Getting Started with the I-GUIDE Platform: Open Office Hours
October 7, 2026 11:00 am (Central Time)
Abstract
The I-GUIDE Platform offers an open, collaborative environment for geospatial data-intensive research and education, supported by advanced cyberGIS and cyberinfrastructure. This session is run as an open office hour rather than a formal presentation. We will begin with a brief orientation and a short hands-on walkthrough: creating an account and logging in, searching for and exploring knowledge elements such as datasets, notebooks, models, and educational resources, and launching a notebook on the Platform's JupyterHub to run an analysis. The remainder of the time is reserved for attendees' questions, and we will shape the session around the interests in the room — whether that means contributing your own knowledge elements, accessing high-performance computing minting DOIs for your work, or troubleshooting a specific workflow. Newcomers and returning users are both welcome; no prior experience with the Platform is required.
Speakers
Anand Padmanabhan
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Anand Padmanabhan is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He holds a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Iowa and has research interests in advanced cyberinfrastructure, geographic information science and systems (GIS), cyberGIS, distributed and high-performance computing, and geospatial data science. He serves as the Managing Director of I-GUIDE and a co-lead of its Cyberinfrastructure Team.