Dr. Liyuan Zhao is currently working as Associate Professor at School of Architecture and Urban Planning, HuaZhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China. She has completed her Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from University of Florida, Florida, USA. Her main area of interest focuses on Environmental Sciences. Her area of expertise includes Land use modeling, Agents based model, Traffic Emission, Transportation Planning, Integrated Land use and Transportation, Neural Network, Air Quality, Urban Planning, Land use Forecasting, Cellular Automata, and Network Vulnerability. She has published 8 publications in journals as author/co-author.