Univ.-Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Janowicz
Krzysztof Janowicz

My name is Krzysztof Janowicz. I am a professor at the University of Vienna working on Spatial Data Science. I am also the director of UCSB's Center for Spatial Studies, the former program chair of UCSB's Cognitive Science Program, and one of two Editors-in-Chief of the Semantic Web journal. I have been a (full) professor of Geographic Information Science and Geoinformatics at the Geography Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), USA (since 2011). Before, I was an Assistant Professor at the GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography at the Pennsylvania State University, USA (2009-2011). Before moving to the US, I was working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi), University of Münster in Germany for the international research training group on Semantic Integration of Geospatial Information and the Münster Semantic Interoperability Lab (MUSIL). I got my PhD in geoinformatics from the University of Münster in the summer of 2008. Methodologically, my niche is the combination of theory-driven (e.g., semantics) and data-driven (e.g., data mining) techniques.

Rao, J., Gao, S., Mai, G., & Janowicz, K. (2023). Building Privacy-Preserving and Secure Geospatial Artificial Intelligence Foundation Models: (Vision Paper). in M. L. Damiani, M. Renz, A. Eldawy, P. Kroger, & M. A. Nascimento (Hrsg.), 31st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2023 (S. 1-4). [41] ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3589132.3625611

Liu, Z., Janowicz, K., Currier, K., Shi, M., Rao, J., Gao, S., Cai, L., & Graser, A. (2023). Here Is Not There: Measuring Entailment-Based Trajectory Similarity for Location-Privacy Protection and Beyond. in Here Is Not There: Measuring Entailment-Based Trajectory Similarity for Location-Privacy Protection and Beyond (S. 91-97) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8286277

Shi, M., Currier, K., Liu, Z., Janowicz, K., Wiedemann, N., Verstegen, J., McKenzie, G., Graser, A., Zhu, R., & Mai, G. (2023). Thinking Geographically about AI Sustainability. AGILE: GIScience series, 4(42). https://doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-4-42-2023


Mai, G., Jiang, C., Sun, W., Zhu, R., Xuan, Y., Cai, L., Janowicz, K., Ermon, S., & Lao, N. (2023). Towards general-purpose representation learning of polygonal geometries. Geoinformatica, 27(2), 289-340. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10707-022-00481-2


Janowicz, K., Currier, K., Shimizu, C., Zhu, R., Shi, M., K. Fisher, C., Rehberger, D., Hitzler, P., Liu, Z., & Stephen, S. (2023). Fast Forward from Data to Insight: (Geographic) Knowledge Graphs and Their Applications. in Handbook of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence

Shimizu, C., Stephen, S., Christou, A., Currier, K., Saeid, M., Norouzi, S. S., Dalal, A., Barua, A., K. Fisher, C., D'Onofrio, A., Janowicz, K., Thelen, T., Rehberger, D., Schildhauer, M., & Hitzler, P. (2023). KnowWhereGraph-Lite: A Perspective of the KnowWhereGraph. in F. Ortiz-Rodriguez, S. Tiwari, B. Villazón-Terrazas, & C. Bobed (Hrsg.), Iberoamerican Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web Conference: Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web 5th Iberoamerican Conference and 4th Indo-American Conference, KGSWC 2023, Zaragoza, Spain, November 13–15, 2023, Proceedings (S. 199–212). Springer. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Band 14382 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47745-4_15

Janowicz, K. (2023). Philosophical Foundations of GeoAI: Exploring Sustainability, Diversity. in Handbook of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence CRC Press.




Liu, Z., Gu, Z., Thelen, T., Gonzalez Estrecha, S., Zhu, R., K. Fisher, C., D'Onofrio, A., Shimizu, C., Janowicz, K., Schildhauer, M., Stephen, S., Rehberger, D., Li, W., & Hitzler, P. (2022). Knowledge explorer: exploring the 12-billion-statement KnowWhereGraph using faceted search (demo paper). in M. Renz, M. Sarwat, M. A. Nascimento, S. Shekhar, & X. Xie (Hrsg.), 30th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2022 [73] https://doi.org/10.1145/3557915.3561009


Ding, Y., Sheth, A., Janowicz, K., Baranzini, S., Israni, S., Altintas, I., Yeghiazarian, L., Young, E., & Klein, S. (2022). International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs: Open Knowledge Network. in KDD '22: Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (S. 4864-4865). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3534678.3542899


Janowicz, K., Hitzler, P., Li, W., Rehberger, D., Schildhauer, M., Zhu, R., Shimizu, C., K. Fisher, C., Cai, L., Mai, G., Zalewski, J., Zhou, L., Stephen, S., Gonzalez Estrecha, S., Mecum, B., Lopez-Carr, A., Schroeder, A., Smith, D., Wright, D., ... Currier, K. (2022). Know, Know Where, KnowWhereGraph: A densely connected, cross‐domain knowledge graph and geo‐enrichment service stack for applications in environmental intelligence. AI Magazine, 43(1), 30-39. https://doi.org/10.1002/aaai.12043


Goodchild, M., Appelbaum, R., Crampton, J., Herbert, W., Janowicz, K., Kwan, M-P., Michael, K., Alvarez León, L., Bennett, M., Cole, D., Currier, K., Fast, V., Hirsch, J., Kattenbeck, M., Kedron, P., Kerski, J., Liu, Z., Nelson, T., Shulruff, T., ... Langham, G. (2022). A white paper on locational information and the public interest. https://doi.org/10.14433/2017.0113

Cai, L., Janowicz, K., & Zhu, R. (2022). Automatically Discovering Conceptual Neighborhoods Using Machine Learning Methods. in T. Ishikawa, S. I. Fabrikant, & S. Winter (Hrsg.), 15th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2022) (S. 1-14). [3] Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik GmbH. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) Band 240 https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2022.3


Keynote: GeoAI-based Context Modeling for Location-Based Services

Krzysztof Janowicz (Keynote speaker)

20 Nov. 2023

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Spatial Data Science: Geographic Context Matters

Krzysztof Janowicz (Vortragende*r)

23 Okt. 2023

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Knowledge Graphs and GeoAI: Uniting Symbolic and Subsymbolic Traditions (Beijing)

Krzysztof Janowicz (Invited speaker)

10 Aug. 2023

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Knowledge Graphs and GeoAI: Uniting Symbolic and Subsymbolic Traditions

Krzysztof Janowicz (Invited speaker)

7 Aug. 2023

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KnowWhereGraph: Developing and Deploying a Web-Scale Knowledge Graph for Environmental Intelligence

Krzysztof Janowicz (Invited speaker)

9 Mai 2023

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KnowWhereGraph in a Nutshell

Krzysztof Janowicz (Invited speaker)

13 Jan. 2023

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KnowWhereGraph Intro and Demo

Krzysztof Janowicz (Invited speaker)

20 Okt. 2022

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Interview with Renée Sieber

Krzysztof Janowicz (Autor*in)

2022

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Introducing the KnowWhereGraph

Krzysztof Janowicz (Invited speaker)

2022

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Is Knowledge a Graph?

Krzysztof Janowicz (Keynote speaker)

2022

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Know, Know Where, KnowWhereGraph

Krzysztof Janowicz (Invited speaker)

2022

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Knowledge Graphs and Disaster Mitigation

Krzysztof Janowicz (Vortragende*r)

2022

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Knowledge Graphs and Disaster Mitigation

Krzysztof Janowicz (Invited speaker)

2022

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KnowWhereGraph: Developing and Deploying a Web-Scale Knowledge Graph for Environmental Intelligence

Krzysztof Janowicz (Invited speaker)

2022

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Using knowledge graphs to increase situational awareness and resilience

Krzysztof Janowicz (Invited speaker)

2022

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When Knowledge Graphs Meet Geographic Information Systems

Krzysztof Janowicz (Keynote speaker)

2022

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Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung

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