Dr. Yiyi He

Biography

Yiyi He is an Assistant Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech, where she serves as the Director of the Ph.D. Program. She is also affiliated with the Center for Urban Resilience Analytics (CURA) and is a Faculty Fellow at the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS). Her research focuses on the intersection of urban planning, GIScience, climate science, and artificial intelligence. Dr. He is particularly interested in understanding the uncertainty and asymmetric impacts caused by climate change and extreme weather events, such as flooding, wildfires, and extreme heat, on the built environment. She employs data-driven methodologies, GIS, network science, hyperspectral remote sensing, and machine learning to tackle complex challenges in climate change resilience and inform intelligent planning and policy directives. Her work includes using 3D hydrodynamic flood models to simulate flood scenarios and analyze the impact of climate change on critical infrastructure networks. Dr. He obtained her Bachelor’s degree from Nanjing University and both her Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.

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