About

I am an Assistant Professor in Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. I primarily work in the two aspects of “Structures in Fire”, i.e., fire safety engineering for modern building structures, and future-oriented structural solutions using automated technologies. 我現任職于香港理工大學建築環境及能源工程學系，主要研究現代建築結構的火災安全及面向未來的自動化施工的結構方案。

Email

liming.jiang(at)Polyu.edu.hk

Education Background

  • BEng (Civil Engineering),2008, Tongji University, Shanghai
  • MSc (Structural Engineering), 2011, Tongji University, Shanghai
  • PhD (Fire Safety Engineering), 2016, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh

Work Experience

-In University

  • Assistant Professor, BEEE, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, from 2019.10
  • Program Leader of MSc Fire Safety Engineering, BEEE, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, from 2024
  • Part-time Research Fellow, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2018.02-2019.02
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2016.09-2017.12
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brunel University London, 2016.01-2016.08

-In Industry

  • Project General Manager, Country Garden Group , 2019.05-2019.09
  • Assistant Project General Manager, Country Garden Group, 2018.05-2019.04
  • ‘Global Future Leader’ Program, Senior Manager, Country Garden Group, 2017.12-2019.05
  • Assistant Engineer, Hengyu Special Structures Construction Co.Ltd., 2009.01-2010.12

Research Interests

  • Fire safety of modern buildings using timber-integrated design and automated construction
  • Computational modelling & Hybrid simulation/testing
  • OpenSees software development

Editorial Duties

  • Editorial Board Member of Fire Safety Journal(JCR Q2)
  • Editorial Board Member of Fire Technology(JCR Q2)
  • “建筑钢结构进展”青年编委 (Young Editor Board Member of “Building Steel Structures Progress”)
  • Guest Editor of Fire Technology, “Structures in Fire”
  • Guest Editor of International Journal of High-rise Buildings, “Fire safety of tall buildings”

Academic Posts

  • Program Leader of MSc Fire and Safety Engineering.
  • Vice Director of International Joint Research Laboratory on Fire Safety Engineering (based in Tongji University).
  • Member of Professional Committee of Structural Fire Engineering, The Architectural Society of China.
  • Member of Technical Committee of The Code of Practice for Fire Safety in Buildings, Hong Kong Building Department.
  • Member of Education Committee of International Association for Fire Safety Science.
  • Organising Chair of MS-05(Structures in Fire) in 1st International Conference of Engineering Structures, Nov, 2024.
  • Co-organiser of 1st Workshop for International Joint Laboratory on Fire Safety Engineering, Wuhan, 2024.
  • Member of Technical Program Committee of 6th International Conference on Modelling in Mechanics and Materials, 2024, Kula Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • Member of Local Organising Committee of 5th 3D Construction Printing Conference, 2024, Hong Kong
  • Co-Chair of ‘Structure’ workshop in IAFSS 2023.
  • Chair of Organising Committee of International Conference on Structures in Fire (SIF2022).
  • Member of Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE)
  • Member of International Association for Fire Safety Sceience (IAFSS)
  • Research leader of structural fire engineering, Research Center for Fire Safety Engineering, PolyU.
  • Member of Research Institute of Sustainable Urban Development (RISUD) and Research Institute of Advanced Manufacturing (RIAM).
  • Chair of mini-symposium of ICOSSAR 2021: fire safety, smart fire application.
  • Scientific Committee member of IFireSS 2025.
  • Scientific Committee Member of AOSFST 2021.
  • Scientific Committee Member of SIF 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024; Session Chair of SIF2020, SiF2022, SiF2024.
  • Scientific Committee Member of CONFAB2017, 2019; Session Chair of CONFAB2017.
  • Session Chair of Protect 2024.
  • Advisor of SFPE Hong Kong Student Chapter (2021 Gold Award, 2022 Gold Award for excellence of student chapter)
  • Reviewer for more than 30 international journals, including “Engineering Structures”, “Journal of Building Engineeing”, “Steel and Composite Structures, “Thin-walled Structures”, “Construction and Building Materials”, “Fire Safety Journal”, “Fire Technology”, “Computers and Concrete”, “Structures”, “Advances in Structural Engineering”, “Advances in Engineering Software”, “Journal of Structural Engineering”, etc.
  • External Reviewer of “Technical specification for Construction details of fire protection for timber structures”, 2021.

Grants

-External Grants

  • Sub-project of Shenzhen Key R&D Project (深圳市重大专项), 1M CNY (Total fund: 8M CNY), 2025-2027, PI.
  • RGC General Research Fund (GRF),946K HKD, 2025-2027, PI.
  • HKSTP Ideation Grant, 100K HKD, 2024, PI.
  • UGC Fund for Innovative Technology-in-Education (FITE), 200K HKD, 2023-2025, PI.
  • RGC General Research Fund (GRF),1.13M HKD, 2024-2026, PI.
  • Croucher Conference Sponsorship Grant, 100K HKD, 2022, PI.
  • State Key Lab of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering Open Fund, 500K CNY, 2021-2023, PI.
  • SHUA Research Activity Fund, 40K HKD, 2021, PI.

-Internal Grants

  • BEEE Departmental Strategic Research Fund on “fire detection”, 1M HKD, 2024-2027, PI.
  • BEEE Departmental Strategic Research Fund on “3D Printing”, 1M HKD, 2024-2027, Co-I.
  • PolyU Micro Fund Top Performer, 20K HKD, 2024(in progress towards Incubation Grant), PI.
  • PolyU Fund for collaborative research with World-Leading Research Groups, 1.99M HKD, 2024-2026, Co-PI.
  • Post-doc Matching Fund to Dr Ji Wei, 0.55M HKD, 2024-2026, Co-I.
  • Post-doc Matching Fund to Dr Wu Taotao, 0.55M HKD, 2024-2026, PI.
  • PolyU Incentive for Online Teaching Scheme, 792K HKD, 2023-2024, Co-PI.
  • RISUD Joint Research Fund, 1.2M HKD, 2023-2025, PI.
  • FCE Young Collaborative Research Fund, 500K HKD, 2023-2025, PI.
  • RIAM Research Fund, 500K HKD, 2022-2024, Co-I.
  • PolyU MOOC Fund, 400K HKD, 2020-2023, Co-I.
  • PolyU Large Equipment Fund for Teaching, 737K HKD, 2021-2022, PI.
  • Post-doc Matching Fund to Dr Cai Xuesong, 283K HKD, 2021-2022, PI.
  • University Start-up Fund, 600K HKD, 2020-2023, PI.
  • Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scheme (URIS), 30K HKD, 2021-2022, PI.
  • Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scheme (URIS), 30K HKD, 2021-2022, PI.
  • Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scheme (URIS), 30K HKD, 2021-2022, PI.

Awards

  • Wiley Top Downloaded Article 2022, Fire and Materials, “OpenSees development for modelling timber structural memberssubjected to realistic fire impact”, 2024
  • Editor’s Featured Paper Award of “Engineering Structures” Journal, “Development of reusable AI Models for fast predicting fire behaviour of steel Columns in structural systems”, 2023.
  • Best Resrach Award in Young Researcher Forum of National Engineering Technology Research Center for Prefabrication Construction in Civil Engineering, Oct 2022.
  • Wiley Top cited Article 2020-2021, Fire and Materials, ‘An extendeded travelling fire methof framework for performance-based structural design’.
  • Departmental Teaching Award, Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering, 2021.
  • Outstanding employee of the year, Country Garden Group (HuZhe Region), 2018.

-Awards to Supervised Students or Projects

  • Best URIS Project Award (Merit Award)to Miss LAM Ying Tung (as project supervisor), 2023
  • IAFSS Sheldon Tieszen Student Award to PhD student CHU Tianwei for Best Student Papers in IAFSS 2023 (as cheif PhD supervisor and corresponding author) .
  • FSICA Award 2023 to Mr LIU Jiahao for Best Student Project Performance in fire safety engineering in Hong Kong (as project superviosr).
  • The HKIE Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineers/ Researchers 2023 to Miss LAM Ying Tung for her URIS project paper “Study of Fire Impact on Glass Panels” (as project supervisor).
  • The HKIE (Fire Division) Scholarship 2022 to Miss LAM Ying Tung for student excellence in fire safety engineering (as project supervisor).
  • FSICA Award 2022 to Miss LAM Ying Tung for Best Student Project Performance in fire safety engineering in Hong Kong(as project supervisor).

Teaching Subjects

  • BSE3321:Fire Services, Undergraduate Subject
  • BSE4317:Fire Engineering Safety Management, Undergraduate Subject
  • CSE39482: Structural Resilience and Fire Risk Management
  • BSE532:Fire Engineering Systems, MEng Subject
  • BSE534:Legislation Aspects of Fire Safety Management, MEng Subject
  • BSE574/577:Research Methods, MEng Subject
  • BSE3713, BSE Capstone Projects; BSE 4723: BSE Final Year Projects; BSE575: MEng Project