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About Me
About Me
I am an Assistant Professor 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 Center for Chinese Research, the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, and UBC 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
[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] 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.
[April 2025] Looking forward to UAA in Vacnouver! I will be presenting on barrier to rental housing for female young professionals in India.
[February 2025] We are hiring! Explore opportunities to work with me as a Postdoctoral Researcher or Research Assistant.
[January 2025] The Urban China Zoom Talk Series will continue this spring! Consider subscribing to our mailing list if you'd like to receive email notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar.
[January 2025] Excited to join the Bridging Divides Research Program. Read more about our funded research here.
[October 2024] Looking forward to ACSP in Seattle! I will be presenting on the exclusionary language of shared rental advertisements, serve as discussant on a session on alternative housing supply and speak at a panel on the housing affordability crisis. Please email me in advance if you'd like to meet up!
[October 2024] The UBC Centre for Chinese Research is excited to host this year's North West China Forum. Email me for details.
[July 2024] Check out our new paper on rental discounts and spatial access through sharing, published in Urban Stuides.
[July 2024] Check out our new paper on hybrid deep learning methods for text analysis in planning.
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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