CyberTraining

Workshop Details

The 49th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Application Workshop

2024-07-14

The CyberTraining workshop was part of the Natural Hazards Center conference on July 14th, 2024. This workshop was designed to support students and professionals who wish to broaden their computational knowledge and data skills. Participants in this training session will gain cyberinfrastructure and geospatial analytic capabilities for observing and monitoring disaster events. In the workshop, the expert-led training modules was focus on: (1) Fundamental concepts and skills of Cyberinfrastructure (CI) and High-Performance Computing systems (e.g., National Science Foundation ACCESS) to enhance CI use in disaster management research. (2) Scientific programming in Python using Jupyter Lab. (3) Disaster data types and processing techniques. (4) Essential concepts of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) and how to apply spatial analysis and GeoAI to disaster management

Activity Schedule

TimeProgram Activities
8:00 - 8:30
  • Welcome Coffee & Opening the Workshop
  • Dr. Zhe Zhang: Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
  • Dr. Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen: Program Director, National Science Foundation, Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
8:30 - 9:50
  • Intermediate Python Programming on High-Performance Computing Cluster
  • Dr. Honggao Liu, Executive Director of High Performance Research Computing at Texas A&M University
  • Dr. Zhenhua He, Associate Research Scientist of High Performance Research Computing at Texas A&M University
9:50 - 10:00
  • Break
10:00 - 11:30
  • Social Sensing and Geovisualization using High-Performance Computing
  • Dr. Zhe Zhang: Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
  • Mr. Zhenlei Song, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
11:30 - 12:10
  • Lunch
12:10 - 1:30
  • Emergency Evacuation Simulation with CyberGIS-Compute
  • Dr. Shaowen Wang, Professor of the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, Associate Dean for Life and Physical Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
  • Ms. Becky Vandewalle, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
1:30 - 1:45
  • close of the workshop and panel discussion (All team)
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