Team

We are a group of multi-cultural students from diverse backgrounds. The team is composed of undergraduate and graduate students from many disciplines, however we are all focused on geospatial research.

Our areas of expertise include Archeaology, Geography, Remote Sensing, Spatial Data Analysis, Spatial Statistics, among others.

Students on the team have various levels of expereince in programming and GIS and we welcome all who wish to better themselves in the field.

Below is the list of current and past team members, click see profile to learn more.

Faculty

May Yuan, Ph.D.

Ashbel Smith Professor of Geospatial Information Sciences

Her research centers on temporal GIS and its applications to geographic dynamics.

Graduate Students

Brent Dell

Ph.D. Student – GIS
(Programming & Computation Track)

Yogita Karale

Ph.D. Student – GIS
(Programming & Computation Track)

Arlo Mckee

Ph.D. Student – GIS

Yalin Yang

Ph.D. Student – GIS

Yanan Wu

Ph.D. Student – GIS

Sam Levin

M.S. Student – GIS

Kiley Holbert

M.S. Student – GIS

Undergraduate

All of our undergraduates have graduated. We await the next interns in Fall 2018. If you are interested in an internship with GAIA please connect with us.

Benjamin Acker

Graduated M.S. GIS – Spring 2018

Dylan Campbell

Graduated M.S. GIS – Spring 2018

Justin Moore

Graduated M.S. GIS – Spring 2018

Adam Sawyer

Graduated M.S. GIS – Spring 2018

Bryan Coan

Graduated B.S. GIS – Fall 2017

Vicky Liau

Ph.D. Student – GIS

Xianglong Zhou

Graduated M.S. GIS – Spring 2016

Jiaxu Fang

Graduated B.S GIS – Spring 2017

Emily Gold

M.S Student – GIS

Rutvick Velaga

B.A Student – Accounting

Brandon Johnson

B.S. Student – GIS

Cruz Deleon

B.S. Student – GIS

Interested in joining?

We are currently offering competitive internships (unpaid) for undergraduate and graduate students. Students will receive course credit for their contribution to various projects. If you are interested in contributing, refer to our internships page or email Dr. Yuan with your resume and the project you would like to work on.

We also accept graduate students whom are interested in developing a research project concurrently with our research goals. Please refer to our connect page, or email Dr. Yuan myuan@utdallas.edu with a resume and your research goals