Competition (Undergraduate) Winner

MagttLoc: Decimeter Indoor Localization System Using Commercial Devices - Farah Youssef (Alexandria University and Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt), Sara Elmogy (Alexandria University and Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt)

Student Research Competition (Undergraduate) – 2nd Place

Spatiotemporal Heterogeneities of the Associations Between Human Mobility and Close Contacts with COVID-19 Infections in the United States - Wen Ye (University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA)

Student Research Competition (Undergraduate) – 3rd Place

Sharing Without Caring: Privacy Protection of Users’ Spatio-Temporal Data Without Compromise on Utility - Ren Ozeki (Osaka University, Japan), Haruki Yonekura (Osaka University, Japan)