| Member |
Sphere
of Interest |
| Chairman |
| Professor
Paul K L Yu* |
Optoelectronic
materials, devices and engineering;
modern communication; microwave photonics
(e.g. transmission of high frequency
optical signals and signal processing) |
| Chairman,
Mechanical, Civil & Materials Engineering
and System Design Sub-Panel |
| Professor
William M Worek* |
Heat
and mass transfer processes, thermodynamics;
advanced energy systems; solar energy
engineering |
| Members |
| Professor
Adrian Bejan* |
Thermodynamics;
heat transfer; constructal law; design
in nature; thermal design and optimization |
| Professor
Jiannong Cao |
Computer
networks; mobile and pervasive computing;
parallel and distributed computing;
fault tolerance; middleware |
| Professor
Lauren Lai-wan Chan |
Data
mining; financial engineering; bioinformatics;
the modelling of artificial neural networks;
the applications of neural networks
and ICA in time series prediction; financial
engineering; portfolio management; risk
analysis; gene expression data analysis;
image recognition; cantonese speech
recognition; image database |
| Professor
K T Chau |
Electric
Vehicles, Machines & Drives, Renewable
Energy, Power Electronics |
| Professor
Jiun-shyan Chen* |
Computational
methods for dynamic and nonlinear mechanics
of materials and solids; multiscale
materials modeling; simulation of microstructure
evolution; and biomechanics |
| Professor
Lian-kuan Chen |
Photonic
signal processing, broadband local access,
ultra-high channel-count transparent
optical networks, optical network faults
and performance management |
| Professor
Christopher Yu Hang Chao |
Built
environment; indoor air science; energy
engineering; thermofluid |
| Professor
W C Chew* |
Waves
in inhomogeneous media for various sensing
applications; integrated circuits; microstrip
antenna applications; fast algorithms
for solving wave scattering and radiation
problems; electromagnetic applications
to nano-technologies |
| Professor
Ray Harwood* |
Textile
& clothing manufacture and evaluation;
modelling structure-property relationships;
materials; chemical sciences; materials
sciences |
| Professor
Pheng Ann Heng |
Computer
graphics, visualization, virtual and
augmented reality, human-computer interaction,
computer vision, medical imaging, surgical
simulation, computer-assisted surgery,
virtual medicine |
| Professor
George Q Huang |
Product
Design and Manufacturing; Logistics
and Supply Chain Management; Enterprise
Information Systems |
| Professor
H V Jagadish* |
Databases
in the context of the internet, Data
Management for biomedicine |
| Professor
Anil K Jain* |
Pattern
Recognition; computer vision; biometric
recognition |
| Professor
Xiaohua Jia |
Internet
computing and web technologies; distributed
systems and network computing; computer
networks and computer communication;
wireless sensor networks and mesh networks,
WDM, optical networks |
| Professor
Woody Jiann-wen Ju* |
Mechanics
of materials; constitutive modelling
of advanced materials; damage and fracture
mechanics; degradation and failure;
micromechanics of composites; plasticity
and viscoplasticity; nonlinear computational
mechanics; finite element methods; biomechanics
and biomaterials; composites and nanomaterials;
high temperature thermomechanical modelling;
structural dynamics; nondestructive
and destructive testing; durability;
reliability of materials and structures;
sulfate attack and construction defects |
| Professor
Jang-kyo Kim |
Nanocomposites
reinforced with carbon nanotube, nanofiber,
graphite, nanoclay, nano-fillers &
fibre reinforced composites; Synthesis
of graphene, graphene reinforced nanocoposites,
graphene films for transparent conductors;
Nanostructured materials for renewable
energy systems: Li ion batteries, supercapacitors,
wind turbine systems; Interface science;
adhesion mechansims in various composite
materials; nanoscopic characterization
of interphase; Damage and fracture of
advanced composite materials, microstructure-property
relationships; Reliability of microelectronic
packages: delaminatio failures, shrinkage
stresses, wire bonding |
| Professor
Sritawat Kitipornchai |
Structural
engineering, steel structures, nonlinear
analysis, transmission and communication
towers, structural mechanics |
| Professor
Philip T Krein* |
Power
electronics; electric machinery and
electromechanics; electric and hybrid
vehicle systems; alternative and renewable
electrical energy systems |
| Professor
Yue Kuo* |
Nanoelectronics;
microelectronics; semiconductors; thin
films; thin film transistors (TFTs);
nonvolatile memories; biochips; VLSIC;
LCD; RIE; PECVD; high-K dielectrics;
low-K dielectrics; conductors; material
sciences; chemical sciences |
| Professor
Albert KH Kwan |
Concrete
technology; computational mechanics;
tall building structures and earthquakes
resistance structures |
| Professor
James Lam |
Robust
control and filtering, stability and
synthesis of dynamic systems (delay,
singular, stochastic, and multidimensional),
fault detection and isolation, model
approximation, neural networks, networked
control systems, vibration control |
| Professor
Kei May Lau |
High
Frequency, high speed and photonic devices:
Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), Heterostructure
field-effect and bipolar transistors
(HFETs and HBTs); Metalorganic chemical
vapor deposition (MOCVD) of compound
semiconductors including III-nitrides,
III-As/P/Sb and dilute nitride alloys,
nano-structures, selective-area hetero-epitaxy;
material and device characterization |
| Professor
Tony Tong Lee |
Fast
packet switching; traffic management
and control; performance evaluation;
multicasting; quality of service; queueing
theory; optical switch design; multi-rate
packet switching |
| Professor
Janny May-yee Leung |
Combinatorial
Optimisation/Integer Programming, Operations
Management, Transportation Logistics |
| Professor
Wallace WF Leung |
Air
pollution, water, wastewater treatment;
rotating, viscous flow, biomedical;
solid-liquid separation, centrifugation;
vibration |
| Professor
Yiu Wing Leung |
Information Networks; Multimedia
Communications; and Cybernetics &
Systems Engineering
|
| Professor
Jian Lu |
Solid mechanics; nanomaterials; nanomechanics;
residual stress; fatigue; experimental
mechanics; advanced steel
|
| Dr
S M Lo |
Real
estate and building development control,
construction project management, building
defects diagnosis, building maintenance
management, sustainable development,
Spatial planning for buildings, pedestrian
flow and evacuation modeling, and fire
safety engineering |
| Professor
Max Q H Meng |
Biomedical
engineering, medical and surgical robotics,
active capsule endoscopy, medical image
based automatic diagnosis, interactive
tele-medicine and tele-healthcare, bio-sensors
and multi-sensor data fusion, bio-MEMS
with medical applications, biomedical
devices and robotic assistive technologies
and prosthetics, adaptive and intelligent
systems, and related medical and industrial
applications |
| Professor
Philip K T Mok |
Analogue
integrated circuit techniques for power
management circuits and low-voltage
analogue integrated circuits design |
| Professor
Joseph K Y Ng |
Real-time
and embedded systems; multimedia communications;
ubiquitous/pervasive computing; mobile
and location-aware computing; performance
evaluation; parallel and distributed
computing |
| Professor
Michael K P Ng |
Bioinformatics;
data mining; image processing; operations
research and scientific computing |
| Dr
Vincent T Y Ng |
Data
mining; bioinformatics, XML databases |
| Professor
King-ngi Ngan |
Video
coding and communications, digital image
processing, visual signal processing |
| Professor
Jian-lei Niu |
Building
energy and environment; HVAC system
modeling and simulation; low-carbon
HVAC technologies; turbulence modeling
and CFD (computational fluid dynamics);
indoor air quality |
| Professor
Behnam Pourdeyhimi* |
Fiber
and polymer science and engineering,
fiber mat materials engineering; multi-component
fiber formation; meltblowing; spunbonding,
solution blowing; advanced continuous
electrospinning; filtration; bioseparations;
computational fluid dynamics; image
analysis |
| Professor
Bertram Shi |
Neuromorphic
Engineering, Cellular Neural Networks,
Mixed Analog-Digital Implementation
of Neural Networks, Embedded System
Design of Neural Networks, Computational
Vision |
| Ir
Professor Kin Wai Michael Siu |
Public
Design, Industrial and Product Design,
Living Environment and Lifestyle, Street
Furniture, User Reception, Inclusive
and Universal Design, Design and Engineering
Education |
| Professor
Wan-chi Siu |
Multimedia
DSP, Fast Algorithms, Image and Video
Coding, Computational aspects of Pattern
Recognition and Neural Networks |
| Professor
Dong Sun |
Robotics;
automation and mechatronics; biomedical
engineering |
| Professor
Masayoshi Tomizuka* |
Adaptive
control; control systems and theory;
digital control; dynamic systems; mechanical
vibrations; mechatronics; motion control;
robot control |
| Professor
Hon Ki Tsang |
Photonics;
optical communications; waveguides;
lasers; nanotechnology |
| Professor
Michael CK Tse |
Complex
networks and systems; power electronics;
applied bifurcation analysis; chaos-based
communications; disease (SARS) transmission
dynamics |
| Professor
Alexander Ping-kong Wai |
Optical
fiber communications; optical networking;
network theory; nonlinear fiber optics;
fiber lasers; theory and modeling of
optical devices; nonlinear dynamical
theory |
| Professor
Shengwei Wang |
Building
energy; building environment, HVAC &
R; building system control and optimization;
building fault detection and diagnosis,
building system simulation; intelligent
building |
| Professor
Wenping Wang |
Computer
graphics; computational geometry; geometric
modelling; scientific visualization |
| Professor
Cary Yang* |
Silicon
nanoelectronics, carbon nanostructures
in electrical and biological systems |
| Professor
Lawrence L K Yeung |
Next-generation
Internet; packet switch/ router design;
all-optical networks; wireless data
networks |
| Professor
Ben Young |
Cold-formed
steel structures; Testing and design
of steel structures; Thin-walled structures;
Structural stability; Stainless steel
structures; Aluminium structures; Fire
resistance of metal structures |
| Dr
Yuen-tak Yu |
Software
engineering, software testing, requirements
engineering; software quality; computer
in education; e-commerce |
| Professor
Lixia Zhang* |
Security
of large scale and open systems and
global internet routing infrastructure,
network architecture design, network
protocol design |
| Professor
Shuzhong Zhang |
Optimization;
Operations Research; Mathematical Programming;
Interior Point Methods; Semidefinite
Programming; Financial Engineering;
Stochastic Programming |
| Professor
Li Min Zhou |
Composites
and applications; nanomaterials and
nanotechnology for solar energy and
energy storage; structural health monitoring
technology |
| Secretary |
| Mrs
Alice Sham |
Assistant
Secretary General (Research)1, UGC. |
