Jiat-Hwee Chang (PhD, UC Berkeley) is Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore. He is the author of A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture: Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience (2016), which is awarded an International Planning History Society Book Prize 2018, and shortlisted for the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies Humanities Book Prize 2017. He is also co-editor (with Imran Tajudeen) of Southeast Asia's Modern Architecture: Questions in Translation, Epistemology and Power (2019) and (with William S. W. Lim) Non West Modernist Past (2011). Jiat-Hwee was recently a Manton Fellow at the Clark Art Institute, Fall 2019, and a Mellon Researcher at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2017-19. His interdisciplinary research has been funded by institutions in North America, Australia, Britain, Qatar, Cyprus, and Singapore.

At the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Jiat-Hwee researched the socio-cultural histories and techno-politics of air-conditioning and climate change in urban Asia.