Gerhard Schmitt is Professor Emeritus of Information Architecture at ETH Zurich and was the Founding Director of the Singapore-ETH Centre, established by ETH and the Singapore National Research Foundation. In Zürich and Singapore, he initiated interdisciplinary teams in urban sustainability, liveability, resilience, and health, through the research programs Future Cities Laboratory, Future Resilient Systems, Future Health Technology, and Cooling Singapore. He was the Lead Principal Investigator of Cooling Singapore, mitigating the urban heat island effect; and of the Big Data Informed Urban Design and Governance project. After moving from Carnegie Mellon University to ETH Zürich, he became Chair of Computer Aided Architectural Design and later of Information Architecture. As Vice President of ETH Zürich, he initiated the ETH World Virtual Campus and the ETH Science City project. In teaching, he and his team developed and taught the first Massive Open Online Course series on Future Cities, Smart Cities, Liveable Cities, and Responsive Cities for more than 180’000 inscribed students in 180 countries. His research focuses on AI supported Architectural and Urban Design. He is developing the concept of Citizen Design Science and Generative Cities with citizens in Singapore, Porto Alegre in Brazil, and Einsiedeln in Switzerland. At Harvard University, he was guest professor and later Chairman of the Graduate School of Design Visiting Committee. He serves as member of the Scientific Advisory Board and External Faculty of the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna. He is president of the Scientific Advisory Board of UniDistance Suisse.