Teaching
Courses I have taught and related materials.
Courses Taught as Instructor of Record
Business Location Decisions (GGIS/BADM 205), Spring 2023
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, UIUC
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
- 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
I’ve also created materials for a variety of tutorials/workshops on topics like cyberGIS, software hacking, HPC, and more. Materials here