Dr SHI Zhongming

Zhongming is principal investigator of the Building-Integrated Agriculture project and postdoctoral researcher and coordinator of the Cities Knowledge Graph project. He was most recently part of the Multi-Scale Energy Systems for Low Carbon Cities (MuSES) project at the Singapore-ETH Centre's Future Cities Laboratory, where he completed his doctoral studies for his Doctor of Sciences degree with ETH Zurich.

He obtained his Doctor of Sciences at ETH Zurich, Master of Science degree in Urban Design at Georgia Tech, Master of Architecture in Tongji University, and Bachelor of Architecture at Dalian University of Technology in China. He had also worked for the Sino-US Eco Urban Lab based both at Tongji University in Shanghai and Georgia Tech in Atlanta.

Research  

Zhongming’s doctoral research was on the topic of energy-driven urban design, which highlights the interdependencies between urban design and energy performance. Currently, he is integrating the external pageCity Energy Analystcall_made (CEA) to the broader scope of the Cities Knowledge Graph. He is also developing a use case as a project demonstrator. In the meantime, he remains a member of the CEA Development team, where his role is to maintain the interface of external pageCEA in Grasshopper/Rhinocall_made.

Awards

2015 ULI Hines Student Competition, Honourable Mention