Zhong-Ren Peng
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Prof. Zhong-Ren Peng's Personal Statement - candidate of the Board of Director for CI specialty group
Dr. Zhong-Ren Peng is Chair and Professor at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida. His major research interests are in the area of Internet GIS, and advanced information technology for Transportation research. His current research projects included developing geospatial semantic web technology for feature-level data sharing that is founded by the National Science Foundation, and developing transit service reliability models using real-time automatic vehicle location (AVL) systems.
In the past few years, Dr. Peng has secured more than $3.5 million in research grants funded by the National Science Foundation, US Department of Transportation, Federal Geographic Data Committee, and state and local government agencies, published a book "Internet GIS: Distributed geographic information services for the Internet and wireless networks" (Co-author Ming Hsiang Tsou) that has been regarded as a definitive work in the field of Internet GIS and authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles. In October 2002, he was honored with the "Excellence in Research Award" from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Foundation and Graduate School.
Dr. Peng is very active in professional organizations. He serves on the Geographic Information Science and Applications at the Transportation Research Board (TRB), The National Academy of Sciences. He is serving on the Advisory Panel of the National Science Foundation, the Board of Directors of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) and several other organizations. Professor Peng is an editorial board member of the Journal of American Planning Association. He was a visiting professor at MIT during 2003-2004.
If elected to be a member of Board of Director of the AAG Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group, I will be taking our group's needs to work with the NSF and TRB to promote the advancement and funding of Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure research and education.
