Yiyi He
· Director, Ph.D. Program; Assistant Professor, School of City and Regional PlanningGeorgia Institute of Technology · City and Regional Planning
Active 1990–2026
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About
Yiyi He is an assistant professor in the School of City and Regional Planning at the College of Design at Georgia Tech, with an affiliation to the Center for Urban Resilience and Analytics (CURA). She is also a Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS) Faculty Fellow. Her research centers on the interdisciplinary fields of urban planning, GIScience, climate science, and artificial intelligence. She is interested in building a better understanding of the uncertainty and asymmetric impacts of climate-change-induced extreme weather events, such as flooding, wildfires, and extreme heat, on critical components of the built environment, including lifeline infrastructure networks and vulnerable neighborhoods. She leverages data-driven approaches, such as GIS, network science, hyperspectral remote sensing, machine learning, and spatial statistics, to address complex challenges in climate change and resilience research and to inform more intelligent planning and policy directives. Her previous work involves using 3D hydrodynamic flood models to simulate flooding under different climate change scenarios and analyze the impact of coastal and inland flooding on critical infrastructure networks. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Nanjing University and earned her master’s and Ph.D. degrees from UC Berkeley.
Research topics
- Materials science
- Nanotechnology
- Chemistry
- Chemical engineering
- Composite material
- Organic chemistry
- Polymer chemistry
- Photochemistry
- Optoelectronics
Selected publications
Bottlebrush polymers: From controlled synthesis, self-assembly, properties to applications
Progress in Polymer Science · 2021 · 285 citations
Dual‐Protected Metal Halide Perovskite Nanosheets with an Enhanced Set of Stabilities
Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2021 · 61 citations
1st authorCorrespondingnanosheets (NSs) by in situ formation of a uniform inorganic shell (1st shielding) that is intimately ligated with hydrophobic polymers (2nd shielding). The dual-protected NSs display an array of remarkable stabilities (i.e., thermal, photostability, moisture, polar solvent, aliphatic amine, etc.) and find application in white-light-emitting diodes. In principle, by anchoring other multidentate amphiphilic polymer ligands on the surface of PNCs, followed by templated-growth of shell materials of…
2025-09-25
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Frequent coauthors
- 87 shared
Xinchang Pang
Henan University of Science and Technology
- 61 shared
Xiaoguang Qiao
Zhengzhou University
- 58 shared
Zhiqun Lin
Ewha Womans University
- 50 shared
Ge Shi
Zhengzhou University
- 33 shared
Minying Liu
- 30 shared
Zhe Cui
Nanyang Technological University
- 28 shared
Xiaomeng Zhang
National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases
- 24 shared
Yihuang Chen
Tarim University
Education
- 2017
PhD, School of Materials Science and Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Awards & honors
- Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS) Facult…
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