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Past Sessions
Recordings are available for all past I-GUIDE sessions. Click on the cards below for additional information on each VCO as well as recordings.
October 28, 2026 11:00 am
I-GUIDE Platform: Working with datasets
Furqan Baig · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
October 14, 2026 11:00 am
Seeing Green in 3D: Assessing Vertical Urban Space
Segun Ojo · Florida State University
Lixi Xu · UC Santa Barbara
Yangchengsi Zhang · University of Colorado Boulder
Jiang Zheng · Texas A&M University
Wen Zhou (Assistant Team Lead) · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Debayan Mandal (Team Lead) · Arizona State University
October 7, 2026 11:00 am
I-GUIDE Platform: Getting Started: Open Office Hours
Anand Padmanabhan · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
September 23, 2026 11:00 am
Detecting and Correcting Spatial Bias in VGI Using Remote Sensing
Kristina Fillman · Oregon State University
Nowshin Nawar · University of Arkansas
Ravi Thapaliya · University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Yifan Yang · Texas A&M University
Fangzheng Lyu (Team Lead) · Virginia Tech University
September 16, 2026 11:00 am
Integrating Flux Towers, Remote Sensing, and Models in the Everglades
Ajay Devda · Colorado State University
Hesham Elhaddad · Western Michigan University
Hui Lui · Cornell University
Josh Wang · Cornell University
Purna Saud · University of Wyoming
Leonardo Bobadilla (Team Lead) · Florida International University
September 9, 2026 11:00 am
Net-Ev^2: Generative Simulation for Network Event Evolution
Zhaonan Wang · NYU Shanghai
September 2, 2026 11:00 am
Physics-Informed GeoAI for Estimating Irrigation Volume from Earth Observations
Esmaeel Adrah · Kent State University
Daniel Dominguez · Colorado State University
August 27, 2026 11:00 am
Urban Heat Exposure Revealed by Human Mobility Patterns
Abhishek Anand · Columbia University
Josh Lown · Boston University
Mirza Tasnim Mukarram · University of Iowa
Sheida Ghahremani · Texas A&M University
Yuxin Cao · Oklahoma State University
Yuqin Jiang (Team Lead) · University of Hawaii at Manoa
August 26, 2026 11:00 am
Engineers from Space: A GeoAI Approach to Mapping Beaver Wetlands
Faezeh Maghsoodifar · University of Alabama
Fangchao Dong · University of Texas at Dallas
Parsa Keshavarzalamdari · California State University, Northridge
Raj Bhattarai · Virginia Tech University
Sara Grisales · Temple University
Eric Shook (Team Lead) · University of Minnesota
August 19, 2026 11:00 am
Spatial AI for Micro-scale Urban Accessibility Modeling
Rafael Albuquerque · Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Jessica Miranda · Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Vinicius Andrade Brei · School of Management, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Siqin (Sisi) Wang · University of Southern California
August 12, 2026 11:00 am
Spatial AI-enabled Fine-granular Urban Retrofitting Detection with Vision Transformer
Raj Bhattarai · Virginia Tech University
Fangzheng Lyu · Virginia Tech University
July 22, 2026 11:00 am
GeoLocate: Spatial Modeling of Market Entry Viability
Jaiany Rocha Trindade · School of Management, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Brazil)
Vinicius Andrade Brei · School of Management, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Devika Jain · Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University
July 15, 2026 11:00 am
RegionLM: Integrating Point, Line, and Polygon Context for Urban Representation Learning
Yao-Yi Chiang · University of Minnesota
Yijun Lin · Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Zekun Li · University of Minnesota
July 8, 2026 11:00 am
Status and Assessment of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)
Diana Sinton · University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)
June 10, 2026 11:00 am
Open GeoAI for Urban Tree Canopy Mapping in U.S. Cities
Yi Qi · University of Southern California
June 3, 2026 11:00 am
Open-Source GeoAI Education: Reproducible Workflows for Geospatial AI
Qiusheng Wu · University of Tennessee
May 27, 2026 11:00 am
Scaling Geospatial Insights: A Reproducible API-Driven Framework for Dam-Failure Risk Assessment
Jungha Woo · Purdue University
Erick Li · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Michael Englert · Utah State University
May 20, 2026 11:00 am
Open Science and Reproducible Workflows with Urban Taxonomy and OSPD
Krasen Samardzhiev · Lampata Ltd, England
May 13, 2026 11:00 am
Exploring Street-View Imagery with Computer Vision
Alex Michels · University of Texas Dallas
May 6, 2026 11:00 am
Spatially-explicit Species Distribution Modeling and Prediction with Maxent
Siqin (Sisi) Wang · University of Southern California
April 29, 2026 11:00 am
Strengthening Resilience in 4D: Geospatial Digital Twins for Navigating Urban Flood Dynamics
Debayan Mandal · Arizona State University
April 22, 2026 11:00 am
Any Model, Any Place, Any Time: Get Remote Sensing Foundation Model Embeddings On Demand
Dingqi Ye · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
April 15, 2026 11:00 am
Advances in the GIS&T Body of Knowledge
Diana Sinton · University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)
April 1, 2026 11:00 am
Accessing the I-GUIDE Platform: Open Office Hours
Anand Padmanabhan · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jimeng Shi · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Yunfan Kang · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
March 25, 2026 11:00 am
Advancing Compound Flooding Analysis with Multimodal Hypercube-RAG
Mohan Kolla · Florida International University
March 11, 2026 11:00 am
AI and the Convergence Curriculum
Eric Shook · University of Minnesota
Jinzhe Wang · University of Minnesota
March 4, 2026 11:00 am
TaxoCite: Hierarchical Topic-Enriched Citation Intent Classification for Scientific Literature
Runchu Tian · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Patrick Xu · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
February 25, 2026 11:00 am
Why Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS) Matter Now: From Grids to AI-Ready Geospatial Systems
Sina Taghavikish · Open Geospatial Consortium
Nathan McEachen · TerraFrame
February 18, 2026 11:00 am
Working with IPUMS NHGIS in R: Exploring, Extracting, and Analyzing Spatial Data Using ipumsr
Kate Vavra-Musser · University of Minnesota
February 11, 2026 11:00 am
Enabling Community Research with the Next Generation National Water Modeling Framework through Streamlined Workflows on CIROH JupyterHub
Ayman Nassar · Utah State University
February 4, 2026 11:00 am
Extraction of geospatial and climate attributes for large scale hydrologic modeling
Mohammad Galib · Purdue University
January 28, 2026 11:00 am
Predicting and Mapping Floods through Geospatial Data Fusion and Machine Learning
Jikun Liu · Texas A&M University
Parnian Ghaneei · The University of Alabama
Temitope Akinboyewa · Pennsylvania State University
Xiao Chen · Arizona State University
January 21, 2026 11:00 am
Bridging the Risk Perception Gaps around Hazards
Deepika Pingali · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Emine Senkardesler · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Michael Alegbeleye · Washington State University
Pratyush Tripathy · University of California, Santa Barbara
Surabhi Upadhyay · Colorado School of Mines
December 17, 2025 11:00 am
Pursuing Ethical Geospatial Data Science and AI: The I-GUIDE Data Ethics Toolkit
Peter Darch · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
December 10, 2025 11:00 am
I-GUIDE Platform: Geospatial AI Features and Open Office Hours
Yunfan Kang · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jimeng Shi · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
December 3, 2025 11:00 am
Introduction to Mapping and Visualizing Social Data with R
Kate Vavra-Musser · University of Minnesota
November 19, 2025 12:00 pm
GeoAI for Burn Area Analysis and Fire Risk Mapping in the Pantanal Wetlands
Bikas Chandra Gupta · University of Texas at Arlington
Daniel Dominguez · Colorado State University
Esmaeel Adrah · Kent State University
Fatemeh Kordi · Clark University
Jiyeon Kim · University at Buffalo
November 12, 2025 1:00 pm
Harnessing OpenStreetMap Data for Roof Material and Shape Prediction
Julian Huang · University of Chicago
Yue Lin · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
November 5, 2025 11:00 am
I-GUIDE Platform: Registering and Getting DOI for your Datasets
Erick Li · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Furqan Baig · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
October 29, 2025 11:00 am
Geospatial Simulation of Fire Ecology with DeepEarth
Qin Huang · Arizona State University
Brandon Voelker · University of Houston
Lance Legel · ecodash.ai
October 15, 2025 11:00 am
Bridging High-Performance Computing and Geospatial Workflows: OGC Standards Implementation for Scientific Computing Infrastructure
Gérald Fenoy · GeoLabs
October 8, 2025 11:00 am
TorchSpatial: A Location Encoding Framework and Benchmark for Spatial Representation Learning
Qian Cao · University of Georgia
Nemin Wu · University of Georgia
October 1, 2025 11:00 am
Building Spatial Workflows with Open Data in R
Kate Vavra-Musser · University of Minnesota
September 24, 2025 11:00 am
Mapping Wildfire Risk to Transportation Infrastructure with Spatial AI
Shaun Williams · CNA Corporation
Carey Whitehair-Conde · CNA Corporation
Jeremiah Huggins · CNA Corporation
September 17, 2025 11:00 am
The Geography of Human Flourishing
Stefano Iacus · Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University
Devika Jain · Center for Geographical Analysis, Harvard University
September 10, 2025 11:00 am
Intro to the I-GUIDE Platform
I-GUIDE's Core Cyberinfrastructure Team ·
August 20, 2025 11:00 am
GeoMapCLIP, a Fine-Tuned GeoCLIP to Geolocate Satellite Imagery
Jungha Woo · Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, Purdue University
Elham Barezi · Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, Purdue University
August 13, 2025 11:00 am
Visualization and Story Telling
Matthew Turk · Department of Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
July 30, 2025 10:00 am
The Science of Urban Networks
Geoff Boeing · University of Southern California
July 23, 2025 11:00 am
From Fragmented to Findable: Navigating the SDOH Data Landscape with Integrated Discovery Ecosystem
Pengyin Shan · National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Shubham Kumar · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Adam Cox · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
July 16, 2025 11:00 am
A look inside OldInsuranceMaps.net, a crowdsourcing platform for georeferencing historical fire insurance maps
Adam Cox · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
July 9, 2025 11:00 am
Introduction to the I-GUIDE Platform
Alex Michels · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
June 25, 2025 12:00 pm
Open-Source Spatiotemporal Geovisual Analytics with CyberGIS-Vis: A COVID-19 Case Study
Su Yeon Han · Geography and Environmental Studies at Texas State University
June 11, 2025 11:00 am
A Transformer-based Multi-task Deep Learning Model for Urban Livability Evaluation by Fusing Remote Sensing and Textual Geospatial Data
Wen Zhou · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
June 4, 2025 11:00 am
Green stormwater infrastructure: Effects on mosquito habitats and West Nile Virus prevalence in the United States
Caylee Chan · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
May 28, 2025 11:00 am
Calculating Spatial Accessibility in Python with the I-GUIDE Platform
Alex Michels · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
May 14, 2025 11:00 am
Reproducible Mapping Workflows with IPUMS NHGIS and R
Kate Vavra-Musser · University of Minnesota
May 7, 2025 11:00 am
Building Interactive Jupyter Notebooks with the I-GUIDE Platform
Becky Vandewalle · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
April 23, 2025 11:00 am
Rethinking Spatial Composite Indicators with the Lens of Machine Learning
Seda Şalap-Ayça · Brown University
April 16, 2025 11:00 am
Digital Twin Framework with Spatiotemporal Vision Transformers for Heat Resilience
Xinyue Ye · Texas A&M
April 9, 2025 11:00 am
Introduction to the R Spatial Notebooks: Automating IPUMS USA Data Extraction and Management Workflows in R
Kate Vavra-Musser · University of Minnesota
April 2, 2025 11:00 am
Resilience Through Connection: Adaptive Capacity in Telecoupled Human and Environmental Systems
Iman Haqiqi · Purdue University
March 19, 2025 12:00 pm
Convergence Curriculum for Geospatial Data Science: Overview and Q&A
Eric Shook · University of Minnesota
March 11, 2025 12:00 pm
Extracting Location Descriptions from Disaster-Related Messages using Geo-Knowledge-Guided GPT Models
Yingjie Hu · University at Buffalo
March 5, 2025 12:00 pm
I-GUIDE’s Platform: Open Office Hours
I-GUIDE's Core Cyberinfrastructure Team ·
February 26, 2025 11:00 am
Introducing Transfer Learning: Bridging ImageNet Innovations with Geospatial Analysis on the I-GUIDE Platform
Nattapon Jaroenchai · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
February 19, 2025 11:00 am
GeoAI-enhanced Community Detection on Spatial Networks Using Graph Neural Embeddings
Song Gao · University of Wisconsin - Madison
February 12, 2025 11:00 am
Exploring OpenStreetMap Data on the I-GUIDE Platform
Alexander Michels · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
January 28, 2025 12:00 pm
Discover and Leverage the I-GUIDE Platform
Core Cyberinfrastructure Team · I-GUIDE
January 15, 2025 12:00 pm
Introducing R Spatial Notebook Series: Supporting Reproducible Geospatial Analysis for the Social Sciences in R
Kate Vavra-Musser · University of Minnesota
December 18, 2024 11:00 am
Discover and Leverage the I-GUIDE Platform
Core Cyberinfrastructure Team · I-GUIDE
December 10, 2024 12:00 pm
The I-GUIDE Spatial AI Challenge: Learn and Participate
Shaowen Wang · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
December 4, 2024 11:00 am
Estimating Blue Water Footprint of a Reservoir in the Transboundary US-Mexico Region
Maryam Sahraei · South Dakota State University
Nitheshnirmal Sadhasivam · Virginia Tech University
Kanak Kar · University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Mohamed Awaad · University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Pravin Gamage · University of Central Florida
Ruixuan Ding · The Ohio State University
Santosh Palmate (Team Lead) · Texas A&M University
November 20, 2024 11:00 am
I-GUIDE Platform 101: Exploring the Essentials of the I-GUIDE Knowledge Sharing Environment
Anand Padmanabhan · University of Illinois
November 13, 2024 11:00 am
A Machine Learning Approach To Study The Cooling Effects Of Urban Green Spaces (UGS) in the Southeast U.S.
Yuanquan Li · UNICEF
Ruowei Liu · University of Georgia
Maria Gorret Nabuwembo · University of Arkansas
Wenxin Yang · University of California, Santa Barbara
November 6, 2024 1:00 pm
Assessing the Economic Impact of Wildfire on Building Losses in Texas
Jinyi Cai · University of Iowa
Zhenlei Song · Texa A&M University
October 23, 2024 11:00 am
GeoAI Applications to Predict Field Scale Actual Evapotranspiration
Laurel DiSera · Columbia University
Eshita Eva · The Ohio State University
Ehsan Foroutan · Oklahoma State University
Kelechi Igwe · Kansas State University
Manoj Lamichhane · South Dakota State University
Sushant Mehan · South Dakota State University
Musab Waqar · Virginia Tech
Ola Wasik · Kent State University
October 2, 2024 11:00 am
I-GUIDE Platform – The Basics
Anand Padmanabhan · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
August 14, 2024 11:00 am
Creating Spatial Data Infrastructure that Supports the Development and Evaluation of Policy
Peter Kedron · University of California Santa Barbara
June 19, 2024 11:00 am
Reexamining Geoprivacy: From Anonymity to a Harm-Based Approach
Yue Lin · University of Chicago
May 22, 2024 11:00 am
Supporting Teaching and Learning in Geospatial Data Science: A Curriculum Evaluation Tool
Forrest Bowlick · University of Massachusetts at Amherst
May 8, 2024 11:00 am
Spatial Decision Support Systems in the Era of Big Data and Disaster Science
Zhe Zhang · Texas A&M University
March 13, 2024 11:00 am
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of a Meta-Coupled World
Kate Brandt · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Maryam Torkashvand · University of Iowa
Jinwen Xu · Florida International University
February 14, 2024 11:00 am
Characterizing the Spatiotemporal Changes of Wildland Urban Interface in the United States
Jiwon Baik · University of California at Santa Barbara
Denise Chavez · Kansas State University
Eric Jensen · Desert Research Institute
Debayan Mandal · Texas A&M University
January 31, 2024 11:00 am
Introduction to the GeoAI Foundation Model and Its Application
Yanhong Huang · University of New Mexico
Salar Jarhan · University of Wyoming
Jiyoung Lee · Louisiana State University
Claire Simpson · University of Colorado Boulder
Yalin Yang · University of Texas at Dallas
January 17, 2024 11:00 am
The I-GUIDE Cyberinfrastructure Platform: Supporting Open, Reproducible Convergence Science at Scale
Jeff Horsburgh · Utah State University
November 29, 2023 11:00 am
Panel Discussion with Past UCGIS I-GUIDE Community Champions
Zeynab Jouzi · Cornell University
Shakil Kashem · Kansas State University
Peter Kedron · University of California, Santa Barbara
July 18, 2023 12:00 pm
The Geospatial Knowledge Hypercube
Zhaonan Wang · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
June 27, 2023 12:00 pm
Thinking Evaluatively, Graphically, and Visually Through Conceptual Maps in I-GUIDE
Rodney Hopson · University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Ramya Kumaran · University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Askshit Sharma · University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
June 12, 2023 10:30 am
Realtime Weather Information Visualization using MetPy’s Simplified Plotting Interface
Ryan May · UCAR
Drew Camron · NSF Unidata Program Center
June 6, 2023 12:00 pm
Geospatial Transfer Learning on I-GUIDE Platform
Nattapon Jaroenchai · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
May 9, 2023 12:00 pm
Advancing Transparent and Reproducible Science Using HydroShare (And what’s in it for you!)
Jeff Horsburgh · Utah State University
Tony Castronova · CUAHSI
Irene Garousi-Nejad · CUAHSI
April 4, 2023 12:00 pm
An Overview of Cartograms and Gastner’s Flow-based Algorithm
Adam Tonks · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
February 28, 2023 12:00 pm
The I-GUIDE Cyberinfrastructure Platform for enabling integrative discovery
Rajesh Kalyanam · Purdue University
February 21, 2023 9:00 am
Understanding Remote Connections: A Gentle Introduction to Telecoupling, Metacoupling, and the Telecoupling Toolbox
Nan Jia · Michigan State University
Nick Manning · Michigan State University
February 7, 2023 12:00 pm
Convergence Curriculum for Geospatial Data Science
Eric Shook · University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities
January 24, 2023 12:00 pm
SIMPLE-G: A multiscale framework for integration of economic and biophysical determinants of sustainability
Iman Haqiqi · Purdue University
November 14, 2022 2:00 pm
The Convergence Curriculum for Geospatial Data Science: Open Resources for You and your Learners
Eric Shook · University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities
November 2, 2022 3:00 pm
CyberGIS-Compute: Enabling Simplified Access to High Performance Computing for your Geospatial Computation
Anand Padmanabhan · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Alex Michels · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
October 12, 2022 2:00 pm
Communicating Science: Identifying What You Want and How to Get It
Sue Nichols · Michigan State University
August 30, 2022 11:00 am
GeoEDF: A Framework for Designing and Executing Geospatial Research Workflows
Rajesh Kalyanam · Purdue University
July 27, 2022 11:00 am
CyberGIS-Compute: Geospatial Middleware for Simplifying Access to High-Performance Computing
Anand Padmanabhan · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Alex Michels · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign