Rate My Professor Martin Tomko

Martin Tomko is an Associate Professor in Spatial Information in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. He earned his Doctorate (Research) from the University of Melbourne and a Masters (Research) from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. Tomko joined the University of Melbourne as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering from 2016 to 2021, and was promoted to Associate Professor effective January 2022. He leads the Spatial Group research group within the Spatial Information Science discipline, focusing on computational GIScience, spatial data integration, and management.

His research specializations encompass spatial data science, including trajectory analysis, human mobility and movement patterns, urban morphology, spatial networks, and spatial cognition. Tomko investigates methodological approaches to support understanding of human spatial behaviour, such as movement analysis and indoor wayfinding informed by spatial cognition. His work contributes to geographic information systems (GIS) expertise, novel mobility-on-demand systems in urban environments, and projects like interpreting engineering foundations of Budj Bim. Key publications include 'Progress in computational movement analysis – towards understanding movement in forming our environment' (2020, International Journal of Geographical Information Science), 'Map-Matching Error Identification in the Absence of Ground Truth' (2022, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information), and 'A ray intersection model for the analysis of the between relationship of buildings' (2020). In 2022, Tomko was part of the Budj Bim Project Team that received the University of Melbourne Award for Excellence in Place-based Initiatives. He contributes to teaching spatial information programming and data management, and maintains an active presence in the GIScience community through numerous peer-reviewed papers and conference contributions.