Thomas Hervey

Adjunct Professor

Part-Time Faculty

Biography

Thomas specializes in geographic information retrieval with special attention to the concepts of scale/granularity, geospatial search, and geospatial cognition.

Expertise

  • Granularity/scale in search algorithms
  • Geospatial search engines
  • Spatial cognition

Research Areas

  • Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR)
  • Geospatial data visualization
  • Open data

Education

  • UCSB, PhD in Geography, 2025
  • UCSB, MA in Geography, 2018
  • UMBC, BS in Information Systems, 2014
  • UMBC, BA in Geography, 2014

Prior Experience

  • Senior Product Engineer, ESRI (2020-2024)
  • TA in Geography, UCSB (2015-2019)