Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station, Texas, USA
Ph.D. in Urban & Regional SciencesAug. 2025 – Aug. 2029
Advisor: Dr. Wei Li and Dr. Xinyue Ye
This is Yuchen Wang (王雨晨). I am a first-year PhD student in the Urban & Regional Sciences PhD program at Texas A&M University (TAMU). Prior to this, I got my bachelor's and master's degrees in urban and rural planning at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). My current research interests are centered on Smart Cities and Urban Informatics, specifically focusing on Urban Digital Twins, Urban Foundation Models, GeoAI, AI for Planning, Urban Analytics, Climate-resilient Cities and Cybercrime. (Updated Nov 2026)
Education
Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhan, Hubei, China
M.Eng. in Urban and Rural PlanningSep. 2020 – Jun. 2023
B.Eng. in Urban and Rural PlanningSep. 2015 – Jun. 2020
Advisor: Dr. Helin Liu
Recent News
Presented urban foundation models research at ACSP 2026 in Pittsburgh.
Serving as Lab Instructor for PLAN 604 Planning Methods I (R labs) at TAMU.
Presenting Geospatial Foundation Models at CAG/CARTO 2026 in Victoria, Canada.
Joining Texas A&M TTI as a Summer 2026 Student Research Technician.
Received the 2026 CAG Geospatial Fellowship.
Selected as a 2026 Student Fellow by the TAMU Health Telehealth Institute.
Presented campus digital twins research at AAG 2026 in San Francisco.
Won 1st Place in the 2026 AAG Ashok K. Dutt Paper Award.
Started my Urban & Regional Sciences PhD at Texas A&M.
Published my rural shrinkage research in Resources Science (corresponding author).