Summary
Levente Juhász is an Assistant Professor of Geospatial Analytics at the University of Florida and director of the GATOR Lab, bringing 11 years of interdisciplinary experience at the nexus of GIScience, GeoAI and data-driven decision support. He has led funded research and applied projects on crowdsourced mapping, data quality, sea-level rise impacts and transportation resiliency, securing over $600K as PI and co-PI while translating results into practical tools and workshops. Prior roles include Research Associate Professor and Assistant Director of GIScience at Florida International University and industry experience as a data scientist at Mapillary, reflecting fluency across research, operations and product-focused analytics. A committed open-science advocate, he emphasizes reproducible workflows and community-centered data practices that improve trust and usability of geospatial models. Based in Miami, his work blends rigorous geomatics training (PhD) with hands-on engineering of data pipelines and visualization, and he’s as comfortable writing GeoAI code as he is mentoring students and partners. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of bridging short-term visiting research stints in Europe with long-term institutional leadership to accelerate international collaboration in geospatial science.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Geoinformatics, Master of Science (MSc) Geoinformatics at University of Szeged
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Geomatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Geomatics at University of Florida
Hungarian, English, Spanish