Cheng-Kai ("Kai") Hsu
Assistant Professor,
School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning
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Mail code: 5302Campus: 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
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Honors / Awards
- 2026 Gill-Chin Lim Award for the Best Dissertation on International Planning, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP)
- 2024–25 IRLE Dissertation Fellowship, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), 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)