Gengchen Mai

Orcid: 0000-0002-7818-7309

According to our database1, Gengchen Mai authored at least 107 papers between 2015 and 2025.

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2025
Machine-learning-enabled spatial pattern mining: evaluating the impact of imperfect inputs.
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., October, 2025

GeoFM: how will geo-foundation models reshape spatial data science and GeoAI?
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., September, 2025

GeoBS: Information-Theoretic Quantification of Geographic Bias in AI Models.
CoRR, September, 2025

Whose Truth? Pluralistic Geo-Alignment for (Agentic) AI.
CoRR, August, 2025

4KAgent: Agentic Any Image to 4K Super-Resolution.
CoRR, July, 2025

BERT4Traj: Transformer Based Trajectory Reconstruction for Sparse Mobility Data.
CoRR, July, 2025

Exploring New Frontiers in Agricultural NLP: Investigating the Potential of Large Language Models for Food Applications.
IEEE Trans. Big Data, June, 2025

ZooplanktonBench: A Geo-Aware Zooplankton Recognition and Classification Dataset from Marine Observations.
CoRR, May, 2025

Feature-Augmented Deep Networks for Multiscale Building Segmentation in High-Resolution UAV and Satellite Imagery.
CoRR, May, 2025

LocDiffusion: Identifying Locations on Earth by Diffusing in the Hilbert Space.
CoRR, March, 2025

GAIR: Improving Multimodal Geo-Foundation Model with Geo-Aligned Implicit Representations.
CoRR, March, 2025

Spatial-RAG: Spatial Retrieval Augmented Generation for Real-World Spatial Reasoning Questions.
CoRR, February, 2025

The KnowWhereGraph: A Large-Scale Geo-Knowledge Graph for Interdisciplinary Knowledge Discovery and Geo-Enrichment.
CoRR, February, 2025

Learning Street View Representations with Spatiotemporal Contrast.
CoRR, February, 2025

The KnowWhereGraph ontology.
J. Web Semant., 2025

From theory to deep learning: Understanding the impact of geographic context factors on traffic violations.
Comput. Environ. Urban Syst., 2025

Multimodality of AI for Education: Toward Artificial General Intelligence.
IEEE Trans. Learn. Technol., 2025

Operationalizing Geographic Diversity for the Evaluation of AI-Generated Content.
Trans. GIS, 2025

Towards the next generation of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence.
Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation, 2025

BERT4Traj: Transformer-Based Trajectory Reconstruction for Sparse Mobility Data.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, 2025

2024
On the Opportunities and Challenges of Foundation Models for GeoAI (Vision Paper).
ACM Trans. Spatial Algorithms Syst., June, 2024

Report of the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on AI for Geographic Knowledge Discovery (GeoAI 2024).
ACM SIGSPATIAL Special, 2024

BB-GeoGPT: A framework for learning a large language model for geographic information science.
Inf. Process. Manag., 2024

Examining the Commitments and Difficulties Inherent in Multimodal Foundation Models for Street View Imagery.
CoRR, 2024

Cross-View Geolocalization and Disaster Mapping with Street-View and VHR Satellite Imagery: A Case Study of Hurricane IAN.
CoRR, 2024

TransFlower: An Explainable Transformer-Based Model with Flow-to-Flow Attention for Commuting Flow Prediction.
CoRR, 2024

Revolutionizing Finance with LLMs: An Overview of Applications and Insights.
CoRR, 2024

SpatialScene2Vec: A self-supervised contrastive representation learning method for spatial scene similarity evaluation.
Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation, 2024

Img2Loc: Revisiting Image Geolocalization using Multi-modality Foundation Models and Image-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024

TorchSpatial: A Location Encoding Framework and Benchmark for Spatial Representation Learning.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, 2024

MC-GTA: Metric-Constrained Model-Based Clustering using Goodness-of-fit Tests with Autocorrelations.
Proceedings of the Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning, 2024

GeoLLM: Extracting Geospatial Knowledge from Large Language Models.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2024

SRL: Towards a General-Purpose Framework for Spatial Representation Learning.
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2024

TorchSpatial: A Python Package for Spatial Representation Learning and Geo-Aware Model Development.
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Spatial Big Data and AI for Industrial Applications, 2024

Text2Seg: Zero-shot Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation via Text-Guided Visual Foundation Models.
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on AI for Geographic Knowledge Discovery, 2024

Probing the Information Theoretical Roots of Spatial Dependence Measures.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, 2024

2023
Geo-knowledge-guided GPT models improve the extraction of location descriptions from disaster-related social media messages.
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., November, 2023

EVKG: An interlinked and interoperable electric vehicle knowledge graph for smart transportation system.
Trans. GIS, June, 2023

Towards general-purpose representation learning of polygonal geometries.
GeoInformatica, April, 2023

HyperQuaternionE: A hyperbolic embedding model for qualitative spatial and temporal reasoning.
GeoInformatica, April, 2023

On the Promises and Challenges of Multimodal Foundation Models for Geographical, Environmental, Agricultural, and Urban Planning Applications.
CoRR, 2023

Multimodality of AI for Education: Towards Artificial General Intelligence.
CoRR, 2023

Transformation vs Tradition: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) for Arts and Humanities.
CoRR, 2023

SSIF: Learning Continuous Image Representation for Spatial-Spectral Super-Resolution.
CoRR, 2023

Building Privacy-Preserving and Secure Geospatial Artificial Intelligence Foundation Models.
CoRR, 2023

Towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in the Internet of Things (IoT): Opportunities and Challenges.
CoRR, 2023

Sphere2Vec: A General-Purpose Location Representation Learning over a Spherical Surface for Large-Scale Geospatial Predictions.
CoRR, 2023

AD-AutoGPT: An Autonomous GPT for Alzheimer's Disease Infodemiology.
CoRR, 2023

ChatGraph: Interpretable Text Classification by Converting ChatGPT Knowledge to Graphs.
CoRR, 2023

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) for Education.
CoRR, 2023

Text2Seg: Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation via Text-Guided Visual Foundation Models.
CoRR, 2023

On the Opportunities and Challenges of Foundation Models for Geospatial Artificial Intelligence.
CoRR, 2023

AGI for Agriculture.
CoRR, 2023

The Expertise Ontology: Modeling Expertise in the Context of Emergency Management.
Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops 2023 Episode IX: The Quebec Summer of Ontology co-located with the 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2023), 2023

The KnowWhereGraph Ontology: A Showcase.
Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops 2023 Episode IX: The Quebec Summer of Ontology co-located with the 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2023), 2023

CSP: Self-Supervised Contrastive Spatial Pre-Training for Geospatial-Visual Representations.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, 2023

ChatGraph: Interpretable Text Classification by Converting ChatGPT Knowledge to Graphs.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2023

Geo-Foundation Models: Reality, Gaps and Opportunities.
Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2023

Building Privacy-Preserving and Secure Geospatial Artificial Intelligence Foundation Models (Vision Paper).
Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2023

Rethink Geographical Generalizability with Unsupervised Self-Attention Model Ensemble: A Case Study of OpenStreetMap Missing Building Detection in Africa.
Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2023

Thinking Geographically about AI Sustainability.
Proceedings of the 26th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, 2023

2022
GeoKG'2022 Workshop Report: The 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Knowledge Graphs.
ACM SIGSPATIAL Special, November, 2022

Report of the 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on AI for Geographic Knowledge Discovery (GeoAI 2022).
ACM SIGSPATIAL Special, November, 2022

Symbolic and subsymbolic GeoAI: Geospatial knowledge graphs and spatially explicit machine learning.
Trans. GIS, 2022

Diverse data! Diverse schemata?
Semantic Web, 2022

Reasoning over higher-order qualitative spatial relations via spatially explicit neural networks.
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2022

A review of location encoding for GeoAI: methods and applications.
Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2022

Sphere2Vec: Multi-Scale Representation Learning over a Spherical Surface for Geospatial Predictions.
CoRR, 2022

Know, Know Where, Knowwheregraph: A Densely Connected, Cross-Domain Knowledge Graph and Geo-Enrichment Service Stack for Applications in Environmental Intelligence.
AI Mag., 2022

Towards a foundation model for geospatial artificial intelligence (vision paper).
Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2022

Understanding economic development in rural Africa using satellite imagery, building footprints and deep models.
Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2022

LD Connect: A Linked Data Portal for IOS Press Scientometrics.
Proceedings of the Semantic Web - 19th International Conference, 2022

Geoparsing: Solved or Biased? An Evaluation of Geographic Biases in Geoparsing.
Proceedings of the 25th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, 2022

COVID-Forecast-Graph: An Open Knowledge Graph for Consolidating COVID-19 Forecasts and Economic Indicators via Place and Time.
Proceedings of the 25th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, 2022

2021
Narrative Cartography with Knowledge Graphs.
CoRR, 2021

Time in a Box: Advancing Knowledge Graph Completion with Temporal Scopes.
Proceedings of the K-CAP '21: Knowledge Capture Conference, 2021

Providing Humanitarian Relief Support through Knowledge Graphs.
Proceedings of the K-CAP '21: Knowledge Capture Conference, 2021

A Pattern for Features on a Hierarchical Spatial Grid.
Proceedings of the IJCKG'21: The 10th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Graphs, Virtual Event, Thailand, December 6, 2021

SOSA-SHACL: Shapes Constraint for the Sensor, Observation, Sample, and Actuator Ontology.
Proceedings of the IJCKG'21: The 10th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Graphs, Virtual Event, Thailand, December 6, 2021

Environmental Observations in Knowledge Graphs.
Proceedings of the DaMaLOS, 2021

A Socially Aware Huff Model for Destination Choice in Nature-based Tourism.
Proceedings of the 24th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, 2021

Geographic Question Answering: Challenges, Uniqueness, Classification, and Future Directions.
Proceedings of the 24th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, 2021

2020
SE-KGE : A location-aware Knowledge Graph Embedding model for Geographic Question Answering and Spatial Semantic Lifting.
Trans. GIS, 2020

Traffic transformer: Capturing the continuity and periodicity of time series for traffic forecasting.
Trans. GIS, 2020

Multi-Scale Representation Learning for Spatial Feature Distributions using Grid Cells.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Learning Representations, 2020

Semantically-Enriched Search Engine for Geoportals: A Case Study with ArcGIS Online.
Proceedings of the 23rd AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, 2020

2019
Making direction a first-class citizen of Tobler's first law of geography.
Trans. GIS, 2019

A spatially explicit reinforcement learning model for geographic knowledge graph summarization.
Trans. GIS, 2019

Deeply integrating Linked Data with Geographic Information Systems.
Trans. GIS, 2019

Contextual Graph Attention for Answering Logical Queries over Incomplete Knowledge Graphs.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Capture, 2019

TransGCN: Coupling Transformation Assumptions with Graph Convolutional Networks for Link Prediction.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Capture, 2019

Relaxing Unanswerable Geographic Questions Using A Spatially Explicit Knowledge Graph Embedding Model.
Proceedings of the Geospatial Technologies for Local and Regional Development, 2019

2018
ADCN: An anisotropic density-based clustering algorithm for discovering spatial point patterns with noise.
Trans. GIS, 2018

On the prospects of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies for open science and academic publishing.
Semantic Web, 2018

Combining Text Embedding and Knowledge Graph Embedding Techniques for Academic Search Engines.
Proceedings of the Joint proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Semantic Deep Learning (SemDeep-4) and NLIWoD4: Natural Language Interfaces for the Web of Data (NLIWOD-4) and 9th Question Answering over Linked Data challenge (QALD-9) co-located with 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018), Monterey, California, United States of America, October 8th, 2018

Debiasing Knowledge Graphs: Why Female Presidents are not like Female Popes.
Proceedings of the ISWC 2018 Posters & Demonstrations, Industry and Blue Sky Ideas Tracks co-located with 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018), Monterey, USA, October 8th - to, 2018

xNet+SC: Classifying Places Based on Images by Incorporating Spatial Contexts.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, 2018

POIReviewQA: A Semantically Enriched POI Retrieval and Question Answering Dataset.
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, 2018

GNIS-LD: Serving and Visualizing the Geographic Names Information System Gazetteer as Linked Data.
Proceedings of the Semantic Web - 15th International Conference, 2018

Support and Centrality: Learning Weights for Knowledge Graph Embedding Models.
Proceedings of the Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, 2018

2017
ADCN: An Anisotropic Density-Based Clustering Algorithm for Discovering Spatial Point Patterns with Noise.
PhD thesis, 2017

Phuzzy.link: A SPARQL-powered Client-Sided Extensible Semantic Web Browser.
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data co-located with the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017), 2017

From ITDL to Place2Vec: Reasoning About Place Type Similarity and Relatedness by Learning Embeddings From Augmented Spatial Contexts.
Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2017

2016
A Linked Data Driven Visual Interface for the Multi-perspective Exploration of Data Across Repositories.
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data co-located with the 15th International Semantic Web Conference, 2016

Moon Landing or Safari? A Study of Systematic Errors and Their Causes in Geographic Linked Data.
Proceedings of the Geographic Information Science - 9th International Conference, 2016

ADCN: an anisotropic density-based clustering algorithm.
Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, GIS 2016, Burlingame, California, USA, October 31, 2016

2015
Quantifying determinants of cash crop expansion and their relative effects using logistic regression modeling and variance partitioning.
Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation, 2015


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