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  • Graduate Program in Spatial Analysis
    Faculty Members

    Sandeep K. Agrawal, Associate Professor, School of Urban and Regional Planning
    PhD University of Illinois
    Urban planning, GIS, ethnic enclave, immigrant settlement and integration

    David Atkinson, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
    MES University of Waterloo, PhD (ABD) Queen's University
    Arctic biophysical systems, remote sensing, carbon flux, GIS and environmental analysis

    Douglas Banting, Professor, Department of Geography
    PhD University of Western Ontario
    Geographic analysis in the workplace; environmental applications of GIS; GIS and runoff modelling; greenroofs

    Michal Bardecki, Professor, Department of Geography
    PhD York University
    Environmental assessment and decision-making, economic valuation, cumulative impact management, media and the environment, geography of Las Vegas

    Beth Carlson, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
    PhD University of Calgary
    Population health and GIS, public participatory GIS, perceptions of safety of place

    Brian Ceh, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
    PhD University of Western Ontario
    Business and commercial geography, urban-economic studies, GIS, geo-quantitative analyses, retail and marketing geography, regional science and economic development

    Philip Coppack, Professor and Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts
    PhD University of Waterloo
    GIS applications in geodemographic and recreation analysis, facilities location, business; Internet GIS applications; Economic and behavioral analysis of non-priced amenity environments and their role in recreation; Environmental perception and the creation of vernacular landscapes; Structure of the rural-urban fringe.

    Frank Duerden, Professor, Department of Geography
    MA University of Manitoba
    Land and resource management, regional development, northern Canada, circumpolar issues, land claims.

    Marcos Escobar, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics
    PhD University of Toronto
    Financial mathematics, stochastic processes, dependence structures, time-spatial modelling, biostatistics

    Sabastian Ferrando, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics
    PhD, University of Toronto
    Signal processing, image processing, applied probability and stochastic processes; ergodic theory; financial mathematics


    Wayne Forsythe, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
    PhD University of Salzburg, Austria
    Urban Change Detection, Geospatial Analysis of Sediment Contamination, Remote Sensing, GIS

    Sutama Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
    PhD York University
    Urban social geography, immigration and settlement geography, transnationalism, 'race' and racism

    Murtaza Haider, Associate Professor, Ted Rogers School of Retail Management
    PhD University of Toronto
    Applied spatial econometrics, transportation demand forecasting, housing market analysis, and logistics management

    Tony Hernandez, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
    PhD Manchester Metropolitan University, England
    Retail location, business GIS, site research, location strategy, geodemographics.

    Songnian Li, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
    PhD University of New Brunswick
    Collaborative GIS and geographic visualization; spatial decision support systems (SDSS); Web-based and wireless mapping and GIS; spatiotemporal GIS.

    Ken Jones, Professor and Dean, Ted Rogers School of Management
    PhD York University
    Retail location, spatial strategy, Canadian retail economy, retail structural analysis.

    Susan Laskin, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
    MA University of Toronto
    Impact of GIS on cartography, visualization of spatial data.

    Anthony Lea, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Geography
    PhD University of Toronto
    Geodemography, socioeconomic and demographic correlates with behaviour, advanced site evaluation models, spatial interaction models, location-allocation models, spatial decision support tools and systems, shopping behaviour.

    Wieslaw Michalak, Associate Professor, School of Image Arts
    PhD University of Alberta
    Visualization, GIS, information economy

    Andrew A. Millward, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
    PhD University of Waterloo
    GIS and remote sensing applications in disturbance ecology and urban forestry

    Claus Rinner, Assistant Professor and MSA Program Director, Department of Geography
    PhD University of Bonn, Germany
    Geographic visualization, spatial decision support systems, participatory GIS, Web mapping, location-based services, geodata infrastructures, health and urban applications of GIS

    Pamela Robinson, Assistant Professor, School of Urban and Regional Planning
    PhD University of Toronto
    Urban sustainability, environmental design, environmental planning, urban governance, public engagement and progressive pedagogy

    Lu Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
    PhD York University
    GIS and consumption analysis, GIS and health, spatial accessibility modeling and visualization, geostatistics, immigration and settlement, retail internationalization

    Shuguang Wang, Professor and Chair, Department of Geography
    PhD University of Alberta
    Geography of urban retailing, GIS applications in the study of commercial activity, Ethnic economy, Economic geography of China.

    Maurice Yeates, Professor and Dean, School of Graduate Studies
    PhD Northwestern University, FRSC
    Spatial modeling, Business geomatics




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