Subhrajit Guhathakurta

Subhrajit “Subhro” Guhathakurta is the Director of the Center for Spatial Planning Analytics and Visualization and Director of the new Interdisciplinary Master of Science in Urban Analytics program at Georgia Tech. He is also the immediate past Chair of the School of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech. Before his appointments at Georgia Tech, he served as the Associate Director of the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and a founding faculty member of the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. He co-edited the Journal of Planning Education and Research from 2011 to 2015 and serves on the editorial boards of several leading planning journals, including the Journal of American Planning Association. Prof. Guhathakurta has published widely in many planning domains, including energy systems, urban heat, sustainable development, travel behavior, housing affordability, integrated urban models, built environment and health, and geospatial technologies in urban planning. Prof. Guhathakurta is a recipient of the Mercator Professorship by DFG (German National Science Foundation) to conduct research in visualizing unstructured data at the Technische Universität, Kaiserslautern, Germany. He has held visiting appointments at the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis at the University College London; the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore; the Center for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures at the University of Queensland in Brisbane; served as a high-end expert for the Institute of Environmental Sustainability at Tongji University, Shanghai, China.