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About Me
About Me
I am an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Data Innovation for Housing and Inclusive Urbanization in the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia.
In my work, I leverage new data methods to study housing and socio-spatial inequality. I focus on the housing strategies of marginalized people and the role of cities and housing for social mobility, both in Asia and North America.
I hold a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy (2020). Prior to USC, I studied at Münster University, Goethe University Frankfurt, and the Free University of Berlin, earning degrees in Business Administration, Economics, and China and East Asian Studies.
I am an UCRN board member and a co-organizer of the Urban China Zoom Talk Series. At UBC, I joined the Housing Research Collaborative, the Centre for Chinese Research, the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, and UBC Centre Migration Studies. I am also part of the Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative and Shanghai Jiaotong University's Center for Housing and Urban-Rural Development.
My CV is available here.
News
News
[April 2026] Looking forward to UAA in Chicago. Together with Deirdre Pfeiffer, we organized a session titled "Language, Discourse, and Housing Politics: Unpackign the Rhetoric of Exclusion"
[April 2026] Check out our new paper on discrimination against single women in the Indian rental market published in Housing Studies (Open Access!)
[April 2026] Check out our new paper on what the language of shared rental listings can reveal about accesss in this market published in Environment and Planning A (Open Access!)
[April 2026] Excited to work on the newly SSHRC-funded (Individual Partnership Development Grant) project on student housing in Canada, led by the wonderful Zhixi Zhuang
[March 2026] First time speaking at the Association for Asian Studies' Annual Conference in Vancouver.
[March 2026] Congratulations to my outstanding postdoctoral fellow Wenzheng Li who was awarded a SSHRC Canada Postdoctoral Research Award and will continue his work with my for two more years. Congratulations!
[October 2025] Excited about the ACSP Pre-Conference Workshop: Urban Planning in Minneaplis! Find a video recording of my talk here.
[September 2025] My amazing PhD Student Meghna Mohandas wins the 2025 ACSP/ FWIG Marsh Ritzdorf Award. Congratulations!
[September 2025] UBC CMS invited me to speak about computational text analysis for social science and migration studies. Check out the event re-cap here.
[August 2025] Wenzheng Li joins my Housing and Inclusive Cities Lab as the first Postdoctoral Scholar to work on our NFRFE-funded project.
[July 2025] My amazing PhD Student Anam Bashir wins one of the last Vanier Scholarship Awards. Congratulations!
[July 2025] I presented at ISA in Morocco. Grateful to the organizers for a deeply engaging session on shared housing across different contexts.
[May 2025] I spoke about my work on multi-cultural rental housing markets at UBC's Centre for Migration Studies' Annual Conference. Thanks for putting together an amazing event!
[May 2025] Published a paper in the special issue on housing need in the Canadian Journal of Urban Research together with colleagues from the UBC Housing Research Collaborative. Check out our paper here.
Research
Research
Click here for an overview of my most recent work or take a look at my CV.
My research is also on GoogleScholar and ORCID.
Teaching
Teaching
My teaching focuses on the intersection of markets and planning and the opportunities and challenges of new data methods for planning research.
I am teaching a new graduate course on real estate development and planning, which I designed for the Master's of Community and Regional Plannling (MCRP). In summer 2022, I also designed and taught for the first time a new advanced research methods course on Urban Analytics. In addition I designed and taught a new MCRP core course on Information and Analysis for Planners.
Please see the SCARP website for course descriptions and additional information.
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