HAOYU YUE

Bio

I'm a Ph.D. student in the Urban Infrastructure Lab at the Urban Design & Planning Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program and master student at the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington. I work on the intersection between artificial intelligence, climate planning, renewable energy, and mixed methods. In my Ph.D. research, I focus on three interconnected areas: how climate action planning leads to actual climate investments, how planning can support the development and use of AI today, and how we navigate the transition to renewable energy in cities.

I'm a Pacific Northwest Climate Ambassador with the Washington State Climate Office and Program on Climate Change. I am also a member of UW Solar, an interdisciplinary solar organization at the university, and affiliated with Climate Solutions International. I am fortunate to be advised by Dr. Jan Whittington and Dr. Qing Shen. I'm generously supported by the Microsoft Research AI & Society Fellowship , Clean Energy Fellowship and the Hall-Ammerer-Washington-Research-Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Studies. Details are in my CV.

News

• [30/06/25] Passed M.S. statistical theory exam from the Department of Statistics.
• [24/06/25] Thanks Clean Energy Insitute for supporting my energy work through its graduate fellowship.
• [07/05/25] Presented our work at Microsoft AI & Society Research Talk Series.
• [12/08/24] Excited to be highlighted by the Graduate School of the University of Washington.
• [11/12/24] Presented on ACSP 2024 in Seattle about our work on climate action plans and investment.
• [09/12/24] We are organizing Ph.D. Symposium on Planning for a Changing Climate.
• [06/20/24] Advised MBA students to identify tribal's financing barriers for renewable energy projects.
• [01/30/24] Excited to be selected as one of the Microsoft Research AI & Society Fellows.
• [01/29/24] Assisted the university receive 355K commerce grant for EV chargers development with Hoseok Sa.
• [07/03/23] Attended 2023 IACP Annual Conference at Tianjin University.
• [05/18/23] Attended Spatial Social Network Workshop at Georgia Tech.
• [11/03/22] Presented on ACSP 2022 in Toronto about climate investment and green gentrification in San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley Bay Area.
• [09/28/22] Started the Ph.D. in Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington.
• [06/18/22] Graduated from Master of Urban Planning Program at the University of Washington.
• [10/15/21] Attended ACSP 2021 with Christine Bae on Effects of Zoning and Land Use Policies on Land Value and Densification in the City of Seattle.

Projects

Injustice Behind the Green
An Investigation of Climate Investment Mismatch

Keeping it on the Tracks
High-speed Rail Success and Lession Learned

Vulnerability in the Pandemic
Social Vulnerability & Resillence during COVID-19

Teaching

I organize the Ph.D. colloquium, where we organized a list of resource for students in our Ph.D. program. I also advise UW Solar and some student teams from the Foster School of Business and Global Innovation Exchange (GIX) on their capstone projects. My coursework plan (full list) combine urban planning, public policy, climate and energy, data science, and AI + society at the University of Washington. You can also refer to the programs and courses recommended by the Urban Infrastructure Lab.

• RE 519 Data Analytics and Visualization; URBAN 520 Quantitative Methods in Urban Design and Planning

Vitæ

Full Curriculum Vitae in PDF.

• University of Washington 2020 - Now

  MUP/Ph.D. Student in Urban Design and Planning
  M.S. Student in Statistics
  Urban Infrastructure Lab
• Microsoft Research 2024 - Now

  AI & Society Reseach Fellow
  Renewable Energy, AI and Communities
• Shenzhen Planning Research Center 2020

  Land Use and Redevelopment Intern
  Shenzhen Urban Planning & Land Resource Research Center
• Central South University 2015 - 2020

  Undergraduate Student
  Urban and Rural Planning

Acknowledgement