Curriculum Vitae

Academic Positions

2015 — present Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
University of Colorado at Boulder
2014 — 2015 Assistant Professor
Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Graduate Center
City University of New York
2013 — 2015 Assistant Professor of GIScience
Department of Geography, Hunter College
City University of New York
2013 — 2015 Associate Director
Center for Advanced Research of Spatial Information (CARSI)
City University of New York

 Education

2008 — 2011 PhD in Geocomputation
National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
Thesis: Commuting flows & local labour markets: Spatial interaction
modelling of travel-to-work
Advisor: Prof. A. Stewart Fotheringham
2006 — 2008 MSc in Geography
University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada
Thesis: Spatial time-series analysis of satellite derived snow water equivalence
Advisor: Dr. Trisalyn A. Nelson
2001 — 2006 BSc, Honours (with Distinction), in Geography
University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada
Thesis: Mapping the effects of the modifiable areal unit problem on local
measures of spatial autocorrelation
Advisor: Dr. Ian J. O’Connell

Awards & Scholarships

2014 PSC CUNY Research Award, Hunter College, CUNY
2012 — 2014 Research Fellowship, Centre for GeoInformatics, University of St Andrews
2008 — 2012 Doctoral Fellowship, Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada
2011 Postgraduate Travel Fund/Collins Kitchin Fund, NUI Maynooth
2008 — 2011 PhD Fellowship, Irish Social Sciences Platform
2007 Derrick Sewell Graduate Scholarship, University of Victoria
2007 Physical Geography Student Paper Presentation Award, CAG
2006 Derrick Sewell Graduate Scholarship, University of Victoria
2006 Student Paper Presentation Award, Canadian Cartographic Association
2006 Ross Fund Undergraduate Scholarship, University of Victoria

Publications & Presentations

Refereed Publications

Non-Refereed Publications

Presentations

 Teaching

Courses

Introduction to GIScience, Advanced GIS, Spatial Data Analysis, Transportation Geography, Quantitative Methods

Student Supervision

Taylor Oshan* MS Thesis Advisor (Hunter College, CUNY)
Kristina Schmidt MS Thesis Advisor (Hunter College, CUNY)
Adele Balders MS Thesis Advisor (Hunter College, CUNY)
Joan Lee MS Thesis Advisor (Hunter College, CUNY)
Kristin Graves Thesis Co-Advisor (Hunter College, CUNY)
Silvia Lorenzo Thesis Co-Advisor (Hunter College, CUNY)

* Completed

Academic Service

July 2014 Program Committee Member (2014 International SciPy Conference)
2013 - present Committee Member (Public Health Certificate, Hunter College)
2013 - present Editorial Board Member (Spatial Demography)
2012 - present Reviewer (Journal of Spatial Science)
2012 - present Reviewer (Computers, Environment and Urban Systems)
2012 - present Reviewer (International Journal of Geographical Information Science)
June 2013 Co-Organizer and Co-Chair/Presenter (GIScience Study Group Special Sessions, CAG AGM)
2011 - present Member (Regional Studies Association)
2009 — present Reviewer (Transactions in GIS)
2008 — present Reviewer (Remote Sensing of Environment)
2008 — 2011 Member (National University of Ireland, Maynooth Graduate Feedback Council)
2007 — present Member (American Association of Geographers)
2007 — present Member (Canadian Association of Geographers)
2009 Reviewer (FOSS4G 2009 Conference Scientific Committee)
2006 — 2008 Organizer (Spatial Analysis Salon, Department of Geography, University of Victoria)
2008 Session Chair (American Association of Geographers AGM, Boston, USA)
2007 Organizer (Geography Graduate Student Conference, University of Victoria)

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