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Dr. Dev Raj Paudyal has worked as a University Lecturer at the School of Surveying and Built Environment, University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ), Australia, since 2011. Dr Paudyal holds an M.Sc. in Geoinformation Management (with a specialisation in Land Administration) from ITC, the Netherlands, and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ), Australia. He worked as a Research Scholar at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (2015–2016). Dr Paudyal served as the President of the International Geospatial Society (2013–2015) and Co-Chair of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)-WGIV/4: (Geospatial Data Infrastructure, 2012–2016). He has been working as Co-Chair of ISPRS-WGIV/4 (SDI: Internet of Things and Spatial Decision Support) and was a Board Director of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association and a delegate of the GSDI Association Council. In addition to this, Dr Paudyal is a member of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), a member of the International Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) group, a member of the Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIRA), and a life member of the Nepal Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Society. He is Associate Editor of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI). Dr Paudyal has more than 25 years of professional and research experience, including 10 years of full-time industry experience in Nepal's Survey Department (National Mapping Agency) and 15 years of teaching and research experience in Australia, India, and Nepal. He has supervised twenty-five successful postgraduate and honours students and is currently supervising eight PhD students and five honours students. Dr Paudyal has also been consulted on SDI, application of geospatial information in disaster risk management, land administration, and spatial data management by the Ministry of Land Reform and Management, Kathmandu University, Tribhuwan University, Institute of Engineering, and the World Bank.

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Reproducibility and Replicability of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence

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Dr. Wenwen Li is a Professor of Geospatial Data Science in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University, where she directs the Cyberinfrastructure and Computational Intelligence (CICI) Lab and serves as the Research Director for the Spatial Analysis Research Center (SPARC). Her research interests include cyberinfrastructure, big data, geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI), and their applications in data- and computation-intensive environmental and social sciences.

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The Power of Voxel Modelling for 3D Data Integration and Analysis

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Dr. Sisi Zlatanova is a SHARP Professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Head of the Geospatial Research, Innovation and Development (GRID) lab and an Adjunct professor at RMIT, Australia. Her research interests are in 3D modelling: integration of BIM and GIS, 3D Indoor modelling, 3D representations and 3D data management. She is actively involved in the activities of the OGC and ISO and leading the development of the OGC standard IndoorGML. She is the President of ISPRS TC IV ‘Spatial Information Science’ (2022-2026) and founder of 3DGeoIno, Gi4DM and Indoor3D. She is Editor of several journals and special issues, has more than 550 scientific publications and 23 books. She is listed in the Stanford World’s Top 2% Scientists. With a team of excellent researchers, she is advancing Spatial Digital Twins for monitoring and 3D analysis of urban environments.

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Heterogeneity in Geospatial Artificial Intelligence

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Dr. Yongze Song is a Senior Lecturer at Curtin University. Yongze is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (UK), DAAD AInet (Germany), and the Spatial Data Lab (Harvard University, United States), an IEEE Senior Member, and a Committee Member of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG). Dr. Yongze leads the Geospatial Intelligence Lab and has developed more than 20 new geospatial models and 9 open-source software tools, with over 150,000 downloads worldwide, to advance the understanding of geospatial data and promote sustainable development. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles, including 8 highly cited papers. He has received more than ten international and national awards, including the Geospatial World 50 Rising Stars Award, the Global Top 10 Young Scientist Award, recognition as one of Stanford’s list of World’s Top 2% Scientists, and the Australian National Location Data First Prize. He is the Associate Editor of 5 international journals and an Editorial Board Member of 14 reputable international peer-reviewed journals. He has served as a Chair or Program Committee Member for more than 20 international conferences, including his role as the General Chair for the ISPRS TC IV Symposium (2024) and the City+ International Conference (2023). Yongze has been invited to present more than 70 research seminars in university and industry contexts worldwide, including lectures at Harvard University and talks at MIT and Yale University.