Dr. Yifang Ban is the Chair Professor and Director of the Division of Geoinformatics at the Department of Urban Planning and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Before joining KTH in 2004, Dr. Ban was a tenured Associate Professor at York University in Toronto, Canada. She was an Assistant Professor at Stockholm University during 1998–2000 and a Senior Research Engineer at KTH during 1996–1997. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo in Canada in 1996.