Dr. Chui, the NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Engineered Wood and Building Systems, is a leading expert in timber engineering and engineered wood products. He received his BSc in Civil Engineering from Southampton University and his Doctorate degree in Timber Engineering from the University of Brighton in the UK. With over 30 years of research experience, he has published over 200 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings in the field of structural and dynamic performance of timber building systems, timber connections, nondestructive evaluation of timber members, and engineered wood products. Before joining the University of Alberta, Dr. Chui was the New Brunswick Innovation Research Chair in Advanced Wood Products and Director of the Wood Science and Technology Centre at the University of New Brunswick. He was also the Scientific Director of the highly successful NSERC Strategic Research Network, NEWBuildS, which consisted of 23 professors from 13 Canadian universities and operated between 2010 and 2015. Dr. Chui is actively engaged in building code and design standard development in North America and at the international level. He is a member of a Standing Committee of the National Building Code of Canada and a number of CSA technical committees on design of timber structures and wood products. He is also the Vice-Chair of ASTM Technical Committee D.07 ‘Wood’ and the Chair of ISO TC 165 Technical Committee ‘Timber structures’. Dr. Chui’s research interests include timber-steel hybrid lateral load resisting systems, timber-concrete floor systems, timber connections, engineered wood products and composites, wood quality and lumber properties, non-destructive evaluation, and structural dynamics. With his expertise in the field, Dr. Chui is committed to advancing the use of timber and engineered wood products in building systems and contributing to the sustainable and innovative future of the construction industry.

Link to profile: https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/yhc
Link to research group: https://www.ualberta.ca/engineering/research/groups/timbersystems/index.html