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Runzi Wang

Runzi Wang
Assistant Professor
Landscape Architecture
Water
Cities + Mobility + Built Environment
runziw@umich.edu

About

Runzi Wang, PhD, is a transdisciplinary researcher who studies change in natural and urban environments across space and over time, with the objective to drive positive change with ecological planning and design strategies. Combining technologies such as big data, machine learning, remote sensing, and spatial statistics, her primary research explores how land cover change and urban development pattern influence stream water quality and stormwater quality at the watershed basis, together with a variety of environmental, climatic and sociocultural factors. By enhancing the interpretability of machine learning in its application to landscape architecture, the most innovative part of her research is to uncover the nonlinear relationships between environmental, technological and sociocultural dimensions of landscape systems.

The focus areas of Runzi’s research include 1) Neighborhood-scale green infrastructure design optimization. 2) Regional-scale water quality management. 3) Continental-scale landscape change monitoring and projection. Runzi is also a landscape designer engaged in evidence-based landscape and urban design projects, with the focus on stormwater management. She integrates research with the teaching topics of ecological design studio, landscape analysis, and site engineering.

Publications

Peer Reviewed Article

Song, Y., Wang, R., Fernandez, J., Li, D., (2020). Investigating sense of place of the Las Vegas Strip using online reviews and machine learning approaches . Landscape and Urban Planning. (in revision)

Wang, R., Zhang, X., & Li, M.-H. (2019). Predicting bioretention pollutant removal efficiency with design features: A data-driven approach. Journal of Environmental Management, 242, 403–414. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.04.064

 

Peer Reviewed Conference Abstract

Guzman, C. B., Wang, R., Muellerklein, O., Eager., C., & Smith, M. (2019). Urban Stormwater Signatures Across the United States: A Machine Learning Approach. American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting , San Francisco, CA.

Wang, R., Kong., L., & Li, M. H. (2019). Quantifying landscape-water quality nexus and predicting water quality under alternative planning scenarios using machine learning approaches. American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Wang, R., Zhao, G., & Li, M. H. (2018). Developing longitudinal models of 20-year water quality in Texas gulf region—A hybrid of remote sensing and machine learning approach. American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting, Washington D. C.

Research

2018-2020: Graduate Pursuits. Identifying Socio-Environmental Watershed Typologies Based on Stormwater Pollution Using Machine Learning, SESYNC.  

Education

Michigan State University (PhD, Environmental Design) 2018-2020

Texas A&M University (Urban and Regional Sciences) 2014-2017

Peking University (MS, Landscape Architecture) 2011-2013

Shandong University (BE, Architecture) 2006-2011

 

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