Qunying Huang

Qunying Huang is an Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She had her PhD in 2011 on Earth Systems and Geoinformation Sciences from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. In 2016 she was honored with Madison Teaching and Learning Excellence (MTLE) Faculty Fellow. She also won the best paper award 1st International Symposium on Spatiotemporal Computing (ISSC) in 2015. Dr. Huang was a fellow of Next Generation of Hazards & Disasters Researchers, National Science Foundation 2014. She is the author of three books and these are, Spatial Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach, Introduction to Programming and GIS Algorithms with Python and Adaptive Nested Models and Cloud Computing for Scientific Simulation: A Case Study. Dr. Huang’s research primarily focuses on geocomputing, and big data mining. She is very interested in applying different computing models, including cluster, grid, GPU, citizen computing, and especially cloud computing to address contemporary computing challenges in the GIScience. Most recently, she is leveraging and mining big social media for different applications, such as emergency response and disaster coordination, and human mobility.