Welcome! I am a second-year PhD student working with Prof. Elie Bou-Zeid at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University. My research aims to contribute engineering solutions to mitigate extreme urban heat stress and enhance scientific understanding of human thermal comfort
Welcome to click on my CV and the following research projects to know more about my work. The DOI links below will redirect you to the publications and please feel free to email me (xjhuang@princeton.edu) if you want to read the full-text PDF copies.
Huang X., Bou-Zeid E.*, Pigliautile I., Pisello A.L., Mandal J., (2024) Optimizing retro-reflective surfaces to untrap radiation and cool cities, Nature Cities, DOI:10.1038/s44284-024-00047-3
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Huang X., Song J.* (2023) Urban moisture and dry islands: spatiotemporal variation patterns and mechanisms of urban air humidity changes across the globe, Environmental Research Letters (IF: 6.7), DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/acf7d7
Huang X., Song J.*, Wang C., Chui TFM., Chan PW., (2021) The synergistic effect of urban heat and moisture islands in a compact high-rise city, Building and Environment (IF: 7.093), DOI:10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108274.
Huang X., Song J.*, Wang C., Chan PW. (2022) Realistic representation of pedestrian-level thermal stress in cities via a new urban climate-human coupling system, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (IF: 16.799), DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2022.112919.
Liu C.*† (supervisor), Huang X.† (co-first author), Li J., (2020) Outdoor benzene highly impacts indoor concentrations globally, Science of the Total Environment (IF: 10.753), DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137640.
Song J.* (supervisor), Huang X., Shi D., Lin W.E., Fan S., Linden P.F., (2021) Natural ventilation in London: towards energy-efficient and healthy buildings, Building and Environment (IF: 7.093), DOI:10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.107722.
Hu H., Huang X., Zhao Y., Qian H., Liu C.* (2022) A new PM2.5-based PM-up method to measure non-mechanical ventilation rate in buildings, Journal of Building Engineering (IF:7.144), DOI: 10.1016/j.jobe.2022.104351.
Du R., Song J.*, Huang X., Wang Q., Zhang C., Brousse O., Chan PW., (2022) High-resolution regional modeling of urban moisture island: mechanism and implications on thermal comfort, Building and Environment (IF: 7.093), DOI:10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108542.