Jianping SunJianping Sun, Professor and Doctoral supervisor, is Dean of Institute for Urban Risk Management (URMI) at Tongji University. He has extensive management and administrative experience in the fields of urban planning and construction, and the operation of public transit systems and facility operations. His recent research focuses on theoretical applications in urban risk management, systemic innovations, and various informatic system applications.
His major research accomplishments include: (1) serving as the principal project director for Approaches and Strategies on Improvement of the Comprehensive Emergency Management in the Metropolitans, funded by the National Social Science Fund; (2) participating in the Key High -precision Positioning Technology and Its Application in Active Traffic Safety and Maintenance and Construction Work Safety Risk Prevention and Control Technology in Highways and Urban Expressways, a project that earned him the first place in the Shanghai Science and technological Progress Award and the first place in the Science and Technological Progress Award by Shanghai Traffic Engineering Society respectively.

He is the Executive Editor in Chief for the Series in Urban Risk Management, a publication project sponsored by the National Key Publications Project and the National Publication Foundation. The series include such works as An Introduction to Urban Safety Prevention and Control and Risk Management in Construction Quality and Safety. He has also authored the edited volume, entitled the Operating Safety Development Report of Shanghai, a blue book that provides the first "physical check-up" for Shanghai's urban safety management and has attracted wide attention among government agencies and policy makers. Read More Read Less