# Yaxin Cao

> Landscape Designer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yaxincao

## Work Experience
### Landscape Designer @ SWA Group
Jan 2021 – Present | Sausalito, California, United States

### Guest Lecturer @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Berkeley, California, United States
College of Environmental Design (CED) - LDARCH 120: Topographic Form and Design Technology

- Presented parametric design tools for grading design and analysis.
- Covered computational approaches to terrain modeling and performance-driven design.

### Landscape Designer @ PLAT Studio
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States

### Teaching Assistant @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Courses Taught:

- LARP 543 Media III: Landscape & Digital Dynamics (worked with Keith VanDerSys)
- LARP 544 Media IV: Trends & Trajectories (worked with Michael Luegering)
- IPD 514 Product Design (worked with Taylor C. Caputo)

(Instructed sophomore students in design thinking and provided hands-on training with software such as Rhino, Grasshopper, and ArcGIS.)

### Urban Design Intern @ !melk landscape architecture & urban design
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New York, United States

### Architectural Intern @ Zeybekoglu Nayman Associates
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Shanghai, China


## Education
### Master's degree in Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning
University of Pennsylvania

### Integrated Product Design (IPD)
The Wharton School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yaxin-cao

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Last updated: 2026-04-13