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Dr. Gengchen Mai is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Geography and the Environment. He earned his Ph.D. in Geographic Information Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on Spatially Explicit Artificial Intelligence, Geospatial Artificial Intelligence, and Spatial Data Science among other topics. Dr. Mai has contributed to numerous leading journals and top ML/AI/GIScience conference proceedings. He has held postdoctoral positions at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and has previously served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia. Dr. Mai has received several prestigious awards, including the AAG 2021 Dissertation Research Grants and the AAG 2023 J. Warren Nystrom Dissertation Award, recognizing his significant contributions to the field of computational geography and geospatial sciences.
University of Texas at Austin • Austin, Texas, USA
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment.
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory • Stanford, California, USA
Conducted research in Artificial Intelligence and geospatial technologies.
University of Georgia • Athens, Georgia, USA
Served as faculty in the Department of Geography.
General requirements for the Graduate School at UT Austin apply to all programs unless otherwise specified.