Dr. WANG Shifu is a Professor of Urban Planning and the Vice Dean of the School of Architecture at South China University of Technology. He is a member of the Discipline Review Committee of the State Council, and member of the National Steering Committee for Urban and Rural Planning Education， also member of the China Urban Planning Society. He is a planning and design master of Guangdong Province，also serves as the director of the Planning Innovation Research Center of the Guangdong- HK-Macau Greater Bay. He spent 2015-2016 as a Fulbright scholar at MIT and was a visiting scholar at KU LEUVEN in 2014. He has extensively published and practiced in the fields of Urban Design, Smart City, Heritage Conservation, and Strategic Planning.