Chun Song 「宋春」
I am a fully funded Ph.D. student in Urban Governance and Design at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) since Fall 2025, advised by Prof. Rui Cao at the RUI Lab. Before that, I received an M.Eng. in Structural Engineering from the Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration, advised by Prof. Xuchuan Lin, and a B.E. in Civil Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University.
Research Interests: Multi-agent systems, disaster simulation, and crowd dynamics.
Research Question: How can we develop generalizable, verifiable simulations and effectively integrate AI to enable prediction, optimization, and decision-making?
News
- [09/2026] On September 16th, 2026, Twin Sentinel (灵境未然) was founded on the basis of RUI Lab, and we are pursuing something very exciting and significant.
- [09/2026] Our paper on urban-village livability inequalities is now available online in Cities.
- [09/2026] Our paper on simulation-based road-network optimization for disaster evacuation in dense urban informal settlements is now available online in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems.
- [08/2026] Our paper on coupled density-hazard evacuation navigation was published at Reliability Engineering & System Safety.
- [08/2026] Our poster was accepted by the 4th International Conference on Urban Science and Intelligence. poster
- [08/2026] Two projects received Third Prize at Urban Cup 2026. award list
- [07/2026] I led a Guangzhou Municipal Education Bureau University Research Project (RMB 20,000): Physics-Simulation-Driven Digital-Twin Reasoning and Emergency Decision-Making for Indoor Community Fires.
- [06/2026] I successfully passed the Ph.D. Qualifying Examination (PQE).
- [04/2026] Our CEUS poster was accepted by SCIISummit 2026. poster
- [09/2025] I started my fully funded Ph.D. at HKUST(GZ).
- [01/2025] Received the Excellent Simulation Technology Solution recognition in the 2025 Typical Case Collection for Large-scale Multi-hazard Digital Simulation and Scenario-deduction System for Cities and Urban Agglomerations. certificate | project poster
Publications
† corresponding author
A Novel Simulation-Based Approach to Optimizing Road Networks for Disaster Evacuation in Dense Urban Informal Settlements
Chun Song, Zhijie Zhou, Rui Cao†
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 131 (2027), Article 102510.
Coupled Density-Hazard Navigation for Evacuation Reliability in Dense Urban Informal Settlements
Chun Song, Xuchuan Lin, Rui Cao†
Selected Honors
- 2026 Third Prize (two projects), Urban Cup 2026. evidence
- 2025 Excellent Simulation Technology Solution, 2025 Typical Case Collection. certificate
- 2025 Excellent Presentation Award, the 7th National Conference on Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Engineering. certificate
- 2023, 2024 First-class Graduate Academic Scholarship (two-time recipient).
- 2021 Honorable Mention, Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling. certificate