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.
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.
Course Website:Full Curriculum Vitae in PDF.