Yi Lu is Vice Dean of the Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction, Sichuan University-The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a doctoral supervisor at the Business School of Sichuan University. He is Principal Investigator of a major project of the National Social Science Fund, Secretary-General of the Sichuan Society of Systems Engineering, Vice President of the Chengdu Emergency Management Society, and an emergency management expert of Sichuan Province. He was a visiting scholar at King's College London and serves on the editorial board of Environmental Hazards. Lu Yi received a First-Class Grant from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation and is a reserve candidate for Sichuan's Academic and Technical Leaders. He has won the Second Prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award, the Second Prize of the Ministry of Education's Outstanding Achievement Award in Humanities and Social Sciences, and three First Prizes of the Sichuan Provincial Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award. He has led over 10 projects, including Major Projects of the National Social Science Fund, and General and Young Investigator Projects of the National Natural Science Foundation. He has published over 20 SCI/SSCI/CSSCI papers in journals such as the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable Cities and Society. His research interests include comprehensive disaster reduction, emergency management, and urban resilience.