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QUALIFICATIONS

2007 Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2002 Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Civil and Environmental Engineering, First Class Honor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

EMPLOYMENT

2020 - Present

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, THEi

2018 - 2020

Teaching Fellow I, Faculty of Science and Technology, THEi

2013 - 2018

Teaching Fellow II, Faculty of Science and Technology, THEi

2009 - 2011

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Building, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

2008

Research Associate, Dept. of Building, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

TEACHING AREAS

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Transportation Engineering
  • Structural Mechanics
  • Engineering Physics
  • Environmental Risk Analysis
  • Environmental Impact Assessment

AWARDS

2010 - 2012 Scholarship for post-doctoral fellowship awarded by L'Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST), Quebec, Canada.
2002 - 2006 Tuition Scholarship for Research Postgraduate Studies awarded by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
1999 - 2002 Outstanding student scholarship awarded by Hong Kong Jockey Club.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Vehicular Emission

  • Renewable Energy

  • Remote Sensing

  • Indoor Air Quality

  • Environmental Engineering

RESEARCH GRANTS

  • Chemical and toxicological characterization of particulate emissions from diesel vehicles (UGC/FDS25/E06/15, HK$929,315)
  • Investigation on effects of biodiesel blends on gas- and particulate-phase light duty diesel vehicle exhaust emissions (UGC/FDS25/E01/18, HK$780,174)
  • To examine the feasibility of using carbon dioxide as a tracer gas to study the dispersion of tailpipe exhausts in an urban canyon (ECF Project 14/2018, HK$440,527)
  • The Design and Development of a Vertical Remote Sensing System for Tailpipe Emissions (VRSE) System in Single-lane Applications (UGC/IDS(c)25/E02/19, HK$3,478,261)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Wang, B.*, Or, W.H., Lee, S.C., Leung, Y.C., Organ, B., Ho, K.F.* 2021. Characteristics of particle emissions from light duty diesel vehicle fueled with ultralow sulphur diesel and biodiesel blend. Atmospheric Pollution Research 12(2021)101169.
  • Wang, B.*, Lau, Y.S., Huang, Y., Organ, B., Chuang, H.C., Ho, S.S.H., Qu, L., Lee, S.C., Ho, K.F.* 2021. Chemical and toxicological characterization of particulate emissions from diesel vehicles. Journal of Hazardous Materials 405 (2021) 124613, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.124613.
  • Wang, B.*, Lau, Y.S., Huang, Y., Organ, B., Lee, S.C., Ho, K.F. 2019. Investigation of factors affecting the gaseous and particulate matter emissions from diesel vehicles. Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health 12(9), 1113-1126.
  • Tong, X.N., Wang B.*, Dai, W.T., Cao, J.J., Kwok, T.C.Y., Ho, K.F*. 2018. Indoor air pollutants exposure and determinant factors controlling households air quality for elderly people in Hong Kong. Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health 11(6), 695-704.
  • Lui, K.H., Dai, W.T., Chan, C.S., Tian, L.W., Ning, B.F., Zhou, Y.P., Song, X.L., Wang, B.*, Li, J.W., Cao, J.J., Lee, S. C., Ho, K.F.* 2017. Cancer risk from gaseous carbonyl compounds in indoor environment generated from household coal combustion in Xuanwei, China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 24 (21), 17500-17510.
  • Cui, L., Zhang, Z., Huang, Y., Lee, S. C., Blake, D. R., Ho, K. F., Wang, B., Gao, Y., Wang, X. M., and Louie, P. K. K. 2016. Measuring OVOCs and VOCs by PTR-MS in an urban roadside microenvironment of Hong Kong: relative humidity and temperature dependence, and field inter-comparisons. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 9, 5763-5779.
  • Ho, K.F., Ho, S.S.H., Huang, R.J., Chuang, H.C., Cao, J.J., Han, Y., Lui, K.H., Ning, Z., Chuang, K.J., Cheng, T.J., Lee, S.C., Hu, D., Wang, B., Zhang, R. 2016. Chemical composition and bioreactivity of PM2.5 during 2013 haze events in China. Atmospheric Environment 126, 162-170.
  • Wang, B., Ho, S.S.H., Ho, K.F., Huang, Y., Chan, C.S., Feng, N.S.Y., Ip, S.H.S. 2012. An environmental chamber study of the characteristics of air pollutants released from environmental tobacco smoke. Aerosol and Air Quality Research 12, 1269-1281.
  • Mostofi, R., Bahloul, A., Lara, J., Wang, B., Cloutier, Y., Haghighat, F. 2011. Investigation of potential affecting factors on performance of N95 respirator. Journal of the International Society for Respiratory Protection 28, 26-39.
  • Mostofi, R., Wang, B., Haghighat, F., Bahloul, A., Jaime, L. 2010. Performance of mechanical filters and respirators for capturing nanoparticles – limitations and future direction.  Journal of Industrial Health 48, 296-304.