Yu Xiao

Assistant Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

Location : C104C • Phone: (979) 458-2731
yxiao@archmail.tamu.edu
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Dr. Xiao joined the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2008. She is interested in urban economic development, disaster management, and public finance. Her research examines short-to long-run economic impacts of natural disasters, business interruption, and process of community economic recovery after disasters. She has presented in numerous regional science, urban planning, and disaster research conferences. Dr. Xiao was the recipient of the Mary Fran Myers Scholarship for outstanding individual who has committed to disaster research practice and has the potential to make a lasting contribution to reducing disaster vulnerability.

Dr. Xiao received Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008, M.U.P. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004, and B.S. and B.M. from Peking University in China in 2002. [more]