BEEE PhD student was elected Student Research Fellow of the SFPE Grand Challenges Initiative - Zhang Tianhang

Congratulations to our PhD student, Zhang Tianhang for being elected as Student Research Fellow of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) Grand Challenges Initiative.

SFPE Grand Challenges Initiative aims to identify how fire safety science and engineering can contribute to addressing pressing challenges in the following four topics: Energy & Infrastructure, Resilience & Sustainability, Climate Change, and Digitalization, Artificial Intelligence, & Cybersecurity. Each of the four Working Groups will be supported by a Student Research Fellow. Tianhang was elected as Student Research Fellow in the working group of Digitalization, Artificial Intelligence, & Cybersecurity, and the other fellows are postdocs. He will support the 2022 GCI Virtual Summit and conduct one-year work on the assigned topic area, participate in drafting, reviewing, and editing a 10-year strategic engagement plan for the field. A fellowship of USD 5,000 will be provided by SFPE Foundation to support his research work.

Under the supervision of Dr Huang Xinyan and Prof. Xiao Fu (Linda). Tianhang is exploring how AI methods can help firefighting and how to realize the AI-assistant firefighting actions with the Internet of Things and Digital Twin technologies. So far, he has published several journal papers on smart firefighting in Fire Technology, Fire Safety Journal, and Tunneling and Underground Space Technology.

The Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) is the world's leading professional society representing those practicing in the field of fire protection and fire safety engineering. The Society has over 4,800 members and over 100 chapters worldwide, including more than 20 student chapters. The SFPE Hong Kong Student Chapter was founded in 2019. It is the first student chapter in the Greater China Area and wins the Gold Award in 2012. Tianhang currently serves as the president of SFPE Hong Kong Student Chapter.

The Department would like to congratulate Tianhang on the excellent achievement. We wish him continued success.

See more details in https://www.sfpe.org/foundation/grandchallenges/gci-student-research-fellows