COGS Director Sergio Rey Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

COGS is ecstatic to announce that Director Sergio Rey has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Rey is recognized for work as a leading pioneer of the Python Spatial Analysis Library (PySAL), downloaded two million times.

From the press release:

Sergio Rey, a San Diego State University geography professor whose innovative geospatial data science software has garnered more than two million downloads worldwide, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Rey is among 502 scientists, engineers, and others named to the 2023 class of fellows, a lifetime honor. Announced Thursday, the class coincides with the 150th anniversary of the AAAS fellows program, which counts SDSU alumna and retired astronaut Ellen Ochoa, SDSU College of Sciences Dean Jeff Roberts, biology professor Forest Rowher, and Distinguished Professor of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Karen Emmorey and other emeritus faculty as previously elected fellows.

In its announcement, the AAAS said Rey was being honored for distinguished contributions to the fields of geographical information science and regional science.

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