Rate My Professor Piotr Jankowski

Piotr Jankowski is a Professor Emeritus of Geography (on FERP) and Professor of Geographic Information Science at San Diego State University, Department of Geography, College of Arts & Letters. He has served as Director of the Joint Doctoral Program in Geography between SDSU and the University of California, Santa Barbara since 2019. He joined SDSU in 2003, following faculty appointments in Geography at the University of Idaho from 1989 to 2001 where he progressed from Assistant Professor to Professor and Interim Chair, and as Professor at the Institute for Geoinformatics, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany from 2001 to 2002. Earlier, he was a Teaching Associate at Poznań University of Economics and Business from 1979 to 1984 and a Consultant at the University of Washington Center for Social Studies from 1985 to 1989. Jankowski earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1989 and M.S. from Poznań University of Economics and Business in 1979. His visiting appointments include Fulbright Scholar at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland (2019), Visiting Professor at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria (2015), Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (2013), University of Cagliari, Italy (2012), University of Otago, New Zealand (2011), and University College Dublin, Ireland (2009).

Jankowski's research interests encompass spatial decision support systems, participatory GIS, multicriteria decision making, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis in spatial models, public participation in urban planning, geospatial visualization, and geoinformatics. He has co-authored Geographic Information Systems for Group Decision Making (2001) and GIS for Urban and Regional Environments: A Spatial Decision Support Approach (2009), and over 100 peer-reviewed journal publications, with an h-index of 48. Selected recent publications are "A streamlined approach to uncertainty and sensitivity analysis for models with spatial outputs" (2024, International Journal of Geographical Information Science), "Effectiveness of Adjacent and Bivariate Maps in Communicating Global Sensitivity Analysis for Geodiversity Assessment" (2024, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information), and "Artificial intelligence enabled participatory planning: a review" (2023, International Journal of Urban Sciences). He held roles as Department Chair (2013-2020), Co-director of the Center for Earth Systems Analysis Research, and Coordinator of the GIS Certificate Program at SDSU. Jankowski serves as Editor-in-Chief of Open Geosciences (2016-present) and received the SDSU Alumni Distinguished Faculty Award (2018/19), multiple Fulbright Scholar and Senior Specialist awards, Outstanding Faculty Awards from University of Idaho, and the Edward L. Ullman Award (1989).