Advanced Workshop on Building Energy Efficiency

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Michael F. Goodchild

Professor
Department of Geography
University of California, Santa Barbara

Director
Center for Spatial Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara

Chair, Executive Committee,
National Center for Geographic Information & Analysis at the
University of California, Santa Barbara

Keynote Address: Space, Place, and Health

Michael Goodchild is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences and an Editor of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers from 2000 to 2006. His research interests center on geographic information science, spatial analysis, and uncertainty in geographic data. He has published over 15 books and 500 articles.

Prof. Sara McLafferty

Head
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Keynote Address: Beyond Spatial Targeting: Geographic Foundations for Public Health Policy

Sara McLafferty is Head and Professor of the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a prominent health scholar with decades of experience in medical geography, spatial analysis, GIS, and spatial epidemiology. She is currently an Associate Editor of Health and Place and a co-editor of the highly cited book GIS and Public Health. Her current research investigates place-based inequalities in health and well-being and access to health services for women, immigrants and racial/ethnic minorities in the United States.

Prof. Mei-Po Kwan

Professor
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Elected President of CPGIS

Keynote Address: Challenges and Opportunities of Geospatial Data in Environmental Health Research

Mei-Po Kwan is a Professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is currently an Editor of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers and a charter member of the Community Influences on Health Behavior (CIHB) Study Section of NIH’s Center for Scientific Review. She has received about US$20 million support as PI or co-PI from sources including the US National Institutes of Health and the US NSF. Her research interests include environmental health, neighborhood effects, access to healthcare, sustainable travel and cities, and application of geospatial technologies and GIS methods in health research.

Prof. Bert Brunekreef

Professor
Environmental Epidemiology
Utrecht University

Keynote Address: Air Pollution Interventions and Health in Beijing

Bert Brunekreef is currently a Professor of Environmental Epidemiology in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and the Faculty of Medicine at the Utrecht University. He is an expert in the health risk of air pollution and is an outstanding scholar in this area. He has received funding from the EU for several major studies in air pollution, allergy and health. He has served as advisor on national and international panels in the field of environmental health, including the Dutch National Health Council, of which he is a member, WHO and the US EPA. He is co-author of more than 300 peer reviewed journal articles in the field of environmental epidemiology and exposure assessment.

Prof. Shu Tao

Professor and Dean
College of Urban and Environmental Sciences
Peking University

Keynote Address: Emission, Transport, and Exposure Risk of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

Shu Tao, Ph.D. (University of Kansas) is a professor and dean of College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, China, and a member of the Chinese Academy of Science. His current research interests include emission inventory of incomplete combustion products, atmospheric transport and population exposure modeling, indoor air quality, and bioaccessibility of toxic pollutant. At present, he serves as PI of a number of projects supported by National Natural Scientific Foundation of China and Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, and co-PI of a US NIH superfund project on indoor air and human exposure. He has more than 200 papers published in peer-reviewed international journals. He is an advisory board member of ES&T, editorial board members of Environmental Pollutant, Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Environmental Geochemistry and health, and Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, and board members of International Panel on Chemical Pollution and Pacific Basin Consortium for Environmental and Health Sciences.

Prof. Christopher J Webster

Dean
Faculty of Architecture
The University of Hong Kong

Keynote Address: Configuring Healthy Cities

Prof. Chris Webster has degrees in urban planning, computer science, economics and economic geography and is a leading urban theorist and spatial economic modeller. He has published over 150 scholarly papers on the idea of spontaneous urban order and received over US$20M grants for research and teaching and learning projects. He was co-editor of Environment and Planning B for ten years. Books include Webster and Lai (2003) Property Rights, Planning and Markets, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar; Glasze, Webster and Frantz, (2006) Private Cities, London, Routledge; Wu, Webster, He and Liu, (2010) Urban Poverty in China, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar; and Wu and Webster (Editors) Marginalisation in Urban China. London: Palgrave McMillan; and Sarkar, Webster and Gallacher (2014) Healthy Cities: Public Health Through Urban Planning. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Professor Webster has five prize-winning academic papers on urban theory. His present professional mission is to change the way cities are planned in China and his current research agenda is to establish systematic evidence for the relationship between urban configuration (planned and spontaneous) and individual health. He is currently PI on a UK ESRC-funded ‘Transformative Research’ project that is creating 700 built environment morphometrics for each of the 500,000 members of the UK Biobank, the country’s flagship epidemiological study.

Prof. David Berrigan

National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health USA

Keynote Address: Geospatial and Contextual Approaches to Energy Balance and Health

David Berrigan, PhD, MPH, has been a Biologist in the Office of the Associate Director of the Applied Research Program since 2003. He previously served as a Cancer Prevention Fellow with funding from the Division of Cancer Prevention from 1999-2003. Before coming to NCI, he was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the University of Washington and at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, with funding from the National Science Foundation and the USDA. Dr. Berrigan received his PhD in Biology from the University of Utah in 1993, a BA from Reed College in 1983, MS from UC Davis in 1987, and MPH from UC Berkeley in 2000. His recent research has examined energy balance, carcinogenesis, physical activity and acculturation using a mix of animal models, population data, and methodological studies aimed at improving survey data and incorporating GIS tools and data-layers into survey data sets. He has authored or coauthored papers in Science, Carcinogenesis, JNCI, American Naturalist, PNAS, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and some 30 other journals. He has been on the editorial board of the journal Functional Ecology, a reviewer for NIH, NSF NSERC, and other funding agencies, and a peer reviewer for many journals. He was on the program committee for the 2007 Active Living Research Conference, and received NIH Merit Awards in 2004 and 2005. Dr. Berrigan is strongly committed to research aimed at health for all via environments and institutions that foster healthy behaviors, preventive services, and health care regardless of demographic or economic circumstances.

Prof. Zihe Rao

Institute of Biophysics
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Keynote Address: Molecular Mechanism of Entry of Hand-foot-and-mouth Disease (HFMD) Rirus

Zihe Rao is a structural virologist, mainly engaged in the study of the three-dimensional structures of significant proteins and viruses related to human infection disease or with important physiological functions, as well as in innovative drug discovery. He has published more than 280 peer-reviewed papers to date in international scientific journals. Zihe Rao was elected as a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003, a Member of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 2004 and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, in 2011. He was elected the president-elected of IUPAB in 2011.From March 2003 to April 2007, he served as Director-general of the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Director of the National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules.

Prof. George F Gao

Director and Professor
CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology
Institute of Microbiology
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Keynote Address: Migratory Birds, Ecology and Orgin of Avian Influenza Viruses

Professor George F. Gao obtained his Ph.D (DPhil) degree from Oxford University, UK and did his postdoc work in both Oxford University and Harvard University (with a brief stay in Calgary University). He is now the professor and director in CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also the Vice-President of Beijing Institutes of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director-General of Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Vice-President of Chinese Society of Biotechnology. His research interests include enveloped viruses and structural immunology. His group research is now focusing on the influenza virus, Streptococcus suis and the molecular/structural basis of recognition of T cell receptors to peptide-MHC complexes. He has published more than 200 refereed papers, 9 books or book chapters and has applied and obtained 20 UK, US and Chinese patents.

Prof. Yee Leung

Research Professor
Department of Geography and Resource Management
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Keynote Address: Climate Dynamics and Spatial Epidemiology—Theory and Applications

Professor Yee Leung has done pioneer and influential research on imprecision/uncertainty analysis in geography, intelligent spatial decision support systems, geocomputation, and spatial knowledge discovery and data mining. A focus of his research is on the modeling and analysis of environmental systems. He has obtained more than 30 research grants, published six books and over 160 papers in reputed international journals. Professor Leung received the State Natural Science Award with his collaborators in 2007 for achievements in modeling and analysis of geo-referenced and remote sensing information. Part of his recent research interest is in climate variability and spatial epidemiology.

Prof. Jinfeng Wang

Chair Professor
Institute of Geographical Science and Natural Resources
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Keynote Address: Sandwich Mapping of Diseases

Jinfeng Wang is Chair Professor with the State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The main academic contribution of Prof. Wang's research has been in understanding spatial stratified nonhomogeneity and its implications in spatial statistics. The study results in the development of a range of novel spatial statistical methods (with free downloadable software), such as sandwich spatial sampling (www.sssampling.org/), MSN estimation (www.sssampling.org/MSN), B-shade technique for remedy of biased sample (www.sssampling.org/B-shade), single point area estimation (www.sssampling.org/spa), sandwich interpolation on a stratified heterogenous surface (www.sssampling.org/sandwich), geographical detector (www.sssampling.org/excel-geodetector), cities evolution tree. These new tools have being applied to spatial monitoring network design, spatial epidemiology, environmental risk assessment, spatial optimization of resources, etc. Prof. Wang has published thirteen books, near 100 peer-reviewed articles in ISI-listed journals in geography, population health, environmental and social sciences. He currently sits on the editorial boards of Spatial Statistics, Journal of Geographical Systems, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Geographical Analysis (2007-2010), ACTA Geographica Sinca (in Chinese), Journal of Remote Sensing (in Chinese); Prof Wang is president of the Chinese GIS Association Commission on Theory and Methodology (2004-2011), vice chairman of the Academic Committee of Laboratory of Surveillance and Early-warning on Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, member of the Steering Committee of the International Geographical Union Commission on Modeling Geographical Systems.

Prof. Shaowen Wang

Professor
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

President of CPGIS

Keynote Address: CyberGIS for Data-Intensive Health Research

Shaowen Wang is a Professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science (Primary), Computer Science, Library and Information Science, and Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where he is named a Centennial Scholar in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He is also Associate Director for CyberGIS and a Senior Research Scientist of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and Founding Director of the CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies and CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information Laboratory. He holds affiliate appointments within UIUC’s Computational Science and Engineering Graduate Program and Illinois Informatics Institute. He received his BS in Computer Engineering from Tianjin University in 1995, MS in Geography from Peking University in 1998, and MS of Computer Science and PhD in Geography from the University of Iowa in 2002 and 2004 respectively. His research and teaching interests center on three interrelated themes: 1) computational and geographic information sciences; 2) advanced cyberinfrastructure, cyberGIS, and geospatial data science; and 3) multi-scale geospatial problem solving and spatiotemporal analytics. His research has been actively supported by multiple US government agencies and industry. He has published a number of peer-reviewed papers including articles in more than 15 journals. He has served as an Action Editor of GeoInformatica, and guest editor or editorial board member for seven other journals, book series and proceedings. He is serving as the President of the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences. He served on the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science Board of Directors from 2009 to 2012, and was appointed two terms as a Councilor of the Open Science Grid Consortium. He was a visiting scholar at Lund University sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2006 and NCSA Fellow in 2007, and received the NSF CAREER Award in 2009.

Dr. Douglas Richardson

Association of American Geographers, USA

Keynote Address: Creating International Synergies in Geospatial Health Research

Douglas Richardson is the Executive Director of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). During the past ten years, he led a highly successful organizational renewal of the AAG and has built very strong academic, research, publishing, and financial foundations for the organization's future. Prior to joining the AAG, Dr. Richardson founded and for 18 years was the president of GeoResearch, Inc., a private-sector scientific research company specializing in geographic research and technology, including geographic information science and systems (GIS), spatial modeling, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and environmental and natural resources issues. GeoResearch developed and patented the world's first real-time interactive GPS/GIS mapping and data collection technology, leading to pervasive changes in the ways in which geographic information is collected, mapped, integrated, and used within geography, as well as in society at large. The technologies and methods pioneered by GeoResearch are now at the heart of a wide array of real-time interactive mapping, navigation, geographic research and education, mobile computing, military operations, location-based business, and large-scale operations management applications of most major industries and governments. Richardson sold his company and its core patents in 1998. Richardson continues to conduct research and publish across multiple dimensions of geography, ranging from the GISciences to the GeoHumanities, and from Health Research to Environmental Science and Regulatory Programs. Richardson holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Geography from Michigan State University. His current overarching research interests focus on geography's evolution as an international discipline and its future trajectories in the university and in society.



Introduction Committees Speakers Programme Registration Contact Us	Keynote Speakers Prof. Michael F. Goodchild Professor Department of Geography University of California, Santa Barbara Director Center for Spatial Studies University of California, Santa Barbara Chair, Executive Committee, National Center for Geographic Information & Analysis at the University of California, Santa Barbara Keynote Address: Space, Place, and Health Michael Goodchild is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences and an Editor of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers from 2000 to 2006. His research interests center on geographic information science, spatial analysis, and uncertainty in geographic data. He has published over 15 books and 500 articles. Prof. Sara McLafferty Head Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Keynote Address: Beyond Spatial Targeting: Geographic Foundations for Public Health Policy Sara McLafferty is Head and Professor of the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a prominent health scholar with decades of experience in medical geography, spatial analysis, GIS, and spatial epidemiology. She is currently an Associate Editor of Health and Place and a co-editor of the highly cited book GIS and Public Health. Her current research investigates place-based inequalities in health and well-being and access to health services for women, immigrants and racial/ethnic minorities in the United States. Prof. Mei-Po Kwan Professor Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Elected President of CPGIS Keynote Address: Challenges and Opportunities of Geospatial Data in Environmental Health Research Mei-Po Kwan is a Professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is currently an Editor of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers and a charter member of the Community Influences on Health Behavior (CIHB) Study Section of NIH’s Center for Scientific Review. She has received about US$20 million support as PI or co-PI from sources including the US National Institutes of Health and the US NSF. Her research interests include environmental health, neighborhood effects, access to healthcare, sustainable travel and cities, and application of geospatial technologies and GIS methods in health research. Prof. Bert Brunekreef Professor Environmental Epidemiology Utrecht University Keynote Address: Air Pollution Interventions and Health in Beijing Bert Brunekreef is currently a Professor of Environmental Epidemiology in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and the Faculty of Medicine at the Utrecht University. He is an expert in the health risk of air pollution and is an outstanding scholar in this area. He has received funding from the EU for several major studies in air pollution, allergy and health. He has served as advisor on national and international panels in the field of environmental health, including the Dutch National Health Council, of which he is a member, WHO and the US EPA. He is co-author of more than 300 peer reviewed journal articles in the field of environmental epidemiology and exposure assessment. Prof. Shu Tao Professor and Dean College of Urban and Environmental Sciences Peking University Keynote Address: Emission, Transport, and Exposure Risk of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Shu Tao, Ph.D. (University of Kansas) is a professor and dean of College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, China, and a member of the Chinese Academy of Science. His current research interests include emission inventory of incomplete combustion products, atmospheric transport and population exposure modeling, indoor air quality, and bioaccessibility of toxic pollutant. At present, he serves as PI of a number of projects supported by National Natural Scientific Foundation of China and Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, and co-PI of a US NIH superfund project on indoor air and human exposure. He has more than 200 papers published in peer-reviewed international journals. He is an advisory board member of ES&T, editorial board members of Environmental Pollutant, Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Environmental Geochemistry and health, and Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, and board members of International Panel on Chemical Pollution and Pacific Basin Consortium for Environmental and Health Sciences. Prof. Christopher J Webster Dean Faculty of Architecture The University of Hong Kong Keynote Address: Configuring Healthy Cities Prof. Chris Webster has degrees in urban planning, computer science, economics and economic geography and is a leading urban theorist and spatial economic modeller. He has published over 150 scholarly papers on the idea of spontaneous urban order and received over US$20M grants for research and teaching and learning projects. He was co-editor of Environment and Planning B for ten years. Books include Webster and Lai (2003) Property Rights, Planning and Markets, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar; Glasze, Webster and Frantz, (2006) Private Cities, London, Routledge; Wu, Webster, He and Liu, (2010) Urban Poverty in China, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar; and Wu and Webster (Editors) Marginalisation in Urban China. London: Palgrave McMillan; and Sarkar, Webster and Gallacher (2014) Healthy Cities: Public Health Through Urban Planning. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Professor Webster has five prize-winning academic papers on urban theory. His present professional mission is to change the way cities are planned in China and his current research agenda is to establish systematic evidence for the relationship between urban configuration (planned and spontaneous) and individual health. He is currently PI on a UK ESRC-funded ‘Transformative Research’ project that is creating 700 built environment morphometrics for each of the 500,000 members of the UK Biobank, the country’s flagship epidemiological study. Prof. David Berrigan National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health USA Keynote Address: Geospatial and Contextual Approaches to Energy Balance and Health David Berrigan, PhD, MPH, has been a Biologist in the Office of the Associate Director of the Applied Research Program since 2003. He previously served as a Cancer Prevention Fellow with funding from the Division of Cancer Prevention from 1999-2003. Before coming to NCI, he was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the University of Washington and at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, with funding from the National Science Foundation and the USDA. Dr. Berrigan received his PhD in Biology from the University of Utah in 1993, a BA from Reed College in 1983, MS from UC Davis in 1987, and MPH from UC Berkeley in 2000. His recent research has examined energy balance, carcinogenesis, physical activity and acculturation using a mix of animal models, population data, and methodological studies aimed at improving survey data and incorporating GIS tools and data-layers into survey data sets. He has authored or coauthored papers in Science, Carcinogenesis, JNCI, American Naturalist, PNAS, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and some 30 other journals. He has been on the editorial board of the journal Functional Ecology, a reviewer for NIH, NSF NSERC, and other funding agencies, and a peer reviewer for many journals. He was on the program committee for the 2007 Active Living Research Conference, and received NIH Merit Awards in 2004 and 2005. Dr. Berrigan is strongly committed to research aimed at health for all via environments and institutions that foster healthy behaviors, preventive services, and health care regardless of demographic or economic circumstances. Prof. Zihe Rao Institute of Biophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences Keynote Address: Molecular Mechanism of Entry of Hand-foot-and-mouth Disease (HFMD) Rirus Zihe Rao is a structural virologist, mainly engaged in the study of the three-dimensional structures of significant proteins and viruses related to human infection disease or with important physiological functions, as well as in innovative drug discovery. He has published more than 280 peer-reviewed papers to date in international scientific journals. Zihe Rao was elected as a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003, a Member of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 2004 and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, in 2011. He was elected the president-elected of IUPAB in 2011.From March 2003 to April 2007, he served as Director-general of the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Director of the National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules. Prof. George F Gao Director and Professor CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology Institute of Microbiology Chinese Academy of Sciences Keynote Address: Migratory Birds, Ecology and Orgin of Avian Influenza Viruses Professor George F. Gao obtained his Ph.D (DPhil) degree from Oxford University, UK and did his postdoc work in both Oxford University and Harvard University (with a brief stay in Calgary University). He is now the professor and director in CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also the Vice-President of Beijing Institutes of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director-General of Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Vice-President of Chinese Society of Biotechnology. His research interests include enveloped viruses and structural immunology. His group research is now focusing on the influenza virus, Streptococcus suis and the molecular/structural basis of recognition of T cell receptors to peptide-MHC complexes. He has published more than 200 refereed papers, 9 books or book chapters and has applied and obtained 20 UK, US and Chinese patents. Prof. Yee Leung Research Professor Department of Geography and Resource Management The Chinese University of Hong Kong Keynote Address: Climate Dynamics and Spatial Epidemiology—Theory and Applications Professor Yee Leung has done pioneer and influential research on imprecision/uncertainty analysis in geography, intelligent spatial decision support systems, geocomputation, and spatial knowledge discovery and data mining. A focus of his research is on the modeling and analysis of environmental systems. He has obtained more than 30 research grants, published six books and over 160 papers in reputed international journals. Professor Leung received the State Natural Science Award with his collaborators in 2007 for achievements in modeling and analysis of geo-referenced and remote sensing information. Part of his recent research interest is in climate variability and spatial epidemiology. Prof. Jinfeng Wang Chair Professor Institute of Geographical Science and Natural Resources Chinese Academy of Sciences Keynote Address: Sandwich Mapping of Diseases Jinfeng Wang is Chair Professor with the State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The main academic contribution of Prof. Wang's research has been in understanding spatial stratified nonhomogeneity and its implications in spatial statistics. The study results in the development of a range of novel spatial statistical methods (with free downloadable software), such as sandwich spatial sampling (www.sssampling.org/), MSN estimation (www.sssampling.org/MSN), B-shade technique for remedy of biased sample (www.sssampling.org/B-shade), single point area estimation (www.sssampling.org/spa), sandwich interpolation on a stratified heterogenous surface (www.sssampling.org/sandwich), geographical detector (www.sssampling.org/excel-geodetector), cities evolution tree. These new tools have being applied to spatial monitoring network design, spatial epidemiology, environmental risk assessment, spatial optimization of resources, etc. Prof. Wang has published thirteen books, near 100 peer-reviewed articles in ISI-listed journals in geography, population health, environmental and social sciences. He currently sits on the editorial boards of Spatial Statistics, Journal of Geographical Systems, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Geographical Analysis (2007-2010), ACTA Geographica Sinca (in Chinese), Journal of Remote Sensing (in Chinese); Prof Wang is president of the Chinese GIS Association Commission on Theory and Methodology (2004-2011), vice chairman of the Academic Committee of Laboratory of Surveillance and Early-warning on Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, member of the Steering Committee of the International Geographical Union Commission on Modeling Geographical Systems. Prof. Shaowen Wang Professor Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign President of CPGIS Keynote Address: CyberGIS for Data-Intensive Health Research Shaowen Wang is a Professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science (Primary), Computer Science, Library and Information Science, and Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where he is named a Centennial Scholar in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He is also Associate Director for CyberGIS and a Senior Research Scientist of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and Founding Director of the CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies and CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information Laboratory. He holds affiliate appointments within UIUC’s Computational Science and Engineering Graduate Program and Illinois Informatics Institute. He received his BS in Computer Engineering from Tianjin University in 1995, MS in Geography from Peking University in 1998, and MS of Computer Science and PhD in Geography from the University of Iowa in 2002 and 2004 respectively. His research and teaching interests center on three interrelated themes: 1) computational and geographic information sciences; 2) advanced cyberinfrastructure, cyberGIS, and geospatial data science; and 3) multi-scale geospatial problem solving and spatiotemporal analytics. His research has been actively supported by multiple US government agencies and industry. He has published a number of peer-reviewed papers including articles in more than 15 journals. He has served as an Action Editor of GeoInformatica, and guest editor or editorial board member for seven other journals, book series and proceedings. He is serving as the President of the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences. He served on the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science Board of Directors from 2009 to 2012, and was appointed two terms as a Councilor of the Open Science Grid Consortium. He was a visiting scholar at Lund University sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2006 and NCSA Fellow in 2007, and received the NSF CAREER Award in 2009. Dr. Douglas Richardson Association of American Geographers, USA Keynote Address: Creating International Synergies in Geospatial Health Research Douglas Richardson is the Executive Director of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). During the past ten years, he led a highly successful organizational renewal of the AAG and has built very strong academic, research, publishing, and financial foundations for the organization's future. Prior to joining the AAG, Dr. Richardson founded and for 18 years was the president of GeoResearch, Inc., a private-sector scientific research company specializing in geographic research and technology, including geographic information science and systems (GIS), spatial modeling, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and environmental and natural resources issues. GeoResearch developed and patented the world's first real-time interactive GPS/GIS mapping and data collection technology, leading to pervasive changes in the ways in which geographic information is collected, mapped, integrated, and used within geography, as well as in society at large. The technologies and methods pioneered by GeoResearch are now at the heart of a wide array of real-time interactive mapping, navigation, geographic research and education, mobile computing, military operations, location-based business, and large-scale operations management applications of most major industries and governments. Richardson sold his company and its core patents in 1998. Richardson continues to conduct research and publish across multiple dimensions of geography, ranging from the GISciences to the GeoHumanities, and from Health Research to Environmental Science and Regulatory Programs. Richardson holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Geography from Michigan State University. His current overarching research interests focus on geography's evolution as an international discipline and its future trajectories in the university and in society.
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