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Liping Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico (UNM). She also holds an affiliate faculty position at the Center for the Advancement of Spatial Informatics Research and Education (ASPIRE). Her research focuses on geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI), computer vision, and machine learning applied to geospatial big data analytics, disaster management, and indoor navigation. She directs the GeoAIR Lab, which develops innovative methods for GeoAI and geovisualization.
Education: Ph.D. in Spatial Information Science and Engineering from the University of Maine (2015), M.S. in Cartography and GIS from Fujian Normal University (2009), and B.S. in GIS from Yunnan Normal University (2006). Postdoctoral positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Penn State University.
Research interests include GIScience, GeoAI, visual big data analytics, geovisualization, and indoor navigation. Her work emphasizes developing AI-driven solutions for smart cities, disaster management, and infrastructure monitoring.
Awards: National Scholarship (China, 2004), Yunnan Province Government Scholarship (2005), Michael J. Eckardt Dissertation Fellowship (2014–2015), and Graduate Research Assistantship at University of Maine.
Teaching includes courses on advanced GIScience, internet mapping, and geospatial statistics. Her students have developed interactive web maps for topics like water quality in the Navajo Nation and worldwide shark attacks.
Labs/Teams: Directs the GeoAIR Lab, collaborating with institutions like LANL and Penn State. Active in organizing workshops on diagram image retrieval (DIRA) at CVPR.
