Shen-Shyang Ho

Shen-Shyang Ho is a visiting assistant research scientist at the Center for Automated Research (CfAR), University of Maryland, starting 1 June 2010. Currently, he is a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. Before this, he was a NASA postdoctoral fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 2007-2009. Shen-Shyang received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from George Mason University in 2007 and his Bachelor (Honors) in Science (Mathematics and Computational Science) from the National University of Singapore in 1999. From 2007-2009, Shen-Shyang was the recipient of the highly competitive NASA postdoctoral fellowship to develop robust cyclone tracking and eye-locating algorithms using heterogeneous data from multiple satellite sources, and the development of novel data mining techniques to understand global cyclone evolutions. Currently, he is the co-I/ science-PI for a three-year NASA funded project to develop an information system for weat