Dr. Chong Xu earned her Bachelor of Architecture from Qingdao University of Technology in 2007, followed by a Master of Architecture from Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany in 2010. She also completed her Master of Architecture from Qingdao University of Technology in 2011, and a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Kitakyushu, Japan in 2022. Dr. Xu served as a Lecturer at Qingdao University of Technology from 2011 to 2021, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021. Her research spans Architectural Design and Theory, Digital Design, and Urban Planning. She has led significant projects, such as the Shandong Province Natural Science Foundation project on non-standard architectural generation techniques, and published in journals like Sustainability, focusing on traditional pattern morphological generation in architectural design. Dr. Xu was awarded the First Prize of the Ninth Teaching Achievement Award by Shandong Provincial Department of Education in 2022, reflecting her commitment to architectural education and innovation.