Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Shaowen Wang received his BS in Computer Engineering from Tianjin University, China in 1995; MS in Geography from Peking University, China in 1998; MS in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Geography from The University of Iowa in 2002 and 2004 respectively. His research focuses on computationally-intensive spatial analysis, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance and collaborative GIS, and cyberinfrastructure-based geospatial problem-solving environments and applications. He has published dozens of peer-reviewed papers in these areas. Dr. Wang is the founding director of the CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information Laboratory (CIGI), Assistant Professor of Geography, and Senior Research Scientist of the National Center of Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He serves as the director of the TeraGrid GIScience Gateway (based on the GISolve Toolkit) which he architects and leads the development for. He also served as a Councilor of the Open Science Grid Consortium that is the governing body of the Open Science Grid project jointly funded by the Department of Energy and National Science Foundation (NSF). He is a member of the NSF Supercomputing Allocation Board that consists of approximately two dozens of leading computational scientists from a broad range of disciplines in the US. Dr. Wang's recent research has been supported with over $2 million funding by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.

01/26/2009