Academic Qualification

  • Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China (2013)
  • Master in Civil Engineering, Central South University, China (2009)
  • Bachelor in Civil Engineering, Central South University, China (2006)

Professional Experience

  • 10/2019 – present: Associate Professor, University of Macau, Macau, China.
  • 02/2018 – 09/2019: European Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow, The University of Nottingham, UK.
  • 12/2014 – 02/2018: Full Professor, Hefei University of Technology, China.
  • 09/2013 – 12/2014: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.

Research Interests

  • Big Data Analytics for Structural Health Monitoring;
  • Probabilistic Deep Learning for Intelligent Non-destructive Testing;
  • Digital Twinning Technology for Structural Dynamical Systems;
  • Bayesian Inference for Highly Complicated Problems;
  • AI-empowered Uncertainty Quantification and Propagation;
  • Statistical Signal Processing;
  • Stochastic System Identification.

Professional Services

  • Editorial board member, ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering
  • Editorial board member, ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering;
  • Associate editor, Frontiers in Built Environment;
  • Associate editor, Digital Engineering and Digital Twin
  • Editorial board member, Structural Durability & Health Monitoring;
  • Young editorial board member, Journal of Dynamics and Control (in Chinese); 
  • Committee Member, Technical Modal Analysis Committee of China;
  • Committee Member, Technical Stochastic Vibration Analysis Committee of China;
  • Committee Member, Chinese Young Association for Structural Control and Monitoring;
  • Reviewer for National Science and Technology Awards;
  • Reviewer for the National Natural Science Foundation of China;
  • Reviewer for China Postdoctoral Fellowship Foundation;
  • Ph.D./Master Thesis Reviewer for China Academic Degrees & Graduate Education Development Center;
  • Reviewer for More than 70 Journals;
  • Technical Committee Member, XIII International Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN), Hannover, Germany, 2026;
  • Technical Committee Member, International Scientific Committee at IWERSM 2023, Shanghai, China, 2023;
  • Technical Committee Member, The 3rd National Symposium on Vehicle-Bridge Coupling Vibration and Its Application, Changsha, China, 2023;
  • Technical Committee Member, The 13th National Conference on Random Vibration Theory and Application, Dalian, China, 2022; 
  • Technical Committee Member, 8th International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management, Hannover,  2022;
  • Technical Committee Member, 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference,  Hannover, Germany, 2019;
  • Technical Committee Member, 10th Asia-Pacific Young Researchers and Graduates Symposium, Australia, 2023;
  • Chair, session of ‘Bayesian Inference for Structural Health Monitoring’, SVCHM-2023, Changsha, China, 12-14 May 2023.
  • Chair, session of ‘Vehicle load identification, Bridge weight-in-motion and Overload monitoring’, Changsha, China, 12-15 April 2023.
  • Chair, session of ‘Uncertainty Modelling, Quantification & Propagation in System Identification & Structural Damage Detection’, ICOSSAR-2022, Shanghai, China, 13-16 September 2022.
  • Chair, session of ‘System Reliability’, 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference, Hannover, Germany, 22-26 September 2019.
  • Chair, Session of ‘Stochastic Mechanics and Structural Reliability’, EMI International Conference, ASCE, Shanghai, 2018;
  • Chair, Session of ‘System Identification and Structural Health Monitoring’, Fifth APSSRA, Singapore, 2012.

Professional Affiliations

  • Member, Engineering Mechanics Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers;
  • Member, Chinese Society for Vibration Engineering.