Built Environment
- Design & Control
Biography
Dr. Wei Liu is a full Professor at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University. Dr. Liu earned his B.Sc. in 2009 from Tianjin University, China and M.S.E. in 2014 and Ph.D. in 2017 from Purdue University, USA. He was an Assistant Professor at ZJU-UIUC Institute, Zhejiang University (2017.10-2019.1), Assistant Professor (2019.2-2022.12) and Associate Professor (2023.1-2023.12) at the Division of Sustainable Buildings, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Dr. Liu's current research topics include Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and Air Distribution, Inverse Design and Control of indoor environments, and Data-Driven/AI-based Smart Buildings. He has published 80 journal papers and 46 conference papers. Dr. Liu is an Outstanding Winner and recipient of INFORMS Award from Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2019. He is also a recipient of Best Paper Award from ROOMVENT 2018, Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship from Purdue University in 2016, First Prize of the RP-1493 - Shootout Contest from ASHRAE in 2012, and Grant-in-Aid Award from ASHRAE in 2011.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aSgEUQ0AAAAJ&hl=en
Graduate Students

Kaizhe Shi
School of Environmental Science and Engineering
Tianjin University
B.Sc. in Building Environment and Energy Application Engineering, Hebei University of Science and Technology, 2017-2021.
M.sc. in Heating, Gas Supply, Ventilation and Air-conditioning Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, 2021-2024.
Kaizhe is a PhD student at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University. Her current research focuses on design of outdoor micro-environment.
Email: kaizhe_shi@tju.edu.cn

Ran Zhang
School of Environmental Science and Engineering
Tianjin University
B.Sc. in Building Environment and Energy Application Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, 2017-2021.
M.Sc. in Energy and Power, Hebei University of Technology, 2021-2024
Ran is a PhD student at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University. His research focuses on the numerical and experimental study on the transport of hydrogen peroxide for indoor disinfection
Email: ran_zhang@tju.edu.cn

Shaofang Xu
School of Environmental Science and Engineering
Tianjin University
B.Sc. in Building Environment and Energy Application Engineering, Jimei University, 2019-2023.
Shaofang is a Master student at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University. Her current research topic is inverse identification of contaminant sources in unsteady flow fields.
Email: 2023214083@tju.edu.cn

Zhenyu Sun
School of Environmental Science and Engineering
Tianjin University
B.Sc. in Building Environment and Energy Application Engineering, University of Scicence and Technology Beijing, 2019-2023.
Zhenyu Sun is a Master student at the School of Environmental Science&Engineering, Tianjin University. His current research is on the super-resolution reconstruction of turbulent flow.
Email: szy2023214014@tju.edu.cn

Xiaohan Wang
School of Environmental Science and Engineering
Tianjin University
B.Sc. in Building Environment and Energy Application Engineering, Shandong Agricultural University, 2019-2023.
Xiaohan is a Master student at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University. His research focuses on the accuracy of intrusive measurement techniques for flow characterization of ABL wind tunnels
Email: xiaohanwang_1@tju.edu.cn

Shasha Wang
Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering
City University of Hong Kong
B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Chang'an University, 2015-2019
M.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2019-2022
Shasha is a PhD student at the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong. Her current research focuses on pollutant source identification.
Email: shaswang2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk

Zhicheng Ma
School of Environmental Science and Engineering
Tianjin University
B.Sc. in in Energy and Power Engineering, Ludong University, 2018-2022.
M.Sc. in Energy and Power, Tianjin University of Commerce, 2022-2025.
Zhicheng is a PhD student at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University.
Email: m17860366065@163.com

Xin Liu
School of Environmental Science and Engineering
Tianjin University
B.Sc. in Building Environment and Energy Application Engineering, North China Electric Power University, 2018-2022.
M.Sc. in Thermal Energy and Power Engineering, Tianjin University, 2022-2025.
Xin is a PhD student at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University.
Email: 1025214009@tju.edu.cn

Qiling Zhong
School of Environmental Science and Engineering
Tianjin University
B.Sc. in Building Environment and Energy Application Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, 2021-2025.
Qiling is a Master student at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University. Her current research focuses on inverse design of heat/mass transfer in built environments based on the coupled adjoint method and Entransy dissipation theory.
Email: zhongql11@163.com

Wei Zhang
School of Environmental Science and Engineering
Tianjin University
B.Sc. in Building Environment and Energy Application Engineering, Tianjin University, 2021-2025.
Wei is a Master student at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University.
Email: gsmw_1960241632@tju.edu.cn

Zhanghe Chen
School of Environmental Science and Engineering
Tianjin University
B.Sc. in Building Environment and Energy Application Engineering, Tianjin University, 2021-2025.
Zhanghe is a Master student at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University.
Email: 2025214160@tju.edu.cn

Yang Zhang
School of Environmental Science and Engineering
Tianjin University
B.Sc. in Building Environment and Energy Application Engineering, Tianjin University, 2021-2025.
Yang is a Master student at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University. He is co-supervised with Prof. Tengfei "Tim" Zhang.
Email: zy2025214168@tju.edu.cn
Graduated Students
CALZOLARI Giovanni, PhD, "Improving built environment aerodynamics with deep learning", KTH, 2025.
SUN Rui**, Master, “Research on fast and accurate simulation methods for outdoor thermal environments”, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2025.
QI Fan, Master, "Prediction of average wind pressure coefficient on building surfaces by artificial neural network: development of a calculation method and an application to the Valbo church in Sweden", KTH, 2025.
WANG Yukun*, PhD, "Research on the mechanism and method of efficient control of oil mist in industrial factory", Tianjin University, 2024.
PENG Shibo, Master, "Comparative study of the hydrofoil performance in vertical axis water turbine systems with boundary element method and RANS", KTH, 2024.
Al-BWAB Ibrahim , Master, "Analyses of particulate matter movement between neighboring windows: Computational fluid dynamics study", KTH, 2024.
LIU Fei*, PhD, "Removal of oil mist particles in large-span machining workshops by optimal ventilation", Tianjin University, 2023.
DRUERE Cassandre, Master, "Improving thermal comfort while managing the constraints of the prison environment", KTH, 2022.
GOBERT Robin, Master, "Design of high performance buildings: Vulnerability of buildings to climate change from an energy perspective", KTH, 2022.
*Co-supervised at KTH
**Co-supervised
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