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USC Spatial Sciences Institute’s Yuanbin Cheng wins ACM SIGSPATIAL Student Research Award

Yao-Yi Chiang’s Spatial Computing Lab continues award-winning streak On November 9, 2018, Yuanbin Cheng, a M.S. student in computer science on the Spatial Sciences Institute’s Spatial Computing team, took the third place award for student research competition at the 26th ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL) in Seattle, Washington. Cheng’s…
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Documenting Human Rights Violations

Documenting Human Rights Violations - USC Spatial’s Andrew Marx and his team use smallsat algorithms to detect genocide Can satellite imagery be used to document – and possibly prevent – genocide? Dr. Andrew J. Marx, associate professor of the practice of spatial sciences with the USC Spatial Sciences Institute and the Institute for Creative Technologies,…
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Kudos for their outstanding theses

 USC Spatial announces the 2018 M.S. in GIST Thesis Prize Winners The USC Spatial Sciences Institute has announced the 2018 prizes for the top three outstanding theses in M.S. in Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIST) program. Congratulations go to: Carrie Steves, first place, for her thesis “Trends in the Alaskan Bottom-Trawl Fishery from 1993-2015:…
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Soaring with Second Graders – Lisa Sedano

USC Spatial’s Lisa Sedano Mentors Baldwin Hills Elementary Students Outstretched arms hugged Dr. Lisa Sedano as she greeted a large group of children on Trousdale Parkway on a sunny morning earlier this summer. No wonder the young visitors to the USC campus were excited to see Sedano, lecturer with the USC Spatial Sciences Institute, as…
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