Meng Wang

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PhD Student (2023 - )

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Research Centre for Fire Safety Engineering

Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering

Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

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Email: meng-rick.wang@connect.polyu.hk

Office: ZN 808

Biography

Meng Wang is currently a PhD student at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his Master’s Degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2022) and Bachelor’s Degree from Yangzhou University (2019). After received his bachelor's degree, he joined Sony Corporation and worked as a Mechanical Design Engineer, responsible for the design of automation equipment for production lines. In the past, He mainly focused on the research of robot hardware and deformation analysis of the robots' body. His current research interest include Smart Firefighting and Highly Autonomous Firefighting Robots.

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Background of Education

• M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2022)

• B.Eng. in School of Mechanical Engineering, Yangzhou University (2019)

 

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Research Areas

Smart Firefighting and Highly Autonomous Firefighting Robots

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Prizes and Awards

• 2026 Talent Development Scholarship of the Hong Kong SAR Government Scholarship Fund

• 2026 Recipient of the ITC Research Talent Hub for SPC Projects (RTH-SPC) Grant (HK$1,625,000)

• 2026 Best of Innovation Award (top 0.8%) in the Consumer Electronics Show (CES)

• 2025 Gold Medal with Jury’s Congratulations (top 5%) in the 50th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva

• 2025 Gold Award in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Innovation Awards

• 2024 Silver Medal in the 49th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva

• 2023 Gold Medal in the China International College Students’ Innovation Competition

• 2023 Recipient of the HKSTP Incubation Programme Grant (HK$1,290,000)

• 2023 Recipient of the HKSTP Ideation Programme Grant (HK$100,000)

• 2023 Recipient of the PolyU Micro Fund Scheme Grant (HK$120,000)

• 2022 Innovation Award (First runner-up) in the PolyU Digital Future Challenge

• 2018 National Scholarship

• 2018 Honorable Mention of Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM/ICM)

• 2017 Gold medal of Jiangsu Province College Students Science and Technology Innovation Achievements Exhibition

• 2017 President Scholarship of Yangzhou University

• 2016 President Scholarship of Yangzhou University

 

 

Publications

• Wang M, Chen X, Huang X. Robotic Firefighting: A Review and Future Perspective 2024:475–499. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48161-1_20

• Deng R, Ding S, Ding Y, Wang M, Huang X. Autonomous navigation of non-perception firefighting robot through CCTV-informed vision sharing. Expert Systems With Applications 2025;296:129210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.129210

• Wong H, Wang M, Zhang X, Zhang Y, Wong M, Huang X. Safe evacuation framework with intelligent dynamic exit sign system and demonstration in tunnel fire. Journal of Safety Science and Resilience 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnlssr.2024.12.001

• Zheng H, Wang M, Wang Z, Huang X. FireDM: A weakly-supervised approach for massive generation of multi-scale and multi-scene fire segmentation datasets. Knowledge-Based Systems 2024;290:111547. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2024.111547

• Miao H, Yang Z, Wang M, Chen X, Zhang R, Liu S. Development and its application effect of aerobic compost bioreactor with helical ribbon and screw impeller. Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering (Transactions of the CSAE) 2018;34:232－238. https://doi.org/10.11975/j.issn.1002-6819.2018.24.028.

Patents

• M. Wang, X. Huang, X. Zhang, Y. Zhang, A fire extinguishing device, Invention Patent, 202510533922.7 (Substantive Examination Pending)

• M. Wang, X. Huang, X. Zhang, Y. Zhang, A remote semi-automatic control method for fire emergency robots, Invention Patent, 202411230134.2 (Substantive Examination Pending)

• X. Huang, M. Wang, C. Liu, Y. Zhang, R. Deng, Spacecraft fire suppression system and control method, Invention Patent, 202510084340.5 (Substantive Examination Pending)

• X. Huang, M. Wang, C. Liu, Y. Zhang, A control method, device, and automatic firefighting cannon for an automatic firefighting cannon, Invention Patent, 202510165867.0 (Substantive Examination Pending)

• Y. Zhang, M. Wang, L. Ge, W. Tan, H. Miao, S. Zhang, S. Liu. Intelligent profile-modeling pesticide spraying frame and use method, Invention Patent, CN108782517A, 2018-11-13.

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（Last updated on 07/08/2026)

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