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Spatial and GIS work

Research and earlier coursework in geographic information science.

Spatial measures inside economic models

Preprint · 2025 · with Elizaveta Gonchar

Trade in the Spotlight

Annual population and night-light information are used to construct economically weighted distance for gravity models of trade.

Limit: the preprint does not establish the planned transport-network extension or a completed global panel.

Published dissertation · Georgia Tech · 2024

Redefining Trade Dynamics

The dissertation connects network position, within-country spatial heterogeneity, gravity econometrics, and optimal-transport theory.

Limit: later papers and datasets retain their own public status and should be read separately.

Course and group submissions

Course and group projects completed during my GIS training.

  1. Individual academic submissionTexas snowstorm spatial analysis

    Geocoded utility-territory, outage, weather, and tract-level information assembled for a planning course project.

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  2. Group academic submissionVisualization for planning

    A municipal planning dossier combining spatial analysis, design concepts, figures, and narrative. Collaborators are credited in the report.

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  3. LiDAR-derived building identification map from an academic GIS exercise
    Academic exerciseLiDAR building identification

    A small pipeline exercise using elevation data to identify building footprints.