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  • Pedro V. Amaral - Visiting Ph.D. Student (2010), University of Cambridge
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    Spatial analysis and applied spatial econometrics and their applications to regional and urban economics.
  • Luc Anselin - Director and Foundation Professor , School of Geographical Sciences
    Office: SCOB 330C
    Phone: 480.965.6316
    Research Interests:

    Spatial data analysis and geographic information science, with applications in regional economics, environmental economics, real estate economics as well as in epidemiology, criminology and political science.
  • Patricio Aroca - Professor, Universidad Catolica del Norte
    Office: Instituto de Economía Aplicada Regional (IDEAR)
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    Research Interests:

    Urban and regional economic analysis 
  • Daniel Arribas-Bel - Affiliated Ph.D. Student, University of Zaragoza
    Office: Coor 5614
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    Research Interests:

    * Urban economics and city size distribution

    * Urban sprawl

    * Spatial Econometrics
  • Michael Barton - Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change
    Office: SHESC 152A
    Phone: 480-965-6262
    Research Interests:

    Field Specializations: Archaeology, Human Ecology, Geoarchaeology, Agrarian Societies, Hunter-Gatherers, Lithic Technology, Paleoanthropology, Landscape Studies, Spatial Studies
  • Michael Batty - Professor, University College London
    Office: Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
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    Graphics-Based and Mathematical Models for Cities, Applications of Fractal Geometry and Cellular Automata to Urban Structure
  • Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) - University College London
    Office: Dr. Mike Batty and Dr. Paul Longley
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  • Jonathan Corcoran - Research Fellow, University of Queensland
    Office: Social Research Centre
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    Research Interests:

    Geographical Techniques for Urban Modelling, Use of Geo-analytical, Geo-visualisation and Prediction Techniques
  • Fatemah Dili - Research Advancement Administrator, SGeoS and GeoDa Center
    Office: Coor 5675
    Phone: 480-727-9745
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  • David C. Folch - Ph.D. Student, School of Geographical Sciences, GeoDa Center
    Office: Coor 5614
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    Research Interests:

    Segregation, Inequality, Spatial Statistics, Geocomputation, Urban Structure, Public Policy
  • Janet Franklin - Professor, School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning/ School of Life Sciences
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    Landscape ecology, terrestrial plant ecology, vegetation science, biogeography, conservation ecology, biophysical remote sensing of terrestrial ecosystems, geographic information science
  • Arthur Getis - Emeritus Professor, San Diego State University
    Office: Department of Geography
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    Research Interests:

    Spatial Statistics, Pattern Analysis, Urban Geography, Disease and Crime Clustering, Geographic Information Sciences 
  • Housing and Urban Analysis Laboratory - University of Tokyo
    Office: Dr. Atsuyuki Okabe
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  • Myunghwa Hwang - Ph.D. Student, SGeos and GeoDa Center
    Office: Coor 5634
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    Research Interests:

    Geospatial web services, spatial statistics, GIS, spatial data mining, medical geography.
  • Urban and Regional Infrastructure System Research Division - Institut Teknologi Bandung (Indonesia)
    Office: Dr. Ibnu Syabri
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    Cooperative Agreement
  • Instituto de Economía Aplicada Regional - Universidad Catolica del Norte (Chile)
    Office: Dr. Patricio Aroca
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  • Julia Koschinsky - Research Director, GeoDa Center
    Office: Coor 5632
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    Place-based impact measurement research, quasi-experimental research design, spatial data analysis, evaluation of rental housing programs.

  • Timothy Lant - Research Director, Decision Theater
    Office: BYOH, 170F
    Phone: 480-965-6548
    Research Interests:

    Dr. Lant builds mathematical and system dynamics models for the Decision Theater for a variety of topical areas including public health, water and natural resource management, urban planning and innovation systems. He builds models for use as scenario analysis tools and for policy and planning exercises.
  • Paul Longley - Professor, University College London
    Office: Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
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    Research Interests:

    Geographic Information Science, Geodemographics, Public Service Provision, Urban Morphological Analysis
  • Nancy Lozano-Gracia - Postdoctoral Research Associate, GeoDa Center
    Office: Coor 5632
    Phone: 480-965-6672
    Research Interests:

    Spatial analysis and spatial econometric methods and their applications to environmental, regional and urban economic problems.

  • Mark McCann - Research Scientist, GeoDa Center
    Office: Coor 5636
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    Research Interests:

    Algorithms, scientific computing, data structures.
  • Lee Mobley - Senior Research Economist, RTI International
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    Health Economics; Spatial Modeling, Regression, and Analysis; GIS, Market Analysis, and Antitrust; Health Care Quality and Access
  • Alan Murray - Professor, School of Geographical Sciences
    Office: COOR 5610
    Phone: (480) 965-8242
    Research Interests:

    Geographic information science; urban, regional and natural resource planning; applications of quantitative methods; location modeling; spatial decision support systems
  • Soe W. Myint - Associate Professor, School of Geographical Sciences
    Office: SCOB 146
    Phone: 480-965-6514
    Research Interests:

    Land-use and land-cover mapping, forest type mapping, urban growth prediction and mapping, assessment and monitoring of land degradation and desertification, coastal environment management information system, Geospatial and frequency based multi-scale multi-decomposition techniques.
  • National Centre for Geocomputation - National University of Ireland, Maynooth
    Office: Dr. Stewart Fotheringham
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  • Paul Padegimas - Ph.D. Student, SGeos and GeoDa Center
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  • Donna J. Peuquet - Professor, Penn State University
    Office: Department of Geography
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    Geographic knowledge representation, knowledge discovery, spatio-temporal data models, spatial cognition, AI approaches to knowledge representation, geocomputation, and GIS design.
  • Gianfranco Piras - Postdoctoral Research Associate
    Office: Coor 5634
    Phone: (480) 965 7533
    Research Interests:

    Spatial Econometrics, Spatial Statistics, Computational methods, Spatial data analysis, Regional modelling, Economic Geography
  • Sergio J. Rey - Professor, School of Geographical Sciences
    Office: COOR 5612
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    Research Interests:

    Open source geocomputation, spatial econometrics, spatial data analysis, economic geography, integrated multiregional modeling, regional science
  • Michael S. Rosenberg - Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences
    Office: LSA 260
    Phone: 480-965-1578
    Research Interests:

    Computational evolutionary biology, bioinformatics

     
  • Myrna Sastre Gutierrez - Postdoctoral Researcher, CONACYT and GeoDa Center
    Office: COOR 5618
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    Research Interests:

    Regional inequality, growth and distributional analysis; spatial poverty traps and socioeconomic interactions, human and economic geography;  spatial econometrics, quantitative and geocomputational methods for regional analysis.

  • Mark Schmeeckle - Associate Professor, School of Geographical Sciences
    Office: Coor 5638
    Phone: 480-727-8199
    Research Interests:

    Geomorphology, Fluvial Processes, Sediment Transport
  • Charles R. Schmidt - Research Analyst, GeoDa Center
    Office: COOR 5636
    Phone: 480.965.7310
    Research Interests:

    Geographic Computation and Visualization, Cyber Infrastructure, Spatial Analysis, Internet Mapping, Remote Sensing
  • V. Kerry Smith - Professor, W.P. Carey School of Business
    Office: BAC 431
    Phone: 480-727-9812
    Research Interests:

    General: environmental economics public economics applied econometrics; Specific topics: economic valuation of environmental amenities; sorting models and general equilibrium policy analysis; evaluation of individual behavior under uncertainty.
  • Daniel Stanzione, Jr. - Affiliate Professor, School of Computing and Informatics
    Office: ERC 552
    Phone: (480) 727-8738
    Research Interests:

    Distributed computing; high performance computing; cyber-infrastructure.
  • Ibnu Syabri - Professor, Institut Teknologi Bandung
    Office: Department of Planning
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    Research Interests:

    Geographic Computation and Visualization; Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis with Origin-Destination Data; Regional Science 
  • Emily Talen - Professor, School of Geographical Sciences
    Office: COOR 5618
    Phone: 480-965-2055
    Research Interests:

    Urban form, sustainable cities, new urbanism
  • George E. Tita - Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine
    Office: Department of Criminology, Law and Society
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    Criminology, Spatial Analysis, Community Context of Violence, Urban Youth Gangs, Homicide Studies 
  • Paul Torrens - Associate Professor, School of Geographical Sciences
    Office: Coor 5650
    Phone: 480-965-7832
    Research Interests:

    GI Science, geosimulation, spatial analysis, spatial statistics, game engine AI, urban geography, urban planning, land-use and land cover change, cybergeography
  • Paul A. Waddell - Professor, University of Washington
    Office: Public Affairs and Urban Design & Planning
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    Research Interests:

    Land Use and Transportation Policy, Urban Simulation Modeling
  • Elizabeth A. Wentz - Associate Professor, School of Geographical Sciences
    Office: SCOB 142
    Phone: 480-965-4144
    Research Interests:

    GIS, Spatial Analysis, Environmental
  • Andrew Winslow - Research Analyst, GeoDa Center
    Office: Coor 5636
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    Computational geometry, scientific computing, graph theory.
  • Yin Liu - Ph.D. Student, SGeos and GeoDa Center
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    Application of Spatial Statistics, Transportation Network Modeling, GIS