Biography

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Dr. John Wilson is the Founding Director of the Spatial Sciences Institute in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and a Professor of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Preventive Medicine, and Sociology. He is also Co-Director of the Climate and Health Working Group, Exposure Sciences Research Core, External Factors Facility Core in the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center, Co-Director of Center for Knowledge-Powered Interdisciplinary Data Science, and Spatial Sciences Lead in the Clinical Research Informatics Division of the Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute. He received his PhD in Geography from the University of Toronto, with a focus on spatiotemporal modeling of environmental systems. Dr. Wilson is the founding editor-in-chief of Transactions in GIS published by Wiley-Blackwell and the Geographic Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge Project sponsored by the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science. Dr. Wilson has received numerous honors for his research and teaching, the most recent his election as a Fellow of the University Consortium for Geographic information Science in 2014 and his receipt of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Science in 2016.