Associate Professor (Presidential Young Scholar Scheme)
ZN920, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong, China
Associate Editor: Engineering Structures
Email: kaiming.bi@polyu.edu.hk
Tel: +852 2766 6075
Fax: (+852) 2334 6389
Dr Kaiming BI (畢凱明) is an Associate Professor (Presidential Young Scholar Scheme) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). Before joining PolyU in January 2023, he was an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow and Associate Professor in the Centre for Infrastructure Monitoring and Protection at Curtin University, Australia. Dr Bi's research interests mainly include Structural Vibration Control, Structural Dynamics, and Earthquake Engineering. He has generated more than 160 peer-reviewed papers in the well-known international journals. His research papers have attracted more than 5600 citations in Google Scholar with an H-index of 41 (up to January 2024). Dr Bi has won quite a few highly competitive research grants, including the prestigious ARC Future Fellowship and Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) in Australia. Dr Bi is an Associate Editor of Engineering Structures.
• 01/2023-present: Associate Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• 01/2021-12/2022: Associate Professor, Curtin University
• 12/2016-12/2020: Senior Lecturer, Curtin University
• 03/2014-11/2016: Lecturer, Curtin University
• 01/2012-03/2014: Lecturer, The University of Western Australia
• 09/2011-12/2011: Graduate Research Assistant, The University of Western Australia
• 1/2008-9/2011: PhD in Structural Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Australia (supervisor Prof. Hong Hao)
• 9/2003-6/2006: MEng in Bridge Engineering, Central South University, China
• 9/1999-6/2003: BEng in Civil Engineering, Central South University, China
• Structural vibration control
• Earthquake engineering
• Impact engineering
• Multi-hazard resilience
• Smart structures and systems
• Sustainable materials
• Artificial intelligence
• 2021-2023: Stanford University World’s Top 2% Scientists
• 2020: Curtin University Research Team Award
• 2020: ARC Future Fellowship
• 2018: the Youth 1000 Talents Plan Project (not activated)
• 2016: JM Ko Medal, Advances in Structural Engineering-An International Journal
• 2016: Finalist, Premier’s Science Awards- Early Career Scientist of the Year
• 2015: ARC DECRA Fellowship
• 2012: High Achieving Young Investigator Award, The University of Western Australia
• 2010: Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Student Abroad, China
• 2008: International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS), the University of Western Australia