I am Associate Professor(with tenure) and Associate Head (Partnership) of the 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. My track rocord on funding, committee duties, and awards can be found below. 我是香港理工大學建築環境及能源工程學系副教授及副系主任，我的研究主要關注現代建築的火災安全及未來範式的建築結構。在以下頁面列有我的研究項目、兼職任職、獲得獎項等信息。
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
- Associate Head (Partnership), BEEE, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2026.01-present
- Associate Professor, BEEE, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2025.07-present
- Assistant Professor, BEEE, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2019.10-2025.06
- Program Leader of MSc Fire Safety Engineering, BEEE, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2024.09-2025.12
- 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, 2017.12-2018.05
- Assistant Engineer, Hengyu Special Structures Construction Co.Ltd., 2009.01-2010.12
Research Interests
- Fire safety of modern buildings (modern design, timber, glass,detection)
- Advanced fire safety solutions for modern cities
- Automated construction for future buildings(Robot-based, automated construction solution)
- 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”首届青年编委 (Early Career Editorial Board Member of “Progress in Building Steel Structures “)
- Guest Editor of Fire Technology, “Structures in Fire”
- Guest Editor of International Journal of High-rise Buildings, “Fire safety of tall buildings”
Academic/Technical Posts
-Institutional posts
- Board member of Eurasian OpenSees Association (1/7).
- Vice Director of International Joint Research Laboratory on Fire Safety Engineering (based in Tongji University).
- Member of Education Committee of International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS).
- Member of Fire&life Safety Committee of Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)
- Fire Safety Expert Serving Hong Kong Indepdent Committee in relation to the fire at Wang Fuk Court at Tai Po (1/2).
- Member of Accreditation Panel for Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications, 2025.
- Member of the Registration Committee under Fire Services (Registered Fire Engineers) Regulation, Hong Kong Fire Services Department.
- Member of Technical Committee of The Code of Practice for Fire Safety in Buildingsof Hong Kong Buildings Department.
- Member of Fire Safety Committee of Hong Kong Buildings Department
- Member of Advisory Committee for Fire Safety Ordinances of Hong Kong Buildings Department
- Member of Scientific Committee of Structural Fire Engineering Symposium (全国结构防火技术研讨会学术委员会).
- Advisor of SFPE Hong Kong Student Chapter (2021 Gold Award, 2022 Gold Award for excellence of student chapter)
- Member of Faculty Board of FCE.
- Member of Department Staffing Committee of BEEE,2025-2027.
- Member of Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE).
- Member of International Association for Fire Safety Sceience (IAFSS).
- Member of Council on Vertical Urbanism (also known as CTBUH).
- Member of Research Institute of Sustainable Urban Development (RISUD) and Research Institute of Advanced Manufacturing (RIAM).
-Conference posts
- Chair of Organising Committee of International Conference on Structures in Fire (SIF2022).
- 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 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, SiF2026.
- Scientific Committee Member of CONFAB2017, 2019; Session Chair of CONFAB2017.
- Session Chair of Protect 2024.
-Reviewing duties
- 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.
Awards
- [2026] HKIE Fire Division Scholarship to Mr Chan Chuen Chi for Excellent FYP performance (as project supervisor).
- [2025] Best Paper on Innovation, 12th International Conference on Advances in Steel Structures (ICASS 2025).
- [2025] OpenSees Best Paper Award (certification of distinction), The 1st EOS OpenSees Award, EuroAsian OpenSees Association
- [2025] IAFSS 2026 Philip Thomas Medal of Excellence, International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS), 2025. (One in every three years)
- [2025] Best Paper Award for Mid-aged and Young Academics, 25th National Symposium on Modern Structural Engineering.
- [2025] ASCE Outstanding Reviewer Award 2024 for Journal of Structural Engineering, 2025.
- [2025] FSICA Award 2025 to Mr Chin Lok Hei for Best Student Project Performance in fire safety engineering in Hong Kong (as project superviosr).
- [2024] Wiley Top Downloaded Article 2024, Fire and Materials, “OpenSees development for modelling timber structural memberssubjected to realistic fire impact”, 2024
- [2023] 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.
- [2023] Best URIS Project Award (Merit Award)to Miss LAM Ying Tung (as project supervisor), 2023
- [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).
- [2023] FSICA Award 2023 to Mr LIU Jiahao for Best Student Project Performance in fire safety engineering in Hong Kong (as project superviosr).
- [2023] 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).
- [2022] Best Resrach Award in Young Researcher Forum of National Engineering Technology Research Center for Prefabrication Construction in Civil Engineering.
- [2022] FSICA Award 2022 to Miss LAM Ying Tung for Best Student Project Performance in fire safety engineering in Hong Kong(as project supervisor).
- [2021] Wiley Top cited Article 2020-2021, Fire and Materials, ‘An extendeded travelling fire methof framework for performance-based structural design’.
- [2021] Departmental Teaching Award, Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering, 2021.
- [2018] Outstanding employee of the year, Country Garden Group (HuZhe Region), 2018.
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