Daniel A. Griffith

Professor, the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas

Daniel A. Griffith is an Ashbel Smith professor of Geography and Geospatial Information Sciences, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, at the U. of Texas at Dallas. He earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics, and graduate degrees in statistics and geography, receiving his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1978. He held previous faculty positions at the U. of Miami, Syracuse U. (SU), SUNY/Buffalo, and Ryerson U. in Toronto. His many past service roles include Chair of the SU Geography Department and the International Spatial Accuracy Research Association (ISARA) Steering Committee, and editor of Geographical Analysis. His over 200 publications about spatial accuracy, spatial statistics, urban and regional economics, and spatial epidemiology appear in geography, computer science, economics, epidemiology, regional science, statistics, and mathematics journals. He has been recognized by the ISARA (Founders Award, Peter Burrough medal), the American Association of Geographers (J. Warren Nystrom dissertation award, distinguished research honors, elected Fellow), the Fulbright Program (Research Fellowship, Senior Specialist), the American Statistical Association (USDA-NASS Research Fellowship, elected Fellow), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, and the University Consortium of Geographic Information Science (UCGIS; Research Award, elected Fellow). He also has been elected a Regional Science Association International, an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and a Spatial Econometrics Association fellow, and in 2017 he was elected a foreign fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.