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I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Department of Geo-Information Processing (GIP), Enschede, The Netherlands.

My primary research interest has been in the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and geodata processing (or GeoAI, in short). During Ph.D., I worked on solutions based on semantic web concepts/technologies and AI to generate geodata processing workflows automatically. After the Ph.D., I extended my research further into the spatial data science and big data processing fields, where I have been using machine learning (ML) for spatio-temporal modeling in different application areas, including environmental monitoring, analysis and assessment, disaster management, and spatial epidemiology. I exploited big data processing technologies and deep learning (DL) methods to extract information from the massive amount of spatial data collected for environmental phenomena. I have also been working on geospatial social media analysis using ML methods and am interested in exploiting new technologies like blockchain and distributed ledgers to tackle the need for security and accountability in the geospatial domain.

Currently, I am working in the following directions:

- Spatial and spatio-temporal effects in modeling using ML/DL

- eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

- Spatial data fusion

- MLOps and automation of geoprocessing workflows

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Publications

2024

Modeling spatiotemporal domestic wastewater variability: Implications for measuring treatment efficiency, Article 119680. DelaPaz-Ruíz, N., Augustijn, E.-W., Farnaghi, M. & Zurita-Milla, R.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119680

2023

Event detection from geotagged tweets considering spatial autocorrelation and heterogeneity, 353-371. Ghaemi, Z. & Farnaghi, M.https://doi.org/10.1080/14498596.2021.2002201Using machine learning techniques in multi-hazards assessment of Golestan National Park, Iran, 3231-3255. Faramarzi, H., Hosseini, S. M., Pourghasemi, H. R. & Farnaghi, M.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-023-05984-1Spatiotemporal domestic wastewater variability: Assessing implications of population mobility in pollutants dynamics, Article 23. DelaPaz-Ruíz, N., Augustijn, E.-W., Farnaghi, M. & Zurita-Milla, R.https://doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-4-23-2023

2022

FLCSS: A fuzzy-based longest common subsequence method for uncertainty management in trajectory similarity measures, 2244-2262. Boroumand, F., Alesheikh, A. A., Sharif, M. & Farnaghi, M.https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12958Spatiotemporal data partitioning for distributed random forest algorithm: Air quality prediction using imbalanced big spatiotemporal data on spark distributed framework, Article 102776. Asgari, M., Yang, W. & Farnaghi, M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eti.2022.102776Teaching GeoPython in a Geo-information Master ProgrammeIn GeoPython 2022. Köbben, B., de By, R. A., Farnaghi, M., Kabano, P. & Ohuru, R. O.https://submit.geopython.net/geopython-2022/talk/RJTSKT/

2021

A versatile Cloud Computing environment to facilitate African-European partnership in research: EO AFRICA R&D Innovation Lab. Adam, F., Leclair, R., Mora, B., Stancioi, N., Roth, T., Farnaghi, M., Girgin, S. & Vekerdy, Z.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6606914Spatiotemporally explicit earthquake prediction using deep neural network, Article 106663, 1-11. Yousefzadeh, M., Hosseini, S. A. & Farnaghi, M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soildyn.2021.106663An ecological study of chronic kidney disease in five Mesoamerican countries: associations with crop and heat, Article 840, 1-10. Hansson, E., Mansourian, A., Farnaghi, M., Petzold, M. & Jakobsson, K.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10822-9

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Courses academic year 2023/2024

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Courses academic year 2022/2023

Address

University of Twente

Langezijds (building no. 19), room 1338
Hallenweg 8
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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