CONFERENCE CHAIR

Prof. John P. Wilson
University of Southern California, USA

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Biography of the Conference Chair

Dr. John P. Wilson is Professor of Geography at the University of Southern California, where he chairs the Department of Geography, directs the Geographic Information Science and Technology Graduate Programs as well as the GIS Research Laboratory, and also holds adjunct appointments as Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Civil and Environmental Engineering. From 1998 to 2001 he was Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Southern California. From 1992 to 1997 he was Professor of Geography in the Department of Earth Sciences, Adjunct Professor of Soil Science in the Department of Plant and Soil Science, and Director of the Geographic Information and Analysis Center at Montana State University. He founded the journal Transactions in GIS (Blackwell Publishers) in 1996 and has served as Editor-in-Chief since its inception. His research is focused on GIS tool development, spatial analysis, and environmental modeling. He has published numerous books and articles on these topics, including two edited volumes Terrain Analysis: Principles and Applications (John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2000) and the Handbook of Geographic Information Science (Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 2007). The work of his group can be seen on the website http://www.uscgislab.net/. He has received numerous honors for his research and teaching, the most recent being a Mellon Award for Excellence in Mentoring from the Center for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Southern California (2005) and an Albert S. Raubenheimer Outstanding Faculty Award for his research, teaching, and service contributions in the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California (2004).

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