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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ALEX NG

Associate Dean (Higher Degree Research)

School of Civil, Environmental and Mining
Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical
Sciences

 Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Alex Ching-Tai Ng ( 吳清泰) is Associate Professor of the School of Civil, Environmental

and Mining Engineering and Associate Dean (HDR) of Faculty of Engineering, Computer
and Mathematical Sciences at The University of Adelaide.

He specialises in fundamental and applied research in structural health monitoring (SHM).

His research interests include SHM, guided wave non-destructive evaluation, system
identifcation, engineering reliability and risk analysis and composite materials. He is
interested in applying SHM techniques to different engineering areas.

A/Prof. Ng earned his B.Eng. with First-class honours and M.Phil. from the City University
of Hong Kong in 2005 and 2007, respectively, and his Ph.D. in 2011 from the University of
Queensland under a full scholarship. During his study, he received a number of awards,

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such as Arup Best Student Award, Outstanding Academic Performance Award for Research
Degree Student and Best Student Paper Award by the International Conference on Smart
Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering, and won the Airbus Fly Your Ideas
Challenge Competition in 2009.

For his research achievements, he has received two prestigious research awards, Australian
Research Council - Discovery Early Career Research Award (2012) and The Nishino Prize
(2016). So far he has obtained research grants with a total amount of AUD$1.3 million. He
has worked with industry, e.g. Australian Rail Track Corporation, CRC-ACS and Airbus
Limited, and is currently holding an international patent.

A/Prof. Ng makes active professional infuence worldwide through technical committees,

conference organisation, and journal and competitive grant refereeing. Notably, he is
Associate Editor (Asia and Pacifc) of Engineering Structures, and International Journal of
Structural Health Monitoring (IJSHM). He was also the Guest Editor of two special issues
focused on structural health monitoring of civil structures in the IJSHM and Earthquakes
and Structural An International Journal.

A/Prof. Ng is a member of Executive Committee of Australian Network of Structural Health

Monitoring (ANSHM), which is formed by more than 30 universities/government agencies
with the aim at promoting structural health monitoring research in Australia and worldwide.
He also organised the 4th Annual Workshop of ANSHM in 2012. He is a member of
National Committee of Applied Mechanics, Engineer Australia.

In addition to English, A/Prof. Ng also speaks:

Cantonese (Fluent)

Mandarin (Fluent)

My Research Career Publications Grants and Funding

Supervision Professional Activities Contact

Dr. Ng's involved in a number of professional activities related to his research

feld. He has also interviewed by a numbner of popular presses and presented
radio documentaries

International Competitive Grant Proposal Assessor

Australian Research Council (ARC)

Research Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong

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National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore

Workshop Organisation

4th Annual WOrkshop for Anustralian Network of Structural Health

Monitoring, Adelaide, Australia (2012)

Mini-symposium Keynote in International Conference

Title: Imaging and Characterizing Damages in Metallic Plates using Lamb

Wave, 6th International Conference on Computational Methods
(ICCM2015), 14-17 July 2015, Auckland, New Zealand

Mini-symposia/Special Sessions organised in International Conferences

Special Session: Vibration-based Non-destructive Testing and Safety

Inspection of Structures (2016)

14th East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and
Construction (EASEC-14), Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Mini-symposium: Structural Health Monitoring and Identification of Structures
(2015)

6th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM2015),
Auckland, New Zealand
Mini-symposium: Infrastructure System Identification and Monitoring (2014)

4th International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE2014),
Tokyo, Japan
Mini-symposium: Vibration-based Structural Model Updating and Health
Monitoring (2013)

6th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent
Infrastructure (SHMII6), Hong Kong, China    
Mini-symposium: Structural Identification and Health Monitoring for Capacity
Assessment of Structures (2013)

2013 World Congress on Advances in Structural Engineering and
Mechanics (ASEM13), Jeju, Korea

Session Chair in International Conferences

Session Chair of “Infrastructure System Identification and Monitoring” (2014)

4th International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE2014),
Tokyo, Japan
Session Chair of “Vibration-based Structural Model Updating and Health
Monitoring    (2013)

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6th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent
Infrastructure (SHMII6), Hong Kong, China
Session Chair of “Structural Identification and Health Monitoring for Capacity
Assessment of Structures” (2013)

2013 World Congress on Advances in Structural Engineering and
Mechanics (ASEM13), Jeju, Korea
Session Chair of “System Identification in Structural Dynamics II” (2013)

11th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability
(ICOSSAR2013), New York, USA    
Session Chair of “Engineering Education/ Composites (2012)

7th Australasian Congress on Applied Mechanics (ACAM7), Adelaide,
Australia
Session Chair of “Structural Health Monitoring”, “Nonlinear Structures and
Structural Dynamics” & “Concrete Technology” (2011)

12th East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and
Construction (EASEC-12), Hong Kong, China    
Session Chair of “Student Session” (2008)

International Conference on Multi-functional Materials and Structures
(MFMS2008), Hong Kong, China

International Conference/Competition Committees Membership

Best Student Paper Competition Committee of Engineering Mechanics

Institute (EMI) Conference, ASCE (2015)
International Scientific and Technical Committee of 7th Asia Pacific Young
Researchers and Graduates Symposium (YRGS2015) (2015)
International Scientific Committee of 6th International Conference on
Computational Methods (ICCM2015) (2015)
International Scientific Committee of 6th Asia-Pacific Young Researchers
and Graduates Symposium (YRGS2014) (2014)
National Scientific Committee of 8th Australasian Congress on Applied
Mechanics (ACAM8) (2014)
Technical Committee of 7th Australasian Congress on Applied Mechanics
(ACAM7) (2012)
Programme Committee of 12th East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural
Eng. and Construction (EASEC-12) (2011)

Popular press:

1. Ng CT, “Quantitative Damage Imaging Using Lamb Waves”, ASCE

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Engineering Mechanics News, Research Group Profile, 2015

   
http://www.asce.org/uploadedFiles/Technical_Areas/Engineering_Mechanic
s/Content_Pieces/EMI_rgp_Ng_August2015.pdf
2. Ng CT, “Crest of a wave”, Aerospace Testing International Magazine,
Showcase 2014 Issue, pp. 16-18.
3. Engineer Australia Magazine, General Issue, October 2013, Vol. 85, No. 10,
pp. 58-60.
4. Jennifer Foreshew, “New wave of maintenance tool”, The Australian, 3
September 2013.
5. Jordanna Schriever, “Talking with bridges shows up their flaws”, The
Advertiser, 14 August 2013.
6. , “Meet the engineers who talk to aeroplanes”, August 2013.
7. , “Novel low-cost technology to monitor structural health of bridges”, August
2013.
8. , “University of Adelaide technology ‘talks’ to structures”, August 2013.
9. , “Talking’ to structures to boost public safety”, August 2013.
10. Margaret Wenham, “UQ students flying high with castor plant creation”, 22
June 2009
11. Margaret Wenham, “Idea takes flight”, The Courier-Mail, 11 June 2009.
12. Trent Leggatt, “Inspiration from above”, UQ News Magazine, June 2009.

Radio Documentaries:

1. 639 ABC North and West SA, Live interview on cost effective stress
monitoring techniques for rail tracks using guided waves, Mornings with
Sarah Tomlinson, 15 December 2014.
2. 89.7 FM Eastside Radio, Live interview on structural health monitoring, 1
October 2013.
3. 101.5 FM Radio Adelaide, Taped interview on structural health monitoring,
August 2013.

Connect With Me

External Profles

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Personal Google Webpage

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