Assessment Panel for Competitive Research Funding Schemes for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector
| Panel Member | Sphere of Interest |
|---|---|
| Chairman | |
| Professor Julie Juan Li | Marketing strategies in China, Knowledge creation and innovation in marketing channels, Social networks and interorganizational relationships in marketing channels |
| Members | |
| Professor Kalok Chan (Subject Convenor (Business Studies)) |
Dynamics of asset prices, Derivatives, Market micro-structure, International financial markets |
| Professor Ngai-hang Chan (Subject Convenor (Physical Sciences)) |
Time series, Risk management and statistical finance, Oceanography, Statistical inference for stochastic processes |
| Professor Cecilia Ka-wai Chun (Subject Convenor (Humanities and Social Sciences)) |
Second language reading, Using English as a medium of learning, English across the curriculum, Academic literacy in a second language, Pedagogical content knowledge of teachers of English and second language teacher education |
| Professor Wilson Weisheng Lu (Subject Convenor (Engineering)) |
Construction management with two directions, including (i) Construction informatics (Building Information Modelling (BIM), smart construction, and big data, and blockchain); and (ii) Construction waste management (management, economics, and public policies) |
| Professor Chris Kong-chu Wong (Subject Convenor (Biology and Medicine)) |
Osmosensing mechanisms and osmoregulatory functions of fish gill cells, Functional characterization of human glycoprotein hormones, STC1 and STC2 in carcinogenesis, Environmental contamination and mechanistic actions of emerging chemical pollutants |
| Professor Helen Yue-lai Chan | End-of-life care, Palliative care needs, Chronic illness and long-term care, Geriatric care, Nursing ethics |
| Professor Melody Man-chi Chao | Negotiations and conflict management, Workforce diversity, Globalization, Goal orientation, Multicultural psychology |
| Professor Man-lut Chau | Hong Kong literature, Modern and contemporary Chinese literature, Creative writing, Chinese language education |
| Professor Ji Chen | Multi-scale terrestrial hydrologic processes, Climate change, Water-related natural hazards, Predictability of the hydrological variables, Interactions of the land surface and the atmosphere, Management of water resources |
| Professor Nancy Yifeng Chen | Proactive personality and behavior, Cross-cultural management in joint ventures, Cooperative and competitive relationships, Conflict management, Constructive controversy (open-minded dialogue), Leadership and teamwork, Role of Chinese values and thoughts |
| Professor Louis Tsz-wan Cheng | ESG and green finance, Behavioral finance, Mergers and acquisitions, IPOs |
| Professor Christy Mei-kwan Cheung | Technology use and well-being, Electronic word of mouth, Electronic commerce and social commerce, Adaptive and maladaptive use of technology in the workplace |
| Professor Ming-ming Chiu | Learning analytics, Group processes, Inequality, Corruption, Online sexual predators |
| Professor Pengfei Guo | Service operations management, Queueing economics, Healthcare policy and operations management, Supply chain and inventory management |
| Professor Alex Jingwei He | Health policy and governance, Comparative social policy, Policy innovation and entrepreneurship |
| Professor Daniel Sai-yin Ho | Adolescent health in relation to tobacco, alcohol and obesity |
| Professor Kin-fai Ho | Air pollution and health, Environmental epidemiology, Particle toxicology, Exposure assessment, Bioaerosol |
| Professor Mingxin Huang | Plastic deformation behaviour of twinning induced plasticity steels for automotive applications, Eutectic Fe-Ti alloys for high temperature applications, Mechanical properties of ultrafine grained and nanostructured metals, Recrystallization Induced Plasticity (RIP) effects in ferrite and austenite, Nanoindentation induced martensitic transformation in a Fe-5Mn-0.2C, TRIP steel |
| Professor Minseop Kim | Work-family research, Social policy for children and youth, Child welfare/protection, Program evaluation & policy analysis, Quantitative methodology |
| Professor Ronnel Bornasal King | Understanding the factors that underpin motivation, well-being, socio-emotional learning in K-12 and higher education contexts, Positive psychology, Education interventions |
| Professor Alice Pik-shan Kong | Diabetes and obesity in adults and the youth populations, Epidemiology and pathogenetic mechanisms, Sleep as a novel lifestyle risk factor and its interaction with diet, in mediating the development of obesity and obesity associated cardiovascular risk factors, Influencing glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes |
| Professor Sylvia Yuk-ching Kwok Lai | Positive psychology, Mental health (suicide, anxiety, depression), Children and adolescents, Families (parent-child, marital relationship) |
| Professor Ching-man Lam | Marriage and family, Parenting and parent education, Social work education, Migrant women and women issues, Clinical practice, Adolescence and family studies |
| Professor Joe Shing-yip Lee | Ecology and biogeochemistry of estuarine wetlands such as mangroves and saltmarshes, Application of stable isotopes in marine environmental research, Marine ecosystem dynamics, Rehabilitation and restoration |
| Professor Thomas Hun-tak Lee | Logical problem of language acquisition and syntactic/semantic acquisition, with special reference to Mandarin-speaking and Cantonese-speaking children, Quantifier scope in Chinese datives, Cantonese A-quantifiers, and Syntactic change in Cantonese |
| Professor Angela Yee-man Leung | Health literacy and health promotion, Technology and aging, Chronic illness management, Dementia care |
| Professor Maggie Wenjie Li | Machine conversion, Text summarization, Question answering, Causality mining and reasoning in NLP, Natural language understanding and generation |
| Professor Wu Liu | Employee voice behavior, Top management teams, Leadership, Negotiation, Cross-cultural management, Conflict management |
| Professor Huijing Lu | Evolutionary psychology, Parental investment and mating, Interpersonal perception in intimate relationship, Social cognition, Child development |
| Professor Will Wai-kit Ma | Knowledge sharing, Knowledge creation, Information system adoption, Deep learning, Communication |
| Professor Phoenix Kit-han Mo | Psychological aspects in disease prevention and management, Internet on health and patient empowerment, Mental health in minorities and disease populations |
| Professor Haihua Pan | Syntax, Semantics, Formal semantics, Natural language processing |
| Professor Ting-kei Pong | Continuous optimization, Convex relaxations, First-order methods for large-scale (convex or nonconvex) problems, Constraint qualifications for convex optimization, Statistical computation, Robust optimization, Numerical methods for large-scale optimization problems |
| Professor Chris Fei Shen | Political communication, Public opinion, Computational social science methods, Consumer behavior, Science and health communication, Social movements |
| Professor Haiyan Song | Tourism demand modelling and forecasting, Tourism impact assessment, Tourism satellite account, Chinese economy under transition, Wine economics |
| Professor Sandy Suet To | Ultra-precision machining, Advanced optics manufacturing technology, Ultra-precision machining of micro/nano-structure and effect on materials |
| Professor Winnie Wai Tsui | Ci poetry of the song dynasty, Critics of the Ci poetry of the Qing dynasty, Travel literature |
| Professor Thiyagarajan Vengatesen | Marine science, Larval biology, Biofouling, Biomineralization, Environmental proteomics, Ocean acidification, Oyster hatchery, Oyster aquaculture |
| Professor Alan Tze-kin Wan | Model averaging and selection, Varying-coefficient semi-parametric models, Missing and censored data, Quantile regression |
| Professor Lisa Chun-ying Wan | Services marketing and service failure, Consumer/tourist reactions to service robots and technologies, Cross-cultural consumer behaviour, Consumer/tourist green consumption, Tourist misbehaviors, Space tourism |
| Professor Philips Fu-lee Wang | Applied algorithm, Educational technology, Information retrieval, Machine learning |
| Professor Xin Wang | Nanostructure control, Surface functionalization, Interface tuning for selective electrocatalysis towards key electrochemical reactions for energy, Environmental applications |
| Professor Eugene Yin-cheung Wong | Shipping and transport logistics, Aviation and maritime operations, Supply chain decarbonisation, Operations research and optimisation, Artificial intelligence, Virtual reality, Quality management and systems, Shipping and logistics law |
| Professor Frances Kam-yuet Wong | Health service utilization, Advanced nursing practice, Hospital readmissions, Frequent use of hospital care, Primary health care |
| Professor Hau-san Wong | Multimedia information retrieval, Computer graphics, Pattern recognition, Bioinformatics |
| Professor Raymond Wai-yeung Wong | Inorganic and organometallic syntheses, Materials chemistry, Organic electronics, Nanomaterials, Energy materials, Chemo- and biosensing |
| Professor Frank Fan Xue | Building information modeling, Derivative-free optimization, City information modeling, 3D point clouds, Digital twin, Big data analytics, Machine learning, Blockchain |
| Professor Hongxing Yang | Renewable energy applications and energy saving in buildings, Solar call materials, Solar photovoltaic integration in buildings, Wind power, Hybrid solar-wind power, Ground-coupled heat pump technologies, Indirect evaporative cooling |
| Professor Robin Ruowei Yang | Modern Chinese, Applied linguistics, Chinese historical linguistics, Teaching Chinese as a second language, Chinese education, Chinese teacher education, History, language and culture of ethnic minorities in Northeast Asia, History of Khitan-Liao Dynasty |
| Professor Zhongping Yao | Mass spectrometry, Molecular assembly and recognition, Protein structures, Dynamics and interactions, Food safety, Data storage, Disease biomarkers and mechanisms of biological processes |
| Professor Bennett Chi-kin Yim | Services marketing and management, China marketing and marketing strategy, Consumer brand choice and purchase behavior modeling |
| Professor Wayne Weifeng Yu | Corporate finance, Mergers and acquisitions, Financial accounting, Capital markets |
| Professor Allan Hoi-kau Yuen | Technology adoption, Online learning, E-learning, Technology enhanced learning, Online education, Blended learning, Educational evaluation, eLearning in higher education, Computers in education, ICT in education |
| Professor Pong-chi Yuen | Intelligent video surveillance, Human face recognition, Biometric security and privacy |
| Professor Susana Lai-mei Yuen | Management accounting, Strategic management, Family businesses |
| Professor Lixing Zhu | High-dimensional data analysis, Time series, Semiparametric and nonparametric statistics, Monte Carlo Methods, Empirical process theory, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics |
| Secretary | |
| Ms Winnie Lam | Assistant Secretary-General (Research) 3, UGC |