Name: Zhang Jiaxin  

Position/Title: Lecturer; Deputy Director (Cultivation) of the Provincial-Ministerial Co-construction and Domestic Cooperation Office, Nanchang University; Supervisor for Master of Industrial Design Engineering  

Education Background:  

- Bachelor of Architecture, Nanchang University  

- Master of Architecture, Southeast University  

- Ph.D. in Computer-Aided Design, Osaka University  

- Visiting Researcher, Fukuda Lab, Graduate School of Environmental Engineering, Osaka University  

Email: jiaxin.arch@ncu.edu.cn  

Research Interests: Computer-Aided Design, Participatory Community Renewal, Visual Large Models, Intelligent Creative Design  

Courses Taught: *Digital Methods for Architectural Research*, *Urban Sociology*, *Fundamentals of Architectural Design 1*, etc.  

Teaching Achievements:  

- Supervised students to win the Second Prize in the National City Wall Cup, the First Prize in the National Final of the Future Designer National College Digital Art Design Competition, and the First Prize in the Spatial Design Category of the China Good Creativity & National Digital Art Design Competition.  

- Led the Ministry of Education’s Industry-University Cooperative Education Project: *Research on the Construction and Optimization of an AI-Generated Content (AIGC)-Based "Human-Machine-Human" Interactive Architectural Design Teaching Model*.  

Academic Achievements:  

- Principal investigator for projects including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the General Project for Humanities and Social Sciences in Jiangxi Universities (Youth), and the Young Talent Cultivation and Innovation Fund for Philosophy and Social Sciences at Nanchang University.  

- Published multiple papers as the first author or corresponding author in journals such as *Cities*, *Heritage Science*, *Advanced Engineering Informatics*, *Ecological Indicators*, and *New Architecture*, including one ESI Highly Cited Paper.  

- Awarded the Bronze Prize in the Architectural Design Category at the 2017 Third Annual Conference on Human Settlement Environment Design Education and Academic Year Award.  

- Received the 21st Maeda Engineering Promotion Foundation’s "Kazuya Yamada Award" in 2024 (www.maedakksz.or.jp/prize/#winner-y), recognizing outstanding doctoral dissertations.  

Academic Appointments:  

- Academic Committee Member, World Eco-Design Conference (WEDC)  

- Senior Reviewer, Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA)  

- Reviewer for renowned journals such as *Cities*, *Geo-spatial Information Science*, and *npj Heritage Science*

• 2019-10-2022-09 Osaka University
• 2016-09-2019-06 Southeast University
• 2011-09-2016-06 Nanchang University

• [1]General Humanities and Social Sciences Project (Youth) for Universities in Jiangxi Province (Grant No. JC24203)
• [2]National Natural Science Foundation of China (52568010)