Irene Farah
Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolIrene Farah is an Assistant Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign with nine years of research experience focused on urban governance, informality, economic geography of firms, food systems, and spatial analytics. Trained at UC Berkeley (PhD) and The University of Chicago (MA), she combines rigorous quantitative spatial methods with field-facing studies across Latin America to inform equitable urban policy. Her work includes managing large spatial databases (tens of millions of firms), developing open-source travel-time infrastructure, and integrating informal retail outlets into food environment analyses—an uncommon blend of computational skill and policy relevance. A former research associate at the GeoDa Center, she regularly leverages open-source geospatial tools to translate complex spatial data into actionable insights for planners and public health teams.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning at University of California, BerkeleyExchange Student, Bachelor, Exchange Student, Bachelor at Copenhagen Business SchoolMaster of Arts (M.A.), Social Sciences, Master of Arts (M.A.), Social Sciences at The University of ChicagoBachelor's degree, Political Science and Government, Bachelor's degree, Political Science and Government at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
French, English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (38)
cytoscapejs10
binder10
typo39
python-interface7
coordinate-systems7
coordinate-transformation6
census-data5
geospatial5
python5
proj5
modeling-tool4
data-journalism4
gis4
census4
spatial4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ifarah/ifarah.github.io
Apr 2022 - Aug 2024
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:286 pushes in 2 years 5 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
mxndrwgrdnr/CYPLAN255
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
course repo for material related to CYPLAN 255 at UC Berkeley
Contributions:136 commits, 233 PRs, 119 pushes in 1 month
cytoscapejsuc-berkeleyc-plus-plustypo3berkeley
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