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Dr. Philip Huff is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock and Director of Cybersecurity Research in the Emerging Analytics Center. He has a 15-year history of working in the electric industry managing cybersecurity operations and has co-founded the cybersecurity AI startup, Bastazo, Inc.
After a 15-year career in the electric sector managing cybersecurity operations, Dr. Huff came to UA Little Rock to prepare the next generation of cybersecurity professionals. Dr. Huff completed his master’s degree at James Madison University in Computer Science with Infosec specialization and his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Arkansas. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
His career interests are to develop security professionals and to advance innovative solutions to improve the security of our nation’s critical infrastructure.

Chunyuan Diao has been an assistant professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the university of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 2017. She teaches courses including Introduction to Remote Sensing, Techniques of Remote Sensing, and Programming for GIS.
Her research focuses on computational remote sensing of terrestrial ecosystem dynamics at local to global spatial scales and daily to decadal temporal scales. She has a particular interest in advancing computational remote sensing paradigms in characterizing land surface patterns and processes, underlying mechanisms, and subsequent feedbacks to the atmosphere. Her work combines remote sensing, process-based models, field observations, artificial intelligence, and high-performance and cloud computing to study ecosystem structures, functions, and responses to climate change and human activities. This research traverses varying ecosystems, including natural (e.g., forest), human-dominated (e.g., agriculture), and disturbed (e.g., species invasion) ecosystems. Current focus areas include computational remote sensing, multi-scale land surface phenology, intelligent agriculture, and invasive species and biodiversity.
Her research team has developed a novel framework, called CropSight, to retrieve the object-based crop type ground truth. CropSight is a unique national-scale crop ground reference data repository and embodies a wealth of season-long remotely sensed crop growth and environmental attributes across crop growing locations for most crop types in the U.S.
She is a fellow of the Association of American Geographers and previously received the Early/Mid-Career Research Award from the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (2023), a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2021), the NASA Early Career Investigator Award (2021), and AAG Early Career Scholars in Remote Sensing Award (2020).
Research interests

Time series remote sensing, space-time analytics
Vegetation phenology, continuous vegetation monitoring
Computational remote sensing, deep learning
Agriculture, forest, and invasive species dynamics

Education

PhD, Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo
MA, Biostatistics, State University of New York at Buffalo
BS, Beijing Normal University

Website

Department: English, Libraries 
Areas of expertise:

Digital Humanities
Artificial intelligence and machine learning
Digital libraries and museums
Open access and scholarly publishing 

Nowviskie is the Dean of Libraries and a professor of English. She was previously the executive director of the Digital Library Federation and a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Distinguished Presidential Fellow. She was president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and chair of the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Information Technology. 
Her research interests include digital humanities, digital libraries, community-based archives, Nineteenth-century literature, material culture, textual criticism, machine learning, environmental humanities in the context of climate change, indigenous ways of knowing and the history of the book. 
Nowviskie earned a bachelor's degree in English and archaeology at the University of Virginia, a master's degree in English education at Wake Forest University and a doctorate in English at the University of Virginia.