Speaker Bio

Bio: Dr. Wenwen Li is a Foundation Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University (ASU), where she directs the Spatial Analysis Research Center (SPARC). Her research interests include cyberinfrastructure, big data, geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI), and their applications in data- and computation-intensive environmental and social sciences. Her work has led to widely used cyberinfrastructure tools (e.g., PolarHub and PolarGlobe), and conceptual advances that support climate resilience, disaster response, humanitarian aid, and clean water access in underserved communities. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the NSF Mid-Career Advancement Award. Dr. Li is a Fellow of the American Association of Geographers and the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science. Her recent honors include selection as the 2024 AGU Greg Leptoukh Lecturer, the 2025 GSA M. Lee Allison Award for Outstanding Contributions to Geoinformatics, appointment as a Distinguished Lecturer in the AGU College of Fellows Distinguished Lecture Series (2025–2026), and a 2025 NASA Group Achievement Award as part of the AI for Science Team for contributions to AI foundation models for science.