Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and the College
Director, Center for Spatial Data Science
Senior Fellow, NORC
Luc Anselin is the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and the College, the Director of the new Center for Spatial Data Science and a Senior Fellow at NORC. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011.
Executive Director and Senior Research Associate, Center for Spatial Data Science
5735 S Ellis Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Julia Koschinsky is the Executive Director and Senior Research Associate of the Center for Spatial Data Science at the University of Chicago and has been part of the GeoDa team for over 18 years. She has been conducting and managing research funded through federal awards of over $8 million to gain insights from the spatial dimensions of urban challenges in housing, health, and the built environment.
Associate Director for Data Science, Center for Spatial Data Science
Xun Li, Ph.D. is the Associate Director for Data Science at the University of Chicago's Center for Spatial Data Science. Prior to joining the Center, he worked as the principal software engineer of the GeoDa and GeoDa-Web software at Arizona State University. He also held software engineering positions at Motorola R&D, Microsoft Research, and Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs.
Assistant Instructional Professor of GIScience
Crystal Bae is Assistant Instructional Professor of GIScience in the Division of the Social Sciences and the College. Her research in spatial cognition focuses on geographic movement visualization, real-world navigation, cognition of neighborhoods and regions, and social decision making. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography with an Emphasis in Cognitive Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is a former postdoc of the Movement Data Science Lab at UCSB.
Assistant Instructional Professor of GIScience
Yue Lin is an Assistant Instructional Professor of Geographic Information Science in the Division of the Social Sciences and the College. Her research is focused on geocomputation, geospatial data science, and digital privacy and justice. Her current work involves developing computational methods to ensure privacy, fidelity, and equity in the dissemination and mining of geospatial data. Yue received her doctorate in Geography from the Ohio State University in 2023.
Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Spatial Data Science
Visiting Scholar, Center for Spatial Data Science, 2018-19
Hamza Rarou holds a PhD in applied economics from the Solvay Business School of the Free University of Brussels and a B.A. and M.A. in Commercial Engineering from the same university. His research is about spatial production networks and their impact on economic development.
