Ben Lewis
Ben manages a team that designs and develops geospatial platforms to enable geospatial data visualization, spatial analytics, big data processing, data harvesting and enrichment, and interoperability to support inter-organizational collaboration and research.
Before joining Harvard University, Ben was a project manager with Advanced Technology Solutions of Pennsylvania (now GeographIT), where he led the company in adopting platform independent approaches to GIS system development. He studied Chinese language and history at the University of Wisconsin, and earned his Master’s in Environmental Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. After Penn, he helped start the University of California Berkeley GIS Lab, founded the GIS group at transportation engineering firm McCormick Taylor, and helped develop the Land Acquisition Mapping System for the South Florida Water Management District.
Ben is an active contributor to his fields of specialization, and is particularly interested in technologies that lower the barrier to accessing geospatial technology.