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About the CSISS

Introduction

Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems (CSISS) is affiliated with College of Science at George Mason University, Fairfax VA, 22030, U.S.A. CSISS currently operates Laboratory for Advanced Information Technology and Standards (LAITS)

CSISS is a member of National Committee on Information Technology Standards Technical Committee L1, and a member of Open GIS Consortium (OGC).

CSISS Misson:
* To conduct world-class research in spatial information science and system.
* To provide the state-of-art research training to post-doctoral fellows, Ph.D. and Master students in the field.

CSISS Research Focus:
* Theory and methodology of spatial information science;
* Standards and Interoperability of spatial data, information, knowledge and systems;
* Architecture and prototype of widely distributed large spatial information systems, such as NSDI, GSDI, and GEOSS, as well as service-based spatial knowledge and decision-making systems;
* Exploration of new information technologies that have potential applications in Spatial Information Science (SIS);
* The applications of SIS in the society sectors having either national interests or major commercial values, such as renewable energy, location-based mobile services, intelligent transportation, and homeland security.

Personnel

Name

Office No.

Home No.

Cell No.

E-mail

Director

Dr. Liping Di

301-982-0795

301-947-7583

ldi@gmu.edu

Associate Director

Dr. Wenli Yang

301-614-5312

443-535-0158

wyang1@gmu.edu

Assistant Director

Dr. Meixia Deng

301-220-0525

301-540-0328

240-888-9619

mdeng@gmu.edu

Affiliate Faculties

Dr. Ruixin Yang

ryang@gmu.edu


Dr. Jie Zhang

jzhang7@gmu.edu

Principal Scientist

Dr. Barry Schlesinger

bschlesi@gmu.edu

Research Associate Professors

Dr. Peisheng Zhao

301-220-1536


301-614-5509

410-971-6420

pzhao@gmu.edu


Dr. Aijun Chen

301-614-5152

410-872-0369

410-807-5611

achen6@gmu.edu

Research Assistant Professors

Dr. Genong (Eugene) Yu

301-220-0353

510-508-6999

gyu@gmu.edu


Dr. Yuqi Bai

301-345-3271

301-476-4790

240-644-3160

ybai1@gmu.edu

Dr. Xiaoyan Li

301-345-3459

301-220-0898

xlia@gmu.edu

Dr. Weiguo Han

301-345-3271

240-367-3459

whan@gmu.edu

Research Associate

Pei Zhang

301-345-3271

240-423-6769

bzhang4@gmu.edu

Research Assistants

Upendra Dadi

udadi@gmu.edu

Huilin Wang

301-220-1536

240-838-1046

whuilin@gmu.edu

Xuanang Cheng

301-982-0283

301-760-9422

xcheng@gmu.edu

Xinlin Qian

301-345-3271

240-425-2554

xqian@gmu.edu

Yuanzheng Shao

301-345-3271

571-480-3560

yshao3@gmu.edu

Chunming Peng

443-433-8373

cpeng1@gmu.edu

Wei Liu

liuwei@lreis.ac.cn

Previous Visiting Professors

Dr. Jianya Gong

geogjy@163.net

Dr. Dengrong Zhang

zju_rs@126.com

Previous Visiting Senior Scientist

Dr. Peichuan Li

pli4@gmu.edu

Previous Research Associate

Dr. Nengcheng Chen

cnc_dhy@hotmail.com

Dr. Yingjie Yu

Previous Research Assistants

Dr. Peng Yue

+86-15994282186

geopyue@gmail.com

Dr. Yaxing Wei

weiy@ornl.gov

Dr. Hui Li

+86-13971312663

rslihui@gmail.com

Dr. Chengfang Hu

+86-15337225750

hucf_2@163.com

Dr. Min Min

+86-15902793856

mmin2006@gmail.com

Hu Zhao

+86-13667212508

jhaohu@gmail.com



Careers at the Center
CSISS is an open center for all GMU researchers who share similar research interests. Researchers have total freedom to decide if they want to join or withdraw from the center. Researchers at CSISS also have total freedom to associate with other centers of GMU. CSISS welcomes GMU faculty members to join the center as faculty associates. All researchers at CSISS will have equal opportunites to access CSISS facility and resources.

CSISS Foundation
CISSS Foundation Inc is a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity.
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Contact Information
Please contact Prof.Liping Di, Director of CSISS:
* E-mail: ldi@gmu.edu
* Phone: 301-982-0795
* Fax: 301-345-5492
* Address: 6301 Ivy Ln, STE 620, Greenbelt MD, 20770, USA

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