Chaowei Yang is associate professor at GGS/GMU, where he founded and co-directs the joint Center for Intelligent Spatial Computing (CISC) with Dr.Paul Houser. As an expert on spatial computing and a geospatial leader, he has served as the NASA INCITS/L1 (U.S. ISO/TC211 organization) alternative, the NASA Geoscience nteroperability Office’s Geoscience Information Scientist, the President of the Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Science (CPGIS). He co-founded and serves as chair
of the AAG CISG. He is responsible for the GMU-China Summer training workshop on Advanced GeoInformation Science Certificate Program, which has been held for four years. He has extensive research and development experience, and publications on projects of geosciences interoperability over the past 10 years. He co-edited four special issues on distributed GIS. He is an expert on spatial computing for Earth science information processing. He organized over 50 sessions and as session chair(s) for over 20 sessions and over 10 workshops in the past five years on distributed geospatial computing, cyberinfrastructure, and interoperability. He has served as PI for several spatial computing projects and Co-I for over 10 Earth system science projects funded by NASA, UCAR/NSF, FGDC, EPA, and NPS.