Lead Digital & GIS Systems Developer
Email: bguan@fiu.edu
Telephone: (305) 348-4332
Department: GIS Center
Office: GL 275
Dr. Boyuan Guan is the Lead Digital/GIS System Developer at the Florida International University (FIU) GIS Center and Library, where he has served since 2011. He specializes in building AI-driven digital infrastructure that bridges geospatial systems, research data platforms, and intelligent automation.
With over a decade of leadership in institutional technology development, Dr. Guan has designed and engineered more than 15 large-scale web applications supporting organizations such as FIU, SOUTHCOM, FDOT, Miami-Dade MPO, and USDA. His early work focused on transportation safety systems, GIS integration, and decision-support platforms.
In recent years, his research and development focus has evolved toward the future of AI-enabled research ecosystems, with an emphasis on:
- Agentic AI and Autonomous Research Assistants – creating AI frameworks that can search, analyze, and reason over institutional knowledge to support scholars and research workflows.
- Smart Data Pipelines and FAIR Infrastructure – integrating Dataverse, high-performance computing (HPC), and Ceph-based storage to support large-scale scientific data stewardship.
- Embeddings and Vector Databases – architecting semantic search and knowledge retrieval systems for digital libraries and research discovery.
- Optimization of AI/ML Systems – improving model efficiency, data inference quality, and real-time AI integration within web-based institutional platforms.
Dr. Guan earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from FIU’s Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Science (2022), where his thesis focused on recommender systems, cloud optimization, and domain-specific AI. He also holds a Master’s in Transportation Engineering (FIU, 2019), during which he served as an in-house engineer for FDOT District Six.
He began his career after completing a B.S. in Software Engineering at Beihang University (China), followed by work as a core engineer at NetTOP (163.com) and later as a system architect for emergency response platforms in Beijing.
Today, Dr. Guan’s work at FIU centers on advancing the role of AI, data infrastructure, and geospatial intelligence in the future of academic libraries and research institutions.