Hello! I am Jina Kim (κΉμ§λ in Korean), a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota, where I work with Prof. Yao-Yi Chiang in the Knowledge Computing Lab.
My research lies in spatial artificial intelligence, advancing both foundational machine learning methods and real-world geospatial applications.
I develop systems that use large and diverse geographic data sources, including structured spatial datasets, human mobility trajectories, and textual information, to better understand human-environment interactions.
I am also interested in evaluating technology beyond accuracy, using social science approaches to study its real-world impact and usefulness.
For more information about my research experience, please see my Curriculum Vitae.
I obtained my Master's degree in Interaction Science from Sungkyunkwan University under Prof. Eunil Park's supervision where I found my passion in conducting interdisciplinary research to solve real-world problems.
During my Master's, I have completed the Intensive Artificial Intelligence Program offered by the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
Before that I received my Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Hansung University.
About
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- [Nov. 2025] At ACM SIGSPATIAL 2025, I presented StreetLens in GeoHCC and RegionContext in UrbanAI, and co-authored trajectory mining papers in GeoAnomalies and GeoGenAgent. Our team lin2kimchi won 7th place in GISCUP! I had the pleasure of serving as BPC co-chair, co-organizing networking events, and also co-organized a lab gathering for the SIGSPATIAL community.π
- [June 2025] I co-organized workshop "Capturing Human Perception of Neighborhoods Using Online Data with Language and Vision Models" at UCGIS 2025. Very excited to introduce researcher-configurable workflow, StreetLens!π
- [Apr. 2025] Our interactive map exploring local characteristics was selected for the Map Gallery at the 2025 Big Ten GIS Conference!π Check it out here.
- [Mar. 2025] I presented our ongoing work, "Points of Interest Data Contextualization Using a Spatial Language Model for Learning Functional Roles of Regions," at the GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium during the 2025 AAG Annual Meeting.
- [Jan. 2025] I'm excited to be co-teaching CSCI 5523: Introduction to Data Mining, a graduate-level course, this Spring 2025!
- [Oct. 2024] At ACM SIGSPATIAL 2024, I presented our paper, "Context-Aware Trajectory Anomaly Detection," as the second author at the 1st GeoAnomalies workshop! I had the great pleasure of co-organizing a DEI networking event, serving as a judge for the Student Research Competition, and leading a book giveaway event.π
- [July 2024] I won the Best Overall Map at the 2024 U-Spatial Mapping Prize! Check out our award-winning map, "City Harmony: Exploring Shared Urban Characteristics."
- [June 2024] I am very excited to join the Video Intelligence Platform team at Amazon as an Applied Scientist Intern this summer! I will contribute to developing multimodal models on video understanding.
- [Mar. 2024] I will serve as one of the very first members of the ACM SIGSPATIAL's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).π
- [Nov. 2023] I won the first place in the Student Research Competition at the ACM SIGSPATIAL '23, with my research titled "Towards Learning of Spatial Triad from Online Text." My undergraduate intern, Rhett Olson, also won the first place in the undergraduate track!π
- [Nov. 2023] I will attend the ACM SIGSPATIAL '23 for participating the Student Research Competition, presenting the mapKurator system, and organizing SpatialW networking event!
- [Aug. 2023] I attended DARPA CriticalMAAS project kick-off meeting held in the National Conservation Training Center. I am super excited to contribute to representation learning techniques capturing spatial characteristics!
- [Apr. 2023] My poster on meaningful representations from multimodal spatial data won first place for the best poster award at SIAM SDM '23!π Thanks to whom enjoyed my poster pitch and voted for my research.π€ Link to the poster.
- [Apr. 2023] SIAM SDM '23 is approaching! I will co-organize the networking session for the underrepresented groups and moderate a panel at the doctoral forum.
- [Apr. 2023] I presented our mapKurator pipeline at the David Rumsey Map Center in Stanford. Link to the recordings.
- [Mar. 2023] I will co-organize a session and have presentations in the GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium at 2023 AAG Annual Meeting! Check out details via the program file.
- [Nov. 2022] SpatialW official website is released! We have several Board of Directors positions available. Please check out the details via the website.π€
- [Oct. 2022] I am excited to co-organize the first networking event for female graduate students at SIGSPATIAL '22! Please fill out the survey form if you're interested in!
- [Oct. 2022] Our spatial language model SpaBERT paper was accepted to EMNLP '22 findings!π
- [Oct. 2022] I won the travel grant from SIGSPATIAL '22. I look forward to meeting you all in-person in Seattle in November!
- [Sep. 2022] I presented our mapKurator pipeline and results of Sanborn fire insurance maps at the Library of Congress.π
- [June 2022] I won the first place poster award at the UCGIS Symposium '22!π
- [May 2022] I am super excited to co-organize "Reading and Linking Place: Text on Historical Maps" workshop at the UCGIS Symposium '22. I will also be presenting the poster in-person!π
- [Apr. 2022] Our two extended abstracts were accepted to Spatial Humanities '22. The link to the papers will be released soon!
- [Mar. 2022] Machines Reading Maps has started a new collaboration with the David Rumsey Map Collection.π
- [Nov. 2021] I received the 2nd prize in the High-Potential Individuals Global Training Program Achievement Award from the Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea.π
- [Nov. 2021] I will serve as a student volunteer at the SIGSPATIAL '21!
- [Aug. 2021] I am thrilled to join Machines Reading Maps project! I look forward to contributing my skills and collaborating with amazing team members.π€
- [Jun. 2021] Our dx-SKKU&Raon team won a second prize in Fake-EmoReact challenge hosted by SocialNLP @ NAACL '21!
- [Mar. 2021] I decided to pursue my doctoral study at the University of Minnesotaβs CS&E!
- [Feb. 2021] Bibliometric analysis paper on mental health and machine learning in social media was accepted in Journal of Medical Internet Research!
- [Feb. 2021] Our paper on capturing customers' repeat visits through hybrid approaches was finally accepted in Data Technologies and Applications!
- [Jan. 2021] Honored to attend the Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) 2021! Thank you NRF of Korea for the nomination.
- [Jan. 2021] Our paper on book recommendation was accepted in the Electronic Library.π
- [Dec. 2020] Successfully defended my Master's thesis! Thanks to everyone who has supported me throughout this journey.π
Publications / Preprints
[2026]
Jiyoon Pyo, Yuankun Jiao, Dongwon Jung, Zekun Li, Leeje Jang, Sofia Kirsanova, Jina Kim, Yijun Lin, Qin Liu, Junyi Xie, Hadi Askari, Nan Xu, Muhao Chen, Yao-Yi Chiang. (2026).
ICLR '26.
[2025]
Jina Kim, Leeje Jang, Yao-Yi Chiang, Guanyu Wang, Michelle Pasco. (2025).
ACM SIGSPATIAL GeoHCC '25 Workshop. [Demo & Code]
Jina Kim, Yao-Yi Chiang. (2025).
ACM SIGSPATIAL UrbanAI '25 Workshop. [Code]
Yijun Lin, Fandel Lin, Jina Kim, Yao-Yi Chiang. (2025).
ACM SIGSPATIAL GISCUP '25 Workshop. [Code]
Junyi Xie, Jina Kim, Yao-Yi Chiang, Lingyi Zhao, Khurram Shafique. (2025).
ACM SIGSPATIAL GeoAnomalies '25 Workshop.
Junyi Xie, Yuankun Jiao, Jina Kim, Yao-Yi Chiang, Lingyi Zhao, Khurram Shafique. (2025).
ACM SIGSPATIAL GeoGenAgent '25 Workshop.
Yuhao Kang, Chenglong Wang, Yu Feng, Guillaume Touya, Jina Kim. (2025).
In GeoAI and Human Geography: The Dawn of a New Spatial Intelligence Era, pp. 219-237, Springer.
[2024]
Haoji Hu, Jina Kim, Jinwei Zhou, Sofia Kirsanova, Janghyeon Lee, Yao-Yi Chiang. (2024).
ACM SIGSPATIAL GeoAnomalies '24 Workshop.
Rhett M Olson, Jina Kim, Yao-Yi Chiang. (2024).
ACM SIGSPATIAL GeoSearch '24 Workshop.
[2023]
Yao-Yi Chiang, Muhao Chen, Weiwei Duan, Jina Kim, Craig A. Knoblock, Stefan Leyk, Zekun Li, Yijun Lin, Min Namgung, Basel Shbita, Johannes H. Uhl (2023).
In Handbook of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence, pp. 217-247, CRC Press.
Jina Kim, Yao-Yi Chiang. (2023).
ACM SIGSPATIAL '23 Student Research Competition. First Place in the Graduate Category
Rhett M Olson, Jina Kim, Yao-Yi Chiang. (2023).
ACM SIGSPATIAL '23 Student Research Competition. First Place in the Undergraduate Category
Jina Kim, Zekun Li, Yijun Lin, Min Namgung, Leeje Jang, Yao-Yi Chiang. (2023).
ACM SIGSPATIAL '23 Demo Paper.
Seungpeel Lee, Jina Kim, Dongjae Kim, Ki Joon Kim, Eunil Park. (2023).
Applied Mathematics and Computation, 458, 128219. (SCIE, JCR 2022 IF=4.000)
Seungpeel Lee, Jina Kim, Eunil Park. (2023).
Telematics and Informatics, 78, 101948. (SSCI, JCR 2021 IF=9.140)
[2022]
Zekun Li, Jina Kim, Yao-Yi Chiang, Muhao Chen. (2022).
EMNLP '22 Findings.
Jiwon Kang, Jina Kim, Migyeong Yang, Eunil Park, Minsam Ko, Munyoung Lee, Jinyoung Han. (2022).
Quality & Quantity, 56, 1481β1502. (SSCI)
Eunhye Kim, Honggeun Ji, Jina Kim, Eunil Park. (2022).
Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 21(6), 2503-2510. (A&HCI, SCIE, JCR 2020 IF=0.692)
Honggeun Ji, Jina Kim, Syjung Hwang, Eunil Park. (2022).
Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, 34(1), 593-607. (SCIE, JCR 2021 IF=3.401)
Jina Kim, Eunil Park. (2022).
Behaviour & Information Technology, 41(3), 547-557. (SSCI, JCR 2020 IF=3.086)
Soyoung Oh, Honggeun Ji, Jina Kim, Eunil Park, Angel P.del Pobil. (2022).
Information Technology & Tourism, 24, 109-126. (SSCI, JCR 2020 IF=2.449)
Honggeun Ji, Soyoung Oh, Jina Kim, Seong Choi, Eunil Park. (2022).
Computers, Materials & Continua, 70(1), 669-678. (SCIE, JCR 2020 IF=3.772)
[2021]
Jina Kim**, Yeonju Jang**, Kunwoo Bae, Soyoung Oh, Nam Jeong Jeong, Eunil Park, Jinyoung Han, Angel P.del Pobil. (2021).
Data Technologies and Applications, 55(4), 542-557. (SSCI, JCR 2020 IF=1.667)
Seungpeel Lee, Honggeun Ji, Jina Kim*, Eunil Park. (2021).
The Electronic Library, 39(1), 137-151. (SSCI, JCR 2020 IF=1.453)
Jina Kim, Daeun Lee, Eunil Park. (2021).
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(3), e24870. (SCIE, JCR 2020 IF=5.428)
Jina Kim, Honggeun Ji, Soyoung Oh, Syjung Hwang, Eunil Park, Angel P.del Pobil. (2021).
Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 59, 102381. (SSCI, JCR 2020 IF=7.135)
[2020]
Syjung Hwang, Jina Kim, Eunil Park, Sang Jib Kwon. (2020).
Journal of Business Research, 121, 121-126. (SSCI, JCR 2020 IF=7.550)
Jina Kim, Jieon Lee, Eunil Park, Jinyoung Han. (2020).
Scientific Reports, 10, 11846. (SCIE, JCR 2020 IF=4.379) [Dataset]
Jina Kim, Soyeon Shin, Kunwoo Bae, Soyoung Oh, Eunil Park, Angel P.del Pobil. (2020).
Telematics and Informatics, 55, 101452. (SSCI, JCR 2020 IF=6.182)
Soyoung Oh, Jina Kim, Honggeun Ji, Eunil Park, Jinyoung Han, Minsam Ko, Munyoung Lee. (2020).
Telematics and Informatics, 55, 101434. (SSCI, JCR 2020 IF=6.182)
[2019]
Jina Kim, Kunwoo Bae, Eunil Park, Angel P.del Pobil. (2019).
CSCW 2019 Extended Abstracts.
Eunil Park, Yeonju Jang, Jina Kim, Nam Jeong Jeong, Kunwoo Bae, Angel P.del Pobil. (2019).
Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 51, 186-190. (SSCI, JCR 2019 IF=4.219)
Jina Kim, Eunil Park. (2019).
Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 49, 114-119. (SSCI, JCR 2019 IF=4.219)
Fun Projects
Drone Live Video Streaming Solution using Raspberry PI HIFLY Team Project [Video]
We implemented a streaming system which can forward live video stream to multiple users from a Phantom4, a drone made by DJI. Also, we constructed the streaming server on Raspberry Pi 3 board for high mobility. The video stream can be played on any devices if the HTML5 standard web browser is utilized.
Drone Live Video Streaming Solution using Raspberry PI
Education
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, USA
Sungkyunkwan University Seoul, Republic of Korea
Hansung University Seoul, Republic of Korea
Work Experience
Seattle, USA
Seoul, Republic of Korea
Daejeon, Republic of Korea