Prof. Xing Shi currently works as a Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, and Vice Dean at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, China. He is also the Director of the Key Laboratory of Ecology and Energy Saving Study of Dense Habitat (Tongji University), Ministry of Education, and the Vice Chairman of the Building Physics Branch of the Architectural Society of China. In 1998, he graduated from the Department of Architectural Engineering of Tongji University. In 2000, he went to the USA to study for a doctorate in architectural technology science at Pennsylvania State University. After obtaining his doctorate in 2005, he joined Walter P Moore, a building structure design and consulting company headquartered in Houston, USA, to engage in design, consulting, and scientific research. His main research directions are urban building energy consumption simulation, urban microclimate, green building performance and its optimization design.