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Ajay JONEJA 周阿杰
Division of Integrative Systems and Design, Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics

Professor
Program Director of MSc in Technology Leadership and Entrepreneurship

Tel:
(852) 2358 7119
Email:
Area of Expertise:
Architectural geometry
Computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD / CAM)
Rapid prototyping
Alexis Kai Hon LAU 劉啟漢
Division of Environment and Sustainability, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Head and Chair Professor
Chair Professor
Director of Institute for the Environment

Tel:
(852) 2358 6944
Email:
Area of Expertise:
Air quality analysis, forecasts and management
Air pollution exposure and health impact assessment
Climate adaptation and resilience
Sustainable urban environment
Green and sustainable finance
Angela Ruohao WU 吳若昊
Division of Life Science, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Associate Professor
Associate Director of Center for Epigenomics Research

Tel:
(852) 3469 2577
Area of Expertise:
Genomics
Cancer genomics
Systems biology
Microfluidics and nanofluidics
Single particle / molecule / cell studies
Bertram Emil SHI 施毅明
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering

Special Advisor to the Vice-President for Research and Development
Professor
Director of Center for Aging Science
Associate Director of HKUST-HKSI Joint Center for Sports Science and Technology

Tel:
(852) 2358 7079
Email:
Area of Expertise:
Neuromorphic engineering
Brain machine interfaces
Robotics
Artificial intelligence
Image analysis
Charles Chuan ZHANG 張川
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Professor

Tel:
(852) 2358 6997
Area of Expertise:
Program analysis
Software security
Software engineering
Programming languages
Charles Wang Wai NG 吳宏偉
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Vice-President of HKUST (Guangzhou)
Dean of HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School
CLP Holdings Professor of Sustainability
Chair Professor

Tel:
(852) 2358 8760
Area of Expertise:
Slope
Soil behavior
Geoenvironmental engineering
Energy foundations
Chi Ying TSUI 崔志英
Division of Integrative Systems and Design, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Academy of Interdisciplinary Studies

Professor
Director of Entrepreneurship Education
Director of Academy for Bright Future Young Engineers
Associate Director of Center on Smart Sensors and Environmental Technologies

Tel:
(852) 2358 7071
Email:
Area of Expertise:
AI hardware accelerator
Baseband application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)
Computer architecture
Embedded systems
Energy harvesting
Integrated circuits and systems
Chik Patrick YUE 俞捷
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering

Professor
Director of Dual Master’s Degree Program Focusing on Future Energy and Power System Smart Operation and Management
Associate Director of Institute of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Tel:
(852) 2358 7047
Area of Expertise:
Optical wireless physical layer circuits and systems
High-speed wireline communication system-on-chip (SoC)
Millimeter-wave communication and sensing circuits
Indoor positioning and image processing technologies for robotic applications
Edge computing accelerator design for IoT applications
Christopher Kin Ying LEUNG 梁堅凝
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor

Tel:
(852) 2358 8183
Area of Expertise:
Construction materials
Mechanics of fiber composites
Fracture mechanics
Optical fiber sensors
Composites for construction
Dekai WU 吳德愷
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Professor

Tel:
(852) 2358 6989
Email:
Area of Expertise:
Artificial intelligence
Human language and music technology
Computational linguistics
Natural language processing
Machine translation
Machine learning
Deep learning
Dit Yan YEUNG 楊瓞仁
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Chair Professor

Tel:
(852) 2358 6977
Area of Expertise:
Artificial intelligence
Computer vision
Machine learning
Eun Soon IM 林銀順
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Division of Environment and Sustainability

Associate Professor
Program Director of Environmental Engineering Program
RPG Programs Coordinator (Environment and Sustainability)

Tel:
(852) 2358 8190
Email:
Area of Expertise:
Climate change and variability
Analysis of hydrological extremes
Regional climate change modeling
Global and planetary change
Fugee TSUNG 宗福季
Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics

Chair Professor
Associate Director of HKUST-HKPC Joint Research Lab for Industrial AI and Robotics

Tel:
(852) 2358 7097
Email:
Area of Expertise:
Industrial big data
Data analytics
Statistical process control and monitoring
Quality engineering and management
Gary Shueng Han CHAN 陳雙幸
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Professor

Tel:
(852) 2358 6990
Email:
Area of Expertise:
Machine learning
Big data
Sensor network
Henry Hei Ning LAM 林熙寧
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Associate Head and Professor
Director of Center for Engineering Education Innovation

Tel:
(852) 2358 7133
Email:
Area of Expertise:
Bioinformatics
Mass spectrometry
Metabolomics
Microbiomes and microbial communities
Proteomics
Hong Kam LO 羅康錦
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dean of Engineering
Chair Professor
Director of GREAT Smart Cities Institute
Director of HKUST-MTR Joint Research Lab

Tel:
(852) 2358 6952
Email:
Area of Expertise:
Transportation engineering
Intelligent transportation systems
Transportation systems modeling
Public transportation
Traffic dynamics
Hongyu YU 于宏宇
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Associate Professor
Director of Robotics and Human-Machine Interaction Lab
Director of Space Science and Technology Institute
Program Director of MSc in Aeronautical Engineering
Associate Director of Sports Science and Technology Research Center

Tel:
(852) 3469 2754
Area of Expertise:
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
Robotics
Flexible devices and electronics
Semiconductor materials and device processing
Optical fibers and light-emitting diode (LED) packaging
Huamin QU 屈華民
Academy of Interdisciplinary Studies, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering

Dean of Academy of Interdisciplinary Studies
Head
Chair Professor
Program Director of MPhil/PhD in Individualized Interdisciplinary Program

Tel:
(852) 2358 6985
Email:
Area of Expertise:
Big data
Information visualization
Human-computer interaction
Artificial intelligence
Mobile augmented reality
I-ming HSING 邢怡銘
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Professor
Program Director of MSc in Biomolecular Engineering and Health Informatics

Tel:
(852) 2358 7131
Area of Expertise:
Biosensors
Biomedical engineering (BME)
Microsystems
Bioengineering
Bioelectronics
Irene Man Chi LO 勞敏慈
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Chair Professor
Senior Fellow

Tel:
(852) 2358 7157
Email:
Area of Expertise:
Nanotechnology for environmental application
Wastewater treatment
Soil and groundwater remediation
Solid waste treatment and disposal
Fate and transport of nanoparticles
Joseph Hun-wei LEE
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor Emeritus

Tel:
(852) 2358 7152
Email:
Area of Expertise:
Hydraulics / fluid mechanics
Water resources system analysis and management
Flooding
Environmental management
Science and technology policy
Kai LIU 劉凱
Division of Life Science, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Professor
Associate Director of HKUST-Nan Fung Life Sciences Joint Laboratory
Associate Director of Laboratory Animal Facility

Tel:
(852) 2358 7277
Email:
Area of Expertise:
Molecular mechanisms regulating axon regeneration
Kam Tim WOO 胡錦添
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Academy of Interdisciplinary Studies

Associate Professor of Engineering Education
Senior Lecturer
Director of Center for Global and Community Engagement
Associate Director of Academy for Bright Future Young Engineers

Tel:
(852) 2358 8540
Email:
Area of Expertise:
Engineering education
Robotics
Signal processing
Tracking systems
King Lau CHOW 周敬流
Division of Life Science, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Division of Public Policy

Acting Dean of Students
Professor
Director of the Center for the Development of the Gifted and Talented
Program Director of BSc in Individualized Interdisciplinary Major Program

Tel:
(852) 2358 7342
Area of Expertise:
Genetics
Evolutionary biology
Cellular and molecular mechanisms
Developmental biology
Sensory organ differentiation
Kun XU 徐昆
Department of Mathematics, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Head and Chair Professor
Stephen Kam Chuen Cheong Professor of Science
Chair Professor

Tel:
(852) 2358 7433
Email:
Area of Expertise:
Computational fluid dynamics
High-order compact schemes for Navier-Stokes equations
Multiscale modeling and gas-kinetic schemes
Non-equilibrium transport and rarefied flow
Larry LI 李建邦
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Associate Professor
UG Programs Coordinator (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
Associate Director of Aerodynamics and Acoustics Facility

Tel:
(852) 3469 2232
Area of Expertise:
Complex and disordered systems
Fluid mechanics
Thermoacoustics
Lei CHEN 陳雷
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Chair Professor
Director of MOE/MSRA Information Technology Key Laboratory
Associate Director of Brain and Intelligence Research Institute
Associate Director of GREAT Smart Cities Institute

Tel:
(852) 2358 6980
Area of Expertise:
Data-driven machine learning
Crowdsourcing-based data processing
Uncertain and probabilistic databases
Web information management
Multimedia systems
Long QUAN 權龍
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Professor

Tel:
(852) 2358 7018
Email:
Area of Expertise:
Computer vision
Marshal Yuanshuai LIU 劉元帥
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Associate Professor of Engineering Education
Senior Lecturer
Associate Director of Center for Engineering Education Innovation

Tel:
(852) 2358 8409
Area of Expertise:
Bioprocess engineering
Food Processing
Engineering education
Pascale FUNG 馮雁
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering

Chair Professor
Director of Center for Artificial Intelligence Research

Tel:
(852) 2358 8537
Area of Expertise:
Speech recognition
Machine translation
Cross-language information processing
Music information extraction
Pedro SANDER 辛達德
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering

Professor
Co-Director of Dual Degree Program in Technology and Management

Tel:
(852) 2358 6983
Area of Expertise:
Computer graphics
General purpose processing on graphics hardware
Ping GAO 高平
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Professor
Associate Director of Center for Polymer Processing and Systems

Tel:
(852) 2358 7126
Email:
Area of Expertise:
Polymer
Polyethylene
Nanocomposites
Qian ZHANG 張黔
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Division of Integrative Systems and Design

Acting Head
Tencent Professor of Engineering
Chair Professor
Senior Fellow
Director of Digital Life Research Center
Co-Director of HKUST-Huawei Joint Laboratory

Tel:
(852) 2358 8766
Email:
Area of Expertise:
Computer networking
Wireless systems
Cyber-physical systems
Mobile computing
Cybersecurity
Rachel Quan ZHANG 張荃
Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics, Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

Chair Professor

Tel:
(852) 2358 7113
Email:
Area of Expertise:
Operations management
Operations research
Operations-finance interface
Blockchain operations
Supply chain management
Richard Hau Yue SO 蘇孝宇
Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Associate Dean of Engineering (Research & Graduate Studies)
Professor
Director of HKUST Collaborative Innovation Center

Tel:
(852) 2358 7105
Email:
Area of Expertise:
Bioinspired signal processing
Visual and auditory perception
Ricky Shi-wei LEE 李世瑋
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Senior Advisor to the Vice-President for Research and Development
Executive Director of Shenzhen Platform Development Office
Visiting Professor
Professor Emeritus
Director of Additive Manufacturing for Microelectronics & Microsystems Laboratory
Director of Electronic Packaging Laboratory
Director of HKUST Foshan Center for Technology and Commercialization
Director of HKUST Foshan Research Institute for Smart Manufacturing
Director of HKUST LED-FPD Technology Research and Development Center at Foshan

Tel:
(86) 20 8833 5001
Area of Expertise:
Electronic packaging
Optical fibers and light-emitting diode (LED) packaging
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
Lead-free soldering
Computational modeling
Sai Kit YEUNG 楊世傑
Division of Integrative Systems and Design, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Ocean Science

Professor
PG Programs Coordinator (Integrative Systems and Design)

Tel:
(852) 3469 2796
Email:
Area of Expertise:
Computer vision
Computer graphics
Computational design
Computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD / CAM)
Tianshou ZHAO 趙天壽
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Chair Professor
Senior Fellow

Tel:
(852) 2358 8647
Area of Expertise:
Alternate and renewable energy
Energy conversion
Energy storage
Fuel cell technology
Heat and mass transport
Xin ZHANG 張欣
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Swire Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Chair Professor
Director of Aerodynamics and Acoustics Facility
Director of HKUST-HKSI Joint Center for Sports Science and Technology
Director of Sports Science and Technology Research Center

Tel:
(852) 3469 2220
Area of Expertise:
Aeroacoustics
Aerodynamics
Aerospace engineering
Aircraft engineering
Aircraft and aeronautical engineering
Ying CHAU 周迎
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Professor
Director of Student Innovation for Global Health Technology

Tel:
(852) 2358 8935
Area of Expertise:
Biomedical engineering (BME)
Drug delivery
Cancer
Tissue engineering
Biomaterials
Yuan YAO 姚遠
Department of Mathematics, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Professor

Tel:
(852) 2358 7461
Email:
Area of Expertise:
Statistical machine learning
Applied mathematics
Zhengtang LUO 羅正湯
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Professor
Program Director of MSc in Chemical and Energy Engineering

Tel:
(852) 2358 8823
Area of Expertise:
Advanced materials
Graphene chemistry and physics
Functional polymer