Wenwen Li
Wenwen Li
Assistant Professor
GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation
School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning
Arizona State University
wenwen@asu.edu
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Dr. Li (B.S., Computer Science, Beijing Normal University; M.S., Signal and Information Processing, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Ph.D., Earth System and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University) joined the Center for Spatial Studies, UC Santa Barbara as a postdoc in May, 2010. Until 2012 she participated in the University of California Multi-campus Research Project Initiative (MRPI) "A virtual co-laboratory for policy analysis in the LA region". Wenwen’s role in this project is to lead the design and development of a geodatabase, associated Web services and a GUI to serve a broad user community for online policy analysis and decision making on urban economic development. Wenwen’s research interest also includes applying Artificial Intelligence and machine learning technology into Geographic Information Science to improve the understanding, discovery, and modeling of geo-scientific data and services.
Dr. Li’s research specializes in the fields of geographic information science and remote sensing, semantic interoperability, spatio-temporal data mining, spatial information retrieval and distributed geospatial information processing. The goal of her research is to develop integrated, sustainable and smart cyberinfrastructure to revolutionize knowledge discovery in data and computational intensive geographical sciences. In particular, she is interested in utilizing semantic technology to improve the access, integration and interoperability of distributed GIS data, analytical tools and models. Dr. Li's research has been applied in a number of science disciplines, such as climate, public health and hydrology. She is also interested in developing analytical methods (e.g., spatial optimization) to support regional economic modeling.