Yoh Kawano
Associate Professor
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolYoh Kawano is an interdisciplinary computational scientist and associate professor who blends urban planning, GIS, and digital humanities to build web-based spatial visualization and data-science systems. With over a decade of experience at UCLA’s Office of Advanced Research Computing and faculty roles in Urban Planning and Digital Humanities, he leads GIS and spatial-data initiatives that support research in disaster relief, social justice, archaeology, and urban resilience. He holds a PhD in Urban Planning from UCLA and co-authored a Harvard Press book, bringing scholarly rigor to practical tool-building and teaching graduate-level GIS and web mapping. A filmmaker and storyteller as well, his documentary work and dissertation on Fukushima reveal a commitment to surfacing forgotten human narratives through geospatial methods.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
International School of BangkokPhD, Urban Planning, PhD, Urban Planning at UCLA Luskin School of Public AffairsUniversity of California, Los AngelesBA, Sociology, BA, Sociology at ICU International Christian University
Japanese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
spatial-data9
planning9
spatial9
science8
gis8
urban-planning8
geospatial8
maps6
google-maps-api6
google-maps6
openlayers6
geopandas6
google-earth-engine6
javascript6
map-projections6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yohman/up206a
Sep 2020 - Oct 2021
Course material for UP206A: Introduction to GIS and Spatial Data Science
Contributions:510 commits, 8 PRs, 486 pushes in 1 year 1 month
geospatialsciencedata-sciencespatialspatial-data
yohman/21F-UP206A
Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:158 commits, 124 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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