Guido Cervone is Director of GeoInformatics & Earth Observation Laboratory in the Department of Geography and Institute for CyberScience at the Pennsylvania State University and Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, Institute for CyberScience, GeoVISTA Center The Pennsylvania State University. He is also affiliated faculty in the Research Application Laboratory (RAL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

His fields of expertise are geoinformatics, machine learning and remote sensing. His research focuses on the development and application of computational algorithms for the analysis of spatio-temporal remote sensing, numerical modeling and social media “Big Data” related to man-made, technological and environmental hazards. He operates a satellite receiving station for NOAA POES satellites. His research us funded by ONR, DOT, NASA, Italian Ministry of Research and Education, Draper Labs, Stormcenter Communication.

Guido Cervone is a member of the advisory committee of the United National Environmental Programme, division of Disasters and Early Warning Assessment. In 2013 he received the “Medaglia di Rappresentanza” from the President of the Italian Republic for his work related to the Fukushima crisis. He received the 2013 ISNAAF award. He co-chaired the 2010 SIGSPATIAL Data Mining for Geoinformatics (DMG-10) workshop. He served as the program co-chair for the 2008 and 2009 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining (SSTDM) workshop.

He authored two edited books, over forty fully refereed articles relative to data mining, remote sensing and environmental hazards. In 2010, he was awarded a US patent for an anomaly detection algorithm. His research on natural hazards was featured on TV news and newspapers, on general interest magazines such as National Geographic, and on international magazines.