Presentations

Presentations and posters from past conferences. Asterisk (*) indicates I was the presenter.

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Conference Presentations

  • Streamlined HPC Environments with CVMFS and CyberGIS-Compute

    Alexander Michels*, Mit Kotak, Anand Padmanabhan, and Shaowen Wang
    I-GUIDE Forum 2023 October 2023

  • An Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Spatial Accessibility

    Alexander Michels* and Shaowen Wang
    I-GUIDE Forum 2023 October 2023

  • Impacts of Catchments Derived from Fine-Grained Mobility Data on Spatial Accessibility

    Alexander Michels*, Jinwoo Park, Bo Li, Jeon-Young Kang and Shaowen Wang
    International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience) September 2023

  • Evacuation Inequity in the Conterminous United States

    Alexander Michels, Chrysafis Vogiatzis*, and Shaowen Wang
    Dynamics of Disasters (DOD) July 2023

  • Exploring Road Infrastructure Inequities Across the Conterminous U.S.

    Alexander Michels*, Chrysafis Vogiatzis, and Shaowen Wang
    American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting March 2023

  • CyberGIS-Jupyter for Water - An Open Geospatial Computing Platform for Collaborative Water Research

    Zhiyu Li*, Alexander Michels, Anand Padmanabhan, Ayman Nassar, David G. Tarboton, and Shaowen Wang
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting December 2022

  • CyberGIS-Cloud: A Unified Middleware Framework for Cloud-Based Geospatial Research and Education

    Furqan Baig*, Alexander Michels, Zimo Xiao, Su Yeon Han, Anand Padmanabhan, Zhiyu Li, and Shaowen Wang
    ACM Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) July 2022

  • SCAMEL: Spatial Accessibility Analysis at Scale

    Alexander Michels*, Jeon-Young Kang, Jinwoo Park, and Shaowen Wang
    American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting February 2022

  • CyberGIS-Compute for Enabling Computationally Intensive Geospatial Research

    Anand Padmanabhan*, Ximo Ziao, Rebecca C. Vandewalle, Furqan Baig, Alexander Michels, Zhiyu Li, and Shaowen Wang
    ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on APIs and Libraries for Geospatial Data Science November 2021

  • Towards Reproducible Research on CyberGISX with Lmod and Easybuild

    Alexander Michels*, Anand Padmanabhan, Zhiyu Li, and Shaowen Wang
    Gateways 2021 October 2021 | Video

  • Enabling Computationally Intensive Geospatial Research on CyberGIS-Jupyter with CyberGIS-Compute

    Anand Padmanabhan*, Ximo Ziao, Rebecca C. Vandewalle, Alexander Michels, and Shaowen Wang
    Gateways 2021 October 2021

  • An Exploration of the Effect of Buyer Preference and Market Composition on the Rent Gradient using the ALMA Framework

    Alexander Michels*, Jeon-Young Kang, and Shaowen Wang
    3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoSpatial Simulation November 2020

  • Particle Swarm Optimization for Calibration in Spatially Explicit Agent-Based Modeling

    Alexander Michels*, Jeon-Young Kang, and Shaowen Wang
    American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting April 2020

  • CyberGIS-Jupyter for Spatially Explicit Agent-based Modeling: A Case Study on Influenza Transmission

    Jeon-Young Kang*, Jared Aldstadt, Alexander Michels, Rebecca Vandewalle, and Shaowen Wang
    ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoSpatial Simulation (GeoSim '19) November 2019


Invited Talks

  • CyberGIS-Compute: Enabling Simplified Access to High Performance Computing for your Geospatial Computation.

    Anand Padmanabhan* and Alexander Michels*
    NSF Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment (I-GUIDE) - Virtual Consulting Office Nov 2, 2022 | Video

  • CyberGIS-Compute: Geospatial Middleware for Simplifying Access to High-Performance Computing.

    Anand Padmanabhan* and Alexander Michels*
    NSF Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment (I-GUIDE) - Virtual Consulting Office July 27, 2022 | Video


Tutorials & Workshops

  • Geospatial Knowledge Discovery Harnessing Pre-trained Language Models on CyberGISX

    Zhaonan Wang, Wei Hu, Alexander Michels and Anand Padmanabhan
    NSF HDR Ecosystem Conference October 2023

  • CyberGIS-Compute: Geospatial Middleware for High-Performance Computing

    Alexander Michels and Anand Padmanabhan
    I-GUIDE Forum 2023 October 2023

  • CyberGIS-Compute: Geospatial Middleware for Simplifying Access to High-Performance Computing

    Alexander Michels and Furqan Baig
    ACES Workshop 2023 July 2023

  • CyberGIS-Compute: Geospatial Middleware for High-Performance Computing

    Alexander Michels
    AAG 2023 March 2023


Poster Sessions

  • CyberGIS-Compute: Middleware for Democratizing Scalable Geocomputation

    Alexander Michels*, Anand Padmanabhan, Zimo Xiao, Mit Kotak, Furqan Baig, and Shaowen Wang
    NSF HDR Ecosystem Conference October 2023 | Poster

  • ScalableAccess: Computing Travel-Time Polygons of Fine Spatial Granularity for Accessibility Analysis at Scale

    Alexander Michels*, Jeon-Young Kang, and Shaowen Wang
    UIUC GIS Day November 2021

  • Rapidly Measuring Spatial Accessibility of COVID-19 Healthcare Resources: A Case Study of Illinois, USA

    Jeon-Young Kang, Alexander Michels*, Fangzheng Lyu, Shaohua Wang, Nelson Agbodo, Vincent L. Freeman & Shaowen Wang
    UIUC SESE Research Review April 2021 | Poster

  • An Exploration of the Effect of Buyer Preference and Market Composition on the Rent Gradient using the ALMA Framework

    Alexander Michels*, Jeon-Young Kang, and Shaowen Wang
    UIUC GIS Day November 2020 | Poster

  • Particle Swarm Optimization for Calibration in Spatially Explicit Agent-Based Modeling

    Alexander Michels*, Jeon-Young Kang, and Shaowen Wang
    UIUC SESE Research Review February 2020 | Poster

  • CyberGIS-Jupyter for Spatially Explicity Agent-based Modeling: A Case Study in Influenza Transmission

    Alexander Michels*, Jeon-Young Kang, Jared Aldstadt, Rebecca Vandewalle, and Shaowen Wang
    UIUC GIS Day November 2019 | Poster

  • CyberGIS-Jupyter for Sustainable and Reproducible Geospatial Analytics

    Anand Padmanabhan*, Alexander Michels, Shaohua Wang, and Shaowen Wang
    UIUC GIS Day November 2019 | Poster

  • Computational Fact-Checking through Knowledge Graphs

    Himanshu Ahuja and Alexander Michels*
    Undergraduate Research Poster Session at 2019 Joint Mathematics Meeting January 2019 | Poster