People

Founder and Director

• Dr. Shaowen Wang

Research Scientist and Lab Manager

• Yan Liu (Geography and NCSA, UIUC)
• Dr. Anand Padmanabhan (Geography and NCSA, UIUC)

Project Manager

• Dr. Carolyn White (Geography, UIUC)

Postdoc / Research Associate

• Dr. Guofeng Cao (Geography, UIUC)
• Myunghwa Hwang (Geography, UIUC)

Administrative Staff

• Julie Carlson (Geography, NRES, UIUC)

Graduate Student

• Babak Behzad (Computer Science, UIUC), PhD Student, Research Assistant
• Dan Dong (Geography, UIUC), PhD Student, Research Assistant
• Yizhao Gao (Geography, UIUC), PhD Student, Research Assistant
• Mengyu Guo (Geography, UIUC), Visiting PhD Student from Tsinghua University (China)
• Hao Hu (Geography, UIUC), PhD Student, Research Assistant
• Eric Shook (Geography, UIUC), PhD Student, Research Assistant
• Kiumars Soltani (Informatics, UIUC), PhD Student, Research Assistant
• Zhenhua Zhang (Geography/NCSA, UIUC), Visiting PhD Student from the Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Yanli Zhao (Geography, UIUC), PhD Student, Research Assistant

Undergraduate Student

• Wei Chen (Computer Science, UIUC), Web Developer
• Kelly Pisanko (Graphic Design, UIUC), Design Assistant
• Kornelijus Survila (Computer Engineering, UIUC), System Administrator/Web Developer

Research Scientist

• Dr. Wenwu Tang (Geography and NCSA, UIUC)

Postdoc / Research Associate

• Dr. Kai Cao (Geography, UIUC)
• Dr. Yu Liang (NCSA/Geography, UIUC)

Research Programmer

• Frank Weng (Geography, UIUC)

Visiting Scholar

• Qian Huang (Geography, from Peking University, Beijing, China)
• Dr. Wei Li (Geography and NCSA, from Beihang University)
• Dr. Yongzheng Ma (Geography and NCSA, from the Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
• Dr. Kaichao Wu (Geography and NCSA) from the Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Yingjie Xia (Geography and NCSA, from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China)
• Dr. Lili Yang (Geography, from the China Agricultural University, Beijing, China)
• Dr. Shuqing Zhang (Geography, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Student

• Lauren Blackburn (Graphic Design, Informatics, UIUC), Design Assistant
• Gregory Bopp (Statistics, UIUC), James Scholars Honor Program
• Varun Goel (Geography, UIUC), Research Assistant
• Su Yeon Han (Geography, UIUC), Masters Student, Research Assistant
• Heejun Kim (Geography, UIUC), Masters Student, Fellow
• Brandon Kleszynski (Communications, Computer Science, Informatics, UIUC), Web Developer
• Chris Korose (M.S. of Geography, UIUC), ISGS (Illinois State Geological Survey)
• Yuhan Li (Industrial Design, UIUC), Design Assistant
• Lan Luo (Geography, UIUC), Research Assistant
• Rita Muehling (Geography, UIUC), Roepke Fellow
• Connie Park (Geography, UIUC), Research Assistant
• Xiao Wang (Geography, UIUC), Research Assistant
• Sheng Ye (Geography, UIUC), PhD Student, Research Assistant
• Boyang Zhang (Geography and Computer Science, UIUC), Honors Program
• Michael Zhang (Art and Design, UIUC), Research Assistant

Arizona State University

• Dr. Luc Anselin, Regents' Professor and Walter Isard Chair; GeoDa Center Director

Illinois State Geological Survey

• Dr. Dr. Yu-Feng Lin, Hydrogeologist

NCSA

• Tim Cockerill, Associate Director of Collaborative Cyberinfrastructure Programs
• John W. Towns, Director of Collaborative Cyberinfrastructure Programs

San Diego Supercomputer Center

• Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, Associate Director

The University of Connecticut

• Dr. Jun Yan, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Dr. Marc Snir, Michael Faiman and Saburo Muroga Professor, Department of Computer Science
• Dr. Murugesu Sivapalan, Professor, Department of Geography and Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

The University of Iowa

• Dr. Marc P. Armstrong, Professor, Department of Geography & Program in Applied Mathematical and Computational Science
• Dr. David A. Bennett, Professor, Department of Geography
• Dr. Alberto M. Segre, Professor, Department of Computer Science

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

• Dr. Wenwu Tang, Director of Computing and Technology and Assistant Professor, Center for Applied GIScience and Department of Geography and Earth Sciences

University of Washington - Seattle

• Dr. Timothy Nyerges, Professor, Department of Geography

Virginia Tech & Wake Forest University

• Dr. Ge Wang, Samuel Reynolds Pritchard Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering and Science