New PHDL members with geoinformatics backgrounds (07 October 2019)

Photo of P. Gharani, PhD, and R. Gurewitsch

Published 07 October 2019

Dr. Pedram Gharani completed his PhD in Information Science at University of Pittsburgh in July 2019. His dissertation focused on sensor fusion for indoor positioning and obstacle detection. He joined as a postdoctoral associate at PHDL where he is working with Dr. S. Pyne on data fusion and population synthesis for public health.

Raanan Gurewitsch graduated with BPhil in Information Science at University of Pittsburgh in April 2019. His thesis involved geospatial data analysis to predict lead plumbing in Pittsburgh's water systems. Following a Civic Digital data science fellowship with the US Census Bureau, he joined PHDL to work with Dr. S. Pyne on mortality and environmental data analytics.