Xiongbing Jin is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the School of Planning, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo. He is the lead developer of the agent-based WAterloo Regional Model (WARM) which aims to simulate the relationships between residential location decisions, trip choices and landscape management, and how these decisions are influenced by urban infrastructure and policies. Xiongbing has previously worked on agent-based models of forest ecosystems and land use/transportation systems. He received his PhD in 2010 from Memorial University of Newfoundland.