Strategic Topics Grant
Strategic Topics Grant Assessment Committee
| Member | Title/Sphere of Interest |
|---|---|
| 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. and Advisor to President and Distinguished Chair Professor in Aviation Safety, College of Civil Aviation Safety Engineering, Civil Aviation Flight University of China, China Interest in Architectural Science; Fire Science and Engineering; Green and Sustainable Buildings; and Life Science and Engineering. |
| Professor Robin Gauld* | Dean of Business School, Pro-Vice Chancellor of Commerce and 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; and 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 Daniel Bressington* | 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 Wesley Cantwell* | Director, Aerospace Research and Innovation Center and Associate Dean for Research, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Khalifa University of Science Technology and Research, U.A.E. Interests in Composite materials, impact, lightweight aerospace structures, advanced manufacturing techniques, environmentally-friendly composites, polymers, fracture mechanics, dynamic properties of materials and smart structures. |
| 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 Zhengming Chen* | Richard Peto Professor of Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, U.K. 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 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, South Korea Interests in Detection, estimation, and radar signal processing. |
| Professor Peter Dearden* | Professor and Head of Department, Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, New Zealand Interests in Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development, Conservation Genomics and Reproduction. |
| Professor Lucy E. Dunne* | Professor, Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel, College of Design, Twin Cities and Program Director of Apparel Design and Apparel Studies Track of Design Graduate Program, University of Minnesota, U.S.A. Interests in apparel design, functional apparel, smart clothing/wearable technology. |
| Professor Ian Everall* | Former Executive Dean & Honorary Professor of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, U.K. Interests in psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience. |
| Professor Walter Gander* | Emeritus Professor, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Interests in Numerical Linear Algebra and 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 Kenny Chung-sau Kwok* | Professor Emeritus, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia Interests in Wind effects on buildings and structures, Wind tunnel modelling, Structural dynamics, Vibration control and Environmental fluid mechanics |
| 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. |
| 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; and 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, and 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. and Research Professor, Saint Francis University, 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. |
| Dr Ningjun Li* | Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Virginia Commonwealth University, U.S.A. Interests in chemotherapy toxicity, kidney diseases, hypertension. |
| Professor Wenbin Lin* | James Franck Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, U.S.A. Interests in Metal-organic Frameworks; Catalysis; Renewable Energy; and Nanomedicine. |
| Professor Honghai Liu* | Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen HIT Campus of University Town of Shenzhen, China Interests in Robotics & Automation - Intelligent Sensing and Understanding, Machine Learning, Intelligent Robotics. |
| Professor Sylvie Lorente* | William M. Brown Endowed Chair Professor in Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Villanova University, U.S.A. Interests in heat and mass transfer, fluid flows, and buildings construction. |
| 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 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. |
| Professor R. Bernhart Owen | Emeritus Professor, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, H.K. Interests in palaeoenvironments, geology, geochemistry, micropalaeontology, lacustrine sedimentation and hot springs. |
| 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; and 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, and Natural Hazards. |
| Professor Patrick Tan* | Professor and Senior Vice-Dean for Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore Interest in Gastric Cancer, Cancer Genomics and Precision Medicine. |
| Professor Haixu Tang* | Professor of Informatics and Computing, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A. Interests in Bioinformatics, data mining, proteomics, and genomics. |
| 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, medical informatics. |
| 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* | Emeritus 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 Yuanyuan Yang* | SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, U.S.A. Interests in cloud computing, data center networking, edge computing, wireless and mobile networks, and parallel and distributed computing and systems. |
| 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