Winners of 'Young Researcher Award' in GIScience announced!

The Austrian Academy of Sciences' Commission for GIScience annually selects the winner of a 'Young Researcher' competition, based on an outstanding publication submitted by applicants. This year's review-and-selection process turned into a tight race, with two entries tied for first place.

We are glad to extend our congratulations to:

Song Gao (University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography), for his paper on "Spatio-Temporal Analytics for Exploring Human Mobility Patterns and Urban Dynamics in the Mobile Age" published in Spatial Cognition & Computation, 15:86–114, 2015. DOI:10.1080/13875868.2014.984300

and as co-winner:

Xingjian Liu (The University of Hongkong, Department of Urban Planning and Design) for the paper co-authored with Ying Long (Tsinghua University and Beijing Institute of City Planning) on "Automated identification and characterization of parcels with OpenStreetMap and points of interest" published in Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 2016, Vol. 43(2) 341–360.

Congratulations again - and of course we will soon announce details for the 2018 'Young Researcher Award in GIScience'!