Research Assistant Professor

Dr. Yifei HU

Research Assistant Professor 

Dr. Yifei HU received his BEng degree from Tongji University in 2012, and his MSc degree from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2013. He worked as a graduate structural engineer for an international engineering consulting firm in Hong Kong from 2013 to 2014. After he received his PhD degree from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2019, Dr. Hu joined Chinese National Engineering Research Centre for Steel Construction (Hong Kong Branch) as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Hu’s research mainly focused on high performance steel structures and cold-formed steel tubular structures. His specialties include non-linear finite element modelling of manufacturing processes, experimental and numerical investigations into cold-formed high strength steel tubular joints, practical structural design and connection design in steel modular buildings.