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Dr Stef De Sabbata

Associate Professor of Geographical Information Science

Stef De Sabbata

School/Department: Geography Geology and The Environment, School of

Telephone: +44 (0)116 252 3812

Email: s.desabbata@leicester.ac.uk

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Stef De Sabbata is an Associate Professor of Geographical Information Science at the School of Geography Geology and the Environment, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Digital Culture, and Turing liaison (academic) of the University of Leicester. Her research focuses on geographical artificial intelligence (GeoAI), including the development of spatially-explicit approaches to urban analytics and the study and use of large language models, foundation models and generative artificial intelligence in geography and cultural analytics. One of her main current lines of research focuses on developing spatially-explicit approaches to urban analytics. In 2021, she organised a session at the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society with IBG, which sparked discussions and collaborations that finally led her to be the lead guest editor for a special issue of the International Journal of Geographical Information Science on GeoAI in Urban Analytics, including her paper on using graph neural networks in geodemographic classification. She also co-organised the International Workshop on Geospatial Knowledge Graphs and GeoAI at GIScience 2023, where she presented my work on graph neural networks to study urban form

Stef De Sabbata is the Chair of the Geographic Information Science Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society with IBG. She is also part of the steering committee of GIScience Research UK (GISRUK), the chair of the GISRUK 2018 conference, and a member of the Commission on Location-Based Services of the International Cartographic Association.

Before joining the University of Leicester in 2015, Stef De Sabbata was a Researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute of the University of Oxford (2013-2015) and a Junior Research Fellow at the Wolfson College of the University of Oxford (2014-2015), and thereafter, a Research Associate of the Oxford Internet Institute of the University of Oxford (2015-2021). She was awarded a PhD from the Department of Geography of the University of Zurich in 2013 and a BSc and an MSc in computer science from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Udine.

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