Upcoming workshop

CaGIS-National AI Computing Research Resources Workshop

Date: September 11, 2026
Location: Busch Student Center, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri

This workshop aims to equip participants with Cyberinfrastructure (CI) and GeoAI skills to advance disaster management and sustainability. Through hands-on training, participants will develop computational skills using national AI computing resources for analyzing large-scale geospatial datasets and translating complex data into actionable scientific insights. Supported by National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded programs under award Nos. 2526748, 2519476, and 2519477.

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Program

Activity schedule

Time	Program activities
8:30 - 9:20 am	Breakfast and Welcome Zhe Zhang - Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University Kari Craun - Executive Director, Cartography and Geographic Information Society; Northwest Missouri State University
9:20 - 10:00 am	Keynote Presentation: Disaster Management as a Geospatial Problem Michael Goodchild - Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara
10:00 - 10:10 am	Break
10:10 am - 11:00 am	Introduction to the I-GUIDE Platform Shaowen Wang - Professor, Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science and Siebel School of Computing and Data Science; Associate Dean for Natural and Mathematical Sciences, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
11:00 - 11:50 am	Texas A&M AI Supercomputing Honggao Liu - Executive Director of High-Performance Research Computing at Texas A&M University
11:50 am - 12:30 pm	Lunch
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Research Talks (30 min each) Budhu Bhaduri - Chief Data Officer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Samantha Arundel - Research Director, Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science, U.S. Geological Survey
1:30 - 1:40 pm	Break
1:40 - 3:40 pm	CyberGeoAI for Disaster Management using NSF ACES and NAIRR Zhe Zhang - Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University Zhenhua He - Interim Director for Emerging Technologies and Research at Texas A&M High-Performance Research Computing Shoibolina Kaushik - Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University Yuan Niu - Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University Yuhang Xie - Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
3:40 - 3:50 pm	Break
3:50 - 4:50 pm	Discussion Chair: Zhe Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University Yue Lin - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Peng Luo - Assistant Professor, School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, University of Iowa Caglar Koylu - Associate Professor, School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, University of Iowa Stephen Baker - Senior Research & Evaluation Scientist, Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation
4:50 pm	Close the Workshop
5:00 pm	Dinner

Workshop Details

Activity schedule