Speakers
Keynote Speaker
Prof. David Mark
Director
Buffalo site of NCGIA
Keynote Speech Title: From GI Systems to GI Science: An Overview of the History of the Field
Second Speech Title: Conceptualization, Cultural Differences, and GIScience
David M. Mark is a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geography at the University at Buffalo (UB), State University of New York, where he is the director of the Buffalo site of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA). Mark completed his PhD in Geography at Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, Canada) in 1977. He is an author of more than 230 publications, and this is his 8th edited books. His research interests include ontology of the geospatial domain, geographic cognition, cultural differences in geographic concepts, geographic information science, and digital elevation models.
Invited Speakers
Prof. May Yuan
Brandt Professor and Kinney Edith Gaylord Presidential Professor at the
University of Oklahoma
Speech Title: Space-Time Representation and Analytics
May Yuan is Brandt Professor and Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor and the Director of Center for Spatial Analysis at the University of Oklahoma.. She received a B.S. in geography from National Taiwan University and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in geography from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Yuan’s research interests are in temporal GIS, geographic representation, spatiotemporal information modeling, and applications of geographic information technologies to dynamic systems. She has served on several committees concerned with geospatial analysis and is currently a member of the National Research Council Mapping Science Committee and associate editor of International Journal of Geographic Information Science.
Prof. Lin Liu
Dean
School of Geography and Planning,
Sun Yat-sen University
Speech Title: Crime Analysis and Simulation
Professor Lin Liu is Dean of School of Geography and Planning at Sun Yat-sen University. He was former Head of the Geography Department at University of Cincinnati, and the former President and BOD Chair of the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS). His research interests include GIScience and its applications.
Prof. Hui Lin
Director
Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, CUHK
Speech Title: Virtual Geographic Environments – Towards the Geo-process Modeling
Hui Lin is Professor and Director of Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is Director of Hong Kong Base of National Remote Sensing Center of China. He graduated from Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping in 1980, received Master of Science degree from Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1983, and Ph.D. from University at Buffalo in 1992. Hui Lin joined CUHK in 1993 with major research interests in satellite remote sensing, virtual geographic environments (VGE), and urban and historic GIS. Hui Lin has published more than 200 research papers in peer reviewed academic journals and co-authored 10 books. He was elected academician of International Eurasia Academy of Sciences in 1995 and member of the Expert Committee of China Lunar Exploring Program in 2008. In 2009, Hui Lin received the Outstanding Contribution Award from Asia Association of Remote Sensing. Hui Lin is the founding president of International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Science (CPGIS) and the chief editor of the journal Annals of GIS.
Prof. Jinfeng Wang
(Only present on 15 May 2013 in Hong Kong)
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural
Resources Research,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Speech Title: Spatial Sampling and Statistical Inference: Theory and Practice
Chair, China Association of Geographic Information System, Commission of Theory & Methodology (2004-2011), Executive Board Member of International Geographic Union: Commission on Modeling Geographical System (2000-), Deputy Director of State Key Lab of Resources & Environmental Information System, Chinese Acad. of Sci. (2006-2011), Members of Editorial Board of Spatial Statistics (Elsevier), Journal of Geographical Systems (Springer), Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (Springer).
Prof. Xia Li
Director
Center for Remote Sensing and GIS
Sun Yat-sen University
Speech Title: Knowledge Transfer for Geographical Simulation and Analysis
Dr. Xia LI is professor and the director of the Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Sciences, School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University. He is also a guest professor in the Department of Geography at University of Cincinnati. He got the ChangJiang scholarship and the award of the Distinguished Youth Fund of NSFC in 2005. Dr Li is currently on the editorial boards of the international journals including International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, and GeoJournal. He is the associated editor of a Chinese journal, Tropical Geography. He has about 170 articles, of which many appeared in international journals.
His major research interests include the development of urban cellular automata and agent-based models for simulating urban growth and land use changes. Some of his researches focus on the development of methodologies for calibrating these simulation models. Recently, he has carried out the researches on using ant intelligence for spatial optimization. His other researches include the use of radar remote sensing for urban applications. His paper widely published in top international GIS and remote sensing journals, such as Remote Sensing of Environment, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Environment and Planning A, and Environment and Planning B.
Prof. Bo Huang
Associate Director
Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, CUHK
Speech Title: Spatial Intelligence: An Advance in Geographical Information Science
Dr. Bo Huang is a Professor and the Director of MSc Program in GeoInformation Science in the Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he is also the Associate Director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science. Prior to this, he also held faculty positions at University of Calgary, Canada and National University of Singapore. His research interests are broad, covering most aspects of Geographical Information Science (GIScience), specifically: spatial/spatio-temporal statistics for land cover/land use change modeling, image fusion for environmental monitoring, spatial optimization for sustainable urban and land use planning, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), and web/wireless GIS for location-based service. He has published extensively in the field of GIScience, including over 90 refereed journal articles and 60 conference proceedings. Dr. Huang serves as the Executive Editor of Annals of GIS and on the editorial boards of several international journals, including International Journal of Geographical Information Science (Taylor & Francis). He is currently exploring along the line of Spatial Intelligence, convinced that this new paradigm will revolutionize the way how geographical information is analyzed and utilized in the future.
Prof. Axing Zhu
Professor
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Speech Title: Geocomputing in the Digital World: A New Paradigm?
Prof. A-Xing Zhu is a full professor, at the Department of Geography, and the Manasse Chair Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he teaches courses on GIS and physical geography. He is also an adjunct professor at Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences as part of the CAS “One-Hundred Talents” program. Recently, he was selected into the “One Thousand Talents” program.
He obtained his Bachelor degree from the Department of Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China in 1983 and his Master’s in Geography from the University of Calgary in 1987, Canada, and his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Canada, in 1994.
His research interests are GIS/Remote Sensing techniques, artificial intelligence methods, and the application of these techniques in environmental modeling and natural resource inventory. Recently, he has developed a research interest in high performance computing in GIS.
He is the president of Pedometrics Commission of the International Union of Soil Sciences. He is the recipient of the following awards:
| 2012 | the Manasse Chair Professor of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2009 | the Hamel Faculty Fellow award, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2008 | the Vilas Associate Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2007 | Service Excellence Award, the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences |
His work on soil resource mapping using GIS, fuzzy logic, and artificial intelligence has been well recognized both in the research community and in Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) of USDA. In February of 2003, his work was showcased at a congressional briefing hosted by University Consortium for Geographic Information Sciences. He has published 1 book and over 100 research articles and owns 1 invention patent.
Prof. Michael Widener
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
University of Cincinnati
Speech Title: Time, Space, and Accessibility: A Look at Urban Dynamics and Healthy Foods
Dr. Michael Widener is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Cincinnati. He has extensive experience working as a dynamic simulation and spatial optimization modeler, in both academic and industry settings. Dr. Widener has led and collaborated on simulation projects covering diverse subject matters, including disaster response, international agriculture, transportation, and urban health. In addition to his expertise on dynamic simulations, Dr. Widener has researched and published on topics like the parallel computation of cluster detection algorithms and the complications of urban food deserts.
Prof. Ningchuan Xiao
(Only present on 17 May 2013 in Guangzhou)
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
Ohio State University
Speech Title: Computational Challenges in Spatial Analysis and Modeling
Ningchuan Xiao is an associate professor of geography at the Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Iowa in 2003. His research focuses on the development of effective and efficient computational methods in spatial decision making, location analysis, human mobility modeling, ecology of infectious diseases, and cartography. He is currently working with an interdisciplinary team on various projects of modeling the transmission of infectious diseases in the Far North Region of Cameroon.