Frank Witmer
Associate Professor
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrank Witmer is an Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Alaska Anchorage with a decade of professional experience bridging software engineering, spatial statistics, and computational geography. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Colorado Boulder and a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tufts, combining rigorous academic research with practical software development roots dating back to early work at SAIC. His research and consulting have applied spatial statistics, remote sensing, and agent-based modeling (MASON/Java) to real-world problems like conflict analysis, nighttime lights normalization, and modeling dynamic dark networks. Based in Anchorage, he blends teaching and research with hands-on data and software methods, making him adept at translating complex geospatial analyses into reproducible computational tools. An understated strength is his long-running mix of academic and applied roles that enable cross-disciplinary solutions at the intersection of geospatial science and software engineering.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Geography, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Geography at University of Colorado at BoulderBachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science at Tufts University
Github Skills (23)
landsat8
google-earth-engine7
ipywidgets7
gis7
earth-engine7
folium7
spatial6
jupyter-notebook6
geospatial6
r-package6
r6
image-processing6
streamlit5
ipyleaflet5
jupyter5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fwitmer/CoastlineExtraction
Aug 2020 - Jun 2026
Contributions:16 reviews, 23 PRs, 29 pushes in 5 years 11 months
fwitmer/kenai-change
Sep 2017 - Sep 2025
Contributions:4 pushes in 8 years 2 months
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