JIAYAO TANG, ASLA

Junior Associate

Growing up in China, Jiayao’s landscape design journey began when she decided to study abroad in the United States when she was 17.  Jiayao started her Bachelor of Science in landscape architecture at West Virginia University in 2013. After, she continued her education and began graduate studies at Pennsylvania State University in 2017 where she earned her master’s degree in landscape architecture. With interest in ecology and urban systems, her graduate school studies were more focused on interaction between people and ecosystems, such as how stormwater could educate different people to understand the water systems in nature.

Since receiving her bachelor’s and master’s degree in landscape architecture, Jiayao has been working on landscape projects in the San Francisco Bay Area and Shanghai of varying types and scales, including municipal gardens, residential, commercial, and public parks.

She joined McCullough’s talented team in November 2022 as a Junior Associate. Jiayao is excited because “McCullough is a place where she can explore and learn a lot from everyone and their unique skills.”

Jiayao is excellent at hand drawings and sketches, and she believes in the importance of beautiful and understandable drawings to quickly communicate design and ideas. When out of the office, Jiayao likes to go hiking, paint, and scuba dive.