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Division of Natural Sciences & MathematicsDepartment of Geography & the Environment

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Degrees

2012 PhD, Geography, George Mason University 

 

 

Interests

Geovisualization; Spatiotemporal Data Modeling; High Performance Geocomputation; Web-based GIS.

My research interests are moderately diverse, but all fall into the general area of GIScience. They may be grouped into three more specific areas: geovisualization, spatiotemporal data modeling high performance geocomputation and web GIS. The three research areas discussed above are not mutually exclusive but complementary to each other. Natural and social phenomena are featured with high degree of spatial and temporal complexity (e.g., dust storms, wildfires, flight trajectories). To enhance our understandings of these phenomena and to support advanced scientific explorations, I have been working with my colleagues to investigate novel visualization and analytical methods, data management algorithms and state-of-the-art computing techniques. My recent work on using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to accelerate the visualization of dust storms can be found here .

 

 

Publications

 

  • Li J., Jiang Y., Yang C., Huang Q., Rice M. 2013. Visualizing 3D/4D Environmental Big Data Using Many-core Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Multi-core Central Processing Units (CPUs). Computers & Geosciences. DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2013.04.029. 

  • Gui Z., Yang C., Xia J., Li J., Rezgui A., Sun M., Xu Y., Fay D., 2013. An interactive graphical user interface for discovering, exploring and utilizing geospatial resources, Annals of GIS. DOI:10.1080/19475683.2013.782467

  • Huang Q., Yang C., Liu K., Xia J., Xu C., J. Li, Gui Z., Sun M., Li Z. 2013. Evaluating Open-source Cloud Computing Solutions for Geosciences, Computers & Geosciences. 59: 41-52. 

  • Gui Z., Yang C., Xia J., Liu K., Chen X., Li J., Lostritto P., 2013. A performance, semantic and service quality enhanced lightweight distributed search engine for improving geospatial resource discovery. International Journal of Geographic Information Science. 27(6):1109-1132.

  • Sun M., Li J., Yang C., Schmidt G., Bambacus M., Huang Q., Xu C., Nobel E., Cahalan R., Li Z., 2012. A Web-based Geovisual Analytical System for Climate Studies. Future Internet. 4(4):1069-1085. 

  • Li J., Jiang Y., Yang C., Huang Q. 2013. Utilizing GPU to support scientific visualization in geosciences. In: Shi X., Kindratenko, V., Yang C., eds. Modern Accelerating Technologies for GIScience. Springer. To appear. 

  • Li J., Li Z., Huang Q., Sun M., Liu K., 2013. Cloud-Enabling Climate@Home. In: Yang C., Huang Q., Li Z., Xu C., Liu K. eds. Spatial Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis. To appear.