Prof. Victor O.K. LI

Director, CEERP
Head and Chair of Information Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HKU
Cheng Yu-Tung Professorship in Sustainable development

Prof. Victor O.K. Li was born and raised in Hong Kong. He joined the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California, USA in February 1981, and became Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the USC Communication Sciences Institute. Since September 1997 he has been with the University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong, where he is Chair Professor of Information Engineering. He served as Assoc. Dean of Engineering at HKU from 2007 to 2012.

Dr. Jacqueline C.K. LAM

Co-Director, CEERP
Associate Professor (starting from June 2017), Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HKU
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Judge Business School, Cambridge

Dr. Jacqueline LAM received her PhD from Centre of Urban Planning and Environment Management, Faculty of Architecture, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. At present, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. She is also a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in EPRG, Judge Business School, at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests cover clean energy and environment interdisciplinary study, particularly focusing on smart energy, and air pollution-related policy and behavioral studies that interface with engineering studies.

Prof. John BACON-SHONE

Professor
Associate Dean (Knowledge Exchange)
Faculty of Social Sciences

John Bacon-Shone is Associate Dean (Knowledge Exchange) of Social Sciences, Director of the Social Sciences Research Centre and Professor at The University of Hong Kong. Previously, he served two terms as elected Dean of Social Sciences and was a member of the Statistics Department in The University of Hong Kong. John was educated at the University of Birmingham (PhD), University College London (MSc) and the University of Durham (BSc). He was headhunted to be a full-time Member of the Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong SAR Government from 1998 to 2001. His current research interests encompass a wide range of topics including compositional data, gambling, immigration and population policy, privacy policy and telephone survey methodology.

Prof. K.Y. CHAN

Professor
Department of Chemistry

Kwong-Yu Chan is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry, the University of Hong Kong. He obtained a B.Sc. from University of Alberta, a MS and a Ph.D. from Cornell University, all in Chemical Engineering. Before postgraduate studies, he worked briefly as an assistant lecturer in Hong Kong Polytechnic and as an engineer in Hong Kong Oxygen & Acetylene Company. He has been a research associate in Case Western Reserve University, after his doctoral training. In University of Hong Kong, he has maintained an active research program on molecular simulation, materials, fuel cells, and electrochemical applications. He has published over 120 papers on various topics in electrochemistry, physical chemistry, and materials. He co-organized workshops on Fuel Cells and has been invited speakers on several conferences on Energy and Fuel Cells. Currently, he is regional editor of Molecular Simulation and Journal of Experimental Sciences. He served as a member in Board of Governor of Friends of the Earth Kong Kong. (2001-2006). He received the Outstanding Researcher Award in 1998.

Ir K.P. CHEUNG

Associate Professor
Department of Architecture

Ir Cheung studied mechanical engineering and stared his profession in air-conditioning and building services engineering. He then pursued further studies on fire safety engineering, and worked as a consulting engineer on fire engineering and integrated design for building services. After 12 years of professional engineering work, Ir Cheung decided to develop more into research of fire engineering and innovative building services design by joining The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1988. Ir Cheung joined Department of Architecture, HKU in 1992 on the interest of researching further into integration of building services design with architecture. Ir Cheung has published extensively and won prizes in building design competitions. Ir Cheung is the inventor of 3 patents on fire safety and solar study tools for buildings.

Dr. Wilton W.T. FOK

Principal Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Assistant Dean of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Director, e-Learning Development Laboratory

Dr. Fok is a Chartered Engineer and he received his B.Eng degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Hong Kong in 1993. Dr. Fok also received two other M.Sc. degrees in Industrial Engineering and Environmental Management from this University in 1996 and 1999 respectively. In 1998 and 2007, he also awarded a MBA degree and a PhD degree from the University of Cambridge and Renmin University of China respectively.

Dr. Fok is the Convener of the Sichuan Reconstruction Project since 2009. He led students to Sichuan to serve in school reconstruction projects. He also supervised the e-Learning Development Laboratory which has developed many innovative e-learning technologies and won a few Hong Kong ICT Awards since 2011. Dr. Fok received the Best Teacher Award in 2010, Outstanding Teaching Team Award in 2013, Knowledge Exchange Award in 2014 and Outstanding Teaching Award in 2015.

Prof. Lixi HUANG

Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Lixi Huang was born in Zhejiang province of China, educated at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA) and University of Cambridge. His bachelor and master degrees from BUAA were in the field of aerospace engineering (jet propulsion), while the topic of his PhD study at Cambridge was theoretical acoustics and respiratory biomechanics (supervised by Prof JE Ffowcs Williams). He spent 8 years each in Beijing and Cambridge before coming to Hong Kong in 1996, initially at PolyU. After completing his PhD work in 1991, he worked as a research associate at the Whittle Lab (of turbomachinery), then as a college research fellow at Peterhouse, both within the University of Cambridge. His work on the mechanism of human snoring helped his medical/surgical colleagues devise a successful laser surgery procedure in the early 1990s, and the related pursuit in fluid mechanics touched upon the fundamentals of fluid-structure energy transfer mechanisms. Dr Huang is currently a full professor at HKU. He teaches dynamics (with application to space flight), thermodynamics, aeronautical engineering, and acoustics. He serves as a subject editor for Journal of Sound and Vibration and an associate editor for Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Dr. Albert YS LAM

Research Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Albert Lam received the BEng degree (First Class Honors) in Information Engineering from The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong, in 2005 and he also spent a year at University of California, Davis as an exchange scholar in 2003–04. He obtained the PhD degree at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of HKU in December 2009. He was a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of University of California, Berkeley. He is now a research assistant professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of HKU. He is a Croucher research fellow. He co-invented Chemical Reaction Optimization, a general-purpose chemical reaction-inspired algorithm for optimization, which has been successfully applied to many different domains, including networking, computing, smart grids, finance, bioinformatics, etc. He is the founding Chair of the Social Media Subcommittee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) and have also chaired some other committees in CIS, including Young Professionals Subcommittee, Webinars Subcommittee, etc.

Prof. Yu-lung LAU

Chair Professor of Paediatrics
Chief Director, Clinical Trials Centre
Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Prof Lau has 30 years of experience in studying genetics of PID and mapped the genetic loci for XLA and X-SCID in the 1980’s. He has defined novel mutations for PID in Hong Kong and established the Asian PID Network as a referral center for molecular diagnosis of PID for China and nearby Asian countries. In the early years, he collaborated with Professor M Turner and defined the genetics of mannose binding lectin (MBL) deficiency. He found that the MBL genetic polymorphisms in Chinese are associated with systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis. He further provided evidence that MBL is of importance in susceptibility to SARS-coronavirus infection and disease progression in hepatitis B virus infection. In the recent years, he focuses on genome-wide association study in SLE and use of next generation sequencing to define mutations in PID.

Dr. So-lun LEE

Consultant
Honorary Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

So-lun Lee is Consultant and Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at Department of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, QMH/HKU. Her specialty is respiratory medicine. She received outstanding team award of the Hospital Authority (Paediatric Ventilator Program) and outstanding staff award of Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, West Cluster. Her research areas are prenatal tobacco smoke, air pollution, child respiratory, and cilia function.

Prof. Dennis Y.C. LEUNG

Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Prof. Leung received his B.Sc. (Eng.) and Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Hong Kong. He worked five years at the Hongkong Electric Co. Ltd. as an environmental engineer before joining HKU in 1993 as a lecturer in Environmental Engineering. He is currently a Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering , publishing over 100 peer reviewed journal papers in the field of air pollution control, dispersion modelling and energy conversion. Prof. Leung is the Past Chairman of the Institute of Energy (HK Branch) and a committee member of the HKIE Gas & Energy Division and IMechE (HK Branch). He is also a chartered and registered professional engineer, a fellow of IMechE and Energy Institute. He is a Regional editor of the Journal of Global Environment Engineering and an editorial board member of the international journal Applied Energy. He also acts as an external examiner for the Higher Diploma in Mechanical Engineering of IVE (Tsing Yi) and a board member of the Friends of the Earth (HK) and the Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency.

Prof. W.K. LI

Chair of Statistics and Head of Department
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science

Wai Keung Li received his PhD in Statistics from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He joined the University of Hong Kong in 1983 after spending two years with the National University of Singapore. He served as the head of the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, HKU in 1996-1999. He was the President of the Hong Kong Statistical Society from 2000-2003. Prof Li has been a member of the Statistics Advisory Board of the HKSAR Government since June 2002. Prof Li's research interest is time series analysis with applications to finance, risk management and the environment. He is an expert in nonlinear time series modelling, a pioneer in the development of the 'long memory time series' models and his test of time series nonlinearity developed with McLeod in 1983 is commonly known as the McLeod-Li test in the field. The test is also asymptotically equivalent to a test developed in 1983 by the Nobel Laureate in Economics 2003, Professor R F Engle in the testing for the presence of conditional volatility in financial data. The honors Prof Li received include an Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award and an Outstanding Researcher Award from the University of Hong Kong, the award of a Croucher Foundation Senior Research Fellow in 2003 by the Croucher Foundation, and the award of the prestigious title of Fellow by the American Statistical Association.