Research direction: Urban sociology; community construction; low income population space; urban design
Wu Xiao,Doctor of engineering, director of Urban Planning Society of China (UPSC), Secretary General of Urban Regeneration Academic Committee of UPSC, director of Urban Design Branch of Architectural Society of China, member of Jiangsu Urban Regeneration Professional Committee, member of Jiangsu Urbanization and Spatial Strategy Research Professional Committee; Ministry of Education “New Century Outstanding Talent Support Scheme” Fund Recipient; Jiangsu Province “333 high profile talent fostering program” awardee; Jiangsu Province “Six Key Talent Summit” funded project awardee; Jiangsu Tertiary Education “Blue Program” Exemplary Youth Core Pedagogical Training Awardee; and Visiting scholars of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden.
Presided over and mainly undertook 6 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 3 National Science and technology support (or key research and development) projects, 1 World Bank project, and more than 10 provincial and ministerial scientific research, talent and educational reform projects; He has published more than 130 papers and 18 books & teaching materials; Won 2 second prizes of science and technology progress award of the Ministry of education, 2 Huaxia Construction Science and technology awards, and 1 outstanding achievement award of philosophy and Social Sciences Research of Jiangsu colleges and universities; He also has won the National Youth thesis Competition Award of Urban Planning Society, truth seeking theory forum and ‘Jin Jingchang’ Excellent Thesis Award of China urban planning for 6 times.
Won 4 provincial teaching achievement awards, guided undergraduates to participate in national urban planning students' homework competition and won 22 Awards; Guide postgraduates to obtain 1 provincial-level excellent dissertation and 6 university level excellent dissertations.
Participated in more than 50 major engineering projects, won 2 national excellent urban & rural planning and design awards, 19 ministerial and provincial excellent survey and Design & excellent engineering design awards (including 4 first prizes), and won nearly 20 major Project bidding (competitions).