Greetings from Ann Arbor! I am a Research Associate at the University of Michigan, where I work with Xiaofan Liang on computational approaches to understanding and interpreting zoning and land-use regulation.
I am broadly interested in how people experience cities, and how those experiences reveal deeper patterns of equity, governance, and technological change.
Before joining UM, I completed my Master's in Information Science with a concentration in Urban Tech at Cornell Tech, where I was extremely fortunate to work with Anna Scaglione and Nikhil Garg.
I hold a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from Beijing University of Technology, which my friends and I still insist is the best school in Beijing.
Selected Projects
Cognitive Boundaries of Neighborhoods
Exploring how people perceive and name urban spaces through crowdsourced data and entropy mapping.
gentrification · spatial cognition
WISPR: Modeling Tree-Induced Power Outages
Using LiDAR, climate, and vegetation data to assess power outage risks under extreme weather.
climate resilience · lidar · power system