CIGI develops cyberinfrastructure (CI) capabilities to advance GIScience and geospatial problem solving. Current research focuses on the following themes:

• Computationally-intensive spatial analysis and modeling
• Parallel and distributed computing
• High-performance and collaborative GIS
• Large-scale geospatial problem solving
• Grid information systems and interoperability
• Cyberinfrastructure-based geospatial problem-solving environments and applications

• Yan Liu and Shaowen Wang presented a SimpleGrid tutorial at SciDAC 2009
• Shaowen Wang won prestigious NSF CAREER Award
• Shaowen Wang has been elected to the UCGIS Board of Directors
• GISolve becomes the first gateway for enabling the Science Gateway Credential

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CIGI includes a number of research and education faculty, staff, and students with diverse disciplinary expertise such as Computational and Information Sciences, Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Geography, Hydrology, Plant Biology, and Statistics. Dr. Shaowen Wang is CIGI founder and director.

Current projects range from investigating computationally intensive geographic analysis for solving large-scale and/or multi-scale problems, developing national and global Grid-based cyberinfrastructure capabilities (e.g., the Open Science Grid and TeraGrid), application- and user-level virtual organization services (e.g., resource monitoring, discovery, and scheduling) in the context of geospatial problem solving environments (e.g., GISolve), middleware for geospatial problem solving, parallel computing of Bayesian geostatistical modeling, to a distributed computing approach to solving geospatial optimization problems.