Shaowen Wang

Shaowen Wang is a Professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science (Primary), Computer Science, Information Sciences, and Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He is also Associate Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) for CyberGIS and Founding Director of UIUC’s CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies. 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. 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 include advanced cyberinfrastructure and cyberGIS, complex environmental and geospatial problems, computational and data sciences, high-performance parallel and distributed computing, and spatial analysis and modeling. He has received research funding from the US CDC, DOE, EPA, NASA, NSF, USDA, USGS, and industry; and served as Principal Investigator (PI) for more than $13 million competitive research grants, PI for tens of millions of normalized computing hours to utilize NSF supercomputing resources, and co-PI and investigator for contributing to sponsored research supported with tens of millions of US dollars. He has published many peer-reviewed papers including articles in more than 20 journals. He has served as an Action Editor of GeoInformatica, Associate Editor of SoftwareX, and guest editor or editorial board member for multiple other journals, book series and proceedings. He is currently serving as the President of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, and a member of the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources of the US National Academies.