Dr. Chaowei Phil Yang

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MS 6A2, Department of Geography and GeoInformation Sciences, College of Science, George Mason University, 4400 University Dr., Fairfax, VA, 22030-4444, Phone: 7039934742 (Office), 5712351827 (Cell) Email: cyang3@gmu.edu, chaowei.yang.1@gmail.com

 

Chaowei Phil Yang is Associate Professor of Geographic Information Science at George Mason University. His research focuses on utilizing spatiotemporal principles to optimize computing infrastructure to support science discoveries. He has been funded as PI by multiple resources such as NSF and NASA with over $5M expenditures. He also participated/participates in several large projects total over $20M. He published over 100 papers, edited a book and six special issues for international journals. He is co-editing/writing four books. A number of his papers are among the top five cited papers of IJDE and CEUS.

 

He is proud of his advisees including over 10 Postdocs, 10 PhD students, and over 30 graduates and undergraduates. Several of them serve as tenure-track professors at top geography departments such as Arizona State and Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison. Most of his advisees are serving as professors, researchers, or technical professionals in the U.S. or China. He developed a number of GIS courses and programs including the Executive Advanced GeoInformation Management program (a highest level of geoinformation training ever hosted by a US institution for China).

 

He also served in many public positions, such as the President of the international association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Science (CPGIS, 2004-2005), the chair (2009-2010) of AAG Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group (CISG), and the chair of UCGIS research committee (2012-). He received multiple national and international awards, such as the US presidential environment protection stewardship award in 2009 and the first CPGIS excellence in GIS education award in 2012. He founded the Center for Intelligent Spatial Computing (CISC), and is leading a group of international leaders from UCSB, Harvard, and GMU to establish an NSF I/UCRC for spatiotemporal thinking, computing and applications to advance a) human intelligence through spatiotemporal thinking, b) computer software and tools through spatiotemporal computing, and c) human capability of responding to deep scientific questions and grand engineering challenges through spatiotemporal applications.

 

1. Background

 

1.1 Education and postdoctoral training

  • B.Sc., 1995. Major: Applied Physics, Minor: Electronic Engineering, Northeastern University, China.
  • M.Sc., 1997. Major: Superconductivity, Minor: Computer Science, Northeastern University, China.

·       Ph.D., 2000. Cartography and Geographic Information Sciences, CyberGIS Studio, Beijing University, China.

o   Dissertation: Theory, Techniques, and Implementation of WebGIS.

 

1.2 Research Interests

  • Geospatial sciences and applications of national and international interests, such as public health and climate change
  • Spatiotemporal thinking, computing and applications
  • Spatial web service, architecture, and portal
  • Spatial interoperability
  • Spatial computing, spatial cloud computing
  • Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure

 

1.3 research and teaching Experience

  • 9.1997-7.2000: Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Sciences, Beijing University, China
  • 10.2000-9.2001: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Geomatics, University of Calgary, Canada

·       College of Science (COS), George Mason University (GMU)

o   10.2001-8.2003: Research Scientist/GIS Specialist/Instructor, Center for Earth Observing & Space Research (CEOSR).

o   8.2003-8.2009: Assistant Professor, Geography and GeoInformation Sciences (GGS)

o   9.2009-present: Associate Professor, Geography and GeoInformation Sciences (GGS)

o   3.2006-8.2009: Director, Joint Center for Intelligent Spatial Computing (CISC)

o   9.2009-present: Co-Director, Joint Center for Intelligent Spatial Computing (CISC)

·       2005-2008: GeoInformation Scientist, NASA Geoscience Interoperability Office, Greenbelt, MD

·       1.2009-8.2009: Director of IT and Visualization, Earth Water Global, Arlington, VA.

·       4.2010-4.2012: acted as Chief Architect, Spatial Cloud Computing and Data as a Service (DaaS), NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD.

·       4.2010-present: Chief Architect of NASA Climate@Home project.

·       4.2012-present: Director, NSF I/UCRC for Spatiotemporal thinking, computing and applications, hosted by GMU, UCSB and Harvard, supported by NSF, NASA, USGS, Microsoft and other 20+ organizations.

 

1.4 (Guest) Editorship

 

1.5 selected Honors and Awards

  • 1993: Institute of An-Shan Energy Scholarship, Ministry of Metallurgy
  • 1995: Graduated with Honor
  • 1996: Northeastern University-Wei Yong Science Fellowship
  • 1997: Graduated with Honor
  • 1999: Extraordinary Student, Peking University
  • 2000: Graduated with Honor
  • 2000: Ten Research Advancements of Chinese Universities in 2000, Ministry of Education, China (member of team awarded)
  • 2002: Service Excellence Award, The international association of Chinese Professional of Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS)
  • 2003: Extraordinary Ph.D. Dissertation, Peking University
  • 2003: GeoMedia Best Practice, Intergraph
  • 2005: Guest Professor, CyberGIS Studio, Peking University
  • 2007: Guest Professor, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University
  • 2009: US Presidential Award for Environmental Protection Stewardship, The White House
  • 2009-: Who’s Who in America, Marquis
  • 2010-: Who’s Who in the World, Marquis
  • 2012: Excellence in GIScience Education, CPGIS
  • 2012: Technology Innovation Award, NASA Goddard ITCD
  • 2012: Adjunct Professor, LEISMARS of Wuhan University
  • 2012: Nebula Cloud Test Award, NASA

 

2 Research

 

2.1 Grants

PI Funding Support (unless otherwise stated, Dr. Yang is sole PI):

  1. 8/2003 – 7/2004: Earth Data Exchange Portal, NSF/Unidata, $11,500. Co-Is: Drs. Wong, R. Yang, and L. Chiu.
  2. 9/2003 – 9/2004: Creation of a Natural-Resource Communicating Web Portal, NPS/CUE (Phase I), $45,000.
  3. 9/2003 – 8/2004: Building an Interoperable Webmapping Portal for the Middle Atlantic Region, USGS/FGDC, $24,993. Co-Is: Drs. Wong and R. Yang
  4. 9/2004 – 9/2005: Creation of a Natural-Resource Communicating Web Portal, NPS/CUE (Phase II), $43,226. Co-I: Ms. Kristy Garnet
  5. 6/2005 – 9/2006, SURA Web System, Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA), $23,735.
  6. 9/2005 – 8/2006, Geoscience Interoperability, NASA, $75,592 (Phase I).
  7. 9/2005 – 12/2006, Building transportation framework services using OGC Web Feature Services, Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), $49,776. Co-I: Dr. Wong.
  8. 9/2006 – 6/2007: Geoscience Interoperability, NASA, $81,430  (Phase II).
  9. 1/2007 – 1/2010: Joint Laboratory for Geosciences Interoperability Partnership, NASA, $1,709,730.
  10. 9/2008-8/2009: Metadata Training for Earth Science and Cyberinfrastructure Communities, FGDC, ~$25k.
  11. 7/2009-9/2009: Testbeds for Semantic Web, Air Quality, and Portals, Earth Science Information Partnership, ~15k. ESIP.
  12. 6/2009-6/2010: Utilizing GOS Map and Data Services for Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure and Earth Science Communities, FGDC, ~39k.
  13. 8/2009-10/2010: GeoNetwork Research and Development, FGDC, ~45k. (supported Zhenlong Li, Wenwen Li, and run through David Wong’s USGS contract)
  14. 8/2009-1/2011: Utilizing Model Interoperability to advance dust storm forecasting, NASA Applied Science Program, ~$ 45k (GMU portion). (PI Dr. Karl Benedict, UNM)
  15. 4/2010-4/2011: Spatial Web Portal Initiative, $330k, NASA.
  16. 9/2010-8/2011: GeoCloud Initiative, FGDC, ~$75k. (supported Qunying Huang and run through David Wong’s USGS contract)
  17. 9/2010-1/2012: NASA Spatial Cloud Computing, ~$250k/year, NASA, GSFC & GMU.
  18. 1/2012-1/2013: joint Laboratory for Spatiotemporal Thinking and Computing (LASTIC), ~$240k/year, NASA, GSFC & GMU.
  19. 9/1/2011-8/31/2014: Advancing data intensive science to enable dust storm forecasting, NSF, $425k. (PIs: Songqing Chen, CS, and Chaowei Yang, GeoInformation Science).
  20. 10/1/2011-5/31/2012: SilvaCarbon: Forest Carbon Tracking, USGS, $50k. (Supporting Jing Li, Min Sun, Qunying Huang, and Peter Lostritto and run through David Wong’s USGS contract).
  21. 10/1/2011-7/31/2012: Land Cover Change Modeling, USGS EGSC, $32k. (Supporting Qunying Huang and run through David Wong’s USGS contract).
  22. 5/1/2012-3/31/2013: I/UCRC planning grant for spatiotemporal thinking, computing, and applications, NSF, $15,918 (planning phase).
  23. 7/15/2012-7/14/2013: Building a geospatial cyberinfrastructure to support improving climate predictions, NASA, $91k.
  24. 8/1/2012-7/31/2013: Spatial Cloud Computing Initiative, NASA & NSF, $47k (initial).
  25. 8/1/2012-7/31/2013: Advancing GEOSS Clearinghouse, FGDC, $39k. (Supporting Michael Xia and run through David Wong’s USGS contract).
  26. 7/2012: Advanced Executive Certificate for GeoInformation Management, NASG, $72k.
  27. 9-10/2012: Advanced Certificate for GeoInformation Sciences, NGCC, $75k.

 

Donations through GMU CISC Foundation Account

  1. 5/2009. Earth Water Global Inc., ~$50k.
  2. 4/2010. Microsoft Inc., $100k. (Bing Map EO).
  3. 4/2011. Microsoft Inc., $100k. (GEOSS Clearinghouse).
  4. 12/2012. Northrop Grumman Inc., $50k. (Spatial Cloud Computing).

 

Co-I Funding Support

  1. 10/2002 – 9/2005: SIG-Framework Based Digital City Service System and Demonstration, National 863 project, Ministry of Science and Technology, China, ~$500k, PI: Q. Li (Beijing University). Support spent in China.
  2. 5/2006 – 5/2011, Earth Observing data, geospatial information, and knowledge transform mechanism, National 973 project, Ministry of Science and Technology, China, PI: J. Gong (Wuhan University), Q. Li (Peking University), ~$3.5M. Support spent in China.
  3. 6/10/2012-11/15/2015, International Collaboration Funding for TianDiTu Initiative, National Bureau of Foreign Experts, China, Part of the TianDiTu project, PIs: Z. Li & J. Jiang (NGCC), ~$10M. Support spent in China.
  4. 7/1/2012-6/31/2015, Food Security Surveillance System and Spatiotemporal Analyses, MOST, PI: B. Shao & J. Li (Beijing CDC), ~$10M, Support spent in China.

 

Participated Projects with Major Funding

  1. 9/2001 – 8/2005: Virginia Access-Mid-Atlantic Geospatial Information Consortium, NASA. PI: Kafatos, $5,040,800.
  2. 10/2001 – 5/2003: A study on using GIS to support NASA’s Commitment to Environmental Quality at Its Facilities within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, NASA, CEOSR PI: R.Yang, $197,857.
  3. 10/2006 – 9/2008: Global and Environmental Change: Hazards and Regional Impacts, NASA, PI: Kafatos, $1,715,316.

 

Grants for Equipment, Software, and Technical Support

  1. 11/2002 – 10/2007 (then renewable annually): GeoMedia Education Grant, Intergraph, with software and technical support worth over $1M, PIs: C. Yang and D. Wong.
  2. 12/2002 – 12/2007 (then renewable annually): Team Geomedia Registered Research Laboratory, Intergraph, with software and technical support worth $100,000/year. PI: C. Yang.
  3. 1/2003 – 12/2003: GeoMedia Research Grant for Interoperability, Intergraph, this Grant also put George Mason on the short list of “Centre of Excellence for Interoperability”, with software and technical support worth $60,000. PI: C. Yang.
  4. 6/2003 – 7/2005: Higher Education Grant, Research, development and education on GIS algorithms, Land Cover/Land Use, Data Systems, Virtual Learning Systems Inc., with software and technical support worth $500,000, PI C. Yang, Co-PIs: R. Yang and D. Wong.
  5. 9/2004: Prototype of a Grid for supporting scientific computing, GMU/ITU & Sun, with equipment worth $34,818. PIs: C. Yang and D. Wong
  6. 7/2007 – 6/2008: Grid enabling Chesapeake Bay Model, EPA & NASA. PI: C. Yang, with collaborative sharing of research resources.

 

2.2  Publications (    denotes graduate student advisees)

 

2.2.1 Refereed Publications

Books:

1.     Yang C., Wong D., Miao Q., Yang R., (eds.), 2010, Advanced GeoInformation Science, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 485p. ISBN: 978-1439810606.

2.     Yang C., Huang Q., Li Z., Xu C., Liu K., 2013, Spatial Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, ISBN: 978-1-4665-9316-9.

3.     Shi X., Kindratenko V., Yang C., (eds.), 2013, Modern Accelerating Technologies for GIScience, Springer, (in preparation).

4.     Yang C., 2013, Introduction to Programming and GIS Algorithms with Python and ArcGIS, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, (in preparation).

5.     Yang C., and Wong D., 2013, Network GIS, Springer, (in preparation).

 

Journal Papers:

6.     Wang J., Duan Z., Yang C., 1997. AC losses of Bi2223/Ag tapes prepared by different process, Physica C, 282—287: 2603-2604.

7.     Yang C., Shan Y., Deng J., Wang J., 1997. AC losses of Ag-doped YBCO superconductors, Physica C, 282—287: 2647—2648.

8.     Yang C., Wong D., Yang R., and Kafatos M., Li Q., 2005. Performance improving techniques in WebGIS, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 19(3): 319-342. (a top cited paper of IJGIS in 2005)

9.     Yang C., Wong D., Li B., 2005. Introduction to computing and computational issues of distributed GIS, Annals of Geographic Information Science (editorial), 11(1): 1-3.

10.  Zhu Y., Yang C., Wong D., Kafatos M., 2005. A distributed GIS for managing shanghai landscape resources, Annals of Geographic Information Sciences, 11(1): 29-39.

11.  Chen M., Yang C., Chen S., 2005. Evolution and computing challenges of distributed GIS, Journal of Geographic Information Sciences, 11(1): 61-70.

12.  Yang C., Cao Y., Kafatos M., Evans J., Bambacus M., 2006. Interoperable web portal supporting spatial data infrastructure, Annals of Geographic Information Science, 12(1):38-43.

13.  Yang P., Evans J., Cole M., Alameh N., Marley S., and Bambacus M., 2007. The emerging concepts and applications of the spatial web portal, Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, 73(6):691-698.

14.  Yang C., Cao Y., Evans J., 2007. WMS performance and client design principles, The Journal of GeoInformation Science and Remote Sensing, 44 (4):320-333.

15.  Bambacus M., Yang P., Evans J., Cole M., Alameh N., Marley S., 2007. ESG: An interoperable portal for prototyping applications, URISA Journal, 19(2): 15-21.

16.  Yang C., Li W., Xie J., and Zhou B., 2008. Distributed geospatial information processing: sharing earth science information to support Digital Earth, International Journal of Digital Earth,1(3): 259-278. (2nd most cited paper of IJDE, 2009 IJDE editor’s choice for open access)

17.  Cao Y., Yang C., Wong D., 2009. An interoperable spatiotemporal weather radar data disseminating system, IJRS, 30:1313-1326.

18.  Li W., Yang C., and Sun D., 2009. Mining the correlations and rules of geophysical parameters’ contribution to tropical cyclones, Computers &Geosciences, 35(2): 309-316

19.  Yang C., Raskin R., 2009. Introduction to Distributed geographic information processing research, International Journal of Geographic Information Science, 23(5): 553-560. (editorial review)

20.  Sun D., Lau W., Kafatos M., Leptoukh G., Yang C., and Yang R., 2009. The impacts of African dust aerosols and the associated warm and dry air on numerical simulations of Atlantic tropical cyclone development, Journal of Climate, 22(23): 6230-6250.

21.  Li W. and Yang C., Yang C.J., 2010. An active crawler for discovering geospatial Web services and their distribution pattern - A case study of OGC Web Map Service, International Journal of Geographic Information Science, 24(8):1127-1147.

22.  J. Xie, C. Yang, B. Zhou, and Q. Huang, 2010. High performance computing for the simulation of dust storms. Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, 34(4):278-290.

23.  Yang C., Raskin R., Goodchild M.F., Gahegan M., 2010, Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure: Past, Present and Future, Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, 34(4):264-277. (invited field review paper)

24.  Li Z., Yang C., Wu H., Li W., Miao L., 2011, An optimized framework for OGC web service seamlessly integration to support Geospatial Sciences, International Journal of Geographic Information Science, 25(4): 595-613.

25.  Huang Q., Yang C., 2011, Optimizing Grid Configuration to Support Geospatial Processing – an example with DEM interpolation, Computer & Geoscience, 37(2): 165-176.

26.  Wu H., Li Z., Zhang H., Yang C., 2011. Quality of Service control for Web Map Service, Computer & Geoscience, 37(4): 485-494.

27.  Yang C., Wu H., Li Z., Huang Q., Li J., 2011, Utilizing Spatial Principles to Optimize Distributed Computing for Enabling Physical Science Discoveries, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, 108(14): 5498-5503. (spatial computing definition paper)

28.  Li J., Wu H., Yang C., Wong D., 2011, Visualizing dynamic geosciences phenomena using an octree-based view-dependent LOD strategy within virtual globes, Computer & Geoscience, 37(9):1295-1302.

29.  Yang C., Goodchild M., Huang Q., Nebert D., Raskin R., Bambacus M., Xu Y., Fay D., 2011. Spatial Cloud Computing – How can geospatial sciences use and help to shape cloud computing, International Journal of Digital Earth. 4(4), 305-329. (invited definition paper with open access)

30.  Yang C., Nebert D., Taylor F., 2011. Establishing a sustainable and cross-boundary geospatial cyberinfrastructure to enable polar research, Computers & Geosciences, 37(11): 1721-1726. (editorial review).

31.  Li W., Yang C., Nebert D., Raskin R., Houser P., Wu H., Li Z., 2011, Semantic-enabled Service Discovery and Chaining for Building an Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure, Computer & Geoscience, 37(11): 1752-1762.

32.  Camelli F., Lien J.M., Shen D., Wong D.W., Rice M., Löhner R., Yang C., 2012. Generating seamless surfaces for transport and dispersion modeling in GIS, GeoInformatica, 16(2): 307-327.

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33.  Sun M., Li J., Yang C., Schmidt G.A., Bambacus M., Cahalan R., Huang Q., Xu C., Noble E.U., Li Z. A Web-Based Geovisual Analytical System for Climate Studies. Future Internet. 2012; 4(4):1069-1085.

34.  Huang Q., Yang C., Benedict K., Xie J., Rezgui A., Xia J., and Chen S., 2012. Using spatiotemporal patterns and high end computing to enable dust storm forecasting, International Journal of Geographic Information Science, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2012.715650.

35.  Gui Z., Yang C., Xia J., Liu K., Xu C., Li J., Lostritto P., 2012. A performance, semantic and service quality enhanced distributed search engine for improving geospatial resource discovery, International Journal of Geographic Information Science. DOI:10.1080/13658816.2012.739692.

36.  Huang Q., Yang C., Benedict K., Chen S., Xie J., Rezgui A., 2013. Utilize cloud computing to support dust storm forecasting, International Journal of Digital Earth, doi: /10.1080/17538947.2012.749949.

37.  Yang C., Xu Y., Nebert D., 2013. Redefining the Possibility of Geosciences and Digital Earth with Spatial Cloud Computing, International Journal of Digital Earth. DOI:10.1080/17538947.2013.769783.

38.  Xu C., Wong D., Yang C., 2013. Evaluating the “Geographical Awareness” of Individuals: An exploratory analysis of Twitter data, Cartography and Geographic Information Science. DOI:10.1080/15230406.2013.776212.

39.  Liu K., Yang C., Li W., Gui Z., Xu C., Xia J., 2013. Using ontology and similarity calculations to rank Earth science data searching results, International Journal of Geospatial Information Applications. (in press)

40.  Gui Z., Yang C., Xia J., Li J., Rezgui A., Sun M., Xu Y., Fay D., 2013. An interactive graphical user interface for discovering, exploring and utilizing geospatial resources, Annals of GIS. DOI:10.1080/19475683.2013.782467.

41.  Li J., Jiang Y., Yang C., Huang Q., Rice M., 2013. Utilizing GPU and CPU for accelerating visualization pipeline, Computers & Geosciences. (in press)

42.  Huang Q., Yang C., Liu K., Xia J., Xu C., J. Li, Gui Z., M. Sun, Li Z., 2013. Comparing Open Source Cloud Computing Solutions for Geosciences, Computers & Geosciences. (in press)

 

Submitted Journal Papers:

43.  Yang C., Liu K., Nebert D., Li Z., Li W., Wu H., Li J., Sun M., Miao L., Huang Q., Xu Y., Fay D., 2012. GEOSS Clearinghouse - Integrating Geospatial Resources to Support the Global Earth Observation System of Systems, Computers & Geosciences.

44.  Zhou B., Yang C., Huang Q., Xie J., Cao Y., Sun M., 2012. An Effective Middleware for Fine-Grained Near Real-Time Geospatial Applications, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.

45.  Jiang Y., Li J., Yang C., Huang Q., 2012. Visualizing 5D environmental data, Environmental Modeling and Software.

46.  Yang C., Huang Q., Xia J., Liu K., Li J., Rezgui A., Xu C., Sun M., Lostritto P.L., Bambacus M., Xu Y., Fay D., 2012. Cloud Readiness for Geospatial Sciences, International Journal of Geographic Information Science.

 

In Preparation

47.  2013. Analyzing the spatiotemporal patterns of geographers’ career, the Professional Geographers.

48.  2013. Geospatial Platform: A next generation national spatial data infrastructure, Annals of GIS.

49.  2013. Computational Challenges for GIScience Spatiotemporal Studies, IJGIS.

50.  2013. A spatiotemporal simulation and visualization tool for analyzing massive individual dynamics, IJGIS.

51.  2013. A spatiotemporal index for optimizing the operation of the GEOSS clearinghouse, IJGIS.

52.  2013. Spatial Web Portal: An open interface to global geospatial resources.

 

2.2.2 Refereed Book Chapters & Sections

53.  Yang C., Tao V., 2005. Chapter 5: Distributed Geospatial Information Service, Frontiers of Geographic Information Technology, Sanjay Rana and Jayant Sharma (Eds), London: Springer, pages 113-130.

54.  Yang C., Kafatos M., Wong D., Yang R., 2006. Network GIS, in Earth Systems and Remote Sensing Tools, Qu, Gao, Kafatos, Murphy and Solomonson (Eds), Springer-Verlag and Tsinghua University Press, Vol. 2, pages 293-312.

55.  Zhu H. and Yang C., 2008. Data Compression in Network GIS, in Encyclopedia of GIS , Bin Xiong and Shashi Shekehar (Eds), Springer-Verlag, pp.209-213.

56.  Li W., Yang C., and Zhou B., 2008. Geospatial Information Retrieval, in Encyclopedia of GIS , Bin Xiong and Shashi Shekehar (Eds), Springer-Verlag, pp.596-599.

57.  Yang C. and Evans J., 2008. Network GIS Performance, in Encyclopedia of GIS , Bin Xiong and Shashi Shekehar (Eds), Springer-Verlag, pp.787-790.

58.  Yang C., 2008. Distributed Geospatial Computing, in Encyclopedia of GIS , Bin Xiong and Shashi Shekehar (Eds), Springer-Verlag, pp.246-249.

59.  Yang C., Wong D., and Yang R., 2010. Advanced Geoinformation Science: An Overview. In C. Yang, D. Wong, Q. Miao, and R. Yang (eds.), Advanced GeoInformation Science, CRC Press, pp. 1-16.

60.  Huang Q., Yang C., Li W., Wu H., Xie J., and Cao Y., 2010. Geoinformation Computing Platforms. In C. Yang, D. Wong, Q. Miao, and R. Yang (eds.), Advanced GeoInformation Science, CRC Press, pp. 79-126.

61.  Wang F., Wong D., Luzzadder-Beach S., Aron J.L., Jackson L.E., Sun M., Susanke G., Washburn E., White J., Yang C., and Young S., 2010. Environmental and Related Applications. In C. Yang, D. Wong, Q. Miao, and R. Yang (eds.), Advanced GeoInformation Science, CRC Press, pp. 303-350.

62.  Deng M., Liu Z., Miao Q., Pan Q., Zhang M.,  Chiu L.S., Di L., Kempler S., Milich L., Rui H., Tan J., Tang Y., Teng W., Yang R., Yu H., and Yang C., 2010. Other Applications. In C. Yang, D. Wong, Q. Miao, and R. Yang, Advanced GeoInformation Science, CRC Press, pp. 351-414.

63.  Yang C., H. Wu, Q. Huang, Z. Li, J. Li, W. Li, L. Miao, M. Sun, 2011. WebGIS Performance Issues and Solutions, in Advances in Web-based GIS, Mapping Services and Applications, Li S., Dragicevic S., and Veenendaal B., Taylor and Francis. pp.121-138.

64.  Yang, C., Y. Xu and D. Fay (2011). Environmental Informatics: Advancing Data Intensive Sciences to Solve Environmental Problems. In Geospatial Techniques for Managing Environmental Resources. J. K. Thakur, Singh, S.K., Ramanathan, A., Prasad, M.B.K., Gossel, W. Heidelberg, Germany, Springer and Capital publication: pp.1 - 14.

65.  Yang C., Sun M., Liu K., Huang Q., Li Z., Gui Z., Jiang Y., Xia J., Yu M., Xu C., Lostritto P., Zhou N., 2012., Contemporary Computing Technologies for Processing Big Spatiotemporal Data, in Space-Time Integration in Geography and GIScience: Research Frontiers in the U.S. and China. Mei-Po Kwan, Douglas Richardson, Donggen Wang and Chenghu Zhou (Eds), Dordrecht: Springer (in press).

66.  Yang C., Fu P., Goodchild M., Xu C., 2012. Mashingup for Building New Geoscience Applications, in CyberGIS. S.W. Wang, M. Goodchild, Springer, (in review).

 

2.2.3 Refereed Chinese Journal Paper:

67.  Wang J., Yang J., He Y., Yang C., 1999. Study on AC losses of high T-c superconductors in 50 Hz applied magnetic field, Journal of Physics, 44(1):140-147.

68.  Yang C., Li Q., Li H., 1999. Spatial Data Warehouse in Digital Earth, Chinese Journal of Image and Graphics, 4(Special Issue):54-59.

69.  Yi S., Li Q., Yang C., 1999. Information Fusion of Spatial Database, Chinese Journal of Image and Graphics, 4(Special Issue):16-19.

70.  Chen A., Li Q., Yang C., 1999. Research on Geo-Spatial Markup Language-GML, Chinese Journal of Images and Graphics, 4(Special Issue): 9-15.

71.  Li Q., Yang C., Wang J., 1999. Research on WebGIS, Chinese Journal of Image and Graphics, 4(Special Issue):102-107.

72.  Li Q., Yang C., Chen A., 1999. Research on Geo-Spatial Database Model in WebGIS, Chinese Journal of Image and Graphics, 5(2):119-123.

73.  Yang C., Li Q., 1999. Research on Distribution of Spatial Object Relation Computation, Chinese Journal of Image and Graphics, 4(4):331-335.

74.  Li Q., Yang C., Yi S., 1999. Architecture of Digital Earth, Chinese Journal of Remote Sensing, 3(4):281-287.

75.  Li Q., Yang C., 1999. Building Digital Earth-Constructing Information Living Space for People, Electronic Science & Technology Review, 4(5): 6-9.

76.  Li Q., Chen A., Yang C., 1999. Solution of Information Sharing on Spatial Information of Digital Earth, Electronic Science & Technology Review, 11(5):15-19.

77.  Li Q., Yang C., 1999. Spatial Data Warehouse and Construction Strategies, Chinese Journal of Image and Graphics, 4(11):984-990.

78.  Yang C., Li Q., Cheng C., 2000. Research and Implementation on Web Publishing of Remotely Sense Image, Chinese Journal of Remote Sensing, 4(1):71-75.

79.  Yang C., Li Q., 2001. Research on Web Publishing of Spatial Information, ACTA SCIENTIARUM NATURALIUM UNIVERSITATIS PEKINENSIS, 37(3): 413-420.

80.  Miao, L., Wu, L. and Li, Z., Yang, C., 2010. Service Integration and Interoperability of CSW and WMS from Multiple Sources, Geography and Geo-Information Science, 26(3):11-14.

 

2.2.4 Chinese Chapters or Sections

81.  Li Q., Yang C., Wang J., 1999. Prototype of Digital Earth-Design and Implementation of WebGIS, Digital Earth, Cui W., eds., Environmental Scientific Press, Beijing, China, pp.20-36.

82.  Yang C., 1999. 100 Questions on Digital Earth, Cheng Shupeng (Eds), Chinese Scientific Press, Beijing, China.

 

2.2.5 Refereed Conference Papers

83.  Yang C., Kafatos M., Wong D., Yang R., Cao Y., 2004. GridGIS: A next generation GIS, CITSA 2004, Jul. 21-25, Orlando, FL, pp.22-27.

84.  Li, W., Yang, C., Raskin, R., 2008. A semantic enhanced search for spatial Web portals, AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report SS-08-05, pp. 47-50.

85.  Huang Q., Yang C., Nebert D., Liu K., Wu H., 2010. Cloud computing for geosciences: deployment of GEOSS clearinghouse on Amazon's EC2, Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on High Performance and Distributed Geographic Information Systems, pp.35-38.

86.  Xu C., Yang C., Li J., Xia J., Qu X., Sun M., Xu Y., Fay D., and Bambacus M.. 2011. A service visualization tool for spatial web portal. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computing for Geospatial Research & Applications (COM.Geo '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 31. Doi: 10.1145/1999320.1999351.

87.  Bhaduri B., Melick B., Yang C., Montgomery K., Hogan P., 2011. NSDI: Tower of Babel aspiring to lingua franca, In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computing for Geospatial Research & Applications (COM.Geo '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 77. Doi:10.1145/1999320.1999400.

88.  Li J., Jiang Y., Yang C., Huang Q., 2012. Visualizing 3D/4D Environmental Big Data Using Many-core Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) and Multi-core Central Processing Unit (CPUs), MAT4GIS workshop, The 7th GIScience International Conference, Columbus, Ohio, USA, Sept.18-21, 2012.

89.  Huang Q., Xia J., Yang C., Liu K., Li J., Gui Z., Hassan M., Chen S., 2012. An Experimental Study of Open-Source Cloud Solutions for Dust Storm Forecasting, ACM GIS. (in press)

90.  Li Z., Yang C., Sun M., Xu C., Liu K., 2013. A high performance Web based information system for climate studies, W2GIS (in press).

 

 Semi-Refereed (Abstract only) Conference Papers:

91.  He F, Feng Y., Wang JX, Zhang PX, Deng JN, Yang C., Ji P., Wu XZ, Zhou L., 1998. AC losses in YBa2Cu3Oy and Y1-xMxBa2Cu3Oy superconductors, Proceedings of the International Workshop, Critical Currents in Superconductors for Practical Applications, 1998, pp.181-184

92.  Kafatos M., El-Askary H., Chiu L., Gomez R., Hegazy M., Kinser J., Liu X., Liu Y., Liu Z., McManus J., Nie Y., Qu J., Salem F., Sarkar S., Shen S., Taylor G., Wolf H., Wong D., Yang C., Yang K., Yang R., 2002. Remote sensing and GIS for regional environmental applications, Proceedings of The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), 2002, pp.1-10.

93.  Yang C., Kafatos M., Wong D., 2006. Implementing Performance Improving Techniques for Accelerating WebGIS, Geoinformatics 2006: GNSS and Integrated Geospatial Applications; Deren Li, Linyuan Xia; Eds., the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) proceeding, p64181C.

94.  Yang P., Li W., Xiao, D., Raskin R., Bambacus M., 2007. Earth information exchange - Sharing earth science information through interoperable approach and cyber infrastructure, Geoinformatics 2007: Geospatial Information Science, the SPIE Proceedings, p675321.

95.  Yang C., Li Q., 1999. Spatial Data Warehouse in Digital Earth, Geoinformatics’99, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 19-21.

96.  Li Q., Yang C., 1999. Prototype of Digital Earth—the Design and Implementation of WebGIS, Geoinformatics’99, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 19-21, 1999.

97.  Yang C., Li Q., 1999. Web Publishing of Spatial Information, ISDE’99, Nov.29-Dec.2, Beijing: China.

98.  Li Q., Yang C., 1999. Data Warehouse of Spatial Information ISDE’99, Nov.29-Dec.2, Beijing, China.

99.  Yang C., Kafatos M., Wong D., Yang R., and Tao V., 2002. Geographic Information Service Environment, GeoInformatics’2002, Jun.1-3, 2002, Nanjing, China, CD Proceeding.

100.         Yang C., Kafatos M., Tao V., and Yang R., 2002. A Universal Geographic Information Data Model, The XXII FIG 2002 Congress and the ACSM Annual Conference, Washington DC, April, 19-April,26, 2002 CD Proceeding.

101.         Yang R., Yang C., Kafatos M., 2002. A distributed framework and its application in supporting automatic cooperative work in NASA environmental research, Nov.10-14, Denver, CO, USA, Proceeding of Integrated Remote Sensing at the Global, Regional and Local Scale: 293-297.

102.         Kafatos M., Yang R., Yang C., Gomez R., Boybeyi Z., 2002. UTILIZING REMOTE SENSED DATA IN A QUICK RESPONSE SYSTEM, Nov.10-14, Denver, CO, USA, Proceeding of Integrated Remote Sensing at the Global, Regional and Local Scale. Available online at: http://www.isprs.org/commission1/proceedings02/paper/00107.pdf.

103.         Kafatos, M., El-Askary, H., Chiu, L., Gomez, R., Hegazy, M., Kinser, J., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., McManus, J., Nie, Y., Qu, J., Salem, F., Sarkar, S., Shen, S., Taylor, G., Wolf, H., Wong, D., Yang, C., Yang, K.-S., Yang, R., 2002. Remote sensing and GIS for regional environmental applications,Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 4886, pp. 1-10.

104.         Yang, C.P., Wong, D., Kafatos, M., Yang, R., 2006. Implementing computing techniques to accelerate network GIS, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 6418, art. no. 64181C.

105.         Li, W., Zhou, B., Yang, C., Yang, C., Ren, Y., Yuan, L., 2006. Design and implementation of an Integrated WMS Service Portal, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) , art. no. 4241385, pp. 924-927

106.         Yang C., Cao Y., Kafatos M., 2006. An Interoperable Transportation Framework Service Framework, in proceeding of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) IGARSS’2006, Volume I, pp.233-236.

107.         Yang, P., Li, W., Xiao, D., Raskin, R., Bambacus, M., 2007. Earth information exchange - Sharing earth science information through interoperable approach and cyber infrastructure, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 6753 (PART 2), art. no. 675321.

108.         Bambacus, M., Yang, C., Evans, J., Li, Z., Li, W., Huang, Q., 2008. Sharing earth science information to support the global earth observing system of systems (geoss), International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 1 (1), art. no. 4778813, pp. I141-I144.

109.         Xie, J., Yang, C., Huang, Q., Cao, Y., Kafatos, M., 2008. Utilizing grid computing to support near real-time geospatial applications, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2 (1), art. no. 4779239, pp. II1290-II1293.

110.         Li, W., Yang, C., 2008. A semantic search engine for Spatial Web Portals, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2 (1), art. no. 4779236, pp. II1278-II1281.

111.         Li, W., Yang, C., Raskin, R., 2009. A semantic-enabled meta-catalogue for intelligent geospatial information discovery, 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics, Geoinformatics 2009, art.no.5293439.

112.         Li, J., Wu, H., Yang, C., Xie, J., Huang, Q., 2009. Using progressive transmission of 3D/4D geospatial information over the internet to facilitate geo-visualization in world wind, 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics, Geoinformatics 2009, art. no. 5293460.

113.         Miao, L., Houser, P., Yang, C., Wu, H., 2010. Earth Science Data Records sharing supported by the Spatial Web Portal. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), art. no. 5653745, pp. 4749-4752.

114.         Xu C., Yang C., Li J., Xia J., Qu X., Sun M., Xu Y., Fay D., Bambacus M., 2011. A service visualization tool for spatial web portal, COM.Geo '11 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computing for Geospatial Research & Applications, doi: 10.1145/1999320.1999351.

115.         Xin Qu, Min Sun, Chen Xu, Jing Li, Kai Liu, Jizhe Xia, Qunying Huang, Myra Bambacus, Yan Xu, and Dan Fay, Yang C. 2011. A spatial web service client based on Microsoft Bing Maps. The 19th International Conference on Geoinformatics, June 24-26, 2011, Shanghai, China.

116.         Liu K., Yang C., Li W., Li Z., Wu H., Rezgui A., Xia J., 2011. The GEOSS Clearinghouse High Performance Search Engine. The 19th International Conference on Geoinformatics, June 24-26, 2011, Shanghai, China.

117.         Yang C., 2011. Thinking and Computing Spatiotemporally to Enable Cloud Computing and Science Discoveries, The 19th International Conference on Geoinformatics, June 24-26, 2011, Shanghai, China.

118.         Fu P., Goodchild M., Yang C., 2011. Geospatial Mashup: Technologies, Challenges, and Opportunities, The 19th International Conference on Geoinformatics, June 24-26, 2011, Shanghai, China.

 

2.4 Software Prototype and patent

119.         Yang C., Zhang Y., Li J., Liu C., Xia S., Xue W., Qi R., Wang J., Huang L., and Yu S., Li Q., Wu S., 1999. WebGIS: the Kernel of a project entitled Chinese National Spatial Information Infrastructure, which is awarded Ten Achievements of Chinese Universities in 2000.

120.         Yang C., Yuan S., Wang Q., Tao V., 2001. GeoServNet: for building interoperable online GIS Services, commercialized at GeoTangoTM, Canada; and purchased by Microsoft as part of Virtual Earth.

121.         Yang C., 2003. Cyber-GIS: A high performance Web-based GIS, U.S. patent 20050165788.

122.         Yang C., Cao Y., Zhou B., and Xie J., 2007. Real-Time routing system, US patent 8,103,435.

123.         Zhou B. and Yang C., 2007. A meta scheduler for near real time applications, patent-pending and under commercializing.

124.         Yang C., Jiang Y., Li J., and Huang Q., 2011. A 5D visualization technology.

 

2.5  Key notes FOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

·       Spatial Cloud Computing, GeoInformatics’2011. June 24, 2011, Shanghai, China.

·       Spatial Cloud Computing and Digital Earth, the 7th International Symposium on Digital Earth. August 25, 2011, Perth, Australia.

·       Cloud Computing and Geospatial Sciences, National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and GeoInformation, Beijing China, Jul.23, 2012.

 

2.6  Invited talks FOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

·       Support Big Environmental Data Sharing and Analyses with Advanced Computing Technologies, 2012 Microsoft eScience Workshop, Chicago, Oct.8-9, 2012.

·       Building an Interactive Interface for the GEOSS Clearinghouse, Microsoft Open Data for Open Science, Beijing, China, Jul.23, 2012.

 

 

3 TEAChing

 

3.1 Courses developed

·       EOS772/GEOG590: Distributed GIS, spring, 2003

·       EOS771/CSI 759: Algorithm and Modeling in GIS, fall, 2003

·       EOS650/EOS771: Introduction to GIS programming and algorithm, fall, 2005

 

3.2 Courses taught

·       Introduction to Spatial Data Structure and Database, Fall & Winter, taught part of the course and graded as Teaching Assistant, 1998

·       Digital Earth, Spring & Summer, taught part of the course and graded as Teaching Assistant, 1999

·       EOS 772/GEOG590/GGS772: Distributed GIS, spring, 2003 and fall, 2004, fall 2006; spring 2007; spring 2010, spring 2011.

·       EOS 771/CSI759: Algorithms and Modeling in GIS, fall, 2003 and summer, 2004 (NGA), fall, 2007.

·       EOS 650/EOS771/GGS650: Introduction to GIS programming, fall, 2005; fall, 2008; fall, 2009; fall, 2010, fall 2011, fall 2012 (co-teach Qunying Huang to teach)

·       GEOG 563: Advanced GIScience, spring, 2008.

·       GGS 311: Introduction to GIS, spring, 2010.

·       GGS 664: Spatial Data Structure, Fall, 2010.

 

3.3 Students GRaduated

Served as (co-)advisor and/or committee chair:

·       Jizhe Xia, 2012, Msc. of Cartographic and Geographic Sciences, GMU

·       Jing Li, 2012, Ph.D. of Earth Systems and GeoInformation Science (ESGS), GMU (Co-advised with Dr. D. Wong), Assistant Professor, University of Denver.

·       Qunying Huang, 2011. Ph.D. of ESGS, GMU, Assistant Professor, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison.

·       Wenwen Li, Ph.D. of ESGS, GMU, 2010, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University.

·       Robert Mehler, Msc of Geography, GGS, GMU, 2010

·       Zhenlong Li, Msc of Earth System Science, GGS, GMU, 2009.

·       Ying Cao, Ph.D. of Earth Systems & GeoInformation Sciences, ESGS, GMU, 2008. Thesis: Routing with Real Time Events Incorporated through Grid Computing. GIS Manager at Tetra Tech Inc.

·       Ying Cao, Msc of Computational Science & Informatics, CDS, GMU, 2007.

·       Wenwen Li, Msc of Signal Processing, 2007 (co-advised with Prof. Chongjun Yang at Chinese Academy of Sciences). Thesis: Spatial Information Sharing based on Web Services and Ontology.

·       Patrick Schwarz, Remote Sensing Graduate Certificate, ESGS, GMU, 2007.

 

Served as committee member:

·       Baoxin Zhao, Ph.D. of Computer Science, IT&E, GMU, 2012.

·       Mukul Sonwalker, Ph.D. of Earth Systems & GeoInformation Sciences, COS, GMU, 2012.

·       Roz MacCracken, Ph.D. of Earth Systems & GeoInformation Sciences, COS, GMU, 2010.

·       Rafael Ferraro, Msc of Geography, GGS, GMU, 2010.

·       Dongyu Liu, Ph.D. of computer science, IT&E, GMU, 2009.

·       George Lu, Ph.D. of Earth Systems & GeoInformation Sciences, ESGS, GMU, 2007.

·       Yingqi Tang, Msc, Earth System Science, ESGS, GMU, 2006.

 

3.4 graduate students in-progress

·       Jizhe Xia, 9/2012-present: Ph.D. student of ESGS, GMU.

·       Manzhu Yu, 9/2012-present: Ph.D. student of ESGS, GMU.

·       Zhenlong Li, 9/2012-present: Ph.D. student of ESGS, GMU.

·       Kai Liu, 9/2012-present: Msc. and Ph.D. student of ESGS, GMU.

·       Min Sun, 1/2012-present: Ph.D. student of ESGS, GMU (co-advisor).

·       Yang Liu, 1/2006-present: Ph.D. student of ESGS, GMU (committee member).

·       Tracy Zhou, 8/2011-present: Ph.D. student of Operations Research, IT&E, GMU (committee member).

·       Christina Lehnertz, 2012-present: Ph.D. student of Computational and Data Sciences, GMU (committee member).

·       Ahmad Aburiza, 2013-present: Ph.D. student of ESGS, GMU

·       Kelly Vanderb, 9/2011-present: Ph.D. student of ESGS, GMU.

 

3.5 scholars/STUDENTS funded and/OR supervised

·       Bockhwa Kim, 2004, graduate student, ESGS, COS, GMU

·       Yue Zhu, 2005, graduate student, ESGS, COS, GMU

·       Jing Xing, 2005, graduate student, IT, IT&E, GMU

·       Qingfeng Zhang, 2006-2007, visiting scholar, Professor at Northwest Agriculture and Forest University

·       Danqing Xiao, 2006-2007, graduate student, ESGS, COS, GMU

·       Haijun Zhu, 7/2006-6/2008, postdoctoral research fellow, Wuhan University, Amazon Inc.

·       Bin Zhou, 8/2006-8/2008, visiting student, Tsinghua University

·       Jibo Xie, 2/2007-2/2009, postdoctoral research fellow, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

·       Ran Ji, 6/2007-6/2008, visiting scholar, Peking University

·       Fuming Lin, 7/2007-7/2008, visiting scholar, HeiLongJiang Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (HLJBSM)

·       Xiaotang Zhou, 7/2007-7/2008, visiting scholar, HLJBSM

·       Zhenlong Li, 7/2007-2010, visiting scholar, HLJBSM

·       Kevin Huang, 2008, 2009, summer, high school student

·       Fischer Xiao, 2008 summer, high school student

·       Kai Liu, 1/2010-2012, visiting scholar, HLJBSM

·       Jing Li, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 summer

·       Min Sun, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 summer

·        Xin Qu, 2010.5-2011.5, visiting scholar, HLJBSM

·        Huayi Wu, 2008-2010, research associate professor, Yangtze River Scholar and Professor, Wuhan University.

·       Abdelmounaam Rezgui, 2010-2012, research associate professor, Assistant Professor, New Mexico Tech University.

 

3.6 International EDUCATION Programs

·       7/2006 – 8/2006, Advanced Certificate of GeoInformation Sciences Education Program, HLJBSM, Organized and Coordinated the Program of Advanced Certificate of GeoInformation Sciences for 21 international Professionals.

·       6/2007 – 8/2007: Advanced Certificate of GeoInformation Sciences Education Program, HLJBSM, Organized and Coordinated the Program of Advanced Certificate of GeoInformation Sciences for 23 international Professionals.

·       6/2008 – 8/2008, Advanced Certificate of GeoInformation Sciences Education Program, HLJBSM, Organized and Coordinated the Program of Advanced Certificate of GeoInformation Sciences for 21 international Professionals.

·       6/2009 – 8/2009: Advanced Certificate of GeoInformation Sciences Education Program, HLJBSM, Organized and Coordinated the Program of Advanced Certificate of GeoInformation Sciences for 18 international Professionals.

·       3/2011-4/2011: Advanced Certificate of GeoInformation Sciences Education Program, NGCC, Organized and Coordinated the Program of Advanced Certificate of GeoInformation Sciences for 17 international Professionals.

·       7/2012: Advanced Certificate of Executive GeoInformation Management, NASG, Organized and Coordinated the Executive GeoInformation Management Program for 21 senior executives.

·       9/2012-10/2012: Advanced Certificate of GeoInformation Sciences Education Program, NGCC, Organized and Coordinated the Program of Advanced Certificate of GeoInformation Sciences for 23 international Professionals.

 

 

IV. Service, outreach, and academic entrepreneurship

 

4.1 GMU SERVICES

4.1.1 Departmental

·       2006: member, ad hoc search committee for Dr. A. Stefanidis, ESGS, COS, GMU.

·       2006-2007: member, ad hoc search committee for Dr. D. Sun, ESGS, COS, GMU.

·       2007: member, ad hoc search committee for assistant professor, ESGS, COS, GMU.

·       2008-present: coordinator, Global Environment Change B.S. degree, GGS, COS, GMU.

·       2008-present: associate coordinator, Geographic Information Science Graduate Certificate, GGS, COS, GMU.

·       2009-2010: member, ad hoc GMU junior faculty renewal committee, GGS, COS, GMU.

·       2008-2011, curriculum committee, GGS, COS, GMU.

·       2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, ad hoc student award committee, GGS, COS, GMU.

·       2011-present, graduate admission committee chair, GGS, COS, GMU.

·       2011-present, chair advisory committee, GGS, COS, GMU.

·       2012: faculty promotion and tenure committee, GGS, COS, GMU.

 

4.1.2 College

·       2006-2008: Liaison, MOU between GMU COS and the Institute of Remote Sensing Application, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

·       2006-present: (Co-) Director, Joint Center for Intelligent Spatial Computing, COS, GMU.

·       2010-present, Liaison, MOU between NGCC (National Geomatics Center of China) and COS, GMU

 

4.1.3 University

·       2002-2010: Liaison, MOU between Beijing Univ. and GMU

·       2004-2012: GMU Representative for SURA Grid.

·       2005-2010: Liaison, MOU between GMU and HeiLongJiang Bureau of Surveying and Mapping.

·       2012-present: Director, NSF I/UCRC for Spatiotemporal Thinking, Computing and Applications, (with Harvard and UCSB), supported by NSF, NASA, USGS, Microsoft and other 20+ agencies and companies.

 

 

4.2 Exernal Services

·       2000-2010, CPGIS:

o   11/2000-10/2001: President Assistant

o   11/2001-10/2010: member of Board of Directors

o   11/2001-10/2004: Chair of Web Development and Telecommunication Committee

o   11/2002-10/2003: Vice President

o   11/2003-10/2004: President Elect

o   11/2004-10/2005: President

·       2002-2005: Advisory Member, the U.S. National Digital Elevation Program, FGDC

·       2005-2008: InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS)/L1 NASA alternate representative

·       2005-2008: ESIP NASA Geosciences Interoperability Office representative

·       2009-2010: Chair, AAG Cyberinfrastruture Specialty Group (CISG)

·       2010-2012, Vice Chair, research committee, UCGIS

·       2012-present, Chair, research committee, UCGIS

·       2010-2012, Governance Committee, SURAgrid, Southeastern Universities Research Association

·       2012-present, Founding Chair, Computing Optimization for SDB and LBS working group, ISPRS II/IV

 

4.3 Conferences/sessions/Workshops organized

·       2002: Program Committee member, and Chair of the Distributed GIS Session I, Geoinformatics’2002, Jun.1-3, 2002, Nanjing, China.

·       2005: Organizer and Co-Chair, oral and poster sessions of “Transforming Geoscience Access Through Standards Implementation” AGU winter meeting, Dec.5–9, 2005, San Francisco, CA, USA

·       2005: Programming Committee Co-Chair, Geoinformatics’2005, Aug.17-19, 2005, Toronto, Canada.

·       2005: Lead Organizer and Chair, distributed GIS sessions, AAG annual meeting, Apr.5-9 2005, Denver CO

·       2006: Lead Organizer for Internet GIS sessions, AAG annual meeting, Mar.7-11 2006, Chicago, IL

·       2007: Lead Organizer for session series of Distributed Geospatial Information Processing: CyberInfrastructure, Interoperability, and Spatial Web Portal,  AAG annual meeting, April 17-21, 2007, San Francisco, CA

·       2007: Chair, Web and Virtual GIS, Government GIS, GeoInformatics’2007, May 28-30, Nanjing, China

·       2007: Earth Information Exchange, ESIP summer meeting, July 17-21, 2007, Madison, WI.

·       2008-2012: ESIP Summer Meeting and ESIP Winter Meeting

·       2008-2012: AAG Annual Meeting

·       2005-2012: CPGIS Annual Meeting

·       2011: Spatial Cloud Computing, ESIP Winter Meeting, Washington D.C., Jan.4-7, 2012.

·       2012: Cloud Computing, ESIP Summer Meeting, Madison, WI, July 10-14, 2012.

·       2012: 1st international conference for space, time, and cybergis, UIUC, Aug.4-8, 2012.

·       2012: NSF I/UCRC for Spatiotemporal Thinking, Computing, and Applications planning meeting. (leading organizer)

·       2012-2013: GeoComputation’2013, Wuhan Univ., China, May 26-28, 2013

·       2013: 1st international conference for green technologies, Wuhan Univ., China, Oct.31-Nov.1, 2013

 

4.4 Peer Review

4.2.1 Proposal Review

·       2004, 2008: USGS/FGDC Cooperative Agreement Program Panel

·       2004-2005: NSF Science Engineering Informatics and Information Integration Panel

·       2006, 2008, 2009, 2010: NSF Geography and Regional Sciences Program (ad hoc reviewer)

·       2006: NSF Polar Program (ad hoc reviewer)

·       2011: NSF OCI Panel

 

4.2.3 Manuscript Review

·       1999-2000: Chinese Journal of Images & Graphics

·       1999-2000: Journal of Remote Sensing

·       2004: Earth Science Satellite Remote Sensing, book chapter review

·       2004: International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications

·       2004-present: International Journal of Geographic Information Sciences

·       2004-present: Computers & Geosciences

·       2004-present: Journal/Annals of Geographic Information Sciences

·       2008: 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

·       2007-2008: ISCRAM 2008 GIScience Session

·       2008-present: Computer, Environment and Urban Systems

·       2008-present: Transactions on GIS

·       2009-present: Journal of Location Based Service

·       2010-present: Journal of Computers

·       2010-present: Atmospheric Environment

·       2010-present: Applied Geography

 

4.7 CAREER/specialist meeting

·       NSF funded Geography Faculty Development Alliance, Jun.3-9, 2005, Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

·       National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) funded NCGIA Spatial Web Specialist Meeting, Dec.2-5, 2004, National Center for Geospatial Information Analysis,University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

 

4.8 Memberships

·       1999-present: Member, the American Association for the Advancement of Science

·       2000-present: Lifetime member, the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences

·       2001-present: Member, American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing

·       2002-present: Member, National Geography Association

·       2002-present: Member, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping

·       2003-present: Member, the American Association of Geographers

·       2004-present: Member, the American Geophysical Union