Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
Dr. Ning Ai is is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago with a joint appointment in the Department of Urban Planning and Policy and the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy. Her primary theme of interdisciplinary research is socio-economic analysis and inventory modeling for material and waste management in an urban metabolic context. She is the lead author of the American Planning Association (APA)’s publication on “Planning for Sustainable Material and Waste Management” (2017). Most recently, she led the Chicago 2020 Waste Characterization and Generation update. She currently serves as the Division Chair of Sustainability and Resource Conservation Technical Council of the Air & Waste Management Association. Previously she has worked for the World Bank, the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad Co., and the Georgia State Department of Natural Resources. She obtained her dual-bachelor degrees in Environmental Economics and Environmental Engineering from Renmin University and Tsinghua University, respectively, in China, Master’s degree in City Planning from MIT, and doctoral degree in City and Regional Planning from Georgia Tech.
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
5:00pm – 5:20pm PT
Thursday, June 30, 2022
1:30pm – 3:30pm PT
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