May Yuan, University of Oklahoma

May Yuan is Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor and Brandt Professor of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences at the University of Oklahoma (OU). She received her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1994 and has been the OU lead delegate to UCGIS since OU became a member in 1997. Since then, May has been privileged to work with dedicated delegates, intellectual leaders, and UCGIS officers in promoting GIScience research and education. Her primary UCGIS involvement has been with the research committee and the board. She had the honor to work with leading GIScientists in completing two chapters in the UCGIS book: A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science, edited by R. McMaster and L. Usery; one chapter is on Extensions to Geographic Representations, and the other, Geospatial Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. May was the secretary to the board 2003-2004 and was elected to the board 2004-2007. With a sponsorship from the intelligence community, Dr. K. Stewart Hornsby and she co-organized a UCGIS workshop in October 2006 on Visualization and Computation for the Understanding of Dynamics in Geographic Domain.

In addition to UCGIS, May currently serves as the associate editor (Americas) of International Journal of Geographic Information Science, and editorial board member of AAG Annals (since 2005) and Transaction in GIS (since 2001). She was the chair of AAG GIS Specialty Group (2001) and served on NSF Geography Doctoral Dissertation Research Advisory Panel (2002-2005), NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (Sites) Advisory Panel (2000-2002), EPA STAR/NCER Panel (2006-2007), ad-hoc NSF advisory panels on Information and Intelligence Systems (2007), IGERT (2006), Information Technology Research (2000), program committees of 14 national or international GIS conferences (since 2003), and GEOIDE Network Research Management Committee (since 2009).

May feels extremely honored to be nominated for the UCGIS vice presidency. If elected, she will work with the UCGIS leadership and devoted delegates to substantiate UCGIS services to all members, broaden participation and involvement from UCGIS members, and strengthen UCGIS leadership in national and international GIScience.

01/26/2009