Project lead. World Bank Study on Ningbo Urban Resilience project (NBTA8), 2021-present• Leading the analytical work on local resilience practices, international case studies, and resilience-building roadmap; produced data analysis, designed visualization, and conducted 20+ on‑site interviews with key stakeholdersProject lead. WRI China Climate-Smart Cities Strategies, 2019-present• Developing a three-tiered strategy, promoting climate-smart practices at the city, infrastructure, and community levels• Leading the China inter-city highway system adaptation studies• Leading the community climate risk inspection and health impact evaluation studies in 15 Shenzhen communities and Beijing Dongsi Neighborhood, facilitating residents and urban planners to make climate-smart decisions during urban renewals. Shenzhen study lead. Global Commission on Adaptation China Flagship Report2020-2021• Conducted the Shenzhen climate-resilient sea dike cost-benefit analysis and financing study, and published the WRI Flagship Report Accelerating Climate-resilient Infrastructure investment in China (https://doi.org/10.46830/wriwp.21.00053) and one blog on China DailyResearcher. WRI New Urban Mobility alliance (NUMO), 2019-2021• Published one WRI report and study results were also included in the Blue Book of Sharing Economy—Report on China's Shared Mobility Development (ISBN 9787520182171)Researcher. WRI-China MOT Transit Metropolis Program, 2016-2019• Drafted policy recommendations on promoting comprehensive transit priority in cities, which reached the Vice Minister and State Council officials.• Published one WRI working paper on improving the performance appraisal of China's national Transit Metropolis Program• Designed and proposed a Bus Rapid Transit plan for Zhuzhou city. The plan with a 28.4km corridor and 47 stations have gained approval from the municipal government and was included in the PPP project pool of the Ministry of Finance.

• Principal researcher and coordinator of the WB "Chinese City Travel Demand Management (TDM) Manual" project, facilitated the technical document preparation and project management• Researcher and coordinator of the ADB "Beijing TDM Policy Analysis" project, provided technical assistance on traffic modeling for the project• Researcher. Completed the case study on US Northeast Metropolitan Area development for the "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Transport Integration Research" project by the Chinese Academy of Engineering• Provided traffic impact analysis for multiple research-to-practice consulting projects from the Beijing Municipal Commission of Transport

-Developed methods to estimate housing infill potentials and employment in LA Expo Line impact areas using ArcGIS and SAS (Part of SCAG Parcel-Based Model Presentation on the 14th TRB Transportation Planning Conference);-Provided TransCAD modeling support to extract data from SCAG regional model to respond to various model data and output requests;-Joined in 2010 California Household Travel Survey and Southern California Augment Travel Survey (sample size: 60,000 households) data quality check and preparation for SCAG 2016 Regional Transportation Plan;-Prepared socioeconomic data for various SCAG Activity-Based Model sub models from databases including, but not limited to American Community Survey, InfoUSA, CA Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, and Census Transportation Planning Products;-Projected 2006-2012 local employment by industries for 205 cities and sub-regions in SCAG region;-Developed procedures to clean and prepare raw traffic flow data from Caltrans Performance Measurement System (PeMS) with colleagues for SCAG regional transportation model using ArcGIS and SAS. (2013 March Southern California Modeling Task Force Meeting Presentation)

-Participated in policy review and feasibility study of new port and airport construction for Yangtze River Transportation Strategic Plan 2011-2015;-Worked with other colleagues to design the roadway system for Danyang new city and Jiujiang new city.

-Collected pedestrian and auto flow data for City of Santa Monica before and after its complete street project completion. Aided in built environment analysis for this project as well.