Congratulations to our PhD student, Wang Zilong being selected as one of the May 2022 Student Research Grant recipients.
The SFPE Foundation supports a number of initiatives designed to further its mission to enhance the scientific understanding of fire and its interaction with the natural and built environment. An important part of this mission is developing the next generation of fire protection engineers. The foundation encourages this through an emphasis on student involvement in the Research Roadmap program as well as through the Student Research Grant Program. Zilong was awarded a student research grant for his project or his project “Smart Fire Calorimetry Driven by Image Analysis and Artificial Intelligence”. This project aims to develop a smart fire calorimetry system using fire scene images and artificial intelligence. The outcome of this research will provide a simple and convenient way to measure the fire HRR, which shows great potential in future smart firefighting applications. A $5,000 stipend will be provided by SFPE Foundation to support his research work.
Under the supervision of Dr Huang Xinyan, Zilong is exploring how AI and computer vision can help firefighting and how to identify the fire scenarios using fire images. So far, he has published several journal papers on smart firefighting in Fire Technology, Journal of Building Engineering, and Proceeding of the Combustion Institute.
The Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) is the world's leading professional society representing those practicing in the field of fire protection and fire safety engineering. The Society has over 4,800 members and over 100 chapters worldwide, including more than 20 student chapters. The SFPE Hong Kong Student Chapter was founded in 2019. It is the first student chapter in the Greater China Area and wins the Gold Award in 2021 and 2022.
The Department would like to congratulate Zilong on the excellent achievement. We wish him continued success.
See more details in https://www.sfpe.org/foundation/foundationresearch/appgrants
