Dr. Gengchen Mai

Assistant Professor

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Biography

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.

Research Interests

Experience

Assistant Professor

2021-08-01 — Present

University of Texas at Austin • Austin, Texas, USA

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment.

Postdoctoral Scholar

2018-08-01 — 2021-07-01

Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory • Stanford, California, USA

Conducted research in Artificial Intelligence and geospatial technologies.

Assistant Professor

2016-08-01 — 2018-07-01

University of Georgia • Athens, Georgia, USA

Served as faculty in the Department of Geography.

Awards

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AAG 2021 Dissertation Research Grants

2021-01-01
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AAG 2022 William L. Garrison Award for Dissertation in Computational Geography

2022-01-01
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AAG 2023 J. Warren Nystrom Dissertation Award

2023-01-01
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Top 10 WGDC 2022 Global Young Scientist Award

2022-01-01
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Jack Laura Dangermond Graduate Fellowship

2015-01-01

Courses

GRG 460G • Environmental Geographic Information Systems GRG 356T • Geospatial Seminar Geo-Text Mining GRG 356T • Introduction to Geospatial AI

Requirements for University of Texas at Austin

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
GRE General
TOEFL
Total
Required:79
IELTS
Overall
Required:6.5
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution
Application Checklist
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  • Three letters of recommendation
  • CV/Resume
Specialization Notes

General requirements for the Graduate School at UT Austin apply to all programs unless otherwise specified.