Piotr Jankowski is a Professor of Geographic Information Science and the Director of the Joint Doctoral Program in Geography between San Diego State University (SDSU) and the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on models and methods of spatial decision support, participatory GIS approaches to planning and decision making, and sensitivity analysis in space-time models. Piotr has co-authored two books: "Geographic Information Systems for Group Decision Making: (2001) and "GIS for Urban and Regional Environments: A Spatial Decision Support Approach" (2009). His work has been published in over 110 peer-reviewed journal publications. He is the recipient of the 2018/19 SDSU Alumni Distinguished Faculty Award.