Wenwu Tang, Pn.D.
Wenwu Tang, Pn.D.
Wenwu Tang is the Executive Director of the Center for Applied Geographic Information Science (gis.charlottewp.psapp.dev) and Associate Professor at the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research interests include cyberinfrastructure and high-performance geocomputation, agent-based modeling, land change modeling, Web GIS, and their geospatial applications. Tang has over 90 peer-reviewed publications and two edited books. Wenwu’s research has been supported by federal and state funding agencies (about $3.2 million in total), including USDA Forest Services, US CDC, US Fish and Wildlife, NCDOT, NC Forest Service, and Electric Power Research Institute. Relevant courses that Wenwu have taught include CyberGIS and Big Data, Spatial Statistics, and Web GIS. Wenwu is the editorial board member of Landscape and Urban Planning, academic editor of PLOS One, and guest editors of three special issues (Sustainability, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information).