Mei-Po Kwan is Choh-Ming Li Professor of Geography and Resource Management and Director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She had served as an editor of Annals of the American Association of Geographers for 12 years and is editor of the book series entitled SAGE Advances in Geographic Information Science and Technology. She is an associate editor of Travel Behaviour and Society, and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Transport Geography, Applied Geography, International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS), and Geographical Analysis.
Kwan is Fellow of the U.K. Academy of Social Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Association of Geographers (AAG) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She has received many prestigious honors and awards, including the Distinguished Scholarship Honors, the E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Award, and the Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography from the American Association of Geographers (AAG); the Alan Hay Award in Transport Geography from the Transport Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG); the Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS); the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Research Award; the Edward L. Ullman Award from the AAG Transportation Geography Specialty Group; and the Melinda S. Meade Distinguished Scholarship Award from the AAG Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group.
Kwan has published 37 edited or co-edited volumes and 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. She has been included in the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list by the Web of Science Group. She has delivered over 220 keynote addresses and invited lectures in about 20 countries. She has served as an advisory panelist or reviewer of grant proposals for 14 U.S. National Science Foundation programs, U.S. National Institutes of Health, European Research Council, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Australian Research Council, Austrian Science Fund, Research Foundation of Flanders, Royal Geographical Society (U.K.), Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, and Swiss National Science Foundation.
Kwan's research interests include environmental health, sustainable cities, human mobility, urban/social issues in cities, and GIScience. She has made ground-breaking contributions to these areas. Her recent collaborative projects include the development of a unified cyberinfrastructure framework for scalable spatiotemporal data analytics, the development of a Geospatial Virtual Data Enclave (GVDE) for sharing and analyzing confidential geospatial data, and examination of the health risks of female sex workers, adolescent and adult participation in high-risk drug use, individual exposure to air pollution and noise, and environmental influences on physical activity.
More information about Kwan is available at http://meipokwan.org
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