Wentao Wu is currently a Senior Lecturer Above the Bar at the University of Canterbury. He had worked at Harvard University for two years as a postdoctoral researcher. Prior to UC, he was a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Tennessee State University. He received five grants (National Science Foundation, DHUD, DOE) in his first year at Tennessee State University. He received his Ph.D. in engineering from Aarhus University, Denmark. He worked in the Danish industry for a couple of years. Then, he returned to academia and undertook his first postdoctoral research project at ETH Zurich. His research focuses on energy storage, renewable energy, building simulation, HVAC, CFD, and low-carbon building technologies.