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. At the University of Maryland, Dr. Stewart is a member of the Program in Oncology at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center and also collaborates with researchers at the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, the Center for Substance Abuse Research, the Maryland Transportation Institute, 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 Mapping Science Committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. She also serves on the National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC). She serves as a steering member of the Maryland Transportation Institute. She is 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

She is a steering committee member for the International  Conference on GIScience. 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
    Associate Researcher, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
  • Wei Wang
    GIS Developer, Savills North America., New York, NY
  • Emily White
    Visiting Assistant Prof, Dept of Geographical Sciences & Sustainability, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
  • Inga Kulik
    Senior Ecologist and Project Manager at Brett Lane & Associates Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
  • Junchuan Fan
    Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN
  • Cheng Fu
    Senior Scientist/Lecturer, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  • Yanjia Cao
    Assistant professor, University of Hong Kong
  • Yao Li
    Postdoctoral researcher, University of Maryland
  • Jeff Sauer
    Data scientist, Urban Footprint

Related Students (Listed by Student on Student's Profile)

  • Xin Dong
  • Haley Mullen
  • Eric Robinson
  • Peiqi Zhang
  • Yingrui Zhao
  • Guimin Zhu
Kathleen Stewart
4600 River Road, Suite 328 (send mail to 2181 LeFrak)
Department of Geographical Sciences
Email
stewartk [at] umd.edu