He is also an Assistant Director for the GeoVISTA Center in the Department of Geography. Dr. Robinson is the past-President of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS), and serves as the Chair of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) Commission on Visual Analytics. His research focuses broadly on designing and evaluating geovisualization tools to improve geographic information utility and usability. He has completed research projects in epidemiology, crisis management, national security, and higher education domains. Dr. Robinson has had the opportunity to teach one of Penn State’s Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) – Maps and the Geospatial Revolution, which has drawn over 125,000 students from 200 countries to date.