Urban Infrastructure and Resilience

This direction formulates an integrated framework encompassing smart monitoring, lifecycle resilience quantification, and cross-system coordination. It aims to transition infrastructure resilience from fragmented components to systemic robustness, ensuring operational continuity and rapid recovery of urban functions during extreme weather.

Smart Structural Health Monitoring
Lifecycle Resilience Quantification and Enhancement
Cross-sector Infrastructure Interactions

Direction Leader

Prof. Jerry Jinyue YAN

Director of PolyU Press, Associate Director of Research Centre for Environmental, Social, and Governance Advancement and Chair Professor of Energy and Buildings

Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Prof. Gang WANG

Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Member

Prof. Huan-Feng DUAN

Associate Director of State Key Laboratory of Climate Resilience for Coastal Cities, Associate Head (Research) & Professor of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Associate Director of Otto Poon Research Institute for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Prof. Ahmed Y. ELGHAZOULI

Visiting Chair Professor of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Integrity

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Ir Prof. Yong XIA

Associate Dean of Graduate School, Associate Director of Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Things, Director of Joint Research Centre for Marine Infrastructure and Chair Professor of Structural Health Monitoring

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Prof. Anthony CHEN

Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Prof. Chi-Yung CHUNG

Head of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Chair Professor of Power Systems Engineering

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Prof. Zhiling GUO

Assistant Professor

Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University