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Department Name and Title Doctoral and Postdoctoral
Training Selected Previous Positions Research Interests Accounting Gary C BIDDLE
Professor and Department Head PhD, University of Chicago (1980). Professor of Accounting, University of Washington (1984-98).Assistant Professor, University of Chicago (1980-84).
Economic value added; securities pricing; financial statement analysis; management performance measures;
information content tests; foreign stock listings; audit sampling; cost allocations; auditor decisions.
Accounting Kevin C W CHEN
Professor
PhD, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign (1985).
Assistant and Associate Professor, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick (1989).
Accounting information and securities pricing; use of accounting information in contract enforcement and regulation.
Accounting Chul Won PARK
Associate Professor
PhD, Washington University (1994).
Earnings management; CEO performance evaluation and corporate governance; analysts forecasts; equity valuation. Accounting T J WONG
Associate Professor
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (1990).
Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Maryland (1990-94).
Accounting and corporate finance issues in China, East Asia and US.
Accounting Derek Kwok-Wing CHAN Assistant Professor PhD, University of British Columbia (1995). Instructor, University of British Columbia (1994).
Economic analysis of audit markets; equilibrium models of regulation of auditors;
information economics. Accounting Chih-Ying CHEN
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1997).
Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University (1997-2000).
Accounting information and security valuation; capital market research; environmental
accounting and disclosures. Accounting Peter F CHEN
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Alberta (1998).
Instructor, University of Alberta (1996-98).
Financial reporting of segment information; financial reporting issues for banks; accounting information and valuation. Accounting Yew Ming CHIA
Assistant Professor PhD, Griffith University (1992). Sessional Lecturer/Tutor, Griffith University (1989-92).
Financial controls; management accounting systems design for organizations; behavioral accounting research; accounting education.
Accounting Jong Hag CHOI
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign (2000).
Accounting information and capital market; voluntary disclosures, analysts' earnings forecasts. Accounting James R FREDERICKSON Assistant Professor PhD, University of Washington (1990). Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Utah (1996-97).Assistant Professor, Indiana University (1990-96).
Judgement and decision making in accounting contexts, with particular interest in integrating economic and behavioral perspectives.
Accounting Chung Kweon KIM
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Pittsburgh (1994).
Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh (1990-94).
Income tax reporting behavior; empirical analysis of
incentive-related issues; information issues in experimental economics. Accounting Sabrina Y S KWAN PhD, London Business Auditor, Deloitte, Haskins Accounting and capital markets;
Assistant Professor
School (1996). and Sells (1985-88). international accounting; taxation.
Accounting Hyun Koo LEE
Assistant Professor
PhD, Carnegie Mellon University (1998).
Empirical research on compensation and contracts; accounting information and capital markets.
Accounting Alison Aili LI
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1998).
Capital market efficiency; fundamental analysis; behavior of financial analysts; international harmonization of accounting principles.
Accounting Suil PAE
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of British Columbia (1996).
Role of accounting information in organizations and markets; welfare implications of disclosure regulation; economics analysis of auditing. Accounting K P RAMASWAMY Visiting Assistant Professor PhD, University of Kansas (1993). Visiting Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire (1993-94). Management accounting in international context; financial accounting; mergers and acquisitions. Accounting Dingbo XU Assistant Professor PhD, University of Minnesota (1996). Coordination of communication in a decentralized system; the role of financial disclosure to capital markets.
Accounting Andrew T L YIM
Assistant Professor
PhD, Yale University (1995).
Lecturer, University of Hong Kong (1992-95).
Analytical accounting theory; managerial accounting.
Accounting Seung Weon YOO
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1997).
Role of managerial accounting information in a changing manufacturing environment; strategic interactions among managers, auditors and investors. Accounting Guochang ZHANG
Assistant Professor PhD, University of British Columbia (1992). Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo (1991-93).
Accounting information and equity valuation; financial disclosure and capital market; the roles of accounting and finance in resolving a firm's agency
conflicts; management accounting in China. Biochemistry Nancy Yuk-Yu IP
Professor and Department Head; Associate Dean of Science; Director, BRI and Co-Director, Molecular Neuroscience Center PhD, Harvard Medical School (1983). Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School (1983-84).Postdoctoral Fellow, Sloan Kettering Institute (1984-85).
Senior Staff Scientist, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (1989-93) and Laboratory Head, Medical Genetics, Lifecodes Corporation (1987-89).
The use of molecular and cellular approaches to study the
functional roles of trophic factors in neuronal differentiation and synapse formation.
Biochemistry Jerry H C WANG
Professor and Co-Director, Molecular Neuroscience Center PhD, Iowa State University (1965). Postdoctoral Fellow, National Research Council of Canada (1965-66). Director, MRC Signal Transduction Group (1990-94) and Professor of Biochemistry (1982-94), University of Calgary. Enzymology of signal transduction; novel signal transduction processes in neurons; protein kinases and protein phosphatases.
Biochemistry Jeffrey Tze-Fei WONG
Professor and Director, Drug Delivery Technology Center PhD, University of Toronto (1963). Research Associate, University of Oregon (1963-65). Professor of Biochemistry, University of Toronto (1976-90).
Origin of genetic coding; evolution of codon usages; identity elements of transfer RNA.
Biochemistry James A HACKETT
Associate Professor
PhD, University College Dublin (1978). Research Fellow, University of Adelaide (1980-84).
Senior Lecturer, University of Adelaide (1992).
Molecular cloning and analysis of virulence genes of Salmonella typhi; vaccine development against Salmonella; molecular
genetics of plasmid
incompatibility and partition. Biochemistry Robert K M KO Associate Professor PhD, University of British Columbia (1990). Research Associate, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1990-91). Myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury and carbon
tetrachloride-induced
hepatotoxicity; protection against such injuries by antioxidants; antioxidant properties of traditional Chinese medicinals. Biochemistry Raymond S C WONG
Adjunct Associate Professor; Director, Plant Growth Facility and Director, Animal Care Facility PhD, South Dakota State University (1975). Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto (1975-77). Research Associate, University of Toronto (1978-82).
Chief Biochemist, Allelix Crop Technologies (1988-90).
Plant bioengineering through genetic manipulation and microspore culture system for the improvement of oilseed as well as Chinese vegetable crops (Brassics spp).
Biochemistry Wan-Keung R WONG
Associate Professor PhD, University of British Columbia (1986). Postdoctoral Fellow, Allelix Biochemicals Inc (1986-87).
Project Leader, Allelix Biopharmaceuticals Inc (1988-90).
Development of microbial host systems for extracellular production of valuable proteins; production and reconstitution of recombinant cellulases.
Biochemistry Yung Hou WONG
Associate Professor and Associate Director of Biotechnology Research Institute PhD, University of Cambridge (1988). Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco (1989-92).
The role of G proteins in cell proliferation, differentiation and the development of drug tolerance. Cell-based high throughput drug screening.
Biochemistry Hong XUE
Associate Professor PhD, University of Toronto (1993). Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Glasgow (1993-95).
Neural receptor structures and functions; identity elements of transfer RNA; bioinformatics.
Biochemistry Mingjie ZHANG
Associate Professor Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary (1993-94).PhD, University of Calgary (1993). Postdoctoral Fellow, Ontario Cancer Institute (1994-95).
High resolution,
multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and biochemical studies of the structure and function of regulatory proteins involved in eukaryotic signal transduction pathways.
Biochemistry Guang ZHU
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Maryland, College Park (1992).Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health (1992-93).
Research Associate, Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park (1993-94).
Structure and function study of biomacromolecules by multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy; development and improvement of
multidimensional NMR
experimental techniques and data processing procedures.
Biochemistry King Chuen CHOW
Assistant Professor PhD, University of Toronto (1989). Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institution of Washington (1988-92).
Stress responses of organisms; improvement of stress tolerance of plant strains by genetic engineering; development of gene overexpression systems for plants; molecular evolution. Biochemistry Yifan HAN
Assistant Professor PhD, Medical College of Ohio (1991). Research Fellow, National Institutes of Health (1991-94).
Visiting Scientist, Hoechst AG (1985-86).
Molecular mechanisms of learning and memory; neuropsychopharmacologic research and development of anti-Alzheimer's agents including those from Chinese medicinal herbs.
Assistant Professor
(1993). Postdoctoral Fellow, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (1993-98).
of DNA replication in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae; regulation of DNA replication in normal and cancer cells.
Biochemistry Randy Yat Choi POON
Assistant Professor
PhD, Cambridge University (1994). Postdoctoral Fellow, The Salk Institute (1994-96).
Molecular basis of cell cycle control in normal and cancer cells. Biochemistry Zhenguo WU Assistant Professor PhD, University of Western Ontario (1995). Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego (1996-99).
Elucidation of cellular signaling pathways regulating muscle differentiation.
Biology H Benjamin PENG
Professor and Department Head PhD, Purdue University (1976). Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University (1976-78). Assistant to Associate Professor, University of Illinois College of Medicine (1978-85). Associate to Full Professor, University of North Carolina, School of Medicine (1985-2000).
Molecular and cellular neuroscience; cell biology; developmental biology.
Biology Donald C CHANG
Professor
PhD, Rice University (1970).Postdoctoral Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine (1970-73).
Summer Investigator, Marine Biological
Laboratory at Woods Hole (1976-94). Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine (1985-91).
Molecular biophysics; calcium signaling; cellular structure and function by laser microscopy; mechanisms of cell division; gene transfer and cell fusion using an electric field.
Biology Dennis P H HSIEH
Professor ScD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1969). Professor of Environmental Toxicology (1980-94) and Dept Chairman (1983-88), University of California, Davis.
Natural toxins in foods, herbs, and red tides: their
bioproduction, analyses and assays, and mechanisms of toxic actions.
Biology Shain-Dow KUNG
Professor and Acting Vice-President for Academic Affairs PhD, University of Toronto (1968).Research Cell Biologist/Biochemist, University of California, Los Angeles (1971-74). Acting Provost (1989-91), Maryland Biotechnology Institute, University of Maryland. Molecular evolution of chloroplast genomes; structure and function of Rubisco; molecular mechanism of genetic tumors.
Biology Maria Li LUNG
Professor and Director, Cooperative Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Research Center PhD, Stanford University (1978).NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1978-80). Lecturer, University of Hong Kong (1980-91).
Molecular oncology; molecular virology; epidemiology of cancer. Biology Madeline C S WU Professor PhD, University of Texas, Austin (1966). Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology (1969-72). Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland (1987-93).
Algal and bacterial
biotechnology; genetic variation of stress response genes.
Biology Andrew L MILLER
Associate Professor PhD, University of Dundee (1986). Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Aberdeen (1985-88).Research Associate, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole (1988-91). Principal Investigator, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole (1992-95).
Calcium signaling during early development; calcium imaging techniques; transgenic model systems for imaging calcium ions in living organisms. Biology I Hsun NI Associate Professor PhD, University of British Columbia (1978). Section Head (1985-90) and Research Scientist (1978-90), Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre,
Fisheries management and aquaculture; marine
environmental impact assessment by satellite remote sensing;
Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
comparative population dynamics of marine animals.
Biology Peiyuan QIAN
Associate Professor and Associate Director, Center for Coastal & Atmospheric Research PhD, University of Alberta (1991).Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia (1992).
Larval ecology; anti-fouling; ecotoxicology; marine aquaculture; benthic ecology; marine natural products.
Biology Karl W K TSIM
Associate Professor PhD, University of Cambridge (1987). Research Fellow, Stanford University (1988-92). Molecular neurobiology of synaptogenesis.
Biology Yong XIE
Associate Professor PhD, Cornell University (1988).Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University (1989-90). Rockefeller University (1990-93).
Tumor immunology; protein engineering (including
recombinant antibodies, vaccines and enzyme engineering).
Biology David K BANFIELD
Assistant Professor PhD, University of British Columbia (1991). Postdoctoral Fellow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (1992-95).
Intracellular protein trafficking and secretory organelle maintenance.
Biology King Lau CHOW
Assistant Professor
PhD, Baylor College of Medicine (1990). Research Associate, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1990-94).
Pattern formation and
differentiation of sensory organ in animal; tissue remodeling and morphogenesis; genetic diseases associated with sensory function. Biology Wen-Luan Wendy
HSIAO Assistant Professor PhD, Columbia University (1985). Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Columbia University (1985-88). Research Biochemist, University of California, Irvine (1988-93).
Molecular tumor biology; oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes; gene regulation and signal transduction; natural products with antitumor potential; environmental biomarkers. Biology Kevin A W LEE
Assistant Professor PhD, McGill University (1985).Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University (1985-88). Research Scientist, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, UK (1988-95).
Mammalian transcription factors; DNA binding proteins; nucleic acid-protein interactions; Ewings sarcoma oncogene. Biology Ning LI Assistant Professor PhD, University of Washington (1989). Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington (1989). Research Associate, USDA/ARS/PSI Plant Molecular Biology Laboratory (1989-93).
Ethylene signal transduction; plant sensecence; genetic engineering of agricultural and medicational crops; natural products.
Biology Christopher D ROCK
Assistant Professor PhD, Michigan State University (1991). Visiting Research Associate, MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory (1991-92).
Visiting Faculty Instructor, Dept of Biology,
University of North Carolina (1993).
Molecular genetics of plant growth and development; plant hormone signal transduction; role of abscisic acid in plant stress adaptation.
Biology Nikolaus J SUCHER
Assistant Professor
Dr med Free University of Berlin (1988). Research Fellow in Neurology, Children's Hospital, Boston (1988-91). Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School (1994-96).Research Associate in Neurology, Children's Hospital, Boston (1991-96).
Structure, function and regulation of expression of neurotransmitter receptors.
Biology Wenxiong WANG
Assistant Professor
PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Visiting Researcher, Plymouth Marine
Laboratory, UK (1989-91).
Metal bioavailability; aquatic bio-monitoring; physiological ecology of marine invertebrates;
(1996).Postdoctoral Fellow, State University of New York at Stony Brook (1996).
trace element biogeochemistry; red tide ecology.
Biology Joseph T Y WONG
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Stirling
(1988).Croucher Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, NERC Institute of Virology, Oxford (1988-89).
Research Fellow and Senior Scientific Officer, Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (1990-94).
Molecular mechanisms of cell cycle control in dinoflagellates; general molecular biology of dinoflagellate; receptor biology in marine organisms.
Biology Albert C H YU
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Saskatchewan (1984). Postdoctoral Fellow and Neurochemist,
University of California, San Francisco
(1984-89).
Senior Research Associate (1991-94) and Research Associate (1989-91), Stanford University School of Medicine.
Neural cell injury and
regeneration; stroke and energy metabolism; apoptosis; gene expression and stem cell therapy in nervous system. Chemical Engineering Po Lock YUE Professor and Department Head PhD, McGill University (1971).Research Fellow, University of Leeds (1970-71).
Reader, University of Bath (1991).
Detoxification of hazardous waste and wastewater; advanced oxidation and membrane separation; waste minimization; novel reactor engineering and applied catalysis; artificial intelligence.
Chemical Engineering
Chi Ming CHAN
Professor PhD, California Institute of Technology (1979).Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology (1979).
Project Manager and Senior Scientist, Raychem Corporation (1979-92).
Surface and interface science; polymer blends and alloys; conductive composite polymers; crosslinking of polymers; adhesion phenomena. Chemical Engineering Ka Ming NG Professor PhD, University of Houston (1980). Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1991-2000).Visiting Scientist, MIT (1989).Visiting Research Engineer, DuPont Central R&D (1995-96).
Synthesis of processes with multiphase reactions, separation and purification using extraction and crystallization, solids processing; applications in manufacture of pharmaceuticals and specialty chemicals, and environmental conservation. Chemical Engineering John P BARFORD Associate Professor PhD, University of New South Wales (1979). Associate Professor, University of Sydney (1979-98). Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore (1989).
Biochemical engineering; yeast metabolism; bioremediation wastewater treatment; biological nutrient removal; biofiltration; animal cell cultivation; bioaerosols; solid waste treatment.
Chemical Engineering
Chak Keung CHAN
Associate Professor
PhD, California Institute of Technology (1992).
Process Engineer, Ralph M Parsons Company
(1991-92).
Aerosol physics and chemistry; air pollution; light scattering and spectroscopy; powder preparation. Chemical Engineering Furong GAO Associate Professor PhD, McGill University (1993).
Senior Research Engineer, Moldflow International Ltd (1993-95).
Process measurement, modeling, and control; polymer processing; applications of neural networks, fuzzy systems, and expert systems. Chemical Engineering Ping GAO Assoicate Professor PhD, University of Cambridge (1990). Research Associate, University of Cambridge (1990-93).
Diffusion in polymers; rheology of liquid crystalline polymers and polymer blends; cold extrusion of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene. Chemical Engineering Xijun HU Associate Professor PhD, University of Queensland (1993). Research Officer, University of Queensland (1993-94).
Engineer, Guangzhou R&D Base of Biotechnology (1985-88).
Multicomponent adsorption equilibium and kinetics in porous media; gas separation, air pollution control and wastewater treatment through adsorption and
catalysis; gas-solid reactions. Chemical Engineering Gordon MCKAY Associate Professor PhD (1970), DSc (1992) Bradford University .
Senior Process Specialist, Project Management (1992-95).Managing Director, CPE
(1987-92).Reader, Queen's University, Belfast (1986).
Wastewater treatment for dyes and metals using adsorption, ion exchange, and ozonation; biopolymers from crab and prawn shells; process design; ions; dioxin removal; co-combustion of MSW. Chemical Engineering Yongli MI Associate Professor PhD, Syracuse University (1991).Research Associate, Syracuse University (1992-93).
Functional polymers; synthesis of novel polyimides;
high-performance polymer blends; macromolecular condensed state of the
singlemolecule single chains of polymers. Chemical Engineering Guohua CHEN Assistant Professor PhD, McGill University (1994). Environmental management; industrial wastewater treatment; membrane separation and membrane reactor; drying of solids. Chemical Engineering I-Ming HSING Assistant Professor PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1997).
Fuel cells; reactive integrated PCR devices; biochip.
Chemical Engineering
David Chi-Wai HUI
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (1991).
Senior Consultant, Mitsubishi Chemical Corp (1992-97).
Energy conservation; heat exchanger network design and optimization; production planning and scheduling; site-modeling and waste minimization. Chemical Engineering John F PORTER Assistant Professor PhD, University of Bath (1994).
Novel production and environmental treatment processes with emphasis on adsorption and catalysis; application of computer-aided process design to waste minimization and pollution prevention. Chemical Engineering Terrence F YEE Adjunct Assistant Professor PhD, Carnegie Mellon University (1990).
Chemical process design; simulation and optimization via computer-aided methods; efficient heat integration of chemical process; novel
applications of industrial gases in chemical processes.
Chemical Engineering
King Lun YEUNG
Assistant Professor PhD, University of Notre Dame (1993). Research Associate (1993-94) and Postdoctoral Fellow (1994-96), University of Notre Dame.
Synthesis of advanced materials for thin film coating, membranes and sensors; membrane and catalyst technology for waste minimization and pollution control; advanced reactor design and analysis. Chemical Engineering Jian YU Assistant Professor PhD, University of British Columbia (1991). Industrial Postdoctoral Fellow, British Columbia Science Council (1991-92). Research Fellow, University of Windsor (1993-94). Assistant Lecturer, Zhejiang University (1985-87). Biodegradation of organic pollutants and polymers; biodegradable polymers from organic wastes.
Chemistry Chris Chi Kwong CHANG
Professor and Department Head
PhD, University of California, San Diego (1973).
Professor of Chemistry (1982-98) and Associate Chairman (1990-94), Michigan State University. Visiting Professor,
National Taiwan University
Synthesis of porphyrins and macrocyclic ligands; biological oxygen binding and activation; models of metalloenzymes; nitrite reduction; electrocatalysis; photodynamic cancer therapy.
(1991). Chemistry Richard HAYNES
Professor PhD, University of Western Australia (1970). Gillette International Fellow, University of Karlsruhe (1970-72). Postdoctoral Fellow, Imperial College (1973-76). Reader in Organic Chemistry, University of Sydney (1989-92).
Total synthesis of clinical and pharmaceutical agents; naturally occurring drugs from Chinese plants; asymmetric catalysis.
Chemistry Reinhard RENNEBERG Professor PhD, Institute of Molecular Biology, Berlin (1979).Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas, Dallas (1979), University of Kyoto (1981-82).Dr habil, Univ Leipzig (1991).
Reader in Biosensorics and Biochemistry and Head, Department of
Immunosensors, Institute of Chemical and
Biosensors, Munster, Germany (1991-95).
Biosensors and bioelectronics; bioanalytical chemistry; environmental chemistry; medical diagnostics; protein engineering.
Chemistry Nai Teng YU
Professor and
Co-director, Center for Medical Diagnostic Technology PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1969).Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1969-70).
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology (1980-90).Adjunct
Research Professor, Emory University Medical School (1984).
Ligand binding to metalloporphyrins and hemoproteins; organometallic chemical bonding; laser-based spectroscopy and applications; cataract/vision research; biomedical instrumentation. Chemistry Wei Min DAI
Associate Professor PhD, Kyoto University (1990).Research Associate, Scripps Research Institute (1990-92).
Synthetic organic and bioorganic chemistry; asymmetric reactions and catalysis; synthesis of natural products and biomedically interesting molecules; porphyrin analog synthesis; solid phase organic synthesis.
Chemistry Guocheng JIA
Associate Professor PhD, Ohio State University (1989). Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto (1989-91). Organometallic chemistry; materials synthesis;
homogeneous catalysis; metal hydride chemistry.
Chemistry Wa Hung LEUNG
Associate Professor and Director, Glassblowing Facility PhD, University of Hong Kong (1989). Postdoctoral Fellow, Imperial College of Science and Technology (1989-91).
Inorganic and organometallic synthesis; homogeneous catalysis; materials synthesis; bioinorganic chemistry. Chemistry Xiaoyuan LI Associate Professor PhD, Princeton University (1988). Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley (1988-89). Research Associate, National Research Council of Canada (1989-91).
Biophysical, bioinorganic and bio-analytical chemistry; materials science.
Chemistry Zhenyang LIN
Associate Professor
PhD, Oxford University (1989).
Senior Research Associate, Texas A&M University (1990-93).
Theoretical inorganic chemistry; structure, bonding and computer modeling studies in inorganic, organometallic and solid state compounds.
Chemistry Benzhong TANG
Associate Professor PhD, Kyoto University (1988).Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Toronto (1989-94).
Senior Research Scientist, Neos Co Ltd (1989-94).
Polymer chemistry; materials science; liquid crystals; chiral polymers; optical materials; light-emitting polymers; biomimetic materials; nanotechnology; hyperbranched polymers. Chemistry Yundong WU Associate Professor PhD, University of Pittsburgh (1986). Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Research Associate, University of California, Los Angeles (1989-91).
Theoretical organic, bioorganic and materials chemistry.
Los Angeles (1986-87). Chemistry Yijing YAN
Associate Professor PhD, University of Rochester (1989). Research Associate, University of Rochester (1988-90). Research Chemist, University of California, San Diego (1992-93).
Quantum dissipation; molecular nonlinear spectroscopy in condensed phases; molecular dynamics and cooperativity; computational methods in chemical physics of complex systems; optimal control chemistry by light. Chemistry Shihe YANG
Associate Professor PhD, Rice University (1988).Postdoctoral Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory (1988-89).
Gas phase clusters; nanomaterials; fullerene derivative materials.
Chemistry Zhihong GUO
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Minnesota (1998).
Research Associate, The Scripps Research Institute (1998-2000).
Bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology; combinatorial chemistry and biomedical engineering; Alzheimer's disease; protein engineering and
molecular evolution. Chemistry Ian D WILLIAMS
Assistant Professor PhD, University of Bristol (1983). Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1983-85). Research Associate, Materials Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University (1986-92).
Materials and solid state
chemistry; X-ray crystallography; microporous materials; coordination polymers; hydrothermal synthesis. Chemistry Bing XU Assistant Professor PhD, University of Pennsylvania (1996) .Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University (1997-00) Materials Chemistry;
biomaterials; polymer chemistry and surface chemistry; synthesis and fabrication of functional molecular and nanomaterials for microelectronics and proteomics. Chemistry Jianzhen YU Assistant Professor PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel-Hill (1996).Postdoctoral Associate, California Institute of Technology (1997-99).
Analytical method development for environmental applications; chemical characterization of urban and marine aerosols; chemical transformation of organic compounds in air; urban ozone formation chemistry. Civil Engineering Wilson H TANG Professor and Department Head; Director, Construction Research Center and Acting Director, Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility PhD, Stanford University (1969). Professor (1980-95) and Associate Head (1989-91), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Risk, reliability and decision analysis of engineering systems; uncertainty modeling. Civil Engineering Paul T Y CHANG Professor PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1966). Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology (1966-67).
Professor and Chair, Dept of Civil Engineering, University of Akron (1989-92). Research Engineer, General Atomic Co (1968-70).
Computational methods and finite element modeling of large-scale structures; bridge monitoring system;
computer-aided-design and expert systems in structural engineering.
Civil Engineering
Tony R EASTHAM
Professor; Assoc Vice-President for R & D; President/CEO of HKUST RandD Corp Ltd; Acting Director, Transportation Institute PhD, University of Surrey (1969). Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Warwick (1969-72). Research Associate, Queen's University (1972-78).
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (1984-96) and Associate Dean, School of Graduate Studies & Research (1990-95), Queen's University, Canada.
Advanced ground transportation; modeling and analysis of electric drives; research and development policy issues.
Civil Engineering Howard Ju-Chang HUANG Professor PhD, University of Texas, Austin (1967). Professor of Civil Engineering (1975-92) and Director of Environmental Research Center (1979-92), University of Missouri-Rolla.
Innovative and space-saving wastewater treatment
technologies, including enhanced primary treatment with sludge recycling, pellet crystallization of heavy metals and pressurized aerobic system.
Civil Engineering
Kenny Chung Sau KWOK
Professor and Director, CLP Power Wind/Wave Tunnel Facility PhD, Monash University (1978). Professor of Wind Engineering (1999), Associate Dean and Director of Graduate School of Engineering (1997-98), University of Sydney.
Wind effects on building and structures; wind tunnel modeling; structural dynamics; vibration control; environmental fluid mechanics. Civil Engineering Yeou-Koung TUNG Professor PhD, University of Texas, Austin (1980).
Professor of Statistics and Statistical Hydrologist, University of Wyoming, Laramie (1985-96).
Water resources systems analysis; urban drainage and water distribution systems; reliability and uncertainty analyses applied to water resources/quality management and hydraulic structural designs. Civil Engineering Chihchen CHANG Associate Professor PhD, Purdue University (1993).
Vibration control of structures; wind and earthquake effects on structures; dynamic measurement and system identification; health monitoring; structural dynamics; bridge dynamics; artificial intelligence. Civil Engineering Lambros KATAFYGIOTIS Associate Professor PhD, California Institute of Technology (1991).
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Akron (1991-94).
Structural dynamics, control and reliability; computational stochastic mechanics; system identification; damage detection; random vibrations; earthquake and wind engineering. Civil Engineering Junshuang KUANG Associate Professor PhD, University of Hong Kong (1988).PhD, Cambridge University (1991).
Tall building structures; reinforced and prestressed concrete; design for earthquake resistance; strengthening and rehabilitation of concrete structures; bridge engineering. Civil Engineering Christopher K Y LEUNG Associate Professor PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1990).
Assistant and Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1992-97).
Construction materials; high performance concrete;
composites in civil engineering; composite micro-mechanics; fracture mechanics; optical fiber sensors. Civil Engineering Xiangsong LI Associate Professor PhD, University of California, Davis (1990). Adjunct Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, University of California, Davis
(1992-93).
Soil dynamics; geotechnical earthquake engineering; constitutive modeling;
computational mechanics; signal processing; instrumentation and control systems. Civil Engineering Zongjin LI Associate Professor PhD, Northwestern University (1993).
Research Associate, Dept of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University (1993-94).
Fiber-reinforced cementitious composites; durability of concrete; nondestructive test of infrastructure; using extrusion technique to develop new building products; functional material development. Civil Engineering Irene Man-Chi LO Associate Professor PhD, University of Texas, Austin (1992). Visiting Associate Professor, Technical University of Denmark (1999).Visiting Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Clay liners for waste disposal facilities; remediation of contaminated soils; chemical (hazardous) waste treatment; groundwater pollutant transport and modeling; geotechnical
(2000). centrifuge modeling. Civil Engineering Neil Colin MICKLEBOROUGH Associate Professor and Director, Electrical & Mechanical Services Facility
PhD, University of Tasmania (1979).
Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales (1983-91).Senior Bridge Design Engineer, Rankine and Hill, Consulting Engineers (1981-83).
Serviceability effects of prestressed and reinforced concrete; structural dynamics; behavior of segmental hollow-box girder bridges; dynamic response of structural concrete; structural behavior of tall buildings. Civil Engineering Charles W W NG Associate Professor and Associate Director, Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility PhD, University of Bristol (1992). Post-doctoral Research Associate, Cambridge University (1993-95). Independent Consultant, MCA (2000), Wilson Scott (2000), Housing
Department (1999), Ove Arup & Partners (1995), and Mott MacDonald Group (1993).
Centrifuge modeling; numerical analysis and constitutive models; slope stability; soilstructure interaction problems such as piles, retaining walls, excavations and tunnels; unsaturated soils.
Civil Engineering Hai YANG Associate Professor PhD, Kyoto University (1992). Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Waterloo (1992-93). Transportation economics; transportation network reliability; traffic control; road pricing and intelligent transportation systems.
Civil Engineering
Chun Man CHAN
Assistant Professor PhD, University of Waterloo (1993). Director of Computer Operations (1987-89) and Structural Engineer (1985-87), Office of Irwin G Cantor.
Structural optimization of tall buildings; computer automated design; wind effects on buildings; structural stiffness and vibration control; structural steel design; design of composite structures. Civil
Engineering
Guanghao CHEN
Assistant Professor
DEng, Kyoto University (1990). Researcher, Ursin Co Ltd, Japan (1990-92).
Research Scientist, Dept of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore (1992-94). Technical Manager, Unix Co Ltd, Japan (1990-92).
Biological treatment processes; biosewer development;
minimization of excess sludge in activated sludge processes; water quality control. Civil Engineering Mark James DAVIDSON Lecturer PhD, University of Canterbury (1989). Research Associate, University of Cambridge (1989-92). Environmental hydraulics; modeling of dispersion phenomena; inverse problems; non-intrusive measurement techniques; multimedia and information technology in education. Civil Engineering Mohamed S GHIDAOUI Assistant Professor PhD, University of Toronto (1993).
Theoretical and numerical modeling in hydraulics and environmental fluids; unsteady friction; inverse analysis; flow stability; Boltzmann theory and hydraulics. Civil Engineering Kin-Man LEE Assistant Professor PhD, University of Western Ontario (1989).
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Western Ontario
(1989-91). Technical Consultant, K Y Lo Inc, Ontario (1984-91).
Tunneling in soft ground; hydraulic filling and land reclamation; soil-structural interaction; application of geosynthetics in engineering problems; numerical modeling in geotechnical engineering Civil Engineering Hong Kam LO Assistant Professor PhD, Ohio State University (1991). Postdoctoral
Researcher, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Center for Transportation Analysis (1992). Assistant Research Engineer, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley (1993-96).
Transportation systems modeling; intelligent transportation systems; dynamic traffic assignment; traffic simulation; traffic signal control; traffic flow theory.
Civil Engineering Chii SHANG Assistant Professor PhD, Purdue University (1999). Research Associate of Agricultural Engineer-ing, National Taiwan University
Physico/chemistry processes; environmental assessment / instrumentation, disinfection
(1999-2000). processes; heavy metal removal; and subsurface contaminant transport and remediation. Civil Engineering Limin ZHANG Assistant Professor PhD, Sichuan University (1989). Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Florida (1996-98). Visiting Scientist, Karlsruhe University (1995). Visiting Assistant Lecturer, HKUST (1999-2000).
Pile foundation; embankments and slopes; centrifuge modelling; pile dynamics and reliability.
Computer Science Roland T CHIN Professor and Department Head PhD, University of Missouri-Columbia (1979).
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison
(1981-95).Analyst, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (1979-81).
Computer vision; image processing; pattern recognition; digital signal processing.
Computer Science Samuel T CHANSON Professor and Associate Department Head; Director, Cyberspace Center PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1975). Professor, University of British Columbia (1975-96).Professor, Purdue University (1974-75).
High-speed networks and multimedia communication; communication protocol engineering; distributed systems and Internet technologies (especially network security and electronic commerce). Computer Science Jun GU Professor PhD, University of Utah (1989). Multimedia communications; VLSI integrated circuit design; computer architecture; parallel and distributed processing; operations research and combinatorial optimization. Computer
Science
Dik Lun LEE
Professor
PhD, University of Toronto (1985).
Database systems; information retrieval; mobile computing.
Computer Science Frederick H LOCHOVSKY Professor PhD, University of Toronto (1978). Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto (1988-94).
Information systems design; database design; data and knowledge base integration; organizational support systems; human-computer interaction; web information management. Computer Science Vincent Y SHEN Professor PhD, Princeton University (1969).
Manager & Program Director, Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corp (1985-90).
Software productivity and quality; Internet computing; computer-aided instruction. Computer Science Derick WOOD Professor PhD, Leeds University (1968). Professor of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario (1991-96).Professor of Computer Science, University of Waterloo (1982-92).
Document engineering; data structures and algorithms; computational formal-language theory; computational geometry.
Computer Science
Ting-Chuen PONG
Reader and Associate Dean of Engineering; Director, Sino Software Research Institute PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1984).
Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Minnesota (1990-95).
Computer vision; artificial intelligence; pattern recognition; robotics; image analysis.
Computer Science Ishfaq AHMAD Associate Professor and Director, Multimedia Technology Research Center PhD, Syracuse University (1992).
Parallel and distributed processing; high performance computer architectures; performance evaluation; video technology multimedia systems.
Computer Science
Siu Wing CHENG PhD, University of Minnesota (1992).
Computational geometry; data structures; design and analysis of
Associate Professor algorithms. Computer Science Rudolf Hans FLEISCHER Associate Professor PhD, University of Saarbrucken (1993). Habil, University of Saarbrucken (1999). Research Associate Professor, University of Waterloo (1999-2000).Research Associate, Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik, Saarbrucken (1989-99).
Efficient algorithms and data structures; computational geometry; online algorithms.
Computer Science Mordecai J GOLIN Associate Professor PhD, Princeton University (1990). Researcher, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (1990-92).
Design and analysis of algorithms; computational geometry; combinatorics; information theory. Computer Science Mounir HAMDI Associate Professor PhD, University of Pittsburgh (1991).
High-speed networking; ATM packet switching; wireless communications; parallel computing; high-performance computer architectures. Computer Science Andrew HORNER Associate Professor PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana (1993).
Computer music; audio engineering; musical acoustics; genetic algorithms. Computer Science Hongjun LU Associate Professor PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1985). Associate Professor, National University of Singapore (1987-98).Principal Research Scientist, Honeywell Inc (1985-87). Data/knowledge base
management; query processing and optimization; data
warehousing and data mining; database application development and performance evaluation. Computer Science Jogesh K MUPPALA Associate Professor PhD, Duke University (1991).
Technical Staff, Software Productivity Consortium (1991-92).
High-speed networking; performance evaluation; stochastic Petri nets; Internet in education. Computer Science Helen C SHEN Associate Professor PhD, University of Waterloo (1982). 3D object reconstruction; computer vision; medical imaging; multisensor-based systems. Computer Science Dekai WU Associate Professor PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1992).
Statistical and corpus-based natural language processing; machine translation; language modeling; speech recognition; dialog systems; Internet information processing. Computer Science Dit-Yan YEUNG Associate Professor PhD, University of Southern California (1989).
Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (1989-90).
Machine learning; pattern recognition; handwriting recognition; pen computing; biometrics; smart cards and information security. Computer Science Lianwen (Nevin) ZHANG Associate Professor PhD, Beijing Normal University (1989). PhD, University of British Columbia (1994).
Artificial intelligence; knowledge representation; Bayesian
networks; decision networks; planning and control under uncertainty; traditional Chinese medicine. Computer Science Sunil ARYA Assistant Professor PhD, University of Maryland, College Park (1995).
Computational geometry; data structures; approximation algorithms. Computer Science George BACIU Assistant Professor PhD, University of Waterloo (1992). Computer graphics; 3D rendering; visualization; virtual environments; robotics; graphtheoretic analysis of physical systems; entropy optimization.
Computer Science
Brahim BENSAOU PhD, University Paris France (1993).
Senior Member of Technical Staff, Center for
Computer communications; quality of service engineering in
Assistant Professor Postdoctoral Fellow, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology (1995-97).
Wireless Communications, Singapore (1997-2000).
wired and wireless networks.
Computer Science Gary Shueng-Han CHAN Assistant Professor PhD, Stanford University (1999). Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis(1998-99).
Internet technologies; multimedia networks, services, and systems; video and wireless
communication networks; network protocols and architecture; router design. Computer
Science
Shing Chi CHEUNG
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of London (1994).
Software engineering, testing and verification; component-based and object-oriented technologies; UML; e-commerce; CORBA; internet and multimedia computing; distributed computing; digital rights management. Computer Science Manhoi CHOY Assistant Professor PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara (1994).
Parallel and distributed systems; distributed algorithms; mobile computing; security and cryptography. Computer Science Cunsheng DING Assistant Professor PhD, University of Turku, Finland (1997). Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore (1997-2000)
Cryptography; coding theory; computer security. Computer Science James Tin-Yau KWOK Assistant Professor PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1996).
Assistant Professor, Baptist University, Hong Kong (1997-2000).
Artificial neural networks; pattern recognition; machine learning. Computer Science Bo LI Assistant Professor PhD, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1993). Mobile communications; internetworking of ATM and IP; optical lightwave networks; system performance evaluation; active networking and
programming network. Computer Science Fangzhen LIN Assistant Professor PhD, Stanford University (1991).
Artificial intelligence; knowledge representations; robotics.
Computer Science
Brian Kan-Wing MAK
Assistant Professor
PhD, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology (1998).
Speech recognition; spoken language understanding; dialog modeling; machine learning. Computer Science Jelena MISIC Assistant Professor PhD, University of Belgrade (1993).
High-speed networking; wireless networking. Computer Science Dimitris PAPADIAS Assistant Professor PhD, NTU Athens (1994).
ERCIM Fellow, German National Research Center for Information
Technology (1996). Assistant Professor, University of Maine (1995-96).
Data and knowledge base systems; spatial databases; constraint satisfaction algorithms; qualitative reasoning; argumentation systems; WWW applications. Computer Science David ROSSITER Visiting Assistant Professor PhD, University of York, England (1995). Multimedia; Internet
technologies; computer graphics; computer sound; computer music; human-computer interaction. Computer Science Chiew-Lan TAI Assistant Professor PhD, University of Tokyo (1997).
Computer aided geometric design; computer graphics.
Computer Science Chi-Keung TANG Assistant Professor PhD, University of Southern California (2000).
Computer vision; medical image analysis; computer graphics; visualization technology. Economics Leonard K H CHENG PhD, University of Visiting Professor, Fudan International trade and
Professor and Department Head California, Berkeley (1980). University (1998).Associate Professor of Economics, University of Florida (1985-92).
investment; market structure and applied game theory; innovation and imitation.
Economics Soo Hong CHEW
Professor PhD, University of British Columbia (1981). Economics of uncertainty; experimental economics.
Economics Cheng HSIAO
Adjunct Professor PhD, Stanford University (1972). Professor, University of South California (1985-).Co-editor, Journal of Econometrics (1991-).
Theoretical and applied econometrics.
Economics Yining LI
Adjunct Professor
PhD, Peking University (1955).
Professor (1983) and Dean, Guanghua School of Management (1994), Peking
University.Vice-Chairman of the Financial and Economic Committee of National People's Congress (1998).
China's Economy, China's financial market, economic reform.
Economics Justin Yifu LIN
Professor
PhD, University of Chicago (1986).
Chinese economy; economic development; economic history; agricultural economics.
Economics Francis T LUI
Professor and Director, Center for Economic Development
PhD, University of Minnesota (1985).
Economic growth; social security; corruption; Chinese economy; macroeconomics; Hong Kong's economy.
Economics Siu Fai LEUNG
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Chicago (1987).
Microeconomics; economics of human behavior; labor
economics; econometrics. Economics David D LI
Associate Professor and Associate Director, Center for Economic Development PhD, Harvard University (1992). Assistant Professor, University of Michigan (1992-99).
Applied economic theory; economics of postsocialist transition; the Chinese economy; international economies; corporate finance.
Economics Danyang XIE
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Chicago (1992).
Economic growth; macroeconomic theory.
Economics Paul J BREWER
Assistant Professor
PhD, California Institute of Technology (1995).
Industrial organization; electronic commerce; design of smart computer-assisted markets; experimental laboratory techniques.
Economics Songnian CHEN
Assistant Professor
PhD, Princeton University (1994).
Econometrics.
Economics Woon Gyu CHOI
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (1995).
Macro and monetary economics; applied econometrics;
international finance. Economics William W CHOW
Visiting Assistant Professor
PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1998).
Applied econometrics; Bayesian Time Series.
Economics Timothy K CHUE
Assistant Professor
PhD, Harvard University (1999).
International finance; asset pricing; macroeconomics.
Economics David E COOK
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1996).
Macroeconomics and monetary economics; international finance.
Assistant Professor
California, Los Angeles (1991).
information; game theory; industrial organization. Economics Jae Hyon NAHM
Assistant Professor
PhD, Harvard University (2000).
Micro-theory, industrial organization.
Economics Larry D QIU
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of British Columbia (1993).
International trade; industrial organization; China's foreign trade and investment. Economics Tridip RAY
Assistant Professor
PhD, Cornell University (1999).
Development economies; industrial organization; international trade and finance; microeconomics.
Economics Susheng WANG
Assistant Professor PhD, University of Toronto (1991). Assistant Professor of Economics, Concordia University (1991-93).Lecturer of Mathematics, Nankai University (1985).
Information theory; agency models.
Economics Changqi WU
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Leuven (1990).
Industrial economics; economics of R&D; competitive strategy; China's industries.
Economics Kangoh YI
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of California, San Diego (1999).
Bounded rationality; learning; coordination; bargaining.
Economics Yan YU
Assistant Professor
PhD, Duke University (1999)
Microeconomics; theory of firm; Chinese economy.
Economics Wen ZHOU
Assistant Professor
PhD, Duke University (2000)
Industrial organization; microeconomics; game theory.
Electrical and Electronic Engineering Philip C H CHAN Professor and Department Head; Director, Microelectronics Fabrication Facility PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana (1978).
Principal Engineer, Design Technology
(1990-91).Program Manager, Technology Development, Intel Corporation (1981-90).
VLSI devices, circuits and systems; microelectronics; electronic packaging; integrated sensors. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Leroy L CHANG University Professor PhD, Stanford University (1963). Manager, Quantum Structures, Molecular Beam Epitaxy, IBM T J Watson Research Center (1975-92).
Semiconductor physics, materials, and devices.
Electrical and Electronic Engineering Vijay K BHARGAVA Visiting Professor PhD, Queen's University, Canada (1974). Professor, University of Victoria (1984).
Wireless communications and networks; spread spectrum communications; errorcorrecting codes. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Xiren CAO Professor PhD, Harvard University (1984). Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University (1994-96).
Manager and Consultant Engineer, Digital Equipment Corporation (1986-93).
Discrete event system theory and applications; computer and communication systems; signal processing; queuing theory; optimization. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Hanfu CHEN Adjunct Professor Diploma, University Leningrad, USSR (1961). Professor (1986) and Director (1995-98), Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Stochastic system; adaptive control and system identification; recursive estimation and
stochastic approximation; signal processing and communications. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Justin CHUANG Adjunct Professor PhD, Michigan State University (1983).
Technical Staff, Bellcore (1984-93).R&D Engineer, General Electronics R&D Center (1982-84).
Wireless communications, computing and networking; communications system engineering and signal processing; RF technology and engineering; transceiver design and implementation.
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Tony R EASTHAM
Professor; Assoc Vice-President for R & D; President/CEO of HKUST RandD Corp Ltd; Acting Director, Transportation Institute PhD, University of Surrey (1969). Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Warwick (1969-72). Research Associate, Queen's University (1972-78).
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (1984-96) and Associate Dean, School of Graduate Studies & Research (1990-95), Queen's University, Canada.
Advanced ground transportation; modeling and analysis of electric drives; research and development policy issues.
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Charles Kuen KAO
Adjunct Professor
PhD, University of London (1965).
Chairman and CEO, Transtech Services Ltd (1996).Vice Chancellor, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1987-96). Optical communication; telecommunication. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Ping Keung KO Professor PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1982).
Professor and Vice Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley (1990-93).
High-speed VLSI devices, technology, and circuits; MOS device modeling for circuit simulation; CAD tools for integrated circuit design. Electrical and
Electronic Engineering
Hoi Sing KWOK
Professor and Director, Center for Display Research
PhD, Harvard University (1978).
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo (1986-92).
Display technologies; thin film materials; electro-optic devices.
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Kei May LAU
Professor
PhD, Rice University (1981).
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of
Massachusetts,Amherst (1982-2000).
Compound semiconductor materials and devices for photonic and high-frequency applications; organometallic chemical vapor deposition. Electrical and
Electronic Engineering
Chin Tau LEA
Professor PhD, University of Washington (1982). Professor of Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1991-96).
Broadband and wireless network architectures; high-speed electronic and photonic switching; network protocols. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Charles G SODINI Adjunct Professor PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1982). Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1983).Technical Staff, Hewlett-Packard (1975-82). Technology-intensive microsystems, emphasizing circuit design at the device level, including wireless cameras, medical instrumentation, and memory-based image processing systems. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Tzyh-Jong TARN Adjunct Professor DSc, Washington University (1968). Professor of System Science and Mathematics (1977) and Director of Center for Robotics and Automation (1987), Washington University.
Hybrid system; internet-based remote teleoperation; machine intelligence; robotics;
manufacturing and non-linear control theory; quantum computing. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Y Y WANG Adjunct Professor
Graduated from Peking University (1958).
Professor (1985) and Director (1987), Institute of Microelectronics, Peking University.
Microelectronic device and technology. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Khaled BEN LETAIEF Associate Professor PhD, Purdue University (1990). Assistant Professor, University of Melbourne (1990-93).
Wireless personal and mobile communications; spread spectrum systems; optical fiber networks; multiuser detection; wireless multimedia communications; CDMA systems. Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Roger Shu Kwan CHENG
Associate Professor and Director, Center for Wireless Information
PhD, Princeton University (1991).
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder (1991-95).
Wireless communications; spread spectrum CDMA systems; information theory and coding; communication networks; digital VLSI implementation of
Technology Electrical and Electronic Engineering Vladimir G CHIGRINOV Visiting Associate Professor PhD, Russian Academy of Sciences (1978). Leading Scientist, Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, Moscow (1996).
Electrooptical effects in liquid crystals (LCs); LC surface alignment; optical elements and materials for LC devices (LCDs); modeling and optimization of LCD response; new LCD configurations. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Yingbo HUA Visiting Associate Professor PhD, Syracuse University (1988).
Estimation, detection, filtering and fast computation; blind system identification, channel equalization, reduced rank signal processing, sensor array and multi-channel systems. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Ho-Chi HUANG Associate Professor PhD, University of Washington (1991).
Integrated guided-wave optics; silicon-based opto-electronic technologies; CMOS AMLCD technology; ASIC design. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Jack LAU Associate Professor and Director, Consumer Media Center PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1994).
Consumer electronics; high frequency analog integrated circuits for wireless applications and magnetic sensors.
Electrical and Electronic Engineering Zexiang LI Associate Professor PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1989). Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Robotics Research Laboratory, New York University (1990-92).
Robot manipulation; multifingered robotic hands; geometric analysis of robotic mechanisms; intelligent control and nonlinear systems; motion control and manufacturing. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Ross D MURCH Associate Professor PhD, University of Canterbury (1990). Postdoctoral Fellow, Dundee University (1990-92).
Antenna design for mobile telephone handsets: smart antenna algorithms; propagation prediction for wireless
communications. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Li QIU Associate Professor PhD, University of Toronto (1990). Research Associate, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota (1992-93).
Systems control theory; signal processing; motor control; process control. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Joseph M SCHMITT Adjunct Associate Professor PhD, Stanford University (1986).
Senior Staff Fellow, Lasers and Modern Optics Group, National Institutes of Health
(1988-94).Biomedical Engineering Coordinator, Project Hope (1986-88).
Medical instrumentation; optics and optoelectronics; medical imaging; biomedical sensors; microelectronics. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Johnny K O SIN Associate Professor PhD, University of Toronto (1988). Senior Member of Research Staff, Philips Laboratories, New York (1988-91).
Microelectronic devices and IC technology: power semiconductor devices and ICs, thinfilm
transistors, RF SOI devices and technology; integrated sensors; semiconductor devices failure analysis. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Danny H K TSANG Associate Professor PhD, University of Pennsylvania (1989). Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Statistics & Computing Science, Dalhousie University (1989-92).
BISDN/ATM networks; congestion controls; VBR video modeling; routing in high-speed networks; broadband
applications; wireless ATM; quality of services guarantee in Internet; IP multicast.
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Chi Ying TSUI
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Southern California (1994).
VLSI design and CAD algorithms for energy efficient high-performance
microprocessors; low-power embedded systems; low-energy wireless multimedia systems. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Man WONG Associate Professor PhD, Stanford University (1988). Technical Staff, Semi-conductor Process and Design Center, Texas Instruments (1989-92).
Advanced device fabrication technology; thinfilm transistors and general device physics; micro-electro-mechanical systems.
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Sze-Fong Mark YAU
Adjunct Associate Professor
PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana (1991).
Sensor array processing; medical signal and image processing; statistical signal processing and application to inverse problems. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Bing ZENG Associate Professor PhD, Tampere University of Technology (1991).
Digital signal and image processing; linear and nonlinear digital filter design; statistical and structural approaches to signal/image processing; neural networks; image/video coding and transmission. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Oscar C L AU Assistant Professor PhD, Princeton University (1991). Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University (1991-92). Video compression (MPEG-1/2/4/7), motion estimation, transcoding, pre-processing, post-processing, error concealment; inverse halftoning; watermarking; robust speech recognition.
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Man Sun CHAN
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1995).
Nanometric device physics; SOI technology for high-speed circuits; device modeling (BSIM3); automated device characterization systems; biosensors; RF circuits; multimedia applications. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Tommy CHEUNG Visiting Assistant Professor PhD, University of New South Wales (1998).
R & D Engineer, Vast Systems and Technology Corporation (1998-99).
System level design, specification, modeling and simulation; tools and methodologies for
hardware/software codesign of embedded systems; VLSI designs; CAD algorithms for hierarchical design and layout. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Pascale N FUNG Assistant Professor PhD, Columbia University (1997).
Speech and speaker recognition; understanding and dialogue strategies in speech recognition; multilinguality in speech and language; machine translation; cross-language information processing. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Wing Hung KI Assistant Professor PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (1995).
Senior Design Engineer, Micro Linear (1992-95).
Analysis and design of dimmable electronic ballasts, switch mode and switched-capacitor power converters, low voltage switched OP-amp switched-capacitor circuits, and fundamental analog integrated circuits.
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Ted Chi Wah KOK
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1997).
Visiting Fellow, Keio University, Japan (2000).Visiting Scholar, Stanford University (1998-99).Senior Engineer, Sony US Research Labs (1998-99).
Signal processing and multirate techniques, and their applications in wireless and multimedia communications.
Electrical and Electronic
Howard C LUONG PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Low-power, low-voltage, high-speed analog integrated
Engineering Assistant Professor (1994). circuits; RF integrated circuits for wireless communications. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Philip K T MOK Assistant Professor PhD, University of Toronto (1995).
Analog integrated circuits for telecommunications and power electronics applications; power integrated circuits and systems. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Wai Ho MOW Assistant Professor PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1993). Croucher Fellow, University of Waterloo (1995). Humboldt Fellow, Technische Universtat Murchen (1996). TAO Fellow, Kyoto University (2000). Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University (1997-99).Visiting Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1994).
Decoding and detection algorithms for wireless communications and storage applications; sequence design for radars and CDMA systems; communications, coding and information theory. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Vincent M C POON Assistant Professor PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1989). Lecturer in Electronic Engineering, City
Polytechnic of Hong Kong (1988-91). Product Specialist, Carl Zeiss Co Ltd (1987-88).
Advanced microelectronic devices: physics, technology, modeling, characterization, design and fabrication.
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Jianan QU
Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Center for Medical Diagnostic Technology PhD, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1991).
Staff Scientist, Ontario Laser and Lightwave Research Centre (1995-97).Research Fellow, British Columbia Cancer Research Center (1992-94).
Applications of optics in medicine; biomedical
instrumentation; analytical laser spectroscopy; laser technology and optical design.
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Bertram Emil SHI
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1994).
Analog VLSI neural networks; image processing; computer vision; speech recognition. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Pengcheng SHI Assistant Professor PhD, Yale University (1996).
Visual information processing and its bio- medical applications: medical imaging, physics- based object modeling, stochastic mechanics strategy, data fusion, virtual and augmented reality, biological system modeling. Electrical and
Electronic Engineering
Man Hung SIU
Assistant Professor
PhD, Boston University (1998).
Pattern recognition; digital speech processing, speech and speaker recognition; spoken language systems; information extraction; neural networks. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Lixin WANG Assistant Professor PhD, University of Southern California (1992).
Intelligent control; fuzzy systems; industrial process control; data mining. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Gino YU Adjunct Assistant Professor PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1994).
Multimedia applications and systems; authoring; instructional technologies; computeraided design; VLSI.
Finance K C CHAN
Professor, Department Head and Associate Dean of Business and Management
PhD, University of Chicago (1985).
Associate Professor, Ohio State University (1991-94).
Stock market pricing model and testing; market microstructure; portfolio management.
Finance Ka Lok CHAN
Professor
PhD, Ohio State University (1990).
Associate Professor, Arizona State University (1995-97).
Dynamics of asset prices; market microstructure; derivatives; international financial markets. Finance Yuk-Shee CHAN
Professor and Dean of Business and
PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1982).
Justin Dart Term Prof-essor of Finance (199093) and Assoc/Full Prof (1986-90), University
Corporate finance; financial institutions; contract and agency theory; bank regulation.
Management; Director, Shui On Center for China Business & Management of Southern California.Associate Prof (1985-86) and Assistant Prof (1982-85) of Finance, North-western University. Finance Nai-fu CHEN
Adjunct Professor PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1975).PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (1981). Professor of Finance, University of California, Irvine (1989).Assistant and Associate Professor of Finance, University of Chicago (1981-89).
Financial investments and macroeconomic factors; contingent claims-options and futures; financial restructuring; developing economies and their financial markets; cross-countries hedged investments.
Finance Jin-Chuan DUAN
Professor PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1986). Associate Professor, McGill University (1992-96).
Option pricing theory and numerical methods; financial time series modeling; banking. Finance Ravi JAGANNATHAN Adjunct Professor PhD, Carnegie-Mellon University (1983). Chicago Mercantile Exchange Distinguished Professor of Finance, Northwestern University (1997).Piper Jaffray Professor of Finance, University of Minnesota (1993-97).
Financial markets; pricing of financial assets; portfolio performance evaluation.
Finance Sheridan TITMAN
Adjunct Professor PhD, Carnegie-Mellon University (1981). Walter W McAllister Centennial Chair in Financial Service, University of Texas at Austin (1997).Collins Professor of Finance, Boston College (1994-97).
Corporate finance; investments; accounting; real estate.
Finance John K C WEI
Professor and Director, Center for Asian Financial Markets
PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana (1984).
Associate Professor of Finance, Indiana University (1989-92).
Asset pricing theories; options and futures; international finance; applications of econometrics in finance.
Finance Sudipto DASGUPTA
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Southern California (1987).
Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics, University of Southern California (1987-95).
Corporate finance; auction theory; industrial organization; game theory.
Finance Chuan Yang HWANG
Associate Professor
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (1988).
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh (1988-96).
Market microstructure; insider trading; futures and options contracts; signaling and asymmetric information; investment; corporate governance.
Finance Chu ZHANG
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Chicago (1992).
Assistant & Associate Professor, University of Alberta (1991-2000).
Theory and empirical study of investments.
Finance Tim R ADAM
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Virginia (1997).
Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (1994-95).
Risk management; corporate finance; capital budgeting; derivatives; gold mining industry. Finance Kee-Hong BAE
Assistant Professor
PhD, Ohio State University (1993).
Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong (1993-96,
1997-98).Research Fellow, Korea Institute of Finance (1996-97). Asia-Pacific finance. Finance Andrew P CARVERHILL Assistant Professor PhD, University of Warwick (1983). Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Indiana, Bloomington (1994-95).Senior Research Fellow, Warwick Business School (1987-91).
Options on the term structure of interest rates; dynamic
equilibrium in capital markets; efficient valuation of financial options; dynamic risk
