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

• Algorithms and applications of computationally intensive geographic analysis
• CI-based GIS
• CI troubleshooting and reliability
• Grid information systems and interoperability
• Large-scale geospatial problem solving
• Parallel and distributed computing
• Performance and visualization of geographic information analysis based on high performance and Grid computing

• CIGI welcomes new members
• Shaowen Wang and Yan Liu gave invited presentations at an I-CHASS HASS Workshop
• SimpleGrid-0.6.2 released with enhanced GridShib SAML credential
• Dr. Wang received a grant to develop a geospatial informatics course

• More CIGI news

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.