Dr Shuyang Yang is an AuSpire Postdoctoral Fellow at RMIT Europe. He holds a PhD from China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), where his doctoral research focused on urban regeneration, the renewal of existing residential communities and community-oriented sustainable development.

His research interests span urban regeneration, regenerative design, sustainable built environments, community development and performance evaluation. His work combines qualitative and quantitative approaches to understand how built-environment interventions can generate environmental, social and community benefits. In AuSpire, his research focuses on developing and applying regenerative design impact metrics for the built environment and industrial food systems, with a particular interest in connecting performance evidence, assessment metrics and decision-making to support regenerative outcomes in practice.