people – CI³Lab

Assistant Professor
Construction Engineering and Management
The University of Hong Kong

Address: HW6-07, Haking Wong Building, The University of Hong Kong
Phone: +852 3917 2673
Fax: +852 2559 5337
Email: shell.x.li@hku.hk

CI³ Lab Director

Professor Xiao LI is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Xiao’s research mainly contributes to smart and industrialized construction, which includes assembly systems, production systems, and smart work packaging methodology for collaborative planning and control in construction.

He obtained his BEng (2009-2013) and MEng (2013-2016) from Chongqing University and did his PhD at HKPolyU (2016-2019). After one year of industry experience at Qianhai, Shenzhen (2019-2020), he returned as an RGC postdoctoral fellow at HKU (2020-2021) and research assistant professor at HKPolyU (2021-2022). He has authored 60+ papers in peer-reviewed academic journals with 6,945 citations. He is a Top 1% Scholar by Clarivate Analytics and World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, a fellow of the SYLFF Association, a National Registered Construction Engineer (Class 1), a member of the HKIE, ASCE, IEEE, and CIB, and associate editor and guest editors of several leading journals in construction engineering and management. He held several international academic awards, including the 49th Geneva Inventions Gold Medal, CIC Innovation Award, SYLFF Research Grant Award/Research Abroad Award, and CIB Sebestyén Future Leaders Award, as well as the Best Paper Award of Building and Environment/CIB/ASCE/CRIOCM/ICCREM/CIOB(HK).

He led various research projects (over HK$20 million) in the following fields:

Blockchain and distributed collaboration in inspection planning and safety monitoring
Human-robot collaboration-based production robotics system in modular construction
Collaborative robots for the assembly process in modular construction
Interactive configuration for modular buildings
Maintenance optimization for modular buildings
Multi-stakeholder cross-regional collaboration in construction
Intelligent and distributed carbon monitoring system in modular construction

Research Assistant Professor

Songnan Bai

Collaborative robots:
Assembly robots, Production robotics systems, Cable-driven robots, Micro aerial vehicle, and Hopping robots.

Contact: snbai@hku.hk

Postdoctoral Researcher

Zhiyi Huang

Collaborative scheduling:
Stochastic modelling, Reliability analysis, Maintenance optimization

Contact: hzyra@hku.hk

Tingtian Li

Collaborative robots:
Computer vision, Multimodal learning, Visual reasoning

Contact: tingtian@hku.hk

Jie Hong

Collaborative robots:
Computer vision, Machine learning, Robotics

Contact: jiehong@hku.hk

Wenshuo Li

Collaborative robots:
Robotics — Kinematics, Dynamics & Control
Focus: Cable-driven serial/redundant manipdulators (CDSM/CDRM)

Contact: wenshuol@hku.hk

Hongxing Ding

Distributed collaboration:
Behavior analysis; Game theory

Contact: hxding@hku.hk

Yimo Zhu

Collaborative scheduling:
Underground infrastructure, Lifecycle assessment, Multi-hazard resilience

Contact:yimozhu@hku.hk

Kun Wang

Collaborative robots:
Reconfigurable robots and mechanisms, Parallel manipulators, Machine learning for robot design and control

Contact: kun7wang@hku.hk

Xiongtao Shi

Collaborative robots:
Reinforcement learning (RL); Adaptive model predictive control (MPC); Adaptive control; Manipulation and locomotion of robot; Quadrotor; Legged robot.

Contact: xotaoshi@hku.hk

Yaning Zhang

Collaborative scheduling:
Project planning and scheduling

Contact: zynhku@hku.hk

Shijie Wang

Collaborative robots:
Construction robots and mechanisms, Motion planning and control

Contact: sj9320w@hku.hk

Hao Zheng

Collaborative robots:
Human-robot collaboration; Video Understanding; VLM

Contact: hzheng26@hku.hk

PhD / MPhil Students

Juan Wang

Distributed collaboration:
Consensus & Incentive mechanisms in blockchain

Contact: juanwang@connect.hku.hk

Yinyi Wei

Knowledge Collaboration:
Knowledge engineering for BIM

Contact: wyyy@connect.hku.hk

Nianmin Zhang

Collaborative scheduling:
MARL for scheduling

Contact: nianmin.zhang@connect.hku.hk

Jianhuan Zeng

Distributed collaboration:
Federated learning for safety and health monitoring

Contact: joy2023@connect.hku.hk

Ruiqi Jiang

Collaborative robots:
Robotics in construction

Contact: richj233@connect.hku.hk

Jintao Xue

Collaborative robots:
Human-robot collaboration

Contact: xuejt@connect.hku.hk

Qing Dong

Knowledge Collaboration:
Quality control in modular construction

Contact: dong_qing@connect.hku.hk

Ruixuan He

Collaborative scheduling:
Language models & Scheduling

Contact: ruixuan@connect.hku.hk

Chen Qian

Collaborative robots:
Robot motion control

Contact: qianc2024@connect.hku.hk

Wentao Zhu

Distributed collaboration: Blockchain for payments in construction

Contact: zhuwt@connect.hku.hk

Yuanyang Qi

Collaborative robots:
Multi-sensor fusion

Contact: yuanyang.qi@connect.hku.hk

Chen Chen

Distributed collaboration:
Blockchain integration in carbon monitoring

Contact: chen.chen@connect.hku.hk

Shichen Sun

Collaborative robots:
Robotics in construction

Contact: koalasun@hku.hk

Hongxu Chen

Collaborative robots:
Lidar signal processing, Image processing

Contact: hongxu.chen@connect.hku.hk

Yuxuan Lan

Collaborative robots:
Robotics in construction

Contact: lucas.lan@connect.hku.hk

Yuchen Xu

Collaborative robots:
Cable-driven parallel robot

Contact: xuychen@hku.hk

Research Staffs

Jianbo Rao

Collaborative scheduling:
Project management of intelligent scheduling system、AI for manufacture&design、CDPR for construction

Contact: jacobrao@hku.hk