Fazlay S. Faruque (editor) - Geospatial Technology for Human Well-Being and Health

received his PhD in chemical oceanography from the University of South Florida in 1988. In 1995, he came to the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC) to provide user assistance for Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) ocean color data. He has worked with and promoted the use of the Giovanni system since 2003 and has published several papers demonstrating the use of the system for various topics in Earth science. He also authored the book The Color of the Atmosphere with the Ocean Below: A History of NASAs Ocean Color Missions for the NASA Science and History Divisions.

is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and Womens Health. She is currently the Principal Investigator and Project Manager for Asthma 411, a school-based asthma initiative that has been adopted by eleven Independent School Districts, with over 300 participating campuses. Her research and public health interests include neighborhood-level contributors to health disparities and the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based community health initiatives. Her earlier professional experience includes providing primary health care services to low-resource, urban communities as a Family Nurse Practitioner.

is a full-time professor/researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico. He was appointed as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kansas biodiversity institute, where he worked with the amazing biodiversity informatics and ecological niche modeling group led by Dr. Townsend Peterson and Dr. Jorge Sobern. Dr. Yaez obtained his PhD in 2013 from the Instituto de Ecologa, A.C. under the guidance of Dr. Enrique Martinez-Meyer and Dr. Salvador Mandujano. He completed his masters (2009) at the Instituto de Ecologa, A.C., and his bachelor thesis at the Universidad Autnoma de Yucatn (2007).

is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Management and Data Science Research Center at the Yazd University. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He received his PhD in Data Science from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). His publications are mostly in the areas of knowledge-based systems, expert systems with applications, energy, neurocomputing, and computational design and engineering. His current research interests include blockchain technology, business intelligence, data mining, and intelligent optimization techniques.

is a Geographer with the US EPAs Homeland Security Research Program. His work primarily focuses on response and cleanup issues following chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) incidents. He has also been developing computer-based decision support tools to aid decision makers in responding to wide-area contamination incidents. Before joining the EPA, he worked as an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Fellow, where he conducted research on wide-area CBRN remediation.

now retired, was an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Operational Research at the Lisbon University, where she taught graduate and undergraduate level courses in spatial statistics, statistics applied to medicine, demography, sampling theory, and theory of epidemics. She was director of the Methodology Department of the Portuguese National Statistical Institute. She served five years on the European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC), appointed by the European Commission.