Teaching

Courses Taught as Instructor of Record

Business Location Decisions (GGIS/BADM 205), Spring 2023
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, UIUC
Syllabus available here
Analyzes location decision-making emphasizing industrial and commercial location patterns; identifies important institutional factors and their changing roles over the recent past; and focuses on plant closings, economic disruptions, and problems of structural change.

Awards & Certificates

Certificate in Foundations of Teaching
May 5th, 2023
The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning
University of Illinois

Teacher Ranked As Excellent By Their Students
June 2023
Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning
University of Illinois

Tutorials & Workshops

• Introduction to Git
  

  Alexander Michels
  I-GUIDE Summer School 2024: Leveraging AI for Environmental Sustainability August 2024

• I-GUIDE Platform
  

  Anand Padmanabhan* and Alexander Michels*
  I-GUIDE Summer School 2024: Leveraging AI for Environmental Sustainability August 2024

• 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

• 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

I’ve also created materials for a variety of tutorials/workshops on topics like cyberGIS, software hacking, HPC, and more. Materials here