Wang Yi，Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Execuitive Director of Architecture Department at College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University. He is also Executive Director of Sino-Us Ecological Urban Design Joint Lab co-founded by Tongji and Georgia Tech, and Director of Urban Design Branch of China Architecture Society.His teaching and research is focused on theory of urban forms, and ecological urbanism. His research writings and and prize-winning design works have been widely published. He has been the DAAD scholar teaching contemporary Chinese urbanism at TU Berlin in 2006, and a visiting scholar at MIT of Technology from 2010 to 2011.