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Professor Mike Worboys
Professor
Mike Worboys is Professor of Spatial Informatics at the University of Greenwich. He is a distinguished scientist of the ACM, life member of the London Mathematical Society, and was selected as member of Mapping Science Committee of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Mike has held Honorary Professorships at the Universities of Edinburgh and Melbourne, Australia. Previous positions include Director of the School of Computing and Information Science, University of Maine, USA and Professor of Computer Science at Keele University.
Mike has been a researcher in geographic information science for more than 30 years. His textbook, Geographic Information Systems: A Computing Perspective co-authored by Matt Duckham, has more than 2000 citations (Google Scholar, 2021). He is the author of more than 80 fully refereed research papers and is a founding editor of the Journal of Spatial Information Science. He has served on the editorial boards of most of the major international research journals and has been programme chair of several national and international geographic information science conferences. He has received substantial research funding from the UK, USA, and European funding agencies. He has given keynote addresses to many international conferences.
Mike’s recent publications can be found at https://gala.gre.ac.uk/cgi/facet/simple2?q=worboys&_action_search=
Mike has worked for many years at the boundary between computer science, mathematics, and geographic information science. His current research interests include:
- Ontologies and data models for dynamic geographic phenomena, including those sensed by wireless sensor networks;
- Formal models of the topology of spatial scenes;
- Unified models of indoor and outdoor spaces;
- Qualitative approaches to spatial reasoning under uncertainty;
- Geospatial technology in the emergency management domain.
Responsibilities within the university
Greenwich GIScience Group Leader
Awards
- 2009 Selected as member of Mapping Science Committee (MSC) of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council.
- 2008 University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) 2008 Research Award
- 2006 Association of Computing Machinery, Distinguished Scientist
- 2004 University of Maine, School of Engineering, Dean's Award of Excellence
- 2001 (joint with Matt Duckham) Best paper award for "Computational structure in three-valued nearness relations", International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, Morro Bay, CA, USA
Recognition
- Distinguished Scientist of the ACM
- Life Member of the London Mathematical Society
- Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Spatial Information Science
- Member of the Mapping Sciences Committee of the US U.S. National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council
Research / Scholarly interests
The boundary between computer science, mathematics, and geographic information science. Current research interests include:
- Ontologies and data models for dynamic geographic phenomena, including those sensed by wireless sensor networks;
- Formal models of the topology of spatial scenes;
- Unified models of indoor and outdoor spaces;
- Qualitative approaches to spatial reasoning under uncertainty;
- Geospatial technology in the emergency management domain.
Key funded projects
A Galton (PI) (visitor M. Worboys), UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Council, Research Grant, Spatio-Temporal Knowledge Representation for Emergency Management, UKPounds 12, 900, 2010-11.
M. Worboys (PI), K. Beard, S. Nittel, A. Abedi, Global Relief Technologies, Critical Infrastructure and Logistical Assets, $490,000, 2009-2010.
M. Worboys (PI), N. Giudice, National Science Foundation, Research Grant, Proposal No: 0916219, III:RI:Small:Information integration and human interaction for indoor and outdoor spaces, $478,715, 2009-2012.
M. Worboys (PI), Government of South Korea, Indoor Spatial Awareness, $270,000, 2008-2011.
M. Worboys (PI), S. Nittel, National Science Foundation, Research Grant IIS-0534429, Monitoring dynamic spatial fields using responsive geosensor networks, $309,000, 2006-2009.