Meet the FCL Team & Sister Labs

Clio Andris
Lab Director

        I am an associate professor in the School of City and Regional Planning and the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. I'm a GIScientist, which means that I study how to represent and model anything on earth on a computer and how to analyze those models. My research is in social networks, interpersonal relationships and livelihoods in geographic space, applied to issues in urban planning, geovisualization, and geography. Our lab is a member of the School of Interactive Computing's Information Visualization Lab. I received my PhD from MIT in 2011 in Urban Information Systems where I was an NDSEG fellow and member of the Senseable City Lab. I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute (2012-2014) and a member of the faculty in the Department of Geography at Penn State (2014-2019). I serve on the National Geospatial Advisory Committee for the U.S. Department of Interior. I also direct the Masters of GIS program at GT.  

Gabriel Appiah
Graduate Research Assistant

I’m a Ph.D. student in the School of City and Regional Planning. Dr. Clio Andris is my advisor. My research interest is in Network Science, Transportation, and Land Use Planning. Before coming to Georgia Tech, I was a Regional Planner at Siouxland Interstate Metropolitan Planning Council, where I focused on GIS, transportation, community, and economic development.

Sichen Jin
Graduate Research Assistant

I’m a first-year CS Ph.D. student in the School of Interactive Computing, advised by Dr. Clio Andris. My research interests include Visualization, Geographic Information System/Science and Social Computing. Before coming to Georgia Tech, I got my bachelor degree in GIS from Zhejiang University. I also worked at the Natural Language Processing Lab of Tsinghua University and the Visualization and Interface Design Innovation Lab of UC Davis as a research assistant. I had worked on multiple geospatial visualization projects, including infectious diseases spread analysis, patterns of taxi trajectories analysis. I am also involved in some text visual analytics projects, such as rumor spread analysis and conversation structure analysis. You can follow my work on my website.

Arnav Mardia
Undergraduate Research Assistant

I’m a Computer Science major with concentrations in Computing Theory and Modelling and Simulation. I joined Georgia Tech from Chennai, India. I’m also enrolled in the BS/MS program in Computer Science - Machine Learning. I’m currently working on node placement methods for geospatial network analysis and geovisualization.

Jelena Harriott
Graduate Research Assistant
Max Hill
Graduate Research Assistant
I am a Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Master’s student. My research interests involve Network Science, Social Computing, and Urban Systems. I received my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Chicago in (2022). Between my undergraduate and graduate studies, I served with AmeriCorps and taught a supplementary algebra class at two Chicago public high schools.

Our Alumni

Xiaofan Liang
Graduate Research Assistant

Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at U Mich! For more information about research see this page

Heather Mase
Graduate Research Assistant

Transportation Planner at VHB

Seolha Lee
Graduate Research Assistant
Informatics PhD at UC-Irvine
Claire Patrick
Graduate Research Assistant
Freyja Brandel-Tanis
Graduate Research Assistant
Architecture and Design PhD at Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Orion Allgaier
Graduate Research Assistant
Grant Jones
Graduate Research Assistant
Sonia Sargolzaei
Graduate Research Assistant
Mira Kaufman
Graduate Research Assistant
Anish Rajeev
Senior, High School
Abhay Vittal
Senior, High School
Matthew Lim
Undergraduate Assistant
Yasamin Khorashahi
Undergraduate Researcher
Sambhavi Joshi
Graduate Research Assistant
Margarita Groisman
Undergraduate Assistant

Studying Industrial and Systems Engineering with an analytics concentration.

Josh Baker
Undergraduate Researcher
Shaarif Sajid
Graduate Researcher
Brittany Waltemate
Post-Baccalaureate Researcher
Xi Liu
Graduate Associate

Ph.D. in the Department of Geography at Penn State

Hanzhou Chen
Graduate Associate

Associate MA/Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography at Penn State

Jarrett Gulakowski
Undergraduate Researcher

Undergraduate majoring in geography with a GIS focus

Zixuan Huang
Post BS Researcher

BS degree in Geography GIS and a minor in Energy Business and Finance (EBF)

Sohrab Rahimi
Graduate Associate

Ph.D. of Architecture at Penn State

Michelle Pistner
Graduate Assistant (IGERT Program)

BDSS-IGERT Ph.D. in the Department of Statistics at Penn State

Prathamesh Aher
Undergraduate Researcher

BS in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering with minors in Energy-Business Finance, Geogaphy and GIS

Cassie McMillan
Graduate Assistant (IGERT Program)

IGERT Big Data Social Science Fellow Dual-title Ph.D. in sociology and demography in the Department of Criminology and Sociology at Penn State

Luba Hristova
Undergraduate Researcher

BS in GIS at Penn State

Ruiqi (Bonnie) Guo
Post-Baccalaureate Researcher

BS in Geography and minor in horticulture and anthropology at Penn State

Rebecca Bucci
Graduate Researcher

Graduate student in the Criminology and Sociology department at Penn State

Mengchen Wang
Undergraduate Researcher

BS in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering at Penn State

Christopher Mertz
Undergraduate Researcher

BS in Geography with a focus on GIS at Penn State

Michael Citrenbaum
Undergraduate Researcher

BS in GIS at Penn State

Li-San Hung
Post-Doctoral Researcher

Ph.D. from the Department of Geography at Penn State (minor in Demography)

Margret Logan
Undergraduate Researcher

BS in Industrial Engineering at Penn State

Sara Cavallo
Graduate Assistant

Ph.D. in the Department of Geography at Penn State

Sister Labs

We are part of the Center for Spatial Analysis and Visualization (CSPAV), and the InfoVis Group in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. 

Sister Labs: We are part of a wide network of emerging and established urban and spatial analysis labs across the world.

Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) Lab, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (SUNY), PI Yingjie Hu 
CyberInfrastructure and Computational Intelligence Lab (CICI Lab), Arizona State University, PI Wenwen Li
Civic Data Design Lab, MIT, PI Sarah Williams
Geospatial Data Science Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison, PI Song Gao
Geoinformatics and Earth Observation Lab, Penn State, PI Guido Cervone
Movement Science Lab (MOVE@UCSB), UC-Santa Barbara, PI Somayeh Dodge
NUS Urban Analytics Lab, National University of Singapore, PI Filip Biljecki
Platial Analysis Lab, McGill University, PI Grant McKenzie

If you are doing urban work and would like to be a Sister Lab, let us know!