Aaron He

Aaron He is a Master in City Planning Candidate at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Aaron received a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and a Minor in City Planning from UC Berkeley, where he explored the science behind climate change and studied the importance of sustainable development. 

With three years of professional urban design experience, Aaron approaches planning from both engineering and architecture perspectives, solving complicated terrains for master plans while emphasizing human-scale elements. In the City Design and Development program, Aaron explores a set of design criteria that prioritises function, sensibility and equity, realizing creative solutions, informed by planning theory and data analyses, that address the interests of all stake-holding groups.

Aaron served on the Richmond (CA) Planning Commission to review and deliberate development projects and advise the City Council on planning decisions.