Dr Qing Wu is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Engineering and Technology, CQUniversity. He is also the Mechanical Discipline Leader at the Centre for Railway Engineering. His research interests include mechanical system dynamics, parallel computing, multiobjective optimization, dynamics control, and their applications in railway and road vehicles.
Dr. Wu is a project leader and chief investigator for more than 10 research projects. He is also the recipient of an Australian Research Council DECRA funded by the Australian Government.
Dr. Wu has more than 162 scientific publications with 2243 citations and a H-index of 27. He is on editorial boards of Journal of Traffic and Transport Engineering, Railway Engineering Sciences, and Electronic Research Achieve. He is also a Guest Editor for several Special Issues on different international journals and a member for two Australian Standards development groups. Dr Wu is a grant assessor Australian Research Council Discovery Projects, Linkage Projects and Industry Fellowship, as well as an award reviewer for Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He has organised two international collaborative research projects ‘freight train air brake modelling practices (2021)’ and ‘International Benchmarking of Longitudinal Train Dynamics Simulators (2017)’ which had participants from more than 20 ionisations from more than 12 countries. He is also the CQU Technical Representative to UIC (International Union of Railways) Harmotrack Project, and a member of the International Joint Laboratory on Railway Engineering System Dynamics.
Dr Wu has won various awards including multiple best paper awards, best thesis awards, researcher awards and presentation awards.
2013-2016: Ph.D, Centre for Railway Engineering, Central Queensland University, Australia.
2010-2012: M. Eng (Mech), Rail Vehicle Institute, State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, China
2006-2010: B.Eng (Mech), Rail Vehicle Department, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
2019-present: Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Railway Engineering, CQU.
2016-2018: Research Fellow, Centre for Railway Engineering, CQU.
2013-2016: Assessment marker; tutor; lab instructor; lab supervisor, CQU.
2012-2013: Research Assistant, State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, China.
· 2022, Best Paper Award, World Congress on Railway Research, Birmingham, UK.
· 2021, Early Career Researcher Award, CQU.
· 2021, Best Paper Award, the 2nd International Conference on Rail Transportation, China.
· 2019, Commendation of Early Career Researcher, CQU.
· 2018, Five Minute Research Pitch (National) 2nd Place; (CQU Internal) 1st Place.
· 2017, Post Graduate Thesis Award (1st Prize), awarded by the Railway Technical Society of Australasia (RTSA)
· 2017, Outstanding Research Higher Degree Thesis Award, CQU.
· 2013-2016, International Postgraduate Award, CQU.
· 2013-2016, University Postgraduate Research Award, CQU.
· 2015, Faiveley Youth Scholarship, jointly awarded by Faiveley Transport & RTSA.
· 2015, Best Paper of RHD students symposium, SET, CQU. (1st prize)
· 2014, Faiveley Youth Scholarship, jointly awarded by Faiveley Transport & RTSA.
CPEng, RPEQ (Mechanical)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Engineers Australia (EA)
Railway Technical Society of Australasia (RTSA)
China Railway Society (CRS)
The chief developer and owner of the Train Dynamics and Energy Analyser/ Train Simulator (TDEAS)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40534-014-0055-x
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00423114.2016.1252049
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00423114.2017.1377840
· Standard Development Group Member: (1) Train Braking Rates, Australian Standards AS 7481; and (2) Disc Brakes and Pads AS 7504.
· Editorial Board member for: (1) Railway Engineering Science, (2) Electronic Research Achieve, (3) Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, and (4) Advances in Vehicle Engineering (2017-2018).
· Guest Journal Editor for: (1) International Journal of Rail Transpiration, (2) Vehicle System Dynamics, (3) Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering (Engineers Australia), and (4) Railway Engineering Science.
I am currently accredited for supervision in the following: