Bio

Fangru Wang’s research interests include transportation planning, urban growth modeling, and exploring the relationship between transportation and the built environment. She is currently a research assistant at the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development.

Having grown up in China, Fangru is concerned about the issues surrounding transportation and urban growth in developing countries. Before coming to Georgia Tech, she worked as an intern at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority headquarters in New York, where she focused on transit-oriented development.

Fangru has a master’s degree in city and regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania (2013) and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Tongji University (2011).