Jian Kang is a Professor at the Bartlett Faculty of Built Environment, University College London.  He is a Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, and a Member of Academia Europaea - The Academy of Europe. His specialist research area is architectural and environmental acoustics, with 80+ research projects, 800+ publications, and 90+ engineering/consultancy projects. He is President of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV), and he also chairs the European Acoustics Association Technical Committee for Noise. He has been a full professor since 2003, with teaching experience across engineering and architecture, at UCL, Sheffield, and Cambridge in the UK, and at Tsinghua, Tianjin University and Harbin Institute of Technology in China.