Research Associate in Decarbonised, Adaptable, and Resilient Transport Infrastructure
Academic Division: Civil Engineering
Email: wb316@cam.ac.uk
Research interests
Wei has an educational background in civil engineering and management science. She specialises in enhancing the resilience of complex infrastructure systems to support sustainable urban development. Wei’s academic goal is to bridge resilience principles, computational modelling of complex systems, optimisation techniques, and data science to deliver interdisciplinary approaches that produce scientific evidence and practical solutions to empower infrastructure operators and policymakers in managing the growing uncertainties driven by climate challenges and escalating system dependencies.
In collaboration with Transport for London, Wei’s PhD research focused on advancing complex network modelling for assessing flood resilience and optimising recovery resource scheduling of urban rail transit systems. The assessment helps diagnose system vulnerability to flood risks, while the optimisation supports informed decision-making in prioritising resources during the recovery process. Her PhD research has explored the flood resilience of the London Tube network (including London Underground, London Overground, DLR, Elizabeth Line, and London Trams) under 30-year, 100-year, and 1,000-year flood risk scenarios.
Wei is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate within the National Hub of Decarbonised, Adaptable, and Resilient Transport Infrastructure (DARe). She will develop performance metric frameworks for different modes of transport for quantifying the impacts of extreme weather events under climate change, design a cost-benefit assessment framework for evaluating transport adaptation strategies, and enhance the current agent-based transport modelling with a focus on public transport and recovery modelling.
Education:
- 2021-2024, PhD, University of Cambridge
- Sep-Nov 2022, Visiting Scholar, Princeton University
- 2018-2019, Master in Management, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
- 2017-2020, MPhil, Southeast University
- 2013-2017, BEng, Southeast University
Profiles:
- Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uxRIFJQAAAAJ&hl=en
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/wei-viviane-bi
- DARe National Hub: https://dare.ac.uk/about-us/our-team/wei-bi/
- Centre for Sustainable Development: https://www-csd.eng.cam.ac.uk/staff/ms-wei-bi
Strategic themes
Energy, transport and urban infrastructure
Climate resilience assessment and optimisation of transport infrastructure
Complex, resilient and intelligent systems
Resilience modelling of complex infrastructure systems
Department role and responsibilities