Professors Xinyue Ye and Myrna Sastré are now academic affiliates of RiSE-group.

new academic affiliates of RiSE-group



Professor Ye is assistant professor at the School of Earth, Environment, and Society (Bowling Green State University). He is a geographic information scientist with expertise in open source software development in spatial analysis and economic modeling. His research topics are GIScience, Space time Analysis and Modeling, Regional Science, Economic Geography and Urban Geography.

Professor Sastré is the Director of Spatial-SEALab and full time Professor and Researcher of Spatial Econometrics at the Centro de Investigaciones Socioeconómicas, CISE, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila. Myrna has been Postdoctoral Researcher at the GeoDa Center for Spatial Analysis and Geocomputation. Her research topics are Spatial Econometrics and Statistics, Distributional Dynamics, Spatial Inequality and Poverty Traps, Spatial Aggregation Methods for Social and Economic Analysis.

+ Publications

Journal of Regional Science

The Max-p-region problem.

Ecos de Economía

Evaluación de la dinámica urbana para las ciudad de Envigado.

Ecos de Economía

Infraestructura pública y precios de vivienda: Una aplicación de regresión geográficamente ponderada en el contexto de precios hedónicos.

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+ Software and tools

spatially constrained clustering algorithms

Python library with spatially constrained clustering algorithms

spatially constrained clustering algorithms

Point and click for spatial aggregation

Economic multipliers for Colombia

Interactive tool for visualizing the interindustry dynamics in Colombian economy.

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+ News

RiSE-group in RePEc's ranking


RiSE-group enters the top 25% of RePEc's ranking of research in Economics and related fields in Colombia

new academic affiliates of RiSE-group


Professor Ye is assistant professor at the School of Earth, Environment, and Society (Bowling Green State University).

Professor Sastré is the Director of Spatial-SEALab and full time Professor and Researcher of Spatial Econometrics at the Centro de Investigaciones Socioeconómicas, CISE, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila.

RiSE in Tecnova

The subdirector of prospective planning of Medellin City mentioned RiSE group in Tecnova

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