May Yuan, Ph.D.
Oklahoma University
Homepage: http://geography.ou.edu/people/myuan.html

 

May Yuan is an Associate Professor of Geography, Director of Center for Spatial Analysis, and Edith Gaylord Presidential Professor of the University of Oklahoma. Her research interest is in geographic representation, spatiotemporal information modeling, and applications of geographic information technologies to dynamic systems. Through supports from NSF, NASA, DoD-NIMA, DoD-Air Force, and DoE, she has been investigating representation models for dynamic geographic phenomena, such as wildfires, rainstorms, air-pollution plumes, and landcover change. She also has been developing methods for spatiotemporal query and analysis on these phenomena. Currently, she served as the chair of GIS specialty group in the American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2002 and serves as the secretary of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science.

(UCGIS) 2003-2005. Once elected, she will work with the president, the executive director, and the board to broaden involvement from member institutions in UCGIS research and education activities. May received her B.S. from National Taiwan University and M.A. and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. More information about May is available at http://geography.ou.edu/people/myuan.html .