Guido Cervoneis 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.
As Assistant Director of the Pennsylvania University’s Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Dr. Mark Coletti is actively performing research in the areas of geoinformatics, machine learning, and evolutionary computation. His principal focus is in big data analytics related to natural hazards, particularly that related to volunteered geographic information, as well as discerning interesting patterns of Medicare use. His research has been funded by the ONR and NSF.
Dr. Coletti is the current Chair of the Penn State Postdoctoral Society, and as such is responsible for organizing career enhancement, personal improvement, and social activities for over 460 postdoctoral scholars. He previously worked at George Mason University where he helped develop an evolutionary computation C++ toolkit; a biologically inspired cognitive model for a DARPA Grand Challenge; a Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization related multiagent simulation; an Office of Naval Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Office sponsored massive multiagent simulation of pastoral and farming behavior in eastern Africa; and a geospatial extension, GeoMason, for the multi-agent simulation toolkit MASON.
Earlier in his career he also worked as a senior software engineer in the Washington, DC, area on projects for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Federal Highway Administration, U. S. Army's Materiel Command, the U. S. Army Topographic Engineering Center, and the United States Geological Survey. These projects included an expert system to correct human sourced sea surface meteorological data, an expert system for validating materiel purchases, a topographic visualization system, a road surface wear calculator, and a toolkit for spatial data format conversion.
He has published over a dozen papers related to evolutionary computation, machine learning, large-scale multiagent simulations, biologically inspired cognitive architectures, and geographic information systems. He has also written a book on GeoMASON that is open source and freely available to the public.