UM professor receives prestigious awards at home and abroad for structural health monitoring research
澳大教授結構健康監測成果獲海內外權威研究獎項

Yan Wangji, associate professor in the State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Macau (UM), has been awarded the Junior Research Prize from the European Association for Structural Dynamics (EASD), making him the first Chinese young scholar to receive the award. The EASD jury appreciated his innovative scientific accomplishments in the areas of modal identification, Bayesian uncertainty quantification, computational dynamics and structural health monitoring. This prestigious recognition is awarded every three years to researchers who have made outstanding and sustained contributions to the field of structural dynamics. Some of Yan’s research projects were supported by the Science and Technology Development Fund of the Macao SAR.

In addition, Yan has received a second-class award in the natural science category of the Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Science and Technology) 2022 from the Ministry of Education for his involvement as the second contributor in the research project ‘Fundamental Study of Uncertainty Quantification in Health Monitoring for Civil Engineering Structures’. The project is an in-depth study on fundamental scientific issues relating to uncertainty quantification in structural health monitoring. The theoretical developments of the project have been followed by renowned research institutes, both at home and abroad, in the fields of civil, mechanical, and aerospace engineering, and have been applied to a number of important civil engineering structures.