ChengHe Guan

Global Network Assistant Professor, NYU Wagner; Director of the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urban Design and Urban Science; Assistant Professor, Urban Science and Policy, NYU Shanghai

ChengHe Guan

ChengHe Guan is an Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Policy at NYU Shanghai, Global Network Assistant Professor, and Ph.D. Advisor at NYU Wagner. He is the founding co-director of the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urban Design and Urban Science (LOUD). Dr. Guan is also affiliated with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, the School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences at East China Normal University, and NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Additionally, he serves as a senior research consultant to the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford and the New Development Bank.

Dr. Guan’s research focuses on spatial analytics of urban morphology and green space planning, organized around two interconnected themes: (1) Urban green space analytics with AI-enhanced urban sensing techniques, and (2) Urban form analytics and simulation for climate-adaptive cities. His work is published in leading academic journals such as Nature Communications, Communications Earth & Environment (Nature Portfolio), Journal of Planning Education and Research, Landscape and Urban Planning, Land Use Policy, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, Health and Place, Journal of Urban Affairs, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, and Cities