Faculty Profiles 2012

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Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests Department of Chemistry 1 Tel: 2358 7379 Email: [email protected] Zhenyang LIN 林振陽

Head of Department and Professor

系主任及教授

PhD, Oxford University (1989)

Senior Research Associate, Texas A&M University (1990-93)

Computational inorganic and

organometallic chemistry: structure and bonding studies in inorganic,

organometallic and solid state compounds; studies of reaction mechanisms in transition metal catalyzed organic reactions Tel: 2358 7361 Email: [email protected] Guocheng JIA 賈國成 Chair Professor 講座教授

PhD, Ohio State University (1989)

Organometallic chemistry; materials synthesis; homogeneous catalysis

Tel: 2358 7375 Email:

[email protected]

Ben Zhong TANG

唐本忠 Chair Professor 講座教授

PhD, Kyoto University (1988)

Senior Research Scientist, Neos Co Ltd (1989-94)

Polymer chemistry; materials science; optical materials; light-emitting molecules; fluorescent biosensors; nanotechnology; hyperbranched polymers Tel: 2358 7365 Email: [email protected] Wei-Min DAI 戴偉民 Professor 教授 PhD, Kyoto University (1990)

Research Associate, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla (1990-92)

Asymmetric catalysis and enantioselective reactions; total synthesis of natural products and biomedically interesting molecules; studies on diversity-oriented synthesis of privileged heterocyclic scaffolds, microwave-assisted solid phase organic synthesis (MASPOS), combinatorial synthesis, and applications in chemical biology and chemical genetics

Tel: 2358 7360 Email: [email protected] Wa Hung LEUNG 梁華雄 Professor 教授 PhD, University of Hong Kong (1989)

Inorganic and organometallic synthesis; homogeneous catalysis; materials synthesis; bioinorganic chemistry

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Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests 2 Department of Chemistry Tel: 2358 7356 Email: [email protected] Xiaoyuan LI 李曉原 Professor 教授 PhD, Princeton University (1988) Research Associate, National Research Council of Canada (1989-91)

Biophysical, bioinorganic and bio-analytical chemistry; materials science Tel: 2358 7387 Email: [email protected] Reinhard RENNEBERG 任能博 Professor 教授 PhD, Central Institute of Molecular Biology, Berlin (1979)

Head, Department of Immunosensors, Fraunhofer Institute of Chemical and Biosensors, Munster University, Germany (1991-95)

Reader in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, HKUST (1995-98)

Biosensors and bioelectronics; analytical biochemistry and biotechnology; environmental chemistry; medical diagnostics; protein engineering Tel: 2358 7384 Email: [email protected] Ian D WILLIAMS 韋慈恩 Professor 教授 PhD, University of Bristol (1983) Research Associate, Materials Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University (1986-92)

Materials and solid state chemistry; X-ray crystallography; microporous materials; coordination polymers; hydrothermal synthesis Tel: 2358 7388 Email: [email protected] Yijing YAN 嚴以京 Professor 教授 PhD, University of Rochester (1989) Research Chemist, University of California, San Diego (1992-93)

Theoretical chemical physics: quantum dissipation; quantum transport and quantum measurement in mesoscopic systems; electron transfer, chemical reaction kinetic rate and molecular nonlinear spectroscopic processes in condensed phases Tel: 2358 7362 Email: [email protected] Shihe YANG 楊世和 Professor 教授 PhD, Rice University (1988)

Materials physical chemistry;

nanomaterials; nano-carbon materials; energy generation, conversion and storage; soft-molecular interfaces Tel: 2358 7389 Email: [email protected] Jianzhen YU 郁建珍 Professor 教授 PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1996)

Development of analytical methods for atmospheric applications;

characterization of atmospheric aerosols, secondary organic aerosol formation mechanisms; and kinetic modeling of multi-phase atmospheric reactions

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Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests 3 Department of Chemistry Tel: 2358 7352 Email: [email protected] Zhihong GUO 郭志宏 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, University of Minnesota (1998)

Research Associate, The Scripps Research Institute (1998-2000)

Bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology; macromolecular crowding effects; mechanistic enzymology; natural product biosynthesis

Tel: 2358 7385 Email:

[email protected]

Lam Lung YEUNG

楊霖龍

Adjunct Associate Professor 兼任副教授

PhD, Imperial College of Science , Technology and Medicine (1992)

Synthesis of cyclitols and

carbohydrates; asymmetric synthesis; cooking fume analysis

Tel: 2358 7370 Email: [email protected] Wan CHAN 陳雲 Assistant Professor 助理教授

PhD, Hong Kong Baptist University (2008) Postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2008-11)

Development of chromatographic and mass spectrometric methods for the determination of toxic chemicals for food safety and environmental analyses as well as for identifying disease-related biomarkers Tel: 2358 7363 Email: [email protected] Xuhui HUANG 黃旭輝 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD, Columbia University (2006) Postdoc, Research Associate, Stanford University

Computational chemistry, biophysics

and structural biology; protein folding, misfolding and aggregration; fundamental mechanism of cellular machineries Tel: 2358 7351 Email: [email protected] Jianwei SUN 孫建偉 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD, University of Chicago Postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

New chemical reactivity discovery; stereoselective process development and reaction mechanism elucidation

Tel: 2358 7357 Email: [email protected] Rongbiao TONG 童榮標 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD, Emory University (2008) Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania

Synthetic organic chemistry: cascade reactions and total synthesis of complex natural products

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Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests 4 Department of Chemistry Tel: 2358 7246 Email: [email protected] Hongkai WU 吳洪開 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD, Harvard University (2002) Interdisciplinary frontiers of

microfluidics; bioanalytical science and materials chemistry; technologies in MEMS; microfluidics; soft lithography and surface chemistry to design and provide new tools

Tel: 2358 7366 Email: [email protected] Henry YAN 顏河 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD (2000-04), Postdoc (2004-05), Northwestern University VP of Product Development (2006-12), Polyera Corporation, USA

Organic electronics such as organic solar cells, organic transistors, and organic light-emitting diodes; design and synthesis of organic materials with unique electronic and photonic properties

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Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests

Division of Life Science 5 Tel: 2358 7971 Email: [email protected] Michael M T LOY 雷明德 Acting Head 署理系主任 PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1971)

Senior Manager, IBM Research (1987-93)

Nonlinear optical propagation effects; two-photon coherent transients; nonlinear optical studies of surfaces; state-selective studies of molecule-surface interactions

Tel: 2358 7267 Email: [email protected]

Nancy Y IP

葉玉如

Dean of Science, Chair Professor and Director of State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience 理學院院長、講座教授及分子神經科學國家重點實驗室主任 PhD, Harvard Medical School (1983) Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School (1983-84)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Sloan Kettering Institute (1984-85)

Head of Genetics, Lifecodes Corporation (1987-89)

Senior Staff Scientist , Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (1989-93)

Molecular basis of neuronal development and plasticity; neurodegenerative diseases and drug discovery

Tel: 2358 7921 Email: [email protected] H Benjamin PENG 彭筱明 Chair Professor 講座教授 PhD (1976) and Postdoctoral Fellow (1976-78), Purdue University Assistant Professor to Associate Professor, University of Illinois College of Medicine (1978-85)

Associate Professor to Full Professor, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1985-2000)

Molecular and cellular neuroscience; cell biology; developmental biology

Tel: 2358 7331 Email: [email protected] Peiyuan QIAN 錢培元 Chair Professor 講座教授 PhD, University of Alberta (1991)

Larval ecology and omics; anit-fouling; marine aquaculture; marine ecology; marine microbial molecular ecology; marine natural products

Yung Hou WONG

王殷厚 Chair Professor 講座教授 PhD, University of Cambridge (1988) Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California San Francisco (1989-92)

Mechanisms of cell signaling; G proteins in the regulation of cell proliferation and differentiation; development of drug tolerance

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6 Division of Life Science Tel: 2358 8709 Email: [email protected] Mingjie ZHANG 張明傑 Chair Professor 講座教授 PhD, University of Calgary (1993)

Structural biology (X-ray crystallography

and NMR spectroscopy) of neuronal development and signaling; disease mechanisms of neuro-discorders; structure-based therapeutic compounds discovery and design

Tel: 2358 8633 Email: [email protected] David K BANFIELD 彭大衛 Professor 教授 PhD, University of British Columbia (1991) Postdoctoral training MRC laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK (1992-95)

Protein and Membrane trafficking: mechanisms of protein sorting and retention in the Golgi apparatus Tel: 2358 7342 Email: [email protected] King L CHOW 周敬流 Professor 教授 PhD, Baylor College of Medicine (1990) Research Associate, Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1990-94)

Pattern formation and differentiation of sensory organ; tissue remodeling and morphogenesis; functional genomics; chemosensory perception neural circuitry; pheromone; evolution of mating system; synthetic biology Tel: 2358 7298 Email: [email protected] Robert K M KO 高錦明 Professor 教授 PhD, University of British Columbia (1990)

Antioxidant mechanism(s) of Chinese tonic herbs with focus on the regulation of cellular glutathione redox status; pharmacological basis of Yang/Qi - invigoration in Chinese medicine

Tel: 2358 7335 Email: [email protected] Ning LI 李凝 Professor 教授 PhD, University of Washington (1989) Research Associate, USDA/ARS/PSI Plant Molecular Biology Laboratory (1989-93)

Phosphoproteomics and molecular systems biology in plant cell signaling

Tel: 2358 8631 Email: [email protected] Andrew L MILLER 梅安祖 Professor 教授 PhD, University of Dundee (1986) 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; role of calcium during stem cell differentiation

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Division of Life Science 7 Tel: 2358 8703

Email: [email protected]

Randy Yat Choi POON

潘逸才 Professor 教授

PhD, University of Cambridge (1994) Postdoctoral training, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (1994-96)

Molecular basis of cell cycle control in normal and cancer cells

Tel: 2358 7332 Email: [email protected] Karl W K TSIM 詹華強 Professor 教授 PhD, University of Cambridge (1987) Molecular neurobiology of

synaptogenesis; moleular genetic analysis of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)

Bik Kwoon TYE

戴碧瓘 Professor 教授 PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1974) Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University Medical School (1977)

Professor of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell University

Regulation of DNA replication at replication origins and at replication forks Tel: 2358 7346 Email: [email protected] Wenxiong WANG 王文雄 Professor 教授 PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook (1996)

Visiting Researcher, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK (1989-91)

Metal ecotoxicology and biogeochemistry; marine pollution Tel: 2358 7343 Email: [email protected] Joseph T Y WONG 王天任 Professor 教授 PhD, University of Stirling (1988)

Postdoctoral Fellow, NERC Institute of Virology, Oxford (1988-89) Postdoctoral Fellow, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Cell Cycle Control

Research Fellow and Senior Scientific Officer, Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (1990-94)

Histone-like proteins; chromosome topology; liquid crystalline genomes; cellulose synthesis & deposition; nanobiotechnology

Tel: 2358 6151 Email: [email protected] Yuk-Shan WONG 黃玉山 Vice-President for Administration and Business and Professor 副校長（行政）及教授

PhD, McGill University (1979)

Associate Vice-President (Research & Development), HKUST (1997-98) Vice-President (Institutional Advancement) (1998-02), Professor (Chair) of Biological Sciences, Department of Biology and Chemistry (1998-06), Vice-President (Administration) (2002-06), CityU

Environmental biotechnology; plant biochemistry and physiology

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8 Division of Life Science Tel: 2358 8704 Email: [email protected] Zhenguo WU 鄔振國 Professor 教授 PhD, University of Western Ontario (1995) Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego (1996-99)

Muscle stem cells; skeletal muscle differentiation and regeneration; EBV and NPC Tel: 2358 8707 Email: [email protected] Hong XUE 薛紅 Professor 教授 PhD, University of Toronto (1993)

Genomics; bioinformatics and evolution biology to decipher the mechanisms of human complex disorders; translational research on novel therapeutics and diagnostics for complex diseases

Tel: 2358 7326 Email: [email protected] Donald C CHANG 張東才 Adjunct Professor 兼任教授 PhD, Rice University (1970) Summer Investigator, Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole (1976-94)

Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine (1985-91)

Chair Professor (2006-08) and Professor (1991-2006), Hong Kong Univeristy of Science and Technology

Molecular biophysics; calcium signaling; cellular structure and function by laser microscopy; mechanisms of cell division and apoptosis; gene transfer and cell fusion using an electric field Tel: 2358 7340 Email: [email protected] Yong XIE 謝雍 Adjunct Professor 兼任教授 PhD, Cornell University (1988)

Molecular immunology (including vaccine development for cancer and infectious diseases, antibodies and recombinant antibodies, etc) Tel: 2358 7305 Email: [email protected] Pingbo HUANG 黃平波 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, University of Cincinnati (1993) Research Associate, CF Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1997-2002)

Regulation of ion channels by chemical and mechanical cues; epithelial biology; molecular mechanobiology Tel: 2358 8636 Email: [email protected] Kevin A W LEE 李家榮 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, McGill University (1985)

Research Scientist, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, UK (1988-95)

Ewings sarcoma family of oncoproteins; transcription factors; nucleic

acid/Protein interactions; Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

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Division of Life Science 9 Tel: 2358 7296 Email: [email protected] Chun LIANG 梁純 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, Brown University (1993)

Postdoctoral Training, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (1993-1998)

Mechanism and cell cycle control of DNA replication in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae; regulation of DNA replication in normal and cancer cells; molecular cancer detection and anticancer agents Tel: 2358 7341 Email: [email protected] Hongbin LIU 劉紅斌 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, University of Hawaii at Manoa (1997)

Senior Research Associate, Lousiana Universities Marine Consortium (2000-05)

Plankton ecology; marine microbial food web structure and trophic dynamics; global change biology

Tel: 2358 7273 Email: [email protected] Robert Zhong QI 齊眾 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, University of Calgary (1996) Principal Investigator, Proteomics Group & Protein Chemistry Facility, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore (1999-2002)

Understanding cytoskeletal organization and regulation during cell proliferation, migration, and differentiation with a range of tools from biochemistry, mass spectrometry, molecular and cell biology Tel: 2358 7294 Email: [email protected] Zilong WEN 温子龍 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, Rockefeller University (1997)

Molecular control of hematopoietic stem cell and myeloid cell development; the role of brain-resident macrophages (microglia) in the developing and adult vertebrate CNS Tel: 2358 7299 Email: [email protected] Wan-Keung R WONG 黃允強 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, University of British Columbia (1986)

Project Leader, Allelix Biopharmaceuticals Inc (1988-90)

Development of microbial host systems for extracellular production of valuable skin care proteins including human epidermal growth factor and human basic fibroblast growth factor; production and reconstitution of recombinant cellulases Tel: 2358 7293 Email: [email protected] Jun XIA 夏軍 Associate Professor 副教授

PhD, The Johns Hopkins University (2001)

Molecular mechanism of learning and memory; organization of synapse and regulation of synaptic transmission; molecular and cellular bases of neurological and psychiatric diseases

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10 Division of Life Science Tel: 2358 8705 Email: [email protected] Guang ZHU 朱廣 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, University of Maryland, College Park (1992)

Research Associate, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park (1993-94)

Structure-function studies of proteins involved in the initiation of DNA replication, cancer and epigenetic control of gene expression; structure-based anti-cancer drug design; development of NMR methods for structure-functional study of prote Tel: 2358 7272 Email: [email protected] Raymond S C WONG 王仕中 Adjunct Associate Professor 兼任副教授

PhD, South Dakota State University (1975)

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) Tel: 2358 8019 Email: [email protected] Kenny K K CHUNG 鍾家健 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD, University of Cambridge (1999) Molecular mechanisms of

neurodegeneration; functional studies of genes that are linked to familial Parkinson's disease Tel: 2358 7329 Email: [email protected] Stanley C K LAU 劉振鈞 Assistant Professor 助理教授

PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(2001)

Visiting Scholar, Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany (2002)

Research Fellow, Division of Environment Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore (2005-07)

Environmental Microbiology; microbial source tracking of pollution in the marine environment Tel: 2358 7277 Email: [email protected] Kai LIU 劉凱 Assistant Professor 助理教授

PhD, The State University of New Jersey Rutgers (2006)

Cellular and molecular mechanisms of axonal regeneration failure in adult mammalian central nervous system Tel: 2358 5740 Email: [email protected] Amy Kit Yu FU 傅潔瑜

Visiting Assistant Professor 客座助理教授

PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1998)

Signaling pathways underlying neural circuit assembly; Molecular mechanisms of neurological disorders

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Division of Life Science 11 Tel: 2358 8971 Email: [email protected] Anthony S L CHAN 陳少龍 Research Assistant Professor 研究助理教授

Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry, HKUST (2003-05)

Molecular pharmacology and signal integration of G proteins and GPCRs (G protein-coupled receptors); Chinese medicine pharmacology Tel: 2358 7344 Email: [email protected] Yu CHEN 陳宇 Research Assistant Professor 研究助理教授

Molecular mechanisms underlying

synapse development and plasticity; pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases

Chi Yan CHOI

Research Assistant Professor 研究助理教授

PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2002) Research Associate, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, UK (2004-05)

Functional roles of different purinergic ATP receptors in the nervous and other systems; biological efficacies and molecular mechanisms of traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Tel: 2358 8017 Email: [email protected] Sarah E HO Research Assistant Professor 研究助理教授 PhD, King’s College London (1993) Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1994-96)

Role of Ca2+_{in signal transduction}

pathways that orchestrate embryonic development using zebrafish and Xenopus as animal models; role of Ca2+ in differentiation of stem cells

Tel: 2358 8796 Email: [email protected] Lingfei HOU 侯凌飛 Research Assistant Professor 研究助理教授 PhD, Peking University (2001)

Molecular mechanism of fragile X syndrome and Autism

Tel: 2358 7344 Email: [email protected] Kwok On LAI 黎國安 Research Assistant Professor 研究助理教授

PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2001) Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles (2003-08)

Molecular mechanisms of activity-dependent changes in synapse composition and spine morphogenesis

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12 Division of Life Science Tel: 2358 5818 Email: [email protected] David T W LAU 劉大偉 Research Assistant Professor 研究助理教授 PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong (2005) Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Chinese Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong (2005-08)

Nanomization of Chinese medicine; pharmacognosy Tel: 2358 7330 Email: [email protected] On On LEE 李安安 Research Assistant Professor 研究助理教授

PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(2005)

Marine Microbial Ecology; biofilm & larval settlement; sponge and coral symbiosis

Shui Ying TSANG

曾瑞英 Research Assistant Professor 研究助理教授 PhD, University of Aberdeen (1996)

Neural receptor structures and functions; genetics of complex diseases such as schizophrenia and cancer

Tel: 2358 8797 Email: [email protected] Jun WAN 萬峻 Research Assistant Professor 研究助理教授

Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry, HKUST (2005-07)

Genetic study and molecular mechanism of Alzheimer’s Disease Tel: 2358 8798 Email: [email protected] Lifeng PAN 潘李鋒 Research Assistant Professor 研究助理教授

Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry, HKUST (2010)

Structural and biochemical studies of important biological questions related to human diseases

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Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests Department of Mathematics 13 Tel: 2358 7422 Email: [email protected] Allen MOY

Head of Department and Chair Professor 系主任及講座教授 PhD, University of Chicago (1982) Gibbs Instructor in Mathematics, Yale University (1982-84) Associate Professor and Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan (1990-2001)

Representation theory; Lie theory

Tony F CHAN

陳繁昌

President and Chair Professor 校長及講座教授 PhD, Stanford University (1978) Postdoc, California Institute of Technology (1978-79)

Assistant Professor, Yale University

Mathematics Department Chair; Dean of Physical Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles Assistant Director, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Science Foundation

Mathematical image processing and computer vision; Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) physical design and computational brain mapping

Tel: 2358 7412 Email: [email protected] Shiu-Yuen CHENG 鄭紹遠 Chair Professor 講座教授 PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1974) Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles (1981-98) Professor of Mathematics, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1992-95)

Differential geometry; game theory; geometric partial differential equations

Tel: 2358 7412 Email: [email protected] Jian-Shu LI 勵建書 Chair Professor 講座教授

PhD, Yale University (1987) Moore Instructor, MIT, (1987-89) Assistant Professor (1989-92), Associate Professor (1992-96), Professor (1996-2000), University of Maryland

Representation theory; automorphic forms Tel: 2358 7415 Email: [email protected] Qi-Man SHAO 邵啟滿 Chair Professor 講座教授 PhD, University of Science and Technology of China (1989)

Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor of Mathematics, University of Oregon (1996-2005)

Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, National University of Singapore (2002-04)

Limit theory in probability and statistics; self-normalized large deviation theory; high-dimensional and large-scale statistical analysis; Stein's method for normal and non-normal approximation; Gaussian random fields, random polynomials and matrices; probability estimates of rare events

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Email:

[email protected]

Kwing Lam CHAN

陳炯林 Professor 教授

PhD, Princeton University (1974)

Senior Scientist, Applied Research Corporation (1980-94)

Planetary and lunar research; computational astrophysics; applied mathematics Tel: 2358 7449 Email: [email protected] Beifang CHEN 陳北方 Professor 教授 PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo (1991)

Instructor in Applied Mathematics,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1991-93)

Combinatorics; graph theory; topology/geometry Tel: 2358 7425 Email: [email protected] Kani CHEN Professor 教授 PhD, Columbia University (1994) Visiting Assistant Professor, Columbia University (1994)

Survival analysis; sequential analysis; boot-strapping; empirical process; stochastic modeling; missing data and EM algorithm Tel: 2358 7444 Email: [email protected] Qiang DU 杜強 Adjunct Professor 兼任教授 PhD, Carnegie Mellon University (1988)

Computational and applied mathematics; numerical and applied analysis; scientific computing Tel: 2358 7419 Email: [email protected] Jimmy C H FUNG 馮志雄 Professor 教授 PhD, University of Cambridge (1990)

Meteorology and air pollution problems in urban and coastal areas such as Hong Kong and Pearl River Delta;

computational fluid dynamics and turbulent research Tel: 2358 7450 Email: [email protected] Jing-Song HUANG 黃勁松 Professor 教授 PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1989)

Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA (1989-90)

Representation theory; Lie theory; noncommutative harmonic analysis

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Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests Department of Mathematics 15 Tel: 2358 7485 Email: [email protected] Bing Yi JING 荊炳義 Professor 教授 PhD, University of Syndey (1993)

Probability and statistics; financial mathematics econometrics; bioinformatics Tel: 2358 7418 Email: [email protected]

Yue Kuen KWOK

郭宇權 Professor 教授

PhD, Brown University (1985)

Assistant Professor, West Virginia University (1985-87)

Assistant Professor, San Jose State University (1987-90)

Financial mathematics; derivatives pricing and credit risk modeling Tel: 2358 7432 Email: [email protected] Weiping LI 李衛平 Professor 教授 PhD, Columbia University (1991) Visiting Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University (1991-92) Algebraic geometry Tel: 2358 7459 Email: [email protected] Shiqing LING 凌仕卿 Professor 教授 PhD, University of Hong Kong (1997)

Large sample theory; empirical processes; nonstationary time series; nonlinear time series; long memory time series; econometrics

Tel: 2358 7438 Email: [email protected] Xiaoping WANG 王筱平 Professor 教授

PhD, New York University (1990)

Applied and computational mathematics; nonlinear partial differential equations Tel: 2358 7435 Email: [email protected] Lixin WU 吳立昕 Professor 教授 PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (1991)

Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles (1991-92)

Numerical analysis; computational fluid dynamics; finance mathematics

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Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests 16 Department of Mathematics Tel: 2358 7433 Email: [email protected] Kun XU 徐昆 Professor 教授 PhD, Columbia University (1993)

Research Staff, Princeton University (1993-1996) Visiting Scientist, NASA Langley Research Center (1998)

Computational fluid dynamics; gas kinetic schemes; rarefied gas; heat transfer Tel: 2358 7447 Email: [email protected] Yongchang ZHU 朱永昌 Professor 教授 PhD, Yale University (1990)

Visiting Member, Max Planck Institute, Bonn (1994-95)

Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University (1993-94)

Infinite dimensional Lie algebras; algebras and quantum groups; vertex operator algebras; conformal field theory Tel: 2358 7448 Email: [email protected] Jeffrey R CHASNOV 齊士樂 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, Columbia University (1990)

Research Fellow, NASA Ames/Stanford Center for Turbulence Research (1991-93)

Turbulence simulation and theory; evolutionary genetics; scientific computation

Tel: 2358 7441 Email:

[email protected]

Yik Man CHIANG

蔣翼邁 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, University of London (1991) Lecturer (permanent), Bolton University, U. K. (1991-92)

Chief Research Assistant, University of Joensuu (now called University of Eastern Finland (1992)

Complex function theory; ordinary differential equations in the complex plane; orthogonal polynomials; difference equations Tel: 2358 7421 Email: [email protected] Jianping GAN 甘劍平 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, McGill University (1995)

Research Associate, College of Oceanic and Atmosphere Sciences, Oregon State University (1996-2003)

Ocean circulation and ecosystem modeling; ocean dynamics and coastal oceanography Tel: 2358 7434 Email: [email protected] Jishan HU 胡繼善 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, Princeton University (1991) Visiting Assistant Professor, West Virginia University (1990-92)

Applied analysis; integrable systems

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Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests Department of Mathematics 17 Tel: 2358 7420 Email: [email protected] Kin Yin LI 李健賢 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1989) Postdoc, University of Virginia (1989-91)

Complex function theory; Hilbert space operator theory; functional analysis Tel: 2358 7451 Email: [email protected] Guowu MENG 孟國武 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, Brown University (1993)

IAS (Princeton) Qiu Shi Foundation Members (2010-11) Physics-inspired mathematics Tel: 2358 7446 Email: [email protected] Mo MU 穆默 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, Academia Sinica (1987) Assistant Professor, Academia Sinica (1987) Research Associate, Purdue University (1987-93)

Network computing; parallel computing; scientific simulation; numerical software; numerical solution to PDEs Tel: 2358 7443 Email: [email protected] Tiezheng QIAN 錢鐵錚 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, Institute of Theoretical Physics (1997)

Visiting Scholar, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2000-03)

molecular and continuum simulations of complex fluids; multiscale modeling and simulations; statstical physics

Tel: 2358 7436 Email: [email protected] Man Yu WONG 黃敏瑜 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, University of London (1990)

Lecturer, Hong Kong Polytechnic (1984-87) Statistician, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (1989-92)

Error in variables model; statistical inference; generalized linear models; biological and medical statistics Tel: 2358 7430 Email: [email protected] Yang XIANG 項陽 Associate Professor 副教授

PhD, New York University (2001)

Research Associate, Princeton University (2001-03)

Mathematical Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing; Image Processing

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Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests 18 Department of Mathematics Tel: 2358 7442 Email: [email protected] Min YAN 嚴民

Associate Dean of Science and Associate Professor 理學院副院長及副教授 PhD, University of Chicago (1990) Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University (1990-91) Assistant Professor, University of Michigan (1991-92)

Integrable systems; Hopf algebra; geometric topology; combinatorics Tel: 2358 7454 Email: [email protected] Huai-Liang CHANG 張懷良 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD, Stanford University (2007)

Deformation theory by derived methods; virtual fundamental class in Gromov Witten theory and Donaldson Thomas theory Tel: 2358 7423 Email: [email protected] Xuhua HE 何旭華 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005)

Representation theory; algebraic geometry; combinatorics Tel: 2358 7414 Email: [email protected] Shing Yu LEUNG 梁承裕 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (2006)

Numerical methods for partial differential equations and scientific computing Tel: 23587431 Email: [email protected] Xianhua PENG 彭獻華 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD, Columbia University (2009) Fields-Ontario Postdoctoral Fellow, Fields Institute and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University (2009-10)

Financial engineering, risk management and applied probability, in particular risk management in banking regulation, credit risk, derivatives pricing and stochastic modeling in finance Tel: 2358 7456 Email: [email protected] Maosheng XIONG 熊茂勝 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2007)

Number theory, in particular problems arising from different areas where powerful analytic methods, such as methods of sieves, L-functions and more recent advances of additive combinatorics, can apply

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Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests Department of Physics 19 Tel: 2358 7478 Email: [email protected] Michael S ALTMAN 歐德孟

Head of Department and Professor

系主任及教授

Research Fellow, Technical University of Clausthal (1988-1990) Visiting Scientist, IBM Almaden Research Center (1990-91)

Surface physics; diffusion and growth; surface step dynamics; structure, magnetism and quantum electronic properties of ultrathin films; electron spin physics; low energy electron microscopy and diffraction; field emission microscopy and spectroscopy

Che Ting CHAN

陳子亭 Chair Professor 講座教授

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1985) Postdoctoral Fellow, Ames Laboratory, United States Department of Energy (1986-88)

Associate Physicist and Physicist, Ames Laboratory, United States Department of Energy (1988-95)

Electronic, structural and other physical properties of matter; surface physics; photonic band gaps; metamaterials; material physics; nanomaterials

Tel: 2358 7971 Email: [email protected] Michael M T LOY 雷明德 Chair Professor 講座教授 PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1971)

Senior Manager, IBM Research (1987-93)

Nonlinear optical propagation effects; two-photon coherent transients; nonlinear optical studies of surfaces; state-selective studies of molecule-surface interactions Tel: 2358 7474 Email: [email protected] Ping SHENG 沈平 Chair Professor 講座教授 PhD, Princeton University (1971)

Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University (1971-73)

Senior Research Associate, Exxon Research and Engineering Co (1979-95)

Physics of disordered materials; complex fluids; liquid crystals; wave localization and multiple scattering; physics of meso-systems and nanomaterials

Penger TONG

童彭爾

Associate Dean of Science and Chair Professor 理學院副院長及講座教授 PhD, University of Pittsburgh (1988) Assistant Professor of Physics (1990-95), Associate Professor of Physics (1995-99), Professor of Physics, (1999-2003), Oklahoma State University Visiting Scientisit in Applied Physics, Harvard University (2001)

Non-equilibrium dynamics and soft condensed matter physics, including experiment studies of turbulent thermal convection, interactions and structure formation in suspensions, polymer solutions, and other complex fluids

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Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests 20 Department of Physics Tel: 2358 5060 Email: [email protected] Henry TYE 戴自海

Director of Institute for Advanced Study and Chair Professor 高等研究院院長及講座教授 PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1974)

Particle theory; superstring theory; cosmology; brane world; high energy phenomenology Tel: 2358 7471 Email: [email protected] George K L WONG 王克倫 Chair Professor 講座教授 PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1974) Professor of Physics, Northwestern University (1989-96)

Nonlinear optics; optical properties of Quantum wells and superlattices; nanostructures of semiconductors, ferroelectrics, polymers and organic materials Tel: 2358 7483 Email: [email protected] Pak Wo LEUNG 梁伯和 Professor 教授 PhD, Cornell University (1990)

Application of large scale and parallel computing to condensed matter physics; low-dimension quantum spin systems and high temperature superconductivity Tel: 2358 7477 Email: [email protected] Tai Kai NG 吳大琪

Associate Dean of Science and Professor

理學院副院長及教授

PhD, Northwestern University (1987)

Mesoscopic physics; non-equilibrium

quantum mechanical phenomena; quantum spin systems; strongly correlated metals

Iam Keong SOU

蘇蔭強 Professor 教授 PhD, University of Illinois, Chicago (1990) Research Associate, University of Illinois, Chicago (1990-91)

Molecular beam epitaxial growth, chemical, structural and transport characterization of metallic and semiconductor thin films and nano-structures; magnetic nano-nano-structures; UV and visible optoelectronic devices; topological insulators

Wing Yim TAM

譚永炎 Professor 教授

PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara (1985)

Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson (1988-93)

Nonlinear dynamics and complex systems; cellular structures; complex fluids (electro-rheological fluids); photonic band gap materials; holographic lithography

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Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests Department of Physics 21 Tel: 2358 7972 Email: [email protected] Zi Kang TANG 湯子康 Professor 教授 PhD, Tohoku University (1992) Senior Researcher, Photodynamics Research Centre, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (1992-94)

Carbon nanotubes, nanostructured complex, optical and transport properties of nanostructured materials; ZnO nanostructured thin films Tel: 2358 7497 Email: [email protected] Jiannong WANG 王建農 Professor 教授 PhD, University of Bristol (1990)

Physics of semiconductor low-dimensional structures; magneto-transport and magneto-optical properties; fabrication of semiconductor nanostructures; novel device

applications Tel: 2358 7489 Email: [email protected] Ning WANG 王寧 Professor 教授 PhD, The University of Science and Technology, Beijing (1990)

Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong (1997-2000)

Nanoscience and nanotechnologies; new structures of materials; electrical transport and optical properties of low-dimensional materials; nanomaterial fabrication and characterization; solar energy materials/solar cells; electron microscopy Tel: 2358 7488 Email: [email protected] Xiangrong WANG 王向榮 Professor 教授 PhD, University of Rochester (1990)

Statistical physics; theoretical condensed matter physics Tel: 2358 7979 Email: [email protected] Weijia WEN 溫維佳 Professor 教授 PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1995)

Soft condensed matter physics; electro- rheological and magnetorheological fluids; field-induced pattern and structure transition; thin film physics Tel: 2358 7480 Email: [email protected] Michael K Y WONG 王國彝 Professor 教授 PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (1986)

Physics of complex and disordered systems; optimization; neural networks; multi-agent systems; spin glasses; machine learning; optimal control in telecommunications networks

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Email:

[email protected]

Kam Sing WONG

黃錦聖 Professor 教授

PhD, University of Oxford (1987)

Ultrashort pulse lasers; time-resolved spectroscopy; semiconductor and polymer physics Tel: 2358 7485 Email: [email protected] Zhiyu YANG 楊志宇 Professor 教授 PhD, Purdue University (1988)

Senior Research Scientist, North Carolina State University (1988-92)

Optical properties of nanostructured materials; sonic meta-materials; polymer relaxation dynamics; semiconductor interfaces and quantum structures; semiconductor spintronics Tel: 23587493 Email: [email protected] Ho Bun CHAN 陳浩斌 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999)

Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories (2000-03) Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Florida (2004-09) Associate Professor of Physics, University of Florida (2009-10)

Microelectromechanical systems; Casimir forces; activated switching and critical kinetic phenomena in nonequilibrium systems; micromechanical

magnetometers; surface plasmons polaritons; evanescent field coupling in subwavelength metallic structures Tel: 2358 7527 Email: [email protected] Bradley A FOREMAN 霍文彬 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, Cornell University (1995)

Theoretical semiconductor physics:

electrons and phonons in low- dimensional systems; effects of strain in optoelectronic devices; envelope-function theory; high-speed semiconductor lasers; quantum mechanics Tel: 2358 7494 Email: [email protected] Nian LIN 林念 Associate Professor 副教授

Research group leader (1999-2007), molecular nanostructures group, Nanoscale Science Department, Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany

Two-dimensional supramolecular self-assembly; low-temperature STM characterization of charge transport, energy transfer and signal transduction at single molecules

Kwok Yip SZETO

司徒國業 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1985) Assistant Professor of Physics, York University (1987-91)

Network; Evolutionary Computation; Pattern formation in complex systems; bioinformatics; quasi-crystal growth; frustrated spin systems; genetic algorithms; nonlinear forecasting; artificial life; point patterns and two-dimensional pattern evolution

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Department of Physics 23 Tel: 2358 7473

Email:

[email protected]

Kwok Kwong FUNG

馮國光 Senior Lecturer 高級講師

PhD, University of Bristol (1979)

Research Professor and Deputy Director, Beijing Laboratory of Electron Microscopy (1985-91)

Characterization of crystal structures and crystal defects by transmission electron microscopy; semiconductor nanostructures; epitaxial passive oxide films on nano-particles of metals Tel: 2358 7486 Email: [email protected] Shengwang DU 杜勝望 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder, (2005) Postdoctoral scholar, Stanford University (2005-08)

Laser cooling and trapping; atom optics; quantum optics; linear & nonlinear optics with cold atoms Tel: 2358 7492 Email: [email protected] Yilong HAN 韓一龍 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD, University of Chicago (2003) Postdoctoral fellow, University of Pennsylvania (2004-07)

Experimental soft matter physics and statistical mechanics; digital video microscopy investigation of interactions, dynamics and phase behavior of colloids; phase space networks of spin model

Kam Tuen LAW

羅錦團

Assistant Professor 助理教授

Postdoctoral fellow, IAS, HKUST (2008-09); Postdoctoral fellow, MIT (2008-11)

Strongly correlated systems; topological insulators and topological

superconductors

Rolf Walter LORTZ

洛鶴夫 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Postdoctoral fellow, Research Center of Karlsruhe (2002-03)

Senior research and teaching associate, University of Geneva (2003-08)

Thermodynamic and transport properties of superconductors and materials with novel electronic properties under extreme conditions: high pressure, high magnetic fields, tiny samples, thin films and nanomaterials

Tian Wen CHEN

陳天問 Visiting Assistant Professor 客座助理教授 PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong (2004)

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Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests 24 Division of Humanities Tel: 2358 7764 Email: [email protected] Billy K L SO 蘇基朗

Head of Division and Chair Professor 學部主任及講座教授

PhD, Australian National University (1983)

Chinese legal history; comparative legal traditions; political economy of China; economic history of China in

institutional perspective; China's foreign relations; comparative corruption

Tel: 2358 7792 Email:

[email protected]

Yiu Ming FUNG

馮耀明 Chair Professor 講座教授

PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1984)

Research Fellow, Institute of East Asian Philosophies, Singapore (1985-87) Associate Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1995-97)

New Confucianism; the logic of Chinese language; comparative philosophy

Tel: 2358 7805 Email: [email protected] Chang-tai HUNG 洪長泰 Chair Professor 講座教授 PhD, Harvard University (1981) Professor of History (1992-98), Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies (1993-98), Carleton College, Minnesota, USA

Modern Chinese cultural history; Chinese popular and folk culture; contemporary Chinese rituals and politics

James LEE

李中清

Dean of Humanities and Social Science and Chair Professor

人文社會科學學院院長及講座教授

PhD, University of Chicago (1983)

Instructor to Full Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology (1982-2003)

Director, Center for Chinese Studies (2003-08), Professor of History and Sociology (2003-06), Frederick Huetwell Professor, History and Sociology (2006-09), University of Michigan

Chinese history (late imperial and contemporary); demography and sociology of populations in the past; genealogical approaches to social science; higher education and social stratification in China Tel: 2358 7825 Email: [email protected] Bozhong LI 李伯重 Chair Professor 講座教授 PhD, Xiamen University (1985)

Chinese social and economic history; Ming and Qing history; Chinese military history; comparative history

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Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests Division of Humanities 25 Tel: 2358 8909 Email: [email protected] Jianhua CHEN 陳建華 Professor 教授 PhD, Fudan University (1988) PhD, Harvard University (2002) Lecturer of Chinese Literature, Fudan University (1988)

Instructor of Chinese Literature, Oberlin College (2001-02)

Chinese poetics and hermeneutics; Ming-Qing literature; republican urban and popular culture; Chinese revolution discourses and translation theory; Chinese literary and visual modernity

Kim Chong CHONG

莊錦章 Professor 教授 PhD, University of London (1983) Associate Professor, National University of Singapore (1998-2003)

Ethics; comparative philosophy; early Confucianism; Zhuangzi Tel: 2358 7767 Email: [email protected] Xinyang WANG 王心揚 Professor 教授 PhD, Yale University (1988)

Research Fellow, Institute of East Asian Philosophies, Singapore (1988-90) Assistant Professor, Washington State University (1991-95)

United States history and early medieval Chinese history

Elisa SAMPSON VERA TUDELA

Visiting Professor 客座教授

PhD, European University Institute (1996)

Research Fellow, King’s College, University of Cambridge

Lecturer, King’s College, London

Latin American literary and cultural studies; historiography; colonial and postcolonial literature; feminism

Tel: 2358 7765 Email: [email protected] Charles W H CHAN 陳榮開 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, University of Toronto (1994) Lecturer, University of Western Ontario (1993-94)

Classical Confucianism; Sung and Ming Neo-Confucianism; Taoism; Tokugawa Japanese Confucianism; comparative Chinese and Japanese thought and culture Tel: 2358 7813 Email: [email protected] Li Fen CHEN 陳麗芬 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, University of Washington (1990)

Fiction; literary theory and cultural criticism; modern literature

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Division of Humanities Tel: 2358 7763

Email:

[email protected]

Siu Woo CHEUNG

張兆和

Associate Professor 副教授

PhD, University of Washington (1996)

Ethnicity and ethno-historical processes in South China and Vietnam; subject- identity constitution and

representation; cultural politics among border peoples; anthropology of tourism Tel: 2358 8024 Email: [email protected] Flora L T FU 傅立萃 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1995)

History of Chinese painting; Ming and Qing landscape painting; representation of famous mountains Tel: 2358 7802 Email: [email protected] Virgil K Y HO 何傑堯 Associate Professor 副教授

DPhil, Oxford University (1995)

Research Fellow, IASSA, Gothenburg University (1989-94)

Social and cultural history of modern China; perceptions and aspects of life in Republican Canton; political culture and political symbolisms in modern China

Tik Sang LIU

廖迪生

Associate Professor 副教授

PhD, University of Pittsburgh (1995)

Family and kinship; popular religion in South China; ethnicity; ecological anthropology; visual anthropology Tel: 2358 7761 Email: [email protected] Zongli LU 呂宗力 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1995)

Associate Professor and Section Vice-Director, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (1988-89) Lecturer, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1990-95)

Chinese political and intellectual history from early to early medieval periods; Chinese cultural history; political institutions and systems; classical textual studies; popular beliefs and religions Tel: 2358 7795 Email: [email protected] Jingtao SUN 孫景濤 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, The University of British Columbia (2000)

Lecturer, Peking University (1989-93)

Visiting Assistant Professor, The University of Wisconsin at Madison (2000-01)

Lecturer, The University of California at Davis (2001-03)

Chinese linguistics; Chinese historical morphology and lexicology; Chinese dialectology; phonology; Oracle-bone and bronze inscriptions

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Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests Division of Humanities 27 Tel: 2358 7790 Email: [email protected] Lisa L M WONG 黃麗明 Associate Professor 副教授

Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (1999-2006)

Modern poetry; lyrical theory; comparative poetics Tel: 2358 7772 Email: [email protected] Simon M H WONG 黃敏浩 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, University of Toronto (1996)

Instructor, Wilfrid Laurier University (1993)

Confucianism; Neo-Confucianism; Taoism; Chinese Buddhism Tel: 2358 7798 Email: [email protected] Angelina C C YEE 余珍珠 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, Harvard University (1986)

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University (1989-90)

Assistant and Associate Professor, University of Maryland (1990-95)

Narrative and drama; cultural criticism; colonial and post-colonial studies; gender studies Tel: 2358 7788 Email: [email protected] Kam-Ming YIP 葉錦明 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1993)

Lecturer, Hong Kong Baptist University (1993-95)

Philosophy of language; Chinese logic; methodology of thinking; Taoism Tel: 2358 7803 Email: [email protected] Min ZHANG 張敏 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, Peking University (1991)

Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, National University of Singapore (1993-99)

Chinese linguistics; Chinese historical grammar; Chinese dialectology; cognitive grammar of Chinese Tel: 2358 7797 Email: [email protected] Xiaonong ZHU 朱曉農 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, Australian National University (1995)

Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (1995-96) Research Fellow, Australian National University (1996-2000)

Evolutionary linguistics; Chinese historical phonology; Chinese dialectology; experimental phonetics; phonology

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Division of Humanities Tel: 2358 5869 Email: [email protected] Joshua DERMAN 杜哲士 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD, Princeton University (2008)

Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow, European University Institute (2008-2009)

Modern European history; history of political and social thought; world history Tel: 2358 7806 Email: [email protected] Guanglin LIU 劉光臨 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD, Harvard University (2005)

Political economy of late Imperial China; Neo-Confucianism and the market economy in a historical perspective; quantitative approaches in historical exploration Tel: 2358 7766 Email: [email protected] Jianxiong MA 馬健雄 Assistant Professor 助理教授

Ethnicity; kinship; anthropology of borderland; ethnic minorities in China and in highland Southeast Asia Tel: 2358 8908 Email: [email protected] Kenny K K NG 吳國坤 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD, Harvard University (2004)

Modern chinese literary and cultural studies; media, visual and verbal culture; colonial cultural history and chinese cinema; globalization and modern Chinese culture

Tel: 2358 7801 Email: [email protected] Carine Y M YIU 姚玉敏 Assistant Professor 助理教授

Chinese linguistics; Cantonese dialect; Chinese dialectology; syntax; semantics

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Division of Social Science 29 Tel: 2358 7782 Email: [email protected] Michelle YIK 易靄儀 Acting Head of Department and Associate Professor 署理系主任及副教授 PhD, University of British Columbia (1999) SSHRC Post-doctoral fellow, University of Victoria (1998-99) Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong (1999-2001)

Chinese emotion; personality; happiness

James Kai-Sing KUNG

龔啟聖 Chair Professor 講座教授 PhD, University of Cambridge (1991) Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University in St Louis (1990-92)

China's agricultural and rural

development; property rights economics; economic history

James LEE

李中清

Dean of Humanities and Social Science and Chair Professor

人文社會科學學院院長及講座教授

PhD, University of Chicago (1983)

Instructor to Full Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology (1982-2003)

Director, Center for Chinese Studies (2003-08), Professor of History and Sociology (2003-06), Frederick Huetwell Professor, History and Sociology (2006-09), University of Michigan

Chinese history (late imperial and contemporary); demography and sociology of populations in the past; genealogical approaches to social science; higher education and social stratification in China Tel: 2358 5981 Email: [email protected] Albert F PARK 朴之水 Chair Professor 講座教授 PhD, Stanford University (1996) Professor (2010-11) and Reader (2007-10), University of Oxford Associate Professor (2002-07) and Assistant Professor (1997-2002), University of Michigan

Development; labor; applied microeconomics; Chinese economy

Tel: 2358 7780 Email: [email protected] Alvin Y SO 蘇耀昌 Chair Professor 講座教授 PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (1982)

Professor of Sociology, University of Hawaii (1993-98)

Globalization and Asia; social classes in China; Hong Kong's development

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30 Division of Social Science Tel: 2358 7832 Email: [email protected] David ZWEIG 崔大偉 Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Science and Chair Professor 人文社會科學學院副院長及講座教授 PhD, University of Michigan (1983) Post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard University (1984-85) Associate Professor, Department of Political Studies, Queen's University (1999-2001)

Associate Professor of International Politics, Fletcher School, Tufts University (1986-96)

Movement of human capital in East Asia and overseas Chinese scholars (and returnees); Chinese foreign policy and resource diplomacy; Hong Kong- Mainland relations; Chinese politics and political economy; Sino- American relations; ; East Asian international political economy; East Asian international relations Tel: 2358 7831 Email: [email protected] Erik BAARK 寶克 Professor 教授 PhD, University of Lund, Sweden (1986) Associate Professor (1988-99) and Director, Institute of Social Sciences (1992-94), Technical University of Denmark

Acting Dean, School of Humanities and Social Science, HKUST (2007-09)

Innovation systems in China, Hong Kong, and Vietnam; policies to promote environmental innovation in China and Europe; globalization of engineering consultancy services Tel: 2358 7823 Email: [email protected] Yongshun CAI 蔡永順 Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Science and Professor 人文社會科學學院副院長及教授 PhD, Stanford University (2001) Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore (2001-04)

Collective action and social movements; political participation; institution building and regime transition; Chinese politics Tel: 2358 7818 Email: [email protected] X L DING 丁學良 Professor 教授 PhD, Harvard University (1992)

Research Fellow, Australian National University (1996-98)

Comparative capitalisms; state-society relations; development/modernization; social history; political humor Tel: 2358 7835 Email: [email protected] Carsten A HOLZ 穆嘉 Professor 教授 PhD, Cornell University (1995)

Development economics; China's economy

Raymond Sin Kwok WONG

黃善國 Professor 教授

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1989)

Assistant Professor to Full Professor, University of California-Santa Barbara (1989-2008)

Social inequality and stratification; sociology of education; comparative sociology; quantitative methodology; survey research methods; economic sociology

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Division of Social Science 31 Tel: 2358 7827 Email: [email protected] Xiaogang WU 吳曉剛 Professor 教授 PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (2001)

Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow (2001-03), Research Affiliate (2005-), Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2001-03)

Inequalities in Mainland China and Hong Kong; education; migration; ethnic issues in China

Tel: 2358 7784 Email: [email protected] Agnes Shuk-Mei KU 谷淑美 Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Science and Associate Professor

人文社會科學學院副院長及副教授

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (1995)

Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (1993-2000)

Cultural sociology; civil society and public sphere; Hong Kong culture and politics; urban issues; gender issues Tel: 2358 7816 Email: [email protected] Yi-Min LIN 林益民 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, Yale University (1991) Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley (1991-92)

Political economy; organizations and institutions Tel: 2358 7829 Email: [email protected] John Z MA 馬忠東 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, McMaster University (1993)

Research Affiliate, Yale University (1992) Research Associate, University of Quebec (1993-94)

Migration and family dynamics in developing countries; geographical information systems (GIS) Tel: 2358 7781 Email: [email protected] Gerald R PATCHELL 百察樂 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, Simon Frazer University (1991)

Economic and cultural geography; geography of Japan; cooperative communities and the diffusion of organizations; environmental management and regional development Tel: 2358 7821 Email: [email protected] Barry SAUTMAN 沙伯力 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, Columbia University (1990) Visiting Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins/Nanjing University Center (1991-92) Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Utah (1990)

China-Africa relations; the Tibet Question; ethnicity, nationalism and ideological discourses in China; comparative studies in state ethnic policies and ethnonationalism; international human rights law; US-China relations

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32 Division of Social Science Tel: 2358 7826 Email: [email protected] Naubahar SHARIF 白立邦 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, Cornell University (2005)

Development of Hong Kong's innovation system; technology policy in Hong Kong; emergence of the innovation systems approach; business and economic history of technology; sociology of technology Tel: 2358 7839 Email: [email protected] Ming SING 成名 Associate Professor 副教授

DPhil, The University of Oxford (1993)

Democratization of Asia and the world; comparing political culture; Hong Kong politics; comparative study of governance Tel: 2358 7776 Email: [email protected] Edward Jow-Ching TU 涂肇慶 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, University of Tennessee (1983)

Research Associate, Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, State University of New York (1980-92)

Comparative study of recent population changes and policy implications in Taiwan, China, Singapore and Hong Kong Tel: 2358 5838 Email: [email protected] Jimin ZHAO 趙吉敏 Associate Professor 副教授 PhD, Stanford University (2000) Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University (2000-01)

Senior Research Fellow and Director, School of Geography & the Environment, Oxford University (2007-11); Social Scientist, University of Michigan (2003-07); China Energy Project Leader, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2001-03)

Environmental policy & governance; climate change & global environmental governance; sustainable transportation & automotive technology; energy policy and technology development; China’s environmental and energy policy

Tel: 2358 7814 Email: [email protected] Julian M GROVES 谷志良 Visiting Associate Professor 客座副教授 PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1992)

Non-engaged youth; professional

dilemmas among social workers; migrants; gender; ethnography

Hye Jee CHO

趙蕙智

Assistant Professor 助理教授

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (2008)

International political economy; comparative politics; political economy of international finance and

investment; globalization and development; comparative political economy; international organizations; statistical methods

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Division of Social Science 33 Tel: 2358 7838 Email: [email protected] Li HAN 韓莉 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD, Harvard University (2008)

Development economics; labor economics; public economics; Chinese economy Tel: 2358 7775 Email: [email protected] Wenkai HE 和文凱 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD,Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007)

Political economy of development; comparative study of state formation; economic history; comparative historical analysis in social science Tel: 2358 7836 Email: [email protected] Satoru SHIMOKAWA 下川哲 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD, Cornell University (2007)

Development cconomics; agricultural economics; health economics; food policy Tel: 2358 7828 Email: [email protected] Kevin K P TAM 談儉邦 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD, The University of Hong Kong (2006)

Cultural processes; happiness; human-nature relationship; psychology and law

Tel: 2358 7834 Email: [email protected] Jin WANG 王瑾 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD, London School of Economics (2010)

Development economics; public economics; applied econometrics; Chinese economy Tel: 2358 7819 Email: [email protected] Jane Y ZHANG 張憶芹 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD, University of California at Berkeley (2011)

Development economics; experimental economics; applied econometrics; Chinese economy

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34 Division of Social Science Tel: 2358 7837 Email: [email protected] Yi ZHU 朱懌 Assistant Professor 助理教授 PhD, Michigan State University (2009)

Development economics; labor and demographic economics; Chinese economy