Date: October 10, 2025
Location: Room 3315, College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CST
Title: Knowledge-Enriched Futures: Geospatial AI for Adaptive Urban Systems
Cities today demand adaptive, resilient, and citizen-centered systems. Invited and sponsored by the CHESS Center, Dr. Xinyue Ye from Department of Geography & the Environment at the University of Alabama delivered a seminar titled “Knowledge-Enriched Futures: Geospatial AI for Adaptive Urban Systems” on October 10, 2025. The presentation outlines how Geospatial AI and the New Urban Science enable such transformation. Through sense and response capabilities, co-creation in action with communities, and scenario-driven insight from simulations, people can design responsive cities. Predictive foresight strengthens resilience, while human-AI synergy builds agent-driven systems that amplify urban potential. Grounded in knowledge-enriched futures and ethical intelligence, this approach advances transparency, fairness, and civic trust—charting a path toward smarter, more just, and sustainable urban futures.
Dr. Ye is Endowed Shelby Distinguished Professor of GeoAI at the University of Alabama. He is the Founding Director of ALA-GAINS (Alabama Geospatial AI & Information Science) Hub, also serving as the Co-Director of Alabama Center for the Advancement of AI. His research integrates GeoAI with disciplines spanning the humanities to engineering, addressing challenges such as infrastructure resilience, extreme weather preparedness, urban revitalization, and community perceptions. Dr. Ye is the elected Fellow of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) and the recipient of the AAG Distinguished Scholar Award. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Senior Member of IEEE. He has been among the world’s top 2% scientists based on both career-long and year-specific citations by Stanford University since 2020. His work has been funded by approximately $30 million from 13 different federal agencies as well as various industry partners and foundations.
We are grateful to Dr. Ye for his engaging and informative presentation. His work offers promising avenues for collaboration in GeoAI, Urban, and related fields. We look forward to continued discussions and collaborative efforts to address environmental challenges.