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Xiangrong Jiang is a PhD candidate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests focus on the relationship between human health and built environment. Xiangrong takes landscape as a sustainable resource to promote public health. Her expertise includes quantifying health benefits people can get from varying types of environment and estimating landscape resources in a spatial analysis perspective. She is working for optimized design solutions with scientific based data.

Xiangrong is passionate in teaching as well. Her teaching experience includes introducing design communication strategies and building up site analysis skills for undergraduate students. She has explored to combine analysis with design in the graduate watershed planning studio, where she introduced the geoprocessing tools and stormwater management methods.

In her current research, Xiangrong uses supercomputing to estimate people’s daily exposure to Green Infrastructure and analyzes brain data to understand the mechanism behind the beneficial outcomes from nature. Xiangrong has an MLA from Peking University and BA in Landscape Architecture from Sichuan University, China.