Dr Yuan Chao Awarded NUS Presidential Young Professorship

Congratulations to Dr. Yuan for winning NUS Presidential Young Professorship, making him the first Presidential Young Professor at the Department of Architecture. Dr. Yuan’s research interests focus on climate-sensitive urban planning and design for sustainable, resilient cities. His research topics cover urban wind environment, traffic-related and transboundary air pollution, anthropogenic heat, passive cooling technologies, and urban greenery. His goal is to support and develop practical planning and design in real life.

Dr. Yuan currently leads his research team – in collaboration with ETH Zurich and Massachusetts Institute of Technology – to conduct several studies on urban climate and future resilience for high density cities. He had previously participated in several key policy-level research projects commissioned by the government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Dr Yuan’s work has been published in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals, book chapter, as well as a self-authored book, titled Urban Wind Environment – Integrated Climate-Sensitive Planning and Design, by Springer Nature.