Wei-Ning Xiang Professor OFFICE: 439 McEniry PHONE: 704-687-5969 E-MAIL: wxiang@uncc.edu HOMEPAGE: SHORT VITAE: Click Here

I joined the Geography and Earth Sciences faculty at UNCC in 1990. My professional activities have since been found in several areas of scholarly inquiry—geographic information science (GIScience), multi-attribute assessment and evaluation in land use/landscape planning and decision-making, spatial decision support systems (SDSS), spatial simulation and modeling, and recently, critical infrastructure protection (CIP), and land use change, urbanization, and ecological restoration in China. I was the PI or Co-PI of about 40 research projects that are funded by various local, state, and federal governmental agencies as well as private organizations. My scholarly contributions appeared in International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Environment and Planning B, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Journal of Environmental Management, and Landscape and Urban Planning. I served on the editorial board of Environment and Planning B, and am currently on the editorial board of Landscape and Urban Planning. In 2002, I was a visiting professor at the Department of Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara, and a research fellow at National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) at Santa Barbara. I am a Zi-Jiang endowment adjunct professor of landscape ecology and planning, and a Zi-Jiang endowment research fellow at the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urbanization and Eco-Restoration (KLUER), East China Normal University.

I take my greatest professional pride in the students that I had the privilege to teach and/or work with. I served as academic advisor of about 40 graduate students who successfully completed their master’s theses. A substantial portion of my scholarly contributions is co-authored with students as one (not the only, of course) evidence of their achievements in the pursuit of academic degrees at the doctoral, master’s, or bachelor’s levels. A large number of students who took my classes and/or worked with me started their careers in the areas of GIS research, development, applications, and education in both public and private sectors across the country. Many of them stayed on and moved up.

I am fortunate to be able to work with colleagues in many other disciplines. My recent collaborators include scholars from academic fields of computer science, information technology, sociology, ecology, civil and environmental engineering, mathematics, and land science and technology.