Summary

Expertise in Cognitive Digital Twin, Building/City Knowledge/Information Modelling and Data-centric Engineering  •  Five years of experience in facilitating digital transformation of urban built environment, infrastructure and construction  •  Recipient of Built Environment Fellowship by the 1851 Royal Commission (2023) and Charles Manby Prize by the ICE (2024).

Career history

Oct 2022 - now     : NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY
                     Civil and Geospatial, School of Engineering
                     Academic Track (NUAcT) Fellow/Tenure Track
Nov 2018 - Sep 2022: UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
                     Asset management group, Department of Engineering
                     Centre for Smart Infrastucture and Construction
                     Centre for Digtal Built Britain
                     Postdoctral Research Associate

Education

Sep 2013 - Sep 2018: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
                     State Key Laboratory of Industrual Control Technology
                     PhD in Control Science and Technology
Sep 2009 - Jun 2013: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
                     School of Artifitial Intelligence and Automation
                     BEng in Engineering

Qualification

• Built Environment Fellow awarded by 1851 Royal Commission
• Member of Early-Career Academics and Professionals Panel (ECAPP) at Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC)
• Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Professional experience

Guest Editor	Sustainability – Special Issue: When Digital Meets Traditional: How Does the Built Environment Head toward Sustainability? Sustainability – Special Issue: Sustainable Development for Urban Built Environment
Journal reviewer	•  Automation in Construction  •  Sustainable Cities and Society  •  IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics  •  Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management •  Communications Engineering  •  Applied Science  •  Sensors  •  Sustainability  •  Energies  •  Electronics  •  Journal of Facilities Management
Technical Committee Member	•  2023 European Conference on Computing in Construction (EC3) • ASCE Construction Research Congress (ASCE CRC 2020) • 23rd International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-2021)
Conference reviewer	•  European Conference on Computing in Construction (EC3) •  11th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes (SAFEPROCESS 2022)  •  17th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing  •  4th IFAC Conference on Embedded Systems, Computational Intelligence and Telematics in Control (CESCIT 2021)  •  IFAC Workshop on Advanced Maintenance Engineering, Services and Technologies (AMEST)  •  Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2021  •  22nd International Conferences on High-Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC)  •  International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction 2019