Engineering Panel (General Research Fund and Other Funding Schemes for Individual Research)
(as at 12 December 2023)
Member Sphere of Interest
Chairman
Professor Ronaldo Borja* Interests in theoretical and computational solid mechanics, geomechanics and geosciences
Deputy Panel Chairman
Professor Jon Longtin* Interests in using the unique qualities of laser light for novel measurement of the thermophysical behavior of liquid and solids
Chairman, Computer Science & Information Technology and Electrical & Electronic Engineering Sub-Panel
Professor Yuanyuan Yang* Interests in cloud computing, data center networking, edge computing, wireless and mobile networks, and parallel and distributed computing and systems
Members
Professor Pedro J. Alvarez* Interests in environmental applications and implications of nanotechnology, bioremediation of toxic chemicals, water footprint of biofuels, water treatment and reuse, and antibiotic resistance control
Professor Chimay J. Anumba* Interests in the fields of construction engineering and management, advanced engineering informatics (AI, CPS, KBS, etc.), concurrent engineering, knowledge management, distributed collaboration, high performance buildings, and sustainable construction.
Professor Catherine Brinson* Interests in advanced material systems and developing new methods to characterize and to model material behavior
Professor Jian Cao* Interests in innovative manufacturing processes and systems, particularly in the areas of deformation-based processes and laser processes
Professor Kang Cheung Chan Interests in advanced manufacturing technology, and materials engineering and processing
Professor Albert P.C. Chan Interests in project management and project success, construction procurement and relational contracting, public private partnerships, and construction health and safety
Professor Xiuli Chao* Interests in queueing, scheduling, financial engineering, inventory control, and supply chain management
Professor Christopher Yu Hang Chao Interests in thermal and environmental engineering covering areas of bioaerosol dispersion, deposition and resuspension in indoor air and the impact on infectious disease transmission; solar and waste heat driven advanced cooling systems; passive radiative cooling; nanofluid and bioinspired heat transfer.
Professor Kwok Tong Chau Interests in electrical energy engineering, with emphasis on electric and hybrid vehicles, renewable energy systems, and power electronics & drives
Professor Benmei Chen Interests in autonomous unmanned systems; linear systems and control; control applications; financial market modeling
Professor Nan Chen Interests in quantitative methods in finance and risk management, Monte Carlo simulation, and applied probability
Professor Qingyan Chen Interests in indoor environment, aircraft cabin environment, and energy-efficient, healthy, and sustainable building design and analysis
Professor Ray Chen* Interests in Nano-photonic passive and active devices for bio- and EM-wave sensing and interconnect applications; thin film guided-wave optical interconnection, computing and packaging for 2D and 3D laser beam routing and steering; True Time Delay (TTD) wide band Phased Array Antenna (PAA); 3D printed micro-electronics and photonics
Professor Yingying Chen* Interests in mobile healthcare, Internet of Things (IoT), cyber security and privacy, connected vehicles, mobile computing and sensing
Professor Yiran Chen* Interests in emerging memory and storage systems, embedded systems, CPS, edge computing and mobile applications, neuromorphic computing, deep learning and systems security, and low power circuit and system
Professor Yiu Ming Cheung Interests in machine learning, data science, computer vision, pattern recognition, multi-objective optimization, information hiding
Professor Jason Tsan-ming Choi* Interests in logistics and supply chain management; multi-methodological operations management; interfaces of operations management and technology, marketing and finance
Professor Xiaotie Deng* Interests in Algorithmic game theory, with applications to Internet Economics and Finance including sponsored search auction, p2p network’s economics such as BitTorrent network, sharing economics, and blockchain. His other works cover online algorithms, parallel algorithms, and combinatorial optimization.
Professor Wei Ding* Interests in data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, computational semantics, and with applications to health sciences, astronomy, geosciences, and environmental sciences.
Professor Xiaojiang Du* Interests in Internet of Things (IoT) Security, Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) Security; Artificial Intelligence (AI) Security, Machine Learning Security; Mobile Device Security, Wireless Network Security; Wireless Networks, Computer Networks; Computer Systems, Controls, Communications
Professor Lucy E. Dunne* Interests in apparel design, functional apparel, smart clothing/wearable technology
Professor Kornel Ehmann* Interests in micro/meso-scale manufacturing; precision engineering; machine tool dynamics and control; material removal processes; automation and robotics
Professor Yonina C. Eldar* Interests in sampling methods and A/D design, compressed sensing, detection and estimation theory, optimization for signal processing, medical imaging, signal processing and optimization for communication systems, signal and image processing for optics, deep learning and graphs, computational biology
Professor Horacio D. Espinosa* Interests in understanding the mechanical behavior of natural and synthetic nanomaterials across scales, from nano to macro, and developing micro/nano devices for materials research and personalized medicine
Professor Jintu Fan Interests in improving understanding of the interactions among the human body, clothing and environment, and on that basis, developing fibrous materials and fashionable clothing with enhanced functional performance
Professor Xuanlai Fang Interests in nanodevices; advanced manufacturing
Professor Hongbo Fu Interests in high-level shape analysis and synthesis, sketch understanding, sketch-based interfaces, and mobile interactions.
Professor Xiaoming Fu* Interests in architecture and applications of Internet-based systems
Professor Huajian Gao* Interest in solid mechanics, nanomechanics and biomechanics, fracture mechanics, thin film mechanics, mechanics of nanostructured and low dimensional materials, mechanics of membrane targeting nanomedicine, hydrogen embrittlement
Professor Nasr M. Ghoniem* Interests in damage and failure of materials in mechanical design; mechanics and physics of material defects (point defects, dislocations, voids and cracks); material degradation in severe environments (e.g. nuclear, fusion, rocket engines, etc.); plasma and laser processing; materials non-equilibrium, pattern formation and instability phenomena; radiation interaction with materials (neutrons, electrons, particles, laser & photons)
Dr Julio C. Guerrero* Interests in analyzing, designing, and developing mechanical systems, including those for harsh and extreme conditions, and energy and oil and gas and biomedical industries
Professor Grace Yick Hsuan* Interests in modeling the chemical and mechanical degradation mechanisms for polymeric structural materials, service life prediction of geosynthetics and plastic pipes, engineering performance of recycle plastics, nanoclay polyethylene composite
Professor Kaibin Huang Interests in wireless transmission of information and its applications in different areas such as mobile edge computing, distributed machine learning, and 5G systems.
Professor Hong Jiang* Interests in computer architecture, computer storage systems and parallel I/O, high-performance computing, big data computing, cloud computing, performance evaluation
Professor William Hing Keung Lam Interests in transport planning and traffic forecasting, ITS technology and development, smart surveillance and traffic simulation, public transport and pedestrian studies
Professor Kin Leung* Interests in wireless communications: resource allocation, power control, spread spectrum, link adaptation, MAC, 3G and 4G cellular networks, IEEE 802.11 and 802.16 networks, wireless TCP/IP, QoS, network protocols, Communication networks: TCP/IP, mobility management, network architecture, real-time applications, network control protocols, traffic modeling. Stochastic modeling and queueing theory
Professor Qing Li Interests in multi-modal data management, Data warehousing and mining, Social media and Web services, and e-Learning Technologies
Professor Qiusheng Li Interests in wind engineering; structural dynamics structural health monitoring; structural control; structural stability; earthquake engineering; computational fluid and solid mechanics; reliability and risk assessment
Professor Xiangdong Li Interests in regional pollution, urban environmental quality, phytoremediation
Professor Yangmin Li Interests in robotics, mechatronics, control and automation
Professor Zhu Li* Interests in image/video, light field and point cloud compression, deep learning based compression schemes, image/video denoising and super-resolution, video hashing and identification, as well as the video communication system issues like joint source-channel coding, rate-distortion optimization and communication resource management
Professor Ching-long Lin* Interests in multiscale simulation of gas flow and particle transport in the human lungs, turbulent flow in complex geometry, fluid-structure interaction, parallel computing
Professor Irene Man Chi Lo Interests in magnetic nano-particles and nano-photocatalysts for environmental applications; food waste and solid waste treatment and management; remediation technologies for river sediment, contaminated soils and groundwater; and life cycle assessment of construction materials and green building
Professor Jianlei Niu Interests in Building Energy and HVAC system modeling and simulation; development of low-energy air-conditioning and ventilation systems; modeling of air pollutant emission from building materials, and development of standard testing methods; application of turbulence modeling and CFD (computational fluid dynamics) techniques for building ventilation studies; diagnosis of indoor air quality, and audit of building energy uses
Professor Helen Mei Ling Meng Interests in multilingual Speech and Language Processing, Multibiometric Authentication, Multimodal Human-Computer Interactions, Multimedia Content Retrieval, Big Data Decision Analytics, Conversational Artificial Intelligence
Professor Stephen T Newman* Interests in machining science, computer aided process planning, Machine tool metrology, CAD/CAM
Professor Shiu Tong Thomas Ng Interests in sustainable built environment, smart city, community resilience, infrastructure asset management, construction informatics, big data for construction project management
Professor Chin Pan Interests in two-phase flow & boiling heat transfer, reactor thermal hydraulics, micro and nano scale heat transfer, and multiphase flows for energy applications
Professor George J. Pappas* Interests in control theory and in particular, hybrid systems, embedded systems, hierarchical and distributed control systems, with applications to unmanned aerial vehicles, distributed robotics, green buildings, and biomolecular networks
Professor Duc Truong Pham* Interests in rapid manufacturing, micro manufacturing, automation, robotics, IT and intelligent systems
Professor Andrew Wing On Poon Interests in silicon photonics, optical microresonators, photonic devices, on-chip optical interconnects, heterogeneous integration, biophotonics
Professor Kong-Pang Pun Interests in CMOS analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits design, particularly high power-efficiency circuits for data conversion, natural signal interface and extraction, and power processing.
Professor Weisong Shi* Interests in edge computing, computer systems for autonomous driving, mobile and connected health
Professor Kai Sun* Interests in stability, dynamics and control of power grids and other complex systems
Professor Steve Waiching Sun* Interests in the mechanics and physics of geological and porous materials such as soil, rocks, concrete, and salt
Professor Dacheng Tao* Interests in artificial intelligence, including computer vision, data science, deep learning, image processing, machine learning, medical informatics, social media, and video surveillance
Professor Grace Guiling Wang* Interests in applied deep learning, blockchain technologies, intelligent transportation, and mobile computing
Professor Honggang Wang* Interests in Internet of Things and Connected Health, Body Area Networks (BAN) and Wireless Multimedia, Multimedia Processing and Communications, Cyber and Multimedia Security, Mobile Multimedia and Cloud, Edge Computing, Wireless Networks and Cyber-physical System, Big Data in mHealth, Data Engineering and Machine Learning
Professor Jianping Wang Interests in dependable networking, cloud computing, optical networking, service oriented networking, data center networks, integration of Fiber-Wireless networks, and network coding
Professor Shengwei Wang Interests in dynamic simulation of building systems; building HVAC & BMS system assessment and diagnosis; energy efficient and optimal control of air-conditioning systems; HVAC&R energy system optimal and robust design; building demand response strategies for smart grid; smart energy system for smart towns
Professor Kelvin S K Wong Interests in real estate economics, unveiling and evaluating the underlying economics logic behind the functioning of the real estate market, including land, property, redevelopment, public housing, and real estate firms
Professor Ke Wu* Interests in substrate integration technologies, antenna arrays, field theory and joint field/circuit modeling, ultrafast guided-wave electronics, wireless power transfer and harvesting, microwave photonics, and MHz-through-THz technologies and transceivers including RFICs/MMICs for joint radar/communication architectures, innovative multifunction wireless systems, and biomedical applications
Professor Wei Wu* Interests in ground investigation; numerical simulation; geotechnical expertise; geotechnical design; geohazard
Professor Jianbin Xu Interests in near-field and nanoscopic sensing and imaging; nanotechnology for electronics / photonics; thin film technology; physics and technology of organic semiconductor devices; oxide based electronic and photonic materials and devices; solar energy technology; graphene electronics / optoelectronoics
Professor Anthony Gar-on Yeh Interest in land use planning; urban renewal; new towns; Geographic Information Systems; transport and big data; smart cities; urban planning and development in Hong Kong and China, and S.E. Asia
Professor Sheng Zhong* Interests in security, privacy and economic incentives.
Professor Furong Zhu Interests in organic electronics including organic solar cells, light-emitting diodes, field effect transistors, near-infrared photodetectors and applications; Physics of oxide semiconductor thin films and applications
Secretary
Ms Milly NG Assistant Secretary General (Research)1, UGC

* Non-local Members