May 2025 Entry
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The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is dedicated to conducting fundamental and application-oriented research to develop scientific, engineering and management solutions that are appropriate to sustain the urban development in densely populated cities, such as Hong Kong, those in Mainland China and other major cities in Asia. We have a strong team of faculties and have achieved an excellent research and publication track record in civil engineering.
The Research Postgraduate Programmes offered by CEE are a combination of coursework and independent research leading to the degree of Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). All of our academic staff are actively engaged in research activities through a range of funding from UGC, RGC, ITF and other sources. The principal research areas in CEE include: Environmental Engineering & Science; Geotechnical Engineering; Coastal & Hydraulic Engineering; Structural Engineering and Construction & Transportation.
Coastal and Hydraulic Engineering
Climate Change & Coastal Engineering; Urban Water System & Hydraulics; Ocean Renewables & Low Impact Development; Environmental Fluid Mechanics; Computational Fluid Dynamics
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| Dr Huanfeng DUAN | 3400 8449 | hduan@polyu.edu.hk |
Coastal Disasters, Ocean Wave & Offshore Wind Renewables, Nonlinear Water Wave Mechanics, Multi-Scale Ocean Wave Modelling, Computational Fluid Dynamics
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| Dr Jinghua WANG | 3400 8015 | jinghua.wang@polyu.edu.hk |
Environmental Fluid Mechanics; Coastal Circulations and Sediment Transport; Biofluid Mechanics; Experimental Fluid Mechanics; River Morphodynamics
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| Dr Alessandro STOCCHINO | 3400 8328 | alessandro.stocchino@polyu.edu.hk |
Construction and Transportation
Construction Project /Program Management, Sustainable Construction, Infrastructure Systems, Sustainable Infrastructure, Pavement Engineering
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| Prof. Yuhong WANG | 2766 4489 | ceyhwang@polyu.edu.hk |
Innovation Management and Performance Evaluations; Data-driven Multi-criterion Decision-making; Smart Transportation Management Systems; System Dynamic Modeling Supporting Public Policy Making; Pedestrian and Crowd Simulations for Smart Infrastructure and Urban Planning
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| Dr Jacqueline T.Y. LO | 2766 6033 | jacqueline.lo@polyu.edu.hk |
Machine Learning in Civil Engineering, Infrastructure and Construction Informatics, Life-cycle Assessment of Infrastructure Systems, Circular Economy in Cities
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| Dr Mark S.C. HSU | 2766 6057 | smarkhsu@polyu.edu.hk |
Sustainable and Smart Paving Materials and Technologies; Nondestructive Evaluation of Transportation Instractruture; Pavement Life Cycle Management
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| Prof. Zhen LENG | 2766 6007 | zhen.leng@polyu.edu.hk |
Transportation Network Modelling, Data-driven Modelling, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Infrastructure Systems, Urban Computing, Smart Cities
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| Dr Wei MA | 2766 6069 | wei.w.ma@polyu.edu.hk |
Transportation Systems Modelling and Analysis, Transportation Network Reliability Analysis, Non-motorised Transportation Modelling, Path Flow Estimator and Planning Applications, Applied Optimisation to Civil Infrastructure Problems
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| Prof. Anthony CHEN | 3400 8327 | antchen@polyu.edu.hk |
Travel Choice Modelling and Bounded Rationality; Travel Behavior Analysis; Smart Mobility Planning; Transportation Policy and Decision Support Systems; Transportation Sustainability and Equity
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| Dr Sunghoon JANG | 2766 6047 | sunghoon.jang@polyu.edu.hk |
Environmental Engineering and Science
Accident Prediction, Injury Prevention, Applications of Statistical Model for Safety Analysis, Human Behaviour for Safety Studies and Safety Policy and Regulation
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| Dr Tony N.N. SZE | 2766 6062 | nnsze@polyu.edu.hk |
Air Pollution and Health; Environmental Transmission of Antibiotic Resistance Genes; Airborne Microbiology; Sustainable Urban Infrastructure
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| Prof. Xiangdong LI | 2766 6041 | cexdli@polyu.edu.hk |
Atmospheric Chemistry, Air Pollution Meteorology, Instrument Development, Field Measurements and Data Analysis
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| Prof. Tao WANG | 2766 6059 | cetwang@polyu.edu.hk |
Atmospheric Chemistry, VOC Photochemistry, Transmission and Infection of Bioaerosols, Acidic Ultrafine Particles, Organic Aerosols, Indoor Air Chemistry
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| Prof. Hai GUO | 3400 3962 | ceguohai@polyu.edu.hk |
Atmospheric Environment, Aerosol Particle Sources and Chemistry, Atmospheric Oxidative Capacity, Atmosphere-Cryosphere Interactions, Global Chemical Transport Model
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| Dr Qian-jie CHEN | 2766 6078 | qianjie.chen@polyu.edu.hk |
Biofuel, Biorefinery, Bio-polymers, Lignocellulosic Biomass, Biological Processes
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| Dr Ben S.Y. LEU | 3400 8322 | syleu@polyu.edu.hk |
Eco-friendly Construction Materials, Concrete Technology, Waste Recycling and Management
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| Prof. Chi Sun POON | 2766 6024 | cecspoon@polyu.edu.hk |
Environmental Health; Air Pollution and Human Health; Marine Pollution and Wildlife Health; Environmental Microbiome; Antimicrobial Resistance
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| Dr Nathanael L. JIN | 2766 6009 | ling.jin@polyu.edu.hk |
Environmental Nanotechnology, Aerosol Technology, Advanced Water Treatment, Environmental Sensing, Environmental Chemistry
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| Dr Yi JIANG | 2766 6044 | yijiang@polyu.edu.hk |
Emerging Pollutants, Soil and Groundwater Remediation, Water Treatment, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Health
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| Dr Jinxia LIU | 3400 8344 | jinxia.liu@polyu.edu.hk |
Sustainable Transportation, Urban Environmental Sensing, Life-Cycle Assessment, Data-Driven Modelling Techniques
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| Dr An WANG | 2766 6067 | an.wang@polyu.edu.hk |
Sustainable wastewater management, Environmental microbiology, Bioinformatics, Gas fermentation, Resource recovery
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| Dr Tao LIU | 2766 6026 | tao-cee.liu@polyu.edu.hk |
Sustainable construction materials, Solid waste upcycling, Carbon capture and storage, 3D concrete printing
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| Dr Shipeng ZHANG | 2766 4473 | shipeng.zhang@polyu.edu.hk |
Geotechnical Engineering
Advanced Constitutive Modelling of Soils, Microstructure and Micromechanics of Soils, Multiscale and Multiphysics Modelling in Geotechnical Engineering, Practice of Artificial Intelligence in Geotechnical Engineering
| Supervisor | Tel | |
| Prof. Zhenyu YIN | 3400 8470 | zhenyu.yin@polyu.edu.hk |
Coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical Behaviour of Soil, Constitutive Modelling of Soil, Energy Foundation, Methane Hydrate Bearing Soil, High-speed Railway Embankment
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| Dr Chao ZHOU | 2766 6071 | cezhou@polyu.edu.hk |
Pile Group/Piled Raft Optimisation, Interaction between Foundation and Superstructure, Optical Fibre Strain Sensing, Spatial Variability of Soil Properties, Ground Improvement
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| Dr Andy Y.F. LEUNG | 2766 6064 | yfleung@polyu.edu.hk |
Rock mechanics, Experimental rock physics, Digital rock physics based on micro-CT technology, Non-destructive testing and characterization of geomaterials, Application of geophysical methods in engineering and environmental problems
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| Dr Qi ZHAO | 3400 8323 | qi.qz.zhao@polyu.edu.hk |
Structural Engineering
Adaptable and Reusable Structures; Steel Structures; Steel-Concrete Composite Structures; Steel-Concrete-FRP Composite Structures
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| Prof. Tak Ming CHAN | 2766 6013 | tmingchan@polyu.edu.hk |
Cold-formed Steel Structures; High Strength Steel Structures; Stainless Steel Structures; Aluminium Structures; Fire Resistance of Metal Structures
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| Prof. Ben YOUNG | 2766 5214 | ben.young@polyu.edu.hk |
Earthquake Engineering; Structural Dynamics; Structural Robustness; Hybrid Structures; Heritage Structures
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| Prof. Ahmed Youssef ELGHAZOULI | 2766 4713 | ahmed.elghazouli@polyu.edu.hk |
Emerging Structural Materials and Systems; FRP-reinforced/confined Concrete Structures; Hybrid FRP-Concrete-Steel Structures; Thin-walled Structures; Steel Structures
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| Prof. Jinguang TENG | 2766 6012 | cejgteng@polyu.edu.hk |
Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Composites for Construction, Durability and Life Cycle Management of Marine Concrete Structures; Multi-functional Coating for Concrete Structures, High Performance Fibre-Reinforced Cementitious Composites, Geopolymer Concrete, Prefabricated Construction
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| Prof. Jianguo DAI | 2766 6026 | cejgdai@polyu.edu.hk |
Infrastructure Applications of Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Composites; Hybrid Tubular Structures; Strengthening of Concrete and Steel Structures; Non-linear Finite Element Analysis of Complex Structures; Life-Cycle Structural Engineering
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| Prof. Tao YU | 2766 6042 | tao-cee.yu@polyu.edu.hk |
Multi-hazard and Climate Change Adaptation, Life-cycle Management and Decision Making, Physics-guided Machine Learning for Predictive Modeling and Analysis, Risk and Resilience, Smart City
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| Dr You DONG | 3400 8818 | ydong@polyu.edu.hk |
Smart Materials and Structures; Structural Vibration Control; Earthquake Engineering; Structural Health Monitoring; Wind Energy; Construction Vibration Impact
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| Prof. Songye ZHU | 3400 3964 | ceszhu@polyu.edu.hk |
Steel Structures; Computational Structural Engineering; Direct Analysis Method; Composite Structures; Soil-Structure Interaction
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| Dr Siwei LIU | 2766 5542 | si-wei.liu@polyu.edu.hk |
Steel Structures, Steel-concrete Composite Structures and Cold-formed Steel Construction, Code Development, Fire Engineering and Fire Protection, Fire Resistant Design, Development of Steel Building Products, Bamboo Structures
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| Prof. Kwok Fai CHUNG | 2766 6063 | cekchung@polyu.edu.hk |
Structural Health Monitoring; Machine Learning Methods; Digital Twin Techniques; Marine Infrastructure
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| Prof. Yong XIA | 2766 6066 | ceyxia@polyu.edu.hk |
Structural Health Monitoring; Noise and Vibration Control; Smart Materials and Sensing; Reliability-based Analysis, Assessment and Design under Uncertainties; Cyber-Infrastructure System
| Supervisor | Tel | |
| Dr Kai ZHOU | 3400 8324 | cee-kai.zhou@polyu.edu.hk |
Structural Health Monitoring, Structural Dynamics and Control, Monitoring and Control in Rail Engineering, Smart Materials and Structures, Sensors and Actuators
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| Prof. Yiqing NI | 2766 6004 | ceyqni@polyu.edu.hk |
Structural Vibration Control; Impact Engineering; Earthquake Engineering; Floating Structures; Novel Structural Materials and Systems
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| Dr Kaiming BI | 2766 6075 | kaiming.bi@polyu.edu.hk |
Sustainable and High-Performance Construction Materials; Floating Structure Technology; Steel Structures; Steel-Concrete-FRP Hybrid Construction; Modular Construction
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| Prof. Xiao Lin ZHAO | 2766 4474 | xiao-lin.zhao@polyu.edu.hk |
Vibration-based Energy Harvesting; Nonlinear Dynamics; Smart Materials and Structures; Topology Optimization; Structural Vibration Control
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| Dr Siu Kai LAI | 2766 6060 | sklai@polyu.edu.hk |
The Department manages 29 laboratories and 2 workshops (mechanical and electronic) to provide a controlled environment to support teaching, research and services to the community. The Department has the following laboratories and workshops under different units.
Construction and Transportation Unit
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Road Research Laboratory
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Transport and Highway Engineering Laboratory
Environmental Engineering Unit
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Advanced Environmental Microbiology Laboratory
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Air Pollution Laboratory
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Atmospheric Research Laboratory
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Bioenergy Research Laboratory
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Carbon Analysis and Filter Handling Clean Room
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Environmental Chamber
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Laboratory for Advanced Environmental Studies
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Materials and Structures Durability Laboratory
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Noise and Safety Laboratory/ Semi-anechoic Chamber
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Odour Research Laboratory
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Water and Waste Teaching Laboratory
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Water and Waste Research Laboratory
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Water Analysis Laboratory
Geotechnical Engineering Unit
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Geology Laboratory
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Rock Mechanics Laboratory
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Smart Geotechnology Laboratory
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Soil Mechanics Laboratory
Hydraulic Engineering Unit
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Hydraulics Laboratory
Structural Engineering Unit
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Concrete Materials Laboratory
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Concrete Technology Laboratory
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Engineering Materials Micro-Mechanics Laboratory
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Functional Construction Materials Laboratory
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Light Structures Laboratory
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Structural Engineering Research Laboratory
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Structural Dynamics Laboratory
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Smart Structures Laboratory
Workshops
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Electronic Workshop
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Mechanical Workshop
Others
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Computer Room
Compulsory - Two Academic Referee's Reports are required.
Compulsory - A standard form must be used for the submission of research proposal. Please click here to download the form.
Compulsory
Certificate(s) of the Bachelor's/Master’s degree.
Transcript(s) of the Bachelor's/Master’s degree. It must contain all pages including the explanatory notes of the marking scheme/ the grading system. For graduates, transcripts should be the final version with the graduation date. For current study, a latest transcript or testimonial issued by the institution should be provided.
