About me
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at Emory University in the Department of Environmental Sciences and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Maryland (UMD). I am also an affiliated researcher with New York University (NYU), where I previously served as a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP). I received my Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from UMD in 2024.
Building intelligence for cities under pressure.
HUMAN-CENTERED AI · GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE · RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE
I develop AI systems that transform complex human, geospatial, and infrastructure data into practical insight for resilient and equitable decision-making.
Sense
Capture real-time human, environmental, and infrastructure signals from social media, mobility, remote sensing, and technical records.
Related research & publications → 02Reason
Build grounded and interpretable AI using LLM agents, multimodal learning, semantic digital twins, and spatial models.
Related research & publications → 03Act
Translate evidence into situational awareness, equitable planning, risk management, and adaptive public decisions.
Related research & publications →My work spans interdisciplinary collaborations and federally supported initiatives, including projects funded by NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense. It has appeared in journals including Sustainable Cities and Society, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, and Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, and at conferences including AAAI, ACL, and EMNLP.
Awards
- STEM Teaching Fellowship ($1,500), Emory School of Medicine, 2026.
- 2026 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists — selected as New York University’s candidate, 2025.
- Arthur M. Wellington Prize, ASCE, 2024.
- Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize, ASCE’s Construction Institute, 2024.
- Future Faculty Fellowship (travel fund $2500), University of Maryland, College Park, 2022.
- Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition (Rank #28), Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), 2015.
- Foreign Exchange Scholarship (First-class award ￥30,000), Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, 2013