Dr Yifei Hu obtained a bachelor’s degree from Tongji University in 2012 and a master’s degree from PolyU in 2013. He worked as a graduate structural engineer for an international engineering consulting firm in Hong Kong from 2013 to 2014. After receiving a PhD degree from PolyU in 2019, Dr Hu joined Chinese National Engineering Research Centre for Steel Construction (Hong Kong Branch) as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
Dr Hu’s research focuses on high performance steel structures and cold-formed steel tubular structures. His specialties include non-linear finite element modelling of manufacturing processes, experimental and numerical investigations into cold-formed high strength steel tubular joints, practical structural design and connection design in steel modular buildings.
Dr Hu has joined us on 1 Sep 2021.
