Dr. Huaping Wang

Dr. Huaping Wang is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Lanzhou University, China. She received her Bachelor's degree (2007) and Master's degree (2009) from the Wuhan University of Technology, China, and her Ph.D. (2015) from the Dalian University of Technology, China, working in the lab of Jinping Ou, the group internationally known for structural health monitoring. She was a visiting scholar at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University between 2015 and 2017, and worked with Prof. Jian-Guo Dai and Chair Prof. Yi-Qing Ni on structural monitoring and control of high-speed railway stations based on optical fiber sensors. She worked in the National Engineering Laboratory for High-speed Railway Construction at Central South University from 2017 to 2018. Her research interests include structural health monitoring, optical fiber-based sensing technology, strain transfer theory, smart sensors and structures in engineering, damage identification, and condition assessment. She has published more than 40 papers in reputed SCI and EI journals. Email: wanghuaping1128@sina.cn; hpwang@lzu.edu.cn.