Perry Yang is an Associate Professor jointly appointed to School of City and Regional Planning and School of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was recently appointed the Bayer Chair Professor based on Bayer group’s endowment of US$ 1,000,000 to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)- Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development (IESD) in Shanghai from 2014 to 2016. He co-directs the Sino–U.S. Eco Urban Lab at Georgia Tech and Tongji University. Perry’s work focuses on promoting the ecological performance of cities through urban design.He has been awarded prizes in international competitions including the 2009 World Games Park at Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 2005, a project opened in July 2009 and featured by CNN as “an eco-friendly venue”. His urban design was published in the January 2010 issue Ecological Urbanism at WA (World Architecture), a leading architectural journal by Tsinghua University.