Elizabeth Delmelle is an associate professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and is the director of the Master of Urban Spatial Analytics (MUSA) program. Her research centers on processes of neighborhood change, urban inequality, and urban transportation. To capture the multidimensionality of these subjects, her research embraces a diversity of data sources and methods including geospatial approaches, machine learning, and traditional inferential statistics. Her research has sought to uncover and map the longitudinal pathways of neighborhood change, the role of public investments like transit in spurring processes of change, and how various urban amenities, extracted from real estate advertisement text, have contributed changes in residential sorting processes.
Prior to arriving at Penn, Delmelle was an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she also earned her Ph.D. in Geography and Urban Regional Analysis. She serves as editor of the Journal of Transport Geography