Dillon Mahmoudi
Associate Professor, Geography And Environmental Systems
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolDillon Mahmoudi is an urban and economic geographer and Associate Professor at UMBC who studies how digital capitalism—data centers, algorithms, and smart-city infrastructures—reshapes urban landscapes and entrenches inequality. Combining a PhD in Urban Studies with a BS in Computer Science, he brings rare technical-literary fluency to critical GIS, AI infrastructure, and participatory mapping projects that center race, labor, and environmental justice. His research draws on heterodox political economy, feminist geography, and the Black radical tradition to produce collaborative, community-engaged work that informs policy and practice. A recognized teacher and leader—editorially active in Urban Geography and Big Data & Society and chairing the AAG Urban Geography Specialty Group—he mentors diverse students while partnering with civic organizations. Notably, his trajectory from software and product roles at Microsoft and National Instruments to academic leadership gives him a practical understanding of the technological systems he critiques.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyPh.D., Urban Studies, Ph.D., Urban Studies at Portland State University
Github Skills (29)
latex10
sublime-text9
typesetting9
bibtex9
planning9
sublime-text-plugin8
textmate8
biblatex8
sublime8
missing-data7
tidymodels7
python7
tidy6
tidyverse6
census6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dillonma/lehdr
Jun 2018 - Apr 2023
a package to grab LEHD data in support of city and regional planning economic and transportation analysis
Contributions:6 PRs, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 11 months
pythoneconomictransportationgrabregional
dillonma/adv_gis
Jan 2023 - May 2024
Contributions:70 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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