Shaowen Wang is a professor of geography and geographic information science (primary), computer science, and urban and regional planning at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He serves as the associate dean for life and physical sciences of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He is a senior faculty fellow with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation at UIUC. He leads UIUC’s CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies and the Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment supported by the National Science Foundation. His research focuses on advancing geographic information systems and geospatial data science for scalable solutions to complex geospatial problems and sustainability challenges. He served as the president of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) from 2016 to 2017 and as a member of the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine from 2015 to 2020. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Association of Geographers, and UCGIS.