Principal Investigator

Zhiling Guo

Assistant Professor

Dr. Zhiling Guo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering (BEEE) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research focuses on Embodied Intelligence in Energy Systems: how energy dynamics and physical …

  • Urban energy systems
  • Geospatial Al & 3D city models
  • Physics-informed Al
  • Climate-resilient infrastructure

Postdoctoral Fellows 2

LIAO Xuan

Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Energy-system perception
  • Solar & urban remote sensing

LI Xiaoyuan

Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Physics-grounded world models
  • Building & storage dynamics

PhD Students 8

TAN Hongjun

PhD Student (Year 4)

  • Climate change
  • Renewable energy
  • Artificial Intelligence

ZHANG Yongan

PhD Student (Year 3)

  • LLM agents for urban resilience
  • Global energy systems (hydro, wind and solar PV)
  • AI agents for energy-system modelling and decision-making

DENG Ruizhe

PhD Student (Year 3)

  • Remote sensing image interpretation
  • CV and RS for energy
  • PV output forecasting and mapping

XU Xin

PhD Student (Year 3)

  • Embodied decision & control
  • Low-altitude / eVTOL energy

LIU Xuanyu

PhD Student (Year 2)

  • Energy-system perception
  • Solar & urban remote sensing

DONG Kechuan

PhD Student (Year 1)

  • Spatiotemporal deep learning
  • Urban solar potential (rooftop & facade PV)
  • Geospatial AI & 3D city models

JIANG Yujie

PhD Student (Year 1)

  • Physics-grounded world models
  • Building & storage dynamics

MPhil Students 2

XU Jian

MPhil Student (Year 2)

  • Urban Energy Systems and Photovoltaic Potential Assessment
  • Active Perception and Environment Reconstruction
  • 3D Computer Vision and Building Information Modelling

PAN Yuyang

MPhil Student (Year 1)

  • Physics-grounded world models
  • PV output forecasting

Research Assistants 4

ZHANG Xiao

Research Assistant

  • Embodied decision & control
  • Low-altitude / eVTOL energy

LIANG Jinwei

Research Assistant

  • Urban Remote Sensing and Environmental Monitoring
  • Low-Carbon Energy Systems and Spatial Optimization

ZHOU Dawei

Research Assistant

  • Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Buildings
  • Urban Energy Resilience
  • Embodied AI for Energy

SHI Minghui

Research Assistant

  • Embodied decision & control
  • Electric mobility & charging

Affiliated Members 5

XU Xuanyu

Affiliated Member

  • Energy-system perception
  • Solar & urban remote sensing

LIN Zhengyuan

Affiliated Member

  • Energy-system perception
  • Observability & state estimation

LIU Yuhan

Affiliated Member

  • Physics-grounded world models
  • PV output forecasting

LI Yongjiang

Affiliated Member

  • Embodied decision & control
  • Low-altitude / eVTOL energy

LI Jiaze

Affiliated Member

  • Generative AI
  • Computer Vision
  • Spatial Intelligence