Biography

Yifei is a PhD student at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his Bachelor's degree from the Department of Civil Engineering at South China University of Technology (SCUT) in 2022. His current research interest is related to smart firefighting.

​

​

Background of Education

• B.Eng. in Civil Engineering, South China University of Technology (2018-2022)

 

​

Research Area

Smart Firefighting and Computer vision

​

​

Prizes and Awards

• 2022   Outstanding Graduation Paper Prize of School of Civil Engineering & Transportation, SCUT

• 2021   Comprehensive Second Class Scholarship of South China University of Technology 

• 2021   Triple-A Student Prize of South China University of Technology

 

 

Publications

• Ding, Y., Chen, X., Zhang, Y.*, Huang, X.*, 2025a. Smart building evacuation by tracking multi-camera network and explainable Re-identification model. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2025.110394

• Ding, Y., Deng, R., Zhang, Y.*, Huang, X.*, Elhami-Khorasani, N., Gernay, T., 2025b. Automatic assessment of fuel load and fire risk via digitized database and intelligent computer vision. Process Safety and Environment Protection. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2025.107031

• Ding, Y., Cheung, W.K., Zhang, Y.*, Huang, X.*, 2024. Digitized Fuel Load Survey in Commercial and University Office Buildings for Fire Safety Assessment. Fire Safety Journal. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.firesaf.2024.104287

• Y. Ding, X. Chen, Z. Wang, Y. Zhang*, X. Huang* (2024), Human Behaviour Detection Dataset (HBDset) Using Computer Vision for Evacuation Safety and Emergency Management, Journal of Safety Science and Resilience, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnlssr.2024.04.002

• Y. Ding, Y. Zhang*, X. Huang* （2023）, Intelligent emergency digital twin system for monitoring building fire evacuation, Journal of Building Engineering, 77, 107416.

• ​Zhang, Y., Ding, Y., Chraibi, M., Huang, X.*, 2025. Multi-Scale Analysis of Fire and Evacuation Drill in a Multi-Functional University High-rise Building. Developments in the Built Environment. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100626 (Co-first author).

• Cheung, W., Zeng, Y., Ding, Y.*, Wegrzynski, W., Huang, X.*, 2025. Predicting Smoke Hazards and Burning Fuel via Smart Building Fire Sensor Network and Dual-Agent Deep Learning. Indoor and Built Environment. DOI: 10.1177/1420326X251331180 (Co-corresponding author)

• H. Zheng, Y. Ding, Z. Wang, X. Huang* (2024), SegLD: Achieving universal, zero-shot and open-vocabulary segmentation through multimodal fusion via latent diffusion processes, Information Fusion, 102509

• X. Zhang, X. Chen, Y. Ding, Y. Zhang*, Z. Wang, J. Shi, N. Johansson*, X. Huang* (2024), Smart real-time evaluation of tunnel fire risk and evacuation safety via computer vision, Safety Science 177, 106563

• Y. Liu, L. Zhang, Y. Ding, X. Huang, X. Huang* (2024), Effect of thermal impact on the onset and propagation of thermal runaway over cylindrical Li-ion batteries, Renewable Energy 222, 119910

• Z. Wang, Y. Ding, T. Zhang, X. Huang* (2023), Automatic real-time fire distance, size and power measurement driven by stereo camera and deep learning, Fire Safety Journal, 140, 103891.

• Y. Cao, H. Huang*. Y. Ding (2021) Isogeometric Optimization of Piezoelectric Functionally Graded Material for Energy Harvester, Composite structures, 273, 114261.

​

​

Conference

• Y. Ding, J. Zhang, X. Huang*, (2024), Automatic AI-driven Building Fuel Load Surveying Methodology, 2024 NFPA Conference & Expo, 19-21 June 2024. (Oral Presentation).

• Y. Ding, Y. Zhang, X. Huang*, An Intelligent Evacuation Monitoring Digital Twin System for Building Fire, 14th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, Tsukuba, Japan, 22-27 Oct.,2023 (Poster Presentation).

• Y. Ding, Y. Zhang, X. Huang*, A Human Behaviour Image Dataset for Object Detection in Fire Evacuation Safety, 14th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, Tsukuba, Japan, 22-27 Oct.,2023 (Poster Presentation).

​​