
Jan. 30, 2025
Lincoln Sheets
Lincoln Sheets is a physician and medical researcher who works as an Assistant Professor of Health Informatics at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. Dr. Sheets has published, presented, and taught in the areas of geospatial information systems, global health disparities, and social determinants of non-communicable disease. His research focuses on combining evidence-based medicine with information technology and business strategy, to improve health outcomes in underserved rural and minority communities of the United States and around the world. Dr. Sheets gained 20 years of experience in software engineering before earning an MD and PhD in Public Health Informatics, and…

Sep. 15, 2017
Timothy Haithcoat
Dr. Timothy Haithcoat joined our program as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Data Science and Analytics in August 2022 and brings years of experience in developing and managing geospatial technologies in both research and applied environments to the DSA program. Tim holds a Master’s in Wildlife Biology and a PhD in Geoinformatics, both from the University of Missouri – Columbia. His research interests involve applying geographic information approaches for solving real-world application issues and their subsequent accuracy assessment and validation. This applied research supports interdisciplinary research objectives in a range of diverse areas including wildlife biology, broadband access, risk assessment,…

Dec. 28, 2016
Timothy Matisziw
Dr. Tim Matisziw is an Associate Professor at University of Missouri-Columbia (MU) with a joint appointment in the Department of Geography, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics. He is also the Director of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) accredited Geospatial Intelligence Certificate program (graduate and undergraduate) at MU. He regularly teaches courses in geographic information systems (GIS), transportation geography, location analysis and site selection, and the geospatial sciences in national security. His primary areas of interest and expertise include transportation systems, spatial optimization, geographic information, and spatial decision support systems. Dr.