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Daniel Sui

Daniel Sui is a Chinese American geographer/GIScientist and currently serves as the senior president and chief research & innovation officer at Virginia Tech. Sui previously served as vice chancellor for research & innovation at the University of Arkansas – Fayetteville and division director for social & economic sciences at the U.S. National Science Foundation.

Daniel (Dan) Sui
Senior Vice President and Chief Research & Innovation Officer of Virginia Tech
Incumbent
Assumed office
November 1, 2020
Preceded byDon Taylor (Interim)
Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation at the University of Arkansas – Fayetteville
In office
October 1, 2018 – October 30, 2020
Preceded byJim Rankin
Succeeded byJohn English
Division Director for Social & Economic Sciences at the U.S. National Science Foundation
In office
July 1, 2016 – September 30, 2018
Preceded byJeryl Mumpower
Succeeded byDaniel Goroff
Personal details
Born
Dianzhi Sui

(1965-06-01) June 1, 1965 (age 59)
SpouseFeng Xu
Alma materPeking University (BS, MS),University of Georgia (PhD)
Websitewww.research.vt.edu

Education

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Sui earned his B.S. with Highest Honors in Geography (majored in Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology) in 1986 and M.S. in Geographic Information Science (GIScience) in 1989, both from Peking University. He got his Ph.D. in geography (focusing on GIS-based spatial analysis and modeling) from the University of Georgia in 1993.

Current research and major contributions

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Despite increasing administrative and leadership responsibilities, Sui has kept his research and teaching active up to the present. He has published over 260 refereed journal articles and book chapters, he has also authored/co-authored a dozen books, edited volumes, and covered a variety of topics, ranging from GIS for Homeland Security,[1] Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge Production,[2] to Human Dynamics in Smart and Connected Communities,[3] Mapping COVID-19 in Space and time.[4] Sui is considered to have made multiple contributions to theoretical foundations of geographic information science,[5][6][7] new methodologies to study cities and environmental issues,[8] understanding the emerging paradigms in geographic thoughts,[9] promoting convergence of geographical research,[10] and setting the agenda for research reproducibility and replicability in geography and beyond.[11] He is currently working on projects related to seamlessly integrating space and place to conduct holistic geographic analysis with the goal of espousing a new quantum turn in geography and GIScience.

Career

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Sui's entire academic career since 1989 has been with public land-grant universities in the U.S. except during his sabbaticals serving as a visiting senior research scientist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta (2007), the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in Rome, Italy (2000/2001), and a visiting professor at University of California, Santa Barbara, California (2001).

Texas A&M

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Immediately after his Ph.D. in 1993, Sui was offered a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Department of Geography at Texas A&M, where he received early tenure and promotion in 1997, an endowed chair in 2001, and a promotion to full professor in 2002. While at TAMU, Sui served as Geography's graduate program director (1997-1999) and assistant vice president for research & director for geospatial information science and technology (2004-2009).

The Ohio State University

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In 2009, Sui was recruited by the Ohio State University to run the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA) – a position he held until 2012. Sui served as Chair of Geography at OSU between 2011 and 2015. Sui was a distinguished professor of social & behavioral sciences between 2009 and 2015, and an arts & sciences distinguished professor between 2015 and 2018.

The U.S. National Science Foundation

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Between 2016 and 2018, Sui was on loan to the federal government from OSU [through the Intern-governmental Personnel Act (IPA)] to serve as division director for social & economic sciences at the U.S. National Science Foundation.[12]

University of Arkansas – Fayetteville

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Between 2018 and 2020, Sui served as vice chancellor for research & innovation and institutional director for Arkansas Biosciences Institute at the University of Arkansas – Fayetteville.[13][14][15] He was also a distinguished professor of geosciences at the University of Arkansas.

Virginia Tech

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Sui was appointed as vice president for research & innovation in Fall 2020[16] and was promoted to senior vice president and chief research & innovation officer one year after.[17] At Virginia Tech, Sui is also a professor of geography and internal & public affairs. During his first 18 months at Virginia Tech, Sui has focused on expanding research development support efforts for all researchers at VT, launching the new research frontier areas to guide VT's institutional investment, reorganizing and streamlining the operation of the Research and Innovation Office, and working with all stakeholders to seek a 360-degree partnership to increase VT's extramural research funding to address the multiple challenges facing humanity today.

Major Honors, Awards, and Recognitions

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Sui received multiple national and international recognitions for research and teaching accomplishments, including the 2019 CPGIS distinguished scholar award,[18] 2015 Woodrow Wilson Public Policy scholar,[19][20] 2014 Distinguished Scholar Award of the AAG Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group, Michael Breheny Best Paper Prize, 2009 Guggenheim Fellow,[21] 2004 AT&T Fellow, and 2014 Google Fellow. He is also a recipient of two university-level outstanding teaching awards and the best paper for college-level teaching by the U.S. National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE).

References

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  1. ^ Sui, Daniel (2008). Geospatial Technologies and Homeland Security. Springer. Bibcode:2008gths.book.....S.
  2. ^ Sui, Daniel; Elwood, Sarah; Goodchild, Michael (2013). Crowdsourcing geographic knowledge: Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in theory and practice. Springer.
  3. ^ Shaw, Shih-Lung; Sui, Daniel (2018). Human dynamics in smart cities. Springer.
  4. ^ Shaw, Shih-Lung; Sui, Daniel (2021). Mapping COVID-19 in space and time: Understanding the spatial and temporal dynamics of a global pandemic. Springer.
  5. ^ Sui, Daniel (2004). "GIS, cartography, and the "third culture": Geographic imaginations in the computer age". The Professional Geographer. 56 (1): 62–72. doi:10.1111/j.0033-0124.2004.05601008.x.
  6. ^ Sui, Daniel (2014). "Full-Text @ UW Opportunities and impediments for open GIS". Transactions in GIS. 18 (1): 1–24. doi:10.1111/tgis.12075. S2CID 41726001.
  7. ^ Sui, Daniel (2008). "The wikification of GIS and its consequences: Or Angelina Jolie's new tattoo and the future of GIS". Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 1 (32): 1–5. doi:10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2007.12.001.
  8. ^ "The Future of Cities In a Post-Pandemic World: Exploring The Emerging Terra Incognita". Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong.
  9. ^ Sui, Daniel (2004). "Tobler's first law of geography: A big idea for a small world?". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 94 (2): 269–277. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.2004.09402003.x. S2CID 143904098.
  10. ^ Sui, Daniel; Goodchild, Michael (2011). "The convergence of GIS and social media: challenges for GIScience". International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 25 (11): 1737–1748. doi:10.1080/13658816.2011.604636. S2CID 15664974.
  11. ^ Sui, Daniel; Kedron, Peter (2021). "Reproducibility and Replicability in the Context of the Contested Identities of Geography". Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 111 (5): 1275–1283. doi:10.1080/24694452.2020.1806024. S2CID 228959438.
  12. ^ "Dan Sui named SES Division Director of SBE at NSF". geography.osu.edu.
  13. ^ "Sui Selected as Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation". University of Arkansas News.
  14. ^ "UA appoints top research officer". Northwest Arkansas Newspapers. August 2018.
  15. ^ "University of Arkansas' top research officer resigns". Talk Business & Politics. 11 September 2020.
  16. ^ "Daniel Sui appointed vice president for research and innovation". vtx.vt.edu.
  17. ^ "Virginia Tech announces leadership promotion and structural changes to further accelerate research growth". vtx.vt.edu.
  18. ^ "Welcome to Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences(CPGIS)". www.cpgis.org.
  19. ^ "Sui selected as Wilson Public Policy Scholar" (PDF).
  20. ^ "Daniel Z. Sui, Former Public Policy Scholar". The Wilson Center.
  21. ^ "Daniel Z. Sui, the Guggenheim Fellow". The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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