Chris Whong is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He works as a technologist building the future of distributed and discoverable data at Qri. (https://qri.io). Prior to Qri, he spent 3 years at the NYC Department of City Planning, where he founded the progressive digital services unit NYC Planning Labs (https://planninglabs.nyc) to build impactful tools using Free and Open Source Software. He is an urbanist, mapmaker, data junkie, and Civic Hacker. As web developer and open data enthusiast, he works on technology projects to help understand urban systems from budgets and taxes to buses and taxi cabs.
Chris received a B.S. in Geography from the University of Maryland in 2003 and an M.U.P. from NYU in 2013.