Welcome to the Urban Agility and Resilience Lab! The UAR Lab is the research hub of exploration and creativity for resilient, safe, smart and healthy built environments. Dr. Yan Wang is the founder and director of the UAR lab at the University of Florida.

Dr. Wang is an Assistant Professor (faculty profile) in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and the founding faculty member of the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER) at the University of Florida. Her research concerns urban resilience to hazards and disruptive technologies. Her team develops AI-enabled systems for disaster response and risk communication, models human-information-environment interactions under extreme events, explores evidence-based resilient urban forms, and prepares a smart/adaptive environment for disruptive technologies to build smart and resilient cities.

Current research projects of the UAR lab focus on investigating the complexity and dynamics of coupled human-environment systems, developing an intelligent emergency detection and tracking system, visualizing and modeling urban dynamics with geo-visualization techniques, and crowd-sourced data-informed planning for smart, resilient cities.

The diverse expertise of the lab members includes applied artificial intelligence, big data analytics, complex network analysis, GIS, natural language processing, computer vision, human mobility analysis, real-time/streaming data processing, database management, agent-based modeling, system dynamics, urban modeling, among other advanced urban analytics techniques.