Our Team | International Center For Adaptation Planning and Design

Director

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Zhong-Ren Peng
Title: Professor and Director, International Center for Adaptation Planning and Design (iAdapt)
Organization: School of Landscape Architecture and Planning College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida
Research Interests: Transportation and land use planning, Planning for climate change, Information technology for planning
Education:
Ph.D.,Urban Studies, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, 1994
M.S., Economics, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, 1994
M.S., Geography, Graduate School of University of Science and Technology of China, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 1986
B.S., Geography, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China, 1983
Email: zpeng@ufl.edu

Current Ph.D. Students

Khalid A. Aljuhani
Title: Ph.D. Student
Organization: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida
Research Interests: Smart cities, Climate change and urban resilience, Urban renewal and revitalization, New city planning
Education: Ph.D. Student, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida, 2019- Current
MS, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 2014.
BS, Urban and Regional Planning, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, 2009.
Email: Aljuhani@ufl.edu
Curriculum vitae

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Qing Hou
Title: Ph.D. Student
Organization: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida
Research Interests: Social inequality; Urban Sustainability; Transportation
Education: Ph.D. Student, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida, 2023-
M.S., Urban Planning, University of Southern California, US, 2022.
B.A., Landscape Architecture, Northeast Forestry University, 2020.
Email: houqing@ufl.edu

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Qing Zhang
Title: Ph.D. Student
Organization: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida
Research Interests: Climate change and urban resilience; Urban Sustainability and Environmental Planning, Transportation
Education: Ph.D. Student, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida, 2024-
M.S., Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, US, 2023.
B.A., Land Resource Management, Shandong Agricultural University, 2022.
Email: qingzhang1@ufl.edu

Graduate Students

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Goshtasb Shahriari Mehr
Title: PhD Candidate
Organization: College of Design, Construction, Planning, University of Florida
Research Interests: Transportation Planning, spatial temporal planning, recommender systems, Location-Based Services
Education: M.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, USA, 2025
M.Sc., Geographic Information Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2019
B.Sc., Civil Engineering (Geomatics), K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2016
Email: g.shahriarimehr@ufl.edu

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Yuzhou Zhu
Title: Master Student
Organization: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida
Research Interests: Transportation Planning, Sustainable Planning, AI for Urban Studies
Education: M.S., Urban Analytics, University of Florida, USA, 2026–present
M.S., Building Science, University of Southern California, USA, 2022–2024
B.A., Urban and Rural Planning, Central South University, China, 2015–2020
Email: yuzhouzhu@ufl.edu

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Emily Teodoru
Title: Master Student
Organization: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida
Research Interests: Transportation Planning, Transit-Oriented Development, Health in the Built Environment
Education: M.S., Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida, US, 2027.
B.A., Public Health, University of Florida, US, 2023.
Minor, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida, US, 2023.
Certificate, AI in Public Health and Healthcare, University of Florida, US, 2023.
Email: Teodoru.emily@ufl.edu

Undergraduate Students

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Jack Popov
Title: Undergraduate Student
Organization: Warrington College of Business, University of Florida
Research Interests: Transportation Planning, Consulting, Transportation Profitability
Education: B.A., Business Administration, University of Florida, 2024 – Current.
Minor, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida, 2024 – Current.
Email: jackpopov@ufl.edu

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Ananda Chatterjee
Title: Undergraduate Student
Organization: University of Florida
Research Interests: Transportation Modeling and Optimization, Benefit-Cost Analysis, Artificial Intelligence in Urban Planning
Education: B.S. Statistics, University of Florida
Email: anandachatterjee@ufl.edu

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David Wang
Title: Undergraduate Student
Organization: University of Florida
Research Interests: Financial Economics, Market Design, Public Economics
Education: B.S., Finance, University of Florida, 2025–Expected 2029.
B.A., Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law (PPEL), University of Florida, 2025–Expected 2029.
Email: wang.david@ufl.edu

Chi (Chloe) Mai
Title: Undergraduate Student
Organization: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida
Research Interests: Spatial accessibility, geographic information systems, transportation planning
Education: B.S., Data Science, University of Florida, 2027
B.A., Geography, University of Florida, 2027
Minor in Urban and Regional Planning
Email: maic@ufl.edu

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