Yining Feng

Education: 

08/2019-12/2024      The Pennsylvania State University PhD. Rural Sociology and Demography (Dual-title); 

09/2016-06/2019     Wuhan University (WHU)  M.S. Engineering Management, School of Civil Engineering;  

09/2012-06/2016     Huazhong Agricultural University (HAZU)  B.S. Engineering Management, School of Land Resource Management; 

Bio:

Yining Feng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research examines how environmental stress and climate change reshape population migration, community resilience, spatial inequality, and well being. She integrates large scale spatial, demographic, administrative, survey, and text data with computational and qualitative approaches to study how populations and communities respond and adapt across rural, coastal, and other environmentally vulnerable regions. She is also interested in developing transparent and responsible AI assisted approaches that make diverse forms of evidence more accessible for environmental and population research while preserving researcher oversight and community knowledge.

Contact:

yiningfeng@umass.edu