Workshop Details

CyberTraining Summer School 2025

2025-08-11

Over the past two years, our CyberTraining project has organized five workshops, hosted monthly online lectures, supported more than one hundred scholars through high performance computing hands-on training and travel funding, and directly engaged thousands of participants. Thanks to these efforts, the National Science Foundation has awarded us another four years of funding to continue advancing CyberTraining — this time with a special focus on innovating GeoAI in disaster research.

Activity Schedule

TimeProgram Activities
August 11, 2025, 8:20-9:00 am
  • Welcome Coffee & Opening the Summer School
  • Dr. Zhe Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
  • Dr. Simon North, Executive Associate Dean, John W. Bevan Professor of Chemistry, Texas A&M University
August 11, 2025, 9:00-9:30 am
  • Introduction to NSF Programs
  • Dr. Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, Program Manager, National Science Foundation
August 11, 2025, 9:30-10:50 am
  • Introduction to Data Manipulation, Visualization and Machine Learning for Classifying Earth Landscape on ACES
  • Dr. Honggao Liu: Executive Director, Texas A&M University High-Performance Research Computing
August 11, 2025, 10:50-11:00 am
  • Break
August 11, 2025, 11:00 am - 12:20 pm
  • Exploring the I-GUIDE Platform
  • Dr. Shaowen Wang, Professor of the Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science, Associate Dean for Life and Physical Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
August 11, 2025, 12:20-1:00 pm
  • Lunch and Group Photo
August 11, 2025, 1:00-2:00 pm
  • Keynote Presentation: Emergency Management is a Geospatial Problem
  • Dr. Mike Goodchild, Professor Emeritus, University of California Santa Barbara
August 11, 2025, 2:00-3:20 pm
  • Toward Next-Generation Spatial Decision Support: Leveraging GeoAI and Cyberinfrastructure for Coastal Resilience
  • Social Sensing: Leveraging GeoAI and ACES High-Performance Computing
  • Dr. Zhe Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
August 11, 2025, 3:20-3:30 pm
  • Break
August 11, 2025, 3:30-4:20 pm
  • CAREER Panel Discussion and Close of Day 1
  • Dinner
August 12, 2025, 8:20-9:00 am
  • Welcome Coffee and Breakfast
August 12, 2025, 9:00-10:00 am
  • Group Work and Discussion
August 12, 2025, 10:00-11:00 am
  • From Systems to People: Humanizing Digital Twin
  • Dr. Xinyue Ye, Distinguished Professor of GeoAI at University of Alabama
August 12, 2025, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Group Work and Discussion
August 12, 2025, 12:00-1:00 pm
  • Lunch
August 12, 2025, 1:00-2:00 pm
  • GIS Applications in Traffic Safety Research
  • Dr. Bahar Dadashova, Research Scientist, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
August 12, 2025, 2:00-3:00 pm
  • Group Work and Discussion
August 12, 2025, 3:00-4:00 pm
  • Group Work and Discussion
August 12, 2025, 4:00-4:30 pm
  • Project Update Presentation and Close of Day 2
  • Dinner
August 13, 2025, 8:20-9:00 am
  • Welcome Coffee and Breakfast
August 13, 2025, 9:00-10:00 am
  • Modeling and Forecasting Hurricane Floods over Coastal Urban Watersheds
  • Dr. Huilin Gao, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University
August 13, 2025, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Group Work and Discussion
August 13, 2025, 12:00-1:00 pm
  • Lunch
August 13, 2025, 1:00-2:00 pm
  • Agentic AI in ArcGIS
  • Dr. Diya Li, Software Development Engineer, Esri
August 13, 2025, 2:00-3:00 pm
  • Group Work and Discussion
August 13, 2025, 3:00-4:00 pm
  • Group Work and Discussion
August 13, 2025, 4:00-4:30 pm
  • Project Update Presentation and Close of Day 3
  • Dinner
August 14, 2025, 8:20-9:00 am
  • Welcome Coffee and Breakfast
August 14, 2025, 9:00-10:00 am
  • Human Centered GeoAI for Disaster in the era of Generative AI
  • Dr. Yuhao Kang, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin
August 14, 2025, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Group Work and Discussion
August 14, 2025, 12:00-1:00 pm
  • Lunch
August 14, 2025, 1:00-2:00 pm
  • Quantifying Human Mobility Patterns during Disruptive Events with Big Geospatial Data
  • Dr. Yuqin Jiang, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Hawaii at Manoa
August 14, 2025, 2:00-3:00 pm
  • Group Work and Discussion
August 14, 2025, 3:00-4:00 pm
  • Group Work and Discussion
August 14, 2025, 4:00-4:30 pm
  • Project Update Presentation and Close of Day 4
  • Dinner
August 15, 2025, 8:20-9:00 am
  • Welcome Coffee and Breakfast
August 15, 2025, 9:00-11:30 am
  • Group Presentations
August 15, 2025, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
  • Lunch and Close of the Summer School
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