Cheng-Kai ("Kai") Hsu

Assistant Professor,

School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning

Other ASU affiliations

Urban Climate Research Center

[email protected]

Mail code: 5302

Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio

Hsu's research lies at the intersection of urban climate, transportation, and public health, with a particular focus on travel behavior, traffic safety, environmental health, and causal inference. Specifically, his work examines how climate stressors and environmental hazards shape mobility, health, and safety in cities, and how urban and transportation planning can support healthier and more sustainable communities.

Education

PhD City & Regional Planning (Applied Data Science Certificate), UC Berkeley 2024
MSc Civil & Environmental Engineering (Transport), Imperial College London 2019
BS Urban Planning, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan 2016

Google Scholar URL

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EbkMt7EAAAAJ&hl=en

ORCID Profile ID

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7254-0602

Courses

2027 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
PUP 424	Planning Methods

Honors / Awards

2026 Gill-Chin Lim Award for the Best Dissertation on International Planning, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP)
2026 Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship for Sustainable Transport & Energy Efficiency, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, Volvo Research and Education Foundations (VREF) and the Kuehne Climate Center.
2024–25 Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Dissertation Fellowship, UC Berkeley
2024–25 Roselyn Lindheim Award in Environmental Design and Public Health, UC Berkeley
2023–25 Pamela and Kenneth Fong Graduate Student Fellowship in Healthcare and Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
2023–24 Taiwanese Overseas Pioneers Grant for Ph.D. Candidates, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan
2023–24 Katherine S. and James K. Lau Fellowship in Climate Equity, UC Berkeley
2023 ACSP Global Planning Educators Group Travel Award
2023 Michael B. Teitz Fellowship, Honorable Mention, UC Berkeley
2022–23 Graduate Student Research Award, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), UC Berkeley
2022 Inaugural Wendy Tao Memorial International Smart Cities Scholarship, ITS California and California Transportation Foundation
2022 Highest-Scoring Doctoral Paper, International Conference on Transport and Health
2022 Summer Research Fellowship, Global Metropolitan Studies, UC Berkeley
2020–23 Ph.D. Government Fellowship, Ministry of Education, Taiwan
2018–19 M.Sc. Government Fellowship, Ministry of Education, Taiwan

Professional Associations

International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE)
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP)
Transportation Research Board (TRB)

Expertise Areas

Quantitative Analysis

Transportation Planning

Urban Systems

Urbanization Effects on Weather and Climate