François Golay
Nationality: suisse
Expertise
GIS application design
Spatial Decision Support Systems
Geospatial data infrastructures
GIS for environmental management
GIS for urban studies and design
Mission
The GIS Lab focuses on improving the value and empowering the users of geographic information, for environmental and land management purposes as well as for related research activities. It also contributes to developing GIS analysis and design methodologies. Its research activities are related to :
• spatial decision support systems ;
• geographic data infrastructures and information sharing ;
• promoting and assessing the value and usability of GIS ;
• exploratory spatial analysis and visualization of geographic information (esp. on the basis of spatial and aerial imagery).
Teaching & PhD
Past EPFL PhD Students
Henri Pornon, Maria de Lourdes Mendonca S. Brefin, Jacynthe Pouliot, Wladimir Major, Luis Berardo Borda Arevalo, Gilles Desthieux, Joël Chételat, Stéphane Joost, Abram Pointet, Sonwouignandé Kientga, Eduardo Camacho-Hübner, Gilles Gachet, Matthieu Noucher, Michaël Kalbermatten, Vitor Silva, Quoc Bang Ho, Jens Ingensand, Claudio Magalhaes Carneiro, Sylvie Stucki, Timothée Produit, Kevin Leempoel, Emanuele Strano, Jessie Madrazo Bacallao, Matthew Josef Parkan, Alain Nicolas Jarne, Thibaud Nicolas Chassin
Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector
Flavio Zanini, Estelle Rochat, Solange Catherine Gaillard, Melissa Pang