Dr. Shen is an assistant professor in the School of Management and Economics, BIT. She was formerly a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore. She obtained her Ph.D. in Public Administration from Tianjin University, China. Her doctoral thesis was awarded the best dissertation award of Tianjin University. Supported by Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC), she was formerly a joint Ph.D. student in University of Maryland, College Park. She is currently reviewer for Energy and Buildings, Waste Management and Journal of Cleaner Production.

Research Interests

· Behavior Driven Energy Efficiency, Building Energy Management
· Energy Consumption Forecasting in Buildings
· Smart Facility Management
· Behavioral Interventions Design in Residential Sector

Selected Journal Articles

[1] Meng Shen, Robert Young, Qingbin Cui. The Normative Feedback Approach for Energy Conservation Behavior in the Military Community. Energy Policy. 2016, 98, 19-32. (SSCI/SCI, highlighted by Nature Energy,1(12),2016.12)
[2] Meng Shen, Qingbin Cui, Liping Fu. Personality Traits and Energy Conservation. Energy Policy, 2015, 85: 322-334. (SSCI/SCI)
[3] Liping Fu, Meng Shen, Hai Yanyu, Man Xu. Random Disturbance Reasoning Model of Decision-making System and its Anti-interference Capability. International Journal of Industrial Engineering, 2015, 22(5). (SCIE/EI)
[4] Lin Xu, Maoliang Ling, Yujie Lu, Meng Shen. External influences on forming residents’ waste separation behaviour: Evidence from households in Hangzhou, China. Habitat International, 2017, 63, 21-33. (SSCI)
[5] Lin Xu, Maoliang Ling, Yujie Lu, Meng Shen. Understanding Household Waste Separation Behaviour: Testing the Roles of Moral, Past Experience, and Perceived Policy Effectiveness within the Theory of Planned Behaviour. Sustainability, 2017, 9(4), 625. (SSCI/SCI)
[6] Meng Shen, Yujie Lu, Kai Yi Tan. Big Five Personality Traits, Demographics and Energy Conservation Behaviour: A Preliminary Study of Their Associations in Singapore. Energy Procedia, 2018. (EI)
[7] Meng Shen, Huiyao Sun, Yujie Lu. Household electricity consumption prediction under multiple behavioural intervention strategies using support vector regression. Energy Procedia, 2017, 142:2734-2739. (EI)
[8] Meng Shen, Qingbin Cui. Behavior Driven Energy Efficiency: A Customized Feedback Approach. Energy Procedia, 2015, 78, 2112-2117. (EI)
[9] Zemin Ji, Meng Shen*. Research on Path of the Construction of Ecological City under Polycentric Governance-Taking Tianjin Eco-city as an Example. Proceeding of 2013 4th International Asia Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Innovation. Springer, 2013: 438-445. (EI)
[10] Xiaochun Liu, Meng Shen*. The Legal Research on Intellectual Property Rights in Global Supply Chain Integration. The 18th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management. IEEE PRESS, 2011: 1570-1572. (EI)
[11] Xiaochun Liu, Meng Shen*. Analysis on the Enterprise Legal Relationship with Supply Chain Management Mode and Its System Establishment. The 17th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management. IEEE PRESS, 2010: 1263-1266. (EI)
[12] Liping Fu, Meng Shen. Innovation in Administrative System for Regional Ecological Environment (in Chinese). People’s Daily (Theory Edition). 2014.6.23

Conference & Presentation

1. The 9th International Conference on Applied Energy ICAE 2017, Cardiff, U.K., 2017.7.21-24 (Oral Presentation on the topic of “Household electricity consumption prediction under multiple behavioural intervention strategies using support vector regression”)
2. The 10th International Conference on Applied Energy ICAE 2018, Hong Kong, China, 2018.8.21-24 (Poster Presentation on the topic of “Big Five Personality Traits, Demographics and Energy Conservation Behaviour: A Preliminary Study of Their Associations in Singapore”)
3. The 6th International Building Physics Conference IBPC 2015, Turin, Italy, 2015.6.11-14 (Oral Presentation on the topic of “Behavior Driven Energy Efficiency: A Customized Feedback Approach”)
4. 2014 Behavior, Energy & Climate Change Conference (BECC), Washington DC, USA, 2014.12.7-10 (Poster Presentation on the topic of “Opinion Dynamics Model for Normative Feedback: An Effective Way to Achieve Sustainable Household Energy Savings”)
5. The 8th Annual Trans-Atlantic INFRADAY Conference on Electricity Markets and Planning, Washington DC, USA, 2014.11.6-7 (Oral Presentation on the topic of “Personality Factors for Behavior Driven Energy Efficiency”)
6. The 44th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey. 2014.10.14 (Oral Presentation on the topic of “Random Disturbance Reasoning Model of Decision-making System and its Anti-interference Capability”)
7. 2013 4th International Asia Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Innovation, Taiwan, China. 2013.7.18 (Oral Presentation on the topic of “Research on Path of the Construction of Ecological City under Polycentric Governance-Taking Tianjin Eco-city as an Example”)
8. The 18th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Changchun, China. 2011.9.3-5 (Oral Presentation on the topic of “The Legal Research on Intellectual Property Rights in Global Supply Chain Integration”)
9. The 17th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Xiamen, China. 2010.10.30-11.1 (Oral Presentation on the topic of “Analysis on the Enterprise Legal Relationship with Supply Chain Management Mode and Its System Establishment”)

Selected Research Projects

1. Smart Solutions Promoting Behavior Driven Energy Efficiency: A Personality-based Energy Management System. Green Building Innovation Cluster Grant, National Research Foundation (NRF) of Singapore, 2016-2018
2. Life Cycle Operational Management and Efficiency for Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV). Ministry of National Development- Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city Administrative Committee, Green Building-related Research and Development Programme, 2015-2017
3. Improving residential energy efficiency for sustainable communities: An integrated model of normative feedback, emotion, informational support, and concertive control. National Science Foundation UMD Advance Program, 2013-2014
4. Green Campus Construction and Development and Demonstration of Key Management Technology, Science and Technology Support Plan by Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2012BAC13B05), 2012-2015
5. Quality and Efficiency Research on Decision-making System Based on Robustness Theory, National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71171143), 2012-2014
6. Research on Several Issues in the Construction of the Scientific Indicators System in Tianjin’s Social Management, Social Science Major Project Supported by Tianjin Ministry of Education (Grant No. 2011ZD009), 2011-2013
7. Research on Local Legislation of the System of Limited Partnership from the Perspective of Stimulating Private Equity Fund, Social Science Foundation of Tianjin (Grant No. FX10-180), 2010

Awards & Honors

1. University Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, Tianjin University, China 2017.6
2. National Scholarship for Graduate Students, Ministry of Education of China 2015.11
3. Joint Ph.D. Student Scholarship, Chinese Scholarship Council, China 2013.5
4. Outstanding Ph.D. Candidate Funding, Tianjin University 2013.5
5. Tianjin Kechang Wang Scholarship, Tianjin Municipal Education Commission 2011.12

Contact Information

Address: 5 South Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China
Tel: 010-68918593
Email:mengshen@bit.edu.cnmengshen515@gmail.com