Dr. Wenwen Li

Wenwen Li received her B.S. degree in Computer Science at Beijing Normal University in 2004, her M.S. degree in Signal and Information Processing at the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007, and her Ph.D. in Earth System and Geoinformation Science at George Mason University in 2010. Her research interest is geographic information science with a focus on cyberinfrastructure, big data, semantic interoperability, spatial information retrieval, and distributed geospatial information processing. She heads the CyberInfrastructure and Computation Intelligence Lab in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning. Her research aims to develop integrated, sustainable and smart cyber-infrastructure to revolutionize knowledge discovery in data and computational-intensive geographical sciences. She was the chair of the Association of American Geographers’ cyber-infrastructure specialty group from 2013–2014; a member of the Spatial Decision Support Consortium at the University of the Redlands (2015–); and a graduate faculty member in the Computer Science program at ASU (2016–). She is the 2015 NSF CAREER award winner—NSF’s most prestigious award for junior faculties. In 2021, she received the NSF Mid-Career Advancement Award. In 2023, she was elected Fellow of the American Association of Geographers and Fellow of the University Consortium of Geographic Information Science.