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Mingshu Wang has been selected for the inaugural UK GEO100, a national list recognising 100 leaders shaping the future of geospatial science across the UK.

PhD student Rui Deng’s paper on improving the efficiency and explainability of GeoAggregator has been accepted as a Short Paper at the ACM SIGSPATIAL GeoAI Workshop.

PhD students Xinyi Yuan and Rui Deng recently visited Florida State University (FSU) for a research exchange hosted by Dr. Ziqi Li. They presented their latest work on building-footprint analytics and scalable geospatial data modelling at FSU’s Spatial Data Science Center.

Dr. Mingshu Wang is appointed Associate Editor of Springer’s Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, helping shape the journal’s direction with a focus on GeoAI, urban analytics, and geospatial data science.

We warmly welcome HKU PhD student Quang Cuong Doan as a Visiting PhD Student, who will collaborate with Dr. Mingshu Wang on geospatial data science and urban vitality, further strengthening research ties between HKU and the University of Glasgow.

Recognized for the fourth consecutive year (2022–2025) in Elsevier & Stanford’s Top 2% Scientists list, ranking 581st globally and 32nd in the UK in Geological & Geomatics Engineering.

Delivered a keynote and joined a panel at the EPSRC CDT in Geospatial Systems Annual Assembly (Nottingham, Sept 2025), presenting ‘Small, Fast, Accurate – The Promise of GeoAggregator for GeoAI.

Co-hosted a two-day paper workshop at the University of Amsterdam for our forthcoming Urban Studies Special Issue on ‘Organizations and Urban Inequality’, bringing together 15 contributions across global contexts.