Elijah Knaap will present “Mitigating Fatal Overdose Risk with Spatial Models: An Integrated Approach to Harm Reduction using Location Choice and Optimal Coverage” at 2:30 p.m. Friday (Sept. 19) in Brooks Hall, Room 325.
Knaap is an assistant professor of urban planning and public policy at UC Irvine, an adjunct professor of geography at San Diego State University, and a core software developer for the PySAL and QuantEcon open-source ecosystems.
His work focuses on the development and application of novel techniques in spatial data science, particularly toward the study of social inequality, neighborhood context and urban structure.
Knaap’s research has received support from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Urban Institute, the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, among others.
He also serves on the North American Regional Science Council and as secretary of the Northeastern Regional Science Association.