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Solar forecasting has emerged as a cost-effective technology to mitigate the negative impacts of intermittent solar power on the power …

The interactions of radiation with saline water facilitate various energy-related applications, such as radiative evaporation at the …

Indoor Environment Quality (IEQ) holds significant importance in building design and operation, and the simulation of indoor …

The integration of solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) with a photovoltaic (PV) system presents a viable method of storing variable …

Research

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Solar desalination experimental platform

An indoor solar desalination experimental platform.

SOEC experimental platform

A testing system for solid oxide electrolysis cell.

Novel Hybrid Approach for High-fidelity Intra-hour Forecasting of Directional Solar Irradiance

2023.01 - 2015.12 Research Grants Council RGC Early Career Scheme (PI).

Adaptive cooling solutions of solar photovoltaic panels

2022.09 - 2023.08 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University URIS Scheme (PI).

自动化光伏盐田的合作研发

2021.06-2024.05 江苏省科技厅港澳台科技合作项目 (co-PI, 25%).

Rooftop solar monitoring station

Comprehensive solar monitoring station on PolyU EF rooftop.

Meet the Team

Principal Investigator

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Mengying Li

Assistant Professor

Energy Meteorology, Solar Resourcing and Forecasting, Poly-Generation Solar Power Systems, High Temperature Electrolysis

Current Member

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Haoran Chang

PhD Student

CFD, Solar Power System Data Mining, Reliability and Performance Optimization of PV Module, Energy Digitization and Interconnection

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Nan Deng

PhD Candidate

Energy Meteorology, Short-term Solar Radiation Forecasting, 3D Radiative Transfer Modeling, Machine Learning

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Tao Jing

PhD Student

Signal processing, Collaborative algorithm design, Interpretable machine learning

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Xinran Liu

PhD Student

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer, Renewable Energy Systems, Hydrodynamics, Machine Learning

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Xin Wei

PhD Student, PPPFS Awardee

Desalination, Interfacial Evaporation, PV System, Solar Energy

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Yuying Xie

PhD Candidate

Renewable Energy Prediction, Deep Learning Techniques

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Jinming XU

MSc Student

Solar Forecasting, Machine Learning, UAV control

Alumni

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Shanlin Chen

PhD Graduate

Renewable Energy Systems, Solar Resourcing and Forecasting, Life Cycle Analysis in Energy Systems, Machine Learning

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Peixin Dong

Postdoctoral Fellow

Heat and Mass transfer, CFD, CO2 capture, PV/CSP hybrid block transients

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Xinrui Guo

MSc Graduate

Robotics and Controls, Solar Resourcing, Advanced Material and Structural Design, Metal Material

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Zheheng Huang

MSc Graduate

Solar panels fault detection, UAV control and navigation, Deep Learning

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Zhaojian Liang

PhD Graduate

Renewable Energy Systems, Thermal Energy Storage, Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics

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Qifeng Li

MSc Graduate

Thermal-fluid sciences, Heat and mass transfer, CFD and CAD, Evaporation, Machine Design

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Dapeng Wang

Undergraduate

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Numerical Method, Machine Learning & Deep Learning, Bio-inspired design, Robotic design & control

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Changying Wu

MSc Graduate

Solar Resourcing and Forecasting, Machine Learning

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Yifan Yang

MSc Graduate

Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell, CFD modeling, Machine Learning

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Lihao Yuan

MSc Graduate

Solar Forecasting, Machine Learning, Corrosion of Metallic Material

News

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In September 2024, a project named Development of High-fidelity and High-Spatiotemporal-Resolution Day-ahead Ultraviolet Index (UVI) …

In September 2024, LIU Xinran joined our team. Warm welcome!

In August 2024, DENG Nan successfully advanced to candidacy. Congrats to Nan!

In August 2024, LIANG Zhaojian won Best Presentation Runner-Up in the 2nd PolyU Research Student Conference. Congratulations!

In August 2024, LIANG Zhaojian sucessfully passed the oral examination and was awarded the Ph.D. degree. Congratulations to Dr. Liang!

In June 2024, Zhaojian won the Second Prize for Best Paper Award in the 3rd Asian Conference on Thermal Sciences, Shanghai, China. …

In May 2024, WEI Xin joined our team under PolyU Presidential PhD Fellowship Scheme PPPFS. Warm welcome!

In April 2024, XIE Yuying successfully advanced to candidacy. Congrats to Yuying!

In April 2024, a final year project supervised by Dr. Li wins Championship of HKIE Best Final-Year Environmental Project 2024. …

In Decmeber 2023, CHEN Shanlin sucessfully passed the oral examination and was awarded the Ph.D. degree. Congratulations to Dr. Chen!

In November 2023, DENG Nan won 2nd Runner-Up in the 8th ME Research Presentation. Congratulations!

In Aug 2023, JING Tao and CHANG Haoran joined our team. Warm welcome!

In June 2023, LIANG Zhaojian won both 1st Runner-Up and People’s Choice Award in the 3rd FENG Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) …

In March 2023, LIANG Zhaojian successfully advanced to candidacy. Congrats to Zhaojian!

In Mar 2023, Peixin, Shanlin and Zhaojian attended APS March Meeting held in Las vegas, Nevada, United States. Each of them gave an …

In March 2023, LIANG Zhaojian won 2nd Runner-Up in the 8th ME Research Presentation. Congratulations!

In January 2023, a project named Toward 2060 Carbon Neutrality: Life-cycle Planning and Design of Photovoltaic Integrated Green Roof …

In Jan 2023, DENG Nan joined our team as a PhD student. Warm welcome!

In Aug 2022, XIE Yuying joined our team as a PhD student. Warm welcome!

In June 2022, a project named Novel Hybrid Approach for High-fidelity Intra-hour Forecasting of Directional Solar Irradiance was funded …

In June 2022, CHEN Shanlin successfully advanced to candidacy. Congrats to Shanlin!

In Dec 2021, Dr. DONG Peixin joined our team as a Postdoctoral Fellow, partially funded by PolyU Central. Warm welcome!

In Sep 2021, LIANG Zhaojian joined our team as a PhD student. Warm welcome!

In July 2021, Dr. Li was invited to serve as Associate Editor of Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, an AIP journal.

In June 2021, a project Collaborative development of automated photovoltaic-integrated salt production technology was funded RMB …

In Jan 2021, CHEN Shanlin joined our team as a PhD student. Warm welcome!

In October 2020, Dr. LI Mengying started as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of The Hong Kong …

Openings

 
 
 
 
 

Ph.D. Student

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Oct 2020 – Present PolyU
Students who are motivated to pursue a Ph.D. degree with a background in atmospheric science, deep learning, thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer or related fields are welcome to contact Dr. Li. Preference will be given to those students who obtained or are expected to obtain an M.S. degree and have publications in English. Students applying from mainland China may also wish to consult the 1point3acres forum and Muchong forum for more information about the program.
 
 
 
 
 

Research Assistant

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Oct 2020 – Present PolyU
Applicants who have a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, Thermal Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Data Science or related fields are welcome to contact Dr. Li. Preference will be given to those who have publications in English and are familiar with numerical modeling in Python.
 
 
 
 
 

Postdoc Researcher

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Oct 2020 – Present PolyU
Applicants who have a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering, Thermal Engineering or related fields are welcome to contact Dr. Li. Preference will be given to those who have excellent publication records in the close fields.
 
 
 
 
 

MSc, Undergrads and More

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Oct 2020 – Present PolyU
Highly motivated undergraduate students are welcome to participate in our research via Student Assistant program or the URIS program. Currently enrolled M.S. students who are willing to do MSc dissertation are strongly encouraged to discuss potential research projects with Dr. Li. Visiting scholars are welcome to contact Dr. Li to discuss collaborating projects.

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