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PolyU X Fire Lab

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Prof. Xinyan Huang 黄鑫炎

Principal Investigator

Associate Professor, Dept of Building Environment and Energy Engineering

Deputy Director, Research Center for Smart Urban Resilience and Firefighting

Address: ZS832, BLK Z, 181 Chatham Road South, Kowloon, Hong Kong       
Email: xy.huang@polyu.edu.hk     
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Research Areas: Combustion, Fire Safety Engineering, Smart Firefighting, Energy Safety, Human Behaviors in Fire, Fire Investigation, and Wildland Fire Ecology

  • Ph.D. in Mech. Engineering, Imperial College London (2016)

  • M.Sc. in Mech. Engineering, University of California, San Diego (2012)

  • B.Eng. in Thermal Engineering, Southeast University, China (2010)

Associate Editor: Fire Technology, International Journal of Wildland Fire, Journal of Safety Science and Resilience, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute

Editorial Member/Guest Editor: Fire Safety J, Fire and Materials, J Building Engineering, Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, Applications in Energy and Combustion Science

Director, Int Assoc Wildland Fire (IAWF), Int Assoc Fire Safety Science (IAFSS)

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