Urban Design & Planning Interdisciplinary Ph.D.

Students

Al Ghais, Mohammed Saif

msgz@uw.edu

Ashour, Lamis

lamis21@uw.edu

Research Interests: Smart cities and transportation systems, digital transformation, travel behavior, and sustainable development

Bharath, Keisha

kcbhara@uw.edu

Research Interests: Urban sustainability indicators, small island developing states, climate change, natural resource management, urban design

Cai, Mingming

mmcai@uw.edu

Research Interests: Emerging transportation technologies, shared mobility and land use, interaction between human mobility based on shared vehicles and urban land uses, spatio-temporal analysis and big data, smart visualization methods

Chen, Chin-Wei

cchen83@uw.edu

Research Interests: Climate change (adaptation & mitigation), climate governance, community-based adaptation actions, disaster risk reduction

Choi, Sunho

sunhoch@uw.edu

Research Interests: Historic preservation planning and policy, community development, urban revitalization, social sustainability

Costa, Ana

anacosta@uw.edu

Research Interests: Urban governance, poverty and inequality, planning history and theory, housing policy, urban informality, community organization

Shiqi Ding

shiqidi@uw.edu

Research Interests: urban mobility, equity, and sustainability, specifically in electric vehicles and charging infrastructure

Habtour, Rebecca

rhabtour@uw.edu

Research Interests: Designing built environments to enhance human happiness, and related principles: Justice, nature integration, access, identity, well-being, resiliency

Howe, Julie

julhowe@uw.edu

Research Interests: Housing models and their impact on mental health

Lecciones, Aaron Julius M.

aaronl24@uw.edu | www.aaronlecciones.com

Research Interests: urban sustainability and resiliency, hybridized built environments, wetland city and wetland center typologies, nature-based solutions and scalable blue-green-gray infrastructure, human ecology and urban informatics in urban design

Leung, Keith

leungke@uw.edu

Research Interests: Mortgage, risk, demographics, finance and investment

Li, Yuqi

yqli@uw.edu

Research Interests: Urban ecology, simulation modeling, scenario planning, enhancing ecosystem functions in coupled human-natural systems

Liu, Ziyang

zliu96@uw.edu

Research Interests: Urban resilience, disaster risk reduction, climate change, community engagement

Majed, Aziz

alqadhib@uw.edu

Research Interest: Infrastructure planning, climate change policy, transaction cost economics, institutions, institutional change and structure.

Malesis, Anna

annanm@uw.edu | https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-malesis-7782b4280

Research Interests: urban eco-evolutionary dynamics, urban complexity, landscape ecology, scenario planning, and nature’s contributions to people/nature-based solutions

Ning, Siman

tatasky@uw.edu

Research Interests: Climate change, smart cities, urban economics and the interaction between human behavior and built environment

Phillips, Christian

Prasetyawati, Dian

dianp@uw.edu

Research Interests: Integration of climate change adaptation in hazard mitigation, planning process, disaster risk reduction, community resilience, and risk assessment and communication

Rai, Pranjali

prai88@uw.edu

Research Interests: Integration of climate change adaptation in hazard mitigation, planning process, disaster risk reduction, community resilience, and risk assessment and communication

Sa, Hoseok

hsa92@uw.edu | https://hoseoksa.github.io/

Research Interests: Regional econ. development (tech innovation, human capital, regional industry), Transportation planning/policy (travel behavior, mobility, sustainable transportation), intersection between planning (or transportation), population/public health, and climate change, and urban form

Shema, Paul

Tobey, Chelle

mbtobey@uw.edu

Research Interests: Urban systems, system complexity, big data, artificial intelligence, smart cities, communities, and coupled human-built-environmental systems

Tovey III, John D.