On May 11, 2020, the results of the “Academic Young Talent” selection for graduate students organized by the Civil Engineering Department and Construction Management Department of Tsinghua University was released. Jing Lin, a PhD student of the research group, was awarded the title of "Academic Young Talent" of graduate students of the Civil Engineering Department and Construction Management Department.
Figure 1 Jing Lin
The selection of “Academic Young Talent” for graduate students of the Civil Engineering Department and Construction Management Department aims to provide a platform for students to showcase their academic achievements, promote academic exchanges, encourage academic research and set good examples. Every year, four “Academic Young Talents” are nominated from among all graduate students in the two Departments. This year, the honorific title was awarded to Jing Lin in recognition of her academic contributions and achievements in the field of building emergency management.
Jing Lin joined the Construction Management Department of Tsinghua University in 2017 to study for a doctorate degree in management science and engineering, under the supervision of Associate Professor Nan Li. She was engaged in research on basic theories, research tool design and quantitative analysis of building emergency evacuation behavior, focused on individual wayfinding building emergency evacuations, and achieved outstanding research results. During her doctoral study, Jing Lin was a major participant in 1 sub-project of a major project of the National Social Science Foundation of China, 1 youth fund project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 1 youth fund project of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, and 1 horizontal scientific research project. She published 8 SCI/SSCI papers (including 2 review papers), of which 4 were first author’s papers of Class I, and 2 appeared among the quarterly most-downloaded papers of the journal. She published 4 international conference papers, including 2 EI conference papers as the first author.
Jing Lin proposed a novel theoretical framework for individual wayfinding in building emergency evacuation from a cognitive perspective. Based on this framework, she sorted the fragmented existing research results into a systematic knowledge system, which laid a theoretical foundation for the systematic study of the wayfinding mechanism of individuals in building emergency evacuation in the future. Jing Lin also developed a virtual reality (VR) evacuation experimental platform with multi-channel human-computer interaction, which was applied in empirical research, enriching the understanding of the influence of seven key wayfinding factors.
Figure 2 Research Framework of Dr. Jing Lin
