Date: Sept 4, 2024 from 11 am to 12:15 pm
Location: CFWE 2217
Wenwu Tang is the Executive Director of the Center for Applied Geographic Information Science (gis.charlotte.edu) and Professor at the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Geographical Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Wenwu holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Iowa and was a Post-doc and Research Scientist at the U.S. National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include cyberinfrastructure and high-performance geocomputation, agent-based modeling, land change modeling, Web GIS, and their geospatial applications. Tang has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and three edited books. Wenwu’s research has been supported by federal and state funding agencies (about $6.76 million in total), including USDA Forest Services, US CDC, US Fish and Wildlife, NCDOT, NC Forest Service, and Electric Power Research Institute. Relevant courses that Wenwu have taught include CyberGIS and Big Data, Spatial Statistics, and Web GIS. Wenwu is the editorial board member of Landscape and Urban Planning, and guest editors of three special issues (Sustainability, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Land).