CEE post-doc Zheng Yang named one of 10 New Faces in Civil Engineering - ASCE
Zheng Yang, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, in the Stanford Urban Informatics Lab, has been named 1 of 10 "New Faces of Civil Engineering" for 2017 by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Yang is developing an open-source building energy benchmarking platform, and exploring the coupled dynamics of urban systems using data science and micro-experimentation as part of his Stanford University postdoctoral studies, and ASCE has chosen him as one of the 2017 New Faces of Civil Engineering – Professional.
The essence of Yang’s research is data-driven analytics with the goal of sustainable future cities and buildings. He and his team are striving to understand and quantify the dynamics and interactions between urban systems and human systems; the idea being that the more you can quantify, the easier it is to develop sustainable solutions for cities and buildings.
“I believe that if we want to make our country energy-independent, we must drastically improve the energy efficiency,” Yang said. “We must use the exact amount of energy required. We must reduce all unnecessary energy consumption.”
Each year, ASCE names 10 New Faces of Civil Engineering Professionals, some of whom are also submitted to the New Faces of Engineering program run by DiscoverE, formerly The National Engineers Week Foundation. This multidisciplinary program includes representatives from the civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical, industrial and manufacturing engineering professions, amongst a host of others.
