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Faculty & Staff

  • Subhro Guhathakurta
    Professor of City and Regional Planning; Director, Center for Geographic Information Systems
    (404) 385-0900
    modeling urban futures and their sustainability implications; geographic information and planning support systems; urban form and its implication for water, energy, and GHG emissions
  • William Drummond
    Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning; Associate Director, Center for Geographic Information Systems
    (404) 894-2350

    climate change planning, geographic information systems, land conservation, population and employment projections

  • Nickolas L. Faust
    Lecturer
    (404) 894-0021

    remote sensing

  • Steven P. French, FAICP
    McKenney Family Professor in Sustainability, Energy, and the Environment; Professor of City and Regional Planning; Associate Dean of Research, College of Architecture
    (404) 385-0900

    sustainable urban development; geographic information system applications; earthquake and flood hazard analysis and mitigation; modeling urban development impacts

  • Tony Giarrusso
    Research Scientist II, Center for Geographic Information Systems; Associate Director of the Center for Geographic Information Systems
    (404) 894-0127

    geographic information system applications; renewable energy; public health; natural resource and environmental planning; socio-demographics; parks and recreation

  • Janet Peterson
    Administrative Coordinator, Center for Geographic Information Systems
    (404) 385-0900
  • Liora Sahar
    Lecturer

    Research Interests: Geospatial Science; Remote Sensing; Feature Extraction; Public Health; Geodesy

  • Xuan Shi
    Research Scientist II, Center for Geographic Information Systems
    (404) 894-0124

    distributed geographic information systems, high performance computing, semantic Web services

  • Ramachandra Sivakumar
    Research Engineer II, Center for Geographic Information Systems
    (404) 894-0128

    enterprise geographic information system (GIS) design and implementation; integration of GIS theory and methods in vertical domains; web-based GIS application and system development

  • James Tsai
    Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    (912) 963-6977

    geosystems engineering; transportation systems engineering

  • Zhaohua Wang
    Senior Research Engineer, Center for Geographic Information Systems
    (404) 385-0904

    highway pavement management systems; highway pavement condition assessment using sensor technology; roadway asset inventory and management systems; application of GIS/GPS and Information Technology for pavement rehabilitation and design