Zhixiang Hu was born in Jiangxi, China, in 1985. He received his Ph.D. degree in structural engineering in 2012 from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Since 2012, he has been a researcher at Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), Hefei, China. He is currently an associate professor at HFUT. His research interests include structural vibration analysis, modal identification, and structural health monitoring.