Kathleen Stewart is Professor in the Department of Geographical Sciences and Director of the Center for Geospatial Information Science. She works in the area of geographic information science with a particular focus on geospatial dynamics. She is interested in mobility and spatial access, often in a big geospatial data context and using approaches that lie in the expanding field of spatial data science. She investigates movement and mobility for a number of different application domains, for example, health and transportation where movement patterns or behaviors and spatial access are key topics. She is also interested in modeling geospatial semantics including geospatial ontologies and their role for location-based applications, and spatiotemporal information retrieval, i.e., computational methods for automatically acquiring meaningful space-time information from text sources. She teaches in the areas of spatiotemporal data modeling, geographic database design, geovisualization and cartography, and fundamentals of geographic information science. Dr. Stewart collaborates with researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, UMD's Center for Substance Use, Addiction, and Health Research (CESAR), the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory (CATT Labs), the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS), the School of Public Health, and the Social Data Science Center among others. Her research is supported in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Federal Highway Administration, and Maryland Department of Natural Resources among other organizations.

Dr. Stewart serves as a member of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC), a Federal Advisory Committee sponsored by the Department of the Interior. She served on the Mapping Science Committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (2016-2023). She is a Fellow of the University Consortium of Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), and a member of the editorial boards of The International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS), Geographical Analysis, the Journal of Spatial Information Science (JOSIS), the International Journal of Geo-Information and Geomatics among others

She is a past steering committee member for the International  Conference on GIScience and the Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT). She served as a general co-chair for COSIT 2019 held in Regensburg, Germany. 

 

Areas of Interest

  • Geospatial health, Mobility, Spatiotemporal big data, Geospatial ontologies, Spatiotemporal information retrieval

Degrees

  • Degree Type
    PhD
    Degree Details
    University of Maine, Spatial Information Science and Engineering
  • Degree Type
    MS
    Degree Details
    University of British Columbia, Geography
  • Degree Type
    BA
    Degree Details
    (Hons.), McMaster University, Geography
Course Name Course Title Semester Syllabus
GEOG475 Computer Cartography Fall 2017 Syllabus

Current Students

Former Students

  • Shane Hubbard
    Research Scientist, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin
  • Wei Wang
    GIS Developer, Savills North America., New York, NY
  • Emily White
  • Inga Kulik
    Senior Ecologist and Project Manager at Brett Lane & Associates Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
  • Junchuan Fan
    Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Cheng Fu
    Senior Scientist/Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  • Yanjia Cao
    Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong
  • Yao Li
    Postdoctoral researcher, Johns Hopkins University
  • Jeff Sauer
    New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
  • Zhiyue Xia
    Data scientist, Geico
  • Guimin Zhu
    Postdoctoral researcher, CGIS
  • Hai Lan
    Assistant Professor, Frostburg State University, MD

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  • Xin Dong
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Kathleen Stewart
4600 River Road, Suite 328 (send mail to 2181 LeFrak)
Department of Geographical Sciences
Email
stewartk [at] umd.edu