Faisal Almogren

• BS. Architecture and Building Science, King Saud University
• MS Architecture and urban Design, Columbia University
• MS Urban Planning, Harvard University

Research Interests: Gulf Urbanism, City-Building, Master Planning, Housing Policies, and Urban Morphologies
 

David Amos

• BS Urban and Regional Studies, Cornell University
• Master of Architecture, University of Oregon
• MCRP Community and Regional Planning, University of Oregon

Urban design; street design; walkability; and transportation and land use

Alli Appelbaum

• M.Sc. Regional and Urban Planning Studies (with distinction), London School of Economics and Political Science
• B.A. Honours, Historical Studies (in the first class), University of Cape Town
• B.A., Political Science and History (with distinction), University of Cape Town

Urban governance; security; securitisation of space; security guarding; biopolitics; urban inequality; gender, sexuality and urban space; middle-class urbanism; spatial transformation; (the politics of) densification; housing; urban history; African urbanisms; India; South Africa; Johannesburg

Arezoo Besharati

• Master of City Planning, UC Berkeley
• Master of Urban Design, National University of Iran
• B.S. City Planning and Design, University of Guilan

I’m interested in urban data science, city planning, urban design, and application of computer science, machine learning and artificial intelligence in urban planning and public policy analysis. I’m especially interested in investigating new methods for urban data acquisition, processing, visualization, and advanced modeling in order to help planners and communities more effectively navigate the complex decision-making processes that shape contemporary cities. 

Abigail Cochran

• BS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
• Master of City Planning, UC Berkeley

Research Interests: Urban governance, data science, technology, international planning, and transportation

Priscila Coli

• BS Architecture and Urbanism, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
• MSc Architecture and Urban Design, Columbia University

Peripheral urbanization; public infrastructure; spatial justice; and social mobility in Latin American cities

Savannah Cox

• M.A. International Affairs, The New School
• B.A. Political Science, B.A. Foreign Languages and International Studies, Bellarmine University

Municipal climate change governance, resilience planning, climate gentrification, public infrastructure, behavioral economics, finance and capital markets, social theory.

Nathaniel Decker

• B.A. Biology, B.A. History, Oberlin College
• M.R.P. Cornell University

Real estate, affordable housing policy, disruptive technologies, and public finance

Jeff Garnand

Chester Harvey

• BA Geography, Middlebury College
• MS Natural Resources, University of Vermont

Research Interests: urban design, street spaces, active transportation, spatial cognition, geodata
 

Shakirah Hudani

• MSc. Public Health, LSHTM - University of London
• MSc. Social Anthropology, University of Oxford
• BA Social Studies, Harvard College

Urban sustainability, public health and city planning, African cities, urbanism in South-East Asia.

Tamara Kerzhner

• B.A., Geography, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2015 M.A., Geography and Urban Planning, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2018

Informal transportation, paratransit; the role of informal and informalized labour in producing urban services and urban space; mobility and equity in divided and diverse cities. 

Yanin Kramsky

• MESc, Environmental Science, Yale University
• BS, Product Design, Art Center College of Design

Spatial politics; critical social theory; climate justice; community-based participatory research; gender (centering trans and non-binary experience), sexuality, and embodiment; urban ecology; water resources; design democratization; and environmental education.

Mukul Kumar

• MPhil, University of Cambridge
• BA, University of California, Irvine

cities and climate change, environmental justice, public health, race and urban inequality

Sam Maurer

• Master in Public Affairs, Princeton University
• BA Economics, Amherst College

Beki McElvain

• M.C.P., UC Berkeley;
• B.A. Public Policy, Mills College

Disaster planning & policy, community resilience, seismic hazard mitigation, earthquake early warning, Mexico & Latin America, earthquake engineering (lifelines and infrastructure), and the “social science side” of disaster risk reduction

Giselle Mendonça Abreu

• M.S. Urban and Regional Planning, University of São Paulo
• B.S. Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo

Urbanization in the Global South, urban policy in Brazil, urban and planning theory, urban-rural linkages, public infrastructure, economic development

James Christopher Mizes

• M.A. Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University
• B.A. Political Science, Webster University

Municipal finance, public infrastructure, urban street markets, governing/governance, decentralization, fiscal autonomy, liberal administration, global development, urban and planning theory, value, publics, territory, risk, West Africa, ethnography.

Marcel Moran

• A.B. Biology, Harvard University
• M.A. Social Sciences, University of Chicago

My research interests include mobility, the interaction between cities and new technologies such as self-driving cars (automated vehicles), ride-hailing (TNCs), and bikeshare, among others. I am also deeply interested in the equity of mobility provision and access across cities and regions. I pursue these topics through a range of methods, including interviews, surveys, and GIS or digital mapping. 

Aksel Olsen

• Cand. Scient. Geography, University of Copenhagen
• B.Sc. Geography, University of Copenhagen

Land use change and transportation behavior; adaptive strategies of deindustrialization; modeling of businesses and urban dynamics

Manuel Santana Palacios

• B.S. Civil Engineering, Universidad de los Andes - Bogotá
• M.S. Civil Engineering, Universidad de los Andes - Bogotá
• M.U.R.P., University of California Los Angeles

Transportation and Land Use, Transportation and Urban Development, Travel Behavior, Informal Transportation, Transportation in the Developing World

Madeleine Parker

• Master in Public Affairs, Princeton University
• B.A. Geography, Dartmouth College

Climate change adaptation, resilience planning, affordable housing, transportation equity, urban mobility, spatial inequality, participatory mapping, data science, spatial analysis.

Lana Salman

• Master of Urban Planning and Policy, American University of Beirut
• BA Economics, American University of Beirut

Rocio Sanchez-Moyano

• B.S. Economics and Political Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• M.P.A., University of Wisconsin - Madison

Housing; housing demography; barriers to homeownership; low-income and minority housing and neighborhoods

Hayden Shelby

• MCRP City and Regional Planning, Ohio State
• MA Geography, Ohio State
• BA Economics, Cornell University

International development, Political economy, Affordable housing, Environmental Justice

Clara Turner

• MCRP (City and Regional Planning), University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• BA, Political Science, University of California-San Diego

Regional labor markets, cross-border economies, migration and labor policy, economic geography

Matt Wade

• Master's of International Affairs, New School University
• Bachelor of Arts, English, Indiana University

Modernization and Development, Technologies of Planning and Government, Bureaucractic Practices, Postcolonial Studies, Southeast Asia, Jakarta, Global South, Climate Change, Anthropology of the State

Ruoying Xu

• MURP Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida
• MS Transportation Engineering, University of Florida
• BE Transportation Engineering, Tongji University

I am enthusiastic in using new data and advanced statistical and machine learning methods to answer urban economic and policy questions, especially related to new mobility options (such as ride-sourcing, shared mobility, and autonomous vehicles).

Megumi Yamanaka

My research interests include urban mobility, Bus Rapid Transit, public transport, non-motorized modes, planning, design, policy, social issues, demand modelling, and environmental impacts.

Pavan Yedavalli

• B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
• M.S. Electrical Engineering, Columbia University

My research interests include smart cities, urban mobility, wireless IoT systems and drones in cities, urban data science and informatics, intelligent transportation systems, urban mapping, and travel behavior.

Aaron Young

• MA Sustainable International Development and Urban Planning, Brandeis University and Tufts University
• BA Political Science. University of Montana

My research in City & Regional Planning and Critical Geography addresses the urban land question in South Africa. By this angle of approach, I am interested in land and urban space not only as the physical terrain upon which contested claims are directed, embedded and performed, but also as an expanded field of meaning​ for local and transnational politics.