I am an urban data scientist and AI engineer passionate about building innovative solutions to real-world problems using computer vision, geospatial intelligence, and deep learning. I’m also the developer of UrbanTrace, an open-source tool for urban change detection, and have experience applying LLMs and VLMs to analyze social sentiment around policy. I blend urban planning expertise with full-stack AI development to drive impact at scale.
PhD in City Planning
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MS Computer Science (Ongoing)
Georgia Institute of Technology
Master of City and Regional Planning
Univeristy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BEng in Urban Planning
School of Architecture, Southeast University
My research centers on advancing and applying artificial intelligence techniques—particularly computer vision, deep learning, and large multimodal models (LMMs)—to analyze the urban built environment and its social implications. I am especially interested in developing AI models that can detect and classify urban changes from high-resolution imagery, such as building footprint transformations and street-level activity patterns. My work explores the use of Siamese networks, YOLO-based object detection, and LMMs to extract spatial and semantic information from satellite and street view data. I am also interested in explainable AI and spatially aware machine learning methods to better understand the relationship between urban form, policy interventions, and demographic diversity. Ultimately, my goal is to enhance the scalability, interpretability, and policy relevance of AI applications in urban planning.
I’m interested in all kinds of AI research, Please reach out to collaborate 😃