Shuming Bao
Co-Director, Spatial Data Lab
Director, China Data Institute
Shuming Bao received his Ph. D. in applied economics from Clemson University. He is currently the director of the China Data Institute and Future Data Lab in the US. He was a faculty member and the director of the China Data Center at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor prior to the establishment of China Data Institute. Dr. Bao has published more than 100 papers in the areas of GIS, regional economics, and spatial data analysis.