My name is Krzysztof Janowicz. I am a professor at the University of Vienna working on Spatial Data Science and GeoAI. I am the head/chair of the Department of Geography and Regional Research. I am Editors-in-Chief of the Semantic Web journal by SAGE. Before moving to Austria in 2022, I have been a (full) professor of Geographic Information Science and Geoinformatics at the Geography Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), USA. At UCSB I was director of the Center for Spatial Studies and program chair of UCSB's Cognitive Science Program. Before moving to the West Coast in 2011, I was an Assistant Professor at the GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. Prior to that, I was briefly working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi), University of Münster in Germany for the international research training group on Semantic Integration of Geospatial Information and the Münster Semantic Interoperability Lab (MUSIL). I got my PhD in geoinformatics from the University of Münster in the summer of 2008. Methodologically, my niche is the combination of theory-driven (e.g., semantics) and data-driven (e.g., data mining) techniques in the broader field of geographic knowledge representation and GeoAI. I am passionate about bringing spatial thinking to different corners of science, society, and the campus. These days I am increasingly interested in understanding how AI systems represent and reason about geographic spaces and places, e.g., by relating neurosymbolic AI techniques to questions of bias and ethics more broadly. If you like my work, you will like the research of my current and former students even more.

Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung

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Universitätsstraße 7 (NIG)
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krzysztof.janowicz@univie.ac.at