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ELIJAH KNAAP
academic
appointments

editorial
appointments

education

San Diego State University
Center for Open Geographical Science Senior Research Scientist & Assoc. Director
School of Public Affairs Adjunct Faculty
University of California-Riverside
Center for Geospatial Sciences Research Scientist & Assoc. Director
School of Public Policy Adjunct Professor
School of Public Policy Postdoctoral Scholar

2019 – 2022
2021
2018 – 2019

University of Illinois at Chicago
Urban Planning and Policy Visiting Assistant Professor

2017 – 2018

University of Maryland
School of Information Studies Adjunct Professor
Dept. Urban Studies and Planning Adjunct Professor

2016 – 20172016 – 2017

Growth and Change: A Journal of Urban and Regional Policy
Editorial Board

2022 –

Reaching Regions
Editorial Board

2023 –

University of Maryland
Ph.D. — Urban and Regional Planning & Design
M.A. — Community Planning
B.A. — Sociology

publications

2022 –
2022 –

2016
2013
2011

Books
Knaap, Elijah, “Urban Analysis and Spatial Science: Theory, Methods, & Code for Studying Neighborhoods, Cities, & Regions.” Under Contract with CRC Press. Forthcoming 2025.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles & Book Chapters
Knaap, Elijah and Rey, Sergio. 2024. Measuring Two Decades of Urban Spatial Structure: The Evolutionof Agglomeration Economies in American Metros. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
110, 102116. DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2024.102116.
Knaap, Elijah and Rey, Sergio. 2023b. Segregated by Design? Street Network Topological Structure andthe Measurement of Urban Segregation. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City
Science, 23998083231197956. DOI: 10.1177/23998083231197956.

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Wei, Ran, Knaap, Elijah, and Rey, Sergio. 2023f. American Community Survey (ACS) Data Uncertainty
and the Analysis of Segregation Dynamics. Population Research and Policy Review 42(1), 5. DOI:
10.1007/s11113-023-09754-6.
Wei, Ran, Feng, Xin, Rey, Sergio, and Knaap, Elijah. 2022d. Reducing Racial Segregation of Public
School Districts. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 101415. DOI: 10 . 1016 / j . seps . 2022 .
101415.
Knaap, Elijah. 2022b. “The Spatial Analysis of Gentrification: Formalizing Geography in Models of aMultidimensional Urban Process”. In: Handbook of Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences. Ed.
by Sergio J. Rey and Rachel Franklin. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.384–399. DOI: 10 . 4337 /
9781789903942.00032. https://www.elgaronline.com/view/book/9781789903942/book- part9781789903942-32.xml.
Finio, Nicholas and Knaap, Elijah. 2022a. “Smart Growth’s Misbegotten Legacy: Gentrification”. In:
Handbook on Smart Growth. Ed. by Gerrit Knaap, Rebecca Lewis, Arnab Chakraborty, and Katy
June-Friesen. Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI: 10 . 4337 / 9781789904697 . 00026. https : / / www .
elgaronline.com/view/book/9781789904697/book-part-9781789904697-26.xml .
Rey, Sergio and Knaap, Elijah. 2022c. The Legacy of Redlining: A Spatial Dynamics Perspective. International Regional Science Review 0(0). DOI: 10.1177/01600176221116566.
Kang, Wei, Knaap, Elijah, and Rey, Sergio. 2021b. Changes in the Economic Status of Neighbourhoods
in US Metropolitan Areas from 1980 to 2010: Stability, Growth and Polarisation. Urban Studies,
004209802110425. DOI: 10.1177/00420980211042549.
Feng, Xin, Barcelos, Germano, Gaboardi, James D, Wei, Ran, Wolf, Levi J., Zhao, Qunshan, Rey, Sergio J., Knaap, Elijah, Wei, Ran, Wolf, Levi J., Zhao, Qunshan, and Rey, Sergio J. 2021a. Spopt:
A Python Package for Solving Spatial Optimization Problems in PySAL. Journal of Open Source
Software 7(74), 1–7. DOI: 10.21105/joss.03330.
Rey, Sergio J., Anselin, Luc, Amaral, Pedro, Arribas-Bel, Dani, Cortes, Renan Xavier, Gaboardi, JamesDavid, Kang, Wei, Knaap, Elijah, Li, Ziqi, Lumnitz, Stefanie, Oshan, Taylor M., Shao, Hu, and Wolf,
Levi John. 2021c. The PySAL Ecosystem: Philosophy and Implementation. Geographical Analysis, gean.12276. DOI: 10.1111/gean.12276.
Reynolds, Chandra, Knaap, Elijah, Corley, Robin, Gebelin, Kyle, Munoz, Elizabeth, Rhee, Soo, andWadsworth, Sally. 2020f. Accessibility to Parks and Trails and Physical Health Measures in CATSLife: Evaluating Selection. Innovation in Aging 4(Supplement_1), 508–509. DOI: 10 . 1093 /geroni/igaa057.1642.
Wei, Ran, Rey, Sergio, and Knaap, Elijah. 2021e. Efficient Regionalization for Spatially Explicit Neighborhood Delineation. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 35(1), 135–
151. DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2020.1759806.
Rey, Sergio Joseph, Cortes, Renan, and Knaap, Elijah. 2021d. Comparative Spatial Segregation Analytics. Spatial Demography (January), 1–34. DOI: 10.1007/s40980-021-00075-w.

3Kang, Wei, Rey, Sergio, Wolf, Levi, Knaap, Elijah, and Han, Su. 2020b. Sensitivity of Sequence Methods
in the Study of Neighborhood Change in the United States. Computers, Environment and Urban
Systems 81, 101480. DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2020.101480.
Cortes, Renan Xavier, Rey, Sergio, Knaap, Elijah, and Wolf, Levi John. 2020a. An Open-Source Framework for Non-Spatial and Spatial Segregation Measures: The PySAL Segregation Module. Journal of Computational Social Science 3(1), 135–166. DOI: 10.1007/s42001-019-00059-3.
Han, Su, Rey, Sergio, Knaap, Elijah, Kang, Wei, and Wolf, Levi John. 2019d. Adaptive Choropleth Mapper: An Open-Source Web-Based Tool for Synchronous Exploration of Multiple Variables at Multiple Spatial Extents. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 8(11), 509. DOI: 10.3390/
ijgi8110509.
Lung-Amam, Willow, Pendall, Rolf, and Knaap, Elijah. 2019h. Mi Casa No Es Su Casa : The Fight for
Equitable Transit-Oriented Development in an Inner-Ring Suburb. Journal of Planning Education
and Research 39(4), 442–455. DOI: 10.1177/0739456X19878248.
Wolf, Levi John, Knaap, Elijah, and Rey, Sergio. 2019j. Geosilhouettes: Geographical Measures ofCluster Fit. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. DOI: 10 . 1177 /2399808319875752.
Wadsworth, Sally J., Corley, Robin P., Munoz, Elizabeth, Trubenstein, Paige, Knaap, Elijah, Defries, John
C., Plomin, Robert, and Reynolds, Chandra A. 2019i. CATSLife: A Study of Lifespan Behavioral
Development and Cognitive Functioning. Twin Research and Human Genetics 22(6), 829–829.
DOI: 10.1017/thg.2019.126.
Han, Su Yeon, Tsou, Ming-hsiang, Knaap, Elijah, Rey, Sergio, and Cao, Guofeng. 2019e. How Do Cities
Flow in an Emergency? Tracing Human Mobility Patterns during a Natural Disaster with Big Dataand Geospatial Data Science. Urban Science 3(2), 51. DOI: 10.3390/urbansci3020051.
Finio, Nicholas, Lung-Amam, Willow, Knaap, Gerrit-Jan, Dawkins, Casey, and Knaap, Elijah. 2019c.
Metropolitan Planning in a Vacuum: Lessons on Regional Equity Planning from Baltimore’s Sustainable Communities Initiative. Journal of Urban Affairs, 1–19. DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2019.
1565822.
Lung-Amam, Willow S., Knaap, Elijah, Dawkins, Casey, and Knaap, Gerrit-Jan. 2018b. Opportunity for
Whom? The Diverse Definitions of Neighborhood Opportunity in Baltimore. City & Community
17(3), 636–657. DOI: 10.1111/cico.12318.
Rey, Sergio, Knaap, Elijah, Han, Su, Wolf, Levi, and Kang, Wei. 2018d. Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Socioeconomic Neighborhoods: The Open Source Longitudinal Neighborhood Analysis Package(OSLNAP). in: Proceedings of the 16th Python in Science Conference. SciPy, pp.121–128. DOI:
10.25080/majora- 4af1f417- 012. https://conference.scipy.org/proceedings/scipy2018/serge_rey.html.
Nedovic-Budic, Zorica, Knaap, Elijah, and Ran, Jing. 2018c. Strategic Planning for GIS Design. Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge 2018(Q3). DOI: 10 . 22224 /gistbok/2018.3.8.

4Knaap, Elijah. 2017. The Cartography of Opportunity: Spatial Data Science for Equitable Urban Policy.
Housing Policy Debate 27(6), 913–940. DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2017.1331930.
Knaap, Elijah, Ding, Chengri, Niu, Yi, and Mishra, Sabyasachee. 2016b. Polycentrism as a Sustainable
Development Strategy: Empirical Analysis from the State of Maryland. Journal of Urbanism:
International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability 9(1), 73–92. DOI: 10 . 1080 /
17549175.2015.1029509.
Pendall, Rolf, Hayes, Christopher, George, Arthur, Dawkins, Casey, Jeon, Jae Sik, Knaap, Elijah, Blumenberg, Evelyn, Pierce, Gregory, and Smart, Michael. 2015. Driving to Opportunities: Voucher
Users, Cars, and Movement to Sustainable Neighborhoods. Cityscape 17(2), 57–87.
Mishra, Sabyasachee, Welch, Timothy F., Torrens, Paul M., Fu, Cheng, Zhu, Haojie, and Knaap, Elijah.
2014b. A Tool for Measuring and Visualizing Connectivity of Transit Stop, Route and Transfer
Center in a Multimodal Transportation Network. Public Transport 7(1), 77–99. DOI: 10 . 1007 /s12469-014-0091-2.
Mishra, Sabyasachee, Welch, Timothy, Torrens, Paul, Zhu, Haojie, and Knaap, Elijah. 2014a. Locating
the Most Connected Transit Stop, Route, and Transfer Center: Tool for Users and Decision Makers. In: Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting. 14-5367.
Technical Reports
Ellen Reese, Saman Banafti, Marlenee Blas Pedral, Renan Cortes, Mirella Deniz-Zaragoza, Luis Higinio,
Elijah Knaap, Karthick Ramakrishnan, Sono Shah, and Yiming Shao, “The State of Work in the
Inland Empire.” Economic Mobility Group, Center for Social Innovation at the University of California, Riverside. 2018.
Finio, Nicholas, Lung-Amam, Willow, Bedford, Brandon, Knaap, Gerrit, Dawkins, Casey, and Knaap,
Elijah. 2018a. Toward an Equitable Region: Lessons from Baltimore’s Sustainable Communities Initiative. Tech. rep. Columbia, MD: Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. https : / / www .
enterprisecommunity.org/download?fid=9718&nid=6931.
Avin, Uri, Porter, Christopher, von Stroh, David, Knaap, Elijah, and Patnode, Paul. 2016a. NCHRP 0836: Sketch Planning Tools for Regional Sustainability. Tech. rep. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Systematics, Inc.
Pendall, Rolf, Hayes, Christopher, George, Arthur Taz, Mcdade, Zach, Dawkins, Casey, Jeon Sik, Jae,
Knaap, Elijah, Blumenberg, Evelyn, Pierce, Gregory, and Smart, Michael. 2014c. Driving to Opportunity: Understanding the Links among Transportation Access, Residential Outcomes, andEconomic Opportuniy for Housing Voucher Recipients. Tech. rep. March. Washington DC: Urban
Institute, p. 68. https : / / www . urban . org / research / publication / driving - opportunity understanding- links- among- transportation- access- residential- outcomes- and- economicopportunity-housing-voucher-recipients.

Sartori, Jason, Knaap, Gerrit, Liu, Chao, Niu, Yi, Ding, Chengri, Knaap, Elijah, and Sandborn, Avery.
2012. Challenges and Opportunities for Economic Prosperity in the 21st Century: Sustainable

5and Equitable Economic Development in Maryland. Tech. rep. College Park, MD: National Center
for Smart Growth Research & Education.
SoftwareKnaap, Elijah. 2020d. Mandown: Scholarly Manuscripts in Markdown. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3629662.
https://github.com/knaaptime/mandown (visited on 01/28/2020).
Knaap, Eli, Cortes, Renan Xavier, Rey, Sergio, Gaboardi, James, and Frontiera, Patty. 2020c.
Pysal/Tobler. DOI: 10 . 5281 / zenodo . 3386576. https : / / zenodo . org / record / 3386576 (visitedon 12/10/2020).
Rey, Sergio, Wolf, Levi John, Stephens, Philip, Gaboardi, James, Schmidt, Charles, Fleischmann, Martin, Laura, Jay, Arribas-Bel, Dani, Oshan, Taylor, Folch, David C., Mhwang4, Kang, Wei, Malizia,
Nicholas, Amaral, Pedro, Knaap, Eli, Anselin, Luc, Mragank Shekhar, De Andrade, Elliott Sales,
Winslow, Andrew, Marynia, Shao, Hu, KSai, Lumnitz, Stefanie, Couwenberg, Bas, Gregg, Forest,
Jotham Apaloo, Siddharth S, Eschbacher, Andy, and Reagan, Andy. 2023e. Pysal/Libpysal. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.1472807. https://zenodo.org/record/1472807.
Rey, Sergio, Kang, Wei, Wolf, Levi John, Shao, Hu, Knaap, Eli, Fleischmann, Martin, Mridul Seth, Sugam
Srivastava, Gaboardi, James, PrivateAGI, Palla, Giovanni, Arribas-Bel, Dani, and Qiusheng Wu.
2023c. Pysal/Pointpats. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.2366048. https://zenodo.org/record/
2366048 (visited on 10/13/2023).
Gaboardi, James, Erin, Rey, Sergio, Barcelos, Germano, Knaap, Eli, Feng, Xin (Selena), Rwei5, Ellersiek,
Timothy, Wolf, Levi John, Fleischmann, Martin, Bearman, Nick, and Camargo, Pedro. 2023a.
Pysal/Spopt. Zenodo. DOI: 10 . 5281 / ZENODO . 4444155. https : / / zenodo . org / record / 4444155(visited on 10/13/2023).
Rey, Sergio, Wolf, Levi John, Gaboardi, James, Arribas-Bel, Dani, Kang, Wei, Mhwang4, Laura, Jay,
Stephens, Philip, Fleischmann, Martin, Schmidt, Charles, Lumnitz, Stefanie, Knaap, Eli, Folch,David C., Duque, Juan C, Anselin, Luc, Malizia, Nicholas, Filipe, Louf, Thomas, Matthewborish,
Sauer, Jeff, Morales, Leo, Mlyons-Tcc, Mridul Seth, and Fernandez, Nicolas. 2023d. Pysal/Esda.
Zenodo. DOI: 10 . 5281 / ZENODO . 1403275. https : / / zenodo . org / record / 1403275 (visited on
10/13/2023).
Knaap, Elijah, Kang, Wei, Rey, Sergio, Wolf, Levi John, Cortes, Renan Xavier, and Han, Su. 2019g.
Geosnap: The Geospatial Neighborhood Analysis Package. DOI: 10 . 5281 / ZENODO . 3526163.
https://github.com/spatialucr/geosnap (visited on 11/02/2019).
Cortes, Renan Xavier, Knaap, Eli, Rey, Sergio, Kang, Wei, Stephens, Philip, Wolf, Levi John, Härkönen,Antti, Gaboardi, James, and Arribas-Bel, Dani. 2019a. Pysal/Segregation: Release 1.1.1 (Bug
Fixes). DOI: 10 . 5281 / ZENODO . 3343074. https : / / github . com / pysal / segregation (visited on
08/22/2019).
Kang, Wei, Rey, Sergio, Stephens, Philip, Malizia, Nicholas, Wolf, Levi John, Lumnitz, Stefanie, Gaboardi,
James, jlaura, Schmidt, Charles, Knaap, Eli, and Eschbacher, Andy. 2019f. Pysal/Giddy: Giddy

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2.2.1. DOI: 10 . 5281 / ZENODO . 3351744. https : / / github . com / pysal / giddy (visited on
08/22/2019).
Manuscripts in Progress
Elijah Knaap, Chandra Reynolds, Sergio Rey, Robin Corley & Sally Wadsworth, “Measuring the Relationship Between Park Accessibility and BMI: What’s the Meaning of Access?.” Landscape and
Urban Planning. In Revision.
Elijah Knaap, Sergio Rey, Renan Cortes & Wei Kang, “The Daily Ballet of Temporary Integration: SpatioTemporal Segregation Dynamics in Metropolitan U.S.A..” Growth and Change: A Journal of Urban
and Regional Policy. In Revision.
Elijah Knaap, Levi Wolf, Sergio Rey, Su Han & Wei Kang, “Modeling Urban Neighborhoods: A Survey ofApproaches for Identifying Socio-Spatial Structure.” Geography Compass. In Revision.
Sergio Rey, Elijah Knaap, Ran Wei, & Dylan Skrah, “School Neighborhoods or Neighborhood Schools?
The Spatial Structure of the School-Neighborhood Nexus.” Population Research and Policy Review. In Revision.
Elijah Knaap, “Measuring the Purple Line’s Effect on Residential Rents: Spatial Econometrics andCausal Inference in Urban Policy Analysis.” Journal of Regional Science. In Revision.
Sergio Rey, Elijah Knaap, Zachary Neal, & Clio Andris, “Unraveling Incommensurate Spatial Partitions:
A Bipartite Graph Approach to School-Neighborhood Interactions and Their Impacts.” Networks
and Spatial Economics. Under Review.
Levi Wolf & Elijah Knaap, “Learning Geographical Manifolds: A Kernel Trick for Geographical Machine
Learning.” Geographical Analysis. Under Review.
Elijah Knaap & Sergio Rey, “The Geospatial Neighborhood Analysis Package: A Set of Open Tools for
Urban, Regional, and Neighborhood Science.” Proceedings of the 2024 Python in Science Conference. Under Review.

grantsNational Science Foundation #2345820

2024 - Present

POSE: Phase II: An Open Source Ecosystem for Spatial Data Science
Co-PI (PI: Sergio Rey) $1,484,914

National Institute on Drug Abuse #R21DA054611

2021 - Present

Building an innovative Ethno-Geographic Information System (EGIS) to address opioid overdose disparities in Inland Southern California
Co-PI (PI: Jennifer Syvertsen) $232,949

National Institute On Aging #2R01AG046938-06
Colorado Adoption/Twin Study of Lifespan behavioral development & cognitive aging
Co-Investigator (PI: Chandra Reynolds) $11,308,000

2020 - Present

7Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation #INV-024366

2020 - 2024

geosnap4ed: Neighborhoods in Educational Research
Co-PI (PI: Sergio Rey) $587,011

National Science Foundation #1831615

2018 - 2023

RIDIR: Scalable Geospatial Analytics for Social Science Research
Research Associate (PI: Ran Wei) $1,000,000

National Science Foundation #1759746

2018 - 2023

Comparative Regional Inequality Dynamics: Multiscalar and Multinational Perspectives(Research Associate) (PI Sergio Rey) $327,513

National Science Foundation #1733705

2017 - 2020

Neighborhoods in Space-Time Contexts
Research Associate (PI: Sergio Rey) $319,949

National Science Foundation #1421935

2014 - 2018

New Approaches for Spatial Distribution Dynamics
Postdoctoral Scholar (PI: Sergio Rey) $264,999

invited talks“Segregated by Design? The Effect of Street Network Topological Structure on the Measurement of Urban Segregation.” Geography Seminar Series, University of Maryland Department of Geography.
April 20, 2023.
“The Geography of Neighborhood Change: Poverty, Immigration and Gentrification.” Makeover Montgomery 3, Balancing Change in America’s Suburbs. May 4, 2016.
“Retail Location and Transit: An Econometric Examination of Retail Location in Prince George’s andMontgomery County.” Transit, Development, and Forme Urbaine: Washington et Paris, Paris,
France. March 14, 2015.
“The Promise and Challenge of Equitable Transit-Oriented Development in Diverse Suburbs.” Transit,
Development, and Forme Urbaine: Washington et Paris, Washington, DC. October 18, 2014.

conference
talks“GeoGraphs for Spatially Embedded Networks.” Sergio Rey, Elijah Knaap, Zachary Neal & Clio Andris,
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii. April, 2024.
“Measuring the Purple Line’s Effect on Residential Rents: Spatial Econometrics and Causal Inference in
Urban Policy Analysis.” Elijah Knaap, Western Regional Science Association Annual Conference,Monterrey, California. February, 2024.
“The Effect of Transit Investments on Local Residential Rents: Causal Inference in Spatial Policy Analysis.” Elijah Knaap, North American Regional Science Council Annual Conference, San Diego,
California. November, 2023.
“GeoGraphs for Spatially Embedded Networks.” Sergio Rey, Elijah Knaap, Zachary Neal & Clio Andris,
Spatial Econometrics Association Annual Conference, San Diego, California. November, 2023.

8“PySAL and Friends: Reflections on Onboarding, Growth, and Change.” Elijah Knaap & Sergio Rey, Spatial Econometrics Association Annual Conference, San Diego, California. November, 2023.
“Measuring Two Decades of Urban Spatial Structure: The Evolution of Agglomeration Economies in
American Metros.” Elijah Knaap & Sergio Rey, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning,
Chicago, Illnois. October, 2023.
“School Neighborhoods or Neighborhood Schools? The Spatial Structure of the School-Neighborhood
Nexus.” Sergio Rey, Elijah Knaap, Ran Wei, and Dylan Skrah, Western Regional Science Association, Waikoloa Village, Hawaii. February, 2023.
“Measuring Two Decades of Urban Spatial Structure: The Evolution of Agglomeration Economies in
American Metros.” Elijah Knaap & Sergio Rey, North American Regional Science Conference,Montreal, Canada. November, 2022.
“Segregated by Design? The Effect of Street Network Topological Structure on the Measurement of
Urban Segregation.” Elijah Knaap & Sergio Rey, North American Regional Science Council Annual
Conference, Montreal, Canada. November, 2022.
“Comparative Spatial Segregation Analytics.” Sergio Rey, Renan Cortes & Elijah Knaap, Western Regional Science Association: Annual Meeting, Online. February, 2021.
“Machines Learn the Chicago School: Modeling Multidimensional Neighborhood Change with Spatial
Markov Chains.” Elijah Knaap, Sergio Rey & Levi Wolf, Symposium on Predicting Neighborhood
Change Using Big Data and Machine Learning, Berkeley, California. January, 2020.
“Comparing Spatial Inequality in International Contexts.” Elijah Knaap, American Association of Geographers, Washington, D.C.. May, 2019.
“Modeling Neighborhoods Through Time & Space with Geosnap, The GeoSpatial Neighborhood Analysis Package.” Elijah Knaap, Urban Affairs Association, Los Angeles, California. April, 2019.
“Spatio-temporal Analysis of Socioeconomic Neighborhoods.” Sergio Rey & Elijah Knaap, 17th Python
in Science Conference, Austin, Texas. July, 2018.
“Machines Learn the Chicago School: Spatiotemporal Markov Models of Neighborhood Change.” Elijah
Knaap & Nicholas Finio, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Denver, Colorado. October, 2017.
“The Cartography of Opportunity: Spatial Data Science for Equitable Urban Policy.” Elijah Knaap, American Association of Geographers, Boston, Massachusetts. April, 2017.
“Who Moves to Opportunity? Residential Sorting Models from a Unique Housing Mobility Programin Baltimore.” Elijah Knaap, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Portland, Oregon.
November, 2016.
“Regional Planning, Access to Opportunity, & Freddie Gray: Lessons from Baltimore.” Gerrit Knaap,
Elijah Knaap, Nick Finio, Casey Dawkins, Willow Lung-Amam, Association of Collegiate Schoolsof Planning, Portland, Oregon. November, 2016.

9“Opportunity, Transportation, and Neighborhood Choice: A Quantitative Examination of Housing
Voucher Use in Baltimore.” Elijah Knaap, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Houston, Texas. October, 2015.
“Networks and Neighborhood Effects: The Role of Accessibility in Economic Mobility.” Elijah Knaap &Casey Dawkins, Federal Reserve System Community Development Research Conference, Washington D.C.. April 3, 2015.
“Improving Social and Economic Equity in Maryland.” Chao Liu, Elijah Knaap & Gerrit Knaap, 14th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference Tech Fair, Baltimore, Maryland. January 3,
2015.
“Trajectories of Neighborhood Attainment: Evidence from MTO in Baltimore.” Elijah Knaap, Associationof Collegiate Schools of Planning, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October, 2014.
“The Use and Misuse of Opportunity Maps.” Elijah Knaap & Chao Liu, Association of Collegiate Schoolsof Planning, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October, 2014.
“Identifying Maryland Transportation Place Types.” Chao Liu, Ting Ma, Elijah Knaap, & Gerrit Knaap,
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October, 2014.
“Opportunity Mapping Tools to Improve Social and Economic Equity in Maryland.” Elijah Knaap, Chao
Liu, & Gerrit Knaap, Makeover Montgomery II, Silver Spring, Maryland. October, 2014.
“Locating the Most Connected Transit Stop, Route, and Transfer Center: Tool for Users and Decision
Makers.” Mishra, S., Welch, T. F., Torrens, P. M., Zhu, H., & Knaap, E., Transportation Research
Board 93rd Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.. October, 2014.
“Opportunity Mapping: A Conceptual Analysis and Application to the Baltimore Metropolitan Area.”
Chao Liu, Elijah Knaap & Gerrit Knaap, Annual Conference of the Association for Public Policy
Analysis & Management, Washington D.C.. 2013.
“Opportunity Mapping: Concepts and Techniques.” Elijah Knaap, Chao Liu, & Gerrit Knaap, Joint Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning & Association of European Schools ofPlanning, Dublin, Ireland. 2013.
“Reclassification of Sustainable Neighborhoods: An Opportunity Indicator Analysis in Baltimore
Metropolitan Area.” Chao Liu, Elijah Knaap, & Gerrit Knaap, Joint Meeting of the Associationof Collegiate Schools of Planning & Association of European Schools of Planning, Dublin, Ireland.
2013.
“Economic Clusters and Transit Oriented Development: Two for the Price of One.” Elijah Knaap, Yi Niu,
Chengri Ding, Sabyasachee Mishra, Tim Welch, Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate
Schools of Planning & Association, Cincinnati, Ohio. 2012.
“Improving Opportunity Accessibility for Underserved Populations: A Sustainable and Equitable Economic Development (SEED) Initiative for the State of Maryland.” Chao Liu, Gerrit Knaap, Jason
Sartori & Elijah Knaap, Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning &Association, Cincinnati, Ohio. 2012.

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awardscoursestaughtStaff Appreciation and Recognition (STAR) Award
School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside

2022

Staff Appreciation and Recognition (STAR) Award
School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside

2021

All S.T.A.R. Graduate Fellowship
University of Maryland Graduate School

2015

Innovative Student Contribution to Planning Tools Award
Scenario Planning Applications Network

2015

Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award
National Center for Smart Growth Research & Education

2014

Robert Janes Award for contribution to the field of Urban Studies
University of Maryland Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning

2012

Invited and Short Courses
Leveraging Python for Spatial Data Science (CARTO SDSC San Francisco)2024

Spatial Data Analysis and Econometrics with PySAL (Western Regional Science Association)

2024

Spatial Data Science with PySAL (CARTO SDSC New York City)

2023

Spatial Data Analysis and Econometrics with PySAL (NARSC)

2023

Spatial and Urban Data Science with PySAL (NARSC)

2022

Spatial and Urban Data Science with PySAL (SciPy)

2022

Spatial Inequality Dynamics with PySAL (IALE)

2022

Spatial and Urban Data Science with PySAL (NARSC)

2020

Spatial Data Science with PySAL (ACM SIGSPATIAL)

2020

Spatial Data Science with PySAL (SciPy)

2020

University of California, Riverside
SPP 150: Exploring Urban Communities with GIS

Fall 2021

University of Illinois at Chicago
UPP 461: GIS for Urban Planners

Fall 2017

University of Maryland
URSP 688Y: Smart Cities and Urban Data Science

Spring 2017

URSP 688Q: Intermediate GIS (Co-Instructor)

Spring 2014

URSP 688G: Urban Planning Technology (Co-Instructor)

Fall 2014

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URSP 688G: Urban Planning Technology (Co-Instructor)

publichistory

Selected media coverage
California Realtors apologize for role in racist housing - Associated Press, October 21, 2022
Baltimore’s Housing Voucher Program Almost Gets It Right - CityLab, January 5, 2016
Defining ‘opportunity’ in Baltimore - The Baltimore Sun, August 3, 2015service

Professional Memberships
American Association of Geographers
American Sociological Association
North American Regional Science Council (Councillor-At-Large 2024–2026)
Northeastern Regional Science Association (Treasurer)
Python Spatial Analysis Library (Core Developer, Steering Committee)
QuantEcon (Core Developer)
Regional Science Association International
Scenario Planning Applications Network
Spatial Econometrics Association
Western Regional Science Association
Invited Reviewer
Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy
CitiesEnvironment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Geographical Analysis
Growth and Change: A Journal of Urban and Regional Policy
Housing Policy Debate
International Journal of Geographic Information Science
Journal of Advanced Transportation
Journal of Computational Social Science
Journal of Geographical Systems
Journal of Maps
Journal of Planning Education and Research
Journal of Transport and Land Use
Journal of Transport Geography
Journal of Urbanism
Nature Cities
Networks and Spatial Economics
NSF: Methodology, Measurement, & Statistics Program
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Spring 2013

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Transactions in GIS
Urban Studies

computing

Programming
Python (PyData NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, Scipy, statsmodels, seaborn, matplotlib, geopandas,
pysal, lineramodels), R (tidyverse, sp, sf, sfdep, spdep, sphet, splm, nlme, lme4, lavaan), Bash, Git,
HTML5/CSS, LaTeX, Make, Postgresql/PostGIS, Javascript
DevOps
Git/Version Control, Continuous Integration/Continuous Development, Test-Driven Development, Cloud
Computing, Docker/Virtualization,
Geographic Information Systems
ArcGIS, QGIS, GeoDa, STARS, PySAL, GeoPandas, r-spatial, spdep