Academic Staff

Dr. Liangfen DU joined the Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering as an Assistant Professor in April 2024. She obtained her BEng and MSc degrees in Environmental Engineering and Acoustics from Northwestern Polytechnical University in China in 2010 and 2013, respectively. She earned her second Master’s degree and a Doctorate in Acoustics from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon) in France in 2012 and 2016, respectively. Following her postgraduate studies, she joined JD Acoustic Pte Ltd in Singapore as an Acoustic Consultant, responsible for various industrial projects involving noise impact assessment, acoustic design, building acoustics and more. After gaining valuable industrial experience during her year at JD Acoustic, she returned to academia, working as a research fellow at the College of Design and Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) from 2017 to 2021. From 2021 to 2024, She continued her research fellowship at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Dr. Du’s research interests encompass noise reduction enabling natural ventilation technologies, acoustic metasurfaces, sound prediction, and environmental noise control.

• Bachelor of Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University
• Master of Science, Technology & Health, National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon
• Master of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University
• Doctor of Philosophy, National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon
• Ph.D., Laboratoire Vibrations Acoustiques, INSA-Lyon, University of Lyon
• M.Sc., Northwestern Polytechnical University
• M.Sc., Laboratoire Vibrations Acoustiques, INSA-Lyon, University of Lyon
• B.Eng., Northwestern Polytechnical University