Xinyan Huang

Dr Huang is the Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Fire Safety Engineering. He received his PhD from Imperial College London in 2016, MSc from University of California, San Diego, and BEng from Southeast University. Before joining PolyU, Dr. Huang was a Postdoc and Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, where he conducted research with NASA on the Microgravity Combustion and Fire Safety for the International Space Station. Dr Huang is a Combustion Scientist and a Fire Protection Engineer who has co-authored 80+ journal papers and reviewed for 40+ journals. Dr Huang is an Associate Editor of Fire Technology and International Journal of Wildland Fire, an editorial member of Fire Safety Journal, a committee member for HK Fire Safety Code, and a Fire Expert for HK High Court. He is also a winner of Bernard Lewis Fellowship and Sugden Best Paper Award from Combustion Institute, IAFSS Proulx Early Career Award, Ricardo Award from Institute of Physics, Fire Engineering Grand Award from HKIE, “5 under 35” and Bono Award from SFPE.

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Playing with Fire! (edX)

‘Playing with Fire’ introduces the complex challenge fire hazard represents to human activities. While learning about fundamentals of fire science and how professionals deal with this hazard, you’ll learn things like why a candle flame has the shape it has and how fire fighters use fire to suppress [...]