• 2012-2016    Ph.D., Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong
• 2007-2010    M.Sc., Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2003-2007    B.Sc., Wuhan University

• Mar 2022 -                 Associate Professor (tenure-track), Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
• Oct 2017 - Feb 2022  Research Fellow, University College London, UK
• Dec 2016 - Oct 2017 Research Associate, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Jul 2010 – May 2012 Research Assistant, Institute of Urban Environment, CAS, China

• Urban climate
• Low carbon and healthy buildings
• Climate resilient cities
• Ventilation and air quality

1. Wang, K.*, Aktas, Y. D., Malki-Epshtein, L., Wu, D., & Abdullah, M. F. A. B. (2022). Mapping the city scale anthropogenic heat emissions from buildings in Kuala Lumpur through a top-down and a bottom-up approach. Sustainable Cities and Society, 103443.
2. Ren C., Wang K.*, Shi, Y., Kwok, Y.T., Morakinyo, T.E., Lee, T.C., Li, Y. (2021) Investigating the urban heat and cool islands during heatwaves in high density cities: A case study of Hong Kong from 2000-2018, International Journal of Climatology. doi: 10.1002/joc.7222
3. Chen, G., Lam, C. K. C., Wang, K., Wang, B., Hang, J., Wang, Q., & Wang, X. (2021). Effects of urban geometry on thermal environment in 2D street canyons: A scaled experimental study. Building and Environment, 107916.
4. Yan, H., Wang, K., Lin, T., Zhang, G., Sun, C., Hu, X., Ye, H.(2021). The Challenge of the Urban Compact Form: Three-Dimensional Index Construction and Urban Land Surface Temperature Impacts. Remote Sensing, 13(6), 1067.
5. D'Ayala, D., Wang, K., Yan, Y., Smith, H., Massam, A., Filipova, V., & Pereira, J. J. (2020). Flood vulnerability and risk assessment of urban traditional buildings in a heritage district of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 20(8), 2221-2241.
6. Aktas, Y. D., Wang, K., Zhou, Y., Othman, M., Stocker, J., Jackson, M., ... & Hunt, J. (2020). Outdoor Thermal Comfort and Building Energy Use Potential in Different Land-Use Areas in Tropical Cities: Case of Kuala Lumpur. Atmosphere, 11(6), 652.
7. Chen, G., Wang, D., Wang, Q., Li, Y., Wang, X., Hang, J.*, ... & Wang, K.* (2020). Scaled outdoor experimental studies of urban thermal environment in street canyon models with various aspect ratios and thermal storage. Science of The Total Environment, 138147.
8. Yang X., Zhang Y., Hang J.*, Lin Y., Mattsson M. Sandberg M., Zhang M, & Wang K.* (2020).  Integrated assessment of indoor and outdoor ventilation in street canyons with naturally-ventilated buildings by various ventilation indexes. Building and Environment, 169, 106528.
9. Wang, K., Aktas, Y. D., Stocker, J., Carruthers, D., Hunt, J., & Malki-Epshtein, L. (2019). Urban heat island modelling of a tropical city: case of Kuala Lumpur. Geoscience Letters, 6, 4.
10. Wang K., Li Y., Li Y., and Lin B. (2018) The stone forest as a small scale field model for urban climate studies. International Journal of Climatology, 38, 3723-3731.

Full list can be found at Kai Wang (0000-0001-6829-0268) (orcid.org)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Daily Cycle of Air Temperature and Surface Temperature in Stone Forest. In 2013 AGU Fall Meeting. 9-13 Dec, 2013, San Francisco, USA. (poster presentation)
• Impact of urban building morphology on air temperature: a case study in the stone forest. In 14th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, 7-12 July, 2014, Hong Kong. (oral presentation)
• The stone forest as a small scale field model for urban climate studies. In 9th International Conference on Urban Climate jointly with 12th Symposium on the Urban Environment. 20-24 July, 2015, Tolouse, France. (oral presentation)
• A field study in a stone forest as a small-scale field model for urban climate. In International Conference on Geographies of Health and Living in Cities: Making Cities Healthy for All, 21-24 June, 2016, Hong Kong. (oral presentation)
• Urban impact on the daily cycle of air temperature. In EGU General Assembly 2017, 23-28 April, 2017, Vienna, Austria. (oral presentation)
• Monitoring the Impact of Different Land Uses on the Climate of Kuala Lumpur. In Workshop on Disaster Resilient Cities: Advances in Meteorological Forecasting and Hazards Assessment, 28-29 June, 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• Impact of Building Morphology and Material on Urban Climate: A Case Study in Kuala Lumpur. In 10th International Conference on Urban Climate jointly with 14th Symposium on the Urban Environment. 6-10 Aug, 2018, New York, USA. (oral presentation)
• Daily temperature cycle in a compact high-rise city Hong Kong and Stone Forest, In 18th UK-CARE Annual General Meeting, 07 Oct 2018, Cambridge, UK. (oral presentation)
• Modelling and monitoring the tropical urban climate of Kuala Lumpur. In Workshop on Research and Practice of Urban Modelling and Field Monitoring in UK and Malaysia, 14 March, 2019, London, UK. (oral presentation)

Journal reviewer, for Urban Climate; Science of Total Environment; Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems; Sustainable Cities and Society; Building and Environment etc.