Projects
We are excited to welcome new cohorts of interns to the Spatial Data Lab (SDL) Internship Program. Our current internship is coordinated by Yogya Kalra and Yogender Yadav, who are supporting the progress tracking and fellow assignments across our projects.
Yogya Kalra, a CGA Affiliate since 2021, is an undergraduate student at Western University in Canada, pursuing a double degree in Biology and Business Administration. With a strong background in geospatial analysis and science communication, Yogya has contributed to numerous data-driven initiatives at CGA and now leads the SDL internship program to foster youth engagement in geospatial research.
Yogender Yadav is a PhD student in Urban and Regional Development at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Bringing expertise in urban planning and geospatial data visualization, Yogender is committed to applying advanced tools—including LiDAR, photogrammetry, and spatial modeling—to real-world challenges. His involvement with SDL provides valuable mentorship and coordination support to interns, while complementing his own academic research.
24001 Enabling Conversational Analytics on Indian Policy Insights Projects using LLMs
Mentors:
- S V Subramanian, School of Public Health, Harvard University
- Devika Kakkar, Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University
24002 Exploring ESRI’s GeoAI toolbox for Advanced Geospatial Analysis on Indian Policy Insights
Mentors:
- S V Subramanian, School of Public Health, Harvard University
- Devika Kakkar, Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University
Mentor: Bryce Peacher, University of Central Florida
24004 Crime Data Analysis with Google Data Science Agent
Mentor: Yanqing Xu, Wuhan University
24005 Social Media Hate Speech Detection
Mentor: Alexander Hohl, The University of Utah
24006 Geocomplexity Learning for Spatial Prediction
Mentor: Yongze Song, Curtin University
24007 The Geography of Hate
Mentor: Alexander Hohl, The University of Utah
Mentor: Luyao Zhang, Duke Kunshan University
24009 Climate Risk Aware Digital Business Twin Using Spatial Indexing and GeoAI
Mentor: Nakul Gupta, Management Development Institute Gurgaon
24010 Adaptation of Telecoupling Toolbox – ArcGIS Toolbox into KNIME
Mentors:
- Nan Jia, Michigan State University
- Nakul Gupta, Management Development Institute Gurgaon
24011 Data Preparation Workflows for Vertical Industrial AI Applications
Mentors:
- Dr. Alex Liu, former IBM Chief Data Scientist and RMDS Lab director.
- Dr. Tom Lu, NASA JPL Senior AI Scientist
- Dr. Hui Su, Adjunct Professor of UCLA and lead of a Global GeoAI Project
24012 Ecosystem-Based Research Acceleration with AI for Geographical and Social Analysis
Mentors:
- Dr. Alex Liu, former IBM Chief Data Scientist and RMDS Lab director.
- Dr. Tom Lu, NASA JPL Senior AI Scientist
- Dr. Hui Su, Adjunct Professor of UCLA and lead of a Global GeoAI Project
- Professor Sijun Wang, Marketing Professor at LMU
24013 The Geography of the Opioid Epidemic
Mentor: Alexander Hohl, The University of Utah
24014 Barrier-free facilities real-time monitoring for smart mobility of people with disabilities
Mentor: Xintao Liu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
24015 AI Reporting for School Transportation Operation
Co-Mentors:
- Xiao Huang, Emory University
- Nan Ding, Chief Product Officer, EZRouting
24016 Commerical Determinants of Health
Mentors: Lingbo Liu and Bryn Austin, Harvard University
Mentor: Luyao Zhang, Duke Kunshan University
24018 Development of a Climate Risk Aware Digital Business Twin Using Spatial Indexing and GeoAI
Mentor: Nakul Gupta, Management Development Institute Gurgaon, India
24019 CGA's Data Science/Big Data Projects
Mentor: Devika Jain, Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University
Mentor: ABOLGHASEM SADEGHI-NIARAKI, Sejong University, South Korea
24021 GeoAI in Human Geography and Human-environmental Interaction
Mentor: Sisi Wang, University of Southern California
24022 GeoAI and Social Science
Mentor: Minxuan Lan, The University of Toledo
24023 OpenAI and Urban Imagibility
Mentor: Prafulla Parlewar, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India
Mentor: Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, University of Southern California
24025 KNIME Data App for Computational Methods and GIS Applications in Social Science
Mentor: Lingbo Liu and Tian Tian, Harvard University
24026 Extreme Weather and Adaptation Strategies
Mentor: Ocean Data Center, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), China
Mentor: Fath Alrahman Jaweesh, Assistant Professor
The University of Edinburgh, UK
25001 Ecosystem-Based Research Acceleration with AI for Geographical and Social Analysis
Mentor: Dr. Alex Liu, Former IBM Chief Data Scientist and RMDS Lab director
25002 GeoAI and Geocomputation for Health and Crime Geography
Mentor: Yanqing Xu, Professor, Wuhan University
Mentor: Xintao Liu, Associate Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Mentor: Nan Jia, Assisstant Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
25005 Artificial Intelligence for Smart Cities in Japan and India
Mentor: Prafulla Parlewar, Professor, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India
25006 AI-Driven Mapping of Solar Panel Adoption Potential Across Africa
Mentor: Nan Jia, Program Research Fellow in Stanford University and Michigan State University
25007 Assess urban vibrancy resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic through social media data
Mentor: Meixu (May) Chen, Associate Professor,East China University of Science and Technology
Mentor: Bing Zhou, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
25009 AI-Driven School Bus Stop Safety Evaluation
Mentor: Zifu Wang, Postdoc Research Fellow, Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University
25010 Understanding Urban Heat Island Effects through Geospatial Explainable AI and Visual Analytics
Mentor: Chuan Chen, PHD Candidate, Chair of Cartography and Visual Analytics, TUM, Germany
25011 Spatiotemporal intelligent computing
Mentor: Daoye Zhu, Associate Professor, Fuzhou University, China
25012 Weather Prediction with AI
Mentor: Alex Liu, Director, RMDS Lab and SPT Energy AI Lab