Brian Stone teaches in the areas of urban environmental management and integrated land use and transportation planning. Stone holds degrees in environmental management and planning from Duke University and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Stone's program of research is focused on the spatial drivers of urban environmental phenomena, with an emphasis on land use and climate change, and is supported through funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Forest Service, among other funding institutions. Prior to joining the Tech faculty in 2005, Stone taught in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked as a planning consultant and served on the board of a number of non-profit organizations, including the Partnership for a Smog Free Georgia, the UW Aldo Leopold Arboretum, and the Olmsted Linear Park Alliance. Stone's work on land use and climate change recently has been featured on CNN, CBS, National Public Radio, and in print media outlets such as Forbes Magazine and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.