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== Representative Publications ==
== Representative Publications ==
''2022:'' [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2022.105082 "Knowledge graph construction and application in geosciences: A review"], Computers & Geosciences, 161, 105082<br />
''2022:'' [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2022.105082 "Knowledge graph construction and application in geosciences: A review"], Computers & Geosciences, 161, 105082<br />
''2018:'' [https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78999-6_34 "Data Science for Geoscience: Leveraging Mathematical Geosciences with Semantics and Open Data"], Handbook of Mathematical Geosciences: Fifty Years of IAMG, Springer, Berlin<br />
''2018:'' [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2017.12.007 "Information extraction and knowledge graph construction from geoscience literature"], Computers & Geosciences, 112, 112-120<br />
''2018:'' [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2017.12.007 "Information extraction and knowledge graph construction from geoscience literature"], Computers & Geosciences, 112, 112-120<br />
''2015:'' [https://link.springer.com/journal/12145/8/1/ "Semantic eScience"] (lead editor), Springer, Berlin. Special Issue of Earth Science Informatics, ISSN 1865-0473<br />
''2015:'' [https://link.springer.com/journal/12145/8/1/ "Semantic eScience"] (lead editor), Springer, Berlin. Special Issue of Earth Science Informatics, ISSN 1865-0473<br />

Revision as of 12:51, 23 March 2022

Xiaogang Ma
马小刚
Ma at Idaho EPSCoR Conference 2016
Born1980 (age 44–45)
Tianmen, Hubei, China
Other namesMarshall Ma
Alma materRensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
ITC, University of Twente,
China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)
AwardsIAMG Vistelius Award,
ISC World Data System Data Stewardship Award,
SciTS Meritorious Contribution Award
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Idaho
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
ITC, University of Twente
Doctoral advisorFreek van der Meer,
John Carranza,
Chonglong Wu
Other academic advisorsPeter Fox (Postdoctoral Mentor)
Websitewebpages.uidaho.edu/max/

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

Early Life and Education

Ma has 25% native heritage of the tribe Tujia in China. Raised up in Tianmen, Hubei province, he finished elementary to high school education in the same county, and then went to Wuhan in 1998 for college. Ma earned his B.Eng and Dr.Eng both from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), and PhD from University of Twente. His interests in geoinformatics was initiated by a few research projects he participated when he was an undergraduate student of Land Resource Management. Before graduation he was awarded a scholarship for graduate study at the same university, where he finished a doctorate degree in Geoinformatics Engineering. As the degree was engineering-oriented, Ma went forward for a science-oriented graduate study at ITC, originally affiliating with Utrecht University and then University of Twente. He had close collaboration with the international open data projects OneGeology and OneGeology-Europe during that time. In 2011, he was awarded a PhD degree of Earth System Science and GIScience 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. He has also been active in community programs or initiatives, including the Deep-Time Data Infrastructure,[12] the Deep-time Data Driven Discoveries,[13] and the IUGS Deep-time Digital Earth.[14] 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.[15]

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.[16] 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,[17] and Member of the Independent Review Board for NASA's Planetary Data Ecosystem.[18] 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

2022: "Knowledge graph construction and application in geosciences: A review", Computers & Geosciences, 161, 105082
2018: "Data Science for Geoscience: Leveraging Mathematical Geosciences with Semantics and Open Data", Handbook of Mathematical Geosciences: Fifty Years of IAMG, Springer, Berlin
2018: "Information extraction and knowledge graph construction from geoscience literature", Computers & Geosciences, 112, 112-120
2015: "Semantic eScience" (lead editor), Springer, Berlin. Special Issue of Earth Science Informatics, ISSN 1865-0473
2014: "Capturing provenance of global change information", Nature Climate Change, 4(6), 409-413

Awards

References

  1. ^ https://webpages.uidaho.edu/max/
  2. ^ https://webapps.itc.utwente.nl/librarywww/papers_2011/phd/ma.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  3. ^ "Xiaogang (Marshall) Ma". Tetherless World Constellation. July 1, 2016.
  4. ^ https://tw.rpi.edu/web/person/XiaogangMa/Projects
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2021-10-20. Retrieved 2021-10-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ "About the Global Change Information System - GCIS". US Global Change Research Program.
  7. ^ "Global Change Information System". March 30, 2021 – via GitHub.
  8. ^ "Xiaogang Ma's Projects". Tetherless World Constellation. July 1, 2016.
  9. ^ "Geographic Information Systems in the Sciences". Tetherless World Constellation. January 4, 2013.
  10. ^ "Managing Idaho's Landscapes for Ecosystem Services | MILES". www.idahoecosystems.org.
  11. ^ "U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium 2018". U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium 2018.
  12. ^ "DTDI". dtdi.carnegiescience.edu.
  13. ^ "homepage | Carnegie 4D Project". 4d.carnegiescience.edu.
  14. ^ "DDE world". www.ddeworld.org.
  15. ^ "TickBase project". tickbase.net.
  16. ^ "IAMG Awards Committee". iamg.org.
  17. ^ "CODATA Task Group". codata.org.
  18. ^ "Final Report of the Planetary Data Ecosystem Independent Review Board, April 2021" (PDF). nasa.gov.
  19. ^ https://www.uidaho.edu/engr/events/college-awards
  20. ^ https://www.inscits.org/2018-awards
  21. ^ https://www.iamg.org/images/File/documents/Newsletters/NewslettersHSP/NL90lo.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  22. ^ https://www.worlddatasystem.org/community/data-stewardship-award/2014-award
  23. ^ https://wiki.esipfed.org/FUNding_Friday_Projects#2012_Winners
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