Experience
- 2021- Microsoft – Principal Data Scientist and Director, Core Search and AI
- 2021- University of Liverpool – Visiting Professor of Geography (honorary)
- 2010-2021 University of Colorado – Chief Data Officer; Associate Professor of Geography and Information Science
- 2015-2019 Apple Maps– Senior Data Scientist/Manager
- 2008-2012 Brown University – Associate Director, Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences; Lecturer and Visiting Professor Population Studies
- 2001-2006 Columbia University – Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Adjunct Assistant Professor, GIS Coordinator
Awards and Honors
- United States Census Bureau, US Department of Commerce Scientific Advisory Board
- Oak Ridge National Lab, Scientific Advisory Board, Geospatial Science and Human Security
- US National Academy of Science, Committee on National Statistics Working Group on Data Privacy in the 2020 Census (Geographic Spine Group).
- Best Paper, IEEE Conference on Social Networking and Computing (SocialCom-2020)
- Fellow, Institute of Behavioral Science
- Social Science History Association (SSHA), Founder’s Award for Best Paper.
- American Statistical Association, Statistical Partnership Among Academe, Industry, and Government Award (SPAIG)
- International Journal of Geographic Information Science Award for most read paper.
- Distinguished Scholar Award, Regional Development and Planning, American Association of Geographers.
- US Census Bureau Data Products Redesign Group
- Associate Editor, Computers Environment and Urban Systems
- University of Colorado BFA Faculty Recognition Award
- The Michael Breheny Prize for Urban Analytics and City Science
- US Department of Interior: Strategic Science Group: Hurricane Sandy
- Kaggle: First Place, Census Data Visualization Competition
- Brown University Community Engaged Scholar Award
- NSF-IGERT Fellowship in Geographic Information Science, SUNY-Buffalo
- University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, Student Travel Award
- Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) Student Paper Award
- NCGIA-Hugh Calkins Memorial Award in Applied GIS, SUNY-Buffalo
- Certificate of Recognition 9/11 Emergency Mapping and Data Center, NYC Office of Emergency Management
- Columbia University Award for Excellence in Planning Methods and Techniques