The University of Macau (UM) today (22 April) held the fifth lecture of the UM Scholar Research Forum series titled ‘Urban Underground Space and Big Data’. Zhou Wanhuan, head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and professor of geotechnical engineering in the Faculty of Science and Technology, who is also a coordinator of the State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City, was the keynote speaker. The event combined both online and in-person elements and attracted a full-house audience.
In the spatial urbanisation system, the utilisation of underground space resources is a global, multi-factor, and three-dimensional process and has become the top priority of urban sustainable development. During the talk, Prof Zhou introduced two underground space development technologies, namely shield tunneling and immersed tunneling, as well as the latest research topics and hotspots of interdisciplinary innovation. Drawing examples from real-world engineering cases, the speaker also discussed the recent research progress in the physical mechanism and the applications of big data analysis in tunneling carried out by her research group at UM.
Prof Zhou joined UM in 2009 after obtaining a PhD degree from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2008. She has undertaken multiple projects with scientific research grants provided by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province, and the Science and Technology Development Fund of Macao. She has also published more than 100 papers in SCI-indexed interdisciplinary journals in geotechnical engineering and civil engineering. In 2020, she was named a recipient of the National Natural Science Foundation of China Excellent Youth Scientists Fund (Hong Kong and Macau).
Source: Research Services and Knowledge Transfer Office
澳門大學今（22）日於大學展館演講廳舉行“澳大學人研究講壇”第5講，由澳大科技學院土木及環境工程系主任、澳大智慧城市物聯網國家重點實驗室骨幹成員周萬歡教授以“城市地下空間與大數據”為題發表演説。講座現場座無虛席，亦同時有多所中學師生透過視訊在線參與論壇。
隨著國土空間規劃體系的建立，全域、多要素、立體地看待地下空間資源的利用是城市可持續發展的重中之重。周萬歡從岩土工程專業角度出發，用通俗易懂的方式介紹盾構隧道和沉管隧道兩種地下空間開發技術的發展，最新的研究和學科交叉技術創新熱點，並且結合工程實例介紹澳大科研小組開展的理論及大數據分析技術研發課題的進展。參與觀衆反響熱烈，積極提問討論並與講者交流互動，表達出對城市地下空間的濃厚興趣。
周萬歡於2008年獲得香港理工大學博士學位並於2009年加入澳門大學。承擔科技部、國家自然科學基金、澳門科學技術發展基金、廣東省科學技術廳等多項科研基金，其研究成果在岩土工程及土木工程學科交叉類期刊共發表SCI論文100餘篇，並於2020年獲批國家自然科學基金優秀青年科學基金（港澳）。
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Prof Zhou Wanhuan 周萬歡教授