{"id":12217,"date":"2021-07-30T22:14:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T14:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/?page_id=12217"},"modified":"2026-01-08T02:15:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:15:36","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wangji-yan\/home\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"12217\" class=\"elementor elementor-12217\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-53355ec elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"53355ec\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-14 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-375a564\" data-id=\"375a564\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-14 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-699e7a1\" data-id=\"699e7a1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e45cba elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1e45cba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.um.edu.mo\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"554\" height=\"163\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/\u7f51\u98751.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-12191\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/\u7f51\u98751.png 554w, https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/\u7f51\u98751-300x88.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-14 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-dc1e710\" data-id=\"dc1e710\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-14 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-386e971\" data-id=\"386e971\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4a65f92 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"4a65f92\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"501\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/\u7f51\u98752-1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-12192\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/\u7f51\u98752-1.png 501w, https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/\u7f51\u98752-1-300x72.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-14 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ead5b81\" data-id=\"ead5b81\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-14 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-307543c\" data-id=\"307543c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-35610b8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"35610b8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/skliotsc.um.edu.mo\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"554\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/\u7f51\u98753-1.png\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048 wp-image-12193\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/\u7f51\u98753-1.png 554w, https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/\u7f51\u98753-1-300x43.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-14 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fc06f64\" data-id=\"fc06f64\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-18a4336 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"18a4336\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-12 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b4c29e7\" data-id=\"b4c29e7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-12 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-65c96ef\" data-id=\"65c96ef\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-59e67d3 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"59e67d3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wangji-yan\/home\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Home<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-12 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f825062\" data-id=\"f825062\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70ecdef elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"70ecdef\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wangji-yan\/biography\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Biography<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-12 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d244645\" data-id=\"d244645\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fc3a939 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"fc3a939\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wangji-yan\/publications\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Publications<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-12 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8be8e05\" data-id=\"8be8e05\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0e051dc elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"0e051dc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wangji-yan\/grants-and-awards\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Grants &amp; Awards<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-12 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f3d5c8d\" data-id=\"f3d5c8d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e1a71e7 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"e1a71e7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wangji-yan\/group-menbers\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Group Members<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-12 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-dd23355\" data-id=\"dd23355\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-19ee0e6 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"19ee0e6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wangji-yan\/research\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Research<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-12 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f4bf872\" data-id=\"f4bf872\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-607d5fd elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"607d5fd\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e1da4ea\" data-id=\"e1da4ea\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-85529ca\" data-id=\"85529ca\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-18f6ce6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"18f6ce6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/\u5934\u50cf-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-13613\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/\u5934\u50cf-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/\u5934\u50cf-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/\u5934\u50cf-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/\u5934\u50cf-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/\u5934\u50cf.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d1cee70\" data-id=\"d1cee70\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-98d986a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"98d986a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>\u00a0<\/h2><h2><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif\">Wang-Ji Yan<\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u984f \u738b \u5409<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2><p><em><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt\">PhD in Civil Engineering, The HongKong University of Science and Technology, 2013 <br \/><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif\">Associate professor, State Key Lab of Internet of Things for Smart City<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif\"> and Department of Civil Engineering<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><strong><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Email: wangjiyan@um.edu.mo; Tel: (853) 8822-9220<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-be64433 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"be64433\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-bc667e2\" data-id=\"bc667e2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f2ebc2d\" data-id=\"f2ebc2d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-73a65f9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"73a65f9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif\">Openings (We Want Talents!) <br><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">New positions of Postdoc, PhD, Master, and Research Assistant are available from time to time.&nbsp; If you are interested in our research, please don&#8217;t hesitate to contact Prof. Yan at<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">wangjiyan@um.edu.mo <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif\">Here are some links for you:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif\">Join us as a PhD or a Master:&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/grs.um.edu.mo\/index.php\/prospective-student\/recommended-direct-admission\/?lang=zh-hant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recommended Direct Admission<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif\">Join us as a PhD student:&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grs.um.edu.mo\/index.php\/prospective-students\/doctoral-degrees-programmes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\">Regular PhD Admission<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif\">Join us as a Postdoc:&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zumri.cn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\">Funded by PI fund, IOTSC fund or UM Postdoc Scheme <br><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif\">Join us as a Postdoc in Hengqing:&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zumri.cn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\">Zhuhai UM Science &amp; Technology Research Institute<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif\">Funding information:&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/grs.um.edu.mo\/index.php\/prospective-students\/phd-funding\/um-macao-phd-scholarship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\">UM Scholarship<\/span><\/span><\/a> or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/grs.um.edu.mo\/index.php\/prospective-students\/phd-funding\/phd-assistantship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif\">Assistantship<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0778380\" data-id=\"0778380\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8df6e75 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8df6e75\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d643ff8\" data-id=\"d643ff8\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e6119d7\" data-id=\"e6119d7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f8cc5e6 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"f8cc5e6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4df5773 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4df5773\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #0000ff\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">News <\/span><\/span><\/h3><ul><li><span style=\"color: #333399;font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif\">Recently, several papers have been accepted for publications by top journals such as MSSP, JSV, SHM, RESS and EESD. Congratulations on the excellent work by Tengteng Hao, Linfeng Mei, Yuntai Zhang, Yusong Liu and Jiang Mo.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">A new FDCT project entitled &#8220;<strong><em>Research on Key Technologies for Intelligent Assessment of Structural Status of Costal Wind Turbine Clusters in Extreme Wind Fields<\/em><\/strong> &#8221; was approved!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Dr. Yuntai Zhang, a postdoctoral fellow working with Prof. Yan at IOTSC, was awarded competitive JSPS fellowship. Congratulations to Yuntai on this accomplishment!<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Dr. Zechao Wang, formerly a postdoctoral fellow working with Prof. Yan at IOTSC and now working at BeiHang University, has been awarded a competitive national talent project.\u00a0 Congratulations to Dr. Zechao on this accomplishment!<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #333399;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Mr. Jiangzhen Zhan passed his PhD oral defense. Congratulations!\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Prof. Yan delivered an invited talk in the International Workshop on Global Reliability of Structures and Systems (GRESS)!\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">A new MYRG project entitled &#8220;<em><strong>Bayesian Multi-Output Multi-Physics-Informed Deep Learning for Time-Varying Bridge Thermal Coefficients Identification and Temperature Field Reconstruction in Streaming, Sparse and Noisy Data Regimes<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; was approved.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Ms. Qian Sun, formerly PhD student of Prof. Yan won NSFC Young Scholar Fund. Congratulations!<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Mr. Mengkai, Haiyi, Chuan Sun and Tengteng won the second prize in the first international Science and Technology Competilion on Smart Construction for College Students. Congratulations!\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Mr. Linfeng Mei Passed his PhD oral defense. Congratulations!\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Mr. Jiang Mo Passed his PhD oral defense. Congratulations!\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Mr. YuSong Liu Passed his PhD oral defense. Congratulations!\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Prof. Yan was invited as a Semi-Plenary Speaker in the highly prestigious<em><strong> &#8216;XIII International Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN)&#8217; to be held in Germeny.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> Highly appreciated for the honor bestowed\u00a0 by the organization committee of EURODYN 2026. <br \/><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">With the strong supports from the co-authors, the team has published more than 30 papers in the prestigious and top journal of <em>Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing<\/em>. It&#8217;s truly impressive to see the collaborative efforts leading to dedication and expertise in the field of structural vibration and health monitoring.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">A new FDCT project entitled &#8220;<em><strong>Theory and Key Technology of Distributed Parallel Intelligent Damage Diagnosis for Bridge Engineering Powered by Physical Properties of Long-gauge Strain Transmissibility<\/strong> <\/em>&#8221; was approved.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">A new MYRG project entitled &#8220;<em><strong>Bayesian Influence Line Identification based on a New Variational Inference Paradigm with Equivalent Neural Network Representation and Its Application to Probabilistic Online Damage Detection for Bridge Engineering<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; was approved.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Prof. Yan delivered an invited talk and chaired a session in the 10th National Conference on Structural Vibration Control and Health Monitoring. <\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">Mr. Sun Chuan successfully won the UM PhD studentship and joined the group as a RA before transferring to PhD student. Welcome and congratulations!<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">A new paper entitled <em>&#8216;<strong>Two-stage fast Bayesian inference for rail model updating and crack detection with ultrasonic guided wave measurements and advanced wave propagation simulation<\/strong>&#8216;<\/em> has been published in <strong><em>Journal of Sound and Vibration<\/em><\/strong>. Congratulations to Jiangzheng.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">A new paper entitled <em>&#8216;<strong>Efficient non-probabilistic parallel model updating based on analytical correlation propagation formula and derivative-aware deep neural network metamodel<\/strong>&#8216;<\/em> has been published in <em><strong>Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering<\/strong><\/em>. Congratulations to\u00a0 Jiang Mo.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">A new paper entitled <em>&#8216;<strong>Uncertainty-aware structural anomaly detection under varying environmental conditions based on Bayesian nonparametric density estimation-guided probabilistic damage index<\/strong>&#8216;<\/em> has been published in <em><strong>ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering<\/strong><\/em>. Congratulations to\u00a0 Linfeng.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Mr. Liu Yusong has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations to Yusong! <\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Prof. Yan delivered an invited talk and chaired\u00a0 a session in the 12th Cross-Strait University Conference on Monitoring and Controlling Civil Engineering.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">Our PhD students Mo Jiang and Linfeng won excellent grades in the student paper competition of the 12th Cross-Strait University Conference on Monitoring and Controlling Civil Engineering. Congratulations! <\/span><\/li><li><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">A new paper entitled <em>&#8216;<strong>Streaming Variational Inference-empowered Bayesian Nonparametric Clustering for Online Structural Damage Detection with Transmissibility Function<\/strong>&#8216;<\/em> has been published in <em><strong>Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing<\/strong><\/em>. Congratulations to\u00a0 Linfeng.<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">A new paper entitled <em>&#8216;<strong>StocIPNet: A Novel Probabilistic Interpretable Network with Affine-Embedded Reparameterization Layer for High-Dimensional Stochastic Inverse Problems<\/strong>&#8216;<\/em> has been published in <em><strong>Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing<\/strong><\/em>. Congratulations to Mo Jiang.<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">A new paper entitled <em>&#8216; <strong>PC-Kriging-powered Parallelizing Bayesian Updating for Stochastic Vehicle-Track Dynamical System with Contact Force Measurement and Gaussian Process Discrepancy Model<\/strong>&#8216;<\/em> has been published in <em><strong>Engineering Structures<\/strong><\/em>. Congratulations to Jiangzheng.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><ul><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">A new paper entitled <em>&#8216;<strong>Multi-Output Multi-Physics-Informed Neural Network for Learning Dimension-Reduced Probability Density Evolution Equation with Unknown Spatio-Temporal-Dependent Coefficients<\/strong>&#8216;<\/em> has been published in <em><strong>Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing<\/strong><\/em>. Congratulations to Tengteng!\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">A new paper entitled <em>&#8216;<strong>Element-wise Parallel Deep Learning for Structural Distributed Damage Detection by Leveraging Physical Properties of Long-Gauge Static Strain Transmissibility under Moving Loads<\/strong>&#8216;<\/em> has been published in <em><strong>Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing<\/strong><\/em>. Congratulations to Yusong.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><ul><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000080\">A new paper entitled <em>&#8216;<strong>Two-stage nonparametric framework for missing data imputation, uncertainty quantification, and incorporation in system identification<\/strong>&#8216;<\/em> has been published in <em><strong>Computer-aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering<\/strong><\/em>. Congratulations to Wengjing. <\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000080\">PhD student Mr. Mo Jiang was awarded Student Paper Award in 4th International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM2024) &amp; 8th International Symposium on Uncertainty Modelling and Analysis (ISUMA2024) for his paper &#8216;<strong><em>A physical information-embedded deep network for high-dimensional stochastic system identification<\/em><\/strong>&#8216;. <\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000080\">Theoretical development of transmissibility-based system identification, originally proposed by our group, was adopted by a number of recent publications in prestigious journals such as Journal of Sound and Vibration (JSV), Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (MSSP), and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). The PSDT method has also gained significant recognition, with over 80 journal papers adopting our theoretical developments.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #000080\">Professor Michael Beer, the Chair of the European Association of Structural Safety and Reliability, graciously visited our group and delivered two seminars. Thanks for the distinguished guest for sharing his invaluable expertise with us.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000080\">Dr. Zechao Wang, formerly a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Yan at IOTSC, has been appointed as an associate professor at BeiHang University. Congratulations to Dr. Zechao on this accomplishment!<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #000080\">Prof. Yan was invited to be the International Scientific Committee Member of the prestigious<em><strong> &#8216;XIII International Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN)&#8217;<\/strong><\/em> to be held in Hannover in 2026.<\/span><\/li><li><p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Dr. Jia Xinyu, formerly Postdoctor fellow at the IOTSC, was awarded as the <em><strong>Germany Humboldt Research Fellowship<\/strong><\/em> due to his excellent work in Bayesian inference and reliability analysis, congratulations to Xinyu!<br \/><\/span><\/p><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">A new paper &#8220;<em><strong>A hierarchical Bayesian modeling framework for identification of Non-Gaussian processes<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; was published online in MSSP. Congratulations to Menghao!<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #333399;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt\">A new paper &#8220;<em><strong>Active learning aided Bayesian nonparametric general regression for model updating using modal data<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; was published online in MSSP. Congratulations to Wengjing!<\/span><\/li><li><p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">In the The 15th National Conference on Vibration Theory and Application held in Chengdu recently, a project led by the group was awarded the <em><strong>Second Class Award in the Natural Science category at the Science and Technology Awards from the Chinese Association of Vibration Engineering<\/strong><\/em> (7 projects in total won the prize this year).\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Dr. Ping Menghao has been awarded the <em><strong>&#8216;Macau Young Scholar&#8217; Fellowship<\/strong><\/em>. He will be conducting postdoctoral research in the group for a duration of two years. Congratulations to Menghao!<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #333399;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt\">A new paper &#8220;<em><strong>Transmissibility-based damage detection with hierarchical clustering enhanced by multivariate probabilistic distance accommodating uncertainty and correlation<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; was published online in MSSP. Congratulations to Linfeng!<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399;font-size: 14pt\">A new paper &#8220;<strong><em>Machinery multi-sensor fault diagnosis based on adaptive multivariate feature mode decomposition and multi-attention fusion residual convolutional neural network<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; was published online in MSSP. Congratulations to Xiaoan!<\/span><\/li><li><p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">A team consisting of three members from the SHM group and two UG students from the Department of Civil Engineering won the second prize in the &#8216;<em><strong>Maoyisheng Small Bridge Competition<\/strong><\/em>.&#8217; The team was supervised by Prof. Yan and Prof. Lam. Congratulations to Gui Piao, MengKai, and Man Iok Wong!<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">In XII International Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN 2023) held in Delft, Prof. Yan was awarded the prestigious <em><strong>EASD Junior Research Award <\/strong><strong>in the Area of\u00a0 Compuational Structral Dynamics<\/strong><\/em> by the European Association of Structural Dynamics. This recognition is awarded every three year to a researcher under the age of 40 who made outstanding and sustained contributions to the field of computational structural dynamics (https:\/\/www.easd.eu ). Of his work in the past years, the EASD jury appreciated &#8220;<em><strong>his innovative scientific accomplishments in the areas of modal identification, Bayesian uncertainty quantification, computational dynamics and structural health monitoring&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>. <em><strong>Prof. Yan is the first Chinese young scholar to win the EASD Junior Research Award in the past 25 years since its establishment in 1999.<\/strong> <\/em><\/span><\/p><\/li><li><p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #333399;font-family: times new roman, times, serif\">Prof. Yan was awarded the <em><strong>Second Class of Natural Science Award of Ministry of Education of China<\/strong><\/em>.<br \/><\/span><\/p><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Prof. Yan was invited to be a Member of the Editorial Board for two SCI-indexed international journals (including the <b><i>ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems <\/i><\/b><em><strong>with its two parts: Part A: Civil Engineering, Part B: Mechanical Engineering<\/strong><\/em>) by Prof. Beer as the chairman of European Safety and Reliability Association;\u00a0 <\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">A new paper &#8220;<em><strong>A Transfer Matrix Method-based Closed-form Solution of Sensitivities of Dynamic Properties and FRF for Multi-span Pipes under Complex Boundary Conditions<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;was published online in MSSP. This paper provided a new method for sensitivity analysis based on transfer matrix method in structural dynamical problems. Congratulations to Zechao! <\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">Mr. Zhang Yuntai successfully won the UM postdoctoral fellowship and joined the group as a postdoc fellow. Welcome and congratulations!<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Prof. Yan co-chaired a Session on Bayesian Inference for SHM and delivered an invited talk entitled &#8220;<em><strong>Transmissibility-based System Identification and Structural Health Monitoring for Structures under Complicated Operational Conditions<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; in the 9th National Conference on Structural Vibration Control and Health Monitoring;\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Prof. Yan co-chaired a Session on Moving Vehicle Identification and Bridge Weight-In-Motion in the third National Symposium on Vehicle-Bridge Coupling Vibration and Its Application; <\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Prof. Yan delivered an invited talk &#8220;<em><strong>Structural Health Monitoring based on Transmissibility Function subject to Complicated Environmental and Operational Variability<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; in the 13th National Conference on Random Vibration Theory and Application;<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #333399;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Prof. Yan was among two receipts of the <b><i>Distinguished Young Scholar Paper Award<\/i><\/b> presented by the 13th National Conference on Random Vibration Theory and Application;<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Dr. Jia Xinyu joined in Hebei University of Technology (a double class university in mainland China) as an assistant professor. Congratulations to Xinyu and sincerely hoping that everything is fine in the future!<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">\u00a0A new paper &#8220;<em><strong>An Analytically Tractable Solution for Hierarchical Bayesian Model Updating with Variational Inference Scheme<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; was published online in MSSP. This paper provided a new framework for Hierarchical Bayesian Model Updating based on Variational Inference, and resolved an important issue about the hypercovariance which was not reasonable in the previous papers based on asymptotic approximations. Congratulations to Xinyu!<br \/><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">\u00a0A new paper &#8220;<em><strong>Efficient inner-outer decoupling scheme for non-probabilistic model updating with high dimensional model representation and Chebyshev approximation<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; was published in <em><strong>Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing<\/strong><\/em> online. Congratulations to Mo Jiang!\u00a0 <\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #333399;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt\">\u00a0A new paper &#8220;<em><strong>Bayesian nonparametric general regression with adaptive kernel bandwidth and its application to seismic attenuation<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; was published in <em><strong>Advanced Engineering Informatics<\/strong><\/em>. Congratulations to Wenjing!<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">Mr. Yang DeXi (Bacholar @ Southeast University, Master @ HKUST) joined the group as a research assistant. He has successfully won the Postgraduate Teaching Assistantship and will enroll as a PhD student in August. <\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">IOTSC Distinguished Talk Series &#8220;<em><strong>Dealing with Uncertainties in Structural Vibration and Health Monitoring<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; was successfully held in November. Four world-renowned experts inclduing Prof. Chen J.B. from Tongji University, Prof. Au S.K. from NTU, Prof. Costas Papadimitrous from Greece and Prof. Michael Beer from Germany delivered wonderful invited talks during this event. This event also attracted a signifiant number of audiances (more than 150) working in the field of uncertainty analysis.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Our PhD students Mei Linfeng and Hao Tengteng won the Best Poster Award and the Outstanding Poster Award in the <em><strong>Macao Conference on Smart City Technologies 2022<\/strong><\/em>. Congratulations! <\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">Ms. Yin Yuanwei successfully passed the oral defense of her master thesis. Congratulations! <\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">The 13th International Conference on Structural Safety &amp; Reliability (ICOSSAR2021) was held in Shanghai. Prof. Yan co-orgonized and co-chaired a session &#8220;<em><strong>Uncertainty Modelling, Quantification &amp; Propagation in System Identification &amp; Structural Damage Detection<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; together with Prof. Yuen, Prof. Costas and Prof. Beer and Prof. Lambros.<br \/><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">\u00a0A new paper &#8220;<em><strong>An adaptive variational mode extraction method based on multi-domain and multi-objective optimization for bearing fault diagnosis<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; was published in<em><strong> Strctural Health Monitoring<\/strong><\/em> online. Congratulations to Xiaoan!\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">A new paper &#8220;<em><strong>Structural novelty detection Based on Laplace asymptotic expansion of the Bhattacharyya distance of transmissibility function and Bayesian resampling scheme<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; was accepted by <em><strong>Journal of Sound and Vibration<\/strong><\/em>! Congratulations to Linfeng!<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #333399;font-family: times new roman, times, serif\">A new MYRG project entitled &#8220;<em><strong>Unsupervised Damage Detection for Bridges Utilizing Statistical Property of Strain Transmissibility under Moving Vehicles and Novel Probabilistic Machine Learning Schemes<\/strong> <\/em>&#8221; was approved.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #333399;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Mr. Wong Man Iok and Niu Mengkai joined the group for their master degrees. Welcome!<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #333399;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Ms. Zhao Mengyun and Ms. Gui Piao joined the group as a postdoc fellow and a RA. Welcome! <\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">A new paper &#8220;<em><strong>Estimation of time-varying noise parameters for unscented Kalman filter<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; was accepted by MSSP! Congratulations to Yusong! <\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #333399;font-family: times new roman, times, serif\">A new FDCT project entitled &#8220;<em><strong>Key Technologies and Demonstration Application of Intelligent Health Monitoring and Maintenance Decision-Making for Bridges in Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; was approved.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #333399;font-family: times new roman, times, serif\">Prof. Yan was awarded to be the recipient of the U-level \u201c<em>2021\/2022 Incentive Scheme for Outstanding Academic Staff<\/em>\u201d.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">Two Chinese invention patents working together with master students previously were approved by China National Intellectural Property Administration.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\"><span role=\"presentation\">The FYP sutdent Wong Man Iok was selected for the <\/span>FST Dean\u2019s Final Year Project List. Congratulations!<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">Ms. Zhang Lele successfully passed the oral defense of her master thesis. Congratulations! <\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">Two UG students <span role=\"presentation\">Wong Man Iok\u00a0 and Liu Ruiming successfully passed the FYP report oral defenses. Congratulations! <\/span><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Dr. Ping Menghao formerly conducting researches under the supervision of Prof. Han Xu joined the group as a postdoc. Wamely welcome!<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">A new paper entitled &#8220;<em><strong>Monitoring gross vehicle weight with a probabilistic and influence line-free bridge weight-In-motion scheme based on a transmissibility-like index<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; was appceted by MSSP. Congratulations to Tengteng!<br \/><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">A new paper entitled &#8221; <em><strong>Bayesian inference for the dynamic properties of long-span bridges under vortex-induced vibration with Scanlan\u2019s model and dense optical flow scheme<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; was appceted by MSSP.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">Dr. Jia Xinyu formerly conducting researches under the supervision of Professor Costas Papadimitriou joined the group as a postdoc. Warmly welcome!<br \/><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">A new FDCT project entitled &#8220;<em><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Probabilistic Machine Learning for Evolution Law Tracking and Intelligent Detection of Fatigue Damage for High-Speed Railway subjected to Multiple Uncertainties<\/span><\/strong><\/em>&#8221; was approved.<br \/><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">A new paper entitled &#8220;<strong><em>Analytical investigation into error propagation of power spectral density transmissibility (PSDT) based on coherence function<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; was appceted by JSV.\u00a0 Congratulations to Sun Qian.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">A new paper entitled &#8220;<em><strong>A Model-Driven Scheme to Compensate the Strain-Based Non-Intrusive Dynamic Pressure Measurement for Hydraulic Pipe<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; was appceted by IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. Congratulations to Zechao! <\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #333399;font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif\">Our paper published in MSSP entiled \u2018<em><strong>Transmissibility-based system identification for structural health monitoring: Fundamentals, approaches, and applications<\/strong><\/em>\u2019\u00a0 was featured as the most cited articles in MSSP since 2018.<br \/><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Our paper published in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics entiled \u2018<em><strong>Uncertainty quantification for system identification utilizing the Bayesian theory and its recent advances<\/strong><\/em>\u2019\u00a0 was featured as the most cited articles in AMM.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">Dr. X.A. Yan was selected as\u00a0 Macao Youth Scholar (25 in total this year). Congratulations!<br \/><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Three PhD students\u00a0 (L.F. Mei, J. Mo and J.Z. Zang) and two master student (H.Y. Wu and S.R. Li) joined the group. Welcome!<br \/><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">Prof. Yan was invited to present a Keynote Speak\u00a0 \u2018<strong><em>Transmissibility-based System Identification for Structural Health Monitoring: Theory, Practices and Applications<\/em><\/strong>\u2019 in the National Conference on Modal Analysis held in Guizhou.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Prof. Yan delivered an Invited Talk \u2018<strong><em>Fast Bayesian Model Updating with Advanced Stochastic Simulation, Metamodeling and Distributed Parallelization Strategies<\/em><\/strong>\u2019 in the 8th International Conference on Vibration Engineering held in Shanghai. <\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">\u00a0A MYRG project entitled &#8220;<strong><em>Intelligent Nondestructive Testing Technologies for Composite Structures based on Hierarchical Bayesian Learning Scheme and Advanced Modelling of Ultrasonic Wave Interaction with Nonlinear Damage<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; was approved.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">Prof. Yan was invited as reviewer for <em>the <span lang=\"en\">National Science and Technology Awards<\/span><\/em><em>.\u00a0 <\/em><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">Prof. Yan delivered an Invited Talk \u2018<strong><em>Transmissibility-based System Identification for Structural Health Monitoring under Stochastic Excitation: Theory, Approaches and Applications<\/em><\/strong>\u2019 in the 12th National Conference on Stochastic Vibration and Application held in Chongqing. <\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #333399\">\u00a0A FDCT project entitled &#8221;\u00a0<strong><em>Bayesian Time-Varying Approach for Modal Identification and Long-term Evolution Analysis for Bridges subject to Complex Operational Environments<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; was approved.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: times new roman, times, serif;color: #333399\">The paper \u2018<strong><em>A fast Bayesian inference scheme for identification of local structural properties of layered composites based on wave and finite element-assisted metamodeling strategy and ultrasound measurements<\/em><\/strong>\u2019 was selected as <span lang=\"EN-US\">as a key scientific article contributing to research excellence<\/span> by <span lang=\"EN-US\">Advances in Engineering selection committee<\/span>. <\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2f5a7e3\" data-id=\"2f5a7e3\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0658316 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0658316\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-76705d5\" data-id=\"76705d5\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f194164\" data-id=\"f194164\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c5497d6 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"c5497d6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-62401d8 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"62401d8\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-9aae8e7\" data-id=\"9aae8e7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dd7b860 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dd7b860\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif\">Correspondence<\/span><\/h3><p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Address:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Room 5011b<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Building N21<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0University of Macau,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau, China<\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-470a437\" data-id=\"470a437\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-740021b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"740021b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\u00a0<\/h3><p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: times new roman, times, serif\"><strong>Tel:\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (853) 8822-9220<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: times new roman, times, serif\"><strong>Fax:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(853) 8822-2426<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: times new roman, times, serif\"><strong>Email:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 wangjiyan@um.edu.mo<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: times new roman, times, serif\"><strong>URL:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=5Z_6aeMAAAAJ&amp;hl=zh-CN&amp;oi=ao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Google Scholar<\/span>\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Wang-Ji-Yan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Research Gate<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-707bca4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"707bca4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Last updated: 30 July 2021<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-10af3d4\" data-id=\"10af3d4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Biography Publications Grants &amp; Awards Group Members Research \u00a0 Wang-Ji Yan\u00a0 \u984f \u738b \u5409 PhD in Civil Engineering, The HongKong University of Science and Technology, 2013 Associate professor, State Key Lab of Internet of Things for Smart City and Department of Civil Engineering Email: wangjiyan@um.edu.mo; Tel: (853) 8822-9220 Openings (We Want Talents!) New positions &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wangji-yan\/home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"parent":1072,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_canvas","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-12217","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12217"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55971,"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12217\/revisions\/55971"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}