Dr. Reza Mortaheb is an architect, city planner, and geospatial data scientist. He holds a master’s degree in architecture and a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Additionally, he earned a Ph.D. in Urban Systems from NJIT and Rutgers University. He is currently affiliated with San Diego State University and the University of California at Santa Barbara. His research interests span urban location modeling, spatial optimization, GeoAI, and planning support systems for smart cities.
Prof. Piotr Jankowski is a Professor of Geographic Information Science and the Director of the Joint Doctoral Program in Geography between SDSU and UCSB. Before coming to San Diego State in 2003 he held faculty appointments in Geography at the University of Idaho (1989–2001) and in Geoinformatics at Westfaelische Wilhelms Universitaet in Muenster, Germany (2001–2002). He holds an M.S. from the Poznan University of Economics and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. 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. He has co-authored two books: ‘Geographic Information Systems for Group Decision Making’ (2001), ‘GIS for Urban and Regional Environments: A Spatial Decision Support Approach’ (2009), and his work has been published in over 100 peer-reviewed journal publications. He has researched and taught in Austria, Brazil, Germany, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, and Poland. He is the recipient of the 2018/19 SDSU Alumni Distinguished Faculty Award.
Prof. Alan Murray is a Professor at the Department of Geography. He earned a BS in Mathematics, a Master’s in Statistics and Applied Probability, and a PhD in Geography, all from UC Santa Barbara. After his PhD, he was a Professor in the Department of Geography at Ohio State University (as well as Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis), a Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University, and a Professor in the College of Computing and Informatics as well as the School of Public Health at Drexel University prior to his return to UC Santa Barbara at the end of 2015. His research and teaching interests include geographic information science; spatial optimization; emergency response, health informatics; urban growth and development; land use planning; urban, regional, and natural resource planning and development; and, infrastructure and transportation systems.
