Shaowen Wang
Professor, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science
Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Associate Dean for Life and Physical Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Senior Faculty Fellow, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation
Faculty Affiliate
- Center for Social & Behavioral Science
- Computational Science & Engineering Graduate Program
- Department of Urban & Regional Planning
- Discovery Partners Institute
- Informatics PhD Program
- Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment
- New Frontiers Initiative
- School of Information Sciences
Education
PhD (Geography, 2004)
Master of Computer Science (Systems and Networks, 2002)
The University of Iowa
MS (Geography, 1998)
Peking University
BS (Computer Engineering, 1995)
Tianjin University
Director
- CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies (CyberGIS Center)
- NSF Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment (I-GUIDE)
Awards & Honors (Selected)
- Elected Fellow, the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) (citation), 2024
- Elected Fellow, the American Association of Geographers (AAG), 2022
- AAG Distinguished Scholarship Honors (citation), 2022
- Elected Fellow, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2021
- Getis-Ord Lecture in Spatial Analysis, the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association, 2021
- Fellow of the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Academic Leadership Program, 2020-21
- Borchert Lecture, the University of Minnesota, 2019
- Teacher Ranked as Excellent, UIUC, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2019
- Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIUC, 2018-21
- Centennial Scholar, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIUC, 2013-16
- Helen Corley Petit Scholar, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIUC, 2011-12
- NSF CAREER Award, 2009
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Fellowship, 2007
- Visiting (to Lund University) Scholarship, the NSF Office of International Science and Engineering, 2006