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Prof. Xugang HUA

It is my great honor to receive the Outstanding Alumni Award in Scholarly Achievement of PolyU CEE 2022. I want to express my sincere thanks to Prof. Ni Yi-qing and Prof. Ko Jan-Ming for their persistent mentoring. Studying at PolyU is exciting and fruitful due to the world-renowned academic staff, strong academic atmosphere and international perspective among the peers. In the future, I will strengthen the cooperation with PolyU through joint research and student exchange programmes.

Biography

Prof. Xugang Hua’s research interest is mainly in the area of structural health monitoring, wind-induced vibration and vibration control of flexible structures, such as long-span bridges and offshore wind turbines. In the context of structural health monitoring, he developed a method of probabilistic finite element updating for bridge structures, which is widely cited as “Hua’s approach” in the literatures. He made original contribution in bridge aerodynamics, particularly in flutter instability and higher mode vortex-induced vibration of suspension bridges, which are widely used by national and international researchers. Prof. Hua not only, as a well-published scholar, has produced over 120 journal papers (about 90 in SCI journal papers), 2 books, and 10 invention patents he also has received several awards from the State Council, MOE and Hunan province.

Prof. Huafu PEI

I am honored to be awarded the Outstanding Young Alumni Award in Scholarly Achievement of PolyU CEE 2022. First of all, I want to express my deepest gratitude to my Ph.D supervisor Prof. Yin Jian-hua for his persistent mentoring, unselfish support, and constant encouragement. I would also like to thank all the other faculty members in CEE for their kind help and precious suggestions during my Ph.D study. The wonderful time in CEE brings about impacts that benefits my whole life. In the future, I will continue to play a bridging role to strengthen the cooperation between PolyU and DUT. As a member of CEE-RSAA, I would also devote all my enthusiasm to alumni association activities and offer help to promote the employment of CEE graduates in mainland China.

Biography

Prof. Huafu PEI has many research achievements on data-driven slope stability analysis, geotechnical monitoring instrumentation, and soil-water interaction mechanisms via molecular simulations. The developed geotechnical instruments and theoretical methods have already been employed for several key project construction, including the Xinpu landslide in the Three Gorges reservoir area, the Fushun West Pit, once the largest open-pit coal mine in Asia, and the Weijiagou landslide in the Wenchuan earthquake zone. He has been in charge of one excellent young youths project, two general projects, and one young scientist project of the National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC), two sub-projects of China's National Key Research and Development Program. He has published more than 50 SCI-indexed journal papers (20 H-index by Scopus database). He is also selected for the first batch of the Xingliao youth talent program of Liaoning Province and youth science and technology star of Dalian City. He is also a member of the field monitoring committee of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), the editorial board member of Geoenvironmental Disaster journal, and technical group leader of historical data for the first national survey on natural disaster risks in Liaoning Province. Besides, he is a member of CEE research scholar alumni association (CEE-RSAA) committee and a preparatory group member of postgraduate students and scholars alumni association of PolyU in mainland China.