Tao Wu, an associate professor, is a teacher in the Landscape Architecture Department of the College of Horticulture. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Connecticut in the United States. His main research areas include climate change adaptation and resilience planning, sustainable environmental landscape design, landscapes for health and healing garden. She teaches courses for master's students such as "Landscape Architecture Planning and Design" and "Landscape Architecture Engineering and Technology", for doctoral students such as "Frontiers of Landscape Architecture", and for undergraduate students such as "Park Planning and Design" and "Landscape Green Space Design". She led the project "Plant Application and Technology" of the full-time professional degree graduate courses at Nanjing Agricultural University, which was rated as excellent by the university. She also led the scientific research project of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development titled "Dynamic Monitoring of Carbon Sinks in Urban Green Spaces and Optimization of Green Space Spatial Patterns Based on Digital Technology", participated in several domestic and international projects such as the "Connecticut State Coastal Resilience and Climate Adaptation Study" by the Connecticut Department of Housing, and the "Urban Wetland Restoration Technology Promotion Research" by the Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture, and published over 20 academic papers and authored 6 textbooks. She has led more than 50 practice projects of urban and rural planning and design  and received multiple awards such as the Science and Technology Award of the Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture, the Excellent Design Awards of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the Nanjing Municipal Construction Commission.