Research

Research projects:

• 2025 - Hazards and Migration

• 2025 - UNESCO World Heritage Designation’s Impacts, Destination Image, Tourism

• 2025 - Land-Population Typologies

• 2025 - Spatial Approaches to Risk Perception and Coping with Extremes

• 2024 - Post-wildfire Maui Redevelopment

• 2024 - US Homeownership

• 2024 - Redlining Zones, Land Surface Temperature, Flooding

• 2020-2023 Beyond the Early Disruption of COVID-19: Americans’ Travel Adaptations and Their Associations With Social Vulnerability and the Built Environment (Dissertation. Chair: Ruth L. Steiner)

• 2020-2022 Longitudinal and Spatial Analysis of Americans’ Travel Distances Following COVID-19
  First-place Award in UF DCP’s 2021 Research Symposium

• 2021-2023 Immersive Virtual Reality versus 360 Panorama for People’s Visual Evaluation of Geodesign Projects

• 2020 Enhancing Resilience of Port St. Joe, FL
  Collaborated with city departments in PSJ, incorporating community engagement

• 2019 Quantifying Landscape Performance of Depot Park, Gainesville, FL

• 2018 Evaluating the Implementation of Master Planning of National Parks in China (Master’s Thesis)

• 2015-2018 World Heritage Application to UNESCO: Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of the Jingmai Mountain in Pu’er
  Recognized by UNESCO as the world’s first tea-related Cultural Landscape World Heritage Site; collaborated with Chinese central governments and multiple levels of local agencies; featured consistent community engagement in multi-ethnic areas

Planning practice projects:

• 2021-2023 Signal Four Analytics (traffic safety-focused)
  Used by FL transportation agencies and promoted by USDOT; obtained the Best Practice in Traffic Records Award at the Traffic Records Forum 2025

• 2016 Detailed Planning of Fangshan National Park in Zhejiang, China
  Collaborated with Zhejiang provincial governments

• 2016-2017 Master Planning of Mount Heng (Hengshan) National Park in Shanxi, China - 2016 Revision, 2001-2030
  Led by Chinese central governments and Shanxi provincial governments. The plan is in use.

• 2015 Historic Preservation and Urban Regeneration Planning of Dingxing Old City in Hebei, China

• 2014 Planning & Design of ZOJE Industrial Park Area in Hebei, China

Design project:

• 2015 The regeneration planning of Dingxing Old City in Hebei, China & the conceptual design of the greenbelt surrounding the city.
  Bronze Award in China’s Living Enviornment Design Competition, given by Tsinghua University and the Ministry of Education of China.

Key courses taken: Hazard GIS; 3D Geospatial; Planning Information System; Data Mining; Statistical Method Research; Statistical Social Research; Fundamentals of Probability; Quantitative Data Analysis (TA); Resilience Research and Practice; Resilient Cities; Transportation Policy and Planning; Urban Economy (TA)