{"id":15,"date":"2023-11-28T00:50:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T00:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/xiangxie\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2024-11-07T14:58:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T14:58:51","slug":"projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/xiangxie\/projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects and fundings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Current fundings<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Royal Society Research Grant: <strong>Integrating Drone and BIM for Automated Visual Inspection in Utility Tunnels<\/strong>, \u00a320k, 2024-2025, PI.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Horizon Europe<\/em>: <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/wilson-project.eu\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wilson-project.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WILSON-Distributed data modelling and Federated Digital Twinning for lifecycle data-driven sustainable operation and management of buildings and districts<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, \u00a3613k (\u20ac5 million in total), 2024-2028, Co-I.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Royal Society International Exchange Scheme<\/em>: <strong><em>Demand Flexibility Modelling and Optimal Scheduling in Building Energy Systems through Plug-and-Play Appliance Integration<\/em><\/strong>, \u00a312k, 2024-2026, PI. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Innovate UK<\/em>: <strong><em>Aquila: a novel AI Digital Twin tool for Construction Sites<\/em><\/strong>, \u00a3135k, 2024-2025, Co-I. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP)<\/em>: <strong><em>Knowledge-based engineering and Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA) in Industrialised construction<\/em><\/strong> (with Merit Holdings LTD.), \u00a3409k, 2024-2026, Co-I and KTP associate supervisor. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>1851 Royal Commission<\/em>: <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/xiangxie\/selfprogramming-agi\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/xiangxie\/selfprogramming-agi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Integrating Self-programming Artificial General Intelligence in UK Clean Air Zones Using Large Language Models<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, \u00a3100k, 2024-2025, PI.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>EPSRC-DfT<\/em>:&nbsp;<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/press\/articles\/latest\/2023\/09\/cleanmaritimeresearchhub\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/press\/articles\/latest\/2023\/09\/cleanmaritimeresearchhub\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UK National Clean Maritime Research Hub (UK-MaRes Hub)<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, \u00a3548k (\u00a37.4m in total) with additional in-kind match funding from project partners, 2023-2027, Co-I.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>Other selected projects<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><em>West Cambridge Digital Twin Research Facility<\/em><\/strong> (Funded by <em>Construction Innovation Hub through the UKRI Industrial Strategy Fund<\/em>, 2019-2022): establish a national research facility and demonstrate how to develop a federated digital twin and its value.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><em>TwinAIR: Digital Twins Enabled Indoor Air Quality Management for Healthy Living<\/em><\/strong> (Funded by <em>Horizon Europe<\/em>, 2022-2025): develop an indoor air quality-oriented digital twin model for determining the best building operation and maintenance strategy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><em>Creating an inter-hospital resilient network for pandemic response based on blockchain and dynamic digital twins: a systems approach for now and future<\/em><\/strong> (Funded by <em>UCL CBT Project on COVID-19 and Distributed Ledger Technologies<\/em>, 2021): demonstrate the inter-hospital network to configure digital information for pandemic rapid response using blockchain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><em>Using IoT data to produce Mixed-Fidelity Building Models<\/em><\/strong> (Funded by <em>Pitch-In Mini Project Award through Research England<\/em>, 2020): establish a mix-fidelity multicomponent building energy model, leveraging sparse IoT sensors and virtual sensing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><em>Research on big data analysis and cloud service for urban drinking water network safety<\/em><\/strong> (Funded by <em>Natural Science Foundation of China<\/em>, 2016-2018): develop a data-driven approach to detect and locate the water leakages in urban water supply infrastructure. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current fundings Other selected 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