34th ACM SIGSPATIAL

ACM SIGSPATIAL 2026 - Accepted PhD/Grad Workshop & SRC Papers

PhD & Graduate Studies Workshop — Graduate SRC

• Can Vision-Language Large Models Read Unconventional Maps? [preprint]
  Alhassan Satii Mustafa Alshareedah (University of California, Riverside) and Amr Magdy (University of California, Riverside / Qatar Computing Research Institute)

• CareRoute: Constraint-Horizon-Aware Neural Routing for Accessible Urban Mobility [preprint]
  Riku Nakao (The University of Osaka)

• Drift or Deviation? Continual Detection of Anomalies Amid Changing Patterns of Life [preprint]
  Chanuka Ravishan Algama (Tulane University)

• Hyperprofiling: Understanding User Behaviour and Interests from Mobility Big Data [preprint]
  Luca Fantin (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca)

• Natural-Language Constrained Route Planning with Adaptive Search Logic: Early Results [preprint]
  Shahd Elmahallawy (University of California, Riverside)

• Parallel Multiversion Spatial Index via Functional Data Structures [preprint]
  Bo Huang (University of California, Riverside)

• Probabilistic Spatial Prediction Under Nonstationarity: Calibrated Estimation of Extreme Particulate Matter Pollution [preprint]
  Vince Caristo (University of Montana)

• Quantum Spatial Regionalization [preprint]
  Yunhan Chang (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside)

• Semantic 3D City Model Reconstruction for Urban Digital Twins through Neuro-Symbolic AI and Knowledge Graph Integration [preprint]
  Lukas Arzoumanidis (HafenCity University Hamburg)

• Spatially Grounded LLM--NMPC Navigation for Human-Shared Environments [preprint]
  Xuqing Liu (The Graduate School of Information Science and Technology of The University of Osaka)

• Toward Computational Models of Human Mobility for Resilient and Adaptive Transportation Systems [preprint]
  Fernanda Ventorim (University of California, Irvine)

• Towards Accurate Open-Source ETA [preprint]
  Areeg Mostafa (University of Minnesota)

• Towards an Interpretable Urban Heat Island Foundation Model for Forecasting, Attribution, and Climate Adaptation Decision Support [preprint]
  Wanyun Ling (Technical University of Munich)

• Whose Map? A Player-Base Bias in Crowd-Sourced Geographic Salience [preprint]
  Pipob Puthipiroj (Northwestern University)

Undergraduate Student Research Competition

• CropSelf: Self-Supervised Spatial Keypoint Learning for Under-Canopy Agricultural Robot Navigation [preprint]
  Yasmina Mahdy (The American University in Cairo), Hamada Rizk (Osaka University, Japan, RIKEN-CCS, Japan) and Moustafa Youssef (The American University in Cairo)

• GraphFi: Zero-Shot Cross-Building Vertical Localization with Spatial Graph Transformers [preprint]
  Ebtsam Zyada (The American university in Cairo, School of Science and Engineering), Yomna Yasser (Alexandria University, Faculty of Engineering), Hamada Rizk (Osaka University) and Moustafa Youssef (The American University in Cairo)

• SkyWeave: Spatiotemporal Airspace Weaving for Dynamic Urban Air Mobility [preprint]
  Ebram Hebesh (The American University in Cairo), Mostafa Khaira (Tanta University), Hamada Rizk (Osaka University) and Moustafa Youssef (The American University in Cairo)

• Source-Based Interaction Modeling Captures Traffic Pollution Redistribution That Static Estimation Cannot [preprint]
  Darcy Van Pelt (Colorado State University Global)

• Where Surface Heat Misses Apparent Heat: Mapping LST-Heat Index Spatial Mismatch Across U.S. Cities [preprint]
  Yufei Zhou (University of Wisconsin Madison)