Alex Shi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Real Estate and Construction of the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR; Deputy Director of surveying undergraduate program; Fellow of HKU Urban System Institute, and Fellow of HKU Real Estate Lab. His main research interests include corporate networks and urban economic growth; venture capital and urban entrepreneurship; startup development and the built environment; climate change and land market. He has led several research grants funded by the Hong Kong University Grants Committee, National Natural Science Foundation of China, and HKU.