About Me! — lingchen-urban

RESUME

Fascinated by cities and the people within, I strive to blend planning, urban design, geospatial analytics, and strategic thinking to enhance our built environment.

Personal Interests:
Rock N Roll, Swing, Tango, Photography, City Walk, Basketball, Chinese Zither, Travel, Corgi & Dachshund lover!

EDUCATION

EXPERIENCE

SKILLSET

Master of City Planning
Certificate: GIS & Spatial Analysis

Bachelor of Engineering in Urban Planning
Urban and Rural Planning

Smart Cities Planner
• Worked with the City of Philadelphia to develop a proof-of-concept data framework and an interactive platform for new curbside loading zones, engaging in bi-weekly meetings to align with client objectives.
• Conducted detailed exploratory analyses of pilot data and implementing machine learning models to predict curb zone demands.
• Designed a web application, from wireframing to deployment, tailored to meet client specifications for product development.

Planning Intern
• Conducted GIS spatial analyses, socio-economic, accessibility analyses as foundational research for multiple planning projects.
• Crafted spatial strategies and renderings for the Hoboken Housing Redevelopment Plan using GIS & Adobe Suite. Focus areas included project phasing, mobility, land use, site design, building standards, open spaces, recreational facilities, and circulation.
• Used Rhino & Adobe Suite to develop strategies and diagrams for seven transit-oriented redevelopment areas in City of Trenton.

Assistant Planner Intern
• Used AutoCAD to revise the regulatory plan of 22 units within the construction land area of Fengxian District.
• Used Adobe InDesign to integrate the rural planning results of all countryside units in 8 towns of Fengxian District.

Planning & Design
Adobe Creative Suite
(Adobe Indesign/ Adobe Illustrator/ Adobe Photoshop)
AutoCAD/ Rhino/ Grasshopper/ SketchUp
Vray/ Lumion/ Enscape

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Tongji University, Shanghai, China

UPenn Practicum with City of Philadelphia Innovation Management Team and Office of Information Technology, Philadelphia, PA

WRT, Philadelphia, PA

Shanghai Planning and Natural Resources Bureau, Shanghai, China

Data Analytics
ArcGIS Pro/ R/ Microsoft Excel
Python (Geopandas, Rasterio, Numpy, Matplotlib, Scikit-Learn, Keras, Pytorch) / SQL / Github
Geospatial Analysis, Data Visualization, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Remote Sensing

2022-2024

2017-2022

Jan - May 2024

Jun - Nov 2023

Aug 2021

Planning & Design Adobe Creative Suite (Adobe Indesign/ Adobe Illustrator/ Adobe Photoshop) AutoCAD/ Rhino/ Grasshopper/ SketchUpVray/ Lumion/ Enscape

Data Analytics ArcGIS Pro/ R/ Microsoft Excel Python (Geopandas, Rasterio, Numpy, Matplotlib, Scikit-Learn, Keras, Pytorch) / SQL / Github Geospatial Analysis, Data Visualization, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Remote Sensing

Planning & Design
Adobe Creative Suite
(Adobe Indesign/ Adobe Illustrator/ Adobe Photoshop)
AutoCAD/ Rhino/ Grasshopper/ SketchUp
Vray/ Lumion/ Enscape

Data Analytics
ArcGIS Pro/ R/ Microsoft Excel
Python (Geopandas, Rasterio, Numpy, Matplotlib, Scikit-Learn, Keras, Pytorch) / SQL / Github
Geospatial Analysis, Data Visualization, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Remote Sensing