Faculty

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Carmelo Ignaccolo, Ph.D.

Carmelo Ignaccolo, Ph.D.

Carmelo Ignaccolo, Ph.D. joined the Bloustein School in 2024/2025 as an Assistant Professor, specializing in urban design, technology, heritage, and climate resilience. He received his Ph.D. in Urban Planning from MIT DUSP, where he was also affiliated with the Civic...

Will Payne, Ph.D.

Will Payne, Ph.D.

Will Payne, Ph.D. joined the Bloustein School in September 2020. He received his PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. In his research, Will uses quantitative and qualitative methods to study the relationship between geospatial technologies and...

Eric Seymour, Ph.D.

Eric Seymour, Ph.D.

Eric Seymour, Ph.D. joined the Bloustein School in July 2019. He was most recently a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University’s Population Studies and Training Center, where he worked on the spatial demography of urban population loss. Prior to that, he...

Michael Smart, Ph.D.

Michael Smart, Ph.D.

Dr. Michael Smart is an associate professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers. His research interests include the influence of social and spatial phenomena on individuals’ transportation decisions, with a particular interest in...

Wenwen Zhang, Ph.D.

Wenwen Zhang, Ph.D.

Wenwen Zhang, Ph.D. joined the Bloustein School in August 2020. She received her Ph.D. from Georgia Tech’s School of City and Regional Planning in 2017. She also earned Masters in City and Regional Planning, Civil Engineering, and Computational Science &...