Academic. Those more accustomed to the standard academic rundown of Degrees-Publications-Teaching-Awards may wish to see my curriculum vitae.
Professional. For those of the Objective-Experience-Skills sort, I have a somewhat complete LinkedIn profile.
Personal. And finally if you prefer to see a person summarized in terms of Birthdate-Favorite Books-Overused Quotations-Photo from Last Social Event Attended, I also have an occasionally updated Facebook profile.
Drew Dara-Abrams, Ph.D., is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, weaned on computers and the Internet but also intrigued by cognitive science and urban design. By developing and applying psychologically plausible modeling and measurement techniques for built environments, Drew seeks to advance research on human spatial cognition and to improve the design of real-world buildings, neighborhoods, and cities.
Drew is CEO, chief technology officer, and co-founder of Strategic Spatial Solutions, Inc. in Berkeley, California.
After receiving undergraduate degrees in computer science from Foothill College (Los Altos Hills, California) and cognitive science from Carleton College (Northfield, Minnesota), Drew studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received a master's degree from the Cognition, Perception, and Cognitive Neuroscience area of the Department of Psychology and a doctorate from the Department of Geography, with an emphasis in Cognitive Science. The U.S. National Science Foundation supported Drew's work at UCSB through an IGERT traineeship in interactive digital multimedia and a Graduate Research Fellowship.
As a senior editor of The Next American City, a quarterly magazine on urban issues, Drew assembled a special issue on the future of suburbia. Drew's other publications include two co-authored computer science textbooks from Prentice Hall, Supporting Web Servers and Analyzing E-Commerce and Internet Law; assorted technical papers; and a self-printed, self-published guide to the Bay Area.
Drew maintains membership in the Cognitive Science Society, the Association of American Geographers, Sigma Xi, Phi Theta Kappa, and Phi Beta Kappa.
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