Krzysztof Janowicz

spatial@ucsb Director, 2020–2023

Krzysztof Janowicz holds dual appointments as Professor of Geoinformatics at the Geography Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara and Professor of Geomatics at the Department of Geography and Regional Research of the University of Vienna. He works on knowledge graphs, geographic applications of Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) and machine learning methods, and geographic information retrieval.  He is one of two Editors-in-Chief of the Semantic Web journal and a Faculty Research Affiliate of the Center for Information Technology and Society. Janowicz runs the STKO Lab, which investigates the role of space and time for knowledge organization. Previously, he was the program chair of the Cognitive Science Program. Before moving to California, he was an Assistant Professor at the GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography at The Pennsylvania State University. Before moving to the United States, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi), University of Münster, Germany, for the international research training group on Semantic Integration of Geospatial Information and the Münster Semantic Interoperability Lab (MUSIL). Krzysztof holds a Ph.D. in Geoinformatics and a Diploma in Ecology from the University of Münster, Germany. Most of his research focuses on how humans conceptualize the space around them based on their behavior, focusing particularly on regional and cultural differences with the ultimate goal of assisting machines in better understanding the information needs of an increasingly diverse user base.

Contact, UCSB:

Krzysztof Janowicz
Professor for Geoinformatics
Geography Department, University of California, Santa Barbara 
4830 Ellison Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060

Contact, University of Vienna:

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Janowicz
Professor of Geoinformatics
Department of Geography and Regional Research
University of Vienna
Universitätsstraße 7, A-1010 Vienna, Austria