Dr Wang Xiang obtained a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Central South University (CSU) in 2014, a master’s degree in geotechnical engineering from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2015, and a PhD degree in road and railway engineering from CSU in 2020. He was a visiting postgraduate in The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2018 and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in 2019. He was a postdoctoral fellow of the Department of Civil and Environment Engineering in PolyUbefore he became a research assistant professor in September 2021.
His research interests include the discrete element method, granular material, deep Learning, automation in construction, digital twin, etc. with a strong focus on the discrete modeling of arbitrarily irregular shaped granular materials, and the macroscopic and microscopic analysis of mechanical responses and topology evolution. He has published 20 SCI journal papers and served as a reviewer for several SCI journals, including Construction and Building Materials, Powder Technology, Advanced Powder Technology, Computers and Geotechnics, Particuology, Computational Particle Mechanics, etc.
Dr Wang has joined us on 1 Sep 2021.
