2017 Western Lakes Division of the American Association of Geographers (WLAAG) Annual Meeting will have two keynote sessions
The afternoon luncheon keynote address on Friday, October 20 will be delivered by Dr. Daniel Sui.
Daniel Sui is an Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and Professor of Geography,
Public Affairs, Public Health and Urban/Regional Planning at the Ohio State University
(OSU). Since July 2016, he has been on an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) assignment
to serve as the Division Director for Social and Economic Sciences (SES) at the U.S.
National Science Foundation. Prior his current appointment, Daniel Sui served as Chair
of Geography (2011-2015) and as Director of the Center for Urban & Regional Analysis
(CURA) (2009-2012) at OSU. Before joining the faculty of OSU in July 2009, he was
a professor of geography (1993-2009) and holder of the Reta A. Haynes endowed chair
(2001-2009) at Texas A&M University. He holds a BS (1986) and MS (1989) from Peking
University and PhD from University of Georgia (1993). His research current interests
cover issues related to robust and reliable practices in spatially integrated social
sciences and humanities, human dynamics in smart & connected cities, location-based
social media, open/alternative GIS, Deep Web/Darknet and legal/ethical issues of using
geospatial technology in society. Daniel Sui was a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow, 2006 winner
of the Michael Breheny Prize for best paper in Environment and Planning, 2014 Google
Faculty Fellow and 2014 recipient of the distinguished scholar award from the Association
of American Geographers. Sui was also the 2015 Public Policy Scholar in residence
at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He served on the U.S. National
Mapping Science Committee for two terms (2007-2013) and served as editor-in-chief
for GeoJournal between 2007 and 2017. More information about Sui’s current research
can be found at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel_Sui.
The dinner keynote address on Friday, October 20 will be delivered by Dr. Julie Cidell, associate professor in the department of geography and geographic information science.
Dr. Cidell is currently treasurer of the American Association of Geographers. She
was editorial board member of The Professional Geographer and Journal of Transport Geography. She has served as chair of the transportation geography specialty group and been
on the board of urban geography specialty group, the California geographical society,
Margaret Trussell Scholarship Committee of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers
among others.
Dr. Cidell has refereed over 25 journals in geography and related fields; has been a reviewer and/or panelist for National Science Foundation and equivalent organizations in the Czech Republic, Hong Kong and Luxembourg. Dr. Cidell has been the recipient of Fulbright Scholarship to Australia (2013-14) and a Beckman Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois (2012-13).