Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2008, Professor Qizhi Mao is a distinguished Chinese urban and regional planner whose research and professional work have focused on urban design, urban infrastructure planning, and the application of emerging technologies to urban and rural planning. Born in May 1952, he received his B.Eng. in Architecture from the Department of Civil Engineering at Zhejiang University in 1982, his M.Eng. in Urban Planning from Tsinghua University in 1985, his M.Sc. in Infrastructure Planning from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1989, and his Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Design from Tsinghua University in 1997. He has pursued his academic career at Tsinghua University, where he progressed from Teaching Assistant and Lecturer to Associate Research Fellow and Professor in the School of Architecture in 1999. From 1995, he served as Deputy Director of the Institute of Architectural and Urban Studies and Deputy Director of the Center for Science of Human Settlements, and from December 2004 to January 2013, as Associate Dean of the School of Architecture. He currently serves as Professor in the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University and Director of the Department of Urban Science at the China Science Center of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences.