Research direction: Urban Design, Urban Morphology

Cao Jun, Lecturer and postgraduate advisor in Department of Architecture, Deputy Secretary-General of Student Affairs Committee of Architectural Society of China(SAC-ASC), is Double-Innovation Doctor of Jiangsu Province. He also has experience as a visiting scholar in the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR), and an officer in the Ministry of Education, People's Republic of China.

His research focuses on quantitative morphological studies and their applications in urban design and architecture design. He has presided over the Youth Project of National Natural Science Foundation and participated in multiple province-ministerial level research projects. He is the author of the monographForm & Pattern: Large-Scale Modeling and Analysis of Urban Typo-Morphologyand the translator of Professor Jonathan Barnett’s monographImplementing Urban Design: Green, Civic, and Community Strategies. He has published over ten papers in journals such asArchitectural JournalandFrontiers of Architectural Researchetc, while holds six national and international invention patents. He has carried out design practice in cities of Erdos, Dalian, Dengfeng, Wuhu, and Fenyi etc, earning him accolades including the Second Prize of the National Excellent Urban and Rural Planning Design Awards, the First Prize of Jiangsu Provincial Territorial Spatial Planning, and the Architectural Creativity Award of Jiangsu Civil and Architectural Engineering Society.

Committed to integrating professional education with ideological and political education, he keeps, in an extensive context, mentoring students who have achieved national and provincial honors, like national Silver Award in the Challenge Cup and Top 100 Summer Practice, provincial Best Party Day Activity Award and Advanced Class Collective recognition etc.