Xin Wang

Xin Wang is a professor in the Department of Geomatics and the leader of the Intelligent Geospatial Data Mining Lab at the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary. Her expertise spans spatiotemporal data mining, geospatial AI, and location and routing recommendation systems. Dr. Wang has proposed and developed geospatial data mining methods and systems to address challenges in transportation, healthcare, environment, and energy by extracting insightful knowledge from big spatiotemporal data to provide informative guidance to engineering practices.

She is the Co-Director of Esri Canada GIS Centres of Excellence at the University of Calgary. For six years, she served as an executive member and treasurer of the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association. In this position, she helped to foster collaborative relationships between Canadian industry and academic researchers allowing Canadian geomatics companies and government agencies to access cutting edge geospatial AI research.

Dr. Wang holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and an M.Sc. in Software Engineering from Northwest University China. She also obtained her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Regina.

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