SCaRP Faculty Accepting PhD Students for Fall 2027 Admission

(listed in alphabetical order by last name)

 

Gulsah Akar

  • Transportation & Public Health
    • Mobility behavior and health outcomes
    • Active transportation and access to opportunities
  • Sustainable Mobility
    • Travel behavior analysis and demand modeling
    • Land-use–transportation interactions
  • Transportation Safety
    • Data-driven approaches to crash risk and prevention
    • Safety for vulnerable road users
  • Data-Driven Transportation Policy & Decision-Making
    • Advanced analytics and modeling for transportation policy evaluation
    • Evidence-based strategies to support safe and sustainable mobility 

Emily Barrett

  • Examining municipal budgets as critical sites of debate for economic democracy
  • Exploring community-led strategies for creating more affordable cities, including innovative models of social housing
  • Developing geospatial methodologies to support community-based research on spatial justice 

Rounaq Basu

  • Incorporating behavioral perceptions and experiences into active travel behavior decision-making, especially related to traffic safety and environmental hazards (such as heat and air pollution)
  • Understanding how activity-travel patterns are affected by extreme heat across various transportation modes and geographic contexts
  • Creating decision support tools for planners and policymakers that inform the integration of climate resilience into transportation and land use planning 

Paige Clayton

  • Technology-based economic development
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Policy

Yiyi He

  • Asymmetric impacts of climate extremes on vulnerable communities and infrastructure networks
  • Modeling interconnected critical infrastructures to identify resilience strategies under extreme weather conditions
  • Artificial intelligence for urban resilience and disaster risk management 

Gregory Randolph

Highly motivated students who have prior experience with mixed-methods and quantitative social science research, with a demonstrated interest in one of the following research themes:

  • New forms of urbanization and agrarian-to-urban transition in the Global South (especially from a labor perspective)
  • The impact of decarbonization on urban and regional labor markets
  • Collective ownership and economic democracy models of community economic development 

Perry Yang

  • Design as a transformative approach to cities
    Students should own background in urban design & physical planning, architecture, and/or landscape architecture, and/or show strong interests in urban design as a transformative approach to cities for sustainability, resilience, and social inclusiveness.
  • Data-driven and system-oriented urban design
    Students should show their potentials in connecting urban design to urban data analytics, digital city and building modeling, urban computing, systems engineering that see cities as complex systems of systems for problems such as climate resilience, carbon neutrality and performance-based urban design. 

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