Shan Jiang is the Eileen Fox Aptman, J90, and Lowell Aptman Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University. Her research interests lie in the fields of Big Data Analytics, Spatial Analysis, Geographic Information Science, Computational Social Science, and the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Land Use, Transportation, and Urban Planning. Her research bridges data science with urban sustainability issues, moving from data to information, knowledge, and action. By applying data-driven approaches, she focuses on the interactions among human activities and mobility, the natural and built environments, the society, and their connections with public policy.

Jiang has developed methods to translate small and big data (survey data, mobile phone metadata, WiFi augmented mobile positioning data, volunteered geographic information, etc.) into insights on smart and sustainable urban and community development in global cities including Beijing, Bogota, Boston, Chicago, Lisbon, Riyadh, and Singapore. She has worked in projects funded by the National Academies of Sciences, the Singapore National Research Foundation, the Portugal Foundation for Science and Technology, the Center for Complex Engineering Systems at KACST and MIT. She has consulted for the Chicago Transit Authority, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge Systematics, among others.

Prior to joining Tufts in 2018, Jiang was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. She holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning, a Master in City Planning, a Master of Science in Transportation from MIT, a B.E. in Urban Planning and a B.A. in Economics from Peking University.