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CURRICULUM VITAE
SHENGYI GAO
Department of Environmental Science & Policy
University of California
Davis, CA 95616
(530) 752-6303
sgao@ucdavis.edu
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy in Transportation Technology and Policy,
--University of California, Davis, 2006
Master of Science in Ecology
--Yunnan University, P. R. China, 1988
Bachelor of Science in Biology
--Hubei University, P. R. China, 1985
EMPLOYMENT
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Davis
--07/2006 – present
Graduate Student Researcher IV, University of California, Davis
--07/2004 – 06/2006
Graduate Student Researcher III, University of California, Davis
--01/2002 – 09/2002, 01/2003 – 09/2003, 01/2004 – 06/2004
Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis
--10/2001 – 12/2001, 10/2002 – 2/2002, 10/2003 – 12/2003
Postgraduate Researcher III, University of California, Davis
--03/2000 – 09/2001
Assistant Professor, Yunnan University, P. R. China
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--02/1996 – 02/2000
Assistant Professional Researcher, Kunming Institute of Ecology, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, P. R. China
--07/1987 – 01/1996
RESEARCHES
1. California Production, Exchange and Consumption Allocation System (PECAS)
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Collected and analyzed the data
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Documented the data development process
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Built the land use system
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Calculated the Activity/Commodity Make and Use coefficients
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Calculated the Activity/Floorspace Use coefficients
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Set up the model
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Tested the sensitivity of the model
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Calibrated the model
2. Overcoming the barrier of transportation: A policy simulation on transit improvement
and car ownership promotion in Sacramento Metropolitan Area
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Co-authored the proposal
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Collected and analyzed the data
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Run the travel demand forecast model
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Wrote the research report
3. Test spatial mismatch hypothesis in structural equation modeling
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Co-authored the proposal
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Collected and analyzed the data
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Built and tested the theoretical models
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Wrote the research report
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Presented the findings in TRB
4. Modeling Long-Range Transportation and Land Use Scenarios for the Sacramento
Region, Using Citizen-Generated Policies
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Developed transit network in Viper
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Run Meplan land use-transport integrated model
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Collected and analyzed the data
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5. California generalized general land use plan
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Collected the general plans
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Generalized the general plans
6. Regional development, polulation trend, and technology change impacts on future air
pollution emissions in the San Joaquin Valley
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Co-designed the land use scenarios
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Collect and analyzed demographic and GIS data
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Run UPlan land use model
7. 2020 and 2040 urban growth analysis for Calfed
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Developed and analyzed the data
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Run UPlan
8. 2020 urban growth analysis for Ducks Unlimited
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Developed and analyzed the data
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Run UPlan model
9. 2020 urban growth analysis for SEDD
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Improved UPlan land use model
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Developed and analyzed the data
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Run UPlan land use model
PUBLICATIONS
1. Gao, Shengyi and Robert A. Johnston. 2009. Public vs. private mobility for low
income households: Transit improvements vs. increased car ownership in the Sacramento
Region. Proceedings of the 88th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting. January,
2009, Washington, D.C.
2. He, Mingwei, Min He and Shengyi Gao. 2009. Destination choice modeling for homebased non-commute trips: Some improvements in utility function and a case study in
China. Proceedings of the 88th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting. January,
2009, Washington, D.C.
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3. Gao, Shengyi, Patricia L. Mokhtarian and Robert A. Johnston. 2008. Non-normality of
data in transportation behavior studies. Transportation Research Record No. 2082: 116124.
4. Gao, Shengyi, Patricia L. Mokhtarian and Robert A. Johnston. 2007. Exploring the
causal connections among job accessibility, employment, income, and auto ownership
with structural equation modeling. The Annals of Regional Science 42: 341-356.
5. Walker, Thomas, Shengyi Gao and Robert A. Johnston. 2007. UPlan: Geographic
Information System as framework for integrated land use planning model. Transportation
Research Record 1994: 117-127.
6. Gao, Shengyi, Robert A. Johnston, and Michael C. McCoy. 2007. Neighborhood
economic and racial succession: Understanding this process of decline and its effects on
residential choice in land use models. Proceedings of 10th International Conference on
Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management. July, 2007, Brazil.
7. Johnston, Robert A., Shengyi Gao, Michael C. McCoy, John Douglas Hunt and John
Abraham. 2007. Integrated urban model for California: Policy evaluation capabilities.
Proceedings of 11th World Conference on Transport Research, August, 2007, Berkeley,
USA.
8. Bai, Song, Debbie A. Niemeier, Susan L. Handy, Shengyi Gao, Michael J. Kleeman,
Jay R. Lund and Dana Coe Sullivan. Integrated Impacts of Regional Development, Land
Use Strategies and Transportation Planning on Future Air Pollution Emissions.
Proceedings of 2007 Transportation Land-use Planning & Air Quality Conference. July,
2007, Florida, USA.
9. Thorne, James H., Shengyi Gao, Allan D. Hollander, Jeffery A. Kennedy, Michael
McCoy, Robert A. Johnston, and James F. Quinn. 2006. Modeling potential species
richness and urban buildout to identify mitigation sites along a California highway.
Transportation Research Part D 11:277-291.
10. Johnston, Robert, Shengyi Gao, and Michael Clay. 2005. Modeling Long-Range
Transportation and Land Use Scenarios for the Sacramento Region, Using CitizenGenerated Policies. Transportation Research Record 1902:99-106.
11. Merenlender, Adina M., Colin Brooks, David Shabazian, Shengyi Gao, and Robert A.
Johnston. 2005. Forecasting exurban development to evaluate the influence of land-use
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policies on wildland and farmland conservation. Journal of Conservation Planning 1:6468.
12. Johnston, Robert A., David Shabazian, and Shengyi Gao. 2003. UPlan: A versatile
urban growth model for transportation planning. Transportation Research Record
183:202-209.
13. Gao, Shengyi, Changqun Duan, and Huanxiao Wang. 2001. Frameworks of Pollution
Ecology for undergraduate and graduate students. In: Teaching Theory and Practice of
Ecology (pp.123-140), Changqun Duan (ed). Beijing: China Higher Education Press.
14. Zhang, Ling and Shengyi Gao. 2000. Bio-accumulation. In: Pollution Ecology
(pp.28-43), Huanxiao Wang (ed). Beijing: China Higher Education Press. Heidelberg:
Springer-Verlag.
15. Gao, Shengyi, Jinhu Pang, Xiaodong Yang, Qinghua Zhu, and Conghuan Zhang.
1996. Design of eucalyptus agro-forest. In: Alternatives to slash-and-burn (pp.87-89),
Liyi Xu and Yuanzhang Yang (eds). Beijing: Chinese Agriculture Technology and
Science Press.
16. Pang, Jinhu, and Shengyi Gao. 1996. The agro-forest in Southwest Yunnan. In:
Alternatives to slash-and-burn (pp.77-82), Liyi Xu and Yuanzhang Yang (eds). Beijing:
Chinese Agriculture Technology and Science Press.
17. Zhao, Xuelong, Lunhui Liu, Shengyi Gao, Caiyu Sheng, and Jiwu Tang. 1995. The
belt and layer pattern of dipterocarpus in Xishuangbanna. Acta Botanica Yunnanica
17:35-40.
18. Xu, Xiangyu, Jinhu Pang, Shengyi Gao, and Souchang Xie (eds). 1993. The ecoregions and development of Yunnan Province. Kunming: Yunnan University Press.
19. Gao, Shengyi. 1993. Warm and dry eco-region. In: The eco-regions and development
in Yunnan Province (pp.81-90), Xiangyu Xu, Jinhu Pang, Shengyi Gao and Souchang Xie
(eds). Kunming: Yunnan University Press.
20. Gao, Shengyi. 1993. Plateau lake-basin eco-region. In: The eco-regions and
development in Yunnan Province (pp.91-99), Xiangyu Xu, Jinhu Pang, Shengyi Gao and
Souchang Xie (eds). Kunming: Yunnan University Press.
21. Pang, Jinhu and Shengyi Gao. 1993. Plateau hilly eco-region. In: The eco-regions
and development in Yunnan Province (pp.100-114), Xiangyu Xu, Jinhu Pang, Shengyi
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Gao and Souchang Xie (eds). Kunming: Yunnan University Press.
22. Zhao, Xuelong, Lunhui Liu, Shengyi Gao and Aijun He. 1993. The structure
dynamics and distribution pattern of Vetica population. Botanica 35:552-560.
23. Gao, Shengyi, Huanxiao Wang, and Yushu Wu. 1992. The effects of Zinc pollution
on some physiological and biochemical indicators of Vacia faba seedlings. China
Environmental Science 12:281-284.
24. Gao, Shengyi, and Jinhu Pang. 1992. The ecological types of hot regions in Yunnan
Province and the exploitation of agriculture resources. In: Proceedings of the
International Conference on Natural Resources Management and Conservation in
Chinese Tropical and Subtropical Regions (pp.178-183), Xiaofang Li and Chuanyou
Chen (eds). Beijing: China Agricultural Science and Technology Press.
WORKING REORTS
1. Gao, Shengyi and Thomas Walker, 2005. UPlan Land Use Model Calibration.
Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission.
2. Robert Johnston, Eric Lehmer, Shengyi Gao and Joshua Johnson, 2005. UPlan v2.04
Users Manual. Information Center for the Environment, University of California, Davis,
CA 95616.
3. Johnston, Robert, Shengyi Gao and Michael Clay, 2005. Modeling Long-Range
Transportation and Land Use Scenarios for the Sacramento Region, Using CitizenGenerated Policies. Mineta Transportation Institute, San Jose. Available at:
http://transweb.sjsu.edu/pubs.htm
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
1. Gao, Shengyi and Robert A. Johnston. 2009. Public vs. private mobility for low
income households: Transit improvements vs. increased car ownership in the Sacramento
Region. The 88th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting. January, 2009,
Washington, D.C.
2. He, Mingwei, Min He and Shengyi Gao. 2009. Destination choice modeling for homebased non-commute trips: Some improvements in utility function and a case study in
China. The 88th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting. January, 2009,
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Washington, D.C.
3. Johnston, Robert A., Shengyi Gao, Michael C. McCoy, John Douglas Hunt, and John
Abraham (forthcoming). Integrated urban model for California: Policy evaluation
capabilities. The 11th World Conference on Transport Research. June, 2007, Berkeley,
CA, USA.
4. Gao, Shengyi, Patricia L. Mohktarian and Robert A. Johnston. Exploring the causal
connections among job accessibility, employment, income, and auto ownership with
structural equation modeling. Transportation Research Board 86th Annual Meeting,
Washington, D.C., January, 2007.
5. Walker, Thomas, Shengyi Gao, and Robert A. Johnston. UPlan: A discrete choice,
supply-side, land use planning model. Transportation Research Board 86th Annual
Meeting, Washington, D.C., January, 2007.
6. Gao, Shengyi and Robert A. Johnston. The spatial mismatch hypothesis: Critique of
research and proposed methods. Transportation Research Board 84th Annual Meeting,
Washington, D.C., January, 2005.
7. Gao, Shengyi. UPlan inputs, outputs, and interpretation of outputs. Workshop on
UPlan. Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, Philadelphia, USA, July 13-14,
2004.
REFEREEING
1. Papers submitted to Urban Studies
2. Papers submitted to 11th World Conference on Transport Research in 2007, Berkeley,
CA, USA.
3. Papers submitted to the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 87th Annual Meeting,
Washington D.C., USA, January, 2008.
4. Papers submitted to the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 88th Annual Meeting,
Washington D.C., USA, January, 2009.
HORNORS and SCHOLARSHIPS
Shields Jastro Scholarship, University of California, Davis
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--2003 - 2004
Transportation Studies Block Grant, University of California, Davis
--2001 – 2003
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
1. World Conference on Transport Research
2. Transportation Research Board
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