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Jun 06, 2024. Yiding successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on 'Advanced Methods for Predicting Air Pollutant Transport in the Micro-scale Urban Environment'  Congratulations to Dr. Zhou!

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May 06, 2024. The presentation 'Making city winds work for us: a look into urban wind simulations' by Ms. Jue Wang was awarded 2nd Runner-up in the Department's Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Congratulations to Jue!

Dec 5, 2024. The paper 'Wang, H., Ma, W., Niu, J., You, R.* 2024. Evaluating a deep learning-based surrogate model in predicting wind distribution for urban microclimates' has been accepted by Building and Environment. Congratulations to Houzhi! 

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Nov 4, 2024. The paper 'Wang, J., and You, R.* 2024. Evaluating different categories of turbulence models for calculating air pollutant dispersion in street canyons with generic and real urban layouts' has been accepted by Journal of Wind Engineering & Industrial Aerodynamics. Congratulations to Jue! 

 

 

Oct 17, 2024. The paper 'Zhao L., You R.*, Stocchino A., Chen, Q. 2025. Bubble deformation characteristics and the effect on particle removal efficiency in wet scrubbers' has been accepted by Separation and Purification Technology. Congratulations to Lei!

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​Oct 2, 2024. The paper 'Zhao. R., Zhong. S., You R.* 2024. Application of convolutional neural network for efficient turbulence modeling in urban wind field simulation' has been accepted by Physics of Fluids. Congratulations to Rui! 

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Sep 1, 2024. The paper 'Yin. Y., Zhao. L., You R.*, Pei. J., Li. H., He. J., Sun. Y., Yang. X., Chen, Q. 2024. Prediction of air quality perception in aircraft cabin based on psychophysical model and artificial neural network-based model' has been accepted by Indoor Environments. Congratulations to Yihui! 

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Aug 21, 2024. The paper 'Bhuvad S. S., You R.*, Chen, Q. 2024. Evaluation  of physiological and thermal comfort effectiveness of ceiling fan and table fan during a heat wave.' has been accepted by Energy and Buildings. Congratulations to Sushant!

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Aug 10, 2024. The paper 'Zhou, Y., Hou, Y., Chen, C., You, R.* 2024. Optimal operations of gaspers for minimizing the exposure risks of airborne disease transmission in an economy-class aircraft cabin' has been accepted by Indoor Environments. Congratulations to Yiding!

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May 30, 2024. The paper 'Singh P. K., You R.*, Chen, Q. 2024. Assessment of longitudinal dispersion and flow resistance near floodplains through riparian woodlandshas been accepted by Journal of Environmental Management. Congratulations to Prateek!

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Mar 26, 2024. The paper 'Zhao L., You R.*, Liu J., Chen, Q. 2024. A real-time measurement and analysis method for gas holdup in a wet scrubber with the use of image information entropyhas been accepted by Separation and Purification Technology. Congratulations to Lei!

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Oct 20, 2023. The paper 'Hou Y., and You, R.* 2023. Investigating the impact of gaspers on airborne disease transmission in an economy-class aircraft cabin with personalized displacement ventilation' has been accepted by Building and Environment. Congratulations to Yunge!

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Mar 12, 2023. The paper 'Wang, J., Wang L., You, R.* 2023. Evaluating a combined WRF and CityFFD method for calculating urban wind distributions' has been accepted by Building and Environment. Congratulations to Jue!

 

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Jan 5, 2023. The team Dr. Ruoyu You participated received research funding from Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong through the Young Collaborative Research Grant (YCRG). "Developing next-generation mid-infrared laser sensors for greenhouse gas monitoring", Project Coordinator Prof. Wei Ren, 07/2023 to 07/2026.

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May 26, 2022. The paper 'Zhou, Y., An, Y., Huang, W., Chen, C., You, R.* 2022. A combined deep learning and physical modelling method for estimating air pollutants' source location and emission profile in street canyons' has been accepted by Building and Environment. Congratulations to Yiding!

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Mar 28, 2022. The team Dr. Ruoyu You participated received research funding from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University through the Large Equipment Fund For Shenzhen Research Institute (SZRI). "An advanced research platform for one sustainable health in Shenzhen Research Institute", Project Coordinator Prof. Xiangdong Li, HKD 4,198,293, 04/2022 to 05/2023.

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Oct 27, 2021. The paper 'Fu, L., Yang, M., Niu, J., Ren, W.*, You, R.* 2021. Transient tracer gas measurements: development and evaluation of a fast-response SF6 measuring system based on quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy' has been accepted by Indoor Air. Congratulations to Liye! 

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Jul 13, 2021. The team Dr. Ruoyu You participated received research funding from Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong through the Theme-based Research Scheme (TRS). "Healthy and resilient city with pervasive Localised Comfort Hubs (LoCHs)", Project Coordinator Prof. Jianlei Niu, No. T22-504/21-R, HKD 34,604,000, 01/2022 to 12/2026.

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Jul 08, 2021. Dr. Ruoyu You received research funding from Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development (RISUD) through the RISUD Emerging Frontier Area (EFA) Scheme. "Air pollution modelling for urban areas in Hong Kong based on Fast Fluid Dynamics (FFD)", HKD 600,000, 08/2021 to 08/2024.

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Jun 30, 2021. Dr. Ruoyu You received research funding from Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong through the General Research Fund (GRF). "Characterization of short-range interpersonal contaminant transport in enclosed environments using ultra-sensitive tracer gas method", No. 15202221, HKD 911,317, 01/2022 to 12/2024.

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Jun 29, 2021. Dr. Ruoyu You received research funding from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University  through the RGC Direct Allocation Grant (DAG). "A multiscale framework for predicting human exposure to indoor airborne antibiotic resistance genes of outdoor origin in urban areas", HKD 200,000, 07/2021 to 07/2023.

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Jun 01, 2021. The paper 'Zhou, Y., An, Y., Chen, C., You, R.* 2021. Exploring the feasibility of predicting contaminant transport using a stand-alone Markov chain solver based on measured airflow in enclosed environments' has been accepted by Building and Environment. Congratulations to Yiding!

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Jun 17, 2020. Our research team participated in the environmental studies of the Luk Chuen House Covid-19 Outbreak. The team used tracer gas to identify possible roles of the building drainage system and air flows on the disease spread.

Sep 09, 2019. Dr. Ruoyu You visited the School of Design at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The host is Prof. Dayi Lai specializing in the modeling approach for thermal comfort distribution.

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Sep 03, 2019. The website of Ruoyu You Research Lab is launched!

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Jul 27, 2019. Dr. Ruoyu You visited the School of Civil Engineering at Dalian University of Technology. The host is Prof. Yu Xue specializing in inverse modeling for air quality control.

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Jun 30, 2019. Dr. Ruoyu You received research funding from Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong through the Early Career Scheme (ECS). "Investigating the personalized displacement ventilation system with the concurrent operation of gaspers for reducing airborne disease transmission in commercial airliners", No. 25210419, HKD 408,115, 01/2020 to 12/2022.

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