📰 News
Jul 2026
Honored to receive the 2026 Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) Doctoral Scholarship Award
with $1,000 in scholarship support. I am grateful to the CaGIS Scholarship Committee for recognizing my
academic achievements and research contributions to cartography and geographic information science.
Jul 2026
The
CaGIS 2026 Conference program
lists our paper “RAPIDMap: Rapid multi-Agent Pipeline for Interpretable Disaster Mapping from Satellite and Street-view Imagery”
in Session 1B: GeoAI, Disaster Mapping, and Hydrography (Research),
scheduled for Tuesday, September 8, 2026, 2:00 pm in Rooms 352/353.
Jun 2026
On June 24, 2026, I passed my preliminary examination.
The date made the milestone especially meaningful: it is both Lionel Messi's birthday and
Dr. Heng Cai
's birthday. In the most Ph.D. way possible, I advanced from Ph.D. student to, somehow,
still Ph.D. student.
Jun 2026
Heading to the
2026 Symposium on Spatiotemporal Data Science
(August 7–8, 2026, Virginia Tech Academic Building One, Alexandria, VA): organizing the session
“Spatiotemporal AI for Urban and Environmental Intelligence: Sensing, Inference, and Human-Centered Applications,”
and presenting an accepted onsite oral talk,
“Satellite-to-Street: Synthesizing Post-Disaster Views from Satellite Imagery via Generative Vision Models.”
May 2026
The IGARSS 2026 technical program scheduled our paper
“Satellite-to-Street: Synthesizing Post-Disaster Views from Satellite Imagery via Generative Vision Models”
as Paper TH3.R6.4 in Session TH3.R6,
with presentation time Thursday, August 13, 2026, 14:30–14:45
in Washington, D.C.
May 2026
Received the Selected Travel Award for attending
I-GUIDE Summer School 2026: Spatial AI & Convergence Science
at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (July 13–17, 2026),
an NSF-supported summer school.
Apr 2026
Received an IEEE GRSS Travel Grant to support my attendance and paper presentation at IGARSS 2026 in Washington, D.C., with US $500 in conference travel funding.
Apr 2026
Featured by Mosaic in the article
“How Texas A&M is Pioneering Damage Assessment Using Mosaic Imagery from Hurricane Milton”
,
highlighting my research on hyperlocal disaster damage assessment using bi-temporal street-view imagery and GeoAI.
Mar 2026
Our paper “Satellite-to-Street: Synthesizing Post-Disaster Views from Satellite Imagery via Generative Vision Models”
has been accepted for presentation at IGARSS 2026.
Mar 2026
Received the 2026 AAG-IGIF Scholarship Award from the
AAG International Geographic Information Fund (IGIF), and was awarded
2nd Place in the 2026 AAG-GISSG Student Honors Paper Competition,
recognizing contributions to GeoAI-driven disaster research and spatial intelligence.
Mar 2026
Invited by Niantic Spatial to visit its San Francisco office for an
academic exchange on GeoAI, multimodal spatial intelligence, and disaster-related spatial analytics,
with discussions focused on bridging academic research and large-scale spatial systems in industry.
[Invitation Letter]
Mar 2026
Will attend the
American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting 2026
in San Francisco and participate in multiple GeoAI and GIScience sessions.
Mar 2026
Organized the TAMU Data Science Ambassador seminar
“From Signals to Society: Data Science for Understanding the Earth and Human Dynamics”
at Texas A&M University.
[Event Link]