PhD Alumni | School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation

Name of Student	Year of Graduation	Dissertation Title	Advisor	First Job Employment
Marco Scuderi	2005	“Bayesian approaches to learning from data how to untangle the travel behavior and land use relationships”	Dr. Kelly Clifton	New Zealand
Vikas Mehta	2006	“Lively Streets: Determining Environmental Characteristics to Support Social Behavior”	Prof. Sidney Brower	Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and Community Design, University of South Florida
Arnab Chakraborty	2007	“An Experiment in Statewide Scenario Analysis: Towards an Even Smarter Growth for Maryland”	Dr. Gerrit Knaap	Assistant Professor, of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Doan Nguyen	2008	“The Spatial and Social Dimensions of Innovation”	Dr. Marie Howland	Lecturer, Vietnam National University
Andi Livi Smith	2008	“The Relationship Between Neighborhood Environment and Walking Behavior: The Influence of Perceptions”	Dr. Kelly Clifton	Assistant Professor, Department of Historic Preservation, University of Mary Washington
Rodney Harrell	2008	“Understanding Modern Segregation: Suburbanization and the Black Middle Class”	Dr. Howell Baum	Senior Strategic Policy Advisor, Public Policy Institute, AARP
Maria Teresa Xavier Souza	2009	“The Effect of Land Use Regulation on Housing Price and Informality: A Model Applied to Curitiba, Brazil”	Dr. Gerrit Knaap	Social Science Analyst at the Office of Policy Development and Research in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Xingshou Zhao	2010	Market Forces and Urban Spatial Structure: Evidence from Beijing, China	Dr. Chengri Ding	Researcher, Ministry of Urban-Rural Development, Beijing, China
Feng Zhang	2010	Traveler Responses to Real Time Transit Passenger Information Systems	Dr. Marie Howland	Assistant Professor Department of Urban Planning and Design Hong Kong University
Rebecca Lewis	2011	Do Smart Growth Instruments in Maryland make a Difference	Dr. Gerrit Knaap	Assistant Professor of Planning, Public Policy and Management, University Of Oregon
Chao Liu	2011	Exploring the influence of urban form on travel and energy consumption, using structural equation modeling	Dr. Fred Ducca	Adjunct Faculty and Researcher at the National Center for Smart Growth, University of Maryland
Selma Hepp	2011	Metropolitan Spatial Structure: Measuring the Change	Dr. Gerrit Knaap	Senior Economist, California Association of Realtors
Lynette Boswell	2011	Do Neighborhood Housing Market Typologies Matter? Measuring the Impacts of the HOME Investment Partnership Program Investments in Baltimore, Maryland	Dr. Alex Chen	Director of Schools and Facilities Planning at Baltimore City Public Schools
Aysegul Yilmaz	2012	Evaluating the Impacts of Top-down Protected Area Governance on Local Livelihood – The Case of the Turkish Village of Kapikiri	Dr. Marie Howland	Department of Tourism Management, Bogazici University, Istanbul
Mark Braza	2012	The Impact of Conservation Easements on Habitat Loss	Dr. Alex Chen	U.S. Government Accounting Office
Scott Dempwolf	2012	Network Models of Regional Innovation Clusters and their Impact on Economic Growth	Dr. Marie Howland	Associate Research Scientist, University of Maryland
Joe Costanzo	2012	Practicing local culture as a vehicle of integration? Immigrants and Brussels’ Zinneke Parade.	Prof. Sidney Brower	Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Immigration Research, Sociology & Anthropology Department, George Mason University
Yi Niu	2012	Three Essays on the Understanding of Urban Development	Dr. Chengri Ding	Assistant Professor at the International School of Economics and Management, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing.
Tim Welch	2013	Climate Action Plans – Fact or Fiction? Evidence from Maryland	Dr. Fred Ducca	Assistant Professor, School of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology Assistant Director, Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development
Carolina Valdemarin Burnier	2014	Children's Activities and School Travel: A tour based analysis of the influence of children's out-of-home activities on the choice of school travel patterns.	Dr. Marie Howland	Noblis Non-Profit Consulting, Washington. D.C.
Kevin Adams	2015	Urban Agriculture Typologies, Socio-Ecological Capital Creation, and the Evolution of a Resilient, Local Food System in Atlanta, GA.	Dr. Victoria Change	Planning Consultant at Benchmark Planning in Charlotte, NC
Yuchen Cui	2016	Defining the resolution of a network for transportation analyses: a new method to improve transportation planning decisions.	Dr. Rolf Moeckel	SRF Consulting Group, Madison WI
Christine Henry	2016	Le Droit Park, Portrait in Black and White: A Study of Historic Districts, Social Change, and the Process of Neighborhood Placemaking	Dr. Don Linebaugh	Assistant Professor, Department of Historic Preservation, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA.
Elijah Knaap	2016	The Spatial Structure of Opportunity and the Location Dynamics of Housing Mobility Programs	Dr. Casey Dawkins	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California, Riverside
Zubin Adrianvala	2017	The Ethnic Community: Urban Form, Peace, Conflict, and Violence in Urban India	Dr. Howell Baum	City of Norfolk's Office of Resilience as a Management Analyst III
Ting Ma	2017	Estimating the Impacts of Capital Bikeshare on Metrorail Ridership in the Washington Metropolitan Area	Dr. Gerrit Knaap	DC Department of Transportation
Naka Matsumoto	2017	Negotiating Diversification: Immigrant Settlement and Neighborhood Change - The Case of Greektown in Baltimore City, MD	Dr. Howell Baum	Lecturer, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Kaio University, Japan
Jae Sik Jeon	2017	A Better Neighborhood for Housing Voucher Households: Obstacles and Opportunities	Dr. Casey Dawkins	Sage Computing, Inc.
Boaz Kedar	2017	The Power of Synthesis: the Pursuit of Environmental Sustainability and Social Equity Through Design Practice	Garth Rockcastle/Dr. Marie Howland	YOZMOT - Green Initiatives, Tel Aviv, Israel
Yu Qiao	2017	Three Essays on Agglomeration and Firm Dynamics	Dr. Chengri Ding
Li Fang	2018	Do industrial clusters encourage establishment innovation?	Dr. Gerrit Knaap	Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Hossein Sadat Lavasani Bozor	2018	Impact of Green Building Certifications on the Economic Performance of Real Estate Office Assets	Dr. Marie Howland
Basheer Saeed	2018	A Micro-Level Examination of the Impact of Rail Transit Investments on the Patterns of Firm Dynamics	Dr. Hiroyuki Iseki	Lecturer of Urban Planning, College of Spatial Planning and Applied Science, University of Duhok, Iraq
Georgeanne Matthews	2019	A Look at Cohousing: Why Baby Boomers are Self Developing Alternative Housing Options	Dr. Marie Howland / Dr. Casey Dawkins	Visiting Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of America
Johnna Blythe Semmer	2019	Assessing User Understanding of Heritage in the Environment: Preservation Strategies for the Use of Place	Dr. Donald Linebaugh
Zuxuan Deng	2019	Three Essays on Urban Transportation Studies in Washington D.C.: Safety Effect of All-Way Stop Control, Safety Effect of Reversible Lane and Loading Zone Allocation	Dr. Gerrit Knaap	Supervisory Engineer at the District Department of Transportation
Jinyhup Kim	2020	Housing Demand and Tenure Choice for Senior Citizens: Lessons from Three Essays	Dr. Casey Dawkins
David Boston	2020	Modeling the Relationship Between the Housing First Approach and Homelessness	Dr Willow Lung-Amam	Planning and Zoning Manager, City of Ocala/Cofounding Director of Bears Consulting
Qiong Peng	2020	Housing Value and Light Rail Transit Construction: Evidence from Three Essays	Dr. Gerrit Knaap	Software Engineer at Google
Maria Beltran Rodriguez	2020	The People's Park: A study of the relationship between design and convivial behavior in Superkilen	Madlen Simon
Christopher Leh Dorney	2021	Are Houston's Land Use Relationships Unique?	Dr. Gerrit J. Knaap
Hyunjoo Eom	2021	Recent Intra-Metropolitan Patterns of Jobs and Workers: Implications for the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis	Dr. Casey Dawkins
Carlos Arturo Manjarrez	2021	Small, Slow and Steady: Assessing the Impact of Arts District Designation and Arts-Led Development Strategies on Enterprise Growth in a Small, Mid-Atlantic Town	Dr. Marie Howland
Binbin Peng	2021	Exploring Public Health Risks and Vulnerabilities to Extreme Heat Through Urban Built Environment	Dr. Marccus Hendricks
Zhenpeng Zou	2021	Planning towards an equitable sharing economy: On housing, on transportation, on policymaking	Dr. Gerrit J. Knaap
Nicholas Finio	2022	The Endurance of Gentrification: Three Essays on Meaning, Measurement, and Consequences	Dr. Gerrit J. Knaap