Task Forces

COVID-19 Task Forces

Advisory BOD:

· Ali Andalibi, Interim Dean, National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases, College of Science, GMU

· Kevin Borek, CIO, Information Technology Support, GMU

· Gary King, Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard

· Jason Ur, Director of Center for Geographic Analysis / Anthropology Department, Harvard

· Douglas Richardson, Emeritus Executive Director of AAG / CGA , Harvard

· Mike Goodchild, Emeritus Professor, Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara 

Leadership Team: ­­­

· Chaowei Yang, Director, STC, College of Science, GMU

· Wendy Guan, Executive Director, CGA and NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center, Harvard

· Shuming Bao, Director, China Data Institute

Virus Case Data Collection, Sharing and Visualization Team:

· Dieter Pfoser, GGS Chair, College of Science, GMU

· Ilan Alon, The School of Business and Law, The University of Agder, Norway

· Jing M. Chen, Department of Geography and Program in Planning, University of Toronto, Canada

· Jiashun Huang, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford Univ. 

· Jie Huang, School of Public Policy, Peking Univ.

· Akiyuki Kawasaki, Department of Civil Engineering, Tokyo Univ.

. Ella Li, Hai JIn，Zillion Info, LLC

. Mei Li, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University

· Dexuan Sha, Platform developer, Data Collection, Processing and Visualization, College of Science, (GMU POC)

· Zhong Chen, Sharing and Visualization GUI, Computer Science Department, GMU

· You Zhou, Website design, Psychology Department, GMU

· Xinyan Zhu, Spatial Information System and Service Department, Wuhan Univ.

Other Relevant Data Analyses and Collection:

· Donglian Sun, Meteorology and Remote Sensing, College of Science, GMU

· David Wong, Population and Migration, College of Science, GMU

· Paul Houser, Climate Change and Water Cycle, College of Science, GMU

. Mingyue Lu, Nanjing University of Information Engineering (Meteorology)

· Yuanzheng Shao, Collaboration and Innovation Center for Geo-Spatial Information Technology, Wuhan Univ.

· Konrad Wessels, College of Science, GMU

· Qian Liu, Spatiotemporal Collocation and climate/atmospheric relation analytics, College of Science (GMU POC)

Spatiotemporal Analytics Team:

· Yun Li, Machine Learning, College of Science (GMU POC)

. Huayi Wu, State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University

· Ben Lewis, Harvard CGA

· Zhenlong Li, Geoinformation and Big Data Research Lab, University of South Carolina

. Songnian Li, School of Civil Engineering, Ryerson University, Canada

. Bonan Li, Kailian Huang, Wayhe Technologies

· Kun Qin, College of Remote Sensing Information Engineering, Wuhan Univ.

· Bernd Resch, Spatiotemporal Data Mining, University of Salzburg/Austria

· Manzhu Yu, Spatiotemporal Analytics and Modeling, Penn State University

· Liang Zhao, GeoAI, Department of Information Science and Technology, GMU

· Zhiran Zhang, Ranking and Recommendation, National Geomatics Center of China

Public Health Modeling Team:

· Jie Huang, Medical School, Peking Univ.

· Mauricio Santillana, Harvard Medical School

· Xun Shi, Department of Geography, Dartmouth

· Peter Song, School of Public Health, Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor

· Kyla Carte, George Mason University (GMU POC)

IT Networking & Security:

· Hai Lan, Department of Geographical Science, Univ. of Maryland/GMU Affiliate (GMU POC)

· Curtis McNay, IT Security Officer, GMU

· Qian Xu, IT Networking Manager, GMU

· Songqing Chen, Computer Science Professor, Volgenau School of Engineering, GMU

Computing and Platform Team:

· Tao Hu, CGA, Harvard

· Devika Kakkar, CGA, Harvard

· Hoot Thompson, Information Technology Support, GMU

· Zifu Wang, Server infrastructure construction, College of Science (GMU POC)

· Yifei tian, Server infrastructure construction, Applied Information Technology, GMU

· Carol Xu, FDL