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Prof. Chunping Miao

Chang'an University

Chunping Miao, is a Professor and PhD supervisor at the School of Architecture, Chang’an University, selected for the Shaanxi Provincial Talent Program. She serves as Executive Director of the Urban Forestry Branch of the Chinese Society of Forestry and is an Editorial Board Member for Urbanization, Sustainability and Society as well as a Youth Editorial Board Member for Journal of Chinese Urban Forestry and Chinese Journal of Ecology. She earned her B.Sc. from Yangzhou University (2006), and M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (2013, 2016), also obtaining an M.Sc. from Ben-Gurion University (2014–2016). From 2017 to 2023, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Special Research Associate at CAS, visiting the University of Florida (2022–2023). Her research focuses on urban spatial morphology and microclimate, urban forest ecosystem services, and AI for urban planning. She has led seven projects, including NSFC Key/General/Youth Fund projects. She has published 10 first/corresponding-author papers in journals like Building and Environment and holds two international invention patents and one software copyright.

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Research Prof. Lu Sun

Xi’an Jiaotong University

Lu Sun is a Distinguished Research Fellow and PhD supervisor at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He earned his Ph.D. in Environmental Systems from the University of Tokyo in 2019. He served as Assistant Researcher (2014–2016) and Researcher (2019–2021) at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University (2021). From 2020 to 2023, he was also a Visiting Lecturer at the Asian Institute of Technology. His research focuses on low-carbon cities, energy system optimization, circular economy, and big data applications in industrial decarbonization. He has led 10 research projects, including those funded by the Shaanxi Natural Science Foundation. He has published over 80 SCI papers (4 ESI Hot/Highly Cited), 2 books, with over 3,730 citations and an H-index of 35. He serves as a review expert for UNCRD and IPCC, an Editorial Board Member of Energy, and Associate Editor of Frontiers in Sustainability. He received the 2024 AIUE Best Design Award and was nominated for the 2021 Eni Award.