Diansheng Guo
EDUCATION
- 2003 Ph.D., Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, USA
- 1999 M.S., Institute of Geographical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- 1996 B.S., Department of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, China
POSITIONS
- 2009—— Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina
- 2004—2009 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina
- 2003—2004 Postdoc, GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University
- 1999—2003 Research Assistant, GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University
AWARDS & HONORS
- 2009, June Service Award, International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS)
- 2008, Jan. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award
- 2007, Oct. Semifinalist, NSF Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge (Top 10 entries in the Information Graphics category)
- 2005, Aug. First Prize, IEEE Information Visualization Contest
- 2004, Oct. Intergraph-UCGIS Young Scholar Award
- 2003, June Paper Award, UCGIS Summer Assembly
- 2002, June First Place, poster competition, UCGIS Summer Assembly
- 2002, April E. William Miller Award, Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University
- 1999, Sept Presidential Award, Excellent Master Thesis, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 1996-1997 Graduate Student Fellowship, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 1992-1995 University Scholarship, Peking University
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (CURRENT)
- Editorial Board, The Professional Geographer (Jan. 1, 2011 - Dec. 31, 2014)
- Communications Chair, University Consortium of Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)
- President-Elect, Treasurer, International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS)
- Program Committee, The 16th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (May 29 - June 1, 2012)
- Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'11), Vancouver, Canada. (December 11-14, 2011)
- Program Committee, IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST 2011), Providence, RI, USA. (October 23-28, 2011)
- Program Committee Chair, IEEE International Conference on Spatial Data Mining and Geographical Knowledge Services (ICSDM 2011), Fuzhou, China. (June 29 - July 1, 2011)
- Program Committee, International Symposium on Spatial-Temporal Analysis and Data Mining, UCL, London, UK (July 18-20, 2011)
- Program Committee, The 15th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV2011), London, UK. (July 12 - 15, 2011)
- Program Committee, The 5th International Association for China Planning (IACP) Annual Conference, Beijing, China. (June 17-19, 2011)
- Program Committee, The 19th International Conference on GeoInformatics, Shanghai, China. (June 24 - 26, 2011)
- Program Committee, EuroVA 2011: The Second International Workshop on Visual Analytics, co-located with EuroVis 2011, Bergen, Norway. (May, 2011)
- Program Committee, GeoViz Hamburg 2011: Linking Geovisualization with Spatial Analysis and Modeling, Hamburg, Germany. (March, 2011)
