CyberTraining

Workshop Details

2024 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting

2024-04-17

The team organized a CyberTraining session at the AAG annual meeting. This training session is part of the workshop (#2330330) funded by the NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure. Time: April 16th 8:30 am - 4:30 pm & April 17th 8:30 am - 1:30 pm. Location: Hawaii Convention Center. This workshop is supported by the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure. The workshop provided a platform to scientists and engineers, including Geoscience, Computer Science, and Software Engineering, to present the challenges that they have faced in research and education and discuss the best and most efficient techniques for the development of secure, reliable, and ethical geospatial software systems. The workshop included a CyberTraining session. The CyberTraining session was designed to introduce participants to the fundamentals of geospatial data science using NSF funded High-Performance Computing (HPC) system, ACES, hosted at Texas A&M University which is on the NSF ACCESS ecosystem. We explored various tools and parallel computing techniques to extract, process, and analyze social sensing data.

Activity Schedule

TimeProgram Activities
04/16 8:30 - 9:00
  • Open the workshop
Session 1: 04/16 9:00-10:00
  • Keynote presentation:
  • Dr. Joseph Kerski (Education Manager, ESRI), Geospatial Software Usability: from Industry's Perspective to Users' Practice
  • Coffee Break
Session 2: 04/16 10:15 - 11:15
  • Software dependability panel discussion
  • Chair:
  • Dr. Eric Wong (Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas)
  • Panelists:
  • Dr. Richard Kuhn (Computer Scientist of National Institute of Standards and Technology; Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE))
  • Dr. Bill Tonti (Director of Future Directions, IEEE)
  • Dr. Junhua Ding (Professor of Information Science, University of North Texas)
Session 3: 04/16 11:15 - 12:00
  • Student paper presentation:
  • Zizhao Chen, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas)
12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • Lunch (provided by AAG for registered participants)
Session 4: 04/16 13:00 - 14:00
  • High-performance geospatial software development panel session
  • Chair:
  • Dr. Zhe Zhang (Assistant Professor of Geography, Texas A&M University)
  • Panelists:
  • Dr. Shaowen Wang (Professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science, Associate Dean for Life and Physical Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Dr. Honggao Liu (Director of Texas A&M High-Performance Research Computing)
  • Dr. Alan Sussman (Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland)
  • Dr. Sushil Prasad (Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio)
  • Dr. Michael Bishop (Professor of Geography, Texas A&M University)
  • Dr. Ernie Liu (Research Scientist, US Geological Survey)
Session 5: 04/16 14:00 - 15:45
  • CyberTraining session: NSF ACCESS and Geoethics
  • Dr. Zhe Zhang; Mr. Diya Li and Mr. Zhenlei Song, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
  • Coffee Break
Session 6: 04/16 16:00 - 16:30
  • Discussion and close of the day
04/17 8:30-9:00
  • Open the workshop
Session 7: 04/17 9:00-10:00
  • Keynote Presentation: Evolving the GIS user experience
  • Dr. Michael Goodchild (Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Session 8: 04/17 10:00-10:45
  • Student paper presentation:
  • Diya Li, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
  • Coffee Break
Session 9: 04/17 11:15 - 12:00
  • Student paper presentation:
  • Zhenlei Song, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
  • Coffee Break
Session 10: 04/17 12:30 -13:30
  • Geoethics panel session:
  • Chair:
  • Dr. Michael Goodchild
  • Panelists:
  • Dr. Shaowen Wang
  • Dr. Zhe Zhang
  • Dr. Joseph Kerski
  • Dr. Samantha Arundel (Acting Director, Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science, US Geological Survey)
  • Dr. Tao Cheng (Professor of Geoinformatics, University College London)
04/17 13:30
  • Close of the day
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