Caglar Koylu
Past President at University of Iowa
Iowa City-Cedar Rapids Area United States
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Top SchoolCaglar Koylu is an Associate Professor of GIScience at the University of Iowa with a decade of experience bridging academic research, teaching, and professional leadership in cartography and geographic information science. He has progressed through faculty ranks since 2015 while concurrently taking on leadership roles in the Cartography and Geographic Information Society, currently serving as Past President after successive officer positions. His research and teaching draw on a strong technical foundation in geodetic and geographic information technologies and a PhD in Geography, with early work focused on large-scale geo-social network analysis and visual analytical systems. Caglar’s background includes hands-on development of spatial databases and 3D synthetic environments for simulation, an uncommon blend of academic GIScience and applied simulation engineering. Based in the Iowa City–Cedar Rapids area, he combines scholarly rigor with practical system-building and professional community stewardship.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Geography, PhD, Geography at University of South CarolinaMS, Geodetic and Geographic Information Technologies, MS, Geodetic and Geographic Information Technologies at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
English, Turkish
Github Skills (8)
geopandas1
geo1
shapefile1
geotools1
gis1
geojson1
geospatial-analysis1
geotiff1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
geo-social/web
Jun 2021 - Nov 2024
Contributions:97 pushes in 3 years 5 months
geog3540/smallMultipleChoroplethMaps
Mar 2018 - Apr 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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