{"id":6924,"date":"2020-09-30T07:15:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T11:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/urp\/?p=6924"},"modified":"2020-10-04T08:26:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T12:26:05","slug":"meet-dr-yan-wang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/urp\/meet-dr-yan-wang\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Dr. Yan Wang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Meet Dr. Yan Wang<\/em><\/h1>
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Assistant Professor Wang develops data-informed planning for smart resilient cities.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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URP faculty member Dr. Wang directs the Urban Agility and Resilience Laboratory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Yan Wang<\/a> joined the URP faculty in August 2018 as an Assistant Professor. Due to her expertise in urban resilience, Dr. Wang was brought to UF as a core faculty member of the College’s Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER)<\/a>. Within FIBER, she directs the Urban Agility and Resilience Laboratory<\/a>. She is also a member of the UF Transportation Institute’s Resilience and Sustainability research group<\/a> and a faculty affiliate of the UF Informatics Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the URP Department, Dr. Wang currently teaches graduate-level Introduction to Planning Information Systems (URP6270), which covers Geographic Information Systems (GIS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Wang’s expertise includes big data analytics, especially for social media, complex network analysis, spatial and time-series analyses, and geo-visualizations using GIS. “Big data” refers to the analysis of large and complex data sets from new sources to give insights into our diverse and dynamic world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her current research engages resilience and urban analytics in the context of extreme events, such as disasters, emergencies, and public health crises. Recent projects focus on:<\/p>\n\n\n