ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2008 to Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, present Texas A&M University

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1 1 Current as of February, 2013 YU XIAO Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Faculty Fellow, Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center (HRRC) Texas A&M University, 3137 TAMU, College Station, TX (979) (work); (979) (fax); EDUCATION Ph.D. Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, 2008 Adviser: Edward Feser Dissertation: Local Economic Impact and Adjustment after a Natural Disaster: Evidence from the 1993 Midwest Flood M.U.P. Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, 2004 B.S. Urban Studies and Regional Planning, Peking University, Beijing, China, 2002 B.M. Electronic-Business, Peking University, Beijing, China, 2002 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2008 to Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, present Texas A&M University 2006 to Research Assistant, Mid-America Earthquake Center 2008 Researched on building an economic impact module for the development of seismic loss assessment and analysis software-maeviz; Led and coordinated the research on the short- to long-run economic impacts assessment of the 1993 Midwest flood to Research Assistant, Land Use Evolution and Impact Assessment Model, University 2005 of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Worked on economic models to estimate future economic conditions which serve as driver for future land evolutions; Led research on assessing fiscal impacts of projected future land use evolutions in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area to Research Assistant, Center for Landscape Architecture and Planning, Peking 2002 University Worked on a master plan for the Zhangjiajie National Park in China; Participated in field investigation, tourist survey, and digital graphic data processing. HONORS AND AWARDS Outstanding Doctoral Students, University of Illinois, 2009 Graduate Teacher s Certificate, University of Illinois, 2008 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Illinois, Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship, University of Illinois, Honored Graduate, Peking University, 2002 Mary Kay Fellowship, Peking University, XIYUE Fellowship for Excellent Students, Peking University,

2 Outstanding Student Honor, Peking University, and National Science Foundation Fellowship, Peking University, TRAVEL GRANT Mary Fran Myers Scholarship, Natural Hazard Center, University of Colorado, 2007 (One of the three winners selected from 32 applications from 17 different nations.) ACSP Book Fair Publisher's Travel Scholarship, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, 2007 ACSP PhD Workshop Scholarship, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, 2007 Travel Scholarship for U.S. Foreign Policy Colloquium, National Committee on United States-China Relations, 2007 PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Note: * indicate the co-author was a student at the time of publication. Xiao, Yu and Edward Feser, forthcoming, The Unemployment Impact of the 1993 Midwest Flood: A Quasi-experimental Structural Break Point Analysis, Environment Hazards. Xiao, Yu and Uttara Nilawar*, forthcoming, Winners and Losers in Space: Analyzing Spatial Demand Shift After Natural Disasters, Disasters. Xiao, Yu and Shannon Van Zandt, 2012, Building Community Resiliency: Spatial Links between Households and Businesses in Post-Disaster Recovery, Urban Studies, 49(11): Xiao, Yu, Jun Wan*, and Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, 2011, Flooding and the Midwest Economy: Assessing the Midwest Floods of 1993 and 2008, GeoJournal, DOI: /s Xiao, Yu, 2011, Local Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters, Journal of Regional Science,51(4): Edwards, Mary M. and Yu Xiao, 2009, Annexation, Local Government Spending and the Complicating Role of Density, Urban Affairs Review, 45 (2): Tschangho John Kim, Matthew Claus, Joseph S. Rank, and Yu Xiao, 2009, Technology and Cities: Processes of Technology-Land Substitution in the 20th Century, Journal of Urban Technology, 16(1): Xiao, Yu, 2009, Evaluating Short- to Long-run Economic Impact of Natural Disasters: Quasi-experimental Design and Its Application, China Regional Economics, 1: (In Chinese) SUBMITTED PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Xiao, Yu and Joshua Drucker, Does Industrial Diversification Enhance Local Economic Disaster Resilience? (Submitted to Journal of American Planning Association, under review) 2

3 EXTERNAL FUNDING Principal Investigator, Analyzing Impacts of Hurricanes on Business Establishments, Texas Census Research Data Center, 2012, $2,345. The other PI was Walter Gillis Peacock. Principal Investigator, Collaborative Research: Developing an Intergovernmental Management Framework for Sustainable Recovery Following Catastrophic Disasters, National Science Foundation (CMMI ), , $102,715. Co-Principal Investigator, Developing a Living Laboratory for Examining Community Recovery and Resilience after Disaster, National Science Foundation (CMMI ), , $374,036. PI was Shannon Van Zandt; and other co-pis were Walter Gillis Peacock, Samuel Brody, and Wesley Highfield. Co-Principal Investigator, Social Vulnerability and Urban Development Patterns: Impacts on Community Resilience, National Science Foundation (CMMI ), , $144,671. PI was Shannon Van Zandt; and other co-pi was Wesley Highfield. Researcher, Texas Transportation Institute, National Waterways Foundation Project, September-October 2008, $6,667 INTERNAL FUNDING Chair, roundtable discussion on Long-Term Disaster Recovery and Resiliency in China and the United States: Toward a Framework for Comparative Disaster Research in the 2009 China-U.S. Relations Conference: Building on 30 years of China-US Relations: Looking Ahead, The Office of the Vice President for Research, 2009, $10,000. The other Chair was Walter Gillis Peacock. PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Xiao, Yu and Josh Drucker Enhancing Local Economic Disaster Resiliency through Industrial Diversification? Evidence from the 1993 Midwest Flood. Presented at the 53rd Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Annual Conference, November 1-4, 2012, Cincinnati, Ohio. Xiao, Yu and Yang Zhang Financing Post-Disaster Community Recovery: Lessons Learned from Wenchuan Earthquake. Presented at the 53rd Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Annual Conference, November 1-4, Cincinnati, Ohio. Xiao, Yu and Yang Zhang Financing Post-Disaster Community Recovery: A Case Study of Wenchuan Earthquake. Presented at the 6th International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference, June 17-19, Wuhan, China. Xiao, Yu and Edward Feser The Unemployment Impact of the 1993 Midwest Flood: A Quasi-experimental Structural Break Point Analysis. Presented at the Association of American 3

4 Geographers, February 24-28, New York, NY. Xiao, Yu and Uttara Nilawar Winners and losers in space: Analyzing spatial demand shift after natural disasters. Presented at the 58 th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and 2 nd Conference of the Regional Science Association of the Americas, November 9-12, Miami, Florida. Xiao, Yu and Walter Gillis Peacock Business Disaster Preparedness: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Ike. Poster presented at the ACSP 2011 Annual Conference, October 13-16, Salt Lake City, Utah. Xiao, Yu Growth, Urbanization, and Vulnerability to Natural Hazards: A Case Study of United States. Presented at the 5th International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference, June 17-19, 2011, Beijing, China. Olshansky, Robert, Yu Xiao, Yang Zhang, Yan Song, Laurie Johnson Intergovernmental Management of Recovery Following Catastrophic Disasters: The Case of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake. Presented at the 5th International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference, June 17-19, Beijing, China. Xiao, Yu, Shannon Van Zandt, Wesley Highfield, Walter Gillis Peacock, and Samuel Brody Community Recovery and Resilience after Disaster: Links between Jobs and Household Recovery. Presented at the 2010 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting at Washington, DC (April 14-18). Xiao, Yu Hurricanes and the Louisiana Economy. Presented at the 49th Western Regional Science Association Conference at Sedona, Arizona (February 21-24). Xiao, Yu, Jun Wan, and Geoffrey Hewings Flooding and the Midwest Economy: Assessing the Midwest Floods of 1993 and Presented at the 56th North American Regional Science Association International Conference, at San Francisco, California (November 18-21) Van Zandt, Shannon, Walter Peacock, Wesley Highfield, and Yu Xiao Housing Inequalities and Social Vulnerability to Natural Disasters: Findings from 2008 s Hurricane Ike. Presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 50th Anniversary Conference, at Crystal City, Virginia (October 1-4) Xiao, Yu Economic Impact of Hurricanes: A Comparative Study of Katrina/Rita and Ike. Presented at the International Research Committee on Disasters Researchers Meeting, at Broomfield, Colorado (July 18-10) Xiao, Yu Local Economic Impact of Disasters. Presented at the Western Regional Science Association Annual Conference, at Napa, California (February 22-25) Xiao, Yu Community Economic Adjustment, Post-disaster Mitigation, and Long-term 4

5 Economic Recovery. Poster presented at the Annual Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, at Broomfield, Colorado (July 12-15) Xiao, Yu Community Economic Adjustment after Major Disasters: Framework and Analysis. Paper presented at the ACSP-AESOP Joint Congress Conference, at Chicago, Illinois (July 8-11) Edwards, Mary and Yu Xiao Annexation: a route to municipal efficiency? Paper presented at the ACSP-AESOP Joint Congress Conference, at Chicago, Illinois (July 8-11) Xiao, Yu and Edward Feser The unemployment impact of the 1993 Midwest flood: A quasi-experimental intervention analysis. Paper presented at the Southern Regional Science Association Conference, at Washington D.C. (March 27-29) Xiao, Yu and Edward Feser The unemployment impact of the 1993 Midwest flood: A quasi-experimental intervention analysis. Paper presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin (October 18-21) NON-PEER-REVIEWED PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS Xiao, Yu. (Paper with Shannon Van Zandt) Building Community Resiliency: Spatial Links between Households and Businesses in Post-Disaster Recovery. Presented at Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas (October 21). Xiao, Yu Post-Wenchuan Earthquake Recovery Research: Policy and Urban Design. Presented for the University of Washington-Sichuan University Urban-Rural Integration Experiencing Team, Sichuan University, China (July 19). Xiao, Yu (with Yang Zhang) Hazard Risk Management. Keynote speaker for the Third Youth Leadership Social Development Summer Camp, Southwest University of Finance and Economics, China (July 9). Xiao, Yu Business Recovery after Hurricane Ike. Presented at Rice University, Houston, Texas (March 25). Xiao, Yu Economic Impacts of Hurricanes: Understanding Labor Market Adjustment When Facing the Unexpected. Presented at the Regional Research Institute Seminars, West Virginia University (March 18). Xiao, Yu Role of Businesses in Hazard Reduction and Recovery. Presented in an invited talk at Beijing University, China on Hazard Reduction and Recovery Social Science and Policy Making in the United States (October 20). Xiao, Yu Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters and Trajectories of Adjustment. Presented at Resilience in the 21st Century Hazard Reduction& Recovery Center 20th 5

6 Anniversary Celebration, at College Station, Texas (January 31) Xiao, Yu Modeling land use evolution and assessing its impacts, China Center for Economic Research, Beijing University REVIEWER FOR JOURNALS Regional Studies Applied Geography Earthquake Spectra Environmental Hazards Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management Natural Hazard Review Disasters Australasian Journal of Regional Studies Growth and Change The Annals of Regional Science International Journal of Disaster Risk Science The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance COURSES TAUGHT Undergraduate-level: Analytical Planning Research Method (Spring 2007 and Spring 2008) Structure and Function of Cities and Regions (Spring 2009, Summer 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, and Spring 2012) Plan/Policy Implementation (Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, and Spring 2012) Graduate-level: Regional Economic Development (Spring 2010) Structure and Function of Urban Settlements (Fall 2009, Fall 2011, and Fall 2012) Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Recovery (Fall 2009, Fall 2011, and Fall 2012) Directed Study on Economic Vulnerability and Resiliency (Spring 2011) Directed Study on Sustainable Economic Development (Fall 2011) 6