Weijun Gao, Ph.D., is a tenured professor at the University of Kitakyushu, Japan, and an Academia Professor with Qingdao University of Technology, China. He has also been a visiting professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received his Master’s degree in Engineering from Zhejiang University and his Ph.D. in Engineering from Waseda University. Professor Gao's research interests include the science, engineering, management, and dissemination of city environment planning, distributed energy systems, building material recycling, health and environmental impacts of energy generation and use, geographic information systems, climate change (especially in urban areas), and energy forecasting.