The University of Maine - MS Information Systems

Graduate Student Profiles

Student Profiles (includes both MSIS and SIE Students)

David Almeida
Degree Program: PhD Spatial Info Sci & Engr
Focus:

Susan Buzzell

Program: GIS Certificate

James Campbell

Degree Program: PhD Spatial Info Sci & Engr
Focus: finding information, especially spatially-referenced information; personal privacy in the digital age; broadening the public domain and commons environments online

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Research Interests: Video

Guillaume Charest-Hallee

Program: GIS Certificate
Focus:

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Academic Interests: Video

Kate Cuddy

Degree Program: MS Spatial Info Sci & Engr
Focus: using virtual spatialized audio for displaying navigation information, specifically for the purpose of developing a device (or mobile application) for indoor wayfinding

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Research Interests: Video

Gail Dana-Sacco

Program: GIS Certificate

Stacy Doore

Degree Program: MS Spatial Info Sci & Engr
Focus: spatio-temporal information systems, semantics, data integration, sensor networks, environmental health monitoring systems, bioinformatics, and ontologies

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Research Interests: Video (Forthcoming)

Christopher Dorr

Degree Program: MS Spatial Info Sci & Engr
Focus: decentralized sensor networks, ad-hoc communications systems, recursive data structures
Research Interests: Video

Matthew Dube
Degree Program: PhD Spatial Info Sci & Engr
Focus: anisotropic spaces; sensor network communications; topology; topological relations; spatial reasoning; indoor navigation

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Research Interests: Video

Raymond (Jake) Emerson

Degree Program: PhD Spatial Info Sci & Engr
Focus: event detection and tracking, ontologies, sensor networks, informatics

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Christopher Farah

Degree Program: PhD Spatial Info Sci & Engr
Focus: detecting topological events using distributed algorithms in wireless sensor networks, algebraic topology / homology, spatio-temporal events, distributed algorithms

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Michael Hennessey

Degree Program: MS Information Systems
Focus: Information Security, Web Development, Database Administration, Middleware

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Internship: Video

Kraig King

Degree Program: PhD Spatial Info Sci & Engr
Focus: sensor networks, remote sensing, event detection, self organization, knowledge discovery, data modeling, data collection platform resource conservation, ontologies

Qinghan Liang

Degree Program: PhD Spatial Info Sci & Engr
Focus: spatial-temporal aspects of data stream management systems, sensor networks, geographical information science, and remote sensing

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Research Interests: Video

Benjamin E. Maynard

Degree Program: MS Spatial Info Sci & Engr
Focus: foundations of indoor space, indoor-outdoor space navigation systems
Research Interests: Video

Michael McLaughlin

Degree Program: MS Information Systems
Focus:

Lisa Montgomery

Program: GIS Certificate
Focus:

Francois Neville

Degree Program: PhD Spatial Info Sci & Engr
Focus: spatiotemporal field interpolation, geophysical modeling, data-driven induction, machine learning, numerical analysis, wireless sensor networks
Research Interests: Video

Huseyin Arda Nural

Degree Program: PhD Spatial Info Sci & Engr
Focus: streaming geodata management, moving objects pattern discovery, geosensor networks

Katrina Petersen

Degree Program: MS Information Systems
Focus: use of cloud and open source technologies to benefit rural communities

Monoj Kumar Raja

Degree Program: MS Spatial Info Sci & Engr
Focus: mobile and portable GIS, indoor location based services (LBS), opensource GIS

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Research Interests: Video

Avinash Rude

Degree Program: MS Spatial Info Sci & Engr
Focus: Knowledge discovery, data mining, event detection in sensor data streams, storms detection

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Research Interests: Video

Paul Smitherman

Degree Program: MS Spatial Info Sci & Engr
Focus: spatio-temporal geostatistical analysis and modeling, human-computer interaction, indoor navigation

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Research Interests: Video

Rick Tanney

Degree Program: PhD Spatial Info Sci & Engr
Focus:Spatial cognition, perception, neural networks, philosophy, ethics, religion, and computer science. Are you as near as you think you are?

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Research Interests: Video

Lisa Walton

Degree Program: PhD Spatial Info Sci & Engr
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Benjamin Weber

Degree Program: MS Spatial Info Sci & Engr
Focus: mobile GIS interaction and data management, object tracking, mobile software development

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Research Interests: Video

Danqing Xiao

Degree Program: MS Spatial Info Sci & Engr
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Zhong (Albert) Zhao

Program: PhD Spatial Info Sci & Engr
Focus: quantitative-qualitative approaches to location modeling, representing granularity with gazetteers, spatial ambiguity in natural language descriptions

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Research Interests: Video