Students

PhD in Public Policy

Elijah is a Ph.D. student in the School of Public Policy and is concentrating on Urban and Regional Studies. Elijah recently completed his MPA at Florida State University where his studies focused on civic engagement, community policing, and police r…

PhD in Public Policy

Gloria is a Ph.D. student in Public Policy with a concentration in Sustainability and Resilience.  She recently moved to the Boston area from Miami, Florida.  Her research interests include sustainable urban planning, climate change mitigation strate…

PhD in Public Policy

Sushant was born in Saharsa in the state of Bihar in India. He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India with a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Information Communicatio…

PhD in Public Policy

Yutong was born and raised in North China. She is a Ph.D. student in Public Policy with a concentration in sustainability and resilience at Northeastern University. Her research interests include inter-related policy issues of energy transitions, cli…

PhD in Public Policy

Forrest is a PhD student in Public Policy with a concentration in Urban and Regional Policy. He is broadly interested in how policies shape behavior and how behavior shapes social trends and systems. His primary research interests are in the lived ex…

PhD in Public Policy

Marisa was born and raised in Durham, North Carolina. She completed her undergraduate degree at MIT, where she dabbled in astronomy, nuclear energy security, climate change technology, political science, atmospheric physics, and human rights issues o…

PhD in Public Policy

Vivek is a PhD student at the School of Public Policy and his concentration is on Urban and Regional Policy. His research work is informed by his previous engagements with various NGOs and research organizations in India.Prior to starting his PhD, he…

Laiyang Ke is a doctoral candidate in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University, specializing in urban public finance, financing for local infrastructure, and urban informatics. Laiyang is currently working on a researc…

PhD in Public Policy

Shiqin Liu (Shirley) is a Ph.D. Candidate in Public Policy in the in the department of  Law and Public Policy. Her primary research interests focus on regional economic analysis, creative economy, entrepreneurship development, and economic mobility. …

PhD in Law and Public Policy

Saina is a PhD candidate in the department of  Law and Public Policy. She is interested in discovering the underlying patterns of urbanization and development along with urban sustainability and resilience through big data. She has done research on t…

PhD in Law and Public Policy

Hao-En Kao is a PhD Candidate in the department of  Law and Public Policy. His research focuses on housing, transportation, gentrification and displacement with GIS technology and big data.  He is currently working on his dissertation about how and w…

PhD in Law and Public Policy

Vijayeta is a PhD candidate in the department of Law & Public Policy. Her dissertation is focused on the ‘Politics of Dispossession’, particularly those accompanied by land grabs for coal mining. She is studying the role of agrarian structures, p…

Law and Public Policy, PhD

PhD candidate Vaishali Kushwaha started her academic journey as a a civil and environmental engineer. But as her interest in the interdisciplinary nature of environmental issues evolved from micro to macro, she transitioned into the public policy and…