Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University

Guoping Huang

GIS Specialist, Center for Geographic Analysis

Guoping Huang joined the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University as a GIS specialist. He is responsible for the day-to-day management of the GIS technology platform and processes in collaboration with the Harvard Geospatial Library, the University Information Systems and the Harvard-MIT Data Center. He provides technical consulting and support to faculty, Staff and researchers from across the university who wish to use, improve or study geospatial analysis techniques. He is also responsible for university-wide GIS software licenses; exploring new technologies and developing relationships with external vendors; providing support for GIS science courses and supporting the GIS working laboratory at CGIS.

Guoping Huang received his Doctor of Design degree from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2005. He also has a M.S. in landscape planning and a B.S. in urban and regional planning. Guoping had been working as a GIS teaching assistant and teaching fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design. His main research interest is how to apply GIS technology in landscape and urban planning.