My research studies structural health monitoring (SHM) for civil infrastructures. I am interested in developing methods that learn structural behavior/performance as inverse problems. Also, I pay close attention to improve monitoring systems' reliability.

Supervisor Yuequan Bao (Ph.D. Advisor); Hui Li (Master Advisor); Mohammad Reza Jahanshahi (Visiting Scholar Co-advisor)
Publications 10 papers
Research Interests

My research studies structural health monitoring (SHM) for civil infrastructures. I am interested in developing methods that learn structural behavior/performance as inverse problems. Also, I pay close attention to improve monitoring systems' reliability.

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Sep 2009 – Jul 2013, Bachelor's, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, Thesis: Aerodynamic Damping Analysis of Long-Span Bridges, Advisor: Hui Li

Sep 2014 – Jul 2016, Master's, Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, Thesis: Blind Source Separation of Multiple Bridge Vibrations, Advisor: Hui Li

Sep 2016 – Jul 2021, Ph.D., Engineering Mechanics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, Advisor: Yuequan Bao

Oct 2019 – Sep 2020, Visiting Scholar, Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, Co-advisor: Mohammad Reza Jahanshahi

Y ouqi Zhang, Zhiyi Tang, and Ruijing Yang. "Data anomaly detection for structural health monitoring by multi-view representation based on local binary patterns." Measurement. 2022.

Jingran He, Ruofan Gao, and Zhiyi Tang. "A data-driven multi-scale constitutive model of concrete material based on polynomial chaos expansion and stochastic damage model." Construction and Building Materials. 2022.

Dawei Liu, Zhiyi Tang, Yuequan Bao, and Hui Li. "Machine-learning-based methods for output-only structural modal identification." Structural Control and Health Monitoring. 2021.

Zhiyi Tang, Yuequan Bao, and Hui Li. "Group sparsity-aware convolutional neural network for missing data recovery of structural health monitoring." Structural Health Monitoring. 2020.

Yuequan Bao, Zhiyi Tang, and Hui Li. "Compressive-sensing data reconstruction for structural health monitoring: a machine-learning approach". Structural Health Monitoring. 2019.

Zhiyi Tang, Zhicheng Chen, Yuequan Bao, and Hui Li. "Convolutional neural network-based data anomaly detection method using multiple information for structural health monitoring". Structural Control and Health Monitoring. 2018.

Yuequan Bao, Zhiyi Tang, Hui Li, and Yufeng Zhang. "Computer vision and deep learning–based data anomaly detection method for structural health monitoring". Structural Health Monitoring. 2018.

Zhengliang Xiang, Yuequan Bao, Zhiyi Tang, and Hui Li. "Deep reinforcement learning-based sampling method for structural reliability assessment." Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 2020.

Zhicheng Chen, Yuequan Bao, Zhiyi Tang, Jiahui Chen, and Hui Li. "Clarifying and quantifying the geometric correlation for probability distributions of inter-sensor monitoring data: A functional data analytic methodology." Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. 2020.

Yuequan Bao, Zhicheng Chen, Shiyin Wei, Yang Xu, Zhiyi Tang, and Hui Li. "The State of the Art of Data Science and Engineering in Structural Health Monitoring." Engineering. 2019.

Young Talent of Yunnan Province's "Xing Dian Talent Program" 2022

Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Harbin Institute of Technology (31 over 1000+ yearly) 2022

KUST High-level Talent Introduction Program: 5th level 2021

National Scholarship of Ministry of Education (8 over 300+ yearly) 2019

1st Prize Innovation Scholarship of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology 2019

Excellent paper of WTC 2018 (74 over 1829): "Artificial Intelligence-based Data Anomaly Detection Method for Structural Health Monitoring", Beijing 2018

Best Performance Award - 2nd Prize (8 groups) in APESS 2017, Yokohama 2017

JSTI co. Structural Health Monitoring Graduate Fellowship (3 over 200+ yearly) 2016

HIT Graduate Scholarship 2014 – 2016

The Source of Love Scholarship for Volunteers 2014

Excellent Undergraduate Thesis of Harbin Institute of Technology (100 over 6,000+ yearly) 2013

XIANZI ZENG Scholarship for distinguished undergraduates 2010 – 2013

HIT Dong Liang Scholarship for top grades undergraduates 2010