Jianping 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 operations 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.