Curriculum Vitae Dr. Danqing (Dana) Xiao Personal Information Assistant Professor Department of Environmental, Geographical, and Geological Sciences (EGGS), Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania Research Interest: Cartography; Spatial Cognition in GIScience; Individual Differences in the Production of Geographic Information; Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). Phone: (570) 389-3902 Email: dxiao@bloomu.edu Education Sep 09- Aug 13 Ph.D. in Department of Geography, University of California Santa Barbara. Received Ph.D. in Geography with an emphasis in Cognitive Science, with a Cumulative GPA of 3.92/4.00. Dissertation: Individual and Cultural Differences in the Interpretation and Generation of Natural Language Descriptions of Spatial Layout, 2013. Advisor: Daniel Montello Sep 07- Aug 09 Master of Science in Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, The University of Maine. Thesis: Modeling and Monitoring Non-Topological Spatial Changes of Continuous Phenomena in Geosensor Networks, 2010. Advisor: Silvia Nittel and Mike Worboys Sep 02- Aug 06 Bachelor of Science in School of Space and Earth Science, Peking University. Honors thesis: Study of cultural impacts on location judgments in eastern China, 2006. 1
Research Experiences Sep 15 - Current Aug 13 Aug 15 Sep 15 - Current Sep 12 - Dec 12 Aug 09 - Aug 13 Sep 07- Aug 09 Oct 06 - May 07 Sep 05 - June 06 Summer 05 Principle Investigator of the collaborative research project "Spatial Variations of Ideological Views in China". Collaborator: Tu Lan at Univ. of New Hampshire. Co-Principle Investigator of the research project "Individual-Level Interpretation of Time-Sensitive Remote Sensing Images in Order to Model Dynamic Spatial Changes". Principle investigator: Chris Lippitt at UNM. Principle Investigator of the collaborative research project "Perceived Drought in Southern California". Collaborator: Helen Chen at UCSB. Prime Investigator of project "The Role of Individuals' Cognitive Characteristics in the Comprehension and Production of Verbal Place Descriptions", funded by the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant, UC Santa Barbara. Research Assistant at Geographic Cognition Lab, Department of Geography, UC Santa Barbara. Research Assistant at Geosensor Lab, Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, The University of Maine. Sponsored by National Science Foundation Project Geosensor Networks, NSF award No. 0534429. Research Assistant of Earth Information Exchange Program of NASA, George Mason University. Developer of the NASA Earth Science Information Partners Data Sharing Web Portal. Research Assistant at Spatial Information Engineering Lab, Peking University. Member of the project "CoGIS", the first generation Chinese Transportation GIS platform. Role: Software Test Engineer. Research Assistant at the GIS National Key Lab, Nanjing Normal University, China. Member of the national project "WfMS", the GIS Logistic Management System. National award No. 2003AA131060. Role: Geodatabase Developer. 2
Teaching Experiences Fall 16- Current Fall 13- Spring 16 Fall 10- Winter 13 Winter 12 Fall 09- Fall 11 Assistant Professor in Department of Environmental, Geographical, and Geological Sciences, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. Classes taught: Mau Use and Analysis; Applied Cartography. Visiting Assistant Professor in Geography and Environmental Studies, the University of New Mexico. Classes taught: Introductory GIS; GIS Python Programming; GIS Projects; Spatial Statistics; GIS Database. Graduate Lecturer in Geography, UC Santa Barbara. Classes taught: Intro to Physical Geography; Intro to Human Geography; Intro to GIS. Visiting Lecturer in Geography, UC Los Angeles. Classes taught: Advanced Cartography. Teaching Assistant in Geography, UC Santa Barbara. Mentoring At University of New Mexico: on the committee of 7 MS students and 2 Ph.D. students; 1 MS student graduated in December 2015 (co-chair); 2 MS student graduated in May 2015 (co-chair); 1 MS graduated in December 2015. Publications Peer-reviewed Academic Book Xiao, Danqing (2013), Cognitive geography and Geographical Information Science. China: Science Press. Peer-reviewed Journal Papers Xiao, Danqing, & Lan, Tu. Mapping Ideological Opinions in China using Online Survey (Accepted by Annals of GIS in January 2017) 3
Xiao, Danqing, & Nittel, Silvia., An Efficient Area Change Detection Algorithm for Geosensor Networks through Local Aggregation. (Submitted to Sensors in Nov 2015) Xiao, Danqing, & Montello, Daniel., Individual Preference of Route Directions of a Familiar Environment. (Submitted to International Journal of Geographical Information Science in August 2015) Liu, Yu, Yuan, Yihong, Xiao, Danqing, Zhang, Yi & Hu, Jiangquan. (2010) A point-set-based approximation for areal objects: A case study of representing localities. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 34(1): 28-39 Peer-reviewed Book Chapters Montello, Daniel, & Xiao, Danqing. (2011), Linguistic and cultural universality of the concept of sense-of-direction. In M. J. Egenhofer, N.A. Giudice, R. Moratz, & M.F. Worboys (Eds.) (pp.264-282), Spatial information theory. Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Spatial information theory. Heidelberg: Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6899. 2011, pp 264-282 Xiao, Danqing, & Liu, Yu. (2007). Study of cultural impacts on location judgments in eastern China. In S. Winter, B. Kuipers, M. Duckham & L. Kulik (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Spatial information theory. Heidelberg: Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 4736, 2007, pp 20-31 Honors Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara, 2012 The Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant, UC Santa Barbara, 2012 Dangermond Travel Award, UC Santa Barbara, 2011 Google Student Travel scholarship for Conference on Spatial Information Theory, The University of Maine, 2007 Award for Excellent Study, Peking University, China 2004 Skills Programming skills: Mastery of Python. Mastery of C# and Microsoft.NET IDE. Mastery of R. Professional Matlab programmer. Adept in html and CSS Training Skills: Professional ArcGIS trainer. Professional SPSS Trainer. 4
IT skills: Professional website developer. Web Administrator of UNM GES Website, NASA ESIP Website, and UCSB Geography Undergrad Website. Certificates: UCSB Summer Teaching Institute for Associates Teaching Certificate Languages: Chinese, English, and Japanese 5