Research direction:（1）Urban Design and its Theory (Green Urban Design, Low Carbon City and Urban Energy)  （2）Architectural Design and its Theory  （3）The Protection & Utilization and Modern Construction of Traditional Villages

Xu Xiaodong, PhD holder, Professor, and Supervisor of doctorate students, is currently the Secretary of the Party Branch and Deputy Dean of the Department of Architecture of Southeast University. He is also the Vice-Chairman of the Technical Committee on Digital Heritage of the national Architecture Institute of China, the Director of the Institute of Urban Design， Architectural Society of China, the Director of Institute of Underground Space, Architectural Society of China, and the Member of China Green Building and Energy Saving Committee, etc. He is also the Editorial Board Member of several international journals. He has visited Lawrence National Laboratory and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

He has been mainly engaged in teaching, scientific research, and practical creation of architectural design and urban design for a long time. He has presided over one project under the National Science and Technology Support Program of the 12th Five-Year Plan, one project under the National Key Program of the 13th Five-Year Plan, and two projects under China's National Natural Science Foundation and participated in the completion of five projects. He has published more than 80 SCI, SSCI and Chinese core academic papers and more than ten monographs, including Green City Design and two translations. He has won more than 20 national or provincial teaching, research, and engineering design awards, including the First Prize for National Postgraduate Teaching Achievement, China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Achievement, and the First Prize of Jiangsu Province Excellent Engineering Design. He has guided students to win such honours as “Provincial Excellent Dissertation”, “Architectural and Environmental Design Competition Zijin Award”, and “China Newer” more than ten times.