Strategic Topics Grant

Strategic Topics Grant Assessment Committee

Member Title/Sphere of Interest
Chairman
Professor Tai-fai Fok Professor Emeritus and Honorary Clinical Professor, Department of Paediatrics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, H.K.
  
Interest is in newborn care, especially the prevention and management of respiratory conditions, newborn infection, newborn growth, medical education
Deputy Chairman
Professor Paul Clark* Chair Professor of Chinese, School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics, University of Auckland, New Zealand
  
Interests in Contemporary Chinese popular culture, including film, the Cultural Revolution, Contemporary Chinese history
Sub-group Chairmen
Professor Wan-ki Chow Emeritus Professor of Architectural Science and Fire Engineering, Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, H.K.
  
Interest in Architectural Science; Fire Science and Engineering; Green and Sustainable Buildings; Life Science and Engineering
Professor Robin Gauld* Dean of Business School, Pro-Vice Chancellor of Commerce, Professor, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine and Department of Management, Otago Medical School and Otago Business School, University of Otago, New Zealand
  
Interests in public health policy; health services and management; health systems; population health; public policy and administration; health information technology; e-government; qualitative and quantitative methods
Professor Franklin Tai-cheung Luk Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University, H.K.
  
Interests in Scientific and Statistical Computing, Parallel Processing, Data Science and Systolic Arrays
Members
Professor Catherine Brinson* Professor and Chair, Department of Mechanical, Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, U.S.A.
  
Interests in advanced material systems and developing new methods to characterize and to model material behavior
Professor Jeffrey Tai-kin Cheung* Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics, Hong Kong Baptist University, H.K. and Former Scientist, Rockwell Science Center
  
Interests in Chemical Sciences, Materials Science, molecular dynamics and kinetics, Thin film material synthesis, characterization and application, Bio mechanics: gait and posture, Fall risk assessment and balance
Professor Michael Yit-lin Chew* Head, Department of the Built Environment, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  
Interests in Building System and Diagnostics; Maintainability of Buildings; Fire Technology; Façade Technology
Professor Joohwan Chun* Professor Emeritus, Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
  
Interests in Detection, estimation, and radar signal processing
Professor David Dudgeon Emeritus Professor of Ecology & Biodiversity, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, H.K.
  
Interests in Freshwater Ecology;Biodiversity Conservation
Dr Theofanis Fotis* Associate Professor, School of Health Sciences, University of Brighton, U.K.
  
Interests in Digital Health, Health Innovation, Heath Technologies, Acute Care, Perioperative care and having extensive experience on reviewing both qualitative and quantitative projects
Professor Walter Gander* Emeritus Professor, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  
Interests in Numerical Linear Algebra; Parallel Computing
Professor Maria Gini* Professor, CSE Distinguished Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
  
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 Dean Ho* Provost’s Chair Professor and Head, Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  
Interests in Artificial Intelligence, Digital Medicine, Nanomedicine, N-of-1 Clinical Trials, Combination Therapy, Clinical validation of personalised medicine, Digital Therapeutics, Harnessing AI-based optimisation platforms for pandemic and AMR preparedness, Integrating behavioural and implementation sciences with technology development, Harnessing digital health-based platforms to address food security, Clinical trial design innovation and Development of nanodiamond platforms for drug delivery and imaging applications
Dr Tong J. Lee* Patent Attorney, The Law Office of Tong Lee
  
Interests in Low-power circuit designs; AI processors; neural computing; semiconductors; nanotechnology; mechanical designs; medical devices; telecommunications
Professor Edmund Kwong-ho Leung Adjunct Professor, Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, H.K.
Former Chief Officer of Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation
Former Chairman of East Asia Region of Hyder Consultants Ltd.

  
Interests in Energy and energy savings; Transport Infrastructure
Professor Andrew Yee-tak Leung Emeritus Professor, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, H.K.
  
Interests in wind and earthquake engineering; fatigue, fracture and corrosion; noise and vibration reduction; environmental acoustics; structure vibration, monitoring and control; dynamic stress, jet fan and machineries
Professor Ching-long Lin* Professor and Departmental Executive Officer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Iowa, U.S.A.
  
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 Sylvie Lorente* College of Engineering Chair Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Villanova University, U.S.A.
  
Interests in heat and mass transfer, fluid flows, buildings construction
Professor Alexandru Morega* Professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Machines, Materials and Actuators, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
  
Interests in electromagnetism, electrical and magnetic circuits, processes of heat and mass transfer, energy conversion and sources, mathematical, numerical modeling for boundary and initial condition problems; nonlinear dynamics, biomedical engineering and technology, structural optimization, construction design, modeling interdisciplinary problems
Dr John Øvretveit* Professor of Health Care Improvement and Evaluation, Medical Management Centre, The Karolinska Institute, Sweden
  
Interests in evaluation; quality and safety improvement; implementation science; health management policy and reforms; clinical coordination and integration of services
Professor Danny Chiang-choon Poo* Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems and Analytics, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  
Interests in software engineering; systems development; requirement engineering; software maintenance; object-oriented technology; domain analysis; expert systems; information system management; information science, knowledge management, taxonomy; healthcare; artificial intelligence; machine learning; data analytics
Professor Martin Roland* Emeritus Professor of Health Services Research and Emeritus Fellow, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, U.K.
  
Interests in Health Services Research; Primary Care.
Professor Che-kwan Shum* Professor & Distinguished University Scholar, Division of Geodetic Science, School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University, U.S.A.
  
Interests in Satellite Geodesy, Sea Level Science, Climate Change, Satellite Oceanography/Hydrology/Cryosphere, Natural Hazards
Professor Lakshman Tamil* Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A.
  
Interests in optical networks, wireless sensor networks, optical switching, optical routing, remote health care, smart homes, body area network, biomedical devices, biomedical systems
Professor Christopher Tout* Professor of Stellar Evolution, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, U.K.
  
Interests in the theory of stellar evolution including that of interacting binary stars; Fluid and magnetohydrodynamic processes in stars
Professor S. Simon Wong* Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, U.S.A.
  
Interests in the technology and design of silicon integrated circuits, fabrication and design of high-performance integrated circuits and understanding and overcoming the limitations of circuit performance imposed by device, interconnect and on-chip components
Professor Paul K. L. Yu* Provost of Revelle College, William S C Chang Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, U.S.A.
  
Interests in optoelectronic materials, devices and engineering, modern communication, microwave photonics (e.g. transmission of high frequency optical signals and signal processing)

* Non-local Members