Bio and CV

Ming Tang, Registered Architect, RA, NCARB, LEED AP, is a tenured Full Professor at the School of Architecture and Interior Design, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, University of Cincinnati. He is the Director of UC XR-Lab and leads research on Extended Reality, AI, Metaverse, and BIM-based Digital Twin.  He also serves on the board of the UC Institute for Research in Sensing (IRiS)  committee of the Industry 4.0/5.0 Institute. He is the founding partner of TYA Design. Before he taught at UC, he was the Director of the Electronic Design program and a professor in the Architecture Department at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He has worked in the M.I.N.D Lab at Michigan State University, the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California, and the China Architecture Design & Research Group. He holds a Master of Architecture Degree from Tsinghua University, a Master of Arts Degree in Digital Media and Technology from Michigan State University, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Interactive and Game Design from Savannah College of Art and Design. His multi-disciplinary research includes Virtual reality & Augmented reality, BIM-Based Digital twins, Game-based learning, Computational design, Digital fabrication, Generative and performance-driven design, Human behavior analysis, and simulation. He authored several books, including Parametric Building Design with Autodesk Maya,(Routledge) and Architectural Interventions. Design-build collaboration on the global scale, and Urban paleontology, the evolution of urban forms. His research and projects have been published and featured in various journals, books, and exhibitions.