Teaching & Advising
Prospective students: I am delighted to work with motivated, creative, and hard-working students. Please contact me at your earliest convenience at the application cycle with your research idea, CV, and writing samples to be considered for funding opportunities at the GUESS Lab.
Thesis/capstone exam advising
If you are a graduate student at Tufts U. and plan to do a thesis in my research area, please prepare a page of your ideas, your CV, and past publications, and stop by my office to have a chat. See profiles of some of my past and current students who have conducted research with me here. I am currently supervising 4 second-year UEP master students' thesis/capstone exam and serve as an academic advisor for 9 UEP master students (5 first-year and 4 second-year). I also serve as a co-chair of a dissertation committee of a Ph.D. student.
Thesis/capstone exam advised as the chair at Tufts University (2023-now)
Kashfia Tasnim Nishtha, MS in Env. Policy and Planning, 2025. Thesis: Assessing the Spatiotemporal Pattern of PM2.5: Unraveling the Relation between PM2.5 and Key Determinants in Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR) (Chair: Peilei Fan, Reader: Sumeeta Srinivasan)
Eko Yamada, MS in Env. Policy and Planning, 2025. Capstone Exam: Decarbonization Strategies and the Role of Renewable Energy in the Energy Transition (Chair: Peilei Fan, Reader: Christine Cousineau)
Crystal Lake, MS in Env. Policy and Planning, 2025. Capstone Exam: Pastoralism, Wildlife and Institutional Drivers (Chair: Peilei Fan, Reader: Kristin Skrabut)
Lucas Smith, MS in Env. Policy and Planning, 2025: Thesis: Coastal resilience and ecological connectivity: Changing patterns and impacts of Boston’s green infrastructure. (Chair: Peilei Fan, Reader: Rebecca Shakespeare)
Ana Paola De La Vega Núñez, MS in Env. Policy and Planning, 2024. Thesis: Dengue outbreaks on the rise: A statistical and spatial analysis approach to dengue incidence, climate and environmental patterns, drivers and implications in Piura, Peru (Chair: Peilei Fan, Reader: Mary Davis) -2024-25 Best Thesis Award of UEP!
Gaston Neville, 2024. Capstone Exam: Towards a Car-light Future: A Review of the Literature (Chair: Peilei Fan, Reader: Shan Jiang)
Jing Li, MS in Env. Policy and Planning, 2024. Thesis: Overcoming Financial and Regulatory Barriers to Green Building in Affordable Housing: Cases of Boston, New York, London, and Melbourne (Chair: Peilei Fan, Reader: Christine Cousineau)
Teaching
I co-taught UEP251Economics for Planning and Policy Analysis with Prof. Mary Davis at Tufts University in Spring 2024.
I have taught the following courses at MSU.
UP 801: Concepts and Issues in Planning and Development (taught many years at MSU, last in Fall 2021; required core course for Master and Ph.D. students in URP, currently taught by Prof. Deyanira Martinez)
UP 816: Advanced Research Method in Planning (offered in Spring 2023, with Prof. Noah Durst; elective course, for Master Plan A (thesis option) and Ph.D. students in URP)
UP 854: Local Economic Planning (taught in Fall 2021, with Prof. Mark Wilson)
UP 855: Urban Sustainability and Climate Change/Urban Environmental Planning (developed and taught multiple years; required core course for Master students in URP)