David Lanter serves on the faculty of Temple University and the Fox School of Business in the Management Information Systems Department as an Assistant Professor and Director of the Information Technology and Cyber Security programs.
A pioneering inventor of data provenance metadata and geospatial data management and quality assurance, Lanter was vice president at CDM Smith where he routinely led teams of software engineers, computer scientists, data specialists, and subject matter experts in designing, developing and securing high-performance applications, decision support systems, and enterprise data architectures for public and private sector organizations from the international to the municipal level. As research director at Rand McNally – he led re-engineering of map and atlas production systems and led data sourcing, development and quality assurance teams. As software design engineer at Microsoft – he led quality assurance for the firm’s geography products. As president of Geographic Designs Inc. he led design and development of commercial off the shelf and custom artificial intelligence metadata processing tools that helped government agencies, utility and private organizations visualize, derive and analyze big datasets and manage data quality in enterprise geographic information systems. As a systems analyst at Grumman Data Systems he designed a reusable software library to support real-time, near real-time and non-real-time cartographic applications for tactical and strategic systems of the U.S. Air Force. As an assistant professor of Geography at the University of California in Santa Barbara, he taught Geographic Information Systems, cartographic design and production, and applications programming.
Prof. Lanter received a Fulbright Scholarship, a Research Fellowship at the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, multiple Values in Action awards from CDM Smith, a Best Scientific Paper in Geographic Information Systems award from the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Outstanding Research Award from Sigma Xi Science Honor Society, and Von Laue Scholarship from Clark University.
Lanter’s Ph.D. in Geographic Information Processing is from University of South Carolina. His Master of Science degree in Information Technology Auditing and Cyber Security is from Temple University’s Fox School of Business, Master of Arts degree in Geographic Information Systems is from State University of New York at Buffalo, and his Bachelor of Arts with honors is in Science, Technology, and Society from Clark University.
Prof. Lanter chaired the Urban and Regional Information System Association’s (URISA) Workshop Development and Curriculum Development committees, and helped develop URISA’s Leadership Academy.