Muthukumar Subrahmanyam, M.Arch., MCRP
Subrahmanyam Muthukumar is currently a Research Scientist at the Center for Geographic Information Systems and serves as an adjunct faculty member in the City and Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. All of Mr. Muthukumar’s activities are currently funded through Center for GIS projects, the Mid-America Earthquake Center and the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests lie in urban and spatial analysis, statistical and econometric modeling, disaster management, custom development in geographic information systems for planning applications and geographic information systems education. He has held positions as Secretary and Treasurer for the Georgia Chapter of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association.
Mr. Muthukumar has been teaching GIS for transportation, earth sciences and planning over the last 8 years. His most recent and ongoing projects include development of accessibility measures for emergency preparedness and the application of neural networks to developing urban building inventories. He also works closely with the Federal Emergency Management Association in Atlanta during times of natural disasters, and assists in disaster modeling, mitigation, preparedness and response activities. Mr. Muthukumar is currently a Ph.D. candidate in City Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology and is expected to graduate in December 2008. He has two Master’s degrees -- in City and Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000 and in Architecture (Urban design) from the University of Texas at Austin, 1994.