Student Affiliates
Heshan Chen is an M.P.A. candidate in Environmental Science & Policy at Columbia University’s Climate School and SIPA (’26). He serves as a research assistant with the Climate School’s Building Back Better in Hatay, Türkiye project and collaborates with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory on AI-enabled environmental sensing. His work focuses on “AI-run cities” and multi-agent frameworks that fuse geospatial sensing, graph-based models, and policy analysis to improve urban climate adaptation and risk management. Before Columbia, Heshan earned dual B.S. degrees in Computer Engineering (AI/ML concentration) and Film & Television Production from Boston University