Biography Dr Liu Shangwei is a tenure-track Presidential Fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on energy and climate policy, combining engineering-based modelling with policy and economic analysis. Key areas include clean energy transition and net-zero energy systems, technology innovation, and climate change impacts. […]
Biography Dr Meng Xin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). He received his BEng from Tsinghua University in 2015 and MSc and PhD from Imperial College London in 2016 and 2020, respectively. Prior to joining NUS, he worked as a Research Associate and then a Research Fellow at
Biography Dr Pan Weiyi is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Rice University (2025) and Yale University (2022-2024). He earned his PhD in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 2022. He also holds an
Biography Dr Shengjie Rui is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to joining NUS, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) in Norway. He was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship. Dr Rui’s research focuses on
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 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 specialises 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 Yuzhu Pearl Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at NUS. She is a former Marie-Curie Scholar and a Humboldt Experienced Researcher. Her research covers a broad range of coastal engineering topics, including wave–structure–seabed interaction, breaking waves, sediment transport, liquefaction, and turbulence modelling, with a particular emphasis
