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Biography
Dr. Zhong is the director and founder of the Built Environment Technology Lab (BETLab). Her research focuses on indoor air quality, air cleaning and disinfection, HVAC systems, and building energy. Her work integrates experimental, computational, and field approaches, with applications including UVGI, airborne infection control, wildfire-resilient ventilation, and sustainable building energy systems. She has published over 120 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, and has led more than 30 research projects as Principal Investigator.
Prof. Zhong serves on the IAQVEC Board as Chair of the Mentorship & Student Programs Committee. She is also Chair of the Environmental Engineering Technical Committee of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering and is actively involved in ASHRAE and ISIAQ technical committees.
Credentials
- Research Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US
- PostDoc, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
- Ph.D., Concordia University (Distinction), Montreal, Canada
- M.Sc., Tongji University, Shanghai, China
- B.Sc., Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Professional Memberships
- Member, Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA)
- Member, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
- Board Member (TC Environmental Engineering Chair), Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME)
- Board Member (Vice- President), Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings (IAQVEC) Association
- Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- Member, International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ)
- Member, American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE)
- Member, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
Editors
- Sustainable Cities and Society, Editorial Board (2023-now)
- Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, Associate Editor (2026-now)
- Journal of Building Physics, Guest Editor, Special Issue "eSim 2024" (2024-2025)
- Atmosphere, Topical Advisory Panel Member, Guest Editor, Special Issue "Advanced Technologies in Air Science: Monitoring, Analyzing, Modeling, and Implementation" (2021)
.Invited reviewer
(Web of Science Researcher profile)- Indoor Air
- Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
- Building and Environment
- Journal of Hazardous Materials
- Sustainable Cities and Society
- Applied Energy
- Applied thermal engineering
- Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry
- Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids
- Chemosphere
- Applied Sciences
- Chemical Engineering Journal
- Buildings
- Chemical Engineering Science
- Chemical Engineering Journal
- Indoor and Built Environment
- Science and Technology for the Built Environment
- Energies
- Energy and buildings
- Energy conversion and management
- Environmental Health Insights
- Environmental Technology Reviews
- Science of the Total Environment
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- American Journal of Industrial Medicine
- Environmental Technology & Innovation
- Advances in Building Energy Research
Honors & Awards
- UA Engineering Research Chair in Built Environment Technologies, 2026-2031
- Best Paper Award, IAQVEC 2026: 12th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings, Los Angeles, USA, 2026.
- "People's Choice" award in the poster session of 2017 ERC regional research symposium, 2017
- NIOSH Pilot Project Research Training (PPRT) award, 2016-2017
- IRSST Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2015-2017
- FRQNT Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined), 2015-2017
- Concordia University Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Prize, 2014
- Concordia University Conference and Exposition Award, 2012, 2014
- NSERC CREATE Postdoctoral Scholarship, 2013-2015
- ASHRAE Graduate Grant-In-Aid Honorarium, 2013
- Concordia Doctoral Student Graduation Bonus, 2013
- NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS), 2011-2013
- ASHRAE Graduate Grant-In-Aid Scholarship, 2012-2013
- Concordia University Graduate Fellowship, 2012-2013
- Concordia Merit Scholarship, 2011-2012