Professor Qiusheng Li is Chair Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of Architecture and Civil Engineering Research Centre of City University of Hong Kong. Prof. Li graduated from Shanghai Jiao-Tong University with BEng in 1984 and from Harbin Institute of Technology with MEng in 1987. He obtained PhD with the best PhD thesis award (Professor K.H. Hunt medal) from Faculty of Engineering at Monash University, Australia. Before joining City University in 1996, Prof. Li had seven years of working experience as an engineer in Japan and Australia. During this period, he was involved in numerous wind engineering and structural dynamic studies on major building and structural developments in Asia and Pacific region. His main research interests and technical expertise are in wind engineering,structural dynamics, structural health monitoring, structural engineering, earthquake engineering, computational mechanics, reliability and risk assessment. Over the last thirty years, his research in these fields has resulted in over 330 refereed international journal papers and five books. Prof. Li is one of the most cited researchers in civil engineering according to Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2016 by Elsevier and the latest Stanford University Worldwide Survey. Prof. Li has received several awards for his academic contributions including Outstanding Overseas Young Scientist Award offered by the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2004 and The First Class Award of the Scientific and Technological Progress from the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China in 2010. He was appointed as Cheung Kong Chair Professor by the State Education Ministry of the People's Republic of China and Li Ka Shing Foundation, Hong Kong in 2007. Prof. Li is the recipient of the 2016 Jack E. Cermak Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers in recognition of his "many contributions to wind engineering that range from fundamental to applied research, especially structural dynamics studies on major building developments in Asia and the Pacific region". In 2020, Prof. Li has been awarded the Robert H. Scanlan Medal by the American Society of Civil Engineers for his "outstanding contributions to wind engineering and structural mechanics from fundamental research to engineering applications". Currently, he is an associate editor of Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE and an editorial board member for a number of international journals. Prof. Li has been a principal investigator for more than 70 research grants at City University of Hong Kong.

Departmental Duty

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Course Leader Duty

• BC3618: Construction Technology  
• BC3618F: Construction Technology  
• BC3618P: Construction Technology  
• BC4644: Wind and Earthquake Engineering  
• CA3618: Construction Technology  
• CA4644: Wind and Earthquake Engineering  
• CA6009: Wind Engineering  
• CA8009: Wind Engineering  

Research Interests

Wind engineering, structural dynamics, structural health monitoring, structural control, structural engineering, earthquake engineering, computational fluid and solid mechanics, reliability and risk assessment.

Selected Publications

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