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Yanmei Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
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Dr. Yanmei Li’s research interests focus on advanced spatial statistics and econometrics, housing and community development, real estate economics and finance, and urban economics. She is very interested in policies related to affordable housing, sustainable community development, housing programs for people with special needs, and urban policies related to natural disasters. She uses GIS to create basemaps and conduct spatial statistical analysis. She is also interested in 3D modeling and virtual simulation, and incorporating the use of GIS with other software packages such as Autodesk, Geoda, and SAS. |
Praveen Maghelal, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
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Dr. Maghelal’s research interest includes analysis of safety in the use of sustainable transportation modes of travel and its health benefits on communities. He is well versed in GIS and spatial analytical techniques. Current projects include mapping the carbon emissions in US cities and changes in fuel prices as part of an investigation of the relationship between public transportation, reduced carbon emissions and community health. He is also working on developing indices that use the objectively measured GIS data to evaluate the amount of walking in communities, and to manage risk due to the presence of sex offenders in communities. Prior to joining FAU, he taught GIS to planning, agriculture, and forestry students.
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Diana Mitsova, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
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Dr. Mitsova’s research focuses on historical and projected patterns of land cover change, open space conservation, and environmental planning and modeling using geographic information systems, interactive computer simulation and spatial-statistical methods. Her expertise in spatial data analysis includes cellular automata, spatial regression modeling, Monte Carlo methods, geostatistics and integrated statistical/GIS models. Recently, she used a cellular automata – Markov chain model to project future patterns of urbanization in the Greater Cincinnati area and incorporated the principles of “green infrastructure” in the modeling framework. She has professional experience in geographic information systems applications, GPS data collection and image processing. |
Dr. Ceylan Oner
Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
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Dr. Oner's main research interests include globalization, locational strategies of transnational advanced producer service firms, planning and governance of global cities, and metropolitan growth and decentralization. She uses GIS to conduct spatial analysis in terms of identifying firm clusters, mapping high-rise high-density residential and commercial building locations, and examining their relationships. Prior to joining FAU, she used GIS together with the CrimeStat program to run a cluster analysis of transnational advanced producer service firms from ten different sectors in ten metropolitan areas of the US. |
David Prosperi, Ph.D.
Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
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Dr. Prosperi served as the Founding Director of the VPT Lab, and has been involved in a variety of GIS and enterprise GIS initiatives in South Florida. His research interests include growth management, economic development and computer applications, and he has written extensively on topics such as interactive GIS-Based Planning Support Systems, Public Participation GIS, and Large Scale 3D Data Integration. He served as the Editor-in-chief of "Computers, Environment and Urban Systems" from 1988-1996. |
Jaap Vos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair of the School of Urban & Regional Planning
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Dr. Vos served as the interim Director of the VPT Lab from 2002-2005. Dr. Vos uses GIS and related technology to enhance research on environmental planning, environmental justice, and sustainable development. Related projects include use of GIS tracking for tracking and predicting types and location of development trends in downtown Fort Lauderdale, and inventory of economic, environmental and equity resources in Broward County. The lab was also involved in Dr. Vos's research on air emissions from mobile sources in Florida (funded by Florida Department of Transportation). Currently, he is using GIS to create basemaps and redevelopment alternatives for Overtown in Miami. |
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