Joseph Ferreira, Head and Professor of Urban Planning and Operations Research, UIS, MIT, President of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)

约瑟夫.弗里亚，麻省理工学院城市研究与规划系都市信息系统主任，城市规划与运筹学教授。于麻省理工学院获本科及博士学位（电子工程和运筹学），弗里亚博士在麻省理工学院教授系统学和基于计算机模型的规划与城市管理，这些课程中大量运用了地理信息系统（GIS）和数据库管理。他的研究方向是GIS应用和互动空间分析工具在土地使用与交通规划模型中的运用，建立支持城市与区域规划的可持续信息基础平台构造，开发风险评估与管理的决策支持系统。弗里亚教授拥有大量出版物，同时活跃在GIS与电子化城市规划相关的各种专业组织中。他是URISA（城市与区域信息系统协会）前主席，还是与共享空间地理服务，都市信息系统架构，联合规划系统相关研究工程的首席研究员。

Joseph Ferreira is Professor of Urban Planning and Operations Research and Head of Urban Information Systems in MIT's Urban Studies and Planning Department. His undergraduate and PhD degrees are also from MIT (in electrical engineering and operations research). Dr. Ferreira teaches analytical methods and computer-based modeling for planning and urban management including courses involving extensive use of geographic information systems (GIS) and database management. His research interests involve the use of GIS and interactive spatial analysis tools to model land use and transportation planning, build sustainable information infrastructures for supporting urban and regional planning, and develop decision support systems for assessing and managing risk. Prof. Ferreira has published widely and is active in a number of professional organizations concerned with GIS and urban planning uses of computing. He is a past-president of URISA (Urban and Regional Information Systems Association) and has been principal investigator of numerous research projects involving interoperable geospatial services, metropolitan information infrastructure, and collaborative planning systems.