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Yiqun Xie

Assistant Professor
Geospatial Information Science
Affiliate Faculty
Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM)
University of Maryland, College Park

Ph.D in Computer Science
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Email: xie@umd.edu

CV: Xie_CV.pdf

⧫ Funding

  • [NASA] PI, ~$1.4M (selected), NASA Advanced Information Systems and Technology program, expected 2025-2027.
  • [NSF] PI, $759,215 in total (UMD share: $506,675. Collaborative with the University of Pittsburgh), NSF Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG) program, 2425844, 10/2024-09/2027.
  • [NSF] Co-PI, $75,000, NSF Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) program, 2430978, 10/2024-03/2025.
  • [Google] PI, $30,000 gift (NGO partner: Imazon, $75,000), Google, AI for Social Good (Impact Scholars).
  • [NSF] UMD PI, $755,098 (UMD share: $424,774. Collaborative with the University of Pittsburgh.), NSF Fairness in Artificial Intelligence (FAI) program (co-sponsored by Amazon), 2147195, 06/2022-05/2025.
  • [NASA] PI, $599,956, NASA Advanced Information Systems and Technology program, AIST-21-0068, expected 07/2022-01/2024.
  • [NSF] PI, $955,837 (collaborative with WSU: ~$1.24M in total), NSF EarthCube program, 2126474, 09/2021-08/2024. (Award page for UMD part, EarthCube news)
  • [NASA] Co-I (added to team after award), $747,164, NASA LCLUC, 20-LCLUC2020-0010, 2021-2023.
  • [Google] PI, $10,000 gift (NGO partner: The Aquaya Institute, $20,000), Google, AI for Social Good (Impact Scholars).
  • [NSF] PI, $174,983, NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) program, IIS-2105133, 08/2021-07/2023. (Award page)
  • [UMD] Team member, $366,000, Grand Challenges Grant (Team Project), Seed Grant, 03/2023-02/2026.
  • [UMD] PI, $10,000, Faculty-Student Research Award, Seed Grant, 08/2023-08/2024.
  • [UMD] PI, $19,981, Dean's Research Initiative, Seed Grant, 06/2021-06/2022.

⧫ Awards

  • 2024 - Selected to be honored at the Maryland Research Excellence Celebration 2024.
  • 2023 - Best Application Paper Award. SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM'23).
  • 2022 - Best Presentation - Honorable Mention. Google's AI for Social Good mid-program meeting.
  • 2022 - Best Paper Award. ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data (BigSpatial'22). Seattle, WA.
  • 2021 - Best Paper Award. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'21). Auckland, New Zealand (and Virtual Online).
  • 2020 - Best Paper Award. ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Deep Learning for Spatiotemporal Data, Applications, and Systems (DeepSpatial'20). Virtual Online.
  • 2019 - Best Vision Paper Award. 27th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advancements in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL'19), Chicago, IL. Recognized by the Computing Community Consortium's (CCC) Great Innovative Ideas program.
  • 2019 - Best Paper Award. 16th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD'19), Vienna, Austria. link
  • 2017 - Best Poster Award. 2017 UCGIS Symposium (University Consortium for GIS), Washington D.C.
  • 2016 - Early career researchers travel fund, ACM SIG-KDD Workshop on DS-FEW.
  • 2014 - Outstanding Student of the Year, ESRI Development Center at University of Minnesota
  • 2013 - Finalist Award, Annual Figure of College Students in China. link
  • 2013 - Annual Figure of College Students in Jiangsu Province.
  • 2012 - First Prize, AMAP China LBS Challenge.
  • 2001 - Silver Award, The World Peace Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition, Junior Group (Paris, France).