Dr. Xin Wang is a Professor and Schulich Research Chair in the Department of Geomatics Engineering at University of Calgary.  She joined the Department of Geomatics Engineering in July 2007. She holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science, MSc. in Software Engineering from Northwest University, China and a Ph.D in Computer Science from University of Regina. Her current research interests are spatial databases and spatial data mining, big spatio-temporal data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning for spatial applications, data mining for transportation, oil and gas, ontology and knowledge engineering in GIS, web GIS and location-based social networks. She was an executive member and treasurer of Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association (CAIAC) from 2015-2021.

Academic Awards and Distinctions

2024     Parex Innovation Fellowship, Parex Resources and University of Calgary

2023     Outstanding Achievement Award, University of Calgary

2023     Best Demo Paper at the 18th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Data 2023.

2023      Distinguished Service Award, Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association (CAIAC).

2023      Outstanding Research Impact Award, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary.

2022      ASTech Award Outstanding Innovation in Digital Technologies Research, Techology Alberta.

2021      Women of Impact Award, Tecterra.

2021      Outstanding Teaching Performance, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary.

2018      Research Achievement Award, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary.

2017     Graduate Educator Award, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary.

2015      Outstanding Teaching Performance, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary.

2012      Nomination for Best Paper Award at the 25th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence

2011      Second Prize at GeoAlberta 2011 Map Gallery, Edmonton, Canada.

2008      Best Paper Award at the 10th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge                          Discovery (DaWaK 2008), Turin, Italy.

2004     Two nominations for Best Paper at the Seventeenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence                            Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2004), Miami, FL.