Workshop Details

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CyberTraining Summer School 2025

Date
August 11, 2025
Location
College Station, TX

Over the past two years, our CyberTraining project has organized five workshops, hosted monthly online lectures, supported more than one hundred scholars through high performance computing hands-on training and travel funding, and directly engaged thousands of participants. Thanks to these efforts, the National Science Foundation has awarded us another four years of funding to continue advancing CyberTraining — this time with a special focus on innovating GeoAI in disaster research.

CyberTraining Summer School 2025 workshop

Program

Activity schedule

TimeProgram activities
August 11, 2025, 8:20-9:00 am
  • Welcome Coffee & Opening the Summer School
  • Dr. Zhe Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
  • Dr. Simon North, Executive Associate Dean, John W. Bevan Professor of Chemistry, Texas A&M University
August 11, 2025, 9:00-9:30 am
  • Introduction to NSF Programs
  • Dr. Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, Program Manager, National Science Foundation
August 11, 2025, 9:30-10:50 am
  • Introduction to Data Manipulation, Visualization and Machine Learning for Classifying Earth Landscape on ACES
  • Dr. Honggao Liu: Executive Director, Texas A&M University High-Performance Research Computing
August 11, 2025, 10:50-11:00 am
  • Break
August 11, 2025, 11:00 am - 12:20 pm
  • Exploring the I-GUIDE Platform
  • Dr. Shaowen Wang, Professor of the Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science, Associate Dean for Life and Physical Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
August 11, 2025, 12:20-1:00 pm
  • Lunch and Group Photo
August 11, 2025, 1:00-2:00 pm
  • Keynote Presentation: Emergency Management is a Geospatial Problem
  • Dr. Mike Goodchild, Professor Emeritus, University of California Santa Barbara
August 11, 2025, 2:00-3:20 pm
  • Toward Next-Generation Spatial Decision Support: Leveraging GeoAI and Cyberinfrastructure for Coastal Resilience
  • Social Sensing: Leveraging GeoAI and ACES High-Performance Computing
  • Dr. Zhe Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
August 11, 2025, 3:20-3:30 pm
  • Break
August 11, 2025, 3:30-4:20 pm
  • CAREER Panel Discussion and Close of Day 1
  • Dinner
August 12, 2025, 8:20-9:00 am
  • Welcome Coffee and Breakfast
August 12, 2025, 9:00-10:00 am
  • Group Work and Discussion
August 12, 2025, 10:00-11:00 am
  • From Systems to People: Humanizing Digital Twin
  • Dr. Xinyue Ye, Distinguished Professor of GeoAI at University of Alabama
August 12, 2025, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Group Work and Discussion
August 12, 2025, 12:00-1:00 pm
  • Lunch
August 12, 2025, 1:00-2:00 pm
  • GIS Applications in Traffic Safety Research
  • Dr. Bahar Dadashova, Research Scientist, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
August 12, 2025, 2:00-3:00 pm
  • Group Work and Discussion
August 12, 2025, 3:00-4:00 pm
  • Group Work and Discussion
August 12, 2025, 4:00-4:30 pm
  • Project Update Presentation and Close of Day 2
  • Dinner
August 13, 2025, 8:20-9:00 am
  • Welcome Coffee and Breakfast
August 13, 2025, 9:00-10:00 am
  • Modeling and Forecasting Hurricane Floods over Coastal Urban Watersheds
  • Dr. Huilin Gao, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University
August 13, 2025, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Group Work and Discussion
August 13, 2025, 12:00-1:00 pm
  • Lunch
August 13, 2025, 1:00-2:00 pm
  • Agentic AI in ArcGIS
  • Dr. Diya Li, Software Development Engineer, Esri
August 13, 2025, 2:00-3:00 pm
  • Group Work and Discussion
August 13, 2025, 3:00-4:00 pm
  • Group Work and Discussion
August 13, 2025, 4:00-4:30 pm
  • Project Update Presentation and Close of Day 3
  • Dinner
August 14, 2025, 8:20-9:00 am
  • Welcome Coffee and Breakfast
August 14, 2025, 9:00-10:00 am
  • Human Centered GeoAI for Disaster in the era of Generative AI
  • Dr. Yuhao Kang, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin
August 14, 2025, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Group Work and Discussion
August 14, 2025, 12:00-1:00 pm
  • Lunch
August 14, 2025, 1:00-2:00 pm
  • Quantifying Human Mobility Patterns during Disruptive Events with Big Geospatial Data
  • Dr. Yuqin Jiang, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Hawaii at Manoa
August 14, 2025, 2:00-3:00 pm
  • Group Work and Discussion
August 14, 2025, 3:00-4:00 pm
  • Group Work and Discussion
August 14, 2025, 4:00-4:30 pm
  • Project Update Presentation and Close of Day 4
  • Dinner
August 15, 2025, 8:20-9:00 am
  • Welcome Coffee and Breakfast
August 15, 2025, 9:00-11:30 am
  • Group Presentations
August 15, 2025, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
  • Lunch and Close of the Summer School