Professor Runming Yao
Runming Yao is a professor of energy and built environment at the School of the Built Environment, University of Reading, UK, and the School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, China.
Professor Yao was awarded a Bachelor of Engineering in 1986, a Master of Building Science in 1993 and a Doctor of Building Environment in 1998. She is a Chartered Engineer of Building Services, a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (FCIBSE), a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building (FCIOB), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). She is the founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Building Engineering, Elsevier. She is frequently invited to be a reviewer and assessor for Research Councils of many countries. Professor Yao has broad research interests in the sustainable built environment, focusing on energy efficiency and indoor and outdoor environments, with a proven track record of winning research funding and successfully delivering high-quality scientific research. Her experience includes research delivery in the UK, China, and internationally, and she has a strong and consistent track record of academic, industrial, and policy impacts. The quality of her is primarily evidenced by publications. She continues to place a strong emphasis on disseminating the results to a wide audience of academics, industrialists and professionals on both a national and international scale.
Select publications
- Runming Yao Ed. (2024) Resilient Urban Environments – Planning for Livable Cities, Springer, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-55482-7
- F. Yuan, R. Yao, S. Sadrizadeh, H. Awbi, H. Luo, B. Li, Science of The Total Environment, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173898
- S. Zhang, R. Yao, H. Wei c, Baizhan Li, Prediction of occupant thermal state via infrared thermography and explainable AI, Energy and Buildings, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.114153
- Shu, Z. , Yuan, F. , Wang, J. , Zang, J. , Li, B. , Shahrestani, M., Essah, E. Awbi, H. , Holland, M. , Fang, F. , Pain, C. , Kumar, P. , Zhong, H. , Short, A. , Linden, P. , Yao, R. ORC id 0000-0003-4269-7224 (2024) Prioritising actions for improving classroom air quality based on the analytic hierarchy process: case studies in China and the UK. Indoor Air, 2024 ISSN: 1600-0668 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2024/5531325
- Li, Y. , Yao, R., Zhang, H. , Du, C. (2024) Exploring on the prediction model of human skin temperature and rectal temperature under heat stress. Building and Environment, 254 ISSN: 1873-684X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2024.111373
- Zhou, S. , Ouyang, L. , Li, B. , Hodder, S. , Yao, R. (2024) A thermoregulation model based on the physical and physiological characteristics of Chinese elderly. Computers in Biology and Medicine , 172 ISSN: 1879-0534 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.108262
- Zhang, S. , Yao, R., Toftum, J. , Essah, E. , Li, B. (2024) Machine learning-based approach to predict thermal comfort in mixed-mode buildings: incorporating adaptive behaviors. Journal of Building Engineering , 87 ISSN: 2352-7102 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2024.108877
- Kumar, P., Debele, S. , Khalili, S. , Halios, C., Sahani, J. , Aghamohammadi, N. , Andrade, M. , Athanassiadou, M. , Bhui, K. , Calvillo, N. , Cao, S. , Coulon, F. ,…….. , Lehmann, S. , Locosselli, G. , Malham, S. , Morawska, L. , Parajuli, R. , Rogers, C. , Yao, R. , Wang, F. , Wenk, J. , Jones, L. (2024) Urban heat mitigation by green and blue infrastructure: drivers, effectiveness, and future needs. The Innovation , 5 (2). Idoi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2024.100588
Select Awards
- 2022 Science and Technology Advancement Award 1st Prize, Chongqing Government
- 2021 National Science and Technology Advancement 2nd Prize, by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China
- 2020-date The title of Outstanding Scientist; Chongqing government
- On the list of Stanford’s Top 2% Scientists Since 2019, https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6
Further links
https://www.reading.ac.uk/cme/staff/professor-runming-yao