Education

• 2008. Ph.D. Geography, University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
• 2003. M.S. Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
• 2000. B.S. Geography, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
  

Professional Experience

• 2009 – present, Assistant Professor of School of Natural Resources. University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
• 2008 – 2009, Postdoctoral Research Associate, United States Geological Survey.
• 2003 - 2008, Ph.D Student, Teaching Associate, Teaching Assistant, Graduate Student Researcher, University of California-Santa Barbara

Selected Recent Refereed Publications

• Guan, Q. and K. C. Clarke. Accepted. A General-purpose Parallel Raster Processing Programming Library Test Application Using a Geographic Cellular Automata Model. International Journal of Geographical Information Science.
• Guan, Q. 2009. pRPL: an open-source general-purpose parallel Raster Processing programming Library. SIGSPATIAL Special, 1(1): 57-62
• Adler, P. B., J. HilleRisLambers, P. C. Kyriakidis, Q. Guan, and J. M. Levine. 2006. Climate variability has a stabilizing effect on coexistence of prairie grasses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(34): 12793-12798
• Guan, Q. , L. Wang and K. C. Clarke. 2005. An Artificial-Neural-Network-based, Constrained CA Model for Simulating Urban Growth. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 32(4): 369-380

Other Professional Experience

• Chair, High-performance Computing Committee, Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, 2009-present.
• Member, Association of American Geographers, 2006-present.
• Member, International Association of Chinese Professional in Geographic Information Systems, 2006-present.
• Member, Cartography and Geographic Information Society, 2005-present.