Dr Wai Kei (Vincent) Ao graduated from the National Taiwan University (NTU) with MSc and undergraduate qualifications in Civil and Structural Engineering and Civil Engineering. His MSc studied "Analytical and experimental studies on seismic behaviour of structures with building using passive mass dampers". After the MSc course, he worked for one and a half years in BAHH Engineering Consultants Ltd, Macau. During that time, he did some works, including foundation design, structural design, coordinating engineering plans, program design narrative, etc. He joined the Vibration Engineering Section (VES) at the University of Sheffield (UoS) and the University of Exeter (UoE) in 2012 and 2013, respectively, and studied for a PhD and graduated in 2017 with the research topic on "Electromagnetic damping for control of vibration in civil structures".
After the PhD, he worked at UoE as a graduate research assistant. In 2018, he was awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship related to advanced sensors and modelling for next-generation bridge management at Queen's University Belfast (QUB). In 2019, he was awarded a new postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Exeter. The key aim of the UoE job was corresponding to two project grants: Resilient integrated-coupled FOW platform design methodology (ResIn) and dynamic response of tall timber buildings under service load (DynaTTB). These works focused on the dynamic behaviour of offshore structures and the dynamic testing of tall timber buildings around the UK and Europe. From 2022 until the present, he was awarded a research assistant professor (RAP) position at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). His ongoing research includes passive, semi-active and active vibration control, vibration serviceability, structural health monitoring, vision-sensing system, and machine learning paradigms for applications to civil structures and railway systems.
Dr Ao has joined us on 29 Aug 2022.
