The GIS Unit recently collaborated with Grab on a publicity session promoting Grab’s GeoStars Program. The GeoStars programme was designed specifically to help students across the region develop an understanding of key mapping skills and empower them to eventually conduct their own workshops for others in the community, under the framework of humanitarian efforts. Sign […]
Read MoreJob Opening Repost: Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale-NUS College Yale-NUS College is seeking to hire a Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer Science. The college is looking for a talented and ambitious investigator to join the research group of Asst. Prof. Michael T. Gastner to work on an exciting project funded by the Singapore Ministry of Education titled […]
Read MoreFeel tremors under your feet or watch an ocean bed split open: VR tech brings geography lessons to life! We are pleased to share the latest updates of A/P Feng’s earthquake VR project supported by Learning Innovation Fund – Technology (LIF-T) Click on the link below to read the full article as published on NUS […]
Read MoreCongratulations to our master students Andrea Law, Chua Wee Han, Shermaine Neo, and So Hoi Kay who are the Singapore National Level winners of the ASEAN Geospatial Challenge 2022! They will now proceed to compete with other ASEAN teams in the region. Learn more here. Find out more about the ASEAN Geospatial Challenge 2022
Read MoreThe One Health & Outbreak Surveillance Symposium 2021 is organised by the Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Research (CIDER), under the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health in partnership with the NUS Department of Geography. Several international GIS and spatial health professors are invited to speak in the plenary sessions. Dr Luo Wei […]
Read MoreThe field of computational social science has gained much traction in recent years with the widespread availability of big data and profound leaps in computational power and methods, leading to ground-breaking impacts on social science research by academics and its policy implications for societies and nations. The Global Forum of Computational Social Science, jointly organized […]
Read MoreDr. Luo Wei will present the research on “Revealing public opinion towards COVID-19 vaccines with Twitter data in the United States” in the special session on Geographical Computing of Infectious Diseases in the 17th China Geoinformation Science Theory and Method Academic Annual Conference. The conference will be held in Hangzhou from October 15 to 17, 2021. […]
Read MoreThe Department of Geography and everyone at the GIS Unit would like to extend our congratulations to Dr Yan Yingwei, who has recently been awarded a Learning Innovation Fund – Technology (LIF-T) grant to support development of “Introduction to GIS” as a blended learning module. Technology-enhanced Learning at NUS aims to provide a distinctive and […]
Read MoreFrom 6-17 September, Associate Professor Wang Yi-Chen from NUS Geography GIS Unit participated in the Regional Geospatial Youth Forum: GeoEducation I session to share geospatial education in NUS and career opportunities in Singapore, also in the forum as moderator is Mr Josef Tan, an alumnus of MSc in Applied GIS Programme. It was a really […]
Read MoreThe Singapore Land Authority (SLA) is organising the ASEAN Geospatial Challenge 2022: Geospatial Youths Edition (AGC 22), to bring youths in the ASEAN region together to use geospatial technology and information to support cities/ nations in achieving their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). AGC 22 is targeted at students from Institutes of Higher Learning (IHLs) in the ASEAN region. […]
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