Yiqun Xie

Assistant Professor
Geospatial Information Science
Affiliate Faculty
Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM)
University of Maryland, College Park

Ph.D in Computer Science
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Email: xie@umd.edu

CV: Xie_CV.pdf

Postdoc

• Ruohan Li, Postdoc, Spring 2024 -
• Zhihao Wang, Postdoc, Summer 2026 -

PhD Students

• Zhili Li, PhD student, Spring 2022 -
• Ruichen Wang, PhD student, Fall 2023 -
• Jiena He, PhD student, Summer 2024 -
• Zhihao Wang, PhD student, Defended in Spring 2026. Current: Postdoc at UMD.
• Shuo Xu, PhD student, Defended in Spring 2026. Current: Postdoc at Cornell.

MS/BS Students

• Xiaoyue Sean Tian, MS student.
• Leo Du, BS student.
• Anh Nhu, BS student. 2023-2024. Current: PhD student, CS, UMD.

Selected Student Awards

• PhD student Zhihao received the Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award from the University of Maryland (campus level)!
• PhD student Zhili received the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship (campus-level)!
• PhD student Shuo received the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship (campus-level)!
• PhD student Zhihao received the NeurIPS 2025 travel grant!
• High school intern Cooper received the Rising Star award from the High School Symposium in IEEE ICDM 2025!
• PhD student Zhili and Ruichen received the ACM SIGSPATIAL travel award!
• PhD student Zhihao received the AAAI Student Scholarship (to attend AAAI 2024)!
• High school intern William received the Best Paper Runner-Up award from the High School Symposium in IEEE BigData 2024!
• High school intern Aayush was selected as one of the 10 poster presenters in the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS) for the Maryland region!
• Undergraduate student Anh was recognized by top finalists for Student Research Competition in ACM SIGSPATIAL 2023!