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 • Interested in advancing the Knowledge-Based Engineering (KBE) and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in the construction sector
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)
- Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)
Professional experience
| Guest Editor | Sustainability – Special Issue: When Digital Meets Traditional: How Does the Built Environment Head toward Sustainability? |
| 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 |