Mehak Sachdeva
Assistant Professor at Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolMehak Sachdeva is an Assistant Professor in Urban Science with a decade of experience blending computational geographic methods and urban planning to study crime, housing markets, and health outcomes. Trained with a PhD in Geographic Information Science from ASU and a Master's in Urban Analytics from Columbia, she bridges academic research and industry practice—having worked as a Geospatial Data Scientist at CARTO and served as a faculty fellow at NYU CUSP. Her work emphasizes local regression and spatial modeling to reveal fine-grained urban processes, informed by an early architecture background that deepens her attention to urban-ecological interactions. Based in Tallahassee, she pairs rigorous quantitative analysis with public-facing engagement from her rezoning and resiliency work in New York, and outside academia she hikes, paints and runs—activities that often inspire her urban research questions.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geographic Information Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geographic Information Science at Arizona State UniversityMaster's Degree, Urban Planning (Urban Analytics and Resilience planning ), Master's Degree, Urban Planning (Urban Analytics and Resilience planning ) at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.), Ecology and Architecture, 3.82/4.0, Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.), Ecology and Architecture, 3.82/4.0 at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
English, Hindi
Github Skills (36)
location-services10
statistics10
weighted10
gmm10
data-science9
python9
machine-learning9
geolocation9
spatial-data-analysis9
location9
regression9
data-analysis9
jupyter-notebook9
maps8
scikit8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mehak-sachdeva/MGWR_workshop_book
May 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:52 commits, 70 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
mehak-sachdeva/starter-hugo-academic
Sep 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:521 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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