Yijun Zeng is a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is majoring in landscape architecture and minor in geography. Zeng received her master’s and bachelor’s degree of landscape architecture in China, where she had research and professional experience for over 8 years. Currently, she works with Prof. Brian Deal on issues about urban ecosystems, such as carbon sequestration of urban forestry, cultural ecosystem services, and evidence-based design paradigm. Her research interests focus on the interactions between humans and urban landscape, particularly driven by a commitment to advancing the field of landscape architecture through the integration of data science, spatial analysis, and computational techniques. Her professional goal targets at making applied environmental science more accessible to design professions, and facilitating urban sustainability with the mission of both “Design with Science” and “Science in Design”.