Ka-Veng Yuen (Ph.D., Caltech)
Distinguished Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Leading Scientist, Urban Public Safety and Disaster Prevention Section, State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City
University of Macau
Co-Chair, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Smart Cities
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE11/2018 - Distinguished Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UM
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA GPA: 4.14/4.00 (A+) Thesis Title: Model Selection, Identification and Robust Control for Dynamical Systems Advisor: Prof. James L. Beck
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) GPA: 12.0/12.0 (A+) Thesis Title: Structural Modal Identification Using Ambient Dynamic Data Advisor: Prof. Lambros S. Katafygiotis
National Taiwan University (NTU) GPA: 3.96/4.00 (90.3/100) Ranking: 1/152
Kindergarten - Form 6 (1979-1993) RESEARCH INTERESTS
PROFESSIONAL SERVICEExternal:Council Member, Escola Superior das Forças de Segurança de Macau (ESFSM) (since 2020)
Member, Board of Trustees , Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT), Macao SAR Government (since 2020)National Science and Technology Planning Expert, Ministry of Science and Technology, People's Republic of China (since 2012) Editorial Board Member of: Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering Structural Control and Health Monitoring Structural Monitoring and Maintenance - an International Journal Structural Engineering and Mechanics - an International Journal International Journal of Uncertainty QuantificationAssociate Editor of:Frontiers in Built Environment
Member, International Advisory Committee of: The 2014 World Congress on Advances in Civil, Environmental, and Materials (ACEM14), 24-27 August 2014, Busan, Korea. The Asian-Pacific Symposium on Structural Reliability and its Applications (APSSRA), Singapore, 2012. Member, International Scientific Committee, First International Conference on Performance-based and Life-Cycle Structural Engineering, Hong Kong, Dec 2012. Member, Scientific Committee, The Eighth National Civil Engineering Forum for Graduate Students Zhejiang University, Nov 2010. Member, Steering Committee, International Conference on Engineering & Applied Science, Beijing, July 2012. Member, Program Committee, The Twelfth East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, Hong Kong, Jan 2010. Advisor, Organizing Committee, Symposium on Low Carbon Living and Green City Under 12/5, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 17/12/2011. Committee Member of: Financial analysis and computation committee, Chinese Association of New Cross Technology in Mathematics, Mechanics and Physics Bridge Committee, Mao Yi-Sheng Science and Technology Foundation ASCE Probabilistic Methods Committee Committee on Stochastic Methods in Structural Engineering, International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability (IASSAR) SubCommittee 1 on Computational Stochastic Mechanics, IASSAR SubCommittee 5 on System Identification and Structural Control, IASSAR Research Fund Reviewer for: General Research Fund, Research Grant Council (RGC), Hong Kong Strategic Research Fund, City University of Hong Kong National Research Competition, National Comission for Scientific & Technological Research (FONDECYT Program), Chile Book Reviewer for: John Wiley and Sons Journal Reviewer for: Abstract and Applied Analysis Acta Geotechnica Slovenica Advances in Condensed Matter Physics Advances in structural Engineering - an International Journal African Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science Research American Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics Annual Research & Review in Biology Applied and Computational Mathematics Applied Mathematical Modelling Arabian Journal of Geosciences Artificial Intelligence and Applications ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering Atmospheric Pollution Research Automation in Construction Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering Canadian Geotechnical Journal Chinese Journal of Engineering Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering Computers and Structures Current Advances in Civil Engineering Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibrations Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics Engineering Geology Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal Engineering Structures Entropy Environmental Engineering and Management Journal GEORISK HKIE Transactions IEEE Signal Processing Letters IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems IET Control Theory & Applications Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering International Journal of Intelligent Information Systems International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics International Journal of Reliability and Safety Inverse Problems in Science & Engineering ISRN Applied Mathematics IST Transactions Journal of Applied Mathematics Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring Journal of Image and Vision Computing Journal of Mountain Science Journal of Official Statistics Journal of Sensors Journal of Taibah University for Science Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association Journal of Vibration and Control Land Use Policy Marine Georesources & Geotechnology Mathematical Problems in Engineering Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing Neural Computing and Applications Neurocomputing Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation Open Fuels & Energy Science Journal Open Journal of Civil Engineering Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics Reliability Engineering & System Safety Research of Geographic Structure and Earthquake Science Bulletin Science China - Technological Sciences Scientia Iranica Sensors Shock and Vibration Shock and Vibration Digest Smart Materials and Structures Smart Structures and Systems Sound and Vibration Steel and Composite Structures Structural Control and Health Monitoring Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization Structural Engineering and Mechanics Structural Health Monitoring Structural Monitoring and Maintenance Structural Safety The Journal of Chemical Physics The Scientific World Journal Transactions of Tianjin University Member of Conference Organizing Committee: 2012 International Conference on Engineering and Applied Science, Beijing, July 24-27, 2012. 14th Asia Pacific Vibration Conference, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, 2011. 5th Cross-Strait Conference on Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2011) Health Monitoring and Control of Bridges Symposium, Zhejiang University (2010) Second International Symposium on Computational Mechanics (ISCM II) in conjunction with the Twelfth International Conference on the Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods of Engineering and Science, Hong Kong & Macao (2009) Asian-Pacific Symposium on Structural Reliability and its Application 2008, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Pan-PRD Central Cities Regional Cooperation & Development in Scitech Advisory Forum 2006 Tenth Annual Conference of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Third Shanghai-Hong Kong Forum on Mechanics and its Applications (2006) Session Chair/co-Chair of: Asian-Pacific Symposium on Structural Reliability and its Application 2008, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 9th, 10th, 12th International Conference on Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods of Engineering and Science (2003, 2006, 2009) 3rd Shanghai-Hong Kong Forum on Mechanics and Its Application, 2006 Coordinator and co-chair of: Mini-symposium session 3.3, International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability 2005, Rome, Italy Internal: 1. Chair, Panel on Intellectual Property Rights (2016-2018)2. Member, Academic Track Performance Review Committee (2015)3. Member, Recruitment Panel of Director of Campus Management Office (2015)4. Affiliate, Cheng Yu Tong College (2015-)5. Chair, Staff Housing Committee (June 2013-May 2017)6. Member, Administrative Committee, UMTec Limited (2013-)7. Member, Faculty-level academic staff promotion advisory panel, FST (2012-2014; 2016)8. Member, Grievance and Disciplinary Committee (2013-2014)9. Member, University-level Academic Staff Promotion Advisory Committee (2013-2014)10. Member, Program Planning Committee, PhD program in Applied Physics and Materials Engineering (2012-2013)11. Member (representative of academic staff), New Campus Relocation Service Tender Public Selection Committee (2012-2013)12. Member (faculty representative), Research Committee, Senate subcommittee (2012-2013)13. Member (faculty representative), Graduate Studies Committee, Senate subcommittee (2012-2013)14. Chair, Faculty Graduate Studies Committee, FST (2012-2013)15. Member, Panel for Early Admission of MSc students (2013-2014)16. Member, Panel for Admission of PhD students (2013-2014)17. Member, Student Disciplinary Committee (2012)18. Member, Panel of Naming Competition for New Campus (2012)19. Chair, selection committee for academic recruitment for: FST/AR/PMES/12/2012 (Assistant professor in Electromechanical Engineering)20. Member, recruitment panel for: FSH/JAP/AP/04/2011 (Assistant professor in Centre for Japanese Studies, Department of English, FSH)21. Chair, Selection Committee of FST representatives for Challenge Cup (2011)22. Member, Academic Leave Committee, FST (2011-2016; Chair: 2012-2013)23. Chair, Selection Committee for "Youth Female Scientist" (2011)24. Chair, recruitment panel for: FST/ALL/09/2011 (Assistant professor in Physics)25. Member (representative of academic staff), Full Workgroup on Naming Plan for New Campus Project (2011-2012)26. Member, Health and Safety Committee (2011-2012)27. Member, Faculty-level academic staff promotion advisory panel, FBA (2011)28. Chair, Information and education technology committee, Senate subcommittee (2008-2012)29. Member (faculty representative), Scholarship Committee (2010-2011)30. Member (faculty representative), Academic Quality Assurance Committee, Senate subcommittee (2010-2012)31. Member (representative of academic staff), New Campus Project Campus Liaison Task Force (2010-2013)32. Member (representative of academic staff), New Campus Project (2010-2013)33. Member (faculty representative), Task Force, Center for Teaching and Learning Enhancement (2010-2011)34. Member, Seminar/Conference committee, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (2010-2013; chair, 2010)35. Member (faculty representative), Focus group for unsuccessful senior academic recruitment (2010)36. Member, Search Committee for academic recruitment (2010)37. Member, University Senate (2002-2003, 2007-2014)38. Member and Chair, Program review committee, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (2008-2009)39. Member, Bachelor program revision committee, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (2007-2010; chair, 2008-2010)40. Member, selection panel for direct admission of undergraduate students (2006, 2009-2010; chair, 2009-2010)41. Member, selection panel for MSc students recruitment (2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2013; chair, 2009, 2010)42. Founding Director, Dynamics and Monitoring Laboratory (DYAMON) (2005-)43. Member, Academic Council, FST (2002-)44. Adhoc promotion committee, FST (2009)45. Member, Library Committee, Senate subcommittee (2005-2008)46. Team leader of UMAC team, 4th Inter-University Invitational Civil Engineering Competition, Ansan, Korea (2006)47. Member, recruitment selection panel for "PISA project - Centre Administrator", FED (2005)48. Coordinator, organizing committee of Inter-University Invitational Civil Engineering Competition at University of Macau (2004) KEYNOTE/DISTIBUISHED LECTURES (1) Advances in Bayesian Real-time Model Updating Keynote speaker The 8th Cross-Strait Symposium on Civil Engineering Monitoring and Control, Zhejiang University, 24 August 2017 (2) Bayesian Structural Health Monitoring for Intelligent Infrastructures Keynote lecture 2017 Summit on Smart Highway and Bridge, Nanjing, 28 July 2017 (3) Towards Robust Realtime System Identification Keynote lecture Proceedings 2013/2014 Annual Symposium "In Search of Mindset of Change for Control, Automation and Instrumentation New Technologies", CAI Division, Hong Kong Institute of Engineers, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 5 March 2014 (4) Probabilistic Outlier Analysis for Linear Regression and Online Structural Identification Distinguished lecture 17th Annual conference of Hong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; 9th Jiangsu-Hong Kong Forum on Applied Mechanics and its Applications; 3rd Symposium on Development of Mechanics in Macau, Macau, 23 March 2013 (5) A Highly Efficient Finite Element Model Updating Algorithm Using Model Measurements Keynote speaker The 2nd Cross-Strait Symposium on Dynamical Systems and Vibration Hong Kong & Macau (17 December 2012) (6) Bayesian Methods for Structural Engineering I, II & III (5 hours) Keynote speaker The 3rd Cross-Strait Symposium on Civil Engineering Monitoring and Control National Taiwan University, Taipei, August 2012 (7) Bayesian Methods for Structural Dynamics and Control Keynote lecture National Winter School on Cyber-Systems & Control (NWSCSC'2011) Zhejiang University (December 2011) (8) Robust Engineering System towards Sustainable Development Invited speaker 2010/2011 Annual Symposium on Control, Automation and Instrumentation Systems for Sustainable Development Control, Automation and Instrumentaion Division, Hong Kong Institute of Engineers (HKIE) Hong Kong Polytechnic University (20 June 2011) (9) Bayesian System Identification for Structural Dynamics Special speaker, Symposium on Development of Computational Meahnics and Computational Methods in Engineering and Science (4 April 2011) (10) Stochastic Mechanics Research at University of Macau Distinguished lecture 15th Annual conference of Hong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; 7th Jiangsu-Hong Kong Forum on Applied Mecahnics; 2nd Symposium on Development of Mechanics in Macau, Macau (12 March 2011) (11) Philosophical Thoughts on Model Class Selection in Inverse Problems Keynote lecture 8th National Civil Engineering Forum for Graduate Students Zhejiang University (28 Nov 2010) (12) Bayesian Methods for Structural Health Monitoring: Advantage and Challenge Health Monitoring and Control of Bridges Symposium Zhejiang University (August 2010) (13) Probabilistic Methods, System Identification and Structural Health Monitoring K.C. Wong foundation lecture II, Zhejiang University (25 September 2006) (14) Bayesian Approach: from Mathematics, Engineering to Financial Markets K.C. Wong foundation lecture I Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (22 September 2006) (15) Semi-plenary lecture, EPMESC X, Sanya, Hainan, China (21 August 2006) (16) Keynote lecture National Symposium on Structural Dynamics 2005, Haikou, China (19 December 2005) HONORS2025 Best Paper Award 2024, Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards. H.Q. Mu, Z.T. Zhao, and K.V. Yuen “Characterizing multivariate, asymmetric, and multimodal distributions of geotechnical data with dual-stage missing values: BASIC-H” published in Georisk in 2024, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 85-106.
2025 Third prize in “Natural Science Award”, Macao Science and Technology Award, Macao SAR Government: “複雜服役環境下結構安全監測關鍵參數精細化追蹤辨識理論與方法” (W.J. Yan, K.V. Yuen and S.C. Kuok)
2024 2010-2019 Best Five Survey Papers of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems: Hao Zhu; Ka-Veng Yuen; Lyudmila Mihaylova; Henry Leung, “Overview of Environment Perception for Intelligent Vehicles,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 18, no. 10, pp. 2584-2601, Oct. 2017.
2024 Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Prize (2024)
2020 Second prize in “Natural Science Award”, Macao Science and Technology Award, Macao SAR Government: “Bayesian Methods for Structural Dynamics: from offline to real-time” (Sole PI: K.V. Yuen)
1. Outstanding Reviewer, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Elsevier, 2018.
3. Outstanding Reviewer, Automation in Construction, Elsevier, 2018.
4. Outstanding Reviewer, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Elsevier, 2017.
6. Outstanding Reviewer, International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics, Elsevier, 2017.
9. Outstanding Reviewer, Engineering Geology, Elsevier, 2016.
11. Outstanding Reviewer, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Elsevier, 2016.
13. Outstanding Reviewer, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Elsevier, 2015.
15. Outstanding Reviewer, Engineering Structures, Elsevier, 2014.
17. Young Investigator Award, International Chinese Association of Computational Mechanics, 2011.
19. K.C. Wong Education Foundation - QIAN Weichang Academic Exchange Programme, 2006.
21. George W. Housner fellowship in earthquake engineering (Caltech), 2001-2002.
23. Harold Hellwig fellowship in structural engineering (Caltech), 1999-2001.
25. Graduate studentship (HKUST), 1997-1999.
27. Honorary member, Phi-Tau-Phi scholastic society (Elected 1997)
29. Graduated from NTU with ranking 1/152.
31. Fellowship of Education and Youth Affairs Bureau, Macau government, 1995-1999.
33. Yen's industrial scholarship, 1994 and 1996.
34. (Awarded to the best 2 students in the engineering school of NTU)
36. Civil engineering alumni scholarship, 1995.
37. (Awarded to the best 2 civil engineering students, about 600 students)
39. Presidential awards, NTU. (All undergraduate semesters from 1993-1997)
40. (Awarded to the top 5% students in each department in NTU)
42. Macau team member of the 34th International Mathematics Olympics (IMO), Istanbul, Turkey, 1993.
44. Winner of the 3rd Macau Mathematics Olympics (MMO), 1993.
46. Macau team member of the 33rd International Mathematics Olympics (IMO), Moscow, Russia, 1992.
48. Winner of the 2nd Macau Mathematics Olympics (MMO), 1992.
49.