As part of its mission, the School of Cities (SofC) Graduate Student Fellowship Award provides a forum for urban-focused interdisciplinary and collaborative learning.
SofC Graduate Student Fellows are current U of T students with a strong interest in and passion for urban issues and critical challenges and are leading an innovative and impactful project this term. Two of the 20 selected are from the Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering (CivMin).
Meet our 2022 Fellows from CivMin:
Emily Farrar
Emily is a second-year PhD student in CivMin. Her research interests revolve around the intersection of climate change mitigation, the transport sector, and public health. She is excited to investigate strategies to reduce public exposure to air pollutants from traffic sources. Prior to entering the PhD program, Emily worked on topics such as shared mobility and emerging technologies at UC Berkeley’s Transportation Sustainability Research Center. She is currently a volunteer with the University of Toronto’s Graduate Society of Women Engineers, where she serves as the VP of Communications.
Yunshun Zhong
Yunshun is a first-year PhD student in Civil Engineering. He has a M.S. degree in Civil Engineering and minor in Data Science from University of California, Berkeley. His research interests lie in the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence in infrastructure asset management. In particular, he is trying to develop an automated shoreline erosion detection and monitoring system based on aerial images by unmanned aerial vehicles using machine learning algorithms. Cities with long shoreline such as Toronto is highly vulnerable to natural hazards of flooding and erosion of shoreline. Therefore, identification and remediation of shoreline hazards is a significant task in urban development and urban environment protection, in which, shoreline erosion monitoring plays a fundamental role.
This article originally published by School of Cities – see the entire list of recipients