Yvonne Gu

About

Yvonne Yexuan Gu is a designer and scholar whose work bridges landscape, architecture, and ecology. She is the founder of 3h57m, a design and research practice that unites infrastructural modernity and bio-material ecologies to reimagine design in an era of climate change. Her work spans territorial systems and material innovation, positioning landscape and architecture as active mediators of environmental processes. Her research has been widely published in journals such as Sustainability, Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture, Journal of Urban Affairs, Bioresource Technology, Green Chemistry, and in the Handbook of Planning Support Science. It has also been supported by institutions including Harvard China Fund, Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. At Illinois, Yvonne teaches design studios and communication courses that emphasize the intersections of ecology, infrastructure, and representation. Her pedagogy draws from both landscape and architectural traditions, fostering critical inquiry and technical skills that prepare students to design with ecological and infrastructural awareness.

Research topics

• Biology
• Internal medicine
• Cancer research
• Biochemistry
• Immunology
• Medicine
• Cell biology
• Obstetrics
• Oncology

Selected publications

• Supplementary material to "Understanding divergent Brown Carbon Photobleaching Rates from Molecular Perspective"

  2025-11-20

  articleOpen access
  PublisherDOI

• Clinicopathological characteristics and oncologic outcomes of patients with gestational trophoblastic neoplasia initially manifesting as pulmonary lesion

  2024-01-01

  article1st authorCorresponding
  PublisherDOI

Frequent coauthors

• Bin Yu

  Guangxi Medical University

  84 shared

• Yun Yu

  Beijing Tian Tan Hospital

  63 shared

• Ying Shan

  Soochow University

  58 shared

• Lingya Pan

  Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College

  54 shared

• Yang Xiang

  51 shared

• Meng Qin

  Peking University Third Hospital

  42 shared

• Ying Jin

  42 shared

• Jie Yin

  Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

  38 shared

Education

• Post-graduate, Obstetrics and gynecology

  Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College

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