HomeWorld Educational Resources
Science Ingeration | System Thinking | Authentic Learning
David Williamson
CEO & President
David Williamson is the president and Chief Executive Officer of the HomeWorld Educational Resources. He is a geologist and has 22 years of working experience in oil and gas industry. He has strong passion in Earth science and environmental education. He has a rich experience in project and company management. Dave has strong project and business management skills. Also, he is a domain expert and has MS degrees in geographic information sciences (GIS) and geosciences. David Williamson will serve as the key coordinator with the UTD research team and the project manager for EasyVille educational content preparation, materials reviewer, and the organizer of the review camp.
Zachary Clowdus
Design & Content Director / Board Secretary
Zach enjoys the research process and using my geoscience knowledge to educate others on interesting topics. He likes coming up with creative solutions to complicated problems and collaborating with a team to produce a great finished product as efficiently and effectively as possible.
Steve (Zhongjie) Zheng
Technology Director / Board Member
Zhongjie Zheng is also a technical consultant in the HomeWorld Educational Resources. He is a Senior Software Engineer at Splunk and was a software development engineer at Amazon. He has 8 years of online platform and mobile software engineering experience. He is specialized in UI control, 3D rendering, Unity, and OpenGL, and familiar with CesiumJS, which is an open source JavaScript library for creating world-class 3D globes and maps and its extended product Cesium Ion is one of the primary resources that we will use to develop the EasyVille. He has a MS degree in computer science. Zhongjie Zheng will serve as the primary technical leader of the EasyVille development.
Ali N. Salman
AI Solution Expert / Board Member
I am a research assistant (and Ph.D. student) in the Multimodal Signal Processing Lab (MSP) at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), under the mentorship of Dr. Carlos Busso. My research interests include affective computing, deep learning, computer vision, and human-computer interaction (HCI).
