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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.

New joiner - Dr Liang Weijian

Dr Liang Weijian obtained his B.Eng. (Hons) in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU) in 2016 and earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2020. During his Ph.D. study, he finished a half-year research exchange at UC Berkeley. Prior to joining PolyU, he was a postdoc fellow at Prof. Zhao Jidong ’s Lab in HKUST. Dr Liang’s current research interest focuses on developing high-performance multi-scale and multi-physics approaches for modeling granular material. Dr Liang has joined us on 4 July 2022.

New joiner - Dr Wang Fei

Dr Wang Fei received his B.S. in Applied Physics from Southeast University (2009), M.S. in Civil Engineering from Tongji University (2012), and Ph.D. in Water and Environmental Engineering from the University of Hong Kong (2020). Before joining PolyU as a Research Assistant Professor, Dr Wang worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at HKU. His current research interests include physics-informed reduced-order modeling, bluff-body wake flow control, fluid-structure interaction, and flow-driven rapid removal of air pollutants. Dr Wang has joined us on 4 July 2022.

New joiner - Dr Wang Cunteng

Dr Wang Cunteng received his BEng., MEng., and PhD degrees from Zhengzhou University in 2014, Harbin Institute of Technology in 2017, and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2020, respectively. He then worked as a Research Associate at The University of Hong Kong from 2020 to 2022. Dr Wang’s research focuses on the bioaerosol/aerosol behavior and its role in disease transmission (i.e., Covid-19) in indoor environments. Dr Wang has rich experience in aerosol characterization, dispersion, deposition, and resuspension. His research has been invited for a lecture by American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) and was highlighted as a cover page in Journal of Aerosol Science. In HKU team, they have collaborated with Prince Philip Dental Hospital (PPDH) to develop control measures in order to curb SARS-CoV-2 virus spread in dental hospital. Dr Wang has joined us on 4 July 2022.