I am currently one of the principal investigators of the EIG EU-Japan project SO-SMART (A proactive Social-based framework for SMART transportation) whose objective is to co-design, in collaboration with stakeholders, an innovative commputing infrastructure and services that leverage current transportation services in the island of Okinawa.
Amongst other affiliations, I am a research fellow at the Machine Learning and Data Science Unit at the Okinawa Institute, Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan, the UrbanDataLab of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, Department of Geography of the Université du Québec à Montréal, and the Institute of Geographic Sciences at the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing. Previously, I have been an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and a former research fellow at Laval University in Québec, Shanghai Maritime University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, K.N Toosi University in Iran, Hyogo University in Japan.
I am an associate editor of the International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS) which provides a forum for the exchange of original ideas, approaches, methods and experiences in the rapidly growing field of geographical information science (GIScience). I serve in the editorial boards of the Journal of Spatial Information Science (JOSIS), Journal of location-based services (JLBS), Annals of GIS, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Geo-Spatial Information Science, Geomatics, Revista Cartográfica, Ciencia e Ingenieria Neogranadina, Revista Cuadernos de Geografia, Geofocus.
I am regularly involved with the international conference in Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), I am one of the founders of the Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS) series of symposiums that run on a yearly basis since 2001 and its first event in Kyoto. I am also regularly involved in the program committees of GIScience, ACM SIGSPATIAL (ACMGIS), Spatial and Temporal Data (SSTD), Location-based services (LBS), AGILE on Geographical Information Systems.
My teaching activities include several computer science and computing courses at the engineering and master's levels. I have also developed multiple modules related to my research, covering GIS, LLMs and GIScience, Spatial and temporal theories, maritime GISs and sustainable development.