Dr. Raja Sengupta is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Bieler School of Environment at McGill University, Canada. He obtained his PhD in Geography from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 2000. His research specialization includes a variety of Geospatial technologies, including Urban Heat Islands and Agent-Based Modelling (a complex systems modelling approach). His recent work has evaluated the impact of UHI on urban equity, and on the use of machine-learning to develop agent rules. Dr. Sengupta has served on review committees of several global and national GIS conferences (GIScience; GEOprocessing, SKI Canada) as well as on the editorial boards of GIS journals (Transactions in GIS; ISPRS International Journal of Geoinformation).