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Strategic Topics Grant

Strategic Topics Grant Assessment Committee

Committee Member	Title/Institution
Chair
Professor Paul Clark*	Chair Professor of Chinese Emeritus, University of Auckland, New Zealand Interests in Contemporary Chinese popular culture, including film, the Cultural Revolution; Contemporary Chinese history.
Members
H-Panel
Professor Geraldine Macdonald* (H-Panel Chair)	Professor of Social Work, School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK Interests in social work, children's services, the development and evaluation of complex social interventions, randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews.
Professor Larry Catá Backer*	W. Richard and Mary Eshelman Faculty Scholar, Professor of Law and Internaitonal Affairs, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Interests in globalization, semiotics, legal structures of global economic regulation, Marxist Leninist and liberal democratic theory, constitutional law, international institutions, A.I., blockchain and advanced tech instruments.
Professor Joanne Conaghan*	Professor of Law, Law School, University of Bristol, UK Interests in tort, legal aspects of sexual violence, labour and equality law, jurisprudence and legal theory, human rights, feminism and gender studies.
Professor Tim Forsyth*	Professor of Environment and Development, Head of Department, Dept of International Development , London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Interests in Southeast and South Asia (India; Indonesia; Laos; Myanmar; Nepal; Philippines; Thailand; Vietnam); climate change; environmental policy; social studies of science; social movements and environment; institution and governance.
Professor Robin Gauld*	Executive Dean, Bond Business School, Bond University, Australia Interests in public health policy; health services and management; health systems; population health; public policy and administration; health information technology; e-government; and qualitative and quantitative methods.
Professor Nan Greenwood*	Emerita Professor, Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education, Kingston University, London, UK Interests in older people, carers, dementia and stroke, ethnic and cultural diversity.
Dr Danan Gu*	Independent Researcher, USA Interests in China; aging; health; longevity; mortality; household projection; household consumption; applied demography; life table; end-of-life ; environment and health; elder care; long-term care; disability ; self-rated health; frailty index; centenarian; care needs and costs; demography; migration; USA; World; population.
Professor Mark Hayter*	Professor of Nursing and Public Health, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Interests in nursing, health services, public health, population health, health behaviours, social sciences and health, gender and sexuality, clinical nursing, health promotion, and adolescent health.
Professor Graeme Drummond Smith	Professor of Nursing, S.K. Yee School of Health Sciences, Saint Francis University, HK Interests in nursing, older people, health literacy, loneliness, health psychology, chronic illness, nurse education.
Professor Athina Vlachantoni*	Professor of Gerontology & Social Policy, Department of Gerontology, University of Southampton, UK Interests in social policy, population ageing, social care, pensions, ethnic differences, health inequalities, living arrangements, and intergenerational support.
Professor Hui-Xin Wang*	Professor, Division of Psychobiology and Epidemiology, Dept of Psychology, Stockholm University, Sweden Interests in aging, cognitive impairment, cognitive reserve, cardiovascular disease, dementia, leisure activity, lifestyle, longevity, brain structural changes, and psychosocial stress.
Professor Nancy Wong*	Kohl's Chair in Retail Innovation, Professor & Chair, Consumer Science, School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin -- Madison, USA Interests in culture, materialism and emotion, cross-cultural research methods, consumer decision making and public policy.
Professor Sean Xin Xu*	Starr Endowed Chair Professor, Department of Management Science and Engineering, Associate Dean, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, China Interests in digital enablement and digital transformation, IT governance, analytics, IT business value, IT strategy and e-commerce.
Professor Daphne Wing-Yee Yiu*	Lee Kong Chian Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University, Singapore Interests in strategies in global and digital economy, institutions, informal institutions, affective institutions, corporate governance, CSR, and social entrepreneurship in Asia, corporate entrepreneurship, innovation, and co-creation.
Professor Mei Zhan*	Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California -- Irvine, USA Interests in medical anthropology, science and technology studies, theory and methodology, traditional Chinese medicine, transnationalism, globalization, gender, China and East Asia.
Professor Harold Huibing Zhang*	Professor of Finance, Naveen Jindal School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Interests in optimal portfolio decisions, asset pricing, and taxation.
S-Panel
Professor Sean Curran* (S-Panel Chair)	Professor of Gerontology, Vice Dean of USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, Dean of Faculty and Research, James E. Birren Chair in Gerontology, University of Southern California, USA Interests in gerontology, geroscience, biology of aging, genetics, nutrition.
Professor Daniel Bressington*	Visiting Professor, Faculty of Nursing , Chiang Mai University, Thailand Interests in psychiatry, including psychosocial interventions for people with mental illness; physical health interventions and multimorbidity in people with severe mental illness; mental health literacy and stigma; satisfaction and adherence with mental health treatments; complex PTSD; and clinical trials.
Professor Shyang Chang*	Professor Emeritus, Dept of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Interests in neural networks, chaos and fractals, control theory, signal processing, biomedical applications, Traditional Chinese medicine, neuroscience and neurology, acupuncture, biomedical engineering, chaotic wave theory of fractal continuum, mathematization of Chinese medicine and physics, and the Grand Unified Medicine.
Dr Hueih-Min Chen*	Former Research Fellow, Medicine and Biomedical Device Group, Taiwan SemiConductor Research Institute, Taiwan Interests in drug delivery, drug screening, drug discovery/development, herbal medicine, peptide/protein therapeutics, diagnostic devices, biosensors, small molecules, biomolecules, chip technology, nanowire, nano-materials, biochemistry, chemistry, and AI on medical applications.
Professor Zhengming Chen*	Richard Peto Professor of Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, UK Interests in the environmental and genetic causes of chronic disease, evidence-based medicine and evaluation of widely practicable treatments for chronic diseases (such as IHD, stroke and cancer) as well as efficient strategies for chronic disease control in developing countries.
Professor Alice Ming-Lin Chong	Research Professor, Felizberta Lo Padilla Tong School of Social Sciences, Saint Francis University, HK Interests in social gerontology, policy and services for older people and their caregivers in Chinese societies, teaching & learning, end of life Issues, and human services management.
Professor Maria Gini*	CSE Distinguished Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA Interests in artificial intelligence and robotics, in particular, robot planning, navigation in unknown environments, coordinated behaviors of autonomous robots, search and rescue applications, and economic agents.
Professor Peng Jia*	Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, China Interests in health, GIS, health geography, spatial epidemiology, human geography, epidemiology, remote sensing, environmental health, behavioral research, urban studies, geography, artificial intelligence, social medicine, chronic disease, wearable device, location-based service, disease modeling, biostatistics.
Dr Grace Sze-Ngar Lau	Former Head of Life and Health Technology, HKSTP - Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, HK Interests in commissioned to drive this transformation in healthcare, by expediting the translation of innovative biomedical technologies to benefit the patients and our society; To expedite the translation of biomedical technologies to benefit the public; To instill researchers with entrepreneurial mindset and skills for translational research; To establish Hong Kong as a preeminent hub for translational research and development.
Dr Tong J. Lee*	Patent Attorney, The Law Office of Tong Lee, California, USA Interests in low-power circuit designs; AI processors; neural computing; semiconductors; nanotechnology; mechanical designs; medical devices; and telecommunications.
Professor Honghai Liu*	Chair Professor and Dean, School of Biomedical Engineering Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, HIT Campus of University Town of Shenzhen, China Interests in computer vision, human-machine systems, robotic systems, physical-cyber systems, medical applications.
Professor Franklin Tai-Cheung Luk	Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK Interests in scientific and statistical computing, parallel processing, data science and systolic arrays.
Professor Ren-Chyuan Luo*	Emeritus Professor, Dept of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Interests in intelligent robotics and automation; multisensor fusion & integration; intelligent sensors; intelligent manufacturing systems; AI and machine learning; 3D printing for advanced manufacturing systems.
Professor Insup Noh*	Head, Convergence Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials, Dept of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea Interests in biomaterials, tissue engineering, drug delivery, 3D bioprinting, hydrogel, physical stimulus, orthopeodics, blood interaction, biocompatibility, scaffolds, bioreactor, dental, biodegradable, and biomimetic.
Professor Dacheng Tao*	Distinguished University Professor, College of Computing & Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Interests in AI, computer vision, natural language processing, deep learning, deep learning theory, foundation model, image processing, and medical informatics.
Professor Jinhua Wang*	Professor, Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota, USA Interests in bioinformatics, genomics, computational biology, AI/ML, cancer informatics, cancer genomics, aging, and cellular senescence.
Professor Roger Watson*	Professor of Nursing, Saint Francis University; and Honorary Professor, School of Nursing, Tung Wah College, HK Interests in nursing, ageing, dementia, RCTs, quantitative methods, psychometrics, public health, and education of health professionals.

* Non-local Members