| Degree | PhD in Regional Science |
| Email Address | yr97@cornell.edu |
| Linked In | www.linkedin.com/in/yating-ru |
Yating Ru is a Ph.D. student in Regional Science at Cornell University. Her research interest centers on international development and spatial inequality. Particularly, she is interested in working on innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to address development challenges by integrating emerging geospatial big data, machine learning, and economic methods. Before joining the Ph.D. program, she worked as a Research Analyst at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) for three years, where she employed geographic information tools in conjunction with economic analyses in her research related to poverty, hunger, malnutrition, environmental degradation, and climate change. Yating holds a master's degree in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University and a B.E. in Urban Planning from Wuhan University in China.
