Director of Urban Technologies & Planning, Head of Sasaki Strategies
Sasaki
Siqi is an urban planner, technologist, and strategic designer who seamlessly integrates cities and technologies as dual focal points in his practice. With a strategic design mindset, he applies a creative combination of place-, community-, and technology-based solutions to complex, systemic urban challenges, such as climate change, infrastructural renewal, equitable development, and technological disruptions.
As a partner at Sasaki’s NYC office, Siqi leads the firm’s civic planning and Urban Technology practice areas. He also heads Sasaki Strategies, a team focused on technology innovation, data science, and research and prototyping. His recent projects include a pioneering Technology Action Plan for Great Rivers Greenways in St. Louis, where he guided the organization’s technology investments to advance socioeconomic equity, and a community-driven master plan in Akron aimed at addressing the historical and racialized impacts of a major Urban Renewal-era highway. Siqi also spearheads Sasaki’s digital product development efforts, including Carbon Conscience, a tool for quantifying the embodied carbon impact of planning decisions, and Dashi, a digital twin platform designed to accelerate the implementation of complex capital and decarbonization programs.
Before joining Sasaki, Siqi worked as Director of Planning and Project Delivery at Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs, where he oversaw key aspects of the Quayside development and technology incubation programs. He serves as a board member of Urban Design Forum, and is a lecturer at Harvard’s Master of Design Engineering program, where he mentors students in developing mission-driven new technology applications.
Director of Urban Technologies & Planning, Head of Sasaki Strategies
Sasaki
Siqi is an urban planner, technologist, and strategic designer who seamlessly integrates cities and technologies as dual focal points in his practice. With a strategic design mindset, he applies a creative combination of place-, community-, and technology-based solutions to complex, systemic urban challenges, such as climate change, infrastructural renewal, equitable development, and technological disruptions.
As a partner at Sasaki’s NYC office, Siqi leads the firm’s civic planning and Urban Technology practice areas. He also heads Sasaki Strategies, a team focused on technology innovation, data science, and research and prototyping. His recent projects include a pioneering Technology Action Plan for Great Rivers Greenways in St. Louis, where he guided the organization’s technology investments to advance socioeconomic equity, and a community-driven master plan in Akron aimed at addressing the historical and racialized impacts of a major Urban Renewal-era highway. Siqi also spearheads Sasaki’s digital product development efforts, including Carbon Conscience, a tool for quantifying the embodied carbon impact of planning decisions, and Dashi, a digital twin platform designed to accelerate the implementation of complex capital and decarbonization programs.
Before joining Sasaki, Siqi worked as Director of Planning and Project Delivery at Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs, where he oversaw key aspects of the Quayside development and technology incubation programs. He serves as a board member of Urban Design Forum, and is a lecturer at Harvard’s Master of Design Engineering program, where he mentors students in developing mission-driven new technology applications.
