Pengyu ZHU

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Short Bio

He has taught courses on transportation and land use, transportation economics, economics applications to planning and policy, urban economics, urban geography, quantitative research methods, and urban design and site planning studios.

To date, his work has been published in major academic journals such as Landscape and Urban Planning, Urban Studies, Annals of Regional Sciences, Transportation, Transportation Research Part D, Urban Geography, Cities, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, and International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology. He was also among the world’s top 2% scientists in 2023 and top 1% in 2024, based on TopResearchersList.com ranking by Elsevier and Stanford University. In recognition of his outstanding achievements and academic excellence, Prof. Zhu has been recently awarded 5.2 million HKD and conferred the esteemed title of ‘RGC Research Fellow‘, a prestigious recognition from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) under their Research Fellow Scheme (RFS) in support of only the most outstanding scholars in Hong Kong. Notably, Prof. Zhu was the only awardee under the Humanities, Social Sciences, Economics and Business Studies Panel (H-Panel) in 2024, while the other awardees were recognized under the Sciences, Medicine, Engineering and Technology Panel (S-Panel).

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