Xiaogang Ma Explained

Xiaogang Ma
Other Names:Marshall Ma
Birth Place:Tianmen, Hubei, China
Workplaces:University of Idaho
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
ITC, University of Twente
Alma Mater:Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
ITC, University of Twente,
China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)
Fields:Data science, Geoinformatics, Cyberinfrastructure
Doctoral Advisor:Freek van der Meer,
John Carranza,
Chonglong Wu
Academic Advisors:Peter Fox (Postdoctoral Mentor)
Awards:IAMG Vistelius Award,
ISC World Data System Data Stewardship Award,
SciTS Meritorious Contribution Award

Xiaogang Ma (; born 1980) or Marshall Ma is a data science and geoinformatics researcher at the University of Idaho (UI), United States. He is an associate professor in the department of computer science at UI, and also affiliates with the department of earth and spatial sciences and several research institutes and centers at the university.[1]

Early life and education

Ma was born in Tianmen, an inland county in Central China. He finished college and graduate studies at China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) in the early 2000s. Then in 2007 he went to ITC, the Netherlands for PhD study, originally affiliating with Utrecht University and then University of Twente.[2] In 2011, he was awarded a PhD degree of Earth System Science and GIScience from University of Twente with his dissertation "Ontology Spectrum for Geological Data Interoperability".[2] In early 2012, Ma joined the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) as a postdoctorate fellow, with financial supports from the Sloan Foundation and NSF.[3] At RPI, he received intensive training of data science methods and semantic technologies, and he participated and led several research projects.[4] In 2014, Ma was promoted to associate research scientist at RPI.[5]

Career

Ma's research addresses the needs of methods and building blocks in the cyberinfrastructure ecosystem to facilitate data science. At RPI, he took leadership roles for ontology development in the Global Change Information System[6] [7] of the U.S. Global Change Research Program and data science activities of the Sloan-funded Deep Carbon Observatory.[8] He also taught a data analytics course for the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at RPI.[9]

In 2016, Ma joined the Department of Computer Science at University of Idaho (UI). He continued his research on data science and geoinformatics at UI, including knowledge graphs, open data, and algorithms for spatio-temporal analysis, and he created several new courses related to data science and open data. In 2016 and 2017 Ma was an affiliate scientist with MILES - Managing Idaho's Landscapes for Ecosystem Services project,[10] where he contributed to the cyberinfrastructure development. In 2018, he co-initiated the U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium (US2TS) and received sponsorship from NSF, the Sloan Foundation, and Elsevier's Artificial Intelligence journal.[11] Since 2017, Ma has worked intensively on the deep-time data science, with several projects funded by NSF and NASA, including the OpenMindat project to provide open access to the data of Mindat.org, the largest database of minerals in the world.[12] [13] He has also been active in community programs or initiatives, including the Deep-Time Data Infrastructure,[14] the Deep-time Data Driven Discoveries,[15] and the IUGS Deep-time Digital Earth.[16] In 2020 and 2021, Ma led a team of researchers from four U.S. universities and received a multi-million grant from NSF to conduct cross-disciplinary data science studies on climate change, ecology, biology, socioeconomics, and public health.[17]

Ma is associate editor or editorial board member for several journals, including Computers & Geosciences, Applied Computing & Geosciences, Data Science Journal, Earth Science Informatics, and Big Earth Data. He has been the Chair of the Awards Committee of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG) since 2019.[18] Previously, he served as Councilor of IAMG, Chair of the Geoinformatics and Data Science Division of the Geological Society of America, Chair of the Task Group for Coordinating Data Standards amongst Scientific Unions under CODATA,[19] [20] and Member of the Independent Review Board for NASA's Planetary Data Ecosystem.[21] Ma is also active in several other data science and geoinformatics communities, including the American Geophysical Union, the Research Data Alliance, and the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners.

Representative publications

Books, book chapters & journal special issues

Journal articles & commentaries

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Xiaogang (Marshall) Ma .
  2. Xiaogang Ma . Ontology Spectrum for Geological Data Interoperability. University of Twente. 9789061643234. PhD. November 2011.
  3. Web site: Xiaogang (Marshall) Ma. July 1, 2016. Tetherless World Constellation.
  4. Web site: Xiaogang (Marshall) Ma | Tetherless World Constellation.
  5. Web site: Xiaogang Ma promoted to Associate Research Scientist | Tetherless World Constellation . 2021-10-20 . 2021-10-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211020232050/https://tw.rpi.edu/web/NewsAndAnnouncements/XiaogangMaAssociateResearchScientist . dead .
  6. Web site: About the Global Change Information System - GCIS. US Global Change Research Program.
  7. Web site: Global Change Information System. March 30, 2021. GitHub.
  8. Web site: Xiaogang Ma's Projects. July 1, 2016. Tetherless World Constellation.
  9. Web site: Geographic Information Systems in the Sciences. January 4, 2013. Tetherless World Constellation.
  10. Web site: Managing Idaho's Landscapes for Ecosystem Services | MILES. www.idahoecosystems.org.
  11. Web site: U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium 2018. U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium 2018.
  12. Web site: Mindat and University of Idaho collaborate on 'OpenMindat'. mindat.org.
  13. Ma . Xiaogang . Ralph . Jolyon . Zhang . Jiyin . Que . Xiang . Prabhu . Anirudh . Morrison . Shaunna M. . Hazen . Robert M. . Wyborn . Lesley . Lehnert . Kerstin . 2. OpenMindat: Open and FAIR mineralogy data from the Mindat database . Geoscience Data Journal . Wiley . 29 May 2023 . 2049-6060 . 10.1002/gdj3.204 . free .
  14. Web site: DTDI. dtdi.carnegiescience.edu.
  15. Web site: homepage | Carnegie 4D Project. 4d.carnegiescience.edu.
  16. Web site: DDE world. www.ddeworld.org.
  17. Web site: TickBase project. tickbase.net.
  18. Web site: IAMG Awards Committee. iamg.org.
  19. Web site: CODATA Task Group. codata.org.
  20. Ma . Xiaogang . Wyborn . Lesley . Hodson . Simon . 2022 . Data sharing: more science unions must act . . 610 . 7931 . 257 . 10.1038/d41586-022-03233-2. 36220927 . 2022Natur.610..257M . 252784551 .
  21. Web site: Final Report of the Planetary Data Ecosystem Independent Review Board, April 2021. nasa.gov.
  22. Web site: Faculty Award Winners 2022-23, University of Idaho .
  23. Web site: Faculty Award Winners 2022-23, University of Idaho .
  24. Web site: College of Engineering Awards - University of Idaho .
  25. Web site: 2018 Awards .
  26. https://www.iamg.org/images/File/documents/Newsletters/NewslettersHSP/NL90lo.pdf IAMG Newsletter
  27. Web site: 2014 Award Winner — World Data System: Trusted Data Services for Global Science .
  28. Web site: FUNding Friday Projects . 10 November 2021 .

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