Spatial Sciences Institute Leadership
John P. Wilson
Director
jpwilson@usc.edu / (213) 740-1908 / AHF B55F
GIS • spatial analysis • environmental modeling • environment and human health • geodesign education
Susan H. Kamei
Managing Director
kamei@dornsife.usc.edu / (213) 740-1375 / AHF B55E
university and nonprofit administration • online education • civic engagement • real estate development
Robert Vos
Director of Graduate Studies
vos@usc.edu / (213) 821-1311 / AHF B55D
industrial ecology • GIS assessment of carbon footprinting • environmental politics and policy
Laura C. Loyola
Director of Undergraduate Studies
loyola@usc.edu / (213) 740-5910 / AHF B55
GIS • human and evolutionary biology • anthropology • remote sensing
Spatial Sciences Institute Staff
Yijun Lin
Research Programmer
yijunlin@usc.edu / (213) 740-5910 / AHF B55
spatial data mining • spatial data integration • spatial databases • machine learning
Beau MacDonald
GIS Project Specialist
beaumacd@usc.edu / (213) 740-7164 / AHF 145D
GIS • cartography • design • research
Andrea Macko
Fiscal Administrator
macko@usc.edu / (213) 821-2193 / AHF B55H
budget administration • contracts and grants support
Melissa Salido
Events and Office Manager
msalido@usc.edu / (213) 740-6532 / AHF B55J
administration and staffing • faculty appointments • facilities • event management
Stephanie N. Tran
Administrative Assistant
transtep@usc.edu / (213) 740-5910 / AHF B55
administrative support • ArcGIS student licenses • scheduling
Richard Tsung
Systems Administrator III, Dornsife Technology Services
ctsung@usc.edu / (213) 821-4415 / AHF 145D
computer technology • IT infrastructure
Kendrick Watson
Academic Programs Director
watsonke@usc.edu / (213) 740-8298 / AHF B56C
recruitment • admissions • academic advisement • degree progress • student engagement
Visiting Scholars
Richard Christopher Olsen
Professor of Physics and Director, Remote Sensing Center, Naval Postgraduate School
(213) 740-5910 / AHF B55
remote sensing • LiDAR • spectral imagery • photogrammetry • spatial analysis
Wanting Peng
Ph.D. Candidate, Landscape Architecture, Tongji University
wp_567@usc.edu / (213) 421-4208 / AHF B55
Geodesign • conservation planning • national park, ecosystem service assessment and mapping • biodiversity
LiLi Zhang
Assistant Professor, Institute for Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lz_440@usc.edu/zhangll@lreis.ac.cn / (323) 547-0419 / AHF B55
remote sensing • greenhouse gases • climate change • spatial analysis • green infrastructure
Student Workers
Caryn De La Cruz
Noah Gaudreau
Drew Hudock
Rachel Kosic
Debbie Lee
