Our Faculty Associates
Knaap Elijah
- Assistant ProfessorUrban Planning and Public PolicySchool of Social EcologyUC Irvine2025
- Faculty AssociateITS-IrvineUC Irvine2026
Elijah Knaap is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at UC Irvine, a faculty affiliate with the UCI Center for Population Inequality and Policy, and a core software developer for the PySAL and QuantEcon open-source ecosystems. His work focuses on the development and application of novel techniques in spatial data science, particularly toward the study of social inequality, neighborhood context, and urban structure. His rearch has received support from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Dept of Housing and Urban Development, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Urban Institute, the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, among others. He serves on the North American Regional Science Council and as Secretary of the Northeastern Regional Science Association.