Visiting Speakers/Instructors:
Johnathan Rush
The Education, Outreach, and Training coordinator, the CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bio: Johnathan has trained hundreds of participants in cyberGIS tutorials at his home campus and at international conferences. He coordinates the national CyberGIS Fellows program, which seeks to develop cyberGIS education materials and curricula that are effective and keep pace with the rapidly advancing state of the art. He consults on research projects, helping connect domain scientists and scholars with cyberGIS technologies.
Johnathan’s experience is primarily in the public and higher education sectors. After college, he worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory on population modeling and disaster impact assessment. More recently, he has worked as a regional transportation planner. For his master’s thesis, he created a web-based, interactive 3D geovisualization of population mobility. His dissertation continues to develop interactive web-based maps, this time designing a system for discovering and exploring oral histories.
Chul Sung
Data Scientist at IBM Cloud
Bio: Chul Sung is a data scientist at IBM Cloud. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University in 2014. During his Ph.D. program, he developed algorithms and techniques for organizing, visualizing, analyzing, and annotating big 3D image volumes of high-resolution brain and other biological imaging data. His Ph.D. research areas included computational neuroscience, neural networks, and machine learning. He is currently interested in data-driven business strategies, data mining methods and applications, and big data innovation.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chul-sung-8b073923
Local Speakers/Instructors:
Jungwoo Ryoo
Head of the Division of Business, Engineering, and Information Sciences and Technology
Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University (Altoona College)
PI of NSF Big Data Education Project, http://sites.psu.edu/bigdata
Liping Yang
Postdoctoral Researcher, the GeoVISTA Center, the Department of Geography, the Pennsylvania State University
Eun-Kyeong Kim
Ph.D. Candidate, the GeoVISTA Center, the Department of Geography, the Pennsylvania State University
Mark Simpson
Ph.D. Student, the Department of Geography, the Pennsylvania State University
Arif Masrur
Ph.D. Student, the GeoVISTA Center, the Department of Geography, the Pennsylvania State University