Our Partners

Susan Paykin, Program Lead, Open Spatial Lab & Associate Director, Community-Centered Data Science, Data Science Institute (spaykin@uchicago.edu)

Dylan Halpern, Technical Lead, Open Spatial Lab (dhalpern@uchicago.edu)

UChicago's Data Science Institute is the hub for research, education and outreach at the intersection of computer science and statistics. Its Open Spatial Lab creates open source data tools and analytics to help nonprofits solve problems using geospatial data science.

Robert Shepard, GIS Librarian

rcshepard@uchicago.edu

UChicago Library employs a GIS Librarian, Robert Shepard, who runs its GIS Helpdesk and is an instructor of GIS classes. The library also hosts a large map collection.

Chris Berry, Faculty Director, The Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation

crberry@uchicago.edu

Researchers at the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation study the fundamental processes that drive, shape and sustain cities. They come from the social, natural, and computational sciences, along with the humanities. Together, they pursue innovative, interdisciplinary scholarship, develop new educational programs, and provide leadership and evidence to support global, sustainable urban development.

Emily Talen, Director and Professor of Urbanism

talen@uchicago.edu

The Urbanism Lab is devoted to the study of urbanism at the University of Chicago. It includes course materials, research projects, and resources relevant to the built environment. 

James Evans, Director, Knowledge Lab, Professor, Sociology

jevans@uchicago.edu

Knowledge Lab seeks to leverage insights into the dynamics of knowledge creation and advances in large-scale computation to reimagine the scientific process of the future by identifying gaps in the global knowledge landscape, areas of rich potential for breakthroughs, and automating discovery through the generation of novel, potentially high impact hypotheses. 

Parmanand Sinha, Computational Scientist

gis-help@rcc.uchicago.edu

UChicago's RCC-GIS provides spatial trainings, GIS Helpdesk services (including re. spatial data mining and machine learning for remote sensing), ArcGIS licenses, and an online geocoder.

Elisabeth Moyer, Faculty Director, Associate Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences

moyer@uchicago.edu

The Center for Robust Decision-making on Climate and Energy Policy (RDCEP) brings together experts in climate science, statistics, computer science, economics, energy, public policy, and law to undertake a series of research programs aimed at improving the computational models needed to understand future climate impacts, evaluate policies, and make robust decisions based on outcomes.