Yoh Kawano - Associate Professor

Yoh Kawano

Associate Professor

Los Angeles, California, United States

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Yoh Kawano is an interdisciplinary computational scientist and associate professor who blends urban planning, GIS, and digital humanities to build web-based spatial visualization and data-science systems. With over a decade of experience at UCLA’s Office of Advanced Research Computing and faculty roles in Urban Planning and Digital Humanities, he leads GIS and spatial-data initiatives that support research in disaster relief, social justice, archaeology, and urban resilience. He holds a PhD in Urban Planning from UCLA and co-authored a Harvard Press book, bringing scholarly rigor to practical tool-building and teaching graduate-level GIS and web mapping. A filmmaker and storyteller as well, his documentary work and dissertation on Fukushima reveal a commitment to surfacing forgotten human narratives through geospatial methods.

11 years of coding experience

11 years of employment as a software developer

International School of Bangkok

PhD, Urban Planning, PhD, Urban Planning at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

University of California, Los Angeles

BA, Sociology, BA, Sociology at ICU International Christian University

Japanese, Spanish

Stackoverflow

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Github Skills (17)

spatial-analysis10

spatial-data10

urban-planning10

open-data10

python9

gis9

data-science8

open-source7

maps6

google-maps-api6

google-maps6

openlayers6

geopandas6

google-earth-engine6

javascript6

Programming languages (5)

LiquidCSSJavaScriptHTMLJupyter Notebook

Github contributions (5)

yohman/22W-UP206A

Dec 2021 - Mar 2022

https://yohman.github.io/22W-UP206A/

Contributions:107 commits, 104 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months

yohman/21W-DH140

Dec 2020 - Mar 2021

https://yohman.github.io/21W-DH140/

Contributions:176 commits, 86 PRs, 175 pushes in 2 months

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