Shih-Lung Shaw is Chancellor’s Professor and Alvin and Sally Beaman Professor in the Department of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research interests cover transportation geography, geographic information science, space-time analytics, and human dynamics, especially on topics related to transportation planning and modeling, air transportation, time geography, human dynamics in hybrid physical-virtual world, space-time GIS, and GIS for transportation. Shaw is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and an elected Fellow of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). He also is a recipient of the Edward L. Ullman Award for outstanding contributions to the field of transportation geography and the Outstanding Scholar Award in Regional Development and Planning from the American Association of Geographers (AAG).

Shaw served as President of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) as well as Department Head and Interim Associate Provost for International Education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the lead editor of Springer’s Human Dynamics in Smart Cities book series and an editorial board member of several academic journals, including Annals of the American Association of Geographers, International Journal of Geographic Information Science, Journal of Transport Geography, Travel Behaviour and Society, among others.