Visitors

For information about our visiting scholar's program, please contact Caverlee Cary to make a tentative appointment.

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Current Visitors

Scholar from Geoscience Australia

September 2006 - Present

Alan has received one of four Fulbright Professional Awards in 2006 and is conducting research at the GISC. Alan investigates bushfire research systems for fire forecast spread mapping using characteristics derived from satellite imagery while sharing his expertise in remote sensing and geographic information systems. In his home institution in Canberra, Australia, he works as a remote sensing and GIS scientist in the Geospatial and Earth Monitoring Division of Geoscience Australia. Alan has a Bachelor of Engineering Science, University of Mazanderan in Iran; Masters in Engineering Science, University of New South Wales; a PhD in Geographical Information Systems, University of Tasmania; and a Graduate Certificate in Management, University of Western Sydney. Alan has an established reputation in the spatial information industry having published over 40 papers and technical reports. He has received several awards including; the “High Performance award” from Geoscience Australia, from 2002 to 2005; AusIndustry COMET Grant for business development skills; and the Adelaide University Grant Business Enterprise Program in 2001 when he established Australian Spatial Technologies Pty Ltd. Alan is an emeritus faculty member of the Center of Excellence in Geomatics Engineering and Disaster Prevention, at the University of Tehran. Dr Forghani has taught at universities in Tehran as Assistant Professor from 1998-2000 and at the University of South Australia when he was appointed as a Research Fellow from 2000-2001.

From School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems,the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia

September 2006 - Present

Sharon Kazemi is a spatial information technologist at the Geographic Information Science Center (GISC) of the University of California (UC) Berkeley. Her faculty host is Professor John Radke. Prior joining the GISC at Berkeley, she was working as a risk exposure modeler and GIS analyst at the Geospatial and Earth Monitoring Division of Geoscience Australia. At the GISC, Sharon is tasked to develop GIS training modules/programs, workshops and short courses. She is also keenly interested in spatial modeling and database mining/generalization and its applications over a variety of scales, from local, to regional and national landscapes that fits well with her PhD research as she is currently completing a PhD degree in GIS on the topic of “derivation of multi-scale map and spatial data products from a master database” at the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems, the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney Australia. Her academic faculty supervisor is Dr Samsung Lim. Sharon has performed tutoring tasks for undergraduate courses including GMAT3200 - Geospatial Information Techniques and Applications, GMAT2200 - Geographic Information Systems & CAD, and GMAT0411 - Surveying in Building and Construction. Since 1999 to present, Sharon worked in universities, government agencies as well as the private sector where she has been performing research and technical support in spatial project management and undertaking applied research into spatial information technologies. Sharon is the winner of several awards including the Deans Postgraduate Research Award 2005 at Faculty of Engineering of the UNSW, Faculty of Engineering Research PhD Scholarship & Supplementary Engineering Award 2005, BAE Systems Chairman’s Award for Innovation Bronze 2004 for building National Topographic Seamless Database of Australia, M.Eng Scholarship 2004 at the UNSW, Chancellor of University of Ferdwosi-Mashad’s Commemoration Award, and winner of Ministry of Education & Training Scholarship 1988 in Tehran. Sharon is a young researcher who has demonstrated her scientific leadership through over 15 publications in conferences and journals. Sharon is a member of the Center of Excellence in Geomatics Engineering and Disaster Prevention, at the University of Tehran.