Associate Professor Perry Yang, Ph.D.
Ph.D., National Taiwan University
M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.Sc. National Taiwan University
B.Sc., National Taiwan University
Perry Yang is an Associate Professor, jointly appointed to the City and Regional Planning and Architecture Programs in the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech. He received his academic degrees from National Taiwan University (PhD, MSc and BSc) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS). In 1999, he was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship and became the SPURS Fellow of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT from 1999 to 2001. After that, he joined the National University of Singapore as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture from 2001 to 2008 and as the leader of the Urban Studies Group for the coordination of research activities from 2001 to 2005. Perry’s professional practice and teaching focus on sustainable design and development in urban settings. Since 1998, he has been awarded several prizes in urban design competitions. The recent awards include the 1st prize in international competitions of the 2009 World Games Park at Kaohsiung City of Taiwanin 2005, the Eco-city design at Maluan Bay in one of China's most important port cities, Xiamen, in 2007, and the international competition of Suidong Bay Urban Design at Guangdong China in 2008. Since 2001, he has published more than 50 journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, reviews and design works that are related to issues of sustainability, ecological planning, and design in urban environments. He is on the editorial boards of two academic journals, Progress in Industrial Ecology and Modern Urban Research. In January 2007, he was appointed as a board member of the International Urban Planning and Environment Association (UPE), an international academic community with a special interest in sustainable urban development.