Personnel

NEVAC is made up of an interdisciplinary team of investigators and partners at Penn State University, Drexel University, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Geodecisions, and VideoMining Inc.

Principal Investigators Educational Background Research Focus
Alan MacEachren
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Ph.D. Geography, University of Kansas Geographic visualization, Cartography, Environmental cognition, GIS
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Mark Gahegan
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Ph.D. University of Curtin, Australia GIS, Visualization, Geocomputation, Spatial analysis, Databases
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Michael D. McNeese
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Ph.D. Cognitive Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Geo-Collaborative techmology, Human-Computer interaction, Visuo-Spatial cognition
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Prasenjit Mitra
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Ph.D. Electrical Engineering Stanford University, CA Database systems, Semantic web, Digital libraries, Data communications
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Chaomei Chen
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Ph.D. University of Liverpool Information visualization, knowledge domain visualization, multi-user virtual environments, hypertext, human-computer interaction
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Other Core Investigators Educational Background Research Focus
Frank Hardisty Ph.D.,Geography, Penn State Geographic Visualization, Spatial Statistics, Spatial Analysis, Cartography, Epidemiology, Terrorism Risk Assessment
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Ian Turton
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Ph.D. Geophysics, University of Edinburgh Computational Geography, the application of artificial intelligence methods to large and complex data sets.
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Christopher E. Weaver
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Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison Coordinated and multiple views for information visualization
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Affiliate Faculty Educational Background Research Focus
Donna Peuquet
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Ph.D. Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo

Geographic knowledge representation, spatio-temporal data models, spatial cognition, knowledge discovery in very large databases, geocomputation, and GISystems design.
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Luke Zhang
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Ph.D. School of Information, University of Michigan Collaborative visualization / Virtual Environments, Spatial cognition and behavior
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James Wang
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Ph.D. Medical Information Sciences, Stanford University Semantics-sensitive image retrieval, Lingustic indexing of images, Image security, Biomedical informatics
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Shyam Sundar
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Ph.D. Communications, Stanford University Social and psychological effects of technological elements unique to Web-based mass-communication
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Xia Lin
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Ph.D. University of Maryland Information visualization, Information retrieval, Knowledge organization and mapping
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Isaac Brewer Ph.D. Geography, Penn State University Collaboration; Emergency Mgmt., Ecoregions, Cognitive Sys. Engr., Visualization
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Guoray Cai Ph.D. Information Science, University of Pittsburgh Human-GIS Collaboration; Geog. Information Retrieval; Spatial Databases
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