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Mei-Po Kwan (Ph.D. University of California-Santa Barbara, 1994) is Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Geography. Her research addresses theoretical and substantive questions in urban, transportation, and economic geography through the application of GIS methods. Her work focuses mainly on the geographical and temporal characteristics of people's daily activities, and the impact of recent social, economic and political changes on their everyday lives as manifested through changes in the geographies of their daily activities. Kwan is an expert in GIS-based 3D geovisualization and geocomputation. With Susan Hanson, she is co-editor of Transport: Critical Essays in Human Geography to be published by Ashgate in 2008. She is currently the editor of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers (Methods, Models, and GIS Section). Kwan is a member of CJRC's Spatial Crime Research Working Group.