Artificial Intelligence in Safety Science and Engineering

Xinyan Huang

Xinyan Huang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his PhD from Imperial College London, MSc from UC San Diego, and BEng from Southeast University, China. Before joining PolyU, he was a Postdoc and Lecturer at UC Berkeley, where he explored Microgravity Fire Safety for the International Space Station with NASA.

Dr. Huang is a Combustion Scientist and a Fire Safety Engineer. He has co-authored over 180 journal papers, edited one book, and supervised more than 10 Postdocs and 20 PhD students. He is a board member of the International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) and the International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF). He serves as an Associate Editor for Fire Technology and International Journal of Wildland Fire, and is an editorial board member for J. Building Engineering, Fire Safety J., and Fire and Materials. He is a Chartered Building Services and Fire Engineer, a committee member for the HK Fire Safety Code, and a High Court Fire Expert.

His accolades include the NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund, Bernard Lewis Fellowship, Best Paper Award from the Combustion Institute, IAFSS Early Career Award, Ricardo Award from the Institute of Physics, HKIE Fire Engineering Grand Award, and the “5 under 35” and Bono Award from the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE).

Jihao Shi

Jihao Shi is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his BEng (First Class) degree and PhD degree from China University of Petroleum in 2013 and 2018, respectively. Dr. Shi was also a China Scholarship Council (CSC) visiting PhD student at Curtin University in Australia from 2016 to 2018. Before joining PolyU, he worked as an Associate Professor and Postdoctoral Researcher at China University of Petroleum.

Dr. Shi’s research interests focus on physics-based AI for process safety management. He has published over 50 SCI journal papers, including 31 papers as the first or corresponding author. His work has been funded by the National Key R&D Program of China, NSFC, and various industrial partners. Dr. Shi is an associate editor of Petroleum Science and has served as Chief Guest Editor for Reliability Engineering & System Safety and Process Safety and Environmental Protection. He is also a recipient of the Best PhD Thesis Award in Safety Science and Engineering in China.

Ming Yang

Ming Yang is an Assistant Professor in the section of Safety and Security Science at Delft University of Technology. His scientific work centers on reliability, risk, and resilience modeling to support safety and security-related decision-making problems in the process industries and offshore operations. He holds a B.Eng in Chemical and Material Engineering with a minor in Management Science, an MSc in Environmental System Engineering, and a PhD in Oil and Gas Engineering.

He serves as Associate Editor for ACS Journal of Chemical Health & Safety, Subject Editor for Process Safety and Environmental Protection and Safety in Extreme Environments, and is an Editorial Board Member for Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, and Hygiene and Environmental Health Advances.