Zhen Jia

Expert Peer Review Committee

Shanghai, China

About

Dr. Zhen Jia is currently the Group Leader at United Technologies Research Center (China). He is managing the Decision and Control Systems group. The group now has 13 team members with capabilities in the areas of video analytics, machine learning, data mining, software engineering, controls and embedded system. Dr. Jia’s daily responsibilities include staff mentoring, capabilities building, projects planning and management, external collaboration development and so on. Currently Dr. Jia is leading the UTRC research initiative project of intelligent egress for high-rise buildings, which focuses on innovative solutions that can design, simulate and evaluate different egress strategies for high-rise buildings, integrate different building systems like fire alarm system, security system and elevator systems for egress strategy implementation and then develop practical ways to distribute the…

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Zhen Jia

CTBUH Roles

Expert Peer Review Committee (2015 – Present)

CTBUH Initiatives

Research

17 October 2016

An Integrated Solution to Enable Safe Evacuation of Tall Buildings

Zhen Jia, Murilo Bonilha, Bill Li & Geeta Bora, United Technologies Corporation

Implementing real-time, efficient, and intelligent tall building egresses that ensure human safety in cases of emergencies can be extremely difficult. Most current egress strategies are...

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21 September 2016

Intelligent Egress Workshop Tackles Tough Fire-Safety Issues

Co-organized by CTBUH, UTRC (China), and Institute of Public Safety of Tsinghua University, this day-long workshop examined the issues and challenges accompanying ever-taller buildings.

17 October 2016

An Integrated Solution to Enable Safe Evacuation of Tall Buildings

Zhen Jia, Murilo Bonilha, Bill Li & Geeta Bora, United Technologies Corporation

Implementing real-time, efficient, and intelligent tall building egresses that ensure human safety in cases of emergencies can be extremely difficult. Most current egress strategies are...