Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China (2013)
Master in Civil Engineering, Central South University, China (2009)
Bachelor in Civil Engineering, Central South University, China (2006)
Professional Experience
10/2019 – present: Associate Professor, University of Macau, Macau, China.
02/2018 – 09/2019: European Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow, The University of Nottingham, UK.
12/2014 – 02/2018: Full Professor, Hefei University of Technology, China.
09/2013 – 12/2014: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.
Research Interests
Big Data Analytics for Structural Health Monitoring;
Probabilistic Deep Learning for Intelligent Non-destructive Testing;
Digital Twinning Technology for Structural Dynamical Systems;
Bayesian Inference for Highly Complicated Problems;
AI-empowered Uncertainty Quantification and Propagation;
Statistical Signal Processing;
Stochastic System Identification.
Professional Services
Editorial board member, ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering;
Editorial board member, ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering;
Advisory board member, Machine Learning for Computational Science and Engineering (Springer);
Associate editor, Frontiers in Built Environment;
Associate editor, Digital Engineering and Digital Twin;
Editorial board member, Structural Durability & Health Monitoring;
Young editorial board member, Journal of Dynamics and Control (in Chinese);
Committee Member, Technical Modal Analysis Committee of China;
Committee Member, Technical Stochastic Vibration Analysis Committee of China;
Committee Member, Chinese Young Association for Structural Control and Monitoring;
Reviewer for National Science and Technology Awards;
Reviewer for the National Natural Science Foundation of China;
Reviewer for China Postdoctoral Fellowship Foundation;
Ph.D./Master Thesis Reviewer for China Academic Degrees & Graduate Education Development Center;
Reviewer for More than 70 Journals;
Technical Committee Member,XIII International Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN), Hannover, Germany, 2026;
Technical Committee Member, International Scientific Committee at IWERSM 2023, Shanghai, China, 2023;
Technical Committee Member, The 3rd National Symposium on Vehicle-Bridge Coupling Vibration and Its Application, Changsha, China, 2023;
Technical Committee Member, The 13th National Conference on Random Vibration Theory and Application, Dalian, China, 2022;
Technical Committee Member, 8th International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management, Hannover, 2022;
Technical Committee Member, 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference, Hannover, Germany, 2019;
Technical Committee Member, 10th Asia-Pacific Young Researchers and Graduates Symposium, Australia, 2023;
Chair, session of ‘Structural Health Monitoring for Civil Infrastructure’, The 12th Cross-Strait University Faculty and Student Seminar on Monitoring and Controlling Civil Engineering, Hangzhou, August 8-10, 2024.
Chair, session of ‘Advanced Concepts for Uncertainty Quantification and Reliability Analysis in Structural Dynamics’, The First International Conference on Engineering Structures (ICES2024), Guangzhou, November 9, 2024.
Chair, session of ‘Digital Infrastructure’, The 10th National Conference on Structural Vibration Control and Health Monitoring, Xiamen, November 1-3, 2024.
Chair, session of ‘Bayesian Inference for System Identification and Structural Health Monitoring’, The 4th International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM 2024), April 25-28, 2024, Shanghai, China.
Chair, session of ‘Bayesian Inference for Structural Health Monitoring’, SVCHM-2023, Changsha, China, 12-14 May 2023.
Chair, session of ‘Vehicle load identification, Bridge weight-in-motion and Overload monitoring’, Changsha, China, 12-15 April 2023.
Chair, session of ‘Uncertainty Modelling, Quantification & Propagation in System Identification & Structural Damage Detection’, ICOSSAR-2022, Shanghai, China, 13-16 September 2022.
Chair of the session ‘System Reliability’, 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference, Hannover, Germany, 22 – 26 September 2019.
Chair of the session ‘Stochastic Mechanics and Structural Reliability’, EMI International Conference, ASCE, Shanghai, 2-4 November, 2018.
Chair of the session ‘System Identification and Structural Health Monitoring’, Fifth Asian-Pacific Symposium on Structural Reliability and its Applications, Singapore, 22-25 May, 2012.
Professional Affiliations
Member, Engineering Mechanics Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers;
Member, Chinese Society for Vibration Engineering.