Professor Matt Duckham
Director, Enabling Impact Platform (Information in Society)
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College: Research & Innovation Capability
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Department: Research & Innovation Capability
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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matt.duckham@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Media enquiries
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Industry Projects
- Collaborative projects
- Join a web conference as a panellist or speaker
About
Matt is a Professor in Geospatial Sciences and Director, Information in Society EIP (Enabling Impact Platform) at RMIT University.
He’s an author of the widely used GIS text book GIS: A Computing Perspective, now in its third edition (https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429168093), and a founding editor of the Journal of Spatial Information Science (JOSIS).
Matt has previously worked at the University of Melbourne, as a Professor in GIScience and as an Australian Research Council ARC Future Fellow, and at the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) at the University of Maine, USA. He is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Director (GAICD).
Media
Research fields
- 460206 Knowledge representation and reasoning
- 460106 Spatial data and applications
- 401302 Geospatial information systems and geospatial data modelling
UN sustainable development goals
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
- 17 Partnerships for the Goals
Academic positions
- Director Information in Society EIP (Enabling Impact Patform)
- RMIT University
- Research and Innovation
- Melbourne, Australia
- Feb 2021 – Present
- Acting Dean, STEMM Diversity and Inclusion
- RMIT University
- STEM College
- Melbourne, Australia
- Oct 2020 – Jan 2021
- Associate Dean, Geospatial Science
- RMIT University
- School of Science
- Melbourne, Australia
- Jun 2015 – Sep 2020
- Professor, Geospatial Science
- RMIT University
- School of Science
- Melbourne, Australia
- Jun 2015 – Present
- Professor in GIS
- University of Melbourne
- Dept Infrastructure Engineering
- Melbourne, Australia
- Jan 2015 – Jun 2015
- Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor in GIS
- University of Melbourne
- , Australia
- Jun 2004 – Dec 2014
Supervisor projects
- The dynamic linkage of climate extremes to urban heat island in Melbourne: Evaluation using mesoscale and microscale models
- 14 Feb 2024
- Update and revision of dynamic transportation networks using Geo AI
- 21 Nov 2023
- Transparent and Reusable Semantic Data Enrichment for Critical Spatial Data Sets
- 13 Nov 2023
- Enhanced geo-spatial data analytics with large language models
- 6 Oct 2023
- Developing a 3D predictive model of urban growth
- 23 Jul 2020
- Geospatially Enabled Scientific Workflows for Reproducible Environmental Modeling and Decision Support
- 5 Oct 2019
- Evaluating Visualization for Emergency Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
- 12 Feb 2018
- Decentralized Algorithms for Monitoring Moving Objects with Geosensor Networks
- 1 Dec 2015
- Rapid Movement Analytics for Checkpoint Data
- 20 Jul 2015
Teaching interests
Supervisor interest areas:
- Geo AI
- Qualitative spatial reasoning
- Geovisualisation
- Geo AI
- Qualitative spatial reasoning
- Geovisualisation
Research interests
Matt's research in to spatial algorithms, geovisualisation, and geospatial AI (“geoAI”) connects strongly with practical and industry applications in areas such as emergency response, defence, transportation, and environmental monitoring.
Research keywords: GeoAI; spatial algorithms; spatial databases; knowledge graphs; ontology engineering; qualitative spatial reasoning; GI science.
Research keywords: GeoAI; spatial algorithms; spatial databases; knowledge graphs; ontology engineering; qualitative spatial reasoning; GI science.
