ACM SIGSPATIAL 2025 Workshops





Full Day Workshops

The 8th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on AI for Geographic Knowledge Discovery (GeoAI)

Organizers:
 - Sam Arundel (U.S. Geological Survey)
 - Song Gao (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
 - Dalton Lunga (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
 - Gengchen Mai (University of Texas at Austin)
 - Bruno Martins (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
 - Shawn Newsam (University of California, Merced)
 - Lexie Yang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
 - Di Zhu (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

The 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Polar Data Science (PoIDS)

Organizers:
 - Vandana P. Janeja (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
 - Shashi Shekhar (University of Minnesota)
 - Aneesh Subramanian (University of Colorado Boulder)
 - Mathieu Morlighem (Dartmouth College)
 - Mohamed Mokbel (University of Minnesota)
 - Jianwu Wang (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
 - Josephine Namayanja (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

The 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Quantum Computing for Spatial Data Systems and Applications (Q-Spatial)

Organizers:
 - Moustafa Youssef (American University in Cairo)
 - Ibrahim Sabek (University of Southern California)
 - Amr Magdy (University of California, Riverside)

The 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Urban Mobility Foundation Models (UMFM)

Organizers:
 - Shushman Choudhury (Google Research)
 - Neha Arora (Google Research)
 - Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California)

The 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Advances in Urban-AI (UrbanAI)

Organizers:
 - Haoran Niu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
 - Hao Xue (The University of New South Wales)
 - Femi Omitaomu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Half Day Workshops

The 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Anomaly Detection (GeoAnomalies)

Organizers:
 - Yao-Yi Chiang (University of Minnesota)
 - Jack Cooper (US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA))
 - Joon-Seok Kim (Emory University)
 - Enrico Mattei (Expedition Technologies)
 - Khurram Shafique (Novateur)
 - Carola Wenk (Tulane University)
 - Andreas Zufle (Emory University)

The 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Generative and Agentic AI for Multi-Modality Space-Time Intelligence (GeoGenAgent)

Organizers:
 - Yanjie Fu (Arizona State University)
 - Kunpeng Liu (Portland State University)
 - Pengyang Wang (University of Macau)
 - Xiao Luo (University of California, Los Angles)
 - Dongjie Wang (University of Kansas)

The 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Computing for Public Health (GeoHealth)

Organizers:
 - Taylor Anderson (George Mason University)
 - Su Yeon Han (Texas State University)
 - Joon-Seok Kim (Emory University)
 - Andreas Zufle (Emory University)

The 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Human-Centered Geospatial Computing (GeoHCC)

Organizers:
 - Sidi Wu (ETH Zurich)
 - Yizi Chen (ETH Zurich)
 - Jiaxin Feng (Dartmouth College)
 - Jina Kim (University of Minnesota)
 - Yao-Yi Chiang (University of Minnesota)

The 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Spatial Big Data and AI for Industrial Applications (GeoIndustry)

Organizers:
 - Emre Eftelioglu (Amazon)
 - Yiqun Xie (University of Maryland)
 - Jinmeng Rao (Google DeepMind)
 - Song Gao (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
 - Heba Aly (Amazon)
 - Yan Li (Amazon)

The 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Searching and Mining Large Collections of Geospatial Data (GeoSearch)

Organizers:
 - Abhishek Potnis (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
 - Hao Li (National University of Singapore)
 - Martin Werner (Technical University of Munich)
 - Dalton Lunga (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
 - Wenwen Li (Arizona State University)

The 8th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Simulation (GeoSIM)

Organizers:
 - Joon-Seok Kim (Emory University)
 - Licia Amichi (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
 - Taylor Anderson (George Mason University)
 - Andreas Zufle (Emory University)

The 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Spatial Intelligence for Smart and Connected Communities (SpatialConnect)

Organizers:
 - Guang Wang (Florida State University)
 - Xinyue Ye (Texas A&M University)
 - Yu Yang (Lehigh University)
 - Yi Ding (University of Texas at Dallas)