Binbin Peng was a PhD Graduate Assistant at the Urban Studies and Planning Program, University of Maryland, College Park, and affiliated with the National Center for Smart Growth (NCSG) since 2017. She is now working with Dr. Marccus Hendricks at the Resilient Infrastructure and Stormwater Equity (RISE) Lab. Before commencing her PhD Study, she did her masters in urban and regional planning at the University of Florida (2015) and Mechanical Design at the China Agricultural University, China (2013). Peng is broadly interested in environmental planning, specifically extreme weather adaptation planning, urban heat-health impact, transportation safety, and environmental justice, climate justice. During her masters, she tried to quantify the local cost of mitigating the damage caused by extreme coastal weather events (e.g., sea-level rise and storm surge). In the doctorate study, Peng has worked on analyzing the residents' attitudes toward different stormwater BMPs (best management practices). She also has worked on estimating the impact of changing travel behavior on public health under different scenarios using an Integrated Transport and Health Impact Modeling (ITHIM). Peng is now working as a research assistant with the NCSG members trying to estimate the health benefits of the trail system in Prince George's County. Miss Peng is also interested in doing synthesizing research integrating interdisciplinary knowledge and combine to the field of urban planning.
Binbin Peng was a graduate teaching faculty in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation for the academic year 2018-2019 on Planning Technologies. She advised student teams on a practical planning project collaborated with Harford County to identify the potential streambank deteriorations using ArcGIS techniques. One student team was awarded the Maryland Sustainable Growth Challenge Award Winners in 2019-2020. Besides spatial modeling, Ms. Peng is also passionate about research methods in latent variable analysis, such as factor analysis, structural equation modeling.
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Research Interests/Specializations:
Environmental Planning, Climate Change Adaptation Planning, Extreme Weather Health Resilience, Transportation Safety
Extracurricular Involvement
Ms. Peng spends her non-academic time in engaging more on such a diverse campus by serving as the Vice President for Academic Affairs (VPAA) in 2018-2019, and Vice President for Community Development in 2019-2020. In the tenure as VPAA, she ran the university-wide Graduate Research Appreciation Day (GRAD) in 2019, a conference-style research showcase event that honors the excellence of graduate students' research. She also serves on the URPD PhD Seminar Committee.