Overview
I have been serving as a Lecturer in Civil Engineering at School of Engineering of Cardiff University, since 06/2023. Before joining Cardiff, I have been working as a (Senior) Research Fellow at the Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering of University College London, UK, and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Data Science Institute, at Columbia University, USA. I earned my PhD in Resilience Engineering at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in July 2017.
My research focuses on bottom-up approaches to digital twinning of interwoven urban infrastructure systems. I aim to enable the multi-time scale, artificial intelligence-informed resilience and sustainability planning of those dynamic systems subjected to climate hazards.
Publication
2024
- Sun, L., Li, H., Nagel, J. and Yang, S. 2024. Convergence of AI and urban emergency responses: Emerging pathway toward resilient and equitable communities. Applied Sciences 14(7), article number: 7949. (10.3390/app14177949)
2023
- Sun, L. and Li, H. 2023. Editorial: Digital twin of interwoven urban systems: A new approach to future resilient and sustainable cities. Applied Sciences 13(17), article number: 9696. (10.3390/app13179696)
Articles
- Sun, L., Li, H., Nagel, J. and Yang, S. 2024. Convergence of AI and urban emergency responses: Emerging pathway toward resilient and equitable communities. Applied Sciences 14(7), article number: 7949. (10.3390/app14177949)
- Sun, L. and Li, H. 2023. Editorial: Digital twin of interwoven urban systems: A new approach to future resilient and sustainable cities. Applied Sciences 13(17), article number: 9696. (10.3390/app13179696)
Research
My research is now focusing upon (but not limited to) the following issues:
· Resilience-oriented emergency responses of urban systems under catastrophes;
· Risk- and resilience-informed decision support systems for emergency management;
· Data-driven approaches to the enhancement of climate readiness of future cities.