Yuhan Wang

Background

Yuhan Wang is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Earth System Science at Stanford University. She holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. in Environmental Engineering and Economics from Tsinghua University. Her research focuses on air quality, climate, their interactions, and potential solutions. During her graduate studies, she also contributed to interdisciplinary research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on transportation, solar energy, and their environmental impacts.

Selected scientific contributions

Air-pollution control

• An analysis of decadal shifts in ozone chemical regimes and the benefits of location-specific emission controls (Wang et al., 2023).
• A high-resolution attribution of regional photochemical air pollution to individual source locations and emission times using an inverse-modeling framework (Wang et al., 2022).

Air quality and climate

• The identification of a previously unrecognized kinetic pathway for new-particle formation during heatwaves (Zhang et al., 2026).
• A quantification of heatwave and atmospheric-stagnation impacts on O₃–NOₓ–VOC chemistry (Wang et al., 2025).

Regional solar geoengineering (ongoing)

• Ongoing research.

Solar energy

• An assessment of the economic value of day-ahead solar forecasting, and of the costs of its errors, in the United States (Wang et al., 2022; Mills et al., 2021).

Transportation

• Work, as a developer-team member, on BEAM-CORE — a 2024 R&D 100 Award finalist — an agent-based model that enables integrated traffic, air-quality, and health-impact modeling (Poliziani et al., 2026).
• Work, as a developer-team member, on ATLAS, a household-vehicle micro-simulator for modeling transaction decisions and technology-adoption dynamics (Jin et al., 2024).

External links

• Google Scholar
• LinkedIn
• Stanford profile