Yuchen Wang

Activities

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Services

Leadership

2026 – 2027Co-Chair, Student Leadership14th Symposium on Human Dynamics Research, 2027 AAG

2026 – 2027Student RepresentativeAAG Regional Development & Planning Specialty Group (RDPSG)

Journal Reviewer

Journal of Planning Education and Research; Cities; Computational Urban Science

Activities

Membership

American Association of Geographers (AAG)

Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG)

International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS)

Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP)

International Association for China Planning (IACP)

Student Volunteer

Oct2026ACSP Annual Conference (Pittsburgh, PA)

Mar2026AAG Annual Conference (San Francisco, CA)

Skills

Programming & WebGISPython, R, MATLAB, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Mapbox

GeoAI & MLPyTorch, TensorFlow, Machine/Deep Learning, Computer Vision

GIS & StatisticsArcGIS, QGIS, SPSS, Stata

DesignPhotoshop, Illustrator, SketchUp, AutoCAD

Awards & Honors

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Awards & Honors

2026Geospatial Fellow (C$400)Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) GIS Study Group

2026First Place ($200)AAG RDPSG Ashok K. Dutt Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award

2026Student Travel Grant ($700)American Association of Geographers (AAG)

2026Student FellowTexas A&M Health Telehealth Institute, TAMU

2026Student Travel Grant ($600 × 3)Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, TAMU

2025Top-Office Scholarship (Top 1%, $15,000)Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, TAMU

2025Graduate Assistantship (Tuition Waiver, $2,000/month)Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, TAMU

2023Outstanding Postgraduate (Top 10%)Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)

2022First-class Scholarship (Top 10%)Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)

2021Silver Award (Top 1%, $6,957)Wuhan Creative Design Contest on Urban Renewal Planning

2021First-class Scholarship (Top 10%)Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)

2021Merit Postgraduate (Top 10%)Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)

2020Nomination AwardWUPENiCity International Competition on Urban Design

2020Outstanding Freshman Graduate Scholarship (Top 10%)Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)

2020Outstanding Undergraduate (Top 10%)Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)

2019Silver Award (Top 1%, $4,175)Wuhan Creative Design Contest on Community Public Space Design

2019Second Award (Top 5%)Chinese College Student Computer Design Competition

2019Second Award (Top 5%, $696)Wuhan Urban Street Design Competition

2018Excellent Work AwardNational Urban and Rural Social Practice Survey Competition

2018Scholarship for Academic Progress (Top 20%, $100)Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)

2016Outstanding Individual in Summer Social PracticeHuazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)

Bio

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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)

CV

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Curriculum Vitae

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Experience

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Teaching Experience

Fall 2026Lab InstructorPLAN 604 Planning Methods I, LAUP, TAMUPrepared lab materials and led R lab sessions on coding basics, spatial analysis, regression analysis, and data visualization for urban planning (Instructor: Dr. Xinyue Fu).

Working Experience

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI)

Summer - Student Research Technician

Jun. 2026 – Aug. 2026College Station, Texas, USA

Texas A&M Health Telehealth Institute

2026 Student Fellow

Mar. 2026 – Mar. 2027College Station, Texas, USA

TAMU - The Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

Graduate Research Assistant, [Full-time]

Sep. 2025 – PresentCollege Station, Texas, USA

WISDRI Engineering & Research Incorporation Limited

Urban Planning Engineer, [Full-time]

Jul. 2023 – Apr. 2025Wuhan, Hubei, China

Guangzhou Urban Planning Survey and Design Institute Co., Ltd.

Assistant Urban and Rural Planner, [Intern]

Jul. 2022 – Aug. 2022Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng Planning and Design Institute Co., Ltd.

Assistant Urban and Rural Planner, [Intern]

Jul. 2021 – Aug. 2021Beijing, China

QuantUrban Technology Co., Ltd.

Assistant Urban Planning Research and Data Analyst, [Intern]

Jun. 2020 – Aug. 2020Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Publications

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Publications

You can also find my publications on Google Scholar.

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Featured Publications

Cybercrime Education in U.S. Criminology and Criminal Justice Doctoral Programs: Curricula, Faculty Capacity, and Interdisciplinary Challenges

Ling Wu, Yuchen Wang*, Claire Seungeun Lee, Wei Li, James Zhang, and Xinyue Ye.

Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 37(2), 324–343, 2026. [Official publication of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences]

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Types of shrinking villages and flexible planning strategies in the Jianghan Plain region: Based on an investigation of 606 villages in Xiantao City