🏘 Presentation

  • 2027
  • 2026
    • American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, March 17–21, 2026 (Abstract 90541, Session 25333, Session 24774, Session 25413, Session 25683, Session 25257, Session 25338).
    • 1st International Conference on Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI 2026), Ghent, Belgium, June 3–6, 2026 (Conference Website).
      • Conference Presentation — Lei Zou, Bing Zhou, and Yifan Yang: Responsible GeoAI: Thoughtful Integration of GIScience and AI in the Real World (📄 PDF).
    • Symposium on Spatiotemporal Data Science, Alexandria, Virginia, August 7–8, 2026 (Program).
      • Session Organizer — “Spatiotemporal AI for Urban and Environmental Intelligence: Sensing, Inference, and Human-Centered Applications.”
      • Onsite Oral Presentation — Yifan Yang: Satellite-to-Street: Synthesizing Post-Disaster Views from Satellite Imagery via Generative Vision Models.
    • IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Washington, D.C., August 13, 2026.
      • Leveraging AI, LLMs, and Geospatial Technologies for Rapid and Explainable Post-Disaster Damage Intelligence — Yifan Yang, Lei Zou, and Wendy Jepson: Satellite-to-Street: Synthesizing Post-Disaster Views from Satellite Imagery via Generative Vision Models (Paper TH3.R6.4).
    • Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, September 8–11, 2026 (Program).
      • Session 1B: GeoAI, Disaster Mapping, and Hydrography (Research) — Yifan Yang and Lei Zou: RAPIDMap: Rapid multi-Agent Pipeline for Interpretable Disaster Mapping from Satellite and Street-view Imagery. Tuesday, September 8, 2026, 2:00 pm, Rooms 352/353.
    • I-GUIDE Virtual Consulting Office (VCO) Webinar, online, September 23, 2026 (Event Page).
      • Invited Webinar Talk — Yifan Yang, Kristina Fillman, Nowshin Nawar, Ravi Thapaliya, and Fangzheng Lyu: Detecting and Correcting Spatial Bias in VGI Using Remote Sensing (GitHub). Wednesday, September 23, 2026, 11:00 am CT.
    • 10th Annual Texas A&M Conference on Energy, College Station, Texas, September 24–25, 2026 (Program).
      • Oral Presentation, Data Science and Statistical Learning Session — Yifan Yang, Lei Zou, Ting Chen, Christian Brannstrom, Xiaowei Chen, Randy Harsuko, Nori Nakata, Michael Gross, Jolante van Wijk, and Saeed Montazeri: GATES: A Geothermal Acceptance Tracking and Evaluation System Using Multi-Source Social Sensing (📄 PDF). Friday, September 25, 2026, 10:15 am, MSC 2502.
    • ACM SIGSPATIAL 2026 / GeoSearch '26, Riverside, California, November 3–6, 2026 (Detailed Program, GeoSearch Program).
    • SC26: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, Chicago, Illinois, November 15–20, 2026 (Program).
      • Research Poster, Posters Display — Jooho Kim, Yifan Yang, Anish Shakya, and Jacob Kelly: Optimizing HPC Performance for CDC-Based Storage and Reconstruction of High-Resolution Imagery (Project Page). Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 10:00 am–5:00 pm, North Pre-Function, McCormick Place.
  • 2025
    • American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Detroit, Michigan, March 24–28, 2025 (Session 23561, Session 23718, Session 82104, Abstract 83465).
    • Summer School on Cyberinfrastructure and Disaster Resilience, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, August 15, 2025.
      • Oral Presentation — Yifan Yang, Wenjing Gong, and Kaili Zhang: DisasterVLP: Perceiving Multidimensional Disaster Damages from Street-View Images Using Visual-Language Models.
    • International Cartographic Conference (ICC), Vancouver, Canada, August 18–22, 2025.
      • GeoAnalytics for Sustainable and Livable Cities, ICC pre-conference symposium, Vancouver, Canada, August 17, 2025 — Yifan Yang and Lei Zou: DisasterVLP: A Vision-Language Pretrained Framework for Multidimensional Disaster Damage Assessment Using Street-View Images (Symposium Page).
      • Student Paper Session — Yifan Yang: Perceiving Multidimensional Disaster Damages from Street-View Images Using Visual-Language Models.
    • Texas A&M University GIS Day (TxGIS Day 2025), College Station, Texas, November 17–21, 2025 (TxGIS Day).
      • Student Paper Competition, Graduate Student Research (Oral) — Yifan Yang: Seeing Disagreements: An Explainable Multimodal Framework for Disaster Assessment and Spatial Mapping.
  • 2024
    • Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, Los Angeles, California, February 23, 2024 (Event Article).
    • AGI Leap Summit, SuperAGI (virtual), February 29, 2024 — Multimodality, Paper Presentation (Summit Website).
    • American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawai'i, April 16–20, 2024 (Session 7825, Abstract 32545).
    • Spatiotemporal Data Science Symposium, Washington, D.C. (online), July 22, 2024 — Pre-symposium Training Workshop (Event Page).
    • Spatial Data Science Symposium, October 23, 2024 — Thematic Session, Geoprivacy Challenges and Solutions in the Digital Society (Session Details, Watch Video).