Prof. Perry Pei-Ju Yang is a Professor and Director of the Eco Urban Lab of the School of City and Regional Planning and Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from National Taiwan University and his master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before joining the Georgia Tech faculty, Prof. Perry Pei-Ju Yang was a Fulbright Scholar and SPURS Fellow at MIT from 1999 to 2000, and an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the National University of Singapore from 2001 to 2008. Prof. Perry Pei-Ju Yang’s work focuses on incorporating data analytics into urban design to improve the ecological and energy performance of cities. He has been awarded more than ten prizes in international competitions continuously from 2005 in Asian cities, including the 2009 World Games Park at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, a project opened in July 2009 and featured by CNN as an “eco-friendly” venue. His urban design work was introduced in the January 2010 issue of Ecological Urbanism at World Architecture (WA), a leading architecture journal by Tsinghua University. Prof. Perry Pei-Ju Yang's recent design projects were shortlisted in the 2022 Asian Games Village in Hangzhou in 2017, the Musi River Revitalization at Hyderabad in 2018, and water town designs in China’s Yangtze River Delta region in 2020-2021 during the pandemic.