
Purdue GIS Day Presentations
2025
Integrating AI across GIS
Gregory Brunner
Principal Data Scientist
Esri
Who Gets the Water? Historical Patterns of Water Access and Agriculture in United States
Kavitha Srikanth
Graduate student
Mapping Magical Realism: GeoAI and the Spatial Imagination of Cien Años de Soledad
Sophia Pimentel
Undergraduate student
A Conceptual Framework for Structuring the Application of Public Participation GIS
Mingyu Zhao
Graduate student
A Multi-Scalar GeoAI Approach: Integrating Climate Vulnerability and Remote Sensing for Sustainable Heritage Management at Old Oyo, Nigeria
Ovie Agezeh
Graduate student
Anthropology
An Accessible ArcGIS Experience Builder Site for Indiana’s Watershed Information
Claire Middendorf
Undergraduate student
Environmental and Ecological Engineering
Quantifying Tree Height Variation Using UAV and Airborne Lidar
Jean Fritz Saint Preux
Graduate student
Predicting Soil Health Parameters at Field Scale Using Geospatial Analytics
Lizeng Zhao
Graduate student
Geospatial Modeling of Spatiotemporal Variability in Farm-Scale Soil Organic Matter Dynamics
Amiyra Kalra
Graduate student
College of Agriculture
GIS-Based Multi-Criteria Decision Framework for Optimal Solar PV Site Selection in Transportation Infrastructure and Right-of-Way
Dahyun Oh
Graduate student
Construction Management Technology
Centimeter-resolution imaging spectroscopy predicts vegetation succession across Retrogressive Thaw Slumps in northern Alaska
Emma Hall
Graduate student
AI-Hydro: Unlocking GeoAI for Intelligent and Reproducible Hydrologic Data Science
Mohammad Galib
Graduate student
Mapping the Human Imprint on Flood Extremes across United States: A Continental-Scale Geospatial Analysis of Non-Stationarity in Peakflow
Joseph Jibin
Graduate student
Evaluating Different Soil Health Parameters for Edge-of-Field Water Quality
Dipesh Giri
Graduate student
Prediction of Storm Surge and Waves on Evolving Landscapes under Climate Change
Mohammad Ahmadi
Graduate student
Mapping Basin-Scale Potential Alongshore Sediment Transport and Imbalance (ΔQ) Around Lake Michigan, 1979–2023
Muhammad N. Sahvelet
Graduate student
Characterizing forest structural and foliar trait diversity relationships across spatial scales and climate gradients in the eastern United States
Zack Horve
Graduate student
Highways and Dead-Ends of Using Open-Source GIS Data for the Selection of Emergency Landing Sites for Urban Cargo Delivery UAVs
Zofia Stawlarska
Graduate student
Exploring GeoAI Extensions in QGIS: A Comparative Analysis for Smart Mapping
Diana Febrita
Graduate student
Project oCEANIC – Computing Environmental Adaptation and Navigation in Island Communities
Marlo Weber
Undergraduate student
Evaluation of Connected Vehicle Pavement Roughness Data for Statewide Needs Assessment
Andrew Thompson
Undergraduate student
Trait-integrated Joint Species Distribution Modeling of Selected Quercus spp. across the Contiguous United States
Ananda Adhikari
Graduate student
Fire Evaluation Reconnaissance and Direction Analysis (FERDA)
Abhishek Kaushikkar
Undergraduate student
Using GIS Across the Solar System to Unlock the Geologic History of Planets
Ali Bramson
Assistant Professor of Planetary Sciences
Purdue University
Data to Science: Open source ecosystem for GeoAI
Jinha Jung
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Geomatics
Purdue University
QGIS on HPC Clusters
Xiao Liu
Senior Research Software Engineer at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing
Purdue University
Geospatial on AWS
David Conklin, Solutions Architect
Brian DeKemper, Enterprise Account Executive
Luke Coady, Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Hamilton County’s GeoAI Journey – 2024 Basemap Update Project Acquisition to Application
Joan Keene
GIS Director
Hamilton County, Indiana Government
GIS at the State of Indiana: The Role of the Indiana Geographic Information Office
Daniel Council, Geographic Information Outreach Coordinator
Shaun Scholer, GIS Technical Specialist (Programs and Outreach)
Indiana Geographic Information Office



























