People
Faculty Advisors
Rick Church, Ph.D.
Co-director of GeoTrans, Professor
website: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~forest/RLC/Index.html
email: church@geog.ucsb.edu
research: Spatial optimization, natural resources management, operations research methods, GIS
Kostas Goulias, Ph.D.
Co-director of GeoTrans, Professor
website: http://kgoulias.weebly.com/
research: Transportation planning-modeling-simulation, travel behavior dynamics and microsimulation
Keith Clarke, Ph.D.
Advisor and Professor
website: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~kclarke/
email: kclarke@geog.ucsb.edu
research: Cartography and GIS
Helen Couclelis, Ph.D.
Advisor and Professor
email: cook@geog.ucsb.edu
research: Urban and regional modeling and planning, spatial cognition, GIS, geography of the information society
Mike Goodchild, Ph.D.
Director of spatial@ucsb and Emeritus Professor
website: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~good/
email: good@geog.ucsb.edu
research: Urban and economic geography, geographic information systems, and spatial analysis
Martin Raubal, Ph.D.
Advisor and Professor (now at ETH Zurich)
website: http://raubal.cartography.ch
research: Cognitive Engineering for Geospatial Services, Cognitive semantic interoperability, Location Based Decision Services, Spatial cognition and wayfinding, Time geography, Agents and Artificial Intelligence
Current Ph.D. Students & Graduate Student Researchers
Jae Hyun Lee, M.S., Ph.D Student
Advisor: Goulias
website: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~leejh
email: lee@geog.ucsb
Adam Davis, M.A/Ph.D. Student
Advisor: Goulias
email: awdavis@geog.ucsb.edu
Nate Isbell, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor: Goulias
email: isbell@geog.ucsb.edu
Ted Isbell, MSCE, Ph.D. Student
Advisor: Goulias
email: tedisbell@geog.ucsb.edu
Tim Niblett, M.A, Ph.D Candidate
Advisor: Church
email: tniblett@geog.ucsb.edu
email: isbell@geog.ucsb.edu
Carlos Baez, M.A, Ph.D Student
Advisor: Church
email: carlos.baez@geog.ucsb.edu
ALUMNI
Matt Niblett, Ph.D. 2014, Advisor: Church
Srinath Krishna Ravulaparthy, Ph.D 2014(Consultant, Cambridge Systematics), Advisor: Goulias
Pamela Dalal, Ph.D 2013 (Senior Transportation Planner, Fehr & Peers), Advisor: Goulias
Kate Deutsch-Bugner, Ph.D 2013(Owner & Consultant, Data Perspectives), Advisor: Goulias
Kriste Henson, Ph.D. 2011 (Engineer, Decision Applications Division Risk Analysis and Decision Support Systems (D-6), Los Alamos National Laboratory), Advisor: Goulias
Gargi Chaudhuri, Ph.D. 2011 (Assistant Professor of GIScience, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse), Advisor: Clarke
Edward Pultar, Ph.D. 2011 (Lecturer in the Spatial Sciences Institute University of Southern California), Advisor: Raubal
Seo Youn Yoon, Ph.D., 2010 (Researcher at Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements), Advisor: Goulias
Thomas Pingel, Ph.D. 2010 (IC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara), Advisor: Clarke
Ting Lei, Ph.D. 2010 (Reseracher Center for Spatial Analysis, University of Oklahoma, Norman), Advisor: Church
Andrea Nuernberger, Ph.D. 2008 (Assistant Specialist, Geography UCSB), Advisor: Golledge
Shaunna Burbidge, M.A. & Ph.D. 2008 (Assistant Professor & Consultant, University of Utah), Advisor: Goulias
Kirk Goldsberry, Ph.D. 2007 (Assistant Professor, Michigan State University), Advisor: Clarke
Lisa Murawski, M.A. 2007 (Fiscal and Policy Analyst, Legilsative Analyst's Office, CA), Advisor: Church