Biography Dr Zhang Pin is a Presidential Young Professorship (PYP) Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Prior to joining NUS, Dr Zhang worked at the University of Cambridge as a Royal Society Newton International Fellow, Department teacher and Wolfson College research associate. Dr Zhang earned his PhD from The Hong Kong […]
Biography Dr Guo Yang joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2023 as a Presidential Young Professor/Assistant Professor. His research explores the opportunities for eco-industrial development and sustainable infrastructure systems. Yang is interested in utilizing synergy perspectives to provide policy implications for industrial sector decarbonization. Before joining NUS, he was a Schmidt Science
Biography Iris Yu is interested in the upcycling of biomass waste, food waste in particular, to platform chemicals and sustainable materials as alternatives to petroleum-based products, with the ambition to achieve carbon neutrality. She specializes in microwave-assisted conversion, green solvents and catalysts, and sustainable thermochemical processes. She obtained her PhD from the Hong Kong Polytechnic
Biography Kaidi Yang is an ETH-trained Ph.D. with experience in transportation, operations research, and robotics. He aims to develop efficient and trustworthy algorithms for the design and operation of future mobility systems, with a particular focus on advances in vehicular technology (e.g., connected and automated vehicles, electric vehicles, etc.) and shared mobility. Before joining NUS,
Biography Dr Prateek Bansal is a Presidential Young (Assistant) Professor who joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in December 2021. Before joining NUS, he was a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at Imperial College London. Dr Bansal leads the Behavioural Cognitive Science (BeCoS) lab at NUS. His group develops novel methods at the
Biography Jiarui “Gary” Lei is an assistant professor whose research focuses on environmental fluid mechanics, flow-vegetation interaction, and nature-based solutions for coastal protection. He earned his Ph.D. from MIT in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2019 and holds B.S. degrees from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His work encompasses
Biography Dr Li Yuzhu, Pearl is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at NUS. She has been awarded as Marie-Curie Scholar and Humboldt Experienced Researcher. Her research focuses on many aspects of coastal engineering, including fluid-structure-seabed interaction, breaking waves, sediment transport, scour, liquefaction, and turbulence modelling, with a particular focus
Biography Xiaogang He is a Princeton-trained Ph.D. A hydrologist with experience in economics, machine learning, and environmental policy. His research interests focus on the fundamental understanding of how climate change, variability, and human interventions affect drought and flood risk across scales, and how to implement an integrative framework (e.g., hydrological modelling, remote sensing, artificial intelligence,
Biography Dr. Geng Guoqing received his Bachelor degree from Southeast University (China) in 2010, and his Master and Doctoral degrees in CEE at UC Berkeley (USA) in 2013 and 2017, respectively. His PhD program was dedicated to investigating the microscale chemistry and mineralogy of modern construction materials. He was then awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at
Qualifications PhD, University of California-Berkeley, USA Teaching Areas Very active in conducting short course and seminar to practicing engineers under PAC (NUS), and IESA on practice orientated courses on geotechnical engineering, geotechnical software, erosion and sediment control, and design of ABC water features. Research Interests Soil improvement of soft ground (Jet grouting, deep cement mixing
