Rob Raskin

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Prof. Rob Raksin's Personal Statement - candidate of the Board of Director- non-academic for CI specialty group

I am Supervisor of the Science Data Engineering Group at NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. My expertise is in semantics and semantic interoperability. I work with large volumes of spatially referenced data from satellites. Prior to coming to JPL, I was a Visiting Fellow at NCGIA at UCSB. I hold a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Michigan. My accomplishments include:

- Co-Founder and interim Chair, CISG

- PI, Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology (SWEET)

- Vice-President, Earth Science Information Partner (ESIP) Federation

- Associate Editor and Feature Editor, Earth Science Informatics journal

- Co-Editor, IJGIS Special Issue on Distributed Geographic Computing

- Co-Organizer, GIS Service Oriented Architecture Workshop at GIScience 2008 Meeting

- Co-Organizer, Cyberinfrastructure and GIS Workshop at GIScience 2008 Meeting

- Organizer, Embracing GIS in the Earth Sciences Session, AGU Fall 2007 Meeting

- Member, Technical Advisory Board, Geoinformatics Division, Geol Soc America

- Panel Chair, Internet GIS: Geospatial Interoperability & CI, AAG 2006 Annual Meeting

- Member, Technical Advisory Committee, Marine Metadata Initiative

- Member, Technical Program Committee, Geoinformatics 2006 and 2007 Conferences

- Founder and Chair, JPL GIS Users Group

- Co-Chair, NASA Earth Sciences Technical Infusion Working Group (2004-07)

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