Associate Professor, Department of Urban Planning & Design

BSc; BEc; MSc PEKING; PhD MIT

Weifeng Li is Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the University of Hong Kong. Weifeng Li received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US, and joined the University of Hong Kong in 2011. He has previously studied at Peking University in China.  He is currently a member of the editorial board of Transportation Research D: Transport and Environment, Vice-president of the Hong Kong GIS Association, and an elected board member of the International Association for China Planning (IACP)(2013-2017).

Weifeng’s primarily research interests focus on environmental sustainability associated with urbanization and transportation, urban spatial structure and air pollution, health effects, and the use of urban modelling, remote sensing and big data in urban and environmental studies.  He has received a number of scholarly awards, including HKU Faculty of Architecture Research Output Prize (2014/2015), Finalist of Royal Town Planning Institute Early Career Researcher Award (2017).

Fields of Interest

Environmental Sustainability associated with Urbanization and Transportation; Urban Configuration and Air Pollution, Health Effects; The Use of Urban Modelling, Remote Sensing and Big Data in Urban and Environmental Studies

Contact

Department of Urban Planning and Design,
Faculty of Architecture,
The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Tel: +852-3917-2566
E-mail: wfli@hku.hk