Engineering Panel (General Research Fund and Other Funding Schemes for Individual Research)
(as at 3 December 2024)
(as at 3 December 2024)
| 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 Kang Cheung Chan | Interests in advanced manufacturing technology, and materials engineering and processing |
| Professor Albert P.C. Chan, M.H. | Interests in project management and project success, construction procurement and relational contracting, public private partnerships, and construction health and safety |
| 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 Cynthia Chen* | Interests in Urban adaptable systems, Human mobility pattern analysis, Bias and uncertainty quantification in big data, Personalized learning and Sustainable transportation policy design |
| 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 Zhi Ding* | Interests in the broad field of signal and data processing, communications, and networking technologies |
| 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 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 Dongping Fang* | Interests in safety and risk management in construction, Sustainability and Urban resilience |
| 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 Lixin Gao* | Interests in Networking, Distributed Systems, Algorithms, Computational Biology |
| 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) |
| Professor Tsung-yi Ho | Interests in several areas of computing and emerging technologies, especially in design automation of microfluidic biochips |
| 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 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 Dikai Liu* | Interests in Field Robotics and human-robot collaboration and Infrastructure Robotics |
| 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 Xiaowei Luo | Interests in Building Information Modeling (BIM), Construction Safety Management, Construction Robotics, Human-Robot Collaboration, Digital Twins, Augmented and Virtual Reality (A&VR), Building Energy Management, and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) |
| 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 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 Chunming Qiao* | Interests in safety and reliability of various cyber physical systems (such as transportation systems with connected and autonomous vehicles, critical infrastructures involving power grid and communications networks, and cloud services), but also algorithms and protocols for the Internet of Things, including smartphone based systems and applications. |
| 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 Cong Wang | Interests in Cloud Computing, Data and Computation Outsourcing Security, Access Control, Computer and Mobile Networks |
| 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 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 Michael S. Wong* | Interests in current research activities and interests are (i) structure-property analysis of palladium-on-gold catalysts; (ii) metal-on-metal nanoparticle synthesis; (iii) treatment of dioxane, nitrate, fluorocarbons, and chlorocarbons from water; (iv) sugar upgrading chemistry, and (v) nanoparticle assembly. |
| 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 Bin Xiao | Interests in data science, with a focos on data security and privacy. Our data science related research results include topics such as AI security and privacy, database, data security and privacy, Web3 and blockchain systems. |
| 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 Xinyue Ye* | Interests in Artificial intelligence, Visual communication, Geographic information systems, Big data-Social aspects, City planning |
| 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 Xiangwu Zhang* | Interests in focus on nanostructured and multifunctional polymer, composite, fiber, and textile materials with an emphasis on practical applications: energy storage and conversion, chemical and biological protection, composites, and nanofinishing. |
| 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