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Gratitude

We would like to thank Stewart Berry from  Caliper Inc. sincerely for making the academic licenses of their Maptitude software available to us for this workshop.

Furthermore, we highly appreciate the logistical and organizational support by the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (EPPS) to run this workshop.

 

Workshop Organizers

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Chalasani, Dinesh Dinesh is a graduate student in GISciences at UTD. His research interests include Urban studies, Geospatial Technologies, and Real estate economics.  At UTD, he is currently working on a master’s project in identifying spatial patterns and variables that influence real estate house prices. Prior to UTD, Dinesh holds a Diploma in GIS and Urban Planning from Fanshawe College, London, Canada and Bachelors of Civil Engineering from Amrita University, India.
Kotapalli, Bhargava Bhargava is graduate student pursuing Master’s in GISciences at UTD. His research interests include statistical computing, econometrics and spatial analytics to mediate informed policy. He holds a Bachelors of Computer Science from RTM Nagpur University, India.
Larson, Addison Addison is a Master’s student in the GIS program with interests in spatial and quantitative analysis of urban policy issues. Previously, she has worked in Washington, DC at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, at the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth, and at the university as a statistics tutor
Pu, Xiaojun Xiaojun is a Ph.D. student in GISciences at UTD. Her research interests including spatial statistics and geocomputation applied in epidemiological studies and migration analysis. She holds a master degree from Geography Department at SUNY-Buffalo.
Taticeo, Nickolas Nickolas is a second-year Master’s student in the Geospatial Information Sciences program at the University of Texas at Dallas.  Prior to arriving at UT Dallas, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from Westfield State University, located in Westfield, MA.  Current interests include: spatial statistics, spatial analysis, geocomputation, and graph theory.
Tiefelsdorf, Michael Dr. Tiefelsdorf is an Associate Professor in the GISciences program in EPPS at UTD . His professional and research interests are in spatial data analytics, optimization and statistics with an applied focus on topics with an underlying spatial dimension in  economics, demography and epidemiology. His preferred data analytics platforms are the R-project logo-Project and Maptitude.
Tremain, Nicole Nicole is a graduate student in the Geospatial Information Sciences (GIS) program at UTD. Her interests in the field include: spatial analysis of human movement, historic and archaeological preservation and urban development. She currently holds a Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Systems from UTD, and a Bachelors of Arts in Anthropology from Texas State University.