The Sixth Spatial Data Science Symposium UC Hub
Event description
We invite the Geospatial community to attend the upcoming Sixth Spatial Data Science Symposium.
SDSS2025 is a distributed/online symposium. Participants are welcome to join one of the symposium hubs distributed around the world. Groups of participants will meet at these hubs to present and discuss with other participants both in person and online. The UC local hub will convey at the University of Canterbury in the Ernest Rutherford building, room 263 from 9:45-4pm on Thursday 4th of December 2025 to participate in the activities listed below:
NZ Time | Title |
|---|---|
9:45-11:00am | Thematic Session on Generative AI and Agentic AI for GIS and Cartography (online | local hub) |
11:00-12:00pm | mGeoHealth: real-world applications of spatial data science to improve population health and wellbeing (in person | local hub) |
12:00-1:00pm | Lunch Break |
1:00-1:30pm | Prof. Peyman Zawar-Reza giving keynote talk: “Towards a NeuroSpatial Insight Engine” |
1:30-2:00pm | POST DOCTOCTORAL FELLOWS’ ORAL PRESENTATIONS (in person | local hub) |
2:00-2:45pm | COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER SESSION (in person | local hub) |
2:45-3:45pm | POSTGRADUATES’ ORAL PRESENTATIONS (in person | local hub) |
3:45-4:00pm | CLOSING REMARKS AND AWARD (in person | local hub) |
Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Peyman Zawar-Reza
School of Earth and Environment
University of Canterbury
Bio:
I am primarily a highly interdisciplinary Data Scientist interested in understanding complex dynamical systems, by analysing their high frequency outputs/data, from which we might be able to infer their intrinsic mechanisms. Most of my research to date has involved studying the role of turbulence in the atmosphere, but recent advances in neurosciences have highlighted the fact the brain signals, can also be studied using methods applied to turbulent motion in fluids. Therefore, I have recently been interested in mapping brain signals, as obtained for example by an EEG, to spatial context – in a geographic sense.
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