Jiawei Yao

Dr. Jiawei Yao is an associate professor at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, and he received his Master and Ph.D degree in the University of Nottingham, UK. His main research interest is in performance-based building digital design. Currently, he is the deputy director of the Shanghai Engineering Research Center for Digital Construction of Buildings, a member of the Professional Committee of Computational Design of the Architectural Society of China, and the deputy secretary-general of the Digital Architecture Branch of the Architectural Society of Shanghai. He has presided over 3 projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2 provincial and ministerial level research projects, and published more than 50 papers in Chinese and English based on the innovative research results of the theory, methodology and tools of “Intelligent Design for Green and Low Carbon Buildings”, as well as the book “Environmental Artificial Intelligence in Design” (ISBN 978-7-5765-0996-0).