Professor Dai Jianguo is currently a chair professor and head of the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at City University of Hong Kong (CityU). He has served in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University for a long time (2008-2023) prior to joining CityU. Professor Dai's research topic is "New Materials and Structures in Civil Engineering". He has won the "Best Basic Research Paper Award" from the Journal of Composites for Construction of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the "Outstanding Young Scholar Award" from the FRP Application Committee of the Chinese Society of Civil Engineers, "Outstanding International Cooperation Award" from Japan Society of Civil Engineers, "Structural Excellence R&D Award" from the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, and the "Best Research Paper Award" from many important international conferences. He has also been granted the "Second Prize of the National Technology Invention Award" and the "First Prize of the China Construction Science and Technology Award" in cooperation with colleagues in the mainland.

 

Professor Dai has served as Vice Chairman of the International FRP Institute (IIFC) and Chairman of the Technical Committee of the Asian Concrete Federation. He is currently the committee manager of ISO/TC71 SC6 ON "Non-traditional reinforcement materials for concrete and prestressed concrete structures" committee of the International Standardization Association (ISO/TC71). Professor Dai is a Fellow of IIFC, Asian Concrete Federation, Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, Hong Kong Concrete Society, and International Society for Advanced Materials. Professor Dai has been consistently selected into the "Top 2% of Scientists in the World - Stanford University Release List". Currently, he has published more than 350 papers (including more than 270 SCI journal papers), with more than 18,500 Google Scholar citations and an h-index of 76.

 

Professor Dai's research on multifunctional coatings for buildings was selected into the "Editor's Choice" of the journal "Science" and reported by media such as "Ta Kung Pao" and "Hong Kong Economic Times". The related product UmiCool won the "Geneva Invention Gold Medal" and has been demonstrated through pilot tests in Hong Kong and Mainland China.