Prof. Hongyang Li is the Associate Dean of Business School at Hohai University and a professor in the Department of Engineering Economics and Engineering Management. He is also a Jiangsu Province Innovation and Entrepreneurship Talent in 2021, Jiangsu Province Social Science Excellent Youth in 2020, etc. He holds a bachelor's degree from Beijing Jiaotong University, a master's degree from Loughborough University in the UK, and a doctorate from the University of Hong Kong. He has served as a research assistant at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a research assistant at the University of Hong Kong, and a lecturer and an associate professor at the South China University of Technology. His research areas include sustainable construction, healthy habitat and smart city, and participatory multi-objective decision-making, evaluation, and optimization.