Profile

Biography

Zitao Jiang is a researcher in building and urban environmental engineering, with research interests spanning natural ventilation, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), wind engineering, urban microclimate, and data-driven modeling.

His research combines numerical simulation, wind tunnel experiments, field measurements, and reduced-order/data-driven approaches to understand and predict airflow and environmental performance in buildings and cities.

Education

Ph.D. in Built Environment
Osaka University, Japan | 2021–2024
Dissertation: Airflow Analysis of Natural Ventilation Driven by Turbulence under Isothermal and Non-isothermal Conditions

Master of Architectural Science (Sustainable Design)
The University of Sydney, Australia | 2019–2021

Exchange Student
Osaka University, Japan | 2018

Exchange Student
The University of Western Australia, Australia | 2017

Bachelor of Architecture
China University of Mining and Technology, China | 2014–2019

Professional Experience

Senior Lecturer
Setsunan University, Japan | 2026.04–Present

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Built Environmental Laboratory, The University of Osaka, Japan | 2025.11–2026.03

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Wind and Fluid Engineering Research Center, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan | 2024.10–2025.10

Visiting Researcher
University of Gävle, Sweden | 2022–2023

Research Interests

• Building airflow and natural ventilation
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
• Wind tunnel experiments
• Indoor air quality and contaminant transport
• Urban microclimate and outdoor thermal environment
• Building energy and climate-responsive design
• Reduced-order and data-driven modeling
• Physics-informed machine learning and digital twins

Research Development

Natural Ventilation & Indoor Airflow

Wind-driven and buoyancy-driven natural ventilation, single-sided and cross ventilation, turbulence effects, and indoor airflow.

Wind Engineering & Urban Environment

Building aerodynamics, pedestrian wind environments, urban airflow, pollutant dispersion, and integration of CFD with wind tunnel experiments.

Urban Microclimate & Environmental Measurement

Field and mobile measurements of outdoor thermal environments, urban morphology, waterfront cooling, solar exposure, and climate-responsive urban design.

Data-driven Building Physics

Reduced-order modeling, POD, DeepONet, sparse-sensor reconstruction, physics-informed machine learning, and real-time environmental prediction.

Building Energy & Environmental Control

Integration of airflow prediction with building energy simulation, natural ventilation potential, environmental sensing, and real-time building control.

Honors & Research Funding

• JSPS Research Fellowship (PD)

  2024–2026

• Excellent Presentation Award, SHASE Conference

  2023

• JST Research Funding

  2021–2024

Professional Memberships

• Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ)
• Japan Association for Wind Engineering (JAWE)
• Society of Heating, Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan (SHASE)

Academic Service

Reviewer for international journals including:

• Building and Environment
• Energy and Buildings
• International Journal of Ventilation
• Indoor Air
• Aerosol and Air Quality Research

Research Methods & Tools

Numerical Simulation: ANSYS Fluent, OpenFOAM, Ladybug Tools Post-processing: ParaView, Tecplot
Experimental Methods: Wind tunnel experiments, PIV, PTV, LDV
Programming & Data Analysis: Python

Contact

Email：zitao.jiang(at)setsunan.ac.jp