Yuming Fu is an economist with a teaching and research focus on the workings of cities and policies that enable cities to succeed. His research has contributed to a better understanding of housing choices by households, real estate market price discovery, urban land market efficiency, and labor mobility and resource allocation between cities. His research has been published in top academic journals in the fields of real estate, urban economics, and urban planning, as well as in general journals such as Management Science and American Economic Review. He also contributed to housing and urban policy analysis and advisory for government agencies in China, Hong Kong, and Singapore. His current research centers around emerging urban issues and their urban planning and policy implications, including adaptation to climate and technology changes, social interactions and well-being, and urban success as a problem of organised complexity.

Yuming holds joint appointments as an associate professor at the Department of Architecture, College of Design and Engineering, and the Department of Real Estate, NUS Business School. He is on the University Research Committee Expert Panel. He served as vice dean for research at the School of Design and Environment from 2010 to 2016 after stepping down as the acting director of the NUS Institute of Real Estate Studies. His research leadership experience enabled him to develop a broader perspective on urban challenges and collaborate effectively with scholars in different fields to tackle these challenges.

Yuming received his Ph.D. in urban land economics and MSc in management science from the University of British Columbia and BEng from Shanghai Jiaotong University. He was twice elected to the board of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) and a long-time board member of the Asian Real Estate Society. He is an editorial board member of the AREUEA journal, Real Estate Economics, and the Journal of Real Estate Research of the American Real Estate Society. He was a visiting fellow of Peking University-Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy. A winner of the AREUEA-Homer Hoyt Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, he was elected a Hoyt Academic Fellow of the Hoyt Institute Weimer School in 2013.