Zhongming Lu (盧中銘). PhD
Division of Environment and Sustainability
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
zhongminglu@ust.hk
I'm a sustainable engineer for cities, infrastructure, and the environment. I received my Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2015, and B.S. in Environmental Science and Economics from Peking University in 2010. I am interested in innovative analytic approaches and engineering solutions for cities to be more sustainable and resilient as population and urbanization continue to grow and the climate becomes more uncertain. Cities are complex and adaptive. There is no one single solution that can address all challenges we are facing today. I am integrating multi-discipline knowledge (e.g., environmental science, ecology, engineering, information technology, and social sciences) to develop new frameworks and tools for managing this complex adaptive system.
Academic Experence
Research
Data Science for Urban Sustainability and Resilience
In-time fusion of geospatial information, socioeconomic census, and other online open data to build 3D Cities and understand its time-dependent energy, water, and nutrient footprint; Use of crowdsourcing-enabled social preference analytic to model the demand about more sustainable infrastructure design.
Urban Spatial Dynamic Modeling
Use of agent-based model coupled with environemntal process analysis modeling and assessment to understand the diffusion of more sustainable infrastructure design and the impact of urban sustaianbility and resilience.
Urban Infrastructure Systems Optimization
Development of integrated infrastructure (water-energy-food-transportation) systems at community, district and city scales built upon 3D cities.
New Urban Science for Managing the Complex Cities
Use of statisitic analysis to learn how cities, espcially those nearby coastal regions, are adapating to reduce its impact (e.g., reduce material consumption) on natural systems and increase its resilience (e.g., sustained water supply,less damange loss to hurricane) in face of climate change. We will answer ecological engineering solutions in particular.
Publication
Representative
Lu, Z.; Du, R.; Dunham-Jones, E.; Park, H.; Crittenden, J., Data-Enabled Public Preferences Inform Integration of Autonomous Vehicles with Transit-Oriented Development in Atlanta. Cities, 2017, 63, 118-127.
Lu, Z.; Crittenden, J. C.; Southworth, F.; Dunham-Jones, E., An Integrated Framework for Managing the Complex Interdependence between Infrastructures and the Socioeconomic Environment: An Application in Metropolitan Atlanta. Urban Studies, 2017, 54, (12), 2874-2893.
Lu, Z.; Zhang, H.; Southworth, F.; Crittenden, J., Fractal dimensions of metropolitan area road networks and the impacts on the urban built environment. Ecological Indicators 2016, 70, 285-296.
Lu, Z.; Southworth, F.; Crittenden, J.; Dunham-Jones, E., Market potential for smart growth neighborhoods in the USA: A latent class analysis on heterogeneous preference and choice. Urban Studies 2015, 52, (16), 3001-3017
Lu, Z.; Noonan, D.; Crittenden, J.; Jeong, H.; Wang, D., Use of Impact Fees to Incentivize Low-Impact Development and Promote Compact Growth. Environ. Sci. Technol 2013, 47, (19), 10735-10743.
Teaching
@HKUST
@BNU
team
We are looking for new Ph.Ds., Research Assistant and Post Doc Fellow who has an engineering background and programming/analytic skills to join us. Please feel free to send me your CV (in English) and representive works by email zhongminglu@ust.hk
Grants
- PI, “Analytic Framework for Sustainable and Resilient Urban Infrastructures”, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Beijing Normal University, 12/01/2017-12/31/2019, RMB 100,000.
- Co-PI (PI: W. Mo at the University of New Hampshire), “CRISP Type I/Collaborative Research: Sustainable and Resilient Design of Interdependent Water and Energy Systems at the Infrastructure-Human-Resource Nexus,” National Science Foundation, $499,990, 09/01/2016-08/30/2018, NSF Award #1638334 & 1638268.