Jun Wang, Ph.D. |
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Assistant Professor
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Jun Wang, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Her research sits at the intersection of urban design and transportation planning, with a focus on shared autonomous mobility, multimodal access, and evidence-based suburban retrofits. She applies spatial analysis and machine learning to large-scale mobility and built-environment data to inform equitable, “car-lite” community design.
Dr. Wang earned her Ph.D. in Architecture (Urbanism) with a minor in transportation engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2025. Her dissertation, “Retrofitting U.S. Suburbia in the Era of Shared Autonomous Vehicles,” advances design frameworks and policy guidance for integrating SAVs into suburban contexts. Her work appears in Transportation Research Part A, Travel Behaviour and Society, Case Studies on Transport Policy and other major journals in urban planning and transportation fields. Dr. Wang's work has been recognized by American Public Transportation Foundation. Her design work has been recognized with an Excellent Award at the Asian Design Awards (2019), Second Prize at the Shanghai Urban Design Challenge (2018), and an Exhibition Excellence Award at the 4th Wuhan Design Biennale (2017), with additional exhibitions at World Cities Day–Shanghai Forum (2018) and the Georgia EQIA Exhibition (2020).She also received EDRA’s Best Student Poster Award (2020), the APTA TRANSform award (2022), and multiple national merit scholarships. Dr. Wang is an advocate for partnership with local governments, nonprofits, and neighborhood groups to co-produce walkable, transit-oriented design strategies through workshops, charrettes, and public lectures, translating research into tangible improvements for communities.