Research Progress on Smart Urban Resilience and Firefighting

Dr. Xinyan Huang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Dr Xinyan Huang is an Associate Professor at the Dept of Building Environment and Energy Engineering, PolyU. He received his PhD from Imperial College London, MSc from UC San Diego, and BEng from Southeast University. Before joining PolyU, Dr Huang was a Postdoc at UC Berkeley and worked with NASA on microgravity combustion. Dr Huang has co-authored over 200 journal papers on combustion and fire research. He served as an Associate Editor of Int J Wildland Fire and Fire Technology. He won the NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund, Bernard Lewis Fellowship and Sugden Best Paper Award from the Combustion Institute, Ricardo Award from the IOP, and Early Career Award from IAFSS.

Machine Learning-Based Forecasting for Building Fire

Dr. Andy Tam is a Mechanical Engineer in the Fire Fighting Technology Group of the Fire Research Division of the Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Before his tenure, Andy was an NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate at NIST after receiving his PhD from PolyU. His research interests are thermal radiation heat transfer, machine learning for interdisciplinary research studies on smart firefighting, firefighters’ health monitoring, cooktop fire prevention, and heat transfer analysis for lithium-ion batteries.

Learning Complex Regulatory Rules and Evacuation Patters for Better Fire Safety Design

Enhancing Fire Safety using Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality

Dr. Ruggiero Lovreglio is an Associate Professor at the School of Built Environment, Massey University, New Zealand. He is a RuthefordDiscovery Fellow for the Royal Society Te Apārangi, New Zealand. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the joint PhD School of Politecnico di Bari, Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino. His research focuses on XR application for safety training and human behaviour in disasters. He is an Associate Editor for Safety Science and Fire Technology and member of the editorial board of Fire Safety Journal and Virtual Reality.

Integration of Fire Engineering Solutions into Smart Building Digital Platforms

Ir. Dr. Young WONG, Arup Hong Kong

Operando Monitoring of Internal State during Cycling and Thermal Runaway in Commercial Lithium-ion Battery via Advanced Lab-on-fiber Technologies

Prof. Qingsong WANG

University of Science and Technology of China

Prof.Qingsong Wang is a professor and group leader of Industrial Fire Group at State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, USTC. He received his PhD in Safety Science and Technology from USTC in 2005. From 2007 to 2009, He worked as the Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowships at Kingston University London. He is a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET 2020) and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). His main research interests are lithium-ion battery safety, e.g., thermal runaway mechanism, fire behavior, thermal management, fire prevention of lithium-ion batteries etc. He has published more than 200 pre-viewed journal papers, and they were cited more than 18000 times. He serves as guest editor of Safety Science, Fire Technology et al.

Thermal Performance of Firefighter Protective Clothing during Intense Heat Exposure

Dr. Maryam Ghodrat is a Senior Lecturer and Leader of the “Adaptive Design for Resilient Infrastructure” Research Group at UNSW. She established Pyrometric Lab with a modular subsonic wind tunnel for visualisation of flame propagation in Wildland Urban Interface Scenarios. Dr. Ghodrat’s research in the field of fire dynamics covers bench scale experiments, development of new numerical methods and large-scale simulations on HPC systems. She is currently working on range of different research projects including experimental investigation of the factors affecting performance of firefighters' protective clothing, smouldering of soft furnishings component materials at multiple scales, smouldering combustion in loose-fill fibre thermal insulation and measurement of the tendency of wooden openings to smouldering ignition by embers.