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Shaowen Wang is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science and the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He holds affiliate faculty appointments in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and the School of Information Sciences. Currently, he serves as Associate Dean for Natural Mathematical Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and is a Senior Faculty Fellow in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation. He is the founding director of the CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital Spatial Studies and leads the national Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment (I-GUIDE) funded by the National Science Foundation. Previous positions include Head of the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science and Associate Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications CyberGIS. His research focuses on advancing cyberGIS, geospatial data science, and spatial artificial intelligence to develop scalable solutions for complex geospatial problems and sustainability challenges.
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