I will be joining Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, as a tenure-track Nanyang Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Fall 2026. I am recruiting multiple fully funded PhD and postdoctoral positions to advance research in civil infrastructure monitoring, distributed acoustic sensing, urban geophysics, and AI/ML for urban resilience. More details here.

I am working on scalable urban monitoring.

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT’s Senseable City Lab. Before that, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Geophysics and the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. I received my Ph.D. from Stanford University, my M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University, and my Bachelor's degree from Central South University, China.

My research aims to achieve scalable monitoring of urban environments, focusing on the safety, resilience, and sustainability of built environments and the Earth's subsurface.

I develop scalable methods for sensing and modeling the physical interactions among built, natural, and human systems, informed by integrated knowledge from structural dynamics, environmental geophysics, cyber-physical systems, and ubiquitous sensing and computing.

My research framework

My research introduces a two-pronged approach to achieve scalable monitoring of urban environments.

In the first step, I leverage existing, non-dedicated sensing platforms, such as everyday vehicles and telecom fiber-optic networks, to perceive the urban environment through physical interactions among urban systems.

The second step of my research develops physics-guided learning & modeling methods that integrate physical knowledge of urban interactions with advanced signal processing and machine learning techniques to improve the accuracy and interpretability of the monitoring results.