苹果淫院

Grant McKenzie

Title: 
Associate Professor
Grant McKenzie
Contact Information
Address: 

Burnside Hall Room聽613A

Email address: 
grant.mckenzie [at] mcgill.ca
Research areas: 
Spatial Data Science
Geographic Information Science
Biography: 

Grant聽McKenzie聽is an聽associate professor聽of spatial data science in the聽Department of Geography聽at聽苹果淫院. At 苹果淫院, Grant leads the聽, an interdisciplinary research group that works at the intersection of information science and behavioral geography. Much of Grant's work examines how human activity patterns vary within and between local regions and global communities. This has driven his applied interests in financial accessibility, geoprivacy, and micro-mobility services as well as the broader role that geographic information science plays at the intersection of information technologies and society. Grant is a founding member of the Seattle-based start-up consultancy Spatial Development International (now Locana) and has worked as a data scientist and software developer for a range of NGOs and leading technology companies.

Current research: 
  • PrivyTo: Location privacy
  • Assessing the urban impacts of shared micromobility services
  • Temporal dynamics in urban environments
Degree(s): 
  • PhD in Geography, UC Santa Barbara (2015)
  • M. App. Sci., University of Melbourne (2008)
  • BA Geography, University of British Columbia (2002)
Selected publications: 
  • McKenzie, G., Romm, D., Zhang, H., Brunila, M. (2022)聽.听Transactions in GIS. 26(4). pp.听1703-1717. Wiley Press.听
  • McKenzie, G., Mwenda, K. (2021)聽.听Journal of Spatial Information Science. 23. pp. 95-124
  • McKenzie, G., Romm, D. (2021)聽.听Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 89 (September 2021) 101684. Elsevier.
  • McKenzie, G., Adams, B. (2020)聽.听Applied Geography. 125 (2020). 102363. Elsevier.
Group: 
Faculty
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