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PolyU CEE Webinar Series: Nonlinear soil stiffness for analyzing ground movements in engineering practice

Dr Chao ZHOU delivered a seminar with the topic of “Nonlinear soil stiffness for analyzing ground movements in engineering practice” on 20 July 2022. It was co-organized with HKIE Civil Division.

PolyU Ranked 4th for Civil Engineering in the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2022

In the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) 2022 released by ShanghaiRanking, PolyU is listed as the 4th best in the world and 1st in Hong Kong in Civil Engineering. It confirms once again our global excellence in education and research in the discipline. The GRAS uses a range of objective academic indicators and third-party data to measure 5,000 top world universities’ performance in respective subjects, including research output, research influence, international collaboration, research quality, and international academic awards.  More than 1,800 universities across 96 countries and regions are eventually listed in the rankings. The full version of GRAS 2022 and its methodology can be found here.

A PolyU Team Won First Prize at 2nd International Competition for Structural Health Monitoring

A young team from PolyU (1 postdoctoral, 3 PhD students, and 1 MPhil student from the Hong Kong Branch of the National Rail Transit Electrification and Automation Engineering Technology Research Center, CNERC-Rail) won the First Prize at the 2nd International Competition for Structural Health Monitoring (IC-SHM, 2021). Their supervisor is Prof. Yi-qing NI, Director of CNERC-Rail. The organization received 53 submissions from 12 regions. The group participated in Project 3: Computer vision-based vibration measurement and damage assessment. The competition is organized by the Asia-Pacific Network of Centers for Research in Smart Structures Technology (ANCRiSST), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Harbin Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute (ZJU-UIUC Institute), and the University of Houston. A new competition is launched this year to further extend the frontiers of computer vision-based civil infrastructure inspection and monitoring. 

Prof. Anthony Chen’s paper on Covid-19 vaccine passports’ impact on pedestrian accessibility published in Reginal Studies, Reginal Science

Prof. Anthony Chen’s team conducted a before & after analysis to visualized the impact of the Covid-19 vaccine passport (VP) restrictions on the use of indoor public space on pedestrian accessibility to all 97 metro stations in Hong Kong.   Results show that vaccine passports have caused a 50% reduction in accessibility of two-thirds of stations for pedestrians without a vaccine passport (PwoVP). Particularly, PwoVP must walk 460 m longer to reach Kowloon (KWO) station; Tai Wo (TWO) and Ma On Shan (MOS) stations are inaccessible.   The findings can help to evaluate the effectiveness and fairness of long-term policies in restricting access to public spaces, such as the VP system.

CEE Student Won in Young Persons’ Lecture Competition (Hong Kong Heat) 2022

Congratulations to Mr LI Danning (PhD candidate, CEE, supervised by Dr LENG Zhen) for winning the 1st place in the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3) Young Persons’ Lecture Competition (Hong Kong Heat) 2022 with his topic “Investigation on the Aging Mechanism of Asphalt Rubber Binder Prepared with Waste Tire Rubber”. Mr LI will then represent IOM3 Hong Kong Branch to attend the Young Persons’ World Lecture Competition Final in late 2022.

CEE Students Won Best Performance and First Prize Awards

Congratulations to Zhifei Tan and Linyi Yao (Ph.D. candidates, CEE, Supervised by Dr Zhen LENG) for winning the Best performance and first prize awards in the 1st International Competition on Intelligent Simulation of Transport Infrastructure 2022, in Harbin, China.

CEE Student Won in Young Persons’ Lecture Competition (Hong Kong Heat) 2022

Congratulations to Mr LI Danning (PhD candidate, CEE, supervised by Dr LENG Zhen) for winning the 1st place in the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3) Young Persons’ Lecture Competition (Hong Kong Heat) 2022 with his topic “Investigation on the Aging Mechanism of Asphalt Rubber Binder Prepared with Waste Tire Rubber”. Mr LI will then represent IOM3 Hong Kong Branch to attend the Young Persons’ World Lecture Competition Final in late 2022.

JSCE International Outstanding Collaboration Award

Congratulations to Prof. Dai Jian-Guo for receiving the FY2021 JSCE International Outstanding Collaboration Award from the Japan Society of Civil Engineers.   This award recognizes the awardees’ continuous efforts and significant contribution to the development of concrete science and technology, the leadership and achievements in fostering the relationship among civil engineering researchers, as well as the commitment to strengthening the friendship between Japan and China through technical and cultural exchanges.

Dr Goman Ho Received PolyU Graduate School Outstanding Research Postgraduate Alumni Award

Congratulations to Dr HO Wai-ming Goman for receiving the PolyU Graduate School Outstanding Research Postgraduate Alumni Award! Dr Ho has been a CEE alumnus since 1984 and rejoined to obtain a PhD degree in 1992.  Being a world-renowned expert in tall building design, Dr Ho was involved in many of the most challenging and innovative skyscrapers construction projects in Asia, including the 283m tall Cheung Kong Center in Hong Kong and the 528m tall CITIC Tower in Beijing. He is also the first Chinese Structural Engineer who is awarded the Arup Fellow worldwide.  The award recognises Dr Ho’s distinctive accomplishments and impactful contributions in the profession and industry.   More details: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/gs/news-and-events/outstanding-rpg-alumni-award/.

New joiner - Dr He Tangtian

Dr He Tangtian obtained his M.Phil. degree (2011) in Marine Biology from Shantou University and got his Ph.D. degree (2017) in Environmental Science from City University of Hong Kong. Before joining PolyU as a Research Assistant Professor, Dr He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at PolyU from 2018 to 2022. Dr He has been working actively in the inter-disciplinary research fields between environmental biogeochemistry, toxicology, and microbiology. His ongoing research includes natural and anthropogenic origins of antimicrobial resistance, airborne transmission of antimicrobial resistance and pathogens, phage-host interaction on antimicrobial resistance and human health, marine pollution and coral reef degradation, and ocean-air interface and polluted marine aerosols. Dr He has joined us on 4 July 2022.