GeoVISTA Alumni
Here's what some of our graduates and former faculty are doing now:
Ritesh Agrawal
Research Engineer for AT&T Interactive in San Francisco
Education: Ph.D. Geography, Penn State; M.S. Transportation
Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; B.E. Civil
Engineering Visvesvaraya Regional Engineering College, Nagpur, India
Ritesh's
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Ola Ahlqvist
Assistant
Professor, Geo-visualization, Department of Geography, Ohio State University
homepage
Tom Auer
GIS Specialist, Applied Science Associates
M.S. Geography, Penn State 2009
homepage
Bimal Balakrishnan
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Architectural Studies, University of
Missouri-Columbia
Ph.D. in Mass Communication with graduate minor in Applied Statistics,
Penn State 2008
email
Tawan Banchuen
GIS and Data Specialist, ExpressCouriersPh.D. Geography, Penn State 2008
Boyan Brodaric
Research Scientist, Geological Survey of Canada
Ph.D. Geography, Penn State 2005
email
Jin Chen
Education: Ph.D., Geography, Penn State; M.S., Engineering, Univ. of Toledoemail | homepage
Jamison Conley
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geography, West Virginia University
email
Erik S. Connors
Research Associate, SA Technologies, Inc. Marietta, GA
Ph.D. Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State
Liv Detrick
Assistant Director, Institue for Broadening Participation
M.S. Geography, Penn State
email | homepage
Robert Edsall
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Arizona State University
Ph.D. Geography, Penn State 2001
email | homepage
Tim Frazier
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, university of Idaho
Education: B.A. Geography, University of Tennessee in Knoxville,
M.S. Geography, Penn State, Ph.D. Geography, Penn State
homepage
Sven Fuhrman
Assistant
Professor, Texas Center for Geographic Information Science, Department
of Geography, Texas State University
601 University Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666
email | homepage
David Fyfe
Assistant Professor of Geography, York College of Pennsylvania
email
Mark Gahegan
Professor, School of Geography, Geology & Environmental Science,
The University of Auckland
homepage
Alistair Geddes
Lecturer, Dept. of Geography, University of Dundee
homepage
Amy Griffin
Lecturer,
University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra
Ph.D. Geography, Penn State 2004
email | homepage
Diansheng Guo
Assistant Professor (GIScience, Spatial Data Mining, Information
Visualization), Department of Geography, University of South Carolina
email | homepage
Mark Harrower
Map Designer, Axis Maps
M.S. 1999, Ph.D. 2002, Penn State Department
of Geography
email | homepage
Krzysztof Janowicz
Assistant Professor for Geographic Information Science at the Geography
Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara
Education: Ph.D. Institute for Geoinformatics at the University
of Munster, Germany
homepage
Etien L. Koua
Technical Advisor, Disaster Prevention & Preparedness Agency, UNDP Ethiopia
James Macgill
Software Engineer, Google
Craig McCabe
ESRI Mapping Center
M.S. Geography, Penn State 2009
email | homepage
Jeremy Mennis
Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Colorado
Ph.D. Geography, Penn State 2001
email | homepage
Christian Mostert
Chief Operating Officer at Walden Associates
M.S. Geography, Penn State 2001
Joaquin Obieta
QA Automation Engineer for Blackboard, Inc. in Washington, D.C
M.S. Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State
Jared Oyler
Currently pursuing Ph.D. in Forestry, University of Montana.
M.S. Geography, Penn State 2009
email | homepage
ChiChun Pan
Education: Ph.D Industrial Engineering, Penn State; M.S. Computer and Information Science, National Chiao Tung University, Shinchu, Taiwan; B.S. Computer and Information Science, National Chiao Tung University, Shinchu, Taiwan
Bill Pike
Pacific
Northwest National Labs
Ph.D. Geography, Penn State 2005
email
Robert Roth
Assistant Professor of Geography, UW Madison Department
Education: B.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.S. University
of Wisconsin-Madison; Ph.D. Penn State Geography, 2011
email | homepage
Kevin Ross
ColdFusion programmer for Nsite LLC, a DoD contractor
M.S. Geography, Penn State 2010
email | homepage
Rajeev Sharma
VideoMining, Inc. - Founder and CEO
homepage
Gary Sheppard
Sales Engineer/Software Developer at ESRI
M.S. Geography, Penn State 2005
Dave Schmidt
Fire and Vegetation Ecologist, The Nature Conservancy and US Forest
Service, Davis, CA
M.S. Geography, Penn State 2005
homepage
Kean Huat Soon
Education: Ph.D. Geography, Penn State
Erik Steiner
Project Manager, InfoGraphics Lab - University of Oregon Department
of Geography
Masa Takatsuka
Director, VisLab - Visualization and High-Performance Computing Laboratory,
School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney
homepage
Ivanna Terrell
Detica Inc., Arlington, VA
Ph.D. Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State 2006
Brian Tomaszewski
Rochester Institute of Technology, Center for Multidisciplinary Studies,
Assistant Professor, GIS
Ph.D. Geography, Penn State 2008
email | homepage
Ian Turton
Software Engineer, Envitia
Education: Ph.D. Geophysics, University of Edinburgh
homepage
Hongmei Wang
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Northern Kentucky
University
Ph.D. Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State 2007
homepage
Chris Weaver
Assistant professor in the School of Computer Science at the University
of Oklahoma
email | homepage
Chaoqing Yu
Associate professor with the Center for Earth System Science and
the Institute for Global Change Studies at Tsinghua University in
Beijing, China
email | homepage
