Gengchen Mai

spatial@ucsb Research Associate, 2020–2021

Gengchen Mai is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Georgia, and an Affiliated Professor and Graduate Program Faculty of the Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, UGA and the UGA Institute for Artificial Intelligence. He is also a member of the UGA Environmental Artificial Intelligence Faculty Cluster, and the Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture (IIPA), UGA.

Currently, Gengchen is the director of Spatially Explicit Artificial Intelligence (SEAI) Lab at UGA. Before, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL), Department of Computer Science, Stanford University. Advised by Prof. Krzysztof Janowicz, Gengchen obtained his Ph.D. in Cartography and Geographic Information Science from Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Gengchen's current research is highly focused on geographic question answering and spatially explicit machine learning models. At the Center for Spatial Studies, he worked on the KnowWhereGraph project from 2020 to 2021.