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Chaowei (Phil) Yang

Chaowei Yang

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Position

Professor

Degrees

Ph.D., Peking University

 

Email: cyang3@gmu.edu
Office: 2211 Exploratory Hal
phone_icon Telephone: (703) 993-4742

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Research

Representative research projects

  • NSF, I/UCRC for Spatiotemporal Thinking, Computing and Applications
  • NASA, Data as a Service for Enabling Big Data Discoverability, Accessibility, and Usability
  • NASA and NSF, Utilizing HPC and Computer System Research to Enable Dust Storm Forecasting
  • FGDC and Microsoft, The Global Earth Observation System of Systems Clearinghouse
  • FGDC, Geospatial Platform

  

Expertise

  • Spatiotemporal Thinking and Computing, and Applications
  • Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure and Cloud Computing
  • Geographic Knowledge Management and Utilization
  • Geoscience Applications

  

Recent Publications

  • Yang C., Huang Q., Li Z., Xu C., Liu K., 2013, Spatial Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 304p. ISBN: 978-1466593169.
  • Shi X., Kindratenko V., Yang C., (eds.), 2013, Modern Accelerating Technologies for GIScience, Springer, 280p. ISBN-13: 978-1461487449.
  • Yang C., Xu Y., Nebert D., 2013. Redefining the Possibility of Geosciences and Digital Earth with Spatial Cloud Computing, International Journal of Digital Earth. 6(4):297-312.
  • Gui Z., Yang C., Xia J., Liu K., Xu C., Li J., Lostritto P., 2013. A performance, semantic and service quality enhanced distributed search engine for improving geospatial resource discovery, International Journal of Geographic Information Science. 27(6):1109-1132.
  • Huang Q., Yang C., Benedict K., Chen S., Xie J., Rezgui A., 2013. Utilize cloud computing to support dust storm forecasting, International Journal of Digital Earth, 6(4):338-355.
  • Li J., Jiang Y., Yang C., Huang Q., Rice M., 2013. Utilizing GPU and CPU for accelerating visualization pipeline,Computers & Geosciences. 59(9):78-89.
  • Huang Q., Yang C., Liu K., Xia J., Xu C., J. Li, Gui Z., M. Sun, Li Z., 2013. Comparing Open Source Cloud Computing Solutions for Geosciences, Computers & Geosciences. 59(9):41-52.
  • Yang C., Wu H., Li Z., Huang Q., Li J., 2011, Utilizing Spatial Principles to Optimize Distributed Computing for Enabling Physical Science Discoveries, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, 108(14): 5498-5503. (spatial computing definition paper captured by Nobel Intent Blog).
  • Yang C., Goodchild M., Huang Q., Nebert D., Raskin R., Bambacus M., Xu Y., Fay D., 2011. Spatial Cloud Computing – How can geospatial sciences use and help to shape cloud computing, International Journal of Digital Earth. 4(4), 305-329. (invited definition paper with open access)
  • Yang C., Wong D., Miao Q., Yang R., (eds.), 2010, Advanced GeoInformation Science, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 485p. ISBN: 978-1439810606.
  • Yang C., Raskin R., Goodchild M.F., Gahegan M., 2010, Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure: Past, Present and Future, Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems (CEUS), 34(4):264-277. (GCI review and a top cited paper of CEUS).
  • Yang C., Li W., Xie J., and Zhou B., 2008. Distributed Geospatial Information Processing: Sharing Earth Science Information to Support Digital Earth, International Journal of Digital Earth (IJDE), 1(3): 259-278. (DGIP definition paper and one of the most cited papers of IJDE).
  • Yang P., Evans J., Cole M., Alameh N., Marley S., and Bambacus M., 2007. The emerging concepts and applications of the spatial web portal, Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, 73(6):691-698.
  • Yang C., Wong D., Yang R., and Kafatos M., Li Q., 2005. Performance improving techniques in WebGIS, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 19(3): 319-342.

  

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