Liming Jiang

Dr. Liming Jiang serves as Assistant Professor and Program Leader of MSc Fire Safety Engineering at Hong Kong Polytechnic University's Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering, where he combines expertise in structural fire safety with innovative computational modeling approaches. After completing his PhD in Fire Safety Engineering from the University of Edinburgh in 2016, following degrees from Tongji University, he has established himself as a key developer of OpenSees for Fire, an open-source platform for analyzing structures under fire conditions. His research spans fire behavior in modern buildings, structural responses of tall buildings in fire conditions, and fire-safe timber structures, while maintaining editorial roles at Fire Safety Journal and Fire Technology. His academic leadership extends to positions as Vice Director of Tongji University International Joint Research Laboratory on Fire Safety Engineering and Research Leader of structural fire engineering at PolyU's Research Center for Fire Safety Engineering. Through his work developing computational tools and hybrid simulation methods, he continues to advance the field of fire safety engineering while training the next generation of fire safety professionals through the MSc program he leads.