I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
๐ I am hiring motivated Ph.D. students in AI, machine learning, and spatial science.
Reach me by email at yijunlinnn AT gmail DOT com.
I work on Spatial Intelligence. I am interested in developing AI methods that integrate spatial thinking to learn from sparse, heterogeneous, and multimodal spatial data. My work bridges computer science with applications in environmental science, remote sensing, public health, digital humanities, and beyond.
I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. My advisor is Prof. Yao-Yi Chiang. Check out my Ph.D. thesis and thesis presentation.
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I defended my dissertation on June 1st, 2026.
"Fine-Scale Soil Mapping in Alaska with Multimodal Machine Learning" was accepted at SIGSPATIAL 2025 (Oral).
"LIGHT: Multi-Modal Text Linking on Historical Maps" was accepted at ICDAR 2025 (Oral).
Co-taught UMN CSCI 5523: Introduction to Data Mining with Jina Kim.
I was awarded the UMN Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for 2024-2025.
Our team won the first place in DARPAโs Map Feature Extraction Challenge.
I was awarded the UMN DSI-ADC Fellowship for 2022-2024.
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