Research direction: Healthy Building and Healthy City, Indoor/Outdoor Air Quality, Interactions between Humans and Built Environment; Holistic Indoor Environment Design and Control

Shen Yang is a professor at School of Architecture, Southeast University. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering degree from the School of Energy and Environment at Southeast University in 2013 and was subsequently admitted directly to the Ph.D. program at the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, where he earned his Ph.D. in Engineering in 2018. He then conducted postdoctoral research at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and transitioned to a researcher position in 2022. During this period, he undertook short-term academic visits to institutions such as the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) in Germany. He joined School of Architecture, Southeast University in March, 2025. He is currently engaged in Professor Cao Shijie’s Sustainable Built Environment research group (https://arch.seu.edu.cn/csj/main.htm).

His primary research focuses on Healthy Buildings and Healthy Cities, with an emphasis on mechanisms and control of indoor/outdoor air quality and interaction mechanisms between humans and the built environment. He advocates for integrating theory, technology, and design to create built environments centered on human health and comfort. He is an active member of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality. In recent years, he has led projects including the National High-Level Youth Talent Program and the EPFL Young Researcher Program. He has published 30 SCI-indexed papers, with 20 as first or corresponding author, including multiple cover articles in top-tier journals such as Environmental Science & Technology. He has served as a Young Editorial Board Member for the SCI journal Building Simulation and as a Guest Editor for Building and Environment.