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SHI-YUAN YAO 姚 詩遠
EDUCATION
2014-16 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIACandidate in Master of City and Regional Planning
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS at URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Bachelor of Arts in Urban and Regional Planning/Minor in Architectural Studies/ Overall GPA 3.64/4.0 KYOTO CONSORTIUM FOR JAPANESE STUDIES Avdanced Japanese/ Summer Program/ Kyoto, Japan
2010-14
2014
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102 Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
☎ 217-607-4000 [email protected]
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Junior Planning Workshop/ Urban Design Workshop/ Land Use Workshop (led by Bruce A. Knight, FAICP)
2013-14@UIUC
First-year Planning Workshop2015 @Upenn
LLEWELYN-DAVIES HONG KONG LTD. SHANGHAIHousing estate design in Xiang-Shan, China & Google SketchUp models built-up/Analysis for Royal Adelaide Hospital Site Design Competition in Adelaide, Australia
2013July-August
Adobe IllustratorAdobe PhotoshopAdobe InDesignArcGIS
AutoCADAutoRevitGoogle SketchUpRhino
Microsoft OfficeSPSSR-Studio
Native Speaker in Shanghainese & Mandarin Chinese/Fluent in English (5-years residence in US)/Fluent in Japanese (Certificate Japanese Language Proficiency at N1 Level)
VOLUNTEER/ SOCIAL OUTPUT
2011 APA-Illinois Chapter Conference in Evanston, IL 2013 APA National Conference in Chicago, IL
BRISTOL PARK NEIGHBORHOOD, CITY OF CHAMPAIGN (2012) Surveyor, collecting residents’ response to the then-proposed Bristol Park Neighborhood Plan. Collected information support-ed the City’s decisions on relocation and compensation plans.
STUDENT PLANNING ORGANIZATION at UIUC (2013-14)Saturday Seminar Coordinator, arranging and coordinating guest lectures for students in Department of Urban and Re-gional Planning. ROCKCORPS JAPAN (2014.8)Assistant staff, coordinating and supporting disater-recovering volunteer work in several locations in Fukushima, Japan.
UNIVERSITY CITY DISTRICT & GEHL STUDIO, PHILADEL-PHIA (2014.10)Surveyor, conducting pedestrian and cyclist counts and walk-in interviews and mapping people’s behaviors in the study area.
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PREVIOUS RESEARCH
2012 Fall: Geometry in Baroque Architecture2012-13: Urban Green Space and Walkability(Presented at 2013 Undergraduate Research Symposium, UIUC)2014 Spring: Seeking the Symbols of Trees on Wall Paintings from Three Case Studies (Nominated for Alpert Prize-History, UIUC)
Urban Design/ Architectural Design/ Site Analysis/Quantitive Analysis/ Historical Research/ Survey Creation & Conduction/ Essay & Report Drafting/ Hand DrawingTranslation (English-Chinese-Japanese)
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SKILLS
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2015July-August
HMA ARCHITECTS & DESIGNERS. SHANGHAIUrban design for a large-scaled commercial & resi-dential complex in Shenzhen, China/Urban design research for educational facilities in Shanghai, China/Urban design for Laketown Outlet in Saitama, Japan
Master of City Planning, concentration in Urban Design
(6-year residence in US)/