Engineering Panel (Joint Research Schemes)
(as at 18 April 2024)
Member Sphere of Interest
Chairman
Professor Ronaldo Borja* Theoretical and computational solid mechanics; geomechanics and geosciences
Deputy Chairman
Professor Cary Y. Yang* Nanoelectronic devices and materials; nanocarbon on-chip interconnects; flexible sensors; electronic and thermal properties of materials interfaces
Members
Professor C. K. Chan* Environmental, aerosol chemistry, air pollution
Professor Calvin Chun-kit Chan Photonics, optical communications
Professor Mansun Chan Electronics - integrated circuits; microelectronics; quantum engineering
Professor Nelson Sze-chun Chan Nonlinear dynamics of semiconductor lasers; optical chaos generation; radio-over-fiber; photonic microwave generation
Professor Kai Chen Network - Data Center Networks; High-speed Networking; Distributed Systems; Cloud Computing
Professor Xiqun Chen* Transportation - Transportation Management, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Shared Mobility, Transportation Big Data Analytics
Professor Francis Y. L. Chin Bioinformatics; machine learning; design and analysis of algorithms
Professor Byron Koon-kau Choi Data - Visual Graph Query Processing; Time Series Analysis; Database Security; View Update and Incremental Mainten
Professor Lin Dai Next-generation mobile communications; networking theory
Professor Bin Ding* Textile
Professor Lixin Dong Nano-robotics; nano-biomedical devices; nano-electromechanical systems; nano-photonic systems
Professor Dongping Fang* Building & Construction - Safety and Risk Management in Construction, Sustainability and Urban Resilience
Professor Kirill V. Horoshenkov* Acoustics; noise; porous media; fluid dynamics; sensing; buried infrastructure; flow monitoring
Professor Bo Huang Geotechnical - Spatiotemporal Data Analytics; Satellite Image Fusion; Environmental Monitoring; Integrated Spatial Planning
Professor Wei Jin Photonic crystal fiber devices; optical fiber sensors; fiber lasers and amplifiers; optical gas detectors; condition monitoring of electrical power transformer
Professor Kazuhiro Kosuge Systems robotics; human-robot interaction; dual-manipulator systems
Professor Francis C. M. Lau Wireless networks; cluster and cloud computing; operating systems; Internet and the web
Professor Michael Kwok-hi Leung Environmental - solar photocatalysis; fuel cell electrochemistry; hydrogen production
Professor Baochun Li* Computer systems; cloud computing; multimedia computing; communication networks; network coding; wireless networks; internet of things
Professor Heng Li Building and construction
Professor Xing-fang Li* Environmental - Analytical Chemistry; Environmental Chemistry; Clinical Chemistry; In Vitro Toxicology; Protein-drug Interactions; Pathogen Detection; Biotransformation of Drug and Environmental Contaminants; Cell Electronic Sensing; Drinking Water Disinfection By-products and Health Effects; Drinking Water Quality and Safety
Professor Youfu Li Robotics; visual inspection; robot sensing; mechatronics and automation
Professor Wei-hsin Liao Robotics & Automation - Smart Materials and Adaptive Structures; Energy Harvesting and Vibration Control; 3D/4D Printing, Mechatronics; Exoskeleton and Prosthesis
Professor Honghai Liu* Robotics & Automation - Intelligent Sensing and Understanding, Machine Learning, Intelligent Robotics
Professor Yun-hui Liu Robotics & automation; production & manufacturing; vision
Professor Ning Lu* Geotechnical engineering; engineering mechanics; geomechanis; landslides
Professor Chris Mi* Power electronics; electric drives; wireless power transfer; inductive power transfer; capacitive power transfer; battery manage systems; battery diagnostics; battery prognostics; electric and hybrid vehicles; plug-in hybrid electric vehicles; electric machines; digital and analog electronics; electromagnetics; renewable energy systems
Professor Thomas Shiu-tong Ng Smart city; sustainable built environment; community resilience; digital transformation; construction informatics; construction industry performance and productivity
Professor Wei Pan Building & Construction
Professor Jeongwon Park* Electronic materials; nano-technology
Professor Andrey Savkin* Robotics - deployment and navigation of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles; control of mobile robots
Professor Chii Shang Environmental - Physicochemical Water and Wastewater Treatment; Drinking Water Treatment; Wastewater Treatment; Water Reuse Engineering; Disinfection Byproducts
Professor Ling Shi Robotics - cyber-physical systems; automatic control; game theory
Professor Chester Ching-tat Shu Photonics - optical signal processing; non-linear fiber / integrated optics; optical fiber sensors
Professor Wan-chi Siu Digital signal processing; image processing and machine learning; specializing in fast algorithms; conventional learning; deep learning; video coding; object tracking, pattern recognition and super-resolution imaging for visual surveillance; autonomous vehicle and smart city applications
Professor Steve Wai-ching Sun* Computational mechanics; mechanics of porous media; geotechncial engineering; geomechanics; multiscale material modeling; data-driven and machine learning methods for mechanics problems
Professor Hwa-yaw Tam Photonics
Professor Kay-chen Tan Artificial/computational intelligence and machine learning, with applications to evolutionary multi-objective optimization; data analytics; prognostics; BCI; operational research
Professor Raymond Kai-yu Tong Biomedical engineering; robotics; stroke; biosignal sensors; exoskeleton robotics; human motion analysis; biosignal processing; big data; medical device design
Professor Danny Hin-kwok Tsang* Next-generation Internet; P2P streaming audio/video and content delivery networks; wireless multimedia networks (IEEE 802.11e and IEEE 802.16e); cognitive radio networks; cloud computing; smart grids; mobile egde computing; 5G and beyond; queueing; performance analysis
Professor Tao Wang Environmental, atmospheric chemical and dynamical processes; air quality; troposphere ozone trend; cloud chemistry
Professor Yu Wang Geotechnical risk and reliability; soil structure interaction; seismic risk assessment
Professor Qihao Weng Surveying
Professor Steven John Wilcox* Condition monitoring; acoustic emission energy systems; applied AI
Professor Hei Wong Materials
Professor Feng Xia* AI - Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Graph Learning, Digital Health and Systems Engineering
Professor Min Xie Production and Manufacturing - Reliability Engineering; Quality Management; Software Reliability; Applied Statistics
Professor Tao Xie* Software engineering; software security; software analytics; data mining for software engineering; AI for software engineering; software engineering for AI
Professor Zhao Xu Power electronics - energy storage system design; electronic converter design
Professor Mo Yang Materials; bio-nanotechnology; biosensing; theranostics
Professor Ben Young Cold-formed steel structures; high strength steel; Tbular structures; thin-walled structures; structural stability; stainless steel structures; aluminium structures and fire resistance of metal structures
Professor Qingfu Zhang AI - Evolutionary Computation, Multiobjective Optimization, Computational Intelligence, Modern Heuristics, Machine Learning
Professor Linjie Zhou* Photonics - Silicon Photonics; Phase Change Material for Photonic Devices; III-V and Silicon Hybrid Integration
Secretary
Ms Milly NG Assistant Secretary-General (Research)1, UGC

*Non-local Members