Pengyuan Shen is an associate professor in the School of Architecture in Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen (HITSZ). He received his bachelor’s degree from School of Mechanical and Energy Engineering from Tongji University and his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Architecture at UPenn in 2018. He serves as an affiliate member of the Responsive Architecture Lab at the UIUC and has served as a reviewer for many of the world's top building energy journals, and has published more than twenty papers in those journals. His main research interests include building performance simulation, application and study of optimization methods, climate change impacts on buildings and future climate-resilient buildings, urban microclimate, and regional building energy modeling.