Siyu Yu

Siyu Yu is an assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, a core faculty member with the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center (HRRC), and Vice-Director for Policy Research with the Microclimatic-Design Research: Global Network (MDRGN) at Texas A&M University. Yu’s experience spans land use, plan integration, and resilience issues in the United States, principally in the Gulf Coast region, as well as internationally in the Netherlands and Japan. Much of Yu’s current research focuses on the development, application, and extension of the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard (PIRS) methodology. Her scholarship aims to increase multi-hazard resilience (including flooding, extreme heat, and wildfire) in an era of climate change by investigating relationships among community networks of land use and development plans and policies vis-à-vis social and physical vulnerability to natural hazards. Yu has received 14 external research grants as PI or Co-PI funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Department of Energy (DOE), and others, totaling over $9 million. Yu is a 2023 NASEM Early-Career Research Fellow and an NSF-EPF Ocean Decade Champion. She has also been included as a member of the Pool of Experts (PoE) for the United Nations (UN) Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment. Her research has been published in the Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Landscape and Urban Planning, Urban Climate, and Sustainable Cities and Society, among others. She holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Science from Texas A&M University and is certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners.