Univ.-Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Janowicz
Krzysztof Janowicz

My name is Krzysztof Janowicz. I am a professor at the University of Vienna working on Spatial Data Science and the head/chair of the Department of Geography and Regional Research. I am Editors-in-Chief of the Semantic Web journal by SAGE. Before, 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 former program chair of UCSB's Cognitive Science Program. Before, I was an Assistant Professor at the GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. Before moving to the US, I was 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.


Janowicz, K., Liu, Z., Mai, G., Wang, Z., Majic, I., Fortacz, A., Mckenzie, G., & Gao, S. (2025). Whose Truth? Pluralistic Geo-Alignment for (Agentic) AI. in M. Mokbel, S. Shekar, A. Zufle, Y.-Y. Chiang, M. L. Damiani, & M. Youssef (Hrsg.), SIGSPATIAL '25: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (S. 799-803). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3748636.3760465




Shi, M., Janowicz, K., Verstegen, J., Currier, K., Wiedemann, N., Mai, G., Majic, I., Liu, Z., & Zhu, R. (2025). Geography for AI sustainability and sustainability for GeoAI. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 52(4), 331-349. Vorzeitige Online-Publikation. https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2025.2479796

Graser, A., Jalali, A., Lampert, J., Weissenfeld, A., & Janowicz, K. (2025). MobilityDL: a review of deep learning from trajectory data. Geoinformatica, 29(1), 115-147. Artikel 101938. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10707-024-00518-8

Shimizu, C., Stephen, S., Barua, A., Cai, L., Christou, A., Currier, K., Dalal, A., Fisher, C. K., Hitzler, P., Janowicz, K., Li, W., Liu, Z., Mahdavinejad, M. S., Mai, G., Rehberger, D., Schildhauer, M., Shi, M., Norouzi, S. S., Tian, Y., ... Zhu, R. (2025). The KnowWhereGraph ontology. Journal of Web Semantics, 84, Artikel 100842. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2024.100842



Li, Z., Ning, H., Gao, S., Janowicz, K., Li, W., Arundel, S. T., Yang, C., Bhaduri, B., Wang, S., Zhu, A. X., Gahegan, M., Shekhar, S., Ye, X., McKenzie, G., Cervone, G., & Hodgson, M. E. (2025). GIScience in the era of Artificial Intelligence: a research agenda towards Autonomous GIS. Annals of GIS, 31(4), 501-536. https://doi.org/10.1080/19475683.2025.2552161

Goodchild, M., Langham, G. M., Appelbaum, R., Crampton, J., Herbert, W. A., Janowicz, K., Kwan, M. P., Michael, K., & Schamess, L. (2025). Locational Data and the Public Interest. IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, 6(2), 129-154. https://doi.org/10.1109/TTS.2025.3527897

Chen, Y.-J., Li, W., Losier, L.-M., Tucker, C., Janowicz, K., Chou, T.-Y., Shinde, R., Shinde, R., Reichardt, M., Gupta, A., Durbha, S., Chauhan, L., Maskey, M., Simonis, I., Sen, S., Churchyard, P., & Simmons, S. (2025). Thirty Years of the Open Geospatial Consortium - History, Present, and Future. Webpublikation

Majic, I., Wang, Z., Janowicz, K., & Karimi, M. (2024). Spatial Task-Explicity Matters in Prompting Large Multimodal Models for Spatial Planning. in S. Gao, G. Mai, S. Newsam, L. Yang, D. Lunga, D. Zhu, B. Martins, & S. Arundel (Hrsg.), GeoAI 2024 - Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on AI for Geographic Knowledge Discovery (S. 99-105) https://doi.org/10.1145/3687123.3698293


Wang, Z., Janowicz, K., Mai, G., & Majic, I. (2024). Probing the Information Theoretical Roots of Spatial Dependence Measures. in B. Adams, A. L. Griffin, S. Scheider, & G. McKenzie (Hrsg.), 16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024) Artikel 9 https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPICS.COSIT.2024.9

Shi, M., Janowicz, K., Liu, Z., & Currier, K. (2024). Towards Formalizing Concept Drift and Its Variants: A Case Study Using Past COSIT Proceedings (Short Paper). in B. Adams, A. L. Griffin, S. Scheider, & G. McKenzie (Hrsg.), 16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2024 (S. 23:1-23:8). Artikel 23 https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.23



Wang, Z., Mai, G., Janowicz, K., & Lao, N. (2024). MC-GTA: Metric-Constrained Model-Based Clustering using Goodness-of-fit Tests with Autocorrelations. 51086-51104. Beitrag in 41st International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2024, Vienna, Österreich.

How Can We Know What AI Will Know?

Janowicz, K. (Invited speaker)

24 Sept. 2025

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Vague Cognitive Regions in Large Language Models

Karimi, M. (Vortragende*r) & Janowicz, K. (Autor*in)

22 Sept. 2025

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Can we know what AI will Know

Janowicz, K. (Keynote speaker)

29 Aug. 2025

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What, When, and Where Do You Mean? Detecting Spatio-Temporal Concept Drift in Scientific Texts

Liu, Z. (Vortragende*r), Shi, M. (Autor*in), Janowicz, K. (Autor*in), Karimi, M. (Autor*in), Majic, I. (Autor*in) & Fortacz, A. (Autor*in)

27 Aug. 2025

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Virtual Reality Sandbox and GeoAI

Janowicz, K. (Vortragende*r), Karimi, M. (Vortragende*r), Fortacz, A. (Vortragende*r) & Liu, Z. (Vortragende*r)

23 Juni 2025

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Delineating Vague Cognitive Regions From Human and AI Perspectives

Karimi, M. (Vortragende*r), Janowicz, K. (Autor*in) & Liu, Z. (Autor*in)

15 Mai 2025

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Towards Formalizing Concept Drift and Its Variants: A Case Study Using Past COSIT Proceedings

Shi, M. (Autor*in), Janowicz, K. (Autor*in), Liu, Z. (Vortragende*r) & Currier, K. (Autor*in)

19 Sept. 2024

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GeoMachina: What Designing Artificial GIS Analysts Teaches Us About Place Representation

Janowicz, K. (Invited speaker)

13 Sept. 2024

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GeoMachina: Can RAG-based AI agents replace GIS analysts by 2026?

Janowicz, K. (Keynote speaker)

24 Juli 2024

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Measuring Geographic Diversity of Foundation Models with a Natural Language–based Geo-guessing Experiment on GPT-4

Liu, Z. (Vortragende*r), Janowicz, K. (Autor*in), Currier, K. (Autor*in) & Shi, M. (Vortragende*r)

5 Juni 2024

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Making Geographic Space Explicit in Probing Multimodal Large Language Models for Cultural Subjects

Liu, Z. (Vortragende*r), Janowicz, K. (Autor*in) & Currier, K. (Autor*in)

11 Mai 2024

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Data in Conflict

Janowicz, K. (Vortragende*r)

6 Mai 2024

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Why Spatial is Special in Artificial Intelligence Research

Janowicz, K. (Vortragende*r)

11 Jan. 2024

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Knowledge Graphs for GIScience

Janowicz, K. (Vortragende*r)

2024

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Keynote: GeoAI-based Context Modeling for Location-Based Services

Janowicz, K. (Keynote speaker)

20 Nov. 2023

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Spatial Data Science: Geographic Context Matters

Janowicz, K. (Vortragende*r)

23 Okt. 2023

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Knowledge Graphs and GeoAI: Uniting Symbolic and Subsymbolic Traditions (Beijing)

Janowicz, K. (Invited speaker)

10 Aug. 2023

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Knowledge Graphs and GeoAI: Uniting Symbolic and Subsymbolic Traditions

Janowicz, K. (Invited speaker)

7 Aug. 2023

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KnowWhereGraph: Developing and Deploying a Web-Scale Knowledge Graph for Environmental Intelligence

Janowicz, K. (Invited speaker)

9 Mai 2023

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KnowWhereGraph in a Nutshell

Janowicz, K. (Invited speaker)

13 Jan. 2023

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KnowWhereGraph Intro and Demo

Janowicz, K. (Invited speaker)

20 Okt. 2022

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Interview with Renée Sieber

Janowicz, K. (Autor*in)

2022

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Introducing the KnowWhereGraph

Janowicz, K. (Invited speaker)

2022

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Is Knowledge a Graph?

Janowicz, K. (Keynote speaker)

2022

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Know, Know Where, KnowWhereGraph

Janowicz, K. (Invited speaker)

2022

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Knowledge Graphs and Disaster Mitigation

Janowicz, K. (Vortragende*r)

2022

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Knowledge Graphs and Disaster Mitigation

Janowicz, K. (Invited speaker)

2022

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KnowWhereGraph and Beyond: Can Knowledge Graphs provide Situational Awareness for Epidemic Intelligence?

Janowicz, K. (Invited speaker)

2022

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KnowWhereGraph: Developing and Deploying a Web-Scale Knowledge Graph for Environmental Intelligence

Janowicz, K. (Invited speaker)

2022

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Using knowledge graphs to increase situational awareness and resilience

Janowicz, K. (Invited speaker)

2022

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When Knowledge Graphs Meet Geographic Information Systems

Janowicz, K. (Keynote speaker)

2022

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