Philip F. Yuan is the professor and doctoral supervisor of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) at Tongji University, Thomas Jefferson professor at University of Virginia (UVA, 2019), the visiting professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, 2019) and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT, 2021). He is also Editor in Chief of Architectural Intelligence. council member of UIA Professional Practice Commission (PPC). Yuan has been at the intersection of the digital and physical in both architecture and local culture in general. The buildings, projects, publications, teachings, and writings have been influential in the acceptance and use of the advance technologies germane of the computational design robotic fabrication.