Name: SIGSPATIAL2025 @ Minneapolis, MN, USA
Start: 2025-11-04T15:00:00.000Z
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

At the 33rd International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2025 (SIGSPATIAL 2025) held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA from November 3rd-6th, 2025, our laboratory presented research papers and won Student Research Competition Awards. The presentation titles are as follows. Students from American University in Cairo, supervised by Associate Professor Hamada Rizk, won awards in the Student Research Competition.

Publications

MobText-SISA: Efficient Machine Unlearning for Mobility Logs with Spatio-Temporal and Natural-Language Data

Haruki Yonekura, Ren Ozeki, Tatsuya Amano, Hamada Rizk, Hirozumi Yamaguchi

In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL '25). pp. 1186–1189.

DetailsDOI:10.1145/3748636.3763226Related Project:地域を支える知のデジタライゼーションと共有基盤

GeoDrive: Cross-City Autonomous Driving through Meta-Learning and LLMs

Mostafa Gaafar (AUC), Ali Elaswad (AUC), Hamada Rizk, Moustafa Youssef

SIGSPATIAL 2025 SRC 1st Place

CSI-Mamba: Lightweight Indoor Localization For Unmanned Vehicles Using Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation

Mohab Bahnassy (AUC), Omar Saqr (AUC), Hamada Rizk, Moustafa Youssef

SIGSPATIAL 2025 SRC 3rd Place

This year, the acceptance rates for the Tracks in SIGSPATIAL2025 were informed as below.

Acceptance Rates

Track	Acceptance Rate
Research Track	50 full papers (25.1% out of 199 submissions) and 26 short papers
Vision Papers Track	8 accepted papers (26.7% out of 30 submissions)
Demo Track	20 accepted papers (48.8% out of 41 submissions)
Application Track	15 full papers (28.3% out of 53 submissions) and 15 short papers
Industry Track	8 accepted papers (57.1% out of 14 submissions)
Short Papers Track	22 accepted papers (28.9% out of 76 submissions)