Research Impact Fund Committee (2024-25)*
Title/Sphere of Interest | |
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Chairman | |
Professor Yip-wah Chung, BBS* | Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, U.S.A. Interests in surface science, tribology, design and characterization of lubricant additives, hard coatings and alloys, as well as high throughput synthesis of multi-component systems |
Members | |
Professor Soon Ang* | Distinguished University Chair and Professor of Management, Executive Director, Center for Leadership and Cultural Intelligence, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Interests in cultural intelligence, international organizational behavior, outsourcing and talent management |
Professor Brian James Baer* | Professor of Russian and Translation Studies, Department of Modern & Classical Language Studies, Kent State University, U.S.A. Interests in Russian, History of translation, Sexuality, Censorship, Translation pedagogy and Journal editorship |
Professor Eileen Breslin* | Dean and Professor, School of Nursing, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, U.S.A. Interests in Violence, Addiction & Women`s Health |
Professor Yihai Cao* | Professor of Vascular Biology, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden Interests in studying the fundamental mechanisms of angiogenesis, the key process of blood vessel formation, in various diseases, understanding molecular and functional mechanisms of angiogenesis in the onset and progression of most common and lethal human diseases such as cancer, metabolic disease, and cardiovascular disease. |
Professor Kin-shing Chan | Emeritus Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University, Hong Kong Interests in carbon-hydrogen bond activation, catalytic carbon-carbon bond activation by transition metal complexes, transition metal-catalyzed cross coupling, and green chemistry |
Professor Xiao-ping Chen* | Professor of Management, Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, Philip M. Condit Endowed Chair in Business Administration, Department of Management and Organization, Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington, U.S.A. Interests in creativity, decision making, entrepreneurship, global business, leadership organizational behavior, teamwork |
Professor Siu-yin Cheung | Emeritus Professor, Department of Sport, Physical Education and Health, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Interests in port and exercise psychology, sport and leisure management, aging, physical education, as well as teaching pedagogy and gymnastics. |
Professor George T C Chiu* | Assistant Dean for Global Engineering Programs, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, U.S.A. Interests in mechatronics, dynamic systems and control, digital imaging and printing systems, functional printing and digital fabrication, robotics, perception-based engineering, human motor control, optimal and robust control |
Professor Ken P Chong* | Research Professor, Department of Mechnical and Aerospace Engineering, The George Washington University, U.S.A. Interests in the analysis and development of re-usable energy and structural efficient sandwich panels with cold-formed steel facings and rigid foamed cores, now widely used in industrial and commercial building systems. Developed new semi-circular fracture specimens for core-based brittle materials, now considered a standard. Research on the design of hybrid girders has been incorporated into AISC manuals |
Professor Justin Jang Hann Chu* | Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore Interests in Virology, Antivirals, Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease, Dengue Virus, Chikungunya Virus and Vaccine |
Professor Hanming Fang* | Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Interests in applied microeconomic theory; empirical microeconomics; public economic; insurance markets; economics of discrimination and affirmative action |
Professor Ajay Goel* | Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Diagnostics and Experimental Therapeutics, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, U.S.A. Interests in Gastrointestinal Cancers, developing early-detection blood tests for colon, pancreatic and ovarian cancers, test for pancreatic cancer that can detect the disease earlier, genomic-based precision oncology |
Professor Jianguo Guan* | Professor, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, China Interests in electrorheological fluids; magnetorheological materials; electromagnetic functional composite materials; chameleon film or coating materials; hydrogen production; functional nanostructures; biosensors |
Professor Brad Holschuh* | Assistant Professor of Apparel Design, Department of Design, Housing and Apparel, College of Design, University of Minnesota, U.S.A. Interests in Wearable Technology, Active Materials, Soft Robotics, Medical Devices and Bioastronautics |
Professor Kevin Houser* | Professor of Civil and Construction Engineering, College of Engineering, Oregon State University, U.S.A. Interests in architectural lighting & LED lighting, built environment, illuminating engineering, photonics, daylighting, visual perception, human health, and sustainability—all in support of high-performance buildings. |
Professor Heng Huang* | Brendan Iribe Endowed Professor in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, U.S.A. Interests in Machine Learning, Data Mining, Big Data Computing, NLP, Bioinformatics, Neuroinformatics, Precision Medicine, Health Informatics, Computer Vision, Medical Image Analysis |
Professor William N Hunter* | Professor of Structural Biology, Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, United Kingdom Interests in protein structure and function; fundamental chemical biology and early stage antimicrobial drug discovery |
Professor Zhigang Jiang* | Professor, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A. Interests in quantum transport and infrared optical properties of low dimensional condensed matter systems |
Professor Terry Lamb* | Professor of Languages and Interdisciplinary Pedagogy, Head of the Westminster Centre for Teaching Innovation Department of Modern Languages and Culture, University of Westminster, United Kingdom Interests in linguistic diversity and plurilingual pedagogies in the context of globalisation and urban studies; learner and teacher autonomy (and related pedagogies such as e-learning, distance and blended learning, self-access learning, problem based collaborative learning etc.) |
Professor Kai Li* | W. Maurice Young Chair in Finance, UBC Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada Interests in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism, culture and finance and corporate innovation |
Professor Shaofan Li* | Professor of Applied and Computernational Mechanics, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. Interests in computational mechanics; Bio- and Nano-mechanics, Mechanics of soft matters; Multiscale simulations and Computational statistical mechanics; Micromechanics, Configurational force mechanics |
Professor Wenbin Lin* | James Franck Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, U.S.A. Interests in sustainability and human health, metal-organic frameworks, catalysis, renewable energy, nanomedicine. |
Professor Huan Liu* | Regents Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Computing, and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University, U.S.A. Interests in developing computational methods for data mining, machine learning, and social computing, and designing efficient algorithms to enable effective problem solving ranging from basic research, text/Web mining, bioinformatics, image mining, to real-world applications. |
Professor Jiangchuan Liu* | Professor, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada Interests in Networking and multimedia systems and applications; in particular, multimedia content processing and communications, Internet architecture and protocols, wireless mobile networking, satellite networking, cloud and edge computing, online gaming and social networking, Internet of Things/RFID/backscatter, and energy-efficient computing and communication |
Professor Yi Lu* | Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A. Interests in the interface between chemistry and biology. Specific areas of current interests include a) computational design and engineering of functional metalloenzymes as environmentally benign catalysts in renewable energy generation and pharmaceuticals; b) Fundamental understanding of DNAzymes and their applications in environmental monitoring, medical diagnostics, gene editing and targeted drug delivery; and c) Employing principles from biology for directed assembly of nanomaterials with controlled morphologies and its applications in imaging and medicine. |
Professor Peter Lucas* | Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Department of Data Science, University of Twente, Netherlands Interests in artificial intelligence, biomedical informatics, data science, Bayesian networks, model-based diagnosis, clinical decision-support systems |
Professor Vincent Mak* | Professor of Marketing & Decision Sciences, Vice-Dean for Programmes & Research, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Interests in pricing, search decisions, decisions in networks and queues, decisions in competitive environments, competitive strategies, game theory, and experimental economics |
Professor Stuart Maudsley* | Odysseus Chair of Receptor Pharmacology, Head of Receptor Biology Lab, Department of Biomedical sciences, University of Antwerp, Belgium Interests in understanding how complex and multifactorial neurodegenerative diseases are generated through the interaction of networks of genes and proteins, and subsequently how to develop tractable receptor-based therapeutic strategies that exert beneficial effects across these pathological networks |
Professor Chris Mi* | Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director, DOE GATE Center for Electric Drive Transportation, San Diego State University, U.S.A. Interests in electric and hybrid vehicles |
Professor Tracey Moore* | Dean of the Health Sciences School and Faculty Director of Engagement and Development, The School of Nursing and Midwifery, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Interests in recognising and responding to adult patient deterioration within an acute ward environment and the impact of track and trigger systems in detecting patients at risk of clinical deterioration |
Professor Ray Owens* | Professor of Molecular Biology, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Head of the Oxford Protein Production Facility – UK, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Interests in protein expression, crystallization and high throughput |
Professor Jian Pei* | Professor of Computer Science, , Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, U.S.A. Interests in data mining, data science, data engineering, database systems, business intelligence, healthcare informatics |
Professor Luis Perez-Gonzalez* | Professor of Translation Studies, Department of Foreign Languages and Translation, University of Agder, Norway Interests in The Contestation of Key Political and Scientific Concepts in the Digital Sphere, Engaged Subtitling and Citizen Media in the Digital Culture, Fandom and Audiovisual Translation and Discourse, Translation and the Law |
Mr Michael Pidd* | Director, The Digital Humanities Institute, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Interests in responsibility for the development and delivery of its research projects; Initiating and developing research funding proposals; Developing the DHI’s operations and strategic objectives; Managing the DHI’s relationship with its clients and stakeholders; Developing new relationships and business opportunities; Representing the DHI nationally and internationally as well as within the University more widely; Overseeing the online resources which the DHI hosts on behalf of its partners |
Professor Dong Qian* | Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A. Interests in Nonlinear finite element and meshfree methods and applications to stress and failure analysis, Fatigue and life prediction, Surface engineering, residual stress analysis. Modeling and simulation of manufacturing process (peening, forming, etc.), Modeling and simulation of nanostructured materials with focus on mechanical properties and multiphysics coupling mechanisms |
Professor Subramanian Ramaswamy* | Director, Bindley Bioscience Centre, Purdue University, U.S.A. Interests in the molecular basis of function - trying to understand biological process from the first principles of physics and chemistry |
Professor Matthias Schwab* | Professor of Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Tübingen, Germany Interests in pharmacogenomics / epigenetics of drug metabolizing enzymes, drug transporters and nuclear receptors; Pharmacogenomics of anticancer and immunosuppressive drugs; Drug-Drug Interaction and clinical consequences; Pediatric clinical pharmacology; Novel methodologies in genomic research and molecular diagnostics; Novel therapeutic strategies in renal cancer |
Professor Steve Waiching Sun* | Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, U.S.A. Interests in the mechanics and physics of geological and porous materials such as soil, rocks, concrete, and salt. Focusing on computational poromechanics and geomechanics for a wide spectrum of applications ranging from field scale applications such as geological storage of carbon dioxide, hydraulic fracture, geological disposal of nuclear waste, and vehicle-soil-water interaction to micro-scale simulations of the 3D printing processes and fragmentation and fracture of a single crystal grain |
Professor David T. Takeuchi* | Associate Dean for Faculty Excellence, School of Social Work, University of Washington, U.S.A. Interests in ethnic minority mental health, healthy disparities, research design and data analysis. |
Professor Yong Tan* | Professor of Information Systems, Chair of the Information Systems and Operations Management, Michael G. Foster Endowed Professor of Information Systems, Foster School of Business, University of Washington, U.S.A. Interests in big data, social media and user generated content, FinTech, online opinion formation, Health IT, Economic and social networks, open source software development, Peer-to-peer network, information security, digital content distribution channels, economics of Internet interconnectivity, online trust management, pricing of Internet services |
Professor Hanghang Tong* | Associated Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A. Interests in Large scale data mining and machine learning, especially for graph and multimedia data with applications to social networks analysis, healthcare, cyber-security and e-commerce. |
Professor Jinhua Wang* | Professor, Institute for Health Informatics, Director, Cancer Bioinformatics, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, U.S.A. Interests in Computational analysis for high-throughput cancer genomics projects especially as it relates to high-throughput data mining and modeling, heterogeneous genomics data integration, comparative genomics; integrating copy number variation, gene expression profiling, sequence somatic mutations and proteomic data, and developed novel methods to detect the influence of copy number variation and coding/noncoding mutations on splicing and expression of different splicing isoforms |
Professor Wei Wang* | Leonard Kleinrock Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of California, U.S.A. Interests in big data analytics, data mining, machine learning, natural language processing, bioinformatics and computational biology, and computational medicine |
Professor Bridgette Wessels* | Professor of Social Inequality, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Interests in Social innovation and technological change, focusing on digital and social media technologies, digital services and social agency; Social media, digital-services and social participation, in the public sector, the wider public sphere, the creative sector and in everyday life; Innovations in methodology: e-research, participatory methods, and action research |
Professor David Winkler* | Professor (Research), Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Australia Interests in stem cells, drug development, computational models, startup companies |
Professor Hongxi, Kevin, Xu* | Distinguished Professor and Dean, School of Pharmacy, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Interests in traditional Chinese medicine, new drug discovery from natural resources, development of botanical dietary supplements from herbal medicines, finding natural lead compounds from medicinal plants and in developing new drug based on Chinese medicines against different disease targets such as cancer, HIV, HSV, HBV and metabolic diseases. |
Professor Xin, Sean, Xu* | Associate Dean (MBA and Master’s Programs), School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, China Interests in Digital Transformation, Analytics and AI, IT Business Value, IT Strategy, IT Governance, E commerce |
Professor Xiaohui Yu* | Associate Professor and the Graduate Program Director, School of Information Technology, York University, United Kingdom Interests in information technologies, big data management and analytics, database systems, machine learning |
Professor Raymond Yung* | Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Michigan, U.S.A. Interests in rheumatology, arthritis, immunology and geriatrics |
Professor Qiang Zhang* | Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China Interests in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries, Graphene, Carbon Nanatubes, Electrocatalysis and Lithium Metal |
Professor Yongjie Jessica Zhang* | Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Courtesy Appointment in Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. Interests in computational geometry, mesh generation, computer graphics, visualization, finite element method, isogeometric analysis and their application in computational biomedicine and engineering |
Professor Hongcai Joe Zhou* | Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry, Associate Editor, Inorganic Chemistry, Director, Center for Electrochemical Systems and Hydrogen Research, Chair, Division of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, U.S.A. Interests in Energy Storage for Transportation, Supramolecular Chemistry, Hydrogen and Methane Storage, Carbon Dioxide Capture, Clean-Energy-Related Separation, Metal-Organic Frameworks, Mesh-Adjustable Molecular Sieves, Mesoporous Materials, Biomimetic Synthesis |
Secretary | |
Ms Candy Kan | Assistant Secretary General (Research)4, UGC |
* Members outside Hong Kong