Research direction: Walkable City; Urban Regeneration; Urban Regeneration Potential Assessment and Evaluation; Urban Planning and Design; Characteristic Villages and Towns

Ge Tianyang is a lecturer at the School of Architecture, Southeast University, and also serves as an expert of the International Viser Expert Pool, secretary of the Urban Renewal Branch of the China Society of Urban Planning, member of the Urban Renewal Committee of the Jiangsu Urban Planning Research Society, and community planner of the Suzhou National Historic and Cultural City Reserve. His research interests include: Walkable City; Urban Regeneration; Urban Regeneration Potential Assessment and Evaluation; Urban Planning and Design; Characteristic Villages and Towns.

Engaged in urban planning and design research and practice, he has won 23 awards in the engineering design category, including 4 National Outstanding Urban Planning and Design Awards, 1 Ministry of Education Outstanding Planning and Design Award, 6 Jiangsu Provincial Outstanding Engineering Design Awards, 8 Jiangsu Provincial Urban and Rural Construction System Outstanding Survey and Design Awards, 1 Creative Writing Award of the Civil Engineering and Architectural Society of Jiangsu Province, 2 Jiangsu Provincial Outstanding Territorial Spatial Planning Awards, and 1 Jiangsu Outstanding Urban and Rural Planning Award. Project.

Presided over 1 project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, presided over 1 sub-topic of National Key Research and Development Programme Project, and participated in many projects of various funds. He has published the monograph Pedestrian City: Urban Centre Renewal Practice and the translation The Pedestrian and the City. Participated in the compilation of the group standard Technical Guidelines for the Delineation of Urban Renewal Areas and Regional Guidelines on Spatial Gene Inheritance and Planning Guidelines for Characteristic Villages and Towns Part 5: Huizhou Hilly Areas. He has published 30 papers in the domestic and international journals such as Urban Planning Review, Chinese Landscape Architecture,  Urban Planning International  and Land.

He teaches national first-class undergraduate course Urban Planning and Design, presides over the second-year course Architectural Design, teaches undergraduate courses Introduction to Urban Design, Conservation and Planning of Historic Cities and Towns and Introduction to Urban and Rural Planning; and teaches postgraduate courses Urban Planning and Design and Conservation and Planning of Historic Cities. Undertook one theme case project of the Ministry of Education. He has won one outstanding instructor award of China Habitat Design Annual Award, one first prize and one third prize of Jiangsu Province Universities Micro-teaching Competition. Guided students to win 12 awards in international and national student competitions.