Xue, Fan 薛帆

BSc; MSc CAUC; PhD HKPolyU; MACM; SMCGS; MIEEE; MHKGISA
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Dr. Xue, Fan (Frank) is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Real Estate and Construction (REC), The University of Hong Kong (HKU). Frank has an interdisciplinary background in Automation (BEng), Computer Science (MSc), Systems Engineering (PhD), and IT in Construction (PostDoc – present). He serves as the Director of RPg studies for REC and the coordinator of CIC-BIM Network for the Faculty of Architecture. He is
Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM),
Senior Member of the China Graphics Society (CGS),
Member of the Hong Kong GIS Association (HKGISA),
Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
He also served as?secretary of the ACM Hong Kong Chapter (’17- present), Committee Member of the CGS BIM Chapter (’20-present), Volunteer for IEEE Blockchain Community, and referees of over 30 international journals and a few national research funding schemes. He led various research grants (about HKD 8 million) in the following fields:
Building and city information modeling (BIM, CIM)
Derivative-free optimization
3D point clouds (LiDAR, Augmented Reality, and radar)
Blockchain and distributed applications
Construction informatics and urban semantics
Machine learning and big data analytics
Office Hour
Office hours may be subject to change at short notice. Students are advised to make appointments for, inter alia, academic advising, dissertation and other learning related meetings with individual teacher during their office hours in advance.
Some courses may have specific consultation hour arrangement. Please refer to the respective course planner or announcement at Moodle for details.
Office: KB512
Office Hour: Fri, 10:00am – 11:00am
Email: xuef@hku.hk

Research
Generation of semantically rich as-built Building Information Models (BIMs): A derivative-free optimization approachFan XUE & Wilson LU
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A derivative-free optimization (DFO) approach to architectural symmetry detection from 3D point cloudsFan XUE & Wilson LU
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From point cloud to building and city information model (BIM/CIM): A study of architectonic grammar optimizationFan XUE
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Building information modeling (BIM) on chain: From ‘stocks’ of model files to ‘flows’ of semantic treesFan XUE & Wilson LU
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Healthy and Resilient City with Pervasive LoCHsFan XUE
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High-Definition 3D Point Cloud and Dynamic Semantics Enabled Lean Quality Assurance System for Prefabricated Housing ProductsFan XUE & Wilson LU

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