Carley Honored With USGIF Academic Achievement Award
Kathleen M. Carley, director of the (CASOS) in the 's , received the 's (USGIF) at the organization's annual symposium this week in Tampa, Florida.
The USGIF, which seeks to advance the geospatial intelligence tradecraft as it relates to national security, cited Carley's development of Dynamic Network Analysis (DNA) theory, her work on social network analysis techniques and her development of the geospatial dynamic social network analysis and visualization tool, , as watershed contributions to the field.
"The theory of dynamic network analysis developed by Professor Kathleen Carley has enabled the development of a whole generation of geospatial network analysis and visualization tools," the USGIF said in the award announcement. "By supporting ORA and by training a vast number of researchers in the use of ORA, Dr. Carley has greatly facilitated this field. ORA allows students and researchers to explore multi-dimensional analysis and visualization techniques on many classes of data without having to write code."
ORA is used worldwide for such tasks as assessing disaster response, for gang and drug interdiction and, by NATO, for social media analytics.
A Fellow of IEEE, Carley is recipient of the Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence, the (ASA) Lifetime Achievement Award, and the . She also has served as president of the and of the .