Name Title Dept/Division Expertise Language Contact
Dr Hongbin LIU Assistant Professor
Biology Marine food web structure; global climate change; red tides English and Putonghua
Tel: 2358-7341 liuhb@ust.hk
Dr Chun LIANG Associate Professor
Biochemistry Cellular and molecular biology; cancer; nutrition; anti-aging English, Cantonese and Putonghua Tel: 2358-7296 bccliang@ust.hk Associate Director Center for Cancer Research
Prof Yuk-Shan WONG Professor Biology Environmental protection and sustainability; biology and natural conservation; policies of higher education and basic education
English, Cantonese and Putonghua and Fukienese Tel: 2358-6151 yswong@ust.hk Vice-President Administration and Business Dr Robert Z Qi Assistant Professor
Biochemistry Molecular and cell biology; proteomics English and Putonghua
Tel: 2358-7273 qirz@ust.hk
Prof Richard K HAYNES Professor Chemistry Organic chemicals in the environment; use of medical chemistry to generate new drugs
English and German
Tel: 2358-7364 haynes@ust.hk
Name Title Dept/Division Expertise Language Contact Dr Hongbin LIU Assistant
Professor
Biology Marine food web structure; global climate change; red tides English and Putonghua
Tel: 2358-7341 liuhb@ust.hk
Dr Chun LIANG Associate Professor
Biochemistry Cellular and molecular biology; cancer; nutrition; anti-aging English, Cantonese and Putonghua Tel: 2358-7296 bccliang@ust.hk Associate Director Center for Cancer Research
Prof Yuk-Shan WONG Professor Biology Environmental protection and sustainability; biology and natural conservation; policies of higher education and basic education
English, Cantonese and Putonghua and Fukienese Tel: 2358-6151 yswong@ust.hk Vice-President Administration and Business Dr Robert Z Qi Assistant Professor
Biochemistry Molecular and cell biology; proteomics English and
Putonghua
Tel: 2358-7273 qirz@ust.hk
Prof Richard K HAYNES Professor Chemistry Organic chemicals in the environment; use of medical chemistry to generate new drugs
English and German
Tel: 2358-7364 haynes@ust.hk
Name Title Dept/Division Expertise Language Contact Dr Min WU Assistant
Professor
Accounting Earnings management; accounting fraud English and
Putonghua
Tel: 2358-7559 acwu@ust.hk
Dr Yuri TSERLUKEVICH Assistant Professor
Finance Capital structure; convertible bonds; security design; tax policy; contracting theory
English yuri@ust.hk
Dr Lynn PI Adjunct Associate Professor
Finance Financial planning; wealth management; corporate governance English, Cantonese and Putonghua Tel: 2358-7687 lynnpi@ust.hk Dr Mike SO Associate Professor Information and Systems Management
Statistical analysis of financial market volatility; risk management; financial time series modeling
English, Cantonese and Putonghua
Tel: 2358-7726 immkpso@ust.hk
Dr Michael ZHANG Assistant Professor
Information and Systems Management
Online advertising; pricing in entertainment industry; dynamics of public opinions English and Putonghua Tel: 2358-7644 zhang@ust.hk Prof Wilfried VANHONACKER Chair Professor and Head
Marketing Business mode in China ; internationalization of Chinese enterprises English Tel: 2358-7691
Dr Kristiaan HELSEN Associate Professor
Marketing Global marketing; product harm crises; competitive marketing strategies
English Tel: 2358-7720
westland@ust.hk
Prof Jaideep SENGUPTA Professor Marketing Advertising psychology and consumer psychology English Tel: 2358-7718 mkjaisen@ust.hk
Prof Rami ZWICK Chair Professor Marketing Consumer psychology; experimental and behavioral economics; neuroeconomics and neuromarketing
English and Hebrew
Tel: 2358-7695 mkzwick@ust.hk Web Site Co-Director Center for
Experimental Business Research
Prof Larry J L FARH Chair Professor Management of
Organizations
Management issues in the Chinese contexts; cross-cultural management; human resource management
English and Putonghua
Tel: 2358-7735 mnlfarh@ust.hk
Dr Stephen W NASON Adjunct Associate Professor
Management of
Organizations
Negotiation skills; organizational learning English Through media
unit liaison only
Dr Raymond G SIN Assistant Professor
Information and Systems Management
Product piracy; consumer privacy; pricing and competition on the internet; electronic commerce
English, Cantonese and Putonghua
rsin@ust.hk
Dr Elizabeth WELDON Adjunct Associate Professor
Management of
Organizations
Leadership development; talent management; workforce training English eweldon@ust.hk
Prof Steve DEKREY Associate Dean Business and Management
Executive education; emotional intelligence; leadership development English Tel: 2358-8749 sjdekrey@ust.hk
Director MBA/EMBA/
MSC Programs
Name Title Dept/Division Expertise Language Contact Dr Virgil K Y HO Associate
Professor
Humanities Social, cultural and political history of modern China (1800s to 1949); popular cultures (rural and urban) in South China
Cantonese, English and Putonghua
Tel: 2358-7802 hmvihoky@ust.hk
Prof David ZWEIG Chair Professor Social Science Chinese politics and international political economy; returnees to China; China and WTO; rural politics and village democracy
English and Putonghua Tel: 2358-7832 sozweig@ust.hk Director Center on China’s Transnational Relations
Dr Carsten A HOLZ Associate Professor
Social Science China’s economic growth; macroeconomic issues of China’s economy; state-owned enterprise reform and industrial policy in China
English and Putonghua
Tel: 2719-8557 socholz@ust.hk
Name Title Dept/Division Expertise Language Contact Prof Qingping SUN Professor Mechanical
Engineering
Biomaterial; reliability of human implant medical devices English and Putonghua
Tel: 2358-8655 meqpsun@ust.hk
Dr Ying CHAU Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
Materials with biomedical applications; targeted delivery of therapeutics to cancer; tissue engineering
English, Cantonese and Putonghua
Tel: 2358-8935 keychau@ust.hk
Prof Tong-Yi ZHANG Professor Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical properties of materials; phase transformation in solids; thin films and coatings; micro/nano mechanics
English and Putonghua
Tel: 2358-7192 mezhangt@ust.hk
Director Hong
Kong-Beijing UST Joint Research Center
Prof Jang-Kyo KIM Professor Mechanical Engineering
Design, manufacturing, failures and fracture of advanced engineering materials; fiber-reinforced composite materials
English and Putonghua
Tel: 2358-7207 mejkkim@ust.hk
Dr Thomas HU Visiting Assistant Professor
Civil Engineering
Simplified engineering calculation; application of Computer Algebra Systems for enhancement of engineering education
English, Cantonese, Putonghua and Shanghainese Tel: 2358-7179 thomashu@ust.hk
Prof Tianshou ZHAO Professor Mechanical Engineering
Energy technology English and
Putonghua
Tel: 2358-8647 metzhao@ust.hk Associate Director Center for
Sustainable Energy Technology
Prof Zongjin LI Professor Civil Engineering
Development of high performance concrete; nondestructive testing in civil engineering; development of advanced building materials using extrusion technique
English and Putonghua
Tel: 2358-8751 zongjin@ust.hk Associate Dean Engineering
Dr Limin ZHANG Associate Professor
Civil Engineering
Building foundations; landslides investigation; quality assurance and control; geotechnical risk assessment and management
English and Putonghua
Tel: 2358-8720 cezhangl@ust.hk
Name Title Dept/Division Expertise Language Contact Prof Paul HARRISON Director Atmospheric,
Marine and Coastal Environment Program
Biological oceanography; ocean productivity; nutrient pollution; red tides
English Tel: 2358-7348
harrison@ust.hk
Co-Director Institute for the Environment Dr Irene LO Associate Professor Civil Engineering
Environmental issues; clean up of contaminated land; hazardous and chemical waste treatment; landfill design and construction
English, Cantonese and Putonghua
Tel: 2358-7157 cemclo@ust.hk Associate Director Environmental
Engineering Graduate Program
Name Title Dept/Division Expertise Language Contact Prof Moe M S CHEUNG Chair Professor
and Head
Civil Engineering Bridges and buildings; structural dynamics and earthquake engineering; composite materials; health monitoring of structures
English, Cantonese, Putonghua and French Tel: 2358-7152 mscheung@ust.hk
Co-Director Institute for the Environment
Prof Tony EASTHAM Professor Civil Engineering Electronic and Computer Engineering
Ground transportation systems; high speed intercity and urban transit; R&D policy issues; technology transfer
English Tel: 2358-6177 rdtony@ust.hk Acting Vice-President for Research & Development
President/CEO HKUST R and D Corp Ltd
Prof Kenny KWOK Professor Civil Engineering Wind effects on building and civil infrastructures; air quality and air pollution dispersion; wind tunnel modeling
English and Cantonese
Through media unit liaison only Director CLP Power Wind/
Wave Tunnel Facility
Prof Charles W W NG Professor Civil Engineering Slope instability problems; piles; excavations; tunnels English, Cantonese, Putonghua and Taiwanese
Tel: 2358-8760
cecwwng@ust.hk
Associate Dean Engineering Director Geotechnical
Name Title Dept/Division Expertise Language Contact Dr Oscar AU Associate Professor Electronic and Computer Engineering
Image and video compression; DVD; VCD; MP3; video-on-demand; JPEG; digital camera; video streaming; security and watermarking; data hiding English, Cantonese and Putonghua Tel: 2358-7053 eeau@ust.hk Director Multimedia Technology Research Center Dr Gary CHAN Associate Professor Computer Science and Engineering
Multimedia networking; Internet technologies; wireless communication networks
English and Cantonese
Tel: 2358-6990
Dr Jogesh K MUPPALA Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Embedded systems; embedded software; internet in education English Tel: 2358-6978 muppala@cse.ust. hk
Dr Vladimir CHIGRINOV Associate Professor
Electronic and Computer Engineering
Liquid Crystal Devices (LCDs): physics and applications English Tel: 2358-8522 eechigr@ust.hk
Dr Pascale FUNG Assistant Professor
Electronic and Computer Engineering
Speech recognition; natural language processing; machine translation; multilingual information retrieval and commercial applications of such technologies
English, Cantonese, Putonghua and French Tel: 2358-8537 pascale@ust.hk
Prof Lionel NI Chair Professor and Head
Computer Science and Engineering
Computer systems; Internet technologies; web technologies; IT education; computer networks; telecommunication networks
English and Putonghua
Tel: 2358-7009 ni@cs.ust.hk
Prof Johnny Kin On SIN Professor Electronic and Computer Engineering
Microelectronics; power semiconductor devices and fabrication technology; integrated circuits
English, Cantonese and Putonghua Tel: 2358-7052 eesin@ust.hk Director Semiconductor Product Analysis and Design Enhancement Center Director Nanoelectronics Fabrication Facility
Name Title Dept/Division Expertise Language Contact Dr Kam Sing WONG Associate
Professor
Physics Nonlinear optics; short-pulse lasers; ultrafast spectroscopy English and Cantonese
Tel: 2358-7475 phkswong@ust.hk
Name Title Dept/Division Expertise Language Contact Dr Kin Yin Li Associate
Professor
Mathematics International Math Competitions for secondary school students English and Cantonese
Tel: 2358-7420 makyli@ust.hk
Name Title Dept/Division Expertise Language Contact Dr Anna Kwong Part-time Lecturer Humanities History of Western art and architecture from prehistoric time to the
present English, Cantonese, Putonghua, Italian and German Tel: 2358-8921 hmakwong@ust. hk
