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Update Your Profile Search by expertise: The 21st century will bring forth a phenomenal transformation of the socio-economic structure of humankind. We will witness the full bloom of the knowledge-based society in which science and technology will be recognized as the engine of economic growth. Research and development will gain increased prominence among human endeavors. Through research and development, new knowledge will be generated, disseminated and utilized to benefit society at a pace previously unimagined.

A research university is distinguished by the quality and accomplishments of its faculty, staff and students. It is also characterized by the leadership it demonstrates in transferring the fruits of research to impact society. HKUST, since its inception in 1991, has strived to excel and to attain world-class standing in its chosen fields of pursuit.

While the University has encouraged its members to pursue any field of intellectual curiosity and challenge, it has also focused on a number of specific fields to establish core areas of impact and excellence. These include: advanced materials and manufacturing, biotechnology, e- commerce, environment, executive education, infrastructure, IC electronic packaging design, internet and information technology, logistics, microelectronics and microsystems, molecular neuroscience, nano technology, social survey studies, South China research, traditional Chinese medicine, transportation, and wireless communications.

This publication highlights the research activities of HKUST faculty members. It is the University's objective to engage in the forefront of global research as well as in specific areas of relevance to Hong Kong. We hope this publication will serve as a useful reference to benchmark our progress toward this goal.

Professor Matthew M F YUEN Acting Vice-President for Research and Development Report One - Overview

THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

REPORT ON RESEARCH ACTIVITIES, 2007-08 to RESEARCH GRANTS COUNCIL

RGC REPORT 1 : OVERVIEW

1. YEAR IN REVIEW

HKUST continues to mature as a research-intensive university. One way to illustrate this statement is by reference to global rankings of universities in the international media.

WORLD RANKINGS FOR HKUST

2005 2006 2007 Source *

University 43 58 53 THES Technology 23 17 23 THES Science 68 69 52 THES Bioscience - 61 80 THES Social Science 58 52 63 THES Arts & Humanities 89 - - THES MBA 44 47 17 FT 82 37 20 EIU EMBA 2 3 1 FT

* EIU Economist Intelligence Unit (UK) FT Financial Times (UK) THES Times Higher Education Supplement (UK)

Over the past three years, HKUST has been ranked among the top 100 universities in the world in all its fields of intellectual endeavor, i.e., in science, bioscience, engineering (or technology), business and management, and humanities and social science. Most notably, in 2007, HKUST was ranked:

- # 1 EMBA program in the world - #23 in the world for Technology

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Another, more local, indicator is provided by the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). The bar chart below compares the results for RAE 99 and RAE 06. While the differentials were reduced significantly in 2006 as the research capabilities and performance of all tertiary institutions in Hong Kong have improved, HKUST retains the highest overall research index.

RESEARCH ASSESSMENT EXERCISE, 1999 & 2006

(%) 100

86.95 87.12 85.47

75.66 75.24 76.35 75 62.62

1999 50 2006

30.49

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Our research mission, drawn from the 1987 Ordinance by which HKUST was established, remains to focus on human resource development with an emphasis on postgraduate education, to maintain excellence across our chosen fields of endeavor, and to make a contribution to the economic and social development of Hong Kong.

Our strategy is to attract the best faculty and students, to expect and reward their best performance in research, to assist economic and social development through knowledge transfer, and to stimulate entrepreneurship.

Scholarship, research and its development and application are central to the mission and strategy of HKUST. The selection of research highlights presented below covers the spectrum from the most basic research to commercialization and business development. They demonstrate that HKUST is building on its achievements as a world-class research university with regional benefits and impact.

HKUST has achieved much. It has helped to redefine the academic and R&D culture of Hong Kong. It has grown from a vision to become a dynamo for change and a catalyst in Hong Kong’s transition to a knowledge-based society. And it has found recognition on the world stage of research universities in just seventeen short years.

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Research & Scholarship

HKUST researchers continue to make substantial contributions at the forefront of their disciplines, in both basic/ fundamental and applied research. Examples include :

• A method to extract the effective liposoluble ingredients from traditional Chinese herbal recipe "Xiasangju" (夏桑菊) has been developed. This extract has been proven effective against flu virus. A China patent filing has been licensed to GuangZhou XingQun Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. China for the development of an anti-flu drug.

• A group in Physics has obtained evidence for the smallest carbon nanotubes in the world, 3 Angstroms in diameter, fabricated in the pores of AEL zeolite crystals. In another development, a scheme of acoustic cloaking that can make noisy objects undetectably silent has been devised. Also, achievements in microfluidics integration, in particular the electrical functionalities of microheater arrays, capacitance detection etc., have been highlighted in the January 2008 issue of Physics Today.

• Prof Oscar Au has developed a breakthrough technology "Pan-V" that turns a mobile phone into a mobile media centre. The University has filed more than 20 patents in this technology sector, and is seeking to commercialize this high impact technology.

• Prof Kevin Chen’s group has developed a novel fluorine plasma treatment technique that provides robust threshold voltage control in wide-bandgap gallium nitride transistors. This technology enables the world’s first self-aligned enhancement-mode AlGaN/GaN HEMT that has a wide range of applications in compact high-power low-noise circuits, high temperature digital ICs and high-efficiency power converters. Patents have been filed in the US, Japan and China.

• Two algorithms developed collaboratively by the HKUST Wireless Research Team and Huawei Technologies have been conditionally accepted for inclusion in international standards for the 802.22 Wireless Regional Area Network (WRAN) system.

• Prof Albert Ha of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management and his PhD student Shilu Tong have developed a model to study the incentives for vertical information sharing in supply chains that engage in horizontal competition. They show that the value of information sharing is negative under a linear wholesale price contract (which is widely adopted in practice) but becomes positive under a form of non- linear price contract.

• Information Systems, Business Statistics & Operations Management PhD student Samuel Kwan, Profs Mike So and Kar Yan Tam have developed a method to estimate the second moments of responses solicited by Randomized Response Technique. Their novel method unveils hidden relationships among sensitive responses which are critical to the conduct of questionnaire-based research.

• Prof Jae-Yun Moon of Information Systems, Business Statistics & Operations Management and her colleagues have examined how self-organizing volunteer teams of the Open Source Software movement on the internet are formed and how individuals decide on which teams to join. They found that incumbent status and the potential for collaborative ties play significant roles in these processes.

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• Prof W J Ye’s group has developed an efficient molecule-based numerical technique for the modeling of non-equilibrium submicron gas transport. This technique overcomes the major drawback of molecule-based simulation methods, i.e., the extremely high computational cost, and makes the computer-aided design of high-performance MEMS/NEMS devices and systems feasible.

• In a collaborative study on China’s stock market, Prof Kevin Chen documented some benefits of the Chinese government’s requirement of listed firms to achieve a minimum return on equity (ROE) before they can apply for permission to issue additional shares. The most important benefit is that the regulation reduces adverse selection in new share issuance, i.e., firms below the ROE threshold underperformed the market after the issuance (as has been observed in other markets), while those above the threshold outperformed the market.

• In a collaborative study, Prof Tai-yuan Chen showed that family firms report better quality earnings, are more likely to warn of a given magnitude of bad news, but make fewer disclosures about their corporate governance practices. In addition, family firms have larger analyst following, more informative analysts’ forecasts, and smaller bid-ask spreads. These results support the hypothesis that family firms face less severe agency problems than non-family firms.

• In a collaborative study, Prof Clive Lennox used a unique database of hours worked by auditors in Greece to show that when audit hours are relatively lower in an audit, companies are more likely to manage earnings upwards, especially to avoid reporting a loss.

• In another collaborative study, Prof Lennox showed that when a firm hires accounting and finance officers directly from their audit firms, the market price reacts positively. In addition, these appointments are not associated with lower financial reporting quality. Thus, regulators’ concern of this practice appears to be unnecessary.

• Profs Peter Chen and Guochang Zhang have provided evidence that stock returns are a function of earnings yield, equity capital investment, and changes in profitability, growth opportunities, and discount rates. They further found that cash-flow-related factors account for much more explanatory power than changes in discount rates.

• Tanjim Hossain was interviewed by The Christian Science Monitor for an article on how field experiments using online auctions allow us to investigate boundedly rational behavior by consumers. His research was also cited by other newspapers including The Boston Globe and The US News and World Reported.

• Drawing on a cross-organizational sample of 163 supervisor-subordinate dyads from China, a study on Individual-level Cultural Values as Moderators of Perceived Organizational Support-employee Outcomes Relationships: Comparing the Effects of Power Distance and Traditionality by J.L. Farh, R. Hackett and J. Liang found that both power distance and traditionality altered perceived organizational support to work outcome relationships such that these relationships were stronger for individuals low (versus high) in power distance or traditionality. The study also found that compared to

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traditionality, power distance is a stronger and more consistent moderator of perceived organizational support to work outcomes relationships.

• In their paper Grades of Membership and Legitimacy Spillovers: Foreign Banks in Shanghai, 1847 – 1935, J. Kuilman & J.T. Li built on the notion that organizations sometimes only fit partially into broader categories to which these organizations are linked, and they developed a theory about how such partial memberships into categories have implications for the extent to which these organizations contribute to and benefit from the category's legitimacy. Their theory was tested and generally supported with data describing the foreign banking industry in Shanghai, from 1847 to 1935.

• Prof Jianhua Chen published Revolution and Form: Mao Dun’s Early Novels and Literary Modernity (Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 2007).

• Prof Kim-chong Chong co-edited a book on Critical Perspectives on Values Education in Asia (Singapore: Prentice Hall, 2007).

• Prof Jingtao Sun wrote A Study of Reduplicative Morphology in Old Chinese (Shanghai Educational Publishing House, 2008).

• Prof Xiaonong Zhu published Methodology: The Soul of Linguistics (Beijing University Press, 2008).

Events

Many prestigious research events were held in 2007-08 :

• More than 100 top scientists from 21 countries attended the 6th International Conference on Bioinformatics at HKUST on 28 August 2007. The conference was organized by the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network. Prof Hannah Xue, Director of the HKH Bioinformatics Center, served as chairperson of the Local Organizing Committee.

• With support from HKUST and the Croucher Foundation, the first UK-HK Frontiers of Science Symposium took place at HKUST from 16-18 January 2008. Hosted by the UK’s Royal Society, this was the first time Hong Kong has hosted the prestigious Frontiers of Science series. This three-day event provided an opportunity for 70 of the brightest and most promising young scientists from across the UK and Hong Kong to hear, discuss and debate issues across a wide range of natural sciences topics. Participants were selected by an organizing committee comprising eight faculty members from local and UK universities, including HKUST Professor in Biochemistry Randy Poon, and Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Albert Chung. Prof Poon was also the Symposium’s co-chairman.

• The Ninth Association of East Asian Research Universities (AEARU) Workshop on Molecular Biology and Biotechnology organized by the Departments of Biochemistry and Biology was held on 25-26 March 2008 at HKUST. This year, there were two major themes in the Workshop – “Signaling” and “Genomics/Proteomics”. Over 60 life science scientists and students from member universities participated.

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• Co-organized with the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Neuroscience Center (MNC), the Biotechnology Research Institute (BRI) hosted the fifth Gordon Research Conference (GRC) "Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology" at HKUST from 8-13 June 2008. As the only Gordon Research Conference held in Asia, it plays an important role in promoting interactions between American and Asia neuroscientists. The 2008 conference featured speakers from the United States and many Asian countries who are conducting research in diverse areas of modern neuroscience from molecules and cells to circuits, behavior, mental illness and neurodegeneration. Over 170 leading scholars from around the world gathered at HKUST for intense discussion on recent findings.

• The First China RFID Benchmarking Test Forum & MOU Signing Ceremony was held at HKUST on 1 March 2008. About 100 representatives from major RFID organizations in Mainland China and Hong Kong attended to advance the level of RFID benchmarking tests and standards.

• The Tenth Computer Science Deans Forum on 23-24 November 2007 hosted by the CSE Department, involved Deans and Department Heads of the Computer Science colleges/departments of the PhD granting universities in China. The forum aimed to improve the quality of teaching and research of the universities and institutes and to provide an opportunity for the leaders of the computer science disciplines from China to share ideas about professional developments, scientific infrastructure at universities and recent trends in research and education for the new generation.

• Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management sponsored the Global Supply Chain Management Joint Forum 2007, which was held on 13-14 November 2007 at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China.

• The Eighth International Conference on Fundamental of Fracture (ICFF VIII) was held at HKUST and Guangzhou, China on 3-7 January 2008. This conference was co-organised by HKUST, Sun Yat-Sen (Zhongshan) University and Tsinghua University, China. Prof Tongyi Zhang of HKUST, Prof B. Wang of Zhongshan University and Prof X. Q. Feng of Tsinghua University served as Conference Chairs.

• The 12th Annual Conference of HKSTAM 2007-08 and the 5th Shanghai-Hong Kong Forum on Mechanics and Its Application were held concurrently on 8 March 2008 at HKUST. Prof Q P Sun served as the Chairman.

• The 2nd Integration and Commercialization of Micro & Nanosystems International Conference & Exhibition was held on 3-5 June 2008 at HKUST. Nearly 400 professionals from academia, government and industry attended the highly successful conference. Prof Ricky Lee served as one of the Conference Co-Chairs.

• Co-organized with Finance, Accounting hosted the first HKUST Summer Symposium on Family Business Research from 16-17 June 2008. The Symposium included papers authored by scholars from USA, Canada, Australia, Italy, Sweden, India, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Issues covered in those papers included inheritance and succession, taxation, compensation, investment, organization structure, and financing costs.

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• Marketing Research Camp 2007 was held at HKUST on 12-14 December 2007. Four leading scholars from the quantitative and psychology fields of marketing were invited to present their work. The talks provided opportunities for the invited researchers to interact with our faculty and PhD students.

• An international conference on “Chinese Philosophy and Moral Psychology” was organized at HKUST on 17-18 December 2007. There were 25 speakers, including top scholars from the USA, Canada, Australia, Taiwan, and Singapore. The conference was sponsored by a conference grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange awarded to Prof Kim-chong Chong of the Division of Humanities, HKUST.

Commercialization and Business Development

HKUST is striving to make a contribution to economic development in Hong Kong and the region by human resource development, technology diffusion and transfer processes, intellectual property protection and licensing, and the incubation of start-up companies.

Human resources are considered the most effective means of technology diffusion. Most of the 1,317 Masters and 149 doctoral graduates from HKUST in 2007 moved into the private and public sectors, taking with them in-depth knowledge of their discipline, know- how and an ability to be creative and innovative. These graduates, and indeed those at the bachelors level, are a force for change and play a major role in the transition of Hong Kong to a knowledge-based society.

To highlight our partnerships with industry, we note that :

¾ HKUST has been allocated $459 million in ITF funding over the nine-year period 1999- 2008 (i.e., since the beginning of the ITF program) - - more than any other institution in Hong Kong

¾ Over this same period, HKUST has received $411 million in industrial funding for contract research and collaborative R&D

The University’s Technology Transfer Center (TTC) and HKUST R and D Corporation Ltd (RDC) collaborate to establish university-industry collaboration, R&D partnerships, the protection and licensing of intellectual property and assisting spin-off companies. Examples include :

• The strain of Cordyceps sinensis (冬蟲夏草) that Prof Karl Tsim and his group developed and which was sold to PuraPharm International (Hong Kong) Ltd in 2003, has been commercialized as a health food product in Hong Kong in 2008.

• The signing of an MOU between 11 organizations formed a consortium in which major RFID organizations in Mainland China and Hong Kong have joined together to advance the level of RFID benchmarking tests and standards.

• HKUST has entered into a collaborative agreement with Boeing Phantom Works to research and develop new technology associated with wireless communications. The

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research, intended to enable breakthroughs that will benefit onboard entertainment systems for Boeing's commercial airplanes and communication among maintenance technicians at airports, will be carried out by Chinese professors and university students pursuing advanced degrees. At HKUST, we will work on the problem of seamless connectivity among different networks used by aircraft line maintenance technicians at airports.

• Profs Chung-yee Lee, Ajay Joneja and Jeff Hong have a consulting project on Decision Support System for Inventory Replenishment, which aims at recommending an optimal replenishment model for the warehouses of Jardine OneSolution (HK) Limited.

• The Motorola innovation and design team in New York gave a consulting project to Prof Ravindra Goonetilleke to perform ergonomics and usability testing on their state-of-the- art wearable scanners.

• Prof Jang-Kyo Kim has attracted a HK$5M research contract from Finetex Technology Global Ltd, a leading specialty nanotextile manufacturing company in Korea, to establish the 'Finetex - HKUST R & D Center', with a mission that includes development, characterization, analysis, manufacturing of carbon nanofibers and nanocomposite materials for various functional and structural applications.

In 2007-08 alone:

¾ TTC evaluated 20 invention disclosures from HKUST researchers

¾ TTC arranged for the filing of 170 patent applications, including full and provisional applications with the US Patent Office, CIP, international filings, etc.

¾ HKUST received notification of the granting of 13 patents

¾ RDC signed 124 R&D contracts with industrial and public sector clients, worth more than $84 million

¾ RDC licensed 43 patents that were assigned to HKUST, together with a further 5 patents that we re-assigned and sold.

¾ RDC continued to incubate 14 start-up companies based on expertise and technology developed at HKUST

Awards and Recognition

Recognition of the accomplishments of individual researchers and of HKUST as an institution are increasingly evident:

• Prof Nancy Y. Ip has been awarded the Medal of Honour by the Hong Kong Government for her contributions to the promotion of industrial and technological development in Hong Kong, particularly in the biotechnology field.

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• Prof Benzhong Tang won several awards in 2007-08, including : - The “Important Optics Discoveries by Chinese Scientists in 2007” Award - The State Natural Science Award, 2nd Class (administered by the Chinese Government) - The Feng Xinde Polymer Prize (administered by Elsevier) - The Wang Baoren Award for Accomplishments in Fundamental Polymer Research (administered by the Chinese Chemical Society) - A Croucher Senior Research Fellowship Award

• Prof Hong Kai Wu has won the Dupont Young Professor Award (2007-09)

• Prof Bing Xu won several awards, including : - The Human Frontier Science Program Research Award in 2008 - The Distinguished Lectureship Award, CSJ Asian International Symposium Chemical Society of Japan in 2007

• Prof Chak Keung Chan’s paper “Understanding Hygroscopic Growth and Phase Transformation of Aerosols Using Single Particle Raman Spectroscopy in an Electrodynamic Balance”, co-authored by Alex KY Lee and TY Ling, has been chosen as a “hot article” in the scientific journal Faraday Discussions.

• Prof Guohua Chen (CBME) has received “Most Cited Paper 2003-2006” awards for two co-authored papers published in Chemical Engineering Science. He has also been awarded a Certificate of Excellence by the World Forum for Crystallization, Filtration and Drying and a Certificate of Merit by the international journal Drying Technology for his outstanding research and development in the field. His paper “Electrochemical Technologies in Wastewater Treatment”, published in Separation and Purification Technology, July 2004, has remained one of the journal’s top five “hottest articles” since its publication.

• Prof Chak Chan (CBME) gained first prize in China’s 2007 Natural Science Awards, presented by the Ministry of Education. The award was given for a joint project led by Tsinghua University, in collaboration with HKUST and Tongji University. The project focused on “The Characteristics of Emission and Complex Pollution of Particulate Matter and its Precursors”.

• The article of Prof I-Ming Hsing’s research group (CBME) "Electrochemistry-based Real time PCR on a microchip" published in Analytical Chemistry has been highlighted as a news item of American Chemical Society (ACS), News Service Weekly PressPac. It is also being featured on the ACS Publications website as a Most-Accessed Article for the first-quarter of 2008. In addition, the same research was highlighted by American Chemical Society as a press release item and reported by two magazines (Science Daily and Forensic Magazine). The study describes a new PCR technique that uses electrochemical DNA sensors to provide simultaneous DNA amplification and detection on a silicon-glass microchip.

• The paper “Air pollution in mega cities in China” by Prof Chak K. Chan (CBME) and Xiaohong Yao tops the list of the most downloaded papers in Atmospheric Environment in the first quarter of 2008.

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• Prof Xijun Hu (CBME) has received a “Most Cited Paper 2003-06” award for his co- authored paper published in Chemical Engineering Science.

• Prof Irene Lo received the Best Practice-Oriented Paper Award by ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) for the paper on 'Natural Gradient Tracer Test for a Permeable Reactive Barrier in Denmark: Spatial Moments Analysis and Dispersion of Conservative Tracer" published in October 2006.

• Prof Yunhao Liu and his PhD student Mo Li were recognized by HKICT Awards 2007 Best Innovation and Research (Open) Gold Award & Best Innovation and Research Grand Award for their research project “Coal Mine Surveillance with Wireless Sensor Networks”.

• Prof Qian Zhang was awarded the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2007) - ASNA Symposium. The award winning paper titled "Relative Distance Based Localization for Mobile Sensor Networks" was co-authored with her PhD student Ji Luo.

• Prof Khaled Ben Letaief was the winner of the prestigious 2007 IEEE Communications Society Publications Exemplary Award.

• Prof V.G. Chigrinov has been named a Fellow of the Society for Information Display.

• Prof Bertram Shi has been selected as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society for 2007-08.

• Prof Kei May Lau was awarded the prestigious Senior Research Fellowship by the Croucher Foundation in recognition of her breakthrough research in compound semiconductors.

• Prof Xiren Cao has been named a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) in 2008 for recognition of his contributions to the analysis of discrete event systems, stochastic learning and optimization theory, and their application. He is the first-ever Hong Kong scholar to become an IFAC Fellow since the Federation's inception in 1957.

• The paper titled “Vibration Energy Scavenging and Management for Ultra Low Power Applications” by Prof C. Y. Tsui, Chao Lu (MPhil candidate) and Prof Wing-hung Ki won the Best Paper Award in The International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED) 2007 in August in Portland, Oregon.

• Liwei Guo, a PhD candidate, won the 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS) Best Paper Awards. Entitled “Fast Multi-hypothesis Motion Compensated Filter for Video Denoising”, the paper was co-authored with Prof Oscar Au and his postgraduate students Mengyao Ma and Zhiqin Liang.

• Prof Mitchell M Tseng (IELM) has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The accolade recognizes Prof Tseng's achievements and exceptional contributions to the engineering profession.

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• IELM’s professor, Andrew Lim, and IELM PhD students, Hong Ma, Qi Wen, Zhou Xu and Zhu Wenbin, have won an IAAI Deployed Application Award for their paper, "Journal-Ranking.com: An Online Interactive Journal Ranking System", at the Nineteenth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-07).

• Prof Jeff Hong (IELM) was awarded second prize in the 2007 INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Competition.

• Prof Fugee Tsung (IELM) has been elected as the Regional Vice President (Asia) of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). He has also been elected as a member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers 2008 National Leadership Council.

• Prof Tianshou Zhao (MECH) has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He gained this honor for his outstanding research involving the development of clean and high-efficiency energy technologies.

• Prof Tianshou Zhao (MECH) has been awarded a Croucher Senior Research Fellowship for 2008-09 for his breakthrough research in fuel cell technology.

• Prof Yang Leng (MECH) has been made a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering. This honorary status recognizes Prof Leng’s excellent professional standing and high achievements.

• Prof Tongyi Zhang (MECH) has won second prize in the State Natural Science Award 2007. Prof Zhang’s project was the only award-winning project nominated by the HKSAR government this year.

• Prof Ricky Lee (MECH) has been made an IEEE Fellow. The School of Engineering now has 14 IEEE Fellows among its faculty members

• Prof Ricky Lee (MECH) has won the 2008 IEEE CPMT Electronics Manufacturing Technology Award, in recognition of his major contributions to the field. Prof. Lee is recognized for his research in various areas of packaging, his teaching and documentation of this research (materials, packaging and processing), and the presentation of this information via authored books, authored book chapters, refereed journals, conferences, various presentations, short courses, invited keynotes and seminars.

• FINA most recently ranked # 26 in the world and #1 in Asia-Pacific, according to a finance research ranking compiled by Arizona State University. This ranking is based on the total number of publications of the institutions in top 4 finance journals from 1990- 2007, including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Quantitative Analysis.

• Prof Lancelot James of ISOM has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) for his contributions to Bayesian nonparametric statistics and the development of Poisson partition calculus for Levy processes.

• Prof Bob Wyer, a Visiting Professor of Marketing since 1998, was awarded the Society for Experimental Social Psychology Distinguished Scientist Award. The Distinguished

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Scientist Award honors individuals who have made unusually important contributions to experimental social psychology. This is the highest honor for social psychologists.

• Prof Yi Xiang was a finalist of INFORMS John D.C. Little Award, an award of the Society for Marketing Science. This award is given annually to the best marketing paper published in Marketing Science or Management Science.

• Prof William Tay is President, INK, which won the Best Journal (2007) in the category of Arts and Humanities (Taiwan) and also the 31st Golden Tripod Award in Publishing sponsored by the Government Information Office (Taipei, Taiwan), 2008.

• Prof Yongshun Cai has been awarded the 2006 Gordon White Prize for his article entitled “Disaggregating the State: Networks and Collective Resistance in Shanghai” by The China Quarterly.

Student Achievements

The achievements of our postgraduate students are also being widely recognized :

• Doctoral candidate Yiu-ting Lau (CBME) won the 16th International Conference on Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Student Award, held in Ishikawa Ongakudo in Kanazawa from Oct. 29 to Nov. 2, 2007 for his paper “Lamellar Orientation on the Surface of a Polymer Determined by ToF-SIMS and AFM”.

• PhD candidate Lee King Yin Alex was invited to give a talk in the Young Forum of the Annual Meeting of Japan Association of Aerosol Science and Technology (JAAST), held in Kanazawa, 20-22 August 2008. The title of his talk is "Investigation of heterogeneous reactions of organic aerosols with ozone using single particle levitation".

• Qilei Zhang has won the best poster presentation award at the 24th Polymer Processing Society meeting. This meeting was attended by more than 600 delegates worldwide and is the largest on polymer processing in the world.

• The work of Michael Siu Ming Kwan on Zeolite Microfuel Cell was selected as a Hot Article in Chemical Communication (Impact Factor 5.14).

• MPhil Student Wing Yi Winnie Chan received the HKICT Awards 2007 Best Innovation and Research (College & Undergraduates) Silver Award for her project titled “Visual Analysis of the Air Pollution Problem in Hong Kong”

• Undergraduates Cheuk Him Cheung and Chun Tak Chung joined the 2007 Amway Pan- Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Projects Competition in June 2007 with their Final Year Project "Feng Shui Design and Analysis System" and won the First Runner-Up and Third-grade Award in Hong Kong Region and Final Round in Gui Zhou, China of the competition.

• CSE MPhil student Michael Chan is to pursue his PhD studies in Stanford University’s renowned Computer Science Department. Michael has been awarded an Overseas

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Fellowship by the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fund to support his studies in the US. He was among 10 recipients selected from 190 applicants to win this award.

• The Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Program has been highly successful in fostering advances and collaboration in computer science and research. In 2007, 29 out of the 62 nominated PhD candidates from various universities/institutions in Asia were awarded fellowships. Juncheng Jia, PhD candidate of the CSE was among those selected.

• Fang Rui, a final-year undergraduate from CSE, won the ACM SIGMOD 2007 Undergraduate Scholarship as one of the seven awardees selected worldwide. Rui has published a system demonstration paper at the ACM SIGMOD'07 conference, a major conference in the database field, and a full research paper at the Data Management on New Hardware Workshop 2007 in conjunction with SIGMOD07.

• Bingsheng He, a PhD candidate of CSE, has been awarded the IBM PhD Fellowship for the 2007-08 Academic Year. His research interests are in database systems, particularly cache-centric query processing techniques.

• CSE sent 5 teams to join the Regional Contests of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest 2008. They achieved very good results in various contest sites, namely 4th Place in Seoul Site, 4th Place (First Prize) in Danang Site, 3rd Place & 4th Place in Taipei Site and 14th Place (Silver Medal) & Honorable Mention in Chengdu Site.

• Dou Shen, a PhD candidate supervised by Prof Qiang Yang won the First Prize of the Postgraduate Student Research Paper Competition organized by the IEEE (HK) Computational Intelligence Chapter, for his research paper "Building Bridges for Web Query Classification".

• Shan Tong, a PhD candidate, has won the IBM PhD Fellowship award 2007-08, a worldwide competitive program. She was also a winner in 2005-06, and was a finalist in 2006-07.

• Two ECE PhD candidates, Yat-Hei Lam and Tsz Yin Man, have been invited to present their innovative IC design techniques at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2008, also known as the “Chip Olympics”

• Jiantao Zhou, a PhD candidate, has won the Fulbright Hong Kong Junior Awards. With this award, he visited the University of Illinois (UIUC) and engaged in research activities for ten months.

• PhD graduate Zhou Xu (IELM) gained an honorable mention for his thesis in the prestigious Transportation Science and Logistics Society Best Dissertation Prize Competition 2007.

• Lixuan Shen, YAO Shuling, Tan Aik Yeoh and Wenhui Yu (IELM) won the "2008 Student Project Competition: Industrial Experience for Students" on 19 April 2008. This competition offers an opportunity for students to work on an actual industrial case and propose resolution which allows them to gain experience in resolving real-world industrial problem.

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• PhD graduate Channa P. Witana won the Hong Kong Ergonomics Society best paper award at the PhD level.

• PhD student Pengcheng Ma (MECH) received the Best Student Paper Award from the International Symposium on Electronic Materials and Packaging (EMAP 2007). His paper was entitled “Electrical Conducting Behavior of Hybrid Nanocomposites Containing Carbon Nanotubes and Carbon Black”.

Research Funding

Examples of funded research and scholarship include :

• A collaborative project entitled "Protein-phosphoinostitides interactions in neuronal signaling” was recently awarded a HK$6 million Collaborative Research Grant (previously Central Allocation Grant) by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. Prof Mingjie Zhang in the Department of Biochemistry is the principal investigator for this project. Co-investigators include faculty members from HKUST, HKU and PolyU.

• Chiaphua Industries Limited (捷和實業有限公司) has pledged HK$2 million to establish a research equipment fund for the Department of Chemical Engineering. The donation will be earmarked to purchase new equipment or to upgrade equipment and help the Department to devise long-term plans for the acquisition of equipment, among other uses.

• Prof Ping Gao’s (CBME) NAMI project received HK$2.98 million from Fibrastics (HK) Ltd and HK$2.45 million matching from ITF.

• Prof Kim-chong Chong was awarded a Conference Grant from Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange to organize an international conference on “Chinese Philosophy and Moral Psychology” on 17-18 December 2007 at HKUST.

In the results of the RGC General Research Fund competition announced on 30 June 2008, HKUST researchers were awarded $93.3 million - - 18.2% of the total awarded to Hong Kong’s tertiary institutions. In this annual internationally peer-reviewed competition, HKUST can claim:

¾ the highest success rate, yet again by a substantial margin (59.7%)

¾ the highest funding per eligible faculty ($220 k)

¾ the highest participation rate (38.4% of eligible faculty were funded)

¾ the two highest grants in Engineering ($1.19 million to Prof Charles Ng, and $1.10 million to Prof Tianshou Zhao)

¾ five of the highest grants in Physical Sciences ($883 k each to Profs Zhihong Guo, Jianping Gan, Zikang Tang, Penger Tong and Ning Wang)

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Noting that success in this competition is dependent on the quality of proposals, as perceived by international peers, and on the track record of the applicants, these funding results are testimony to the excellence of research and scholarship at HKUST.

2. INSTITUTIONAL POLICY ON RESEARCH

While the foundation research policies have served the University well, we continue to review and fine-tune our operational practices to ensure that resources are used effectively towards achieving our mandate to serve economic, social and technological development in Hong Kong and the region.

Research is integral to the mission of the University. HKUST’s research policies are formulated to achieve both world-class excellence and techno-economic benefits to Hong Kong through quality, focus and synergy.

Quality is achieved through human and physical resources. HKUST attracts senior faculty of great distinction and established reputation, junior faculty of proven research capability, and postgraduate students with great promise. The University has created an environment that is both supportive and demanding. Our strong record of publication, success in winning competitive grants, and growing international reputation attest to the quality of research being conducted at HKUST.

Focus is achieved as a result of the identification of strategic areas of research and the recruitment of faculty to build strengths in these areas. In its Strategic Plan for 2005-2020 “Building on Excellence”, HKUST reiterated an intention to build on its competencies to move into a position of global leadership and exert maximum influence, particularly in five high impact fields, namely nano-science and nano-technology; biological sciences and biotechnology; electronics, wireless and information technology; sustainable development (energy and environment); and management education and research.

3. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RESEARCH POLICY AND OTHER INSTITUTIONAL POLICIES

It is difficult to segregate research and other policies, as research (like education) is woven into the fabric of the University. Research plays a major role in personnel policies and represents a principal criterion in the appointment, advancement and retention of faculty. It is an integral component of educational programs, not just for PhD and MPhil students, but also at the senior undergraduate level. Faculty at the leading edge of their disciplines enrich undergraduate programs, and participation in research by undergraduates is encouraged and opportunities to do so are provided throughout the year.

The timely application of the output of research to serve societal needs and to create economic development opportunities is central to the mission of the University. In this regard, HKUST encourages and assists researchers to recognize the value of intellectual property, and the University has a well-established Technology Transfer Center and business arm, the HKUST R and D Corporation Ltd., to assess, protect, market and license intellectual property with commercial potential and to assist spin-off companies.

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4. ORGANIZATION OF RESEARCH FUNDING

Each academic unit has a mentoring and peer review process to assist in the development of research proposals. Draft applications are reviewed by Schools for intellectual merit and by the Office of Contract and Grant Administration (OCGA) for compliance and presentation. Research proposals are finally approved and signed by senior administrative officers of the University for submission to the appropriate agency.

The University also has internal competitions for project and equipment funding from the Block Grant, direct allocation and private donations. Proposals for such funding are reviewed and adjudicated by the Senate Research Committee for institution-wide funds, or by the Research Committees of the Schools for funds earmarked for such units.

OCGA provides extensive administrative and support services for faculty, both in preparing proposals and in managing the awards and reporting processes.

5. CRITERIA FOR DETERMINING PRIORITIES

All academic Departments and Schools and organised research units have well- established processes for determining priorities. Each School has an external advisory board that provides counsel on academic programs and research priorities. Within this framework, each department has a dynamic planning process, which includes strategic recruitment to achieve its largely research-based objectives. Each organised research unit also has its own Advisory Committee or Board with external representation to assist in identifying needs, opportunities and developmental directions.

6. USAGE OF DIRECT ALLOCATION GRANT

In 2007-08, HKUST received a Direct Allocation Grant from RGC of $7.48 million. $2.7 million was used to support new faculty and $4.78 million was used as partial support for an internal Research Project Competition. The annual Research Project Competition was a new initiative of the University in 2006 to support meritorious projects which could be exploratory in nature and which are expected to mature into proposals for significant external funding within two years. The Competition also encourages collaborative interdisciplinary research. In total, 56 projects were supported by the Direct Allocation Grant.

In addition, UGC funding in the amount of $1.6 million was used for Research Travel Grants. This funding was adjudicated on a competitive basis to assist senior postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows to present the results of their research at international conferences.

7. EFFORTS MADE TO ATTRACT PRIVATE FUNDS

Many of the organised research units at HKUST were established through major gifts made in the early days of the University. Efforts to obtain major gifts for research continue, and have been extended to establishing collaborative activities and contract research with the private sector, as well as an involvement in civil and commercial projects. An increasingly significant component is contributed by the private sector in Hong Kong. Our engagement

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with the private sector demonstrates both the commitment of HKUST to foster techno- economic development in Hong Kong and the recognition by industry of the value of developing partnerships with researchers at HKUST.

Commercial activities are still developing; in time we anticipate that they will provide a significant source of funds for research at HKUST.

8. OPPORTUNITIES AND DIFFICULTIES IN INTER-INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATION

Academics can and do collaborate well, and applications to programs such as the China/Hong Kong, Germany/Hong Kong and France/Hong Kong Joint Research Schemes show that the availability of resources can stimulate joint research programs.

Collaboration exists at the inter-institutional level and between research groups and individual researchers. We have established partnerships with many leading research universities in Mainland China, North America and Europe.

Collaboration with our sister institutions in Hong Kong is growing. Under the right circumstances, such collaboration can reduce duplication, foster synergy among institutions and create an atmosphere of mutual assistance that is highly beneficial to both research and education and that can yield better value to the community from the investment of public resources. When sharing of resources or joint work is mandated or highly encouraged by funding agencies, collaboration can be fruitful, but it also requires careful management to ensure that such linkages are mutually beneficial, productive and sustainable, rather than just opportunistic.

9. ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

HKUST is a research university that seeks to undertake research of the highest quality and impact from an international perspective, but in the context of an equally strong commitment to education and application. While these are compatible and synergistic goals, in practice they impose a high work load on faculty and an optimal balance is difficult to achieve.

A major inhibiting factor in building research excellence remains the modest number of PhD students per faculty member. This is related to the perceived lack of need and career opportunities in Hong Kong for persons with postgraduate degrees. While any major improvement in this situation would need a significant policy change, for example admitting more students from the Chinese mainland, there are near-term measures that are being taken. These include collaboration among faculty members and a greater reliance on postdoctoral researchers and professional staff.

The excellence and productivity of research at HKUST and the effectiveness with which resources provided by UGC, RGC and other agencies have been utilized should be evident from this Annual Report of our research output.

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DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

ATMOSPHERIC, MARINE & COASTAL ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM Department of Biochemistry

Yung Hou WONG, Acting Head of Department and Professor; Director of Biotechnology Research Institute; Associate Dean of School of Science; Co-Director of Molecular Neuroscience Center

Nancy Yuk-Yu IP, Chair Professor; Director, BRI and Co-Director, Molecular Neuroscience Center

Mingjie ZHANG, Chair Professor

Robert K M KO, Professor

Randy Yat Choi POON, Professor

Jerry H C WANG, Adjunct Professor and Professor Emeritus; Co-Director, Molecular Neuroscience Center

Jeffrey Tze-Fei WONG, Professor Emeritus

Chun LIANG, Associate Professor

Robert Zhong QI, Associate Professor

Zilong WEN, Associate Professor

Wan-Keung R WONG, Associate Professor

Zhenguo WU, Associate Professor

Jun XIA, Associate Professor

Hong XUE, Associate Professor and Director, Hong Kong Bioinformatics Center

Guang ZHU, Associate Professor

Raymond S C WONG, Adjunct Associate Professor and Director, Animal and Plant Care Facility

Kenny K K CHUNG, Assistant Professor

Kit Yu FU, Visiting Assistant Professor

Anthony S L CHAN, Research Assistant Professor

Zelda H Y CHEUNG, Research Assistant Professor

Wei FENG, Research Assistant Professor

Kwok On LAI, Research Assistant Professor

Christina J MORRIS, Research Assistant Professor

Jun WAN, Research Assistant Professor

Zhiyi WEI, Research Assistant Professor Yung Hou WONG Acting Head of Department and Professor; Director of Biotechnology Research Institute; Associate Dean of School of Science; Co-Director of Molecular Neuroscience Center (2358 7328 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Cambridge (1988)

Current Research Activities: The role of G-proteins in cell proliferation, differentiation and the development of drug tolerance; cell-based high throughput drug screening.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Tumor suppressor Fhit protein as a novel target of G proteins RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,428,466 01 Dec 2008 Identification of key signalling molecules as drug targets for the treatment of brain tumors RGC - Collaborative Research Fund - Seed Funding HK$200,000 02 May 2008 Elucidating the role of Gα interacting protein (RGS-GAIP/RGS19) in cell growth and proliferation RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,936,500 01 Dec 2006

Representative Research Publications: Su, Y., Ho, M.K.C., Wong, Y.H. (2009) "A hematopoietic perspective on the promiscuity and specificity of Galpha16 signaling", NeuroSignals, 17: 71-81. Wang, K., Wong, Y.H. (2009) "G protein signaling controls the differentiation of multiple cell lineages", BioFactors, 35: 232-238. Poon, L.S.W., Chan, A.S.L., Wong, Y.H. (2009) "Gbeta3 forms distinct dimers with specific Ggamma subunits and preferentially activates the beta3 isoform of phospholipase C", Cell. Signal, 21: 737-744. Ho, M.K.C., Su, Y., Yeung, W.W.S., Wong, Y.H. (2009) "Regulation of transcription factors by heterotrimeric G proteins", Curr. Mol. Pharmacol., 2: 19-31. Yu, M.Y.M., Ho, M.K.C., Liu, A.M.F., Wong, Y.H. (2008) "Mutations on the Switch III region and the alpha3 helix of Galpha16 differentially affect receptor coupling and regulation of downstream effectors", J. Mol. Signal, 3: 17. Fu, G.M., Pang, T.H.H., Wong, Y.H. (2008) "Naturally occurring phenylethanoid glycosides: potential leads for new therapeutics", Curr. Med. Chem, 15: 2592-2613. Yung, L.Y., Tso, P.H., Wu, E.H.T., Yu, J.C.H., Ip, N.Y., Wong, Y.H. (2008) "Nerve growth factor-induced stimulation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase in PC12 cells is partially mediated via Gi/o proteins", Cell. Signal., 20: 1538-1544. Lo, R.K.H., Liu, A.M.F., Wise, H., Wong, Y.H. (2008) "Prostacyclin receptor-induced STAT3 phosphorylation in human erythroleukemia cells is mediated via Galphas and Galpha16 hybrid signaling", Cell. Signal., 20: 2095-2106.

Nancy Yuk-Yu IP Chair Professor; Director, BRI and Co-Director, Molecular Neuroscience Center (2358 7289 ; [email protected])

PhD (1983) and Postdoctoral Fellow (1983-84), Harvard Medical School Laboratory Head, Medical Genetics, Lifecodes Corporation (1987-89) Senior Staff Scientist, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (1989-93) Academician, CAS (2001- )

Current Research Activities: The functional roles of trophic factors in neuronal differentiation and synapse formation, and their potential applications in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Characterization of the roles of ARMS in dendritic development RGC - General Research Fund HK$2,071,486 01 Dec 2007 Molecular neuroscience: basic research and drug discovery UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$18,500,000 01 Sep 2007 Control of pandemic and inter-pandemic influenza - characterization of H5N1 infection in neuronal cells UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$470,000 01 Jan 2008 Croucher forum on molecular neuroscience Croucher Foundation HK$190,000 01 Jun 2005 Molecular neuroscience: Basic research and drug discovery Office of the Dean of Science, HKUST HK$3,810,000 12 Jul 2005 Molecular medicine UGC - High Impact Area HK$1,000,000 01 Dec 2005 Molecular neuroscience: basic research and drug discovery Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs/HKUST and Others HK$9,000,000 01 Sep 2007

Representative Research Publications: Ng, Yu Pong, Wu, Zhenguo, Wise, H., Tsim, Karl W K, Wong, Yung Hou, Ip, Nancy Y. (2009) "Differential and synergistic effect of nerve growth factor and cAMP on the regulation of early response genes during neuronal differentiation", NeuroSignals, 17: 111-120. Cheung, Zelda H.Y., Ip, Nancy Y. (2009) "Endophilin B1: Guarding the gate to destruction", Communicative and Integrative Biology, 2: 130-132. Hui, K.P.Y., Lee, S.M.Y., Cheung, C.Y., Ng, I.H.Y., Poon, L.L.M., Guan, Y., Ip, Nancy Y., Lau, A.S.Y., Peiris, M.J.S. (2009) "Induction of proinflammatory cytokines in primary human macrophages by influenza A virus (H5N1) is selectively regulated by IFN regulatory factor 3 and p38 MAPK", J. Immunol., 182:1088-1098. Tso, Prudence H., Morris, Christina J., Yung, L.Y., Ip, Nancy Y., Wong, Yung Hou (2009) "Multiple Gi proteins participate in nerve growth factor-induced activation of c-jun N-terminal kinases in PC12 cells", Neurochemical Research, 34: 1101- 1112. Lai, Kwok On, Ip, Nancy Y. (2009) "Synapse development and plasticity: roles of ephrin/Eph receptor signaling", Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 19: 1-9. Wan, Jun, Cheung, Anthony Y., Fu, Ada W.Y., Wu, C., Zhang, Mingjie, Mobley, W.C., Cheung, Zelda H.Y., Ip, Nancy Y. (2008) "Endophilin B1 as a novel regulator of nerve growth factor/TrkA trafficking and neurite outgrowth", J. Neurosci., 28: 9002-9012. Lee, S.M.Y., Cheung, C.Y., Nicholls, J.M., Hui, K.P.Y., Leung, C.Y.H., Uiprasertkul, M., Tipoe, G.L., Lau, Y.L., Poon, L.L.M., Ip, Nancy Y., Guan, Y., Peiris, M.J.S. (2008) "Hyper-induction of COX-2 mediated proinflammatory cascade: A mechanism for the pathogenesis of avian influenza H5N1 infection", J. Infectious Diseases, 198: 525-535. Yung, L.Y., Tso, Prudence H., Wu, Eddy H.T., Yu, Jowie C.H., Ip, Nancy Y., Wong, Yung Hou (2008) "Nerve growth factor-induced stimulation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase in PC12 cells is partially mediated via Gi/o proteins", Cellular Signalling, 20:1538-1544.

Mingjie ZHANG Chair Professor (2358 8709 ; [email protected] ; http://bcz102.ust.hk)

PhD, University of Calgary (1993)

Current Research Activities: High resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and biochemical studies of regulatory proteins in neuronal signal transductions.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Structure and functions of ZU5 domains: Novel protein-protein interaction modules implicated in cell polarity and neuronal migration RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,614,641 01 Oct 2007 Molecular Basis of Harmonin in the Organization of the Usher Protein Complexes RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,319,506 01 Oct 2008 Protein-phosphoinositides interactions in neuronal signaling RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$6,000,000 01 May 2008 CAS-HKUST Life Science and Biotechnology Joint Laboratory UGC - Collaboration with Mainland Institutions HK$320,000 19 Nov 2003 Acquisition of a state-of-the-art 800 MHz superconducting NMR spectrometer with cryogenic probe detection system UGC Miscellaneous HK$13,078,000 01 Sep 2008 Acquisition of a state-of-the-art 800 MHz superconducting NMR spectrometer with cryogenic probe detection system UGC - Special Equipment Grant HK$10,000,000 01 Sep 2008 Development of new protein drugs ("biologics") associated with the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase (AARS) family of enzymes Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$5,899,500 15 Jul 2008

Representative Research Publications: Wang, Rui, Wei, Zhiyi, Jin, Hao, Wu, Hao, Yu, Cong, Wen, Wenyu, Chan, Ling-Nga, Wen, Zilong, Zhang, Mingjie (2009) "Auto-inhibition of UNC5b Revealed by the Cytoplasmic Domain Structure of the Netrin Receptor", Mol Cell, 33, 692-703. Feng, Wei, Zhang, Mingjie (2009) "Organization and Dynamics of PDZ Domain-Related Supramodules in the Postsynaptic Density", Nat. Rev. Neurosci., 10, 87-99. Wu, Hao, Feng, Wei, Chen, Jia, Chan, Ling-Nga, Huang, Siyi, Zhang, Mingjie (2007) "PDZ Domains of Par-3 as Potential Phosphoinositide Signalling Integrators", Mol Cell, 28, 886-898. Long, Jia-fu, Feng, Wei, Wang, Rui, Chan, Ling-Nga, Ip, Fanny, Xia, Jun, Ip, Nancy, Zhang, Mingjie (2005) "Autoinhibition of X11s/Mints Scaffold Proteins Revealed by the Closed Conformation of the PDZ Tandem", Nat. Struct. & Mol. Biol., 12, 722-728. Yan, Jing, Wen, Wenyu, Xu, Weiguang, Long, Jia-fu, Adams, Marvin E, Froehner, Stanely C, Zhang, Mingjie (2005) "Structure of the Split PH domain and Distinct Lipid Binding Properties of the PH-PDZ Supramodule of alpha-Syntrophin", EMBO J., 24, 3985-3995. Feng, Wei, Long, Jiafu, Zhang, Mingjie (2005) "A unified assembly mode revealed by the structures of tetrameric L27 domain complexes formed by mLin-2/mLin-7 and Patj/Pals1 scaffold proteins", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 102, 6861-6866. Feng, Wei, Long, Jiafu, Fan, Jing-Song, Tetsuya, Suetake, Zhang, Mingjie (2004) "Hetero-tetrameric L27 (Lin-2, Lin-7) domain complexes as organization platforms for supra-molecular assemblies", Nat. Struct. & Mol. Biol., 11, 475-480. Tochio, H, Tsui, Marco M. K., Banfiel, David K., Zhang, Mingjie (2001) "An Auto-Inhibitory Mechanism for Non-Syntaxin SNARE Proteins Revealed by the Structure of Ykt6p", Science, 293, 698-702.

Robert K M KO Professor (2358 7298 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of British Columbia (1990)

Current Research Activities: Myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury and carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatotoxicity; protection against such injuries by antioxidants; antioxidant properties of traditional Chinese medicine.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Chinese medicine research and drug development UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$432,900 01 Apr 2008 Chinese medicine research and drug development UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$432,900 24 Jul 2008

Representative Research Publications: Pan, S.Y., Xiang, C.J., Dong, H., Fang, H.Y., Yu, Z.L., Ko, K.M. (2009) "Comparison studies of tacrine and bis(7)-tacrine on the suppression of scopolamine-induced behavioral changes and inhibition of acetylcholinerase in mice", Pharmacology, 83: 294-300. Cheng, Y.S., Lam, K.W., Ng, K.M., Ko, K.M. (2009) "Wibowo C: An integrative approach to product development - A skin-care cream", Computers Chem. Eng, 33: 1097-1113. Zhang, G.Q., Yu, Z.L., Liu, W.T., Wang, H., Fong, W.F., Tang, L.M., Xiong, Y.H., Ko, K.M. (2008) "Long-term treatment with a Chinese herbal formula, Sheng-Mai-San, improves cardiac contractile function in aged rats: The role of Ca2+ homeostasis", Rejuven. Res., 11: 989-990. Chen, N., Chiu, P.Y., Ko, K.M. (2008) "Schisandrin B enhances cerebral mitochondrial antioxidant status and structural integrity, and protects against cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury in rats", Biol. Pharm. Bull., 31: 1387-1391. Luk, K.F., Ko, K.M., Ng, K.M. (2008) "Separation and Purification of (-)Schisandrin B from Schisandrin B Stereoisomers", Biochem. Engineering J., 42: 55-60. Pan, S.Y., Dong, H., Xiang, C.J., Zhao, X.Y., Fang, H.Y., Wang, H., Yu, Z.L., Fong, W.F., Ko, K.M. (2008) "Bicyclol, a synthetic dibenzocycloocatadiene derivative, decreases hepatic lipids but increases serum triglyceride levels in normal and hypercholesterolemic mice", J. Pharm. Pharmacol., 59: 1657-1662. Leung, H.Y., Ko, K.M. (2008) "Cistanche deserticola extract enhances mitochondrial ATP generation in rat hearts and H9c2 cells", Pharmaceut. Biol., 46: 418-424. Chiu, P.Y., Leung, H.Y., Siu, A.H.Y., Chen, N., Poon, M.K.T., Ko, K.M. (2008) "Long-term treatment with a Yang- invigorating Chinese herbal formula produces generalized tissue protection against oxidative damage in rats", Rejuven. Res., 11: 43-62.

Randy Yat Choi POON Professor (2358 8703 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~rycpoon)

PhD, University of Cambridge (1994)

Current Research Activities: Molecular basis of cell cycle control in normal and cancer cells.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The molecular basis of cell cycle regulation by the A- and B-type cyclins in mammalian cells RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,779,784 01 Nov 2007 The molecular basis of cell cycle regulation by MAD2BP in mammalian cells RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,351,115 01 Sep 2008 Center for nasopharyngeal carcinoma research UGC - Targets of Opportunity and Others HK$2,500,000 12 May 2007 Aging: epigenetic regulation, cell cycle checkpoint control and stem cell potency RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$450,000 01 Mar 2008 Signaling mechanisms in cell growth, differentiation and apoptosis UGC - High Impact Area HK$2,099,000 13 Nov 2002

Representative Research Publications: Chan, Y.W., Ma, H.T., Wong, W., Ho, C.C., On, Kin Fan, Poon, Randy Y C (2009) "CDK1 inhibitors antagonize the immediate apoptosis triggered by spindle disruption but promote apoptosis following the subsequent rereplication and abnormal mitosis", Cell Cycle, 7: 1149-61. Chan, Y.W., Chen, Y., Poon, Randy Y C (2009) "Generation of an indestructible cyclin B1 by caspase-6-dependent cleavage during mitotic catastrophe", Oncogene, 28: 170-183. Chan, Y.W., On, Kin Fan, Chan, W.M., Wong, W., Siu, H.O., Hau, P.M., Poon, Randy Y C (2009) "The kinetics of p53 activation versus cyclin E accumulation underlies the relationship between the spindle-assembly checkpoint and the postmitotic checkpoint", J. Biol. Chem., 283: 15716-23. Chan, Ying Wai, Ma, Hoi Tang, Wong, Winnie, Ho, Chui Chui, On, Kin Fan, Poon, Randy YC (2008) "CDK1 inhibitors antagonize the immediate apoptosis triggered by spindle disruption but promote apoptosis following the subsequent rereplication and abnormal mitosis", Cell Cycle, 7: 1149-61. Chan, Ying Wai, On, Kin Fan, Chan, Wan Mui, Wong, Winnie, Siu, Ho On, Hau, Pok Man, Poon, Randy Y.C. (2008) "The kinetics of p53 activation versus cyclin E accumulation underlies the relationship between the spindle-assembly checkpoint and the postmitotic checkpoint", J. Biol. Chem., 283: 15716-23. Chen, Yu, Poon, Randy Y.C. (2008) "The multiple checkpoint functions of CHK1 and CHK2 in maintenance of genome stability", Frontiers Biosciences, 13: 5016-29. Zhang, Wei, Chan, Ho Man, Gao, Yan, Poon, Randy, Wu, Zhenguo (2007) "BS69 is involved in cellular senescence through the p53-p21cip1 pathway", EMBO Reports, 8: 952-8.

Jerry H C WANG Adjunct Professor and Professor Emeritus; Co-Director, Molecular Neuroscience Center (2358 8701 ; [email protected])

PhD, Iowa State University (1965) Professor of Biochemistry (1982-94), University of Calgary Director, MRC Signal Transduction Group (1990-94)

Current Research Activities: Enzymology of signal transduction; novel signal transduction processes in neurons; protein kinases and protein phosphatases.

Representative Research Publications: Fu, Amy K. Y., Fu, Ada W. Y., Ng, Alberto K. Y., Chien, Winnie W. Y., Ng, Yu Pong, Wang, Jerry H., Ip, Nancy Y. (2004) "Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 phosphorylates STAT3 and regulates its transcriptional activity", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 101:6728-6733. Song, Yongcheng, Kesuma, Djohan, Wang, Jian, Deng, Yu, Duan, Jinao, Wang, Jerry H., Qi, Robert Z. (2004) "Specific inhibition of cyclin-dependent kinases and cell proliferation by harmine", Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 317(1):128-132. Qi, Robert Z., Ching, Yick-Pang, Kung, Hsiang-Fu, Wang, Jerry H. (2004) "alpha-Chimaerin exists in a functional complex with the Cdk5 kinase in brain", FEBS Lett., 561(1-3):177-180. Wang, Jian, Liu, Shu Hong, Fu, Yang Ping, Wang, Jerry H., Lu, You Ming (2003) "Cdk5 activation induces hippocampal CA1 cell death by directly phosphorylating NMDA receptors", Nature Neuroscience, 6:1039-1047. Deng, Yu, Pang, Andy S.H., Wang, Jerry H.C. (2003) "Regulation of mammalian STE20-like kinase 2 (MST2) by protein phosphorylation/dephosphorylation and proteolysis", J Biol Chem, 278(14): 11760-7. Cheng, K, Li, Z, Fu, W.Y., Wang, Jerry H.C., Fu, K.Y., Ip, Nancy Y (2002) "Pctaire1 Interacts with p35 and Is a Novel Substrate for Cdk5/p35", J Biol Chem, 277: 31988-93. Song, Y., Wang, Jian, Teng, S.F., Kesuma, D., Deng, Yu, Duan, J., Wang, J.H., Qi, R.Z., Sim, M.M. (2002) "Beta-carbolines as specific inhibitors of cyclin-dependent kinases", Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., 12: 1129-1132. Ching, Y.-P., Pang, A.S.H., Lam, W.-H., Qi, R.Z., Wang, J.H. (2002) "Identification of a neuronal Cdk5 activator-binding protein as Cdk5 inhibitor", J. Biol. Chem., 277: 15237-15240.

Jeffrey Tze-Fei WONG Professor Emeritus (2358 7288 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Toronto (1963) Professor of Biochemistry, University of Toronto (1976-90)

Current Research Activities: Origin of genetic coding; evolution of codon usages; identity elements of transfer RNA.

Representative Research Publications: Mat, W.-K., Xue, H., Wong, J.T.-F. (2008) "The genomics of LUCA", Frontiers in Bioscience, 13, 5605-5613. Wong, J.T.-F. (2007) "Question 6: Coevolution theory of the genetic code: a proven theory", Orig Life Evol Biosph, 37, 403-408. Wong, J.T. (2007) "Coevolution theory of the genetic code: a proven theory", Orig. Life Evol. Biosph., PMID: 17611816. Wong, J.T. (2005) "Coevolution theory of the genetic code at age thirty", BioEssays, 27, 416-425. Tong, K.L., Wong, J.T. (2004) "Anticodon and wobble evolution", Gene, 333,169-177. Tong, Ka-Lok, Wong, J. T.-F. (2004) "Anticodon and wobble evolution", Gene, 333: 169-177. Xue, Hong, Ka-lok, Tong, Marck, Christian, Grosjean, Henri, Wong, J. Tze-Fei (2003) "Transfer RNA Paralogs: Evidence for Genetic Code-Amino Acid Biosynthesis Coevolution and an Archaeal Root of Life.", Gene, 310, 59-66. Wong, J. Tze-Fei (2002) "Mutation and Expansion of the Genetic Code", Engineering Enzymes for Biocatalysis by Using Directed Evolution, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France.

Chun LIANG Associate Professor (2358 7296 ; [email protected])

PhD, Brown University (1993)

Current Research Activities: 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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A Group of Novel DNA Replication Origins and Replicators Sharing Homologous Sequences and Dispersed throughout the Human Genome RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,522,898 01 Sep 2008 Control of DNA Replication Licensing by Dephosphorylation of the Initiator ORC subunits and Mcm3p by Cdc14p RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,761,800 01 Jul 2009 Novel anticancer agents targeted to DNA replication-initiation proteins against all types of cancer cells and with low toxicity to normal cells UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$500,000 14 Apr 2008

Representative Research Publications: Xiong, XD, Qiu, FE, Fang, JH, Shen, Yi, Liang, Chun, Jiang, W, Zhuang, SM (2009) "Association analysis between the Cdc6 G1321A polymorphism and the risk for non-Hodgkin lymphoma and hepatocellular carcinoma", Mutat Res., 662: 10-15. Wu, WB, Liang, HQ, Kan, Junsuo, Liu, C, Yuan, MJ, Liang, Chun, Yang, K, Pang, Y (2008) "Autographa californica Multiple Nucleopolyhedrovirus 38K Is a Novel Nucleocapsid Protein That Interacts with VP1054, VP39, VP80 and Itself", J. Virol., 82:12356- 12364. Kan, Junsuo, Zou, Lan, Zhang, Jingjing, Wu, Rentian, Wang, Ziyi, Liang, Chun (2008) "Origin recognition complex (ORC) mediates histone 3 lysine 4 methylation through cooperation with Spp1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae", J. Biol. Chem., 283: 33803-33807. Li, JN, Feng, CJ, Lu, YJ, Li, HJ, Tu, Zhen, Liao, GQ, Liang, Chun (2008) "mRNA expression of the DNA replication-initiation proteins in epithelial dysplasia and squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue", BMC Cancer, 8: 395-412. Yu, Zhiling, Feng, Daorong, Liang, Chun (2004) "Pairwise Interactions of the Six Human MCM Protein Subunits", J. Mol. Biol., 340: 1197-1206. Fu, Xinrong, Ng, Christine, Feng, Daorong, Liang, Chun (2003) "Cdc48p Is Required for the Cell Cycle Commitment Point at START via Degradation of the G1-CDK Inhibitor Far1p", J. Cell Biol., 163: 21-26. Feng, Daorong, Tu, Zheng, Wu, Wenyan, Liang, Chun (2003) "Inhibiting the Expression of DNA Replication-Initiation Proteins Induces Apoptosis in Human Cancer Cells", Cancer Res., 63: 7356-7364. Liang, Chun, Feng, Daorong, Yu, Zhiling (2002) "Treatment and prevention of hyperproliferative conditions in humans and antisense oligonucleotide inhibition of human replication-initiation proteins", USA Patent Application.. Robert Zhong QI Associate Professor (2358 7273 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Calgary (1996) Assistant Professor & Principal Investigator, Proteomics Group & Protein Chemistry Facility, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore (1999-2002)

Current Research Activities: 1. To understand the organization and regulation of microtubule cytoskeleton during cell proliferation, migration, and differentiation and how defects in the cytoskeleton result in diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. 2. Proteomics, proteomic technology, biomass spectrometry and applications.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Functional proteomics to decipher protein complexes of the cell regulatory machinery in model systems UGC - High Impact Area HK$400,000 16 Sep 2004 Esophageal carcinoma research center RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$ 01 Feb 2009 Investigation of the role of a novel centrosomal protein, CDK5RAP2, in the microtubule organizing function of the centrosome RGC - General Research Fund HK$932,500 01 Dec 2006 Investigating the regulation of microtubule dynamics by CDK5RAP2 at microtubule growing tips UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$39,780 01 Jan 2009 Establishment of a multifunctional proteomic facility for biological sciences UGC Miscellaneous HK$2,448,000 15 Dec 2008 Establishment of a multifunctional proteomic facility for biological sciences UGC - Special Equipment Grant HK$5,000,000 15 Dec 2008

Representative Research Publications: Fong, K.-W., Choi, Y.-W., Rattner, J.B., Qi, R.Z. (2008) "CDK5RAP2 is a pericentriolar protein that functions in centrosomal attachment of the γ-tubulin ring complex", Mol. Biol. Cell, 19, 115-125. He, L., Hou, Z., Qi, R.Z. (2008) "Calmodulin-binding and Cdk5 phosphorylation of p35 regulate its effect on microtubules", J. Biol. Chem., 283, 13252-13260. Hou, Z., Li, Q., He, L., Lim, H.-Y., Cheung, N.S., Qi, D.X., Qi, R.Z. (2007) "Microtubule association of the neuronal p35 activator of Cdk5", J. Biol. Chem., 282(26), 18666-18670. Hou, Z., He, L., Qi, R.Z. (2007) "Regulation of S6 kinase 1 activation by phosphorylation at Ser411", J. Biol. Chem., 282(10), 6922- 6928. Fu, X, Choi, Y.-K., Yu, Y., Cheung, N.S., Qi, R.Z. (2006) "Identification of nuclear import mechanisms for the neuronal Cdk5 activator", J. Biol. Chem., 281(51), 39014-39021. Lim, A.C.B., Hou, Z., Goh, C.P., Qi, R.Z. (2004) "Protein kinase CK2 is an inhibitor of the neuronal Cdk5 kinase", J. Biol. Chem., 279(45), 46668-46673. Lim, A.C.B., Qi, Robert Z. (2003-2004) "Cyclin-dependent kinases in neural development and degeneration", J. Alzheimer's Dis., 5(4), 329-335. Lim, A.C.B., Tiu, S.Y., Li, Q., Qi, Robert Z. (2003-2004) "Direct regulation of microtubule dynamics by protein kinase CK2", J. Biol. Chem., 279, 4433-4439.

Zilong WEN Associate Professor (2358 7294 ; [email protected])

PhD, Rockefeller University (1997) Current Research Activities: Hematopoietic Cell Development in Vertebrates

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Study of Zebrafish Definitive Hematopoiesis-deficient Mutant sofhipsq2 RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,519,266 01 Sep 2008 The Role of c-myb in Zebrafish Primitive and Definitive Hematopoiesis RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,495,000 01 Sep 2009 Genetic Screen for Hematopoietic Stem Cell-Deficient Mutants in Zebrafish UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$500,000 01 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Liu, Y.M., Du, L.S., Osato, M., Teo, E.H., Qian, F., Jin, H., Zhen, F.H., Xu, J., Guo, L., Huang, H.H., Chen, J., Geisler, R., Jiang, Y.J., Peng, J.R., Wen, Z.L. (2007) "The zebrafish udu gene encodes a novel nuclear factor and is essential for primitive erythroid cell development", Blood, v110(1):99-106, 1 Jul. Qian, F., Zhen, F.H., Xu, J., Huang, M., Li, W.Y., Wen, Z.L. (2007) "Distinct functions for different scl isoforms in zebrafish primitive and definitive hematopoiesis", PLoS Biology, Vol 5, No 5, May. Jin, H., Xu, J., Wen, Z.L. (2007) "Migratory path of definitive hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells during zebrafish development", Blood, Vol 109(12) 5067-5508, June 15. Jin, H., Xu, J., Qian, F., Du, L.S., Tan, C.Y., Lin, Z.X., Peng, J.R., Wen, Z.L. (2006) "The 5' zebrafish scl promoter targets transcription to the brain, spinal cord, hematopoietic and endothelial progenitors", Developmental Dynamics, 235:60-67. Chen, J., Ruan, H., Ng, S.M., Gao, C., Soo, H.M., Wu, W., Zhang, Z.H., Wen, Z.L., Lane, D.P., Peng, J.R. (2005) "Loss of function of def selectively up-regulates 113p53 expression to arrest expansion growth of digestive organs in zebrafish", Genes & Development, 19:2900-2911. Qian, F., Zhen, F.H., Ong, C.T., Jin, S-W., Soo, H. M., Stainier, D.Y.R., Lin, S., Peng, J.R., Wen, Z.L. (2005) "Microarray analysis of zebrafish cloche mutant using amplified cDNA and the identification of potential hematopoietic-endothelial target genes", Developmental Dynamics, 233:1163-1172. Lo, J., Lee, S., Xu, M., Liu, F., Ruan, H., Eun, A., He, Y., Wang, W., Wen, Z.L., Peng, J.R. (2003) "15,000 unique zebrafish EST clusters and their use in microarray for profiling gene expression patterns during embryogenesis", Genome Research, 13:455-466. Huang, M., Qian, F., Hu, Y., Ang, C, Li, Z., Wen, Z.L. (2002) "The chromatin-remodelling factor BRG1 selectively activates a subset of interferon a-inducible genes", Nature Cell Biology, 4:774-781.

Wan-Keung R WONG Associate Professor (2358 7299 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of British Columbia (1986) Project Leader, Allelix Biopharmaceuticals Inc (1988-90)

Current Research Activities: Development of microbial host systems for extracellular production of valuable proteins; production and reconstitution of recombinant cellulases.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Production of recombinant cellulases for the treatment of cellulosic wastes UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$39,780 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Wong, W.K.R. (2009) "A story about local success in biotechnological development", World Congress on Science, Engineering and Technology - Hong Kong, China. Conference Proceedings - Hong Kong 2009, Hong Kong, March 23-25, 2009. Wong, W.K.R. (2008) "Application of recombinant microbial systems to the production of commercially valuable proteins.", Research Journal of BioTechnology, 3 (3): 3-4. Wong, W.K.R. (2008) "Applications of recombinant human epidermal growth factor in the treatment of hard-to-heal wounds", EHRLICH II, 2nd World Conference on Magic Bullets, Nurnberg, Germany. 3-5, October 2008. Wong, W.K.R. (2008) "Cosmetic Production in Escherichia coli", Synthetic Biology 4.0 Conference, HKUST. Hong Kong, October 10-12, 2008. Wong, W.K.R., Ng, K.L. (2008) "Production and Commercial Applications of Recombinant Human Epidermal Growth Factor", 2008 Bio-Venture Capital Forum, Dalian, China, October 11-13, 2008. Chan, Kwun Nam A., Wong, Wan Keung R. (2008) "Cloning and characterization of the first GHF1 gene, cba3, encoding a commercially valuable cellobiase from Cellulomonas biazotea", The 9th AEARU Workshop on Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, HKUST, Hong Kong, PPG7, p. 66, March 25-26. Ng, Ka-Lun, Lam, Chui-Chi, Wong, Wan-Keung R. (2008) "Cloning and characterization of the yjeA gene encoding a novel deoxyribonuclease from Bacillus subtilis", The 9th AEARU Workshop on Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, HKUST, Hong Kong, PPG6, p. 65, March 25-26. Wong, Wan Keung (2008) "Commercialization of biotechnological research results", High-Technology & Industrialization, January, 108-109.

Zhenguo WU Associate Professor (2358 8704 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Western Ontario (1995)

Current Research Activities: Elucidation of cellular signaling pathways involved in skeletal muscle differentiation and Epstein-Barr virus-mediated cell transformation.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Investigation of the roles of the JAK/STAT pathways in myogenic differentiation RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,252,140 01 Sep 2007 Characterization of the role of TRAF6 in myogenic differentiation RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,292,447 01 Sep 2008 Functional characterization of two novel Pax7-interacting proteins in muscle satellite cells and myogenic differentiation RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,495,000 01 Sep 2009 Systematic Study of Essential Protein Kinases Involved in Cell Growth and Differentiation RGC - Collaborative Research Fund - Seed Funding HK$250,000 01 Sep 2006 Systematic study of essential protein kinases involved in cell growth and differentiation RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$6,000,000 01 Jun 2007 Investigation of the role of JAK1 in muscle stem cells and muscle regeneration in vivo National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$445,000 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Wang, Kepeng, Wang, Chihao, Xiao, Fang, Wang, Haixia, Wu, Zhenguo (2008) "JAK2/STAT2/STAT3 Are Required for Myogenic Differentiation.", J. Biol. Chem.. Wang, Haixia, Xu, Qing, Xiao, Fang, Jiang, Yong, Wu, Zhenguo (2008) "Involvement of the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase alpha, beta, and gamma isoforms in myogenic differentiation", Mol. Biol. Cell, 19: 1519-1528. Zhang, Wei, Chan, Homan, Gao, Yan, Poon, Randy, Wu, Zhenguo (2007) "BS69 is involved in cellular senescence through the p53-p21Cip1 pathway.", EMBO Reports, 8: 952-958. Sun, Luguo, Ma, Kewei, Wang, Haixia, Xiao, Fang, Gao, Yan, Zhang, Wei, Wang, Kepeng, Gao, Xiang, Ip, Nancy, Wu, Zhenguo (2007) "JAK1–STAT1–STAT3, a key pathway promoting proliferation and preventing premature differentiation of myoblasts", J Cell Biol, 179: 129-38. Wan, Jun, Zhang, Wei, Wu, Liming, Bai, Ting, Zhang, Mingjie, Lo, Kwok-wai, Chui, Yiu-loon, Cui, Yan, Yamamoto, Masahiro, Akira, Shizuo, Wu, Zhenguo (2006) "BS69, a specific adaptor in the latent membrane protein 1-mediated cJun N-terminal kinase pathway.", Mol. Cell. Biol., 26: 448-456. Wu, Liming, Nakano, Hiroyasu, Wu, Zhenguo (2006) "The C-terminal Activating Region 2 of the Epstein-Barr Virus-encoded Latent Membrane Protein 1 Activates NF- B through TRAF6 and TAK1.", J. Biol. Chem., 281: 2162-2169. Ma, Kewei, Chan, Jonathan, KL, Zhu, Guang, Wu, Zhenguo (2005) "Myocyte enhancer factor 2 acetylation by p300 enhances its DNA binding activity, transcriptional activity and myogenic differentiation.", Mol. Cell. Biol., 25: 3575-82. Wan, Jun, Sun, Luguo, Mendoza, Jennifier W., Chui, Yiu Loon, Huang, Dolly P, Chen, Zhijian J, Suzuki, Nobutaka, Suzuki, Shinobu, Yeh, Wen-Chen, Akira, Shizuo, Matsumoto, Kunihiro, Liu, Zheng-Gang, Wu, Zhenguo (2004) "Elucidation of the JNK pathway mediated by Epstein-Barr virus encoded latent membrane protein 1", Mol. Cell Biol., 24: 192-199.

Jun XIA Associate Professor (2358 8714 ; [email protected])

PhD, The Johns Hopkins University (2001)

Current Research Activities: Molecular mechanism of learning and memory; organization of synapse and regulation of synaptic transmission; molecular and cellular bases of neurological and psychiatric diseases.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Lipids at synapses: a systematic investigation of the distribution profile, dynamic regulation and function of phosphoinositides at synapses RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,085,729 01 Oct 2007 Protein trafficking: mechanism and diseases RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$5,000,000 01 Feb 2009 Role of AMPA receptor associated proteins in neurexin-neuroligin mediated synaptogenesis RGC - General Research Fund HK$932,500 01 Oct 2006 An investigation of the role of the PICK-ICA69 complex in AMPA receptor trafficking and synaptic plasticity National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$799,000 01 Jan 2008 Could PICK1 be the Missing Link between Parkin and Mitochondria in Pathogenesis of Parkinson's Disease? UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$500,000 30 Jun 2008 A preliminary study on the components of the PICK1-ICA69 complex UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$39,780 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Xiao, Nan, Kam, Chuen, Shen, Chong, Jin, Wenying, Wang, Junqi, Lee, Kwong Man, Jiang, Liwen, Xia, Jun (2009) "PICK1 deficiency causes male infertility in mice by disrupting acrosome formation.", The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 119(4):802- 812. Pan, Lifeng, Wu, Hao, Shen, Chong, Shi, Yawei, Jin, Wenying, Xia, Jun, Zhang, Mingjie (2007) "Clustering and synaptic targeting of PICK1 requires direct interaction between the PDZ domain and lipid membranes", The EMBO Journal, 26(21):4576- 87. Cao, Mian, Xu, Junyu, Shen, Chong, Kam, Chuen, Huangir, Richard, Xia, Jun (2007) "PICK1-ICA69 heteromeric BAR domain complex regulates synaptic targeting and surface expression of AMPA receptors", Journal of Neuroscience, 27(47):12945- 12956. Xu, Junyu, Xia, Jun (2007) "Structure and Function of PICK1", Neurosignals, 15(4):190-201. Jin, Wenying, Ge, Wuping, Xu, Junyu, Cao, Mian, Peng, Lisheng, Yung, Wingho, Liao, Dezhi, Duan, Shumin, Zhang, Mingjie, Xia, Jun (2006) "Lipid Binding Regulates PICK1’s Synaptic Targeting, AMPA Receptor Trafficking and Synaptic Plasticity", J. Neurosci., 26(9):2380-2390.

Hong XUE Associate Professor and Director, Hong Kong Bioinformatics Center (2358 8707 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Toronto (1993)

Current Research Activities: Neural receptor structures and functions; bioinformatics and evolution.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Development of key technologies and platform for pharmacological evaluations of Northeastern Chinese medicinal herbs Ministry of Science and Technology HK$93,450 01 Oct 2006 Applied Genomics Center Nansha Research Centers HK$4,800,000 01 Apr 2007

Representative Research Publications: Mak, W.K., Xue, H., Wong, J.T.F. (2008) "The genomics of LUCA", Frontiers in Bioscience, 13: 5605-5613. Xue, H., Wong, J.T.F. (2007) "A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs", The International HapMap Consortium (2007). Nature, 449: 851-861. Xue, H., Wong, J.T.F. (2007) "Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations", The International HapMap Consortium (2007). Nature, 449: 913-919. Xue, H. (2007) "Association with schizophrenia of alternatively spliced variants of GABAA receptor Beta2 subunit", Beyond Genome, San Francisco, USA, June 20-22, 2007. Abstract. Lo, W.S., Harano, M., Gawlik, M., Yu, Z., Chen, J., Pun, F.W., Tong, K.L., Zhao, C., Ng, S.K., Tsang, S.Y., Uchimura, N., Stoeber, G., Xue, H. (2007) "GABRB2 associated with schizophrenia: commonalities and differences between ethnic groups and clinical subtypes", Biological Psychiatry, 61: 653-660. Lo, W.S., Xu, Z., Yu, Z., Pun, F.W., Ng, S.K., Chen, J., Tong, K.L., Zhao, C., Xu, X., Tsang, S.Y., Harano, M., Stoeber, G., Nimgaonkar, V.L., Xue, H. (2007) "Positive selection within the schizophrenia-associated GABAA receptor Beta2 gene", PLoS ONE, 2(5): e462.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000462. Tsang, S.Y., Ng, S.K., Xu, Z., Xue, H. (2007) "The evolution of GABAA receptor-like genes", Molecular Biology and Evolution, 24: 599-610. Ng, S.K., Xue, H. (2006) "Alu-enhanced sequence diversity in the human genome", The 4th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference. Aspen/Snowmass, Colorado, Silvertree Hotel., December 1-3, 2006. Abstract.

Guang ZHU Associate Professor (2358 8705 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Maryland, College Park (1992) Research Associate, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park (1993-94)

Current Research Activities: 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. Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Structure-function studies of protein complexes of Geminin/Cdt1, Geminin/hox and MCM6/Cdt1 RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,429,500 01 Dec 2006 A study of the interaction and dynamics between tRNA Leu and leucyl-tRNA synthetase (LeuRS) in solution National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$599,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Zhou, Bo, Chen, Lihong, Wu, Xing, Wang, Jing, Yin, Yinliang, Zhu, Guang (2008) "MH1 Domain of SMAD4 Binds N- terminal Residues of the Homeodomain of Hoxc9", Biochim Biophys Acta., 2008 May;1784(5):747-52. Yin, yinliang, Yu, vivian, Zhu, Guang, Chang, Donald (2008) "SET8 plays a role in controlling G1/S transition by blocking lysine acetylation in histone through binding to H4 N-terminus tail", Cell Cycle, 7:10, 1-10, May 15. Zhu, Guang, Yao, Xuejun (2008) "TROSY-based NMR experiments for large biomolecules", Prog. in NMR Spectroscopy., 52 49- 68 (2008). Yin, yinliang, Liu, changdong, Tsai, SauNa, Zhou, Bo, Ngai, Saiming, Zhu, Guang (2005) "SET8 recognizes the sequence RHRK20VLRDN within the N terminus of histone H4 and mono-methylates lysine 20.", Journal of Biological chemistry, 280(34), 30025- 31, 2005. Ma, Kewei, Chan, Jonathan, zhu, guang, Wu, Zhenguo (2005) "Myocyte Enhancer Factor 2 Acetylation by p300 Enhances Its DNA Binding Activity, Transcription Activity, and Myogenic Differentiation", Mol. And Cell. Biol, (2005) 3575-3582. yin, yinliang, Liu, changdong, TSAI, Helen, Zhou, Bo, NGAI, Sai Ming, ZHU, Guang (2005) "SET8 Recognizes the Sequence RHRK20VLRD within the N-terminus of Histone H4 and Mono-methylates Lysine 20", J. Biol Chem, 280, 30025-31. Xia, youlin, ZHU, guang, Gao, Xiaolian (2004) "(3,2)D GFT-NMR Experiments for Fast Collection of Protein Data", J. Biomol. NMR,, 29 (4): 467-476. ZHU, Guang, Xia, Youlin, Lin, Donghai, Gao, Xiaolian (2004) "TROSY-based NMR experiments for the study of macromolecular dynamics and hydrogen bonding,", chapter 11, Methods in Molecular Biology/Molecular Medicine, Humana Press, 161-184.

Raymond S C WONG Adjunct Associate Professor and Director, Animal and Plant Care Facility (2358 7271 ; [email protected])

PhD, South Dakota State University (1975) Chief Biochemist, Allelix Crop Technologies (1988-90)

Current Research Activities: Plant bioengineering through genetic manipulation and microspore culture system for the improvement of oilseed as well as Chinese vegetable crops (Brassics spp).

Kenny K K CHUNG Assistant Professor (2358 8019 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Cambridge (1999)

Current Research Activities: Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration; functional studies of genes that are linked to familial Parkinson's disease.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Aggregation-prone alpha-synuclein: insights into the formation of Lewy bodies and the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$80,400 30 Jun 2009 The role of ubiquitin linkages on proteasomal function: Insights into the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,132,500 01 Oct 2006 S-nitrosylation of XIAP: the consequences on its function and a possible role in Parkinson's disease UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$39,780 01 Jul 2008

Representative Research Publications: Tsang, Anthony H.K., Chung, Kenny K K (2009) "Oxidative stress and nitrosative stress in Parkinson's disease", Biochim Biophys Acta., 1792, 643-650. Tsang, Anthony H.K., Lee, Yun-Il, Ko, Han S., Savitt, Joseph M., Pletnikova, Olga, Troncoso, Juan C., Dawson, Valina L., Dawson, Ted M., Chung, Kenny K K (2009) "S-Nitrosylation of XIAP compromises neuronal survival in Parkinson's disease", Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A., 106, 4900-5. Lee, Fran K.M., Wong, Azaria K.Y., Lee, Yuk Wa, Wan, Oi Wan, Chan, H.Y. Edwin, Chung, Kenny K K (2009) "The role of ubiquitin linkages on alpha-synuclein induced-toxicity in a Drosophila model of Parkinson's disease", J. Neurochem., 110, 208-219. Chung, Kenny (2007) "Say NO to Neurodegeneration: Role of S-Nitrosylation in Neurodegenerative Disorders", Neurosignals, 15, 307-312. Ko, Han S., Coelln, Rainer V., Sriram, Sathya R., Kim, Seong W., Chung, Kenny K.K., Pletnikova, Olga, Troncoso, Juan, Johnson, Brett, Saffary, Roya, Goh, Eyleen L., Song, Hongjun, Park, Bum-Joon, Kim, Min J., Kim, Sunghoon, Dawson, Valina L., Dawson, Ted M. (2005) "Accumulation of the authentic parkin substrate aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase cofactor, p38/JTV-1, leads to catecholaminergic cell death.", Journal of Neuroscience, 25: 7968-7978. Sriram, Sathya R., Li, Xiaojie, Ko, Han S., Chung, Kenny K.K., Wong, Esther, Lim, Kah L., Dawson, Valina L., Dawson, Ted M. (2005) "Familial-associated mutations differentially disrupt the solubility, localization, binding and ubiquitination properties of parkin.", Human Molecular Genetics, 14: 2571-2586. Chung, Kenny K.K., Dawson, Ted M., Dawson, Valina L. (2005) "Nitric oxide, S-nitrosylation and neurodegeneration.", Cellular and Molecular Biology, 51: 247-254. Chung, Kenny K.K., Dawson, Valina L., Dawson, Ted M. (2005) "S-nitrosylation in Parkinson's disease and related neurodegenerative disorders.", Methods in Enzymology, 396: 139-150.

Kit Yu FU Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 8769 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Characterizing the functional roles of Axin in the establishment of neuronal polarity RGC - General Research Fund HK$797,315 01 Nov 2008 The functional roles of Cdk5 in chromatin modification during neural development RGC - General Research Fund HK$932,500 01 Nov 2006

Representative Research Publications: Fu, Amy K. Y., Cheung, Zelda H. Y., Ip, Nancy Y. (2008) "Beta-catenin in reverse action", Nature Neuroscience, 11(3):244- 246. Shi, Lei, Fu, Ada W. Y., Hung, Nelson K. W., Porchetta, Cassandra, Hall, Christine, Fu, Amy K. Y., Ip, Nancy Y. (2007) "Alpha2-chimaerin interacts with EphA4 and regulates EphA4-dependent growth cone collapse", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104:16347- 16352. Fu, Amy K. Y., Ip, Nancy Y. (2007) "Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 links extracellular cues to actin cytoskeleton during dendritic spine development", Cell Adhesion & Migration, 1:2, 110-112. Lok, Ka Chun, Fu, Amy K. Y., Ip, Fanny C. F., Wong, Yung Hou, Ip, Nancy Y. (2007) "NRG induces membrane targeting of GAlphaz in muscle: implication in myogenesis", NeuroReport, 18:1433-1436.

Anthony S L CHAN Research Assistant Professor (2358 8971 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Molecular basis of G-betagamma signaling: dimer formation and interaction with effectors and G-alpha subunits RGC - General Research Fund HK$689,996 01 Dec 2007 Characterization of novel agonists of G protein-coupled melatonin receptors RGC - General Research Fund HK$740,565 01 Dec 2008 Activation of STAT3 by G protein subunits: A mechanistic study RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,229,500 01 Dec 2006

Representative Research Publications: Poon, See Wing, Chan, Anthony S L, Wong, Yung Hou (2009) "G-beta3 forms distinct dimers with specific G-gamma subunits and preferentially activates the beta-3 isoform of phospholipase C.", Cellular Signalling, 21(5):737-744. Chan, Anthony S L, Lau, Wai In, Wong, Yung Hou (2009) "Melatonin MT2 receptor activates STAT3 through the pertussis toxin-insensitive G16 protein.", The 6th Asian Biophysics Association Symposium & 27th Hong Kong Society of Neuroscience Annual Meeting. Poon, See Wing, Chan, Anthony S L, Wong, Yung Hou (2009) "Molecular determinants for G betagamma-induced activation of phospholipase C-beta isoforms.", The 6th Asian Biophysics Association Symposium & 27th Hong Kong Society of Neuroscience Annual Meeting. Lau, Wai In, Chan, Anthony S L, Wong, Yung Hou (2009) "Role of PKC in melatonin receptor-mediated STAT3 activation.", The 6th Asian Biophysics Association Symposium & 27th Hong Kong Society of Neuroscience Annual Meeting. Poon, See Wing, Chan, Anthony S L, Wong, Yung Hou (2008) "Formation of specific G protein betagamma-dimers and their corresponding activation of phospholipase C isoforms", The 9th Association of East Asian Research Universities Workshop on Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. Lau, Wai In, Chan, Anthony S L, Wong, Yung Hou (2008) "Melatonin MT1 Receptor-mediated STAT3 Activation Through G16.", The 9th Association of East Asian Research Universities Workshop on Molecular Biology and Biotechnology.

Zelda H Y CHEUNG Research Assistant Professor (2358 8796 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Elucidating the role of Cdk5 in endophilin B1-mediated regulation of TrkA trafficking and downstream function RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,840,000 01 Sep 2009 Characterization of the functional roles of Cdk5 in TrkB-mediated signaling RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,229,500 01 Sep 2006

Representative Research Publications: Fu, Amy, Cheung, Zelda, Ip, Nancy (2008) "Beta-catenin in reverse action.", Nat Neurosci., 11(3):244-6. Cheung, Zelda, Chin, Wing Hong, Chen, Yu, Ng, Yu Pong, Ip, Nancy (2008) "Cdk5 is involved in BDNF-stimulated dendritic growth in hippocampal neurons.", PLoS Biol., 5(4):e63. Cheung, Zelda, Gong, Ke, Ip, Nancy (2008) "Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 supports neuronal survival through phosphorylation of Bcl-2.", J Neurosci., 28(19):4872-7. Wan, Jun, Cheung, Anthony, Fu, Wing Yu, Wu, Chengbiao, Zhang, Mingjie, Mobley, William, Cheung, Zelda, Ip, Nancy (2008) "Endophilin B1 as a novel regulator of nerve growth factor/ TrkA trafficking and neurite outgrowth.", J Neurosci., 28(36):9002-12. Cheung, Zelda, Ip, Nancy (2008) "The roles of cyclin-dependent kinase 5 in dendrite and synapse development.", Biotechnol J., 2(8):949-57.

Wei FENG Research Assistant Professor (2358 8797 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Structural and functional studies of the signaling complexes involved in the control of cell polarity

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Structural and functional studies of the PDZ domains of Par-3 RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,683,410 01 Oct 2008

Representative Research Publications: Feng, Wei, Zhang, Mingjie (2009) "Organization and Dynamics of PDZ Domain-Related Supramodules in the Postsynaptic Density", Nature Rev. Neurosci., 10, 87-99. Feng, Wei, Wu, Hao, Chan, Ling Nga, Zhang, Mingjie (2008) "Par-3-mediated junctional localization of the lipid phosphatase PTEN is required for cell polarity establishmen", J. Biol. Chem., 283, 23440-23449. Feng, Wei, Huang, Siyi, Wu, Hao, Zhang, Mingjie (2007) "Molecular basis of Bcl-xL’s target recognition versatility revealed by the structure of Bcl-xL in complex with the BH3 domain of Beclin-1", J. Mol. Biol., 372, 223-235. Wu, Hao, Feng, Wei, Chen, Jia, Chan, Ling-Nga, Huang, Siyi, Zhang, Mingjie (2007) "PDZ Domains of Par-3 as Potential Phosphoinositide Signaling Integrators", Mol. Cell, 28, 886-898. Feng, Wei, Wu, Hao, Chan, Ling-Nga, Zhang, Mingjie (2007) "The Par-3 NTD adopts a PB1-like structure required for Par-3 oligomerization and membrane localization", EMBO J., 26, 2786-2796.

Kwok On LAI Research Assistant Professor (2358 7344 ; [email protected]) Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Signaling of the Cdk5 complex to the nucleus: a potential role in dendritic spine formation RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$80,000 01 Nov 2008

Representative Research Publications: Lai, Kwok-On, Ip, Nancy Y Y (2009) "Recent advances in understanding the roles of Cdk5 in synaptic plasticity.", Biochimica et biophysica acta, 1792, 741-745. Lai, Kwok-On, Wang, Dan, Martin, Kelsey C. (2009) "Signaling between synapse and nucleus during synaptic plasticity", Intracellular Traffic and Neurodegenerative Disorders, Research and Perspectives in Alzheimer's Disease, eds St. George Hyslop P. et al. p.71-86. Lai, Kwok-On, Ip, Nancy Y Y (2009) "Synapse development and plasticity: roles of ephrin/Eph receptor signaling.", Curr. Opin. Neurobiol., Jun 2 2009. Lai, Kwok-On, Zhao, Yali, Ch'ng, Toh Hean, Martin, Kelsey C. (2008) "Importin-mediated retrograde transport of CREB2 from distal processes to the nucleus in neurons.", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 105(44): 17175-80.

Christina J MORRIS Research Assistant Professor (2358 8967 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Activator of G-protein signaling 3 (AGS3): its role in opioid signaling and cellular dependence RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,085,729 01 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications: Tse, Man Kit, Wong, Yung Hou, Morris, Christina J (2009) "Effects of Activator of G-protein Signaling 3 upon κ-Opioid Receptor Signaling", The 27th Annual Meeting of the Hong Kong Society of Neuroscience (HKSN), Hong Kong, China. January 11-15, 2009. Leung, Sing, Morris, Christina J, Wong, Yung Hou (2009) "Identification of Novel Binding Partners of GAIP", The 27th Annual Meeting of the Hong Kong Society of Neuroscience (HKSN), Hong Kong, China. January 11-15, 2009. Tso, Ha, Morris, Christina J, Yung, Ying, Ip, Nancy Y Y, Wong, Yung Hou (2009) "Multiple Gi proteins participate in nerve growth factor-induced activation of c-Jun N-terminal kinases in PC12 cells.", Neurochemical Research, 34: 1101-1112. Morris, Christina J, Tse, Man Kit, Wong, Yung Hou (2008) "AGS3 Modulation of ERK Phosphorylation by the Kappa-Opioid Receptor", The 39th Annual International Narcotics Research Conference (INRC), Charleston, SC. USA. July 13-18, 2008. Morris, Christina J., Wong, Yung Hou (2008) "AGS3 Modulation of ERK Phosphorylation by the κ-Opioid Receptor", The 9th Association of East Asian Research Universities (AEARU) Workshop on Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. HKUST, Hong Kong, China., March 25-26.

Jun WAN Research Assistant Professor (2358 8972 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Genetic study of cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5) and its activators in Alzheimer's disease RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Wan, Jun, Cheung, Anthony Y, Fu, Wing Yu, Wu, Chengbiao, Zhang, Mingjie, Mobley, William, Cheung, Zelda H Y, Ip, Nancy Y Y (2008) "Endophilin B1 as a novel regulator of nerve growth factor/ TrkA trafficking and neurite outgrowth.", Journal of Neuroscience, 2008 Sep 3;28(36):9002-12.

Zhiyi WEI Research Assistant Professor (2358 5736 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Department of Biology

Karl W K TSIM, Head of Department and Professor

H Benjamin PENG, Chair Professor

Yuk-Shan WONG, Professor and Vice-President for Administration and Business

Donald C CHANG, Visiting Professor, Professor Emeritus

King L CHOW, Professor

Ning LI, Professor

Andrew L MILLER, Professor

Peiyuan QIAN, Professor and Assoc Director, Atmospheric, Marine and Coastal Environment Program; Director, Coastal Marine Laboratory

Wenxiong WANG, Professor

Joseph T Y WONG, Professor

Yong XIE, Professor

Shain Dow KUNG, Adjunct Professor and Professor Emeritus

David K BANFIELD, Associate Professor

Pingbo HUANG, Associate Professor

Kevin A W LEE, Associate Professor

Hongbin LIU, Assistant Professor

Chi Yan CHOI, Research Assistant Professor

Sarah E HO, Research Assistant Professor

David T W LAU, Research Assistant Professor

Stanley C K LAU, Research Assistant Professor

On On LEE, Research Assistant Professor Karl W K TSIM Head of Department and Professor (2358 7332 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Cambridge (1987)

Current Research Activities: Molecular neurobiology of synaptogenesis; moleular genetic analysis of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Assembly of different forms of AChE in muscles: Probing the functional role of nerve-derived trophic factors and muscular activity RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,421,087 01 Sep 2007 Probing the action mechanism of paired-herbs in traditional Chinese medicine: a model by using Fo Shou San in revealing the compatibility of Radix Angelica Sinensis and Rhizoma Chuanxiong RGC - General Research Fund HK$934,922 01 Oct 2008 Integration of chemical and biological approaches for drug discovery CAS-Croucher Funding Scheme for Joint Laboratories HK$768,000 01 Oct 2008 Integration of chemical and biological approaches for drug discovery Office of the Dean of Science, HKUST HK$92,000 01 Oct 2008 Integration of chemical and biological approaches for drug discovery Center for Chinese Medicine R&D, HKUST HK$100,000 01 Oct 2008 Integration of chemical and biological approaches for drug discovery UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$207,200 01 Oct 2008 Delineating the action mechanism of Danggui Buxue Tang (A Chinese angelica decoction): A sample trial in understanding the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine Germany / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$30,000 01 Jan 2009 Searching for distinctions among roots of panax ginseng, panax quinguefolius and panax notoginseng: approaches by using proteomic, biological and chemical analyses National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$533,000 01 Jan 2008 Novel dimeric AChE inhibitors: Signaling mechanisms of neuroprotections against excitotoxins associated with Alzheimer's disease RGC - General Research Fund HK$121,000 01 Nov 2007 Novel dimeric AChE inhibitors: Cellular and molecular characterization of one-compound-multi-targets at soluble amyloid cascade associated with Alzheimer's Disease RGC - General Research Fund HK$470,000 01 Nov 2007

Representative Research Publications: Li, Jun, Li, Zhuoming, Huang, Wen, Cheung, Wing Han, Bi, Wenchuan, Duan, Ran, Guo, Jiangyang, Dong, Tingxia, Tsim, Karl W K (2009) "Quality evaluation of Rhizoma Belamcandae (Belamcanda chinensis (L.) DC.) by using high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with diode array detector and mass spectrometry.", J Chromatogr A., 1216(11):2071-2078. Leung, Ka Wing, Xie, Qunhui, Chen, Ping, Mok, Ka Wai, Chu, Kin Yan, Choi, Chi Yan, Tsim, Karl W K (2009) "Restricted localization of proline-rich membrane anchor (PRiMA) of globular form acetylcholinesterase at the neuromuscular junctions-- contribution and expression from motor neurons", FEBS J., 276(11):3031-3042. Guo, Jiangyang, Choi, Chi Yan, Cheung, Wing Han, Li, Jun, Chen, Xiaoying, Dong, Tingxia, Tsim, Karl W K (2009) "Stimulation of Apolipoprotein A-IV expression in Caco-2/TC7 enterocytes and reduction of triglyceride formation in 3T3-L1 adipocytes by potential anti-obesity Chinese herbal medicines.", Chin Med., 4:5-10. Xie, Qunhui, Choi, Chi Yan, Leung, Ka Wing, Chen, Ping, Chu, Kin Yan, Tsim, Karl W K (2009) "Transcriptional regulation of proline-rich membrane anchor (PRiMA) of globular form acetylcholinesterase in neuron: an inductive effect of neuron differentiation.", Brain Res., 1265:13-23. Lau, Faye, Choi, Chi Yan, Xie, Qunhui, Leung, Ka Wing, Chen, Ping, Zhu, Tingting, Bi, Wenchuan, Chu, Kin Yan, Tsim, Karl W K (2008) "Myocyte enhancer factor 2 mediates acetylcholine-induced expression of acetylcholinesterase- associated collagen ColQ in cultured myotubes.", Mol Cell Neurosci., 39(3):429-438. Choi, Chi Yan, Mok, Ka Wai, Cheung, Wing Han, Siow, Lam, Xie, Qunhui, Tsim, Karl W K (2008) "Regulation of PRiMA-linked G(4) AChE by a cAMP-dependent signaling pathway in cultured rat pheochromocyoma PC12 cells.", Chem Biol Interact., 175(1-3):76-78. Xie, Qunhui, Leung, Ka Wing, Chen, Ping, Lau, Faye, Liu, Sili, Choi, Chi Yan, Tsim, Karl W K (2008) "The promoter activity of proline-rich membrane anchor (PRiMA) of globular form acetylcholinesterase in muscle: suppressive roles of myogenesis and innervating nerve.", Chem Biol Interact., 175(1-3):79-82. Tsim, Karl W K, Choi, Chi Yan, Xie, Qunhui, Zhu, Tingting, Leung, Ka Wing, Lau, Faye, Chu, Kin Yan, Chen, Ping, Mok, Ka Wai, Cheung, Wing Han, Bi, Wenchuan (2008) "Transcriptional control of different subunits of AChE in muscles: signals triggered by the motor nerve-derived factors.", Chem Biol Interact., 175(1-3):58-63.

H Benjamin PENG Chair Professor (2358 7302 ; [email protected])

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)

Current Research Activities: Molecular and cellular neuroscience; cell biology; developmental biology.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Regulation of presynaptic differentiation and synapse formation by p120 catenin RGC - General Research Fund HK$649,765 01 Jan 2009 Signal-induced surface trafficking of receptors RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,723,500 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications: Qian, Y.K., Chan, Ariel W S, Madhavan, Raghavan, Peng, Benjamin H (2008) "The function of Shp2 tyrosine phosphatase in the dispersal of acetylcholine receptor clusters", BMC Neuroscience, 9:70 (17 pages). Lee, CW, Peng, HB (2008) "The function of mitochondria in presynaptic development at the neuromuscular junction", Mol Biol Cell, 19(1):150-8. Geng, L, Qian, YK, Madhavan, R, Peng, HB (2008) "Transmembrane mechanisms in the assembly of the postsynaptic apparatus at the neuromuscular junction", Chem Biol Interact, Apr 24. [Epub ahead of print]. Zhao, XT, Qian, YK, Chan, AW, Madhavan, R, Peng, HB (2007) "Regulation of ACh receptor clustering by the tyrosine phosphatase Shp2", Dev Neurobiol, 67(13):1789-801. Madhavan, Raghavan, Peng, H.Benjamin (2006) "HGF induction of postsynaptic specializations at the neuromuscular junction.", J. Neurobiol., 66:134-147. Madhavan, Raghavan, Zhao, Xiaotao T., Reynolds, A.B., Peng, H.Benjamin (2006) "The involvement of p120 catenin in myopodial assembly and nerve-muscle synapse formation", J. Neurobiol., 66:1511-1527. Madhavan, Raghavan, Peng, H. Benjamin (2006) "HGF induction of postsynaptic specializations at the neuromuscular junction", J. Neurobiol, 66:134-147. Geng, Lin, Peng, H. Benjamin (2005) "Visualization of ACh receptor clustering with quantum dots. Program No. 369.2. Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner.", Washington DC: Society for Neuroscience., 12-16 Nov 2005.

Yuk-Shan WONG Professor and Vice-President for Administration and Business (2358 6151 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ust.hk/~webbo/faculty/Prof.Y.S.Wong/index.html)

PhD, McGill University (1979) Vice-President (Administration) (2002-06), Professor (Chair) of Biological Sciences, Department of Biology and Chemistry (1998-06), Vice-President (Institutional Advancement) (1998-02), CityU; Associate Vice-President (Research & Development) (1997-98), Associate Director, Research Centre (1993-97), HKUST; Principal Lecturer and Head of Department of Applied Biology & Chemical Technology, HK PolyU (1988-90); Lecturer, Department of Biology, CUHK (1985-88); Lecturer, Department of Applied Science, HK PolyU (1980-85); Medical Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow, Banting & Best Institute for Medical Research, University of Toronto (1979-80).

Current Research Activities: Environmental biotechnology, plant biochemistry and physiology.

Representative Research Publications: Tam, N.F.Y., Wong, Y.S. (2008) "Effectiveness of Bacterial Inoculum and Mangrove Plants on Remediation of Sediment Contaminated with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons", Marine Pollution Bulletin, 57: 716-726. Chen, J.L., Wong, M.H., Wong, Y.S., Tam, N.F.Y. (2008) "Multi-factors on Biodegradation Kinetics of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) by Sphingomonas sp., a Bacterial Strain Isolated from Mangrove Sediment", Marine Pollution Bulletin, 57: 695- 702. Han, X., Wong, Y.S., Wong, M.H., Tam, N.F.Y. (2007) "Biosorption and Bioreduction of Cr(VI) by a Microalgal Isolate, Chlorella miniata", Journal of Hazardous Materials, 146: 65-72. Zhang, C.G., Leung, K.K., Wong, Y.S., Tam, N.F.Y. (2007) "Germination, Growth and Physiological Responses of Mangrove Plant (Bruguiera gymnorrhiza) to Lubricating Oil Pollution", Environmental and Experimental Botany, 60: 127-136. Lei, A.P., Hu, Z.L., Wong, Y.S., Tam, N.F.Y. (2007) "Removal of Fluoranthene and Pyrene by Different Microalgal Species", Bioresource Technology, 98: 273-280. Luan, T.G., Jin, J., Chan, S.N.N., Wong, Y.S., Tam, N.F.Y. (2006) "Biosorption and Biodegradation of Tributyltin (TBT) by Alginate Immobilized Chlorella vulgaris Beads in Several Treatment Cycles.", Process Biochemistry, 41: 1560-1565. Zhou, H.W., Guo, C.L., Wong, Y.S., Tam, N.F.Y. (2006) "Genetic Diversity of Dioxygenase Genes in Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon-degrading Bacteria Isolated from Mangrove Sediments.", FEMS Microbiology Letters, 262: 148-157. Han, X., Wong, Y.S., Tam, N.F.Y. (2006) "Surface Complexation Mechanism and Modeling in Cr (III) Biosorption by a Microalgal Isolate, Chlorella miniata.", Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 303: 365-371.

Donald C CHANG Visiting Professor, Professor Emeritus (2358 7326 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~changlab/)

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

Current Research Activities: 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.

Representative Research Publications: Zhou, LY, Chang, Donald C. (2008) "Dynamics and structure of the Bax-Bak complex responsible for releasing mitochondrial proteins during apoptosis", J Cell Sci., 121(Pt 13):2186-96. Yin, YL, Yu, Vivian C., Zhu, G., Chang, Donald C. (2008) "SET8 plays a role in controlling G1/S transition by blocking lysine acetylation in histone through binding to H4 N-terminal tail", Cell Cycle, 7(10):1423-32. Tian, Honglei, Ip, Louisa, Luo, Houwei, Chang, Donald Choy, Luo, Kathy Qian (2007) "A high throughput drug screen based on fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) for anti-cancer activity of compounds from herbal medicine.", British Journal of Pharmacology, 150: 321-334. Xu, N.H., Chang, D.C. (2007) "Different thresholds of MPF inactivation are responsible for controlling different mitotic events in mammalian cell division", Cell Cycle, 6(13):1639-1645. Zhou, L.L., Zhou, L.Y., Luo, K.Q., Chang, D.C. (2005) "Smac/DIABLO and Cytochrome c are released from mitochondria through a similar mechanism during UV-induced apoptosis", Apoptosis, 10:289-299. Luo, Kathy Q., Chang, Donald C. (2004) "The gene-silencing efficiency of siRNA is strongly dependent on the local structure of mRNA at the targeted region", Biochem Biophys Res Comm, 318:303-310. Chang, Donald C., Xu, Naihan, Luo, Kathy Q. (2003) "Degradation of cyclin B is required for the onset of anaphase in mammalian cells", J. Biol. Chem, 278:37865-37873. Gao, Wenhua, Pu, Yongmei, Luo, Kathy Qian, Chang, Donald C. (2001) "Temporal relationship between cytochrome c release and mitochondrial swelling during UV-induced apoptosis in living HeLa cells", Journal of Cell Science, 114: 2855-2862.

King L CHOW Professor (2358 7342 ; [email protected])

PhD, Baylor College of Medicine (1990) Research Associate, Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Current Research Activities: Pattern formation and differentiation of sensory organ; tissue remodeling and morphogenesis; unfolded protein response; functional genomics, chemosensory perception circuitry, pheromone, evolution of mating system.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: In vivo analysis of Mab21 function in retinal development and its regulatory interaction with conserved genetic components RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,085,729 20 Dec 2007 Cellular and molecular characterization of pheromone perception in Caenorhabditis RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,510,186 01 Jan 2009 Developmental genomics & skeletal research UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$3,576,550 21 Apr 2004 Genomic approaches to uncover functionally relevant signalling pathways in craniofacial development RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$570,000 01 Jul 2006 Sustained synthetic biology education in Hong Kong (SynBioHK) Croucher Foundation HK$325,000 01 Jul 2009 Sustained synthetic biology education in Hong Kong (SynBioHK) UGC - PDF Matching Fund HK$156,000 01 Jul 2009 Studying the role of Mab21 in neural development by generating and analysis transgenic mice ectopically expressing Mab21 gene UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$27,500 01 Jul 2008 Centre for MicroRNA Study - basic research and clinical potentials in cancer RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$285,000 01 Apr 2009 Studying the role of Mab21 in neural development by generating and analysing transgenic mice ectopically expressing Mab21 gene Kai Chong Tong HK$550,000 01 Jul 2008

Representative Research Publications: Tsang, Wai Hung, Chow, King Lau (2009) "Mouse embryo cryopreservation utilizing a novel high-capacity vitrification spatula.", Biotechniques, 46:468-472. Lin, Liwen, Chow, King Lau, Leng, Yang (2009) "Study of hydroxyapatite osteoinductivity with an osteogenic differentiation assay using mesenchymal stem cells.", J Biomaterial Res., 89: 326-335. Tang, Cemun, Chow, King Lau (2008) "Discovery-based functional genomics laboratory for Biology Program.", Practice and Evidence of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education., 3: 57-67. Tsang, SW, Nguyen, CQ, Hall, DH, Chow, KL (2007) "MAB-7 is a novel transmembrane protein that orchestrates C. elegans sensory ray morphogenesis", Developmental Biology, 312: 353-366. Wong, YF, Ko, CF, Cheah, KSE, Chow, KL (2007) "crm-1 facilitates BMP signaling to control the body size in C. elegans", Developmental Biology, 311:95-105. Choy, SW, Wong, YM, Ho, SH, Chow, KL (2007) "C. elegans SIN-3 and its associated HDAC corepressor complex act as mediators of male sensory ray development", Biochem. Biophy. Res. Comm., 358:802-807. Chasnov, JR, Chan, CM, So, WK, Chow, KL (2007) "The species, sex, and stage specificity of a Caenorhabditis sex pheromone", Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 6730-6735. Ko, Frankie C.F., Chow, King L. (2003) "A mutation at the start codon defines the differential requirement of dpy-11 in Caenorhabditis elegans body hypodermis and male tail", Biochem. Biophy. Research Comm., 309, 201-208.

Ning LI Professor (2358 7335 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Washington (1989) Research Associate, USDA/ARS/PSI Plant Molecular Biology Laboratory (1989-93)

Current Research Activities: Phosphoproteomics in plant cell signal transduction; Molecular biology of phenylpropanoids; genetic engineering of energy plants and microbes.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A multi-disciplinary interactome approach to the study of post-translational regulation of ACC synthase gene expression in the model plant arabidopsis RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,276,493 20 Aug 2007 Functional phosphoproteome analysis of the rapid inhibitory effect of ethylene on shoot negative gravitropism of Arabidopsis RGC - General Research Fund HK$831,365 09 Sep 2008 Investigation of upstream ethylene signaling components via novel approaches National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$672,300 01 Dec 2006

Representative Research Publications: Qing, Dong-Jin, Lu, Hai-Feng, Li, Ning, Dong, Hai-Tao, Dong, Deng-Feng, Li, You-Zhi (2009) "Comparative Profiles of Gene Expression in Leaves and Roots of Maize Seedlings under Conditions of Salt Stress and the Removal of Salt Stress", Plant and Cell Physiology, 50, 889-903. Li, Hao, Wong, Wai Shing, Guo, Hong Wei, Ecker, Joseph, Li, Ning (2009) "Phosphoproteomics analysis of ethylene-regulated protein phosphorylation in etiolated seedlings of Arabidopsis mutant ein2 using 2-D-separations coupled with a hybrid Q-TOF mass spectrometry", Proteomics, 9, 1646-1661. Guo, Di, Gao, Xiaorong, Li, Hao, Zhang, Tao, An, Lijia, Li, Ning (2008) "EGY1 plays a role in regulation of endodermal plastid size and number that are involved in ethylene-dependent gravitropism of light-grown Arabidopsis hypocotyls", Plant Molecular Biology, 66, 345-360. Li, Ning (2008) "The dual-and-opposing-effect of ethylene on the negative gravitropism of Arabidopsis inflorescence stem and light- grown hypocotyls", Plant Science, 175, 71-86. Chen, Gu, Wang, Xiaoli, Wong, Waishing, Li, Ning (2005) "Application of 3' untranslated region (UTR) sequence-based amplified polymorphism analysis in rapid authentication of Radix Astragali.", Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 53, 8551-8556. Chen, Gu, Bi, Yurong, Li, Ning (2005) "EGY1 encodes a membrane-associated and ATP-independent metalloprotease that is required for chloroplast development.", The Plant Journal, 41, 363-375. Wong, Waishing, Guo, Di, Wang, Xiaoli, Yin, Zhiqi, Li, Ning (2005) "Study of cis-cinnamic acid in Arabidopsis thaliana.", Plant Physiology & Biochemistry, 43, 929-937. Mehta, R.A., Cassol, T., Li, Ning, Ali, N., Handa, A.K., Mattoo, A.K. (2002) "Engineered polyamine accumulation in tomato enhances phytonutrient content, juice quality and vine life", Nature Biotechnology, 20, 613-618. Andrew L MILLER Professor (2358 8631 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Dundee (1986) Principal Investigator, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole (1992-95)

Current Research Activities: Calcium signaling during early development; calcium imaging techniques; transgenic model systems for imaging calcium ions in living organisms.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Investigating the role of calcium signaling during the blastula period of zebrafish development RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,322,154 01 Aug 2007 Hong Kong Joint Universities Summer Teaching Laboratory (JUSTL) Croucher Foundation HK$1,106,118 01 Aug 2006 Hong Kong Joint Universities Summer Teaching Laboratory (JUSTL) UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$1,106,118 01 Aug 2006 Establishment of a multi-application microscopy suite (MAMS) at HKUST UGC Miscellaneous HK$8,232,000 01 Oct 2008 Establishment of a multi-application microscopy suite (MAMS) at HKUST UGC - Special Equipment Grant HK$9,400,000 01 Oct 2008 An Associated International Laboratory (LIA) - Role of calcium in cellular determination and differentiation (ROCADE) VPRD Research Discretionary Fund HK$80,000 01 Jul 2008

Representative Research Publications: Ma, Leung Hang, Webb, Sarah, Chan, Ching Man, Zhang, Jiao, Miller, Andrew L (2009) "Establishment of a transitory dorsal-biased window of localized Ca2+ signaling in the superficial epithelium following the mid-blastula transition in zebrafish embryos.", Developmental Biology, 327:143-157. Lam, Pui Ying, Webb, Sarah, Leclerc, Catherine, Moreau, Marc, Miller, Andrew L (2009) "Inhibition of stored Ca2+ release disrupts convergence-related cell movements in the lateral intermediate mesoderm resulting in abnormal positioning and morphology of the pronephric anlagen in intact zebrafish embryos.", Development, Growth & Differentiation, 51: 429-442. Webb, Sarah, Li, Wai Ming, Miller, Andrew (2008) "Calcium signalling during the cleavage period of zebrafish development", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 363, 1363-1369. Li, Wai Ming, Webb, Sarah, Chan, Ching Man, Miller, Andrew (2008) "Multiple roles of the furrow deepening Ca2+ transient during cytokinesis in zebrafish embryos", Developmental Biology, 315, 228-248. Webb, Sarah, Miller, Andrew (2007) "Ca2+ signaling during embryonic cytokinesis in animal systems", New Comprehensive Biochemistry. Calcium: A matter of life or death, Vol 41, Ch. 17, pp 445-470. Webb, Sarah, Miller, Andrew (2007) "Ca2+ signaling and early embryonic patterning during zebrafish development", Proceedings of the Australian Physiological Society, 38: 43-51. Webb, Sarah, Miller, Andrew (2006) "Ca2+ signaling and early embryonic patterning during the Blastula and Gastrula Periods of zebrafish and Xenopus development", Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1763:1192-1208. Webb, Sarah, Miller, Andrew (2003) "Calcium signalling during embryonic development", Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 4: 539-551.

Peiyuan QIAN Professor and Assoc Director, Atmospheric, Marine and Coastal Environment Program; Director, Coastal Marine Laboratory (2358 7331 ; [email protected]) PhD, University of Alberta (1991)

Current Research Activities: Larval ecology; anti-fouling; marine aquaculture; benthic ecology; marine natural products.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Chemical cues produced by NATURAL biofilms with different attractiveness for the larval settlement of major fouling organisms RGC - General Research Fund HK$984,259 01 Jan 2008 Comparative proteomic analysis of settling and metamorphosing larvae of two major fouling organisms challenged by natural antifoulants/settlement cues RGC - General Research Fund HK$871,044 01 Jan 2009 Low/non-toxic antifouling compounds from marine extremophiles and development of antifouling paints China Ocean Mineral Resources R&D Association HK$1,401,750 01 Jul 2007 Biofouling/ antifouling research UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$8,943 01 Oct 2008 Genes involved in larval attachment and metamorphosis of a major biofouling worm Hydroides elegans RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,229,500 01 Jan 2007 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) Office of the President, HKUST HK$1,000,000 01 Apr 2004 Biofouling/ antifouling research Rohm and Haas Co. HK$179,400 01 Oct 2008 Large scale fermentation of marine antifouling microorganisms and efficient extraction of their active antifouling ingredients Shenzhen Bureau of Science Technology & Information HK$163,537 17 May 2008 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs, HKUST HK$600,000 01 Apr 2004

Representative Research Publications: Wong, Yue Him Tim, Qian, Peiyuan, Thiyagarajan, V (2009) "2D gel-based proteome and phosphoproteme analysis during larval metamorphosis in two major marine biofuling invertebrates.", J Proteome Res, 8:2708-2719. Lee, On On, Chung, Hong Chun Gary, Qian, Peiyuan, Hung, OS, Thiyagarajan, V, He, HP, Xu, Ying, Qiu, JW (2009) "Characterization of cues from natural multi-species biofilms to induce larval attachment of the polychaete Hydroides elegans.", Aquatic Biol, 4: 253-262. Qian, Peiyuan, Ki, JS, Zhang, W (2009) "Discovery of marine Bacillus species by 16s rRNA and rpoB comparison and their usefulness for species identification.", J Microbiol Methods, 77:48-59. Lee, On On, Qian, Peiyuan, Huang, YL, Ki, JS (2009) "Evidence for the dynamics of acyl homoserine lactone based quorum sensing during early subtidal biofilm formation.", ISMEJ, 3: 296-304. Lee, On On, Wong, Yue Him Tim, Qian, Peiyuan (2009) "Inter- and intra-specific variations of bacterial communities associated with marine sponges from the San Juan Island, Washington, USA.", Appl Environ Microbiol, 75: 3513-3521. Qian, Peiyuan, Li, HL, Song, LS (2008) "Cyclic AMP concentration and protein kinase A (PKA) gene expression at different developmental stages of the polychaete Hydroides elegans.", J Exp. Zool (Mol. Dev. Evol.), 310B: 417-427. Qian, Peiyuan, Zhang, R, Thiyagarajan, V (2008) "Evaluation of terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis in contrasting marine environments.", FEMS Microbial Ecol., 65, 169-178. Qian, Peiyuan, Thiyagarajan, V (2008) "Proteome analysis of larvae during development, attachment and metamorphosis in the fouling barnacle Balanus amphitrite.", Proteomics, 8: 3164-3172.

Wenxiong WANG Professor (2358 7346 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ust.hk/~webbo/faculty/Prof.W.Wang/index.html)

PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook (1996) Visiting Researcher, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK (1989-91)

Current Research Activities: Metal ecotoxicology and biogeochemistry; marine pollution; physiological ecology.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Growth-dependent mercury exposure in marine fish and plankton RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,195,046 01 Jul 2009 Center for metals in the marine environment (CMME) RGC - Collaborative Research Fund - Seed Funding HK$250,000 29 May 2007 Mercury contamination in freshwater and marine fish cultivated around the Pearl River Delta, and its health risk assessment RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$200,000 01 Jun 2008 Understanding toxic metal concentrations in important marine shellfish in Hong Kong RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,229,500 01 Jul 2006 Metals in the marine environment: bioaccumulation, toxicity, and risk assessment RGC - Collaborative Research Fund - Seed Funding HK$200,000 02 May 2008 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) Office of the President, HKUST HK$1,000,000 01 Apr 2004 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs, HKUST HK$600,000 01 Apr 2004

Representative Research Publications: Tsui, Martin, Wang, Wenxiong (2007) "Biokinetics and tolerance development of toxic metals in Daphnia magna", Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 26: 1023-1032. Miao, Aijun, Wang, Wenxiong (2007) "Copper accumulation, toxicity and low molecular weight thiols synthesis in different nutrient-conditioned diatoms", Environmental Science and Technology, 41: 1777-1782. Zhang, Li, Wang, Wenxiong (2007) "Gastrointestinal uptake of cadmium and zinc by a marine teleost Acanthopagrus schlegili", Aquatic Toxicology, 85: 143-153. Ng, Tania, Wang, Wenxiong (2007) "Interaction of Ag, Cd and Cu accumulation in the green mussel Perna viridis by metal co- exposure. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry", Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 26: 1764-1769. Ng, Tania, Rainbow, PS, Amiard, C, Amiard, JC, Wang, Wenxiong (2007) "Metallothionein turnover, cytosolic distribution and the uptake of Cd by the green mussels. Aquatic Toxicology", Aquatic Toxicology, 84: 153-161. Zhang, Li, Wang, Wenxiong (2007) "Size dependence of potential metal biomagnification in a marine fish", Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 26: 787-794. Zhang, Li, Wang, Wenxiong (2007) "Waterborne cadmium and zinc uptake in the euryhaline teleost acclimated at different salinities", Aquatic Toxicology, 84: 171-181. Tsui, M, Wang, WX (2006) "Acute toxicity of mercury to Daphnia magna under different conditions", Environmental Science and Technology, 40: 4025-4030.

Joseph T Y WONG Professor (2358 7343 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ust.hk/~webbo/faculty/index.html)

PhD, University of Stirling (1988) Research Fellow and Senior Scientific Officer, Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (1990-94)

Postdoctoral Fellow, NERC Institute of Virology, Oxford (1988-89)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Imperial Cancer Research Fund Cell Cycle Control Group,Biochemistry Department, Oxford University (1989-92)

Current Research Activities: Liquid crystalline DNA, histone-like proteins,chromosome topology in dinoflagellates; cell size control, cellulose synthesis & deposition, nanobiotechnology.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Molecular nanobiology of internally-fabricated cellulosic thecal plates RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,085,729 15 Oct 2007 Nanobioscience of cellulosic thecal plates in dinoflagellate alga France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$28,000 01 Jan 2009 Condensins in liquid crystal genomes RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,229,500 16 Dec 2006

Representative Research Publications: Lam, C.M.C., Yeung, Patrick K.K., Lee, H.C., Wong, Joseph T Y (2009) "Cyclic ADP-ribose links metabolism to multiple fission in the dinoflagellate Crypthecodinium cohnii.", Cell Calcium, 45: 346-357. Leung, Siu Kai, Wong, Joseph T Y (2009) "The Replication of Plastid Minicircles Involves Rolling Circle Intermediates", Nucleic Acids Research, 37(6) 1991-2002. Chan, Y.H., Wong, J.T.Y. (2007) "Concentration-dependent organization of DNA by the dinoflagellate histone-like protein HCc3", Nucleic Acid Research, doi: 10.1093/nar/gkm165. Yeung, Patrick K.K., Lam, Connie M.C., Ma, Zhi Yi, Wong, Yung Hou, Wong, Joseph Tin Yum (2006) "Involvement of calcium mobilization from caffeine-sensitive stores in mechanically-induced cell cycle arrest in the dinoflagellate Crypthecodinium cohnii.", Cell Calcium, 39:259-274. Wong, Joseph Tin Yum, Kwok, A.C.M. (2005) "Proliferation of Dinoflagellates: Blooming or Bleaching.", BioEssays, 27: 730- 740. Mak, Carmen Ka Man, Hung, Victor K.L., Wong, Joseph Tin Yum (2005) "Type II Topoisomerase activities in both G1 and G2/M phases of the dinoflagellate cell cycle.", Chromosoma, 114:420-431. Alvin, Kwok, Joseph, Wong (2003) "Cellulose Synthesis is Coupled to Cell Cycle Progression at G1 in the Dinoflagellate Crypthecodinium cohnii", Plant Physiology, 131:1681-1691. Wong, Joseph, New, David, Wong, Johnny, Hung, Victor (2003) "Histone-Like Proteins of the Dinoflagellate Crypthecodinium cohnii Have Homologies to Bacterial DNA-Binding Proteins", Eukaryotic Cell, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 646-650.

Yong XIE Professor (2358 7340 ; [email protected])

PhD, Cornell University (1988)

Current Research Activities: Molecular immunology (including vaccine development for cancer and infectious diseases; antibodies and recombinant antibodies etc).

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Development of an immuno-fluorescence detection system for detecting veterinary drug residues in food products Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$1,477,304 01 Apr 2009 Study the regulation mechanism of feedback inhibition of the phenylalanine biosynthesis UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$39,780 01 Dec 2008 Representative Research Publications: Cheung, Ying Kit, Cheng, Chak Sum, Sin, Wan-Yee, Chan, Kin-Tak, Xie, Yong (2007) "Induction of T-cell response by a DNA vaccine encoding a novel HLA-A*0201 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus epitope", Vaccine, 25(32), 6070-6077. Pang, Ha-Sang, Chan, Kin-Tak, Tse, Ying-Wai, Chan, Chun-Fai, Cheung, Ying-Kit, Sin, Wan-Yee, Guo, Zhi- Hong, Xie, Yong (2007) "Induction of cytotoxic T cell response against HCA661 positive cancer cells through activation with novel HLA-A*0201 restricted epitopes", Cancer Letters, 256:178-185. Qin, Yan, Cheung, Ying Kit, Cheng, Samuel Chak-Sum, Wang, Xian Hua, Shi, Ming, Hu, Meihao, Xie, Yong (2007) "A DNA vaccine constructed with human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) E7 and E6 genes induced specific immune responses", Gynecologic Oncology, 104 (1):199-206. Zhong, XF, Yang, HG, Guo, ZF, Sin, WY, Chen, W, Xu, JJ, Fu, L, Wu, J, Mak, CK, Cheng, CS, Yang, YZ, Cao, SY, Wong, TY, Lai, ST, XIE, Y, Guo, ZH (2005) "B cell responses in patients who have recovered from severe acute respiratory syndrome target a dominant site in the S2 domain of the surface spike glycoprotein", Journal of Virology, 79,3401-3408. QIN, Y, WANG, XH, CUI, HL, CHEUNG, YK, HU, MH, ZHU, SG, XIE, Y (2005) "Human papillomavirus (HPV) type16 E7 peptide38-61 linked with an immunoglobulin G fragment provides protective immunity in mice", Gynecologic Oncology, 96: 475-483. CHAN, Ray C-F, XIE, Yong (2004) "CD80 transfected human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells activate cytotoxic T lymphocytes to target HCC cells with shared tumor antigens.", Oncology Reports, 12(2): 435-442. CHEUNG, YK, CHENG, CS, SIN, WY, XIE, Y (2004) "Plasmid encoding papillomavirus Type 16 (HPV16) DNA constructed with codon optimization improved the immunogenicity against HPV infection.", Vaccine, 23 (5);629-638. Wang, Yue-Dan, Sin, Wan-Yee Fion, Xu, Guo-Bing, Yang, Huang-Hua, Wong, Tin-Yau, Pang, Xue-Wen, He, Xiao-Yan, Zhang, Hua-Gang, Ng, Joice Na Lee, Cheng, Chak-Sum Samuel, Ju, Jing, Meng, Li, Yang, Rui-Feng, Lai, Sik-To, Guo, Zhi-Hong, Yong, Xie, Chen, Wei-Feng (2004) "T-Cell Epitopes in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Coronavirus Spike Protein Elicit a Specific T-Cell Immune Response in Patients Who Recover from SARS", Journal of Virology, p. 5612-5618.

Shain Dow KUNG Adjunct Professor and Professor Emeritus (2358 7527 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Toronto (1968).Research Cell Biologist/ Biochemist, University of California, Los Angeles (1971- 74). Acting Provost, Maryland Biotechnology Institute, University of Maryland (1989-91) Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1992-98)

Current Research Activities: Molecular evolution of chloroplast genomes; structure and function of Rubisco; molecular mechanism of genetic tumors.

David K BANFIELD Associate Professor (2358 8633 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of British Columbia (1991)

Current Research Activities: Intracellular protein trafficking and secretory organelle maintenance.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Vps74p-dependent mechanisms of membrane protein retention in the yeast golgi apparatus RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,301,353 01 Aug 2007 Representative Research Publications: Banfield, David, Hong, Wanjin (2008) "SNAREs", The Golgi apparatus - the state of the art 110 years after Camillo's Discovery, Editors: A. Mironov and M. Pavelka, Pages: 43-65. Springer Wien, New York. Tu, Linna, Tai, William, Chen, Lu, Banfield, David (2008) "Signal-mediated dynamic retention of glycosyltransferases in the Golgi", Science, Volume 321, Pages 404-407. Wen, Wenyu, Lu, Chen, Wu, Hao, Sun, Xin, Zhang, Mingjie, Banfield, David (2006) "Identification of the yeast R-SNARE Nyv1p as a novel longin domain containing protein.", Molecular Biology of the Cell, Volume 17, pages 4282 – 4299. Rossi, Valeria, Banfield, David K., Vacca, Marcella, Dietrich, Lars, Ungermann, Christian, D'Esposito, Maurizio, Galli, Thierry, Filippini, Francesco (2004-2005) "Longins and their longin domains: regulated SNAREs and multifunctional SNARE regulators.", Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Volume 29, pages 682 - 688. Tai, William, Banfield, David Karl (2002) "Genes that allow cells to grow in the absence of the Golgi SNARE Sft1p: Identification of new components of the vesicle budding machinery.", European Science Foundation meeting 'EXOCYTOSIS: Membrane structure and dynamics.'. Banfield, David Karl, Tochio, Hidehito, Tsui, Marco, Zhang, Mingjie (2001) "An Auto-Inhibitory Mechanism for Non- Syntaxin SNARE Proteins Revealed by the Structure of Ykt6p.", the Cold Spring Harbor Yeast Cell Biology Meeting. Tochio, Hidehito, Tsui, Marco Man Kin, Banfield, David Karl, Zhang, Mingjie (2001) "An Auto-Inhibitory Mechanism for Nonsyntaxin SNARE Proteins Revealed by the Structure of Ykt6p", Science, 293, 698-702. Tai, William, Banfield, David Karl (2001) "AtBS14a and AtBS14b two Bet1 / Sft1-like SNAREs from Arabidopsis thaliana that Complement Mutations in the Yeast SFT1 Gene", FEBS Letters, 500, 177-182.

Pingbo HUANG Associate Professor (2358 7305 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Cincinnati (1993) Research Associate, CF Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1997-2002)

Current Research Activities: Signal transduction in the regulation of ion channels.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Regulation of CFTR surface expression by interaction with cytoskeletal keratin 18 RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,519,447 01 Aug 2008 Initial investigation of the interaction of A2B adenosine receptors and actinin UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$39,780 01 Jan 2009 Investigation of the role of soluble AC in the modulation of CFTR University of Cincinnati HK$39,000 01 May 2006

Representative Research Publications: Sun, Ying, Wu, Fan, Sun, Fengqiang, Huang, Pingbo (2008) "Adenosine promotes IL-6 release in airway epithelia", Journal of Immunology, 180, 4173-4181. Wang, Dong, Sun, Ying, Zhang, Wei, Huang, Pingbo (2008) "Apical Adenosine Regulates Basolateral Ca++-Activated Potassium Channels In Human Airway Calu-3 Epithelial Cells", American Journal of Physiology (Cell Physiology) 294, C1443-C1453. Wang, Dong, Wang, Wen, Duan, Yuanyuan, Sun, Ying, Huang, Pingbo (2008) "Functional coupling of Gs and CFTR is independent of their association with lipid rafts in epithelial cells", Pflugers Arch-European Journal of Physiology, 456: 929-938. Barnes, A. P., Livera, G., Huang, P., Sun, C., O'Neal, W. K., Conti, M., Stutts, M. J., Milgram, S. L. (2005) "Phosphodiesterase 4D Forms a cAMP diffusion barrier at the apical membrane of the airway epithelium", J Biol Chem, 280, 7997-8003, 2005. Huang, Pingbo, Gilmore, Elaine, Kultgen, Patricia, Barnes, Paul, Milgram, Sharon, Stutts, M. Jackson (2004) "Local Regulation of Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Regulator and Epithelial Sodium Channel in Airway Epithelium", Proceeding of American Thoracic Society, Volume 1, page 33-37. Huang, P., Lazarowski, E. R., Tarran, R., Milgram, S. L., Boucher, R. C., Stutts, M. J. (2001) "Compartmentalized autocrine Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA signaling to CTTR at the apical membrane of airway epithelial cells", , 98(24), 14120-14125. Huang, P., Trotter, K., Boucher, R. C., Milgram, S. L., Stutts, M. J. (2000) "PKA holoenzyme is functionally coupled to CFTR by AKAPs", Am. J. Physiol, 278, C417-C422.

Kevin A W LEE Associate Professor (2358 8636 ; [email protected])

PhD, McGill University (1985) Research Scientist, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, UK (1988-95)

Current Research Activities: Ewings sarcoma family of oncoproteins; Transcription factors; Nucleic acid/Protein interactions; Intrinsically Disordered Proteins.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Role of the Pol II rpb4/7 sub-complex in Ewing's family tumors RGC - General Research Fund HK$423,100 01 Oct 2006

Representative Research Publications: Ng, King Pan, Li, K.K.C., Lee, K.A.W. (2009) "In Vitro Activity of the EWS Oncogene Transcriptional Activation Domain", Biochemistry, 48: 2849-2857. Chau, Bess Ling, Lee, Kevin A.W. (2007) "Function and anatomy of plant siRNA pools derived from hairpin transgenes", BioMed Central Plant Methods, 3:13. Lee, Kevin A. W. (2007) "Ewings family oncoproteins: drunk, disorderly and in search of partners", Cell Research, vol. 17: 286- 288. Ng, King Pan, Potikyan, Gary, Savene, Rupert O. V., Denny, Christopher T., Uversky, Vladimir N., Lee, Kevin A. W. (2007) "Multiple aromatic side chains within a disordered structure are critical for transcription and transforming activity of EWS family oncoproteins", PNAS, vol. 104: 479-484. Alex, Deepa, Lee, Kevin (2005) "RGG-boxes of the EWS oncoprotein repress a range of transcriptional activation domains", Nucleic Acids Research, 33(4): 1323-1331. Li, Kim K. C., Goodall, Jane, Goding, Colin R., Liao, S-K., Wang, C-H., Lin, Y-C., Hiraga, H., Nojima, T., Nagashima, K., Schaefer, Karl-Ludwig, Lee, Kevin A. W. (2003) "The melanocyte inducing factor MITF is stably expressed in cell lines from clear cell sarcoma", British Journal of Cancer, 89: 1072-1078. Feng, L., Lee, K. A. W. (2001) "A Repetitive Element Containing a Critical Tyrosine Residue is Required for Transcriptional Activation by the Ewings Sarcoma Oncogene", Oncogene, 20: 4161-4168. Huiqing, Z., Lee, K. A. W. (2001) "An hsRPB4/7-dependent yeast assay for trans-activation by the EWS oncogene", Oncogene, 20: 1519-1524.

Hongbin LIU Assistant Professor ([email protected])

PhD, University of Hawaii at Manoa (1997) Senior Research Associate, Lousiana Universities Marine Consortium (2000-05)

Current Research Activities: Plankton ecology; marine microbial food web structure and trophic dynamics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Oxygen consumption and nutrient regeneration by fecal pellets produced by zooplankton grazing: implications for hypoxic events in Hong Kong waters RGC - General Research Fund HK$654,482 01 Oct 2007 Benthic-pelagic coupling: the importance of sponges in consuming water column plankton in Hong Kong waters (a pilot study) RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$50,000 01 Jan 2009 Effects of increasing CO2 concentration and seawater temperature on the biodiversity, interaction, functioning and productivity of pelagic food webs in subtropical coastal waters France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$30,600 01 Jan 2009 Picoplankton community dynamics in sub-tropical coastal and estuarine waters of Hong Kong RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,100,500 01 Jul 2006 Making the Air-Seawater Connection: The Link between Air Pollution and Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition and the Occurrence of Harmful Algal Blooms in Hong Kong Waters UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$494,000 01 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Bingzhang, Liu, Hongbin, Landry, M R, Dai, M, Huang, B, Sun, J (2009) "Close coupling between phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing in the western South China Sea", Limnol. Oceanogr., 54(4):1084-1097. Chen, Bingzhang, Liu, Hongbin, Landry, M R, Chen, Mianrun, Sun, J, Shek, Loklun, Chen, Xihan (2009) "Estuarine nutrient loading affects phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing at two contrasting sites in Hong Kong coastal waters", Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 379:77-90. Liu, Hongbin, Suzuki, K, Nishioka, J, Sohrin, R, Nakatsuka, T (2009) "Phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing in the Sea of Okhotsk during late summer of 2006.", Deep-Sea Research I, 56, 561-570. Chen, Bingzhang, Liu, Hongbin, Wang, Z (2009) "Trophic interactions within the microbial food web in the South China Sea revealed by size-fraction method", J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 368, 59-66. DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2008.10.012. Liu, Hongbin, Dagg, M. J., Napp, J. M., Sato, Riki (2008) "Grazing impact of Neocalanus spp. compared to other mesozooplankton in the coastal and shelf water of the Gulf of Alaska", ICES Journal of Marine Science, 65:351-360. Liu, Hongbin, Chang, Jeng, Tseng, C.M., Wen, Liang-S., Liu, Kon-Kee (2007) "Seasonal variability of picoplankton in the northern South China Sea at the SEATS station", Deep-Sea Research II, 54:1602-1616. Dagg, Michael, Liu, Hongbin, Thomas, A. C. (2006) "Effects of mesoscale phytoplankton variability on the copepods Neocalanus flemingeri and N. plumchrus in the coastal Gulf of Alaska", Deep-Sea Research I, 53, 321-332. Liu, Hongbin, Dagg, Michael, Strom, Suzanne (2005) "Grazing by the calanoid copepod Neocalanus cristatus on the microbial foodweb in the coastal Gulf of Alaska", Journal of Plankton Research, 27, 647-662.

Chi Yan CHOI Research Assistant Professor (2358 7318 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Hetero-dimerization of P2Y1 and P2Y2 receptors in neurons RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$30,000 01 Dec 2008

Representative Research Publications: Choi, Roy C Y, Gao, QT, Cheung, Anna W H, Zhu, Judy T T, Lau, Faye T C, Li, Jun, Li, Winnie W Z, Chu, Glanice K Y, Duan, Ran, Cheung, Jerry K H, Ding, AW, Zhao, KJ, Dong, Tina T X, Tsim, Karl W K (2009) "A Chinese Herbal Decoction, Danggui Buxue Tang, Stimulates Proliferation, Differentiation and Gene Expression of Cultured Osteosarcoma Cells: Genomic Approach to Reveal Specific Gene Activation.", Evid Based Complement Alternat Med., Published on-line. Zhu, Judy T T, Choi, Roy C Y, Li, Jun, Xie, Heidi Q, Bi, Cathy W C, Cheung, Anna W H, Dong, Tina T X, Jiang, Z Y, Chen, J J, Tsim, Karl W K (2009) "Estrogenic and Neuroprotective Properties of Scutellarin from Erigeron breviscapus: A Drug against Postmenopausal Symptoms and Alzheimer's Disease.", Planta Med., Published on-line. Zhu, Judy T T, Choi, Roy C Y, Xie, Heidi Q, Zheng, Ken Y Z, Guo, Ava J Y, Bi, Cathy W C, Lau, David T W, Li, Jun, Dong, Tina T X, Lau, B W, Chen, J J, Tsim, Karl W K (2009) "Hibifolin, a flavonol glycoside, prevents beta-amyloid-induced neurotoxicity in cultured cortical neurons.", Neurosci Lett., Published on-line. Leung, Ka Wing, Xie, Heidi Q, Chen, Vicky P, Mok, Ka Wai, Chu, Glanice K Y, Choi, Roy C Y, Tsim, Karl W K (2009) "Restricted localization of proline-rich membrane anchor (PRiMA) of globular form acetylcholinesterase at the neuromuscular junctions--contribution and expression from motor neurons.", FEBS J., 276: 3031-3042. Guo, Jiangyang, Choi, Roy C Y, Cheung, Anna W H, Li, Jun, Chen, Ivy X Y, Dong, Tina T X, Tsim, Karl W K, Lau, BW (2009) "Stimulation of Apolipoprotein A-IV expression in Caco-2/TC7 enterocytes and reduction of triglyceride formation in 3T3-L1 adipocytes by potential anti-obesity Chinese herbal medicines.", Chin Med., 4: 5. Xie, Heidi Q, Choi, Roy C Y, Leung, Ka Wing, Chen, Vicky P, Chu, Glanice K Y, Tsim, Karl W K (2009) "Transcriptional regulation of proline-rich membrane anchor (PRiMA) of globular form acetylcholinesterase in neuron: an inductive effect of neuron differentiation.", Brain Res., 1265:13-23. Choi, Roy C Y, Mok, Ka Wai, Cheung, Anna W H, Siow, Nina L, Xie, Heidi Q, Tsim, Karl W K (2008) "Regulation of PRiMA-linked G(4) AChE by a cAMP-dependent signaling pathway in cultured rat pheochromocyoma PC12 cells.", Chem Biol Interact., 175: 76-78. Tsim, Karl W K, Choi, Roy C Y, Xie, Heidi Q, Zhu, Judy T T, Leung, Ka Wing, Lau, Faye T C, Chu, Glanice K Y, Chen, Ping, Mok, Ka Wai, Cheung, Wing Han, Bi, Wenchuan (2008) "Transcriptional control of different subunits of AChE in muscles: signals triggered by the motor nerve-derived factors.", Chem Biol Interact., 175: 58-63.

Sarah E HO Research Assistant Professor (2358 8017 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Representative Research Publications: Moreau, Marc, Webb, Sarah, Neant, Isabel, Miller, Andrew L, Leclerc, Catherine (2009) "Calcium signaling and cell fate determination during neural induction in amphibian embryos.", Handbook of Neurochem. Mol. Neurobiol., K. Mikoshiba, vol: Neural Signaling Mechanisms. Chapter 1, pp. 4-13. Ma, Leung Hang, Webb, Sarah, Chan, Ching Man, Zhang, Jiao, Miller, Andrew L (2009) "Establishment of a transitory dorsal-biased window of localized Ca2+ signaling in the superficial epithelium following the mid-blastula transition in zebrafish embryos.", Developmental Biology, 327:143-157. Lam, Pui Ying, Webb, Sarah, Leclerc, Catherine, Moreau, Marc, Miller, Andrew L (2009) "Inhibition of stored Ca2+ release disrupts convergence-related cell movements in the lateral intermediate mesoderm resulting in abnormal positioning and morphology of the pronephric anlagen in intact zebrafish embryos.", Development, Growth & Differentiation, 51: 429-442. Leclerc, Catherine, Webb, Sarah, Miller, Andrew L, Moreau, Marc (2008) "An increase in intracellular Ca2+ is involved in pronephric tubule differentiation in the amphibian Xenopus laevis.", Developmental Biology, 321: 357-367. Moreau, Marc, Neant, Isabelle, Webb, Sarah, Miller, Andrew, Leclerc, Catherine (2008) "Calcium signalling during neural induction in Xenopus laevis embryos", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 363, 1371-1375. Webb, Sarah, Li, Wai Ming, Miller, Andrew (2008) "Calcium signalling during the cleavage period of zebrafish development.", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 363, 1363-1369. Li, Wai Ming, Webb, Sarah, Miller, Andrew (2008) "Multiple roles of the furrow deepening Ca2+ transient during cytokinesis in zebrafish embryos.", Developmental Biology, 316, 228-248. Webb, Sarah, Miller, Andrew (2007) "Ca2+ signaling during embryonic cytokinesis in animal systems", New Comprehensive Biochemistry. Calcium: A matter of Life or Death, Vol. 41, Ch. 17, pp. 445-470. David T W LAU Research Assistant Professor (2358 7338 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Stanley C K LAU Research Assistant Professor (2358 7329 ; [email protected])

PhD HKUST (2001)

Current Research Activities: Environmemtal microbiology, marine bacteria, microbial indicator for seawater pollution

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Bacteroidales genetic markers as novel fecal pollution indicators for Hong Kong's coastal seawater RGC - General Research Fund HK$695,165 01 Jan 2009 Persistence and pathogenicity of E. coli in intertidal sediment in Hong Kong RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,086,405 01 Jul 2009

On On LEE Research Assistant Professor (2358 7336 ; [email protected])

Marine Environmental Science, HKUST

Current Research Activities: Marine Microbial Ecology, Biofilm & larval settlement, Sponge symbiosis

Representative Research Publications: Hung, OS, Lee, OO, Thiyagarajin, V, He, HP, Xu, Y, Qian, PY (2009) "Characterization of cues from natural multi-species biofilms that induce larval attachment of the polychaete Hydroides elegans.", Aquatic Biology, 4:253-262. Huang, YL, Ki, JS, Lee, OO, Qian, PY (2009) "Evidence for the dynamics of Acyl homoserine lactone and AHL-producing bacteria during subtidal biofilm formation.", The ISME Journal, 3:296-304. Lee, OO, Wong, YH, Qian, PY (2009) "Inter- and intra-specific variations of bacterial communities associated with marine sponges from San Juan Island, Washington, USA.", Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 75(11):3513-3521. Department of Chemistry

Guocheng JIA, Head of Department and Professor

Ben Zhong TANG, Chair Professor

Yundong WU, Chair Professor

Wei Min DAI, Professor

Richard HAYNES, Professor

Wa Hung LEUNG, Professor

Xiaoyuan LI, Professor

Zhenyang LIN, Professor

Reinhard RENNEBERG, Professor

Ian D WILLIAMS, Professor

Bing XU, Professor

Yijing YAN, Professor

Shihe YANG, Professor

Zhihong GUO, Associate Professor

Jianzhen YU, Associate Professor

Lam Lung YEUNG, Adjunct Associate Professor

Hongkai WU, Assistant Professor

Wing Yip LAM, Research Assistant Professor Guocheng JIA Head of Department and Professor (2358 7361 ; [email protected])

PhD, Ohio State University (1989)

Current Research Activities: Organometallic chemistry; materials synthesis; homogeneous catalysis; metal hydride chemistry.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Synthesis and reactivity of osmabenzynes and other metallabenzynes RGC - General Research Fund HK$923,000 01 Sep 2007 Transition Metal Mediated Cycloaddition Reactions of Alkynes with Azides RGC - General Research Fund HK$538,460 01 Jan 2007 Transition metal mediated reactions of allenes RGC - General Research Fund HK$343,700 01 Jan 2009 Reactive metal-ligand multiple bonded complexes. From biomimetic reactions to highly efficient chemical synthesis RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$500,000 01 Mar 2009

Representative Research Publications: Bai, Tao, Ma, Shengming, Jia, Guochen (2009) "Insertion Reactions of Allenes with Transition Metal Complexes", Coord. Chem. Rev., 253, 423. Yu, Haizhu, Jia, Guochen, Lin, Zhenyang (2009) "O-Abstraction Reactions of Nitrous Oxide with Cp2Ti(II) and Other Middle Transition Metal Complexes", Organometallics, 28, 1158. Shu, Wei, Ma, Shengming, Jia, Guochen (2009) "Palladium-Catalyzed Three-Component Cascade Cyclization Reaction of Bisallenes with Propargylic Carbonates and Organoboronic Acids: Efficient Construction of cis-Fused Bicyclo 4.3.0 nonenes", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 48, 2788. Zhang, L., Sung, H. H. Y., Williams, Ian D, Lin, Zhenyang, Jia, Guochen (2008) "Reactions of Cp*RuCl(COD) with Alkynes: Isolation of Dinuclear Metallacyclopentatriene Complexes", Organometallics, 27, 5122. Boren, B. C., Narayan, S., Rasmussen, L. K., Zhang, L., Zhao, H., Lin, Zhenyang, Jia, Guochen, Fokin, V. V. (2008) "Ruthenium-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition: Scope and Mechanism", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 8923. Yu, Haizhu, Jia, Guochen, Lin, Zhenyang (2008) "Theoretical Studies on O-Insertion Reactions of Nitrous Oxide with Ruthenium Hydride Complexes", Organometallics, 27, 3825. Bai, Tao, Xue, Peng, Zhang, Li, Ma, Shengming, Jia, Guochen (2008) "An Efficient Synthesis of 2-Vinylic Cyclic 1,3-Alkadienes via the Cp*Ru(II)-Catalyzed Intermolecular Coupling Reactions of Alkynes and Cyclic Allenes", Chem. Commun., 2929-2931. He, Guomei, Zhu, Jun, Hung, Wai Yiu, Wen, Ting Bin, Sung, H. H. Y., William, Ian D., Lin, Zhenyang, Jia, Guochen (2007) "A Metallanaphthalyne Complex from Zinc Reduction of a Vinylcarbyne Complex", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 46, 9065- 9068.

Ben Zhong TANG Chair Professor (2358 7375 ; [email protected] ; http://home.ust.hk/~tangbenz)

PhD, Kyoto University (1988) Senior Research Scientist, Neos Co Ltd (1989-94)

Current Research Activities: Polymer chemistry; materials science; liquid crystals; chiral polymers; optical materials; light-emitting polymers; biomimetic materials; nanotechnology; hyperbranched polymers. Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Synthesis and mechanistic study of AIE-active molecules and exploration of their electronic, photonic, and biotechnological applications RGC - General Research Fund HK$300,000 31 Dec 2006 Click Polymerization: Development of Functional Polytriazoles with linear and hyperbranched structures RGC - General Research Fund HK$317,000 31 Dec 2007 Development of Multifunctional Nanomaterials with Efficient Fluorescence and Strong Magnetization RGC - General Research Fund HK$343,700 31 Dec 2008 Tang's donation Ben Zhong Tang HK$100,142 22 Nov 2005 Interface engineering for organic transistors: materials, fabrication, characterization, and application RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$250,000 01 Jun 2009 Development of functional nanomaterials with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristics for biotechnological applications Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited & Industries HK$1,996,300 01 Sep 2009 Development of multifunctional nanomaterials William Mong Institute of Nano Science & Technology HK$70,000 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Yuan, Wangzhang, Tang, Li, Zhao, Hui, Jin, Jiake, Sun, Jingzhi, Qin, Anjun, Xu, Haipeng, Liu, Jianzhao, Yang, Feng, Zheng, Qiang, Chen, Erqiang, Tang, Ben Zhong (2009) "Direct Polymerization of Highly Polar Acetylene Derivatives and Facile Fabrication of Nanoparticle-Decorated Carbon Nanotubes", Macromolecules, 2009, 42, 52-61. Jim, Ka Wai, Qin, Anjun, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Haussler, Matthias, Liu, Jianzhao, Yuen, Matthew M F, Kim, Jang Kyo, Ng, Ka Ming, Tang, Ben Zhong (2009) "Facile Polycyclotrimerization of “Simple” Arylene Bipropiolates: A Metal-Free, Regioselective Route to Functional Hyperbranched Polymers with High Optical Transparency, Tunable Refractive Index, Low Chromatic Aberration, and Photoresponsive Patternabili", Macromolecules, 2009, 42, 4099-4109. Li, Zhen, Dong, Yongqiang, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Sun, Jingzhi, Qin, Anjun, Haussler, Matthias, Dong, Yuping, Sung, Ho Yung, Williams, Ian D, Kwok, Hoi Sing, Tang, Ben Zhong (2009) "Functionalized Siloles: Versatile Synthesis, Aggregation-Induced Emission, and Sensory and Device Applications", Advanced Functional Materials, 2009, 19, 905-917. Qin, Anjun, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Tang, Li, Jim, Ka Wai, Zhao, Hui, Sun, Jingzhi, Tang, Ben Zhong (2009) "Polytriazoles with Aggregation-Induced Emission Characteristics: Synthesis by Click Polymerization and Application as Explosive Chemosensors", Macromolecules, 2009, 42, 1421-1424. Zhao, Hui, Yuan, Wangzhang, Tang, Li, Sun, Jingzhi, Xu, Haipeng, Qin, Anjun, Mao, Yu, Jin, Jiake, Tang, Ben Zhong (2008) "Hybrids of Triphenylamine-Functionalized Polyacetylenes and Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes: High Solubility, Strong Donor-Acceptor Interaction, and Excellent Photoconductivity", Macromolecules, 2008, 41, 8566-8574. Hong, Yuning, Haussler, Matthias, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Li, Zhen, Sin, King Keung, Dong, Yongqiang, Tong, Hui, Liu, Jianzhao, Qin, Anjun, Renneberg, Reinhard, Tang, Ben Zhong (2008) "Label-Free Fluorescent Probing of G- Quadruplex Formation and Real-Time Monitoring of DNA Folding by a Quaternized Tetraphenylethene Salt with Aggregation-Induced Emission Characteristics", Chemistry-A European Journal, 2008, 14, 6428-6437. Yuan, Wangzhang, Sun, Jingzhi, Liu, Jianzhao, Dong, Yongqiang, Li, Zhen, Xu, Haipeng, Qin, Anjun, Haussler, Matthias, Jin, Jiake, Zheng, Qiang, Tang, Ben Zhong (2008) "Processable Hybrids of Ferrocene-Containing Poly(phenylacetylene)s and Carbon Nanotubes: Fabrication and Properties", The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2008, 112, 8896- 8905. Cheuk, Ka Leung, Li, Bingshi, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Xie, Yong, Tang, Ben Zhong (2008) "Synthesis, Chain Helicity, Assembling Structure, and Biological Compatibility of Poly(phenylacetylene)s Containing L-Alanine Moieties", Macromolecules, 2008, 41, 5997-6005.

Yundong WU Chair Professor (2358 7391 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Pittsburgh (1986) Research Associate, University of California, Los Angeles (1989-91) Current Research Activities: Theoretical organic, bioorganic and materials chemistry.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Development and application of a coarse-grained protein model for the study of protein folding and protein/protein interactions RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,303,686 13 Jul 2009 Peptidomimetics: design, synthesis and biomedical applications RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$420,000 01 Mar 2007

Representative Research Publications: Wu, Yundong, Han, Wei, Wang, De-Ping, Gao, Yi, Zhao, Yi-Lei (2008) "Theoretical Analysis of Secondary Structures of - peptides", Acc. Chem. Res., 41, 1418-1427. Li, Xiang, Wu, Yundong, Yang, Dan (2008) "α-Aminoxy Acids: New Possibilities from Foldamers to Anion Receptors and Channels", Acc. Chem. Res., 41, 1428-1438. Zuo, C. S., Quan, J. M., Wu, Y.-D. (2007) "Oxa-Bicyclocalixarenes: A New Cage for Anion via C-H...Anion Hydrogen Bonds and Anion...pi Interactions", Org. Lett., 9, (21), pp 4219-4222. Wu, X. H., Quan, J.-M., Wu, Y.-D. (2007) "A Theoretical Study of the Catalytic Mechanism and Metal Ion Dependence of Peptide Deformylase", J. Phys. Chem. B., 111, 6236-6244. Wu, Y. D., Chung, L. H., Zhang, X. H. (2007) "Hydrosilylation Reactions Discovered in the Last Decade: Combined Experimental and Computational Studies on the New Mechanisms", in Computational Modeling for Homogeneous and Enzymatic Catalysis, Jamal Musaev and Keji Morokuma Eds. Wiley-VCH, 2007. Han, W., Wu, Y.-D. (2007) "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Hexamers of Amyloid-b Peptide (16-35) and their mutants: Influence of Charge States on Amyloid Aggregation", Proteins: Function, Structure, and Bioinformatics., 66 575-587. Yang, D., Zhang, Y.H., Li, B., Chang, D.W., Chan, J.C.Y., Zhu, N.Y., Luo, S.W., Wu, Yun-Dong (2004) "Effect of side chains on turns and helices in peptides of beta(3)-aminoxy acids", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 6956-6966. Tang, Z., Jiang, F., Cui, X., Gong, L.Z., Mi, A.Q., Jiang, Y.Z., Wu, Yun-Dong (2004) "Enantioselective direct aldol reactions catalyzed by L-prolinamide derivatives", Proc. Nat. Aca. Sci. USA, 101, 5755-5760.

Wei Min DAI Professor (2358 7365 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~chdai/index.html)

PhD, Kyoto University (1990) Research Associate, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla (1990-1992)

Current Research Activities: Enantioselective reactions and asymmetric catalysis; synthesis of biomedically interesting molecules; design and synthesis of DNA- cleaving enediynes and propargylic sulfones; diversity-oriented synthesis of heterocycles; solid phase organic synthesis; and microwave-assisted organic synthesis.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Total synthesis and determination of the stereochemistry of cytotoxic butenolides produced by marine-derived bacteria RGC - General Research Fund HK$343,700 01 Sep 2008

Representative Research Publications: Dai, Wei-Min, Li, Yannian, Zhang, Ye, Yue, Congyong, Wu, Jinlong (2008) "Generation of an Aromatic Amide-Derived Phosphane (Aphos) Library by Self-Assisted Molecular Editing and Applications of Aphos in Room-Temperature Suzuki-Miyaura Reactions", Chemistry-A European Journal, 14, 5538-5554. Jin, Jian, Chen, Yile, Li, Yannian, Wu, Jinlong, Dai, Wei-Min (2007) "Total Synthesis of Amphidinolide Y by Formation of Trisubstituted (E)-Double Bond via Ring-Closing Metathesis of Densely Functionalized Alkenes", Organic Letters, 9, 2585-2588. Sun, Li-Ping, Dai, Wei-Min (2006) "An Engineered Linker Capable of Promoting On-Resin Reactions for Microwave-Assisted Solid-Phase Organic Synthesis", Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 45, 7255-7258. Zhang, Yan, Wang, Yongqiang, Dai, Wei-Min (2006) "Efficient Remote Axial-to-Central Chirality Transfer in Enantioselective SmI2-Mediated Reductive Coupling of Aldehydes with Crotonates of Atropisomeric 1-Naphthamides", Journal of Organic Chemistry, 71, 2445-2455. Dai, Wei-Min, Guo, Dian-Shun, Sun, Li-Ping, Huang, Xiang-Hong (2003) "Microwave-Assisted Solid-Phase Organic Synthesis (MASPOS) as a Key Step for an Indole Library Construction", Organic Letters, 5, 2919-2922. Dai, Wei-Min (2003) "Natural Product Inspired Design of Enediyne Prodrugs via Rearrangement of an Allylic Double Bond", Current Medicinal Chemistry, 10, 2265-2283. Dai, Wei-Min, Yeung, Kelly Ka Yim, Liu, Jin-Ting, Zhang, Ye, Williams, Ian D. (2002) "A Novel Class of Nonbiaryl Atropisomeric P,O-Ligands for Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation", Organic Letters, 4, 1615-1618. Dai, Wei-Min, Lai, Kwong Wah, Wu, Anxin, Hamaguchi, Wataru, Lee, Mavis Yuk Ha, Zhou, Ling, Ishii, Atsushi, Nishimoto, Sei-Ichi (2002) "DNA Cleavage Potency, Cytotoxicity, and Mechanism of Action of a Novel Class of Enediyne Prodrugs", Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 45, 758-761.

Richard HAYNES Professor (2358 7364 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Western Australia (1970) Reader in Organic Chemistry, University of Sydney (1989-92)

Current Research Activities: Total synthesis of clinical and pharmaceutical agents; naturally occurring drugs from Chinese plants; asymmetric catalysis.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Institute of Molecular Technology for Drug Discovery and synthesis UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$400,000 01 Oct 2007 Institute of Molecular Technology for Drug Discovery and synthesis UGC - Targets of Opportunity and Others HK$400,000 01 Oct 2007

Representative Research Publications: Haynes, Richard (2008) "Novel, Better Artemisinins", Israel Society for Parasitology, Protozoology, and Tropical Diseases, The Hebrew University – Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel, Wednesday 4 June 2008. Haynes, Richard (2007) "A Legacy of Antimalarial Discovery: Project 523 and Artemisinin Derivatives", American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 56th Annual Meeting: Symposium 106: A Legacy of Antimalarial Discovery: Project 523 and the Isolation of Artemisinin, ., 4-8 November, 2007, Philadelphia, USA. Haynes, Richard, Chan, Ho-Wai, Lung, Chung-Man, Ng, Nga-Chun, Wong, Ho-Ning, Shek, Lai-Yung, Williams, Ian, Gomes, Melba, Cartwright, Anthony (2007) "Artesunate and Dihydroartemisinin (DHA): Unusual Decomposition Products Formed Under Mild Conditions and Questions on the Fitness of DHA as an Antimalarial Drug", ChemMedChem, 2007, Vol 2, pages 1448-1463. Haynes, Richard, Wong, Ho-Ning, Lee, Kin-Wo, Lung, Chung-Man, Shek, Lai-Yung, Williams, Ian, Croft, Simon, Vivas, Livia (2007) "Preparation of N-Sulfonyl and -Carbonyl-11-Azaartemisinins with Greatly Enhanced Thermal Stabilities: in vitro Antimalarial Activities", ChemMedChem, 2007, Vol. 2, pages 1464-1479. Haynes, Richard, Chan, Ho-Wai, Chan, Wing-Chi, Lung, Chung-Man, Wong, Ho-Ning (2007) "Strategies and Synthetic Chemical Modifications of Artemisinin (Qinghaosu) in the Development of New and Potent Antimalarial Drugs", Asian Core Program 2nd International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry, Ho-Wai Chan, Wing-Chi Chan, Chung-Man Lung, Ho-Ning Wong, 2-6 September, 2007, Busan, Korea. Haynes, Richard, Chan, Ho-Wai, Lung, Chung-Man, Uhlemann, Ann-Catrin, Ekstein, Ursula, Taramelli, Donatella, Parapini, Silvia, Monti, Diego, Krishna, Sanjeev (2007) "The Fe2+-Mediated Decomposition, PfATP6-Binding and Antimalarial Activities of Artemisone and Other Artemisinins: The Unlikelihood of C-Centered Radicals as Bioactive Intermediates", ChemMedChem, 2007, Vol. 2, pages 1480-1497. Haynes, Richard K., Fugmann, Burkhard, Stetter, Joerg, Rieckmann, Karl, Heilmann, Hans-Dietrich, Chan, Ho-Wai, Cheung, Man-Ki, Lam, Wai-Lun, Wong, Ho Ning, Croft, Simon L, Vivas, Livia, Rattray, Lauren, Stewart, Lindsay, Peters, Wallace, Robinson, Brian L., Edstein, Michael, Kotecka, Barbara, Kyle, Dennis E., Beckermann, Bernard, Gerisch, Michael, Radtke, Michael, Steinke, Wolfram, Wollborn, Ute, Schmeer, Karl, Roemer, Axel (2006) "Artemisone - A Highly Active Antimalarial Drug of the Artemisinin Class.", Angewandte Chemie International Edition ., Vol. 45, 2006, pp. 2082-2088. Uhlemann, Anne-Catrin, Cameron, Angus, Eskstein-Ludwig, Ursula, Fischbarg, Jorge, Iserovich, Pavel, Zuniga, Felipe, East, Malcolm, Lee, Anthony, Brady, Leo, Haynes, Richard, Krishna, Sanjeev (2005) "A Single Amino Acid Residue Determines Sensitivity of SERCAS To Artemisinins", Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, 2005, 12, 628-629.

Wa Hung LEUNG Professor (2358 7360 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Hong Kong (1989)

Current Research Activities: Inorganic and organometallic synthesis; homogeneous catalysis; materials synthesis; bioinorganic chemistry.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Cerium(IV) compounds in oxygen-rich ligand environments: Models of the Ce(IV) aqua ion and ceria-based materials RGC - General Research Fund HK$923,000 01 Jan 2008 Synthesis, reactivity, and non-linear optical properties of heterometallic clusters derived from selenometalates RGC - General Research Fund HK$300,000 01 Jan 2007 Ruthenium alkyl and siloxide complexes as molecular precursors to single-site supported catalysts RGC - General Research Fund HK$668,417 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Yi, Xiaoyi, Sung, Herman, Willaims, Ian, Leung, Wa-Hung (2008) "Cerium(IV)-containing oxomolybdenum cluster with a unique Ce6Mo9O38 core structure", Chemical Communications, pp 3269-3271. Cheung, Wai-Man, Ng, Ho-Yuen, Williams, Ian, Leung, Wa-Hung (2008) "Ruthenium complexes with tetraphenylimidodiphosphinate: Syntheses, structures, and applications to catalytic organic oxidation", Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 47, pp 4383-4391. Sau, Yiu-Keung, Chan, Ka-Wang, Zhang, Qianfeng, Williams, Ian, Leung, Wa-Hung (2007) "Alkyl and aryl compounds of rhodium(III) and iridium(III) supported by 4,4 '-di-tert-butyl-2,2 '-bipyridyl", Organometallics, vol. 26, pp 6338-6345. Yi, Xiaoyi, Lam, Tony, Sau, Yiu-Keung, Zhang, Qianfeng, Williams, Ian, Leung, Wa-Hung (2007) "Electrophilic Ruthenium(VI) nitrido complex containing KIaui's oxygen tripodal ligand", Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 46, pp 7193-7198. Leung, Wa-Hung, Zhang, Qianfeng, Yi, Xiaoyi (2007) "Recent developments in the coordination and organometallic chemistry of Klaui oxygen tripodal ligands", Coordination Chemistry Reviews, vol. 251, pp2266-2279. Cheung, Wai-Man, Zhang, Qianfeng, Williams, Ian, Leung, Wa-Hung (2007) "Synthesis, crystal structures, and reactivity of Osmium(II) and -(IV) complexes containing a dithioimidodiphosphinate ligand", Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 46, pp 5754-5762. Sau, Yiu-Keung, Lee, Hung-Kay, Williams, Ian, Leung, Wa-Hung (2006) "Iridium(III) silyl alkyl and iridacyclic compounds supported by 4,4 '-di-tert-butyl-2,2 '-bipyridyl", Chemistry-A European Journal, 12, pp. 9323-9335. Zhang, Qian-Feng, Lam, Tony Chong Ho, Chan, Eddie, Lo, Samuel, Williams, Ian, Leung, Wa-Hung (2004) "A water-soluble tetranuclear Zr(IV) complexes supported by the Kläui tripodal ligand: a model of Zr(IV) in aqueous media", Angewandte Chemie, International Edition, 43, 1715.

Xiaoyuan LI Professor (2358 7356 ; [email protected]) PhD, Princeton University (1988) Research Associate, National Research Council of Canada (1989-91)

Current Research Activities: Biophysical, bioinorganic and bio-analytical chemistry; materials science.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The study of two-photon fluorescent dyes by surface-enhanced resonance hyper raman spectroscopy RGC - General Research Fund HK$538,460 01 Jan 2007 Nano-structures plasmonic noble metal materials for chemo-sensors and bio-sensors UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$600,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications: Zhang, H., Cai, J.W., Feng, X-L., Liu, J.Z., Li, X-Y., Ji, L-N. (2001-2002) "Assembly of Tris(2-aminoethyl)amines and Its Unusual Conversion by Silver(I)-Ions", Inorg. Chem. Commun., 4(5), 241-244. Yang, W.J., Li, X-Y., Yu, N-T. (2001-2002) "Bifunctional Electrocatalytic Films with Gold Nanoparticles and Metalloporphyrin: Preparation and Characterization", Mat. Res. Soc. Proc. 'Synthesis, Functional Properties, and Applications of Nanostructures', 676, Y3.26.1 - Y3.26.6. Chen, J.X., Wang, S.H., Li, X-Y., Yan, Y-J., Yang, S.H., Yang, S.L., Wang, J.N., Ge, W. (2001-2002) "Fast Interfacial Charge Separation I Chemically Hybridized CdS-PVK Nanocomposites Studied by Photoluminescence and Photoconductivity Measurements", Chem. Phys. Lett., 333, 375-380. Guo, L., Huang, Q., Li, X-Y, Yang, S-H (2001-2002) "Iron Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Applications in Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering and Electrocatalysis", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 3(9), 1661-1665. Li, X-Y, Yao, G. (2001-2002) "Layer-by-layer Assembled Molecular Films - II: Monolayers of Metal Nanoclusters from Photochemical and sonochemical Conversion of Multilayered Ionic Films", Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 371, 99-102. Li, X-Y., Pei, J-H. (2001-2002) "Layer-by-layer Assembled Molecular Films - III: Electrochemical Assembly and Electropolymerization of Noble Metal Complexes", Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 371, 103-106. Chao, H., Li, R-H, Jiang, C-W, Li, H., Ji, L-N, Li, X-Y (2001-2002) "Mono-. di- and tetra-nuclear ruthenium(II) complexes containing1,4 bis( 1,10 phenanthroline- 5,6-d imidazol-2-yl)benzene: synthesis, characterization and third-order nonlinear optical properties", J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans, 1920-1926. Chao, H., Yang, G., Xue, G.Q., Li, H., Williams, I. D., Ji, L.N., Chen, X-M., Li, X-Y (2001-2002) "Ruthenium(II) Complexes Containing Novel Asymmetric Tridentate Ligands: Synthesis, Structure, Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Properties", J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans, (8), 1326-1332.

Zhenyang LIN Professor (2358 7379 ; [email protected] ; http://home.ust.hk/~chzlin)

PhD, Oxford University (1989) Senior Research Associate, Texas A&M University (1990-93)

Current Research Activities: Theoretical inorganic chemistry; structure, bonding and computer modeling studies in inorganic, organometallic and solid state compounds.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Theoretical studies of transition metal catalyzed diboration reactions of unsaturated organic compounds RGC - General Research Fund HK$445,000 01 Oct 2007 Aryl bromide/triflate selectivities in palladium-catalyzed carbon-carbon cross-coupling reactions RGC - General Research Fund HK$579,610 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Yu, Haizhu, Jia, Guocheng, Lin, Zhenyang (2009) "O-abstraction Reactions of Nitrous Oxide with Cp2Ti(II) and Other Middle Transition Metal Complexes", Organometallics, 28, 1158-1164. Lin, Zhenyang (2008) "Transition Metal sigma-Borane Complexes", Contempory Metal Boron Chemistry I, Todd B. Marder and Zhenyang Lin. Zhao, Haitao, Dang, Li, Marder, Todd B., Lin, Zhenyang (2008) "DFT Studies on the Mechanism of the Diboration of Aldehydes Catalyzed by Copper(I) Boryl Complexes", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 5586-5594. Lin, Zhenyang (2007) "Current understanding of the sigma-bond metathesis reactions of LnMR + R'-H --> LnMR' + R-H", Coord. Chem. Rev., 251, 2280-2291. He, Guomei, Zhu, Jun, Hung, Wai Yiu, Wen, Tingbin, Sung, Herman Ho-Yung, Williams, Ian D., Lin, Zhenyang, Jia, Guochen (2007) "Metallanaphthalyne complexes from zinc reduction of vinylcarbyne complexes", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 46, 9065-9068. Dang, Li, Zhao, Haitao, Lin, Zhenyang, Marder, Todd B. (2007) "DFT Studies of Alkene Insertions into Cu-B Bonds in Copper(I) Boryl Complexes", Organometallics, 26, 2824-2832. Ariafard, Alireza, Lin, Zhenyang (2006) "DFT Studies on the Mechanism of Allylative Dearomatization Catalyzed by Palladium", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 13010-13016. Zhao, Haitao, Lin, Zhenyang, Marder, Todd B. (2006) "DFT Studies on the Mechanism of the Reduction of CO2 to CO Catalyzed by Copper(I) Boryl Complexes", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 15637-15643.

Reinhard RENNEBERG Professor (2358 7387 ; [email protected])

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 (1995-98), HKUST

Current Research Activities: Biosensors and bioelectronics; analytical biochemistry and biotechnology; environmental chemistry; medical diagnostics; protein engineering.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Development of novel nanoparticle- and nanowire-based bio sensors, tests and chips UGC - Strategic Initiatives HK$1,400,000 01 Mar 2008 Supernova nanoprobe for eye-detectable signal-amplified bioassays UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$39,560 15 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Fung, KK, Chan, CP, Renneberg, Reinhard (2009) "Development of a creatinine enzyme-based bar-code-style lateral-flow assay", Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry, 393 (4):1281-7. Fung, KK, Chan, CP, Renneberg, Reinhard (2009) "Development of enzyme-based bar code-style lateral-flow assay for hydrogen peroxide determination", Analytica Chimica Acta, 634 (1):89-95. Rainer, TH, Chan, CP, Leung, MF, Leung, W, Ip, M, Lee, N, Cautherley, GW, Graham, CA, Fuchs, D, Renneberg, Reinhard (2009) "Diagnostic utility of CRP to neopterin ratio in patients with acute respiratory tract infections", Journal of Infection, 58 (2):123-30. Liao, J, Chan, CP, Cheung, YC, Lu, JH, Cautherley, GW, Glatz, JF, Renneberg, Reinhard (2009) "Human Heart-Type Fatty Acid-Binding Protein for On-Site Diagnosis of Early Acute Myocardial Infarction", International Journal of Cardiology, 133(3):420-3. Zastrow, L, Groth, N, Klein, D, Kockott, D, Lademann, J, Renneberg, Reinhard, Ferrero, L (2009) "The missing link--light-induced (280-1,600 nm) free radical formation in human skin", Skin Pharmacology & Physiology, 22 (1):31-44. Renneberg, Reinhard (2008-2009) Biotechnology for beginners, Academic Press. Renneberg, Reinhard, Fisdat, F (2008) Biosensing for the 21st Century, Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, Springer, Vol 109, 504 pages. Leung, W, Chan, CP, Rainer, TH, Ip, M, Cautherley, GW, Renneberg, Reinhard (2008) "InfectCheck CRP barcode-style lateral flow assay for semi-quantitative detection of C-reactive protein in distinguishing between bacterial and viral infections", Journal of Immunological Methods, 336:30-36.

Ian D WILLIAMS Professor (2358 7384 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Bristol (1983) Research Associate, Materials Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University (1986-92)

Current Research Activities: Materials and solid state chemistry; X-ray crystallography; microporous materials; coordination polymers; hydrothermal synthesis.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Development of chiral metal-organic framework materials RGC - General Research Fund HK$329,500 01 Jul 2007 Novel Research using a Dual Wavelength X-ray Diffractometer UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$480,000 01 Jun 2008 Metal imidazolide polymers UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$39,560 01 Jan 2009

Bing XU Professor (2358 7351 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~chbingxu)

PhD, University of Pennsylvania (1996)

Current Research Activities: Our research focuses on the interdisciplinary frontier of materials chemistry. We integrate the knowledge and techniques in organic chemistry, materials science, surface chemistry, biochemistry, and nanotechnology to design new biofunctional materials for the exploration in molecular drug delivery, biomedical diagnostics, biomimetics, and other fundamental problems.

Representative Research Publications: Yang, Zhimou, Liang, Gaolin, Xu, Bing (2008) "Enzymatic hydrogelation of small molecules", Acc. Chem. Res., 41, 315-3265. Gao, Jinhao, Zhang, Wei, Huang, Pingbo, Zhang, Bei, Zhang, Xixiang, Xu, Bing (2008) "Intracellular Spatial Control of Fluorescent Magnetic Nanoparticles", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 3710-3711. Yang, Zhimou, Liang, Gaolin, Guo, Zhufeng, Guo, Zhihong, Xu, Bing (2007) "Intracellular Hydrogelation of Small Molecules Inhibits Bacterial Growth", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 46, 8216-8219. Wang, Q. G., Yang, Z. M., Zhang, X. Q., Xiao, X. D., Chang, C. K., Xu, Bing (2007) "A Supramolecular Hydrogel- Encapsulated Hemin as an Artificial Enzyme to Mimic Peroxidase” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2007, 46, 4285-4289.". Gao, J. H., Liang, G. L., Zhang, B., Kuang, Y., Zhang, X. X., Xu, Bing (2007) "FePt@CoS2 Yolk-shell Nanocrystals as A Potent Agent to Kill HeLa Cells", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 1428-1433. Yang, Z. M., Ho, P.-L., Liang, G. L., Chow, K. H., Wang, Q. G., Cao, Y., Guo, Z. H., Xu, Bing (2007) "Using -Lactamase to Trigger Supramolecular Hydrogelation", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 266-267. Wang, L., Yang, Z. M., Gao, J. H., Xu, K. M., Gu, H. W., Zhang, B., Zhang, X. X., Xu, Bing (2006) "A Biocompatible Method of Decorporation: Bisphosphonate Modified Magnetite Nanoparticles to Remove Uranyl Ions from Blood", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 13358-13359. Gu, Hongwei, Xu, Keming, Xu, Chengjie, Xu, Bing (2006) "Biofunctional Magnetic Nanoparticles for Protein Separation and Pathogen Detection", Chem. Commun., 2006, 941-949.

Yijing YAN Professor (2358 7388 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Rochester (1989) Research Chemist, University of California, San Diego (1992-93)

Current Research Activities: 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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Dynamics of open electronic systems: Quantum transport and dissipation RGC - General Research Fund HK$293,700 01 Sep 2008

Representative Research Publications: Zheng, Xiao, Luo, JunYan, Jin, Jinshuang, Yan, Yijing (2009) "Complex Non-Markovian Effect on Time-Dependent Quantum Transport", J. Chem. Phys., 130 (12) 124508. Zheng, Xiao, Jin, Jinshuang, Welack, Sven, Luo, Meng, Yan, Yijing (2009) "Numerical Approach to Time-Dependent Quantum Transport and Dynamical Kondo Transition", J. Chem. Phys., 130 (16) 164708. Zheng, Xiao, Jin, Jinshuang, Yan, Yijing (2008) "Dynamic Coulomb Blockade in Single-Lead Quantum Dots", New J. Phys., 10, 093016. Zheng, Xiao, Jin, Jinshuang, Yan, Yijing (2008) "Dynamic Electronic Response of a Quantum Dot Driven by Time-dependent Voltage", J. Chem. Phys., 129 (18) 184112. Jin, Jinshuang, Zheng, Xiao, Yan, YiJing (2008) "Exact Dynamics Of Dissipative Electronic Systems And Quantum Transport: Hierarchical Equations Of Motion Approach", J. Chem. Phys., 128, 234703. Xu, Rui-Xue, Yan, YiJing (2007) "Dynamics of quantum dissipation systems interacting with bosonic canonical bath: Hierarchical equations of motion approach", Phys. Rev. E, 75: 031107. Jin, Jinshuang, Welack, Sven, Luo, JunYan, Li, Xin-Qi, Cui, Ping, Xu, Rui-Xue, Yan, YiJing (2007) "Dynamics of quantum dissipation systems interacting with fermion and boson grand canonical bath ensembles: Hierarchical equations of motion approach", Journal of Chemical Physics, 126: 134113. Yan, YiJing, Xu, Rui-Xue (2005) "Quantum Mechanics of Dissipative Systems", Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem., 56, 187-219.

Shihe YANG Professor (2358 7362 ; [email protected])

PhD, Rice University (1988)

Current Research Activities: Gas phase clusters; nanomaterials; fullerene derivative materials. Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Probing organizations of fullerenes and endohedral metallofullerenes at the gas/water interface RGC - General Research Fund HK$317,000 01 Jan 2008 Interfaces between fullerenes and semiconductor nanowires: nanofabrication and photoinduced charge separation RGC - General Research Fund HK$300,000 01 Jan 2007 New Zwitterionic Cycloaddition Chemistry of Endohedral Metallofullerenes RGC - General Research Fund HK$668,417 01 Jan 2009 Organization of nanoparticles in bilayers Consulate General of France in Hong Kong HK$73,600 01 Oct 2008 Organization of nanoparticles in bilayers UGC - PDF Matching Fund HK$100,000 01 Oct 2008 Self-organization of nanoparticles and nanowires generated by confinement within surfactant bilayer films France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$31,000 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Wei, Zhang, Haifeng, Hsing, I-ming, Yang, Shihe (2009) "A New Photoanode Architecture of Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Based on ZnO Nanotetrapods with No Need for Calcination", Electrochemistry Communications, 11(5), 1057-1060. Deng, Hong, Qiu, Yongcai, Yang, Shihe (2009) "General Surfactant-Free Synthesis of MTiO3 (M = Ba, Sr, Pb) Perovskite Nanostrips", J. Mater. Chem., 19(7), 976-982. Chen, Yijian, Xiao, Junwu, Wang, Zhining, Yang, Shihe (2009) "Observation of Amorphous Calcium Carbonate Precursor on Stearic Acid Monolayer Formed during the Biomimetic Mineralization of CaCO3", Langmuir, 25(2), 1054-1059. Liu, Chenmin, Yang, Shihe (2009) "Synthesis of Angstrom-Scale Anatase Titania Atomic Wires", ACS Nano, 3(4), 1025-1031. Wang, Zhining, Yang, Shihe (2008) "Adsorption behaviors of DPPC/MO aggregates on SiO2 surface", Langmuir, 24(20), 11616- 11624. Deng, Hong, Yang, Shihe, Xiao, Shi, Gong, Hong-Mei, Wang, Qu-Quan (2008) "Controlled Synthesis and Upconverted Avalanche Luminescence of Cerium(III) and Neodymium(III) Orthovanadate Nanocrystals with High Uniformity of Size and Shape", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130(6), 2032-2040. Liu, Dongfang, Wu, Wei, Qiu, Yongfu, Yang, Shihe, Xiao, Si, Wang, Qu-Quan, Ding, Lu, Wang, Jiannong (2008) "Surface Functionalization of ZnO Nanotetrapods with Photoactive and Electroactive Organic Monolayers", Langmuir, 24(9), 5052-5059. Wu, Wei, Zhu, Huarui, Fan, Louzhen, Yang, Shihe (2008) "Synthesis and Characterization of a Grapevine Nanostructure Consisting of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Covalently Attached 60 Fullerene Balls", Chem. Eur. J., 14(19), 5981-5987.

Zhihong GUO Associate Professor (2358 7352 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Minnesota (1998) Research Associate, The Scripps Research Institute (1998-2000)

Current Research Activities: Bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology; combinatorial chemistry and biomedical engineering; Alzheimer's disease; protein engineering and molecular evolution.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The thermodynamic basis for protein response to macromolecular crowding and the use of crowding conditions in the reconstitution of nonribosomal peptide synthetases RGC - General Research Fund HK$883,200 01 Jan 2009 Mechanistic studies on 2-Succinyl-5-Enolpyruvyl-6-Hydroxy-3-Cyclohexene-1-Carboxylate (SEPHCHC) synthase using 2-Oxoglutarate Angalogues France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$31,250 01 Jan 2009 Effects of Macromolecular Crowding on Feedback Regulation in Phenylalanine Biosynthesis RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$400,000 30 Jun 2008 Representative Research Publications: Guo, Zufeng, Sun, Yueru, Zheng, Suilan, Guo, Zhihong (2009) "Preferential hydrolysis of aberrant precursors suggests an active proofreading mechanism for the type II thioesterase in Escherichia coli enterobactin biosynthesis.", Biochemistry, 48, 1712-1722. Jiang, Ming, Chen, Xiaolei, Guo, Zu-Feng, Cao, Yang, Chen, Minjiao, Guo, Zhihong (2008) "Identification and characterization of (1R, 6R)-2-succinyl-6-hydroxy-2, 4-cyclohexadiene-1-carboxylate synthase in the menaquinone biosynthesis of Escherichia coli", Biochemistry, 47, 3426-3434. Guo, Zu-Feng, Jiang, Ming, Zheng, Suilan, Guo, Zhihong (2008) "Suppression of linear side products by macromolecular crowding in nonribosomal enterobactin biosynthesis", Org. Lett., 10, 649-652. Jiang, Ming, Chen, Minjiao, Cao, Yang, Yang, Yinhua, Sze, Kong Hung, Chen, Xiaolei, Guo, Zhihong (2007) "Determination of the stereochemistry of 2-succinyl-5-enolpyruvyl-6-hydroxy-3-cyclohexene-1-carboxylic acid, a key intermediate in menaquinone biosynthesis", Org. Lett., 9, 4765-4767. Jiang, Ming, Cao, Yang, Guo, Zu-Feng, Chen, Minjiao, Guo, Zhihong (2007) "Menaquinone biosynthesis in Escherichia coli: Identification of 2-succinyl-5-enolpyruvyl-6-hydroxy-3-cyclohexene-1-carboxylate (SEPHCHC) as a novel intermediate and re- evaluation of MenD activity", Biochemistry, 46, 10979-10989. Jiang, Ming, Guo, Zhihong (2007) "Effects of macromolecular crowding on the intrinsic catalytic efficiency and structure of enterobactin-specific isochorismate synthase", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 730-731. Zhong, Xiaofen, Guo, Zu-Feng, Yang, Huanghao, Peng, Lisheng, Xie, Yong, Wong, Tin-Yau, Lai, Sik-To, Guo, Zhihong (2006) "Amino terminus of the SARS coronavirus protein 3a elicited strong, potentially protective humoral responses in infected patients", Journal of General Virology, 87: 369–373. Zhong, Xiaofen, Yang, Huanghao, Zufeng, Guo, Sin, Wan-Yee Fion, Chen, Wei, Xu, Junjie, Fu, Ling, Wu, Jie, Mak, Chun-Kit Gannon, Cheng, Chak-Sum Samuel, Yang, Yanzhen, Cao, Shuyong, Wong, Tin-Yau, Lai, Sik-To, Xie, Yong, Guo, Zhihong (2005) "B cell responses in patients who have recovered from severe acute respiratory syndrome target a dominant site in the S2 domain of the surface spike glycoprotein", J. Virol., 79, 3401–3408.

Jianzhen YU Associate Professor (2358 7389 ; [email protected] ; http://landsea.ust.hk/~chjianyu)

PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1996)

Current Research Activities: Analytical method development for environmental applications; chemical characterization of urban and marine aerosols; chemical transformation of organic compounds in air; urban ozone formation chemistry.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Chemical characterization of aerosol particles emitted from crop residue burning in the Pearl River Delta region RGC - General Research Fund HK$743,261 01 Sep 2007 Contributions of Formaldehyde, C2, and C3 Bifunctional Carbonyls to Secondary Organic Aerosol through Multi-phase Reactions: A Laboratory and Modeling Study RGC - General Research Fund HK$618,939 01 Nov 2008

Representative Research Publications: Hu, Di, Bian, Qijing, Li, T. W.Y, Lau, Alexis K H, Yu, Jianzhen (2008) "Contributions of isoprene, monoterpenes, - caryophyllene, and toluene to secondary organic aerosols in Hong Kong during the summer of 2006", J. Geophys. Res.-Atmosphere, v113, D22206, doi:10.1029/2008JD010437. Huang, Xiao-Feng, Yu, Jianzhen (2008) "Size Distributions of Elemental Carbon in a Coastal Urban Atmosphere in South China: Characteristics, evolution processes, and implications for the mixing state", Atmos. Chem. Phys., v8, 5843-5853. Wan, Eric C. H., Yu, Jian Zhen (2007) "Analysis of Sugars and Sugar Polyols in Atmospheric Aerosols by Chloride Attachment in Liquid Chromatography / Negative Ion Electrospray Mass Spectrometry", Environmental Science & Technology, V41, pp2459-2466. Huang, Xiao-Feng, Yu, Jian Zhen, He, Ling-Yan, Yuan, Zibing (2006) "Water-soluble Organic Carbon and Oxalate in Aerosols at a Coastal Urban Site in China: Size Distribution Characteristics, Sources and Formation Mechanisms", J. Geophys. Res. – Atmosphere, v1111, D22212, doi:10.1029/2006JD007408. Li, Yun-Chun, Yu, Jian Zhen (2005) "Simultaneous Determination of Mono- and Dicarboxylic Acids, w-Oxo-carboxylic Acids, Midchain Ketocarboxylic acids, and Aldehydes in Atmospheric Aerosol Samples", Environmental Science & Technology, v39, n19, 7616- 7624. YANG, Hong, YU, Jian Zhen, HO, Steven S. H., Xu, Jinhui, Wu, Wai Shing, Wan, Chun Hong, Wang, Xiaodong, Wang, Xiaorong, Wang, Liansheng (2005) "The chemical composition of inorganic and carbonaceous materials in PM2.5 in Nanjing, China", Atmospheric Environment, v39, n20, 3735-3749. Yu, Jian Zhen, Huang, Xiao-Feng, Xu, Jinhui, HU, Min (2005) "When sulfate goes up, so does oxalate: Implication for the formation mechanisms of oxalate.", Environmental Science & Technology, V39, n1, 2005, 128-133. HO, Steven S. H., Yu, Jian Zhen (2004) "In-injection port thermal desorption with subsequent gas chromatography-mass sepectrometric analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and n-alkanes in atmospheric aerosol samples.", Journal of Chromatography A, 2004, 1059 (1-2), 121-129.

Lam Lung YEUNG Adjunct Associate Professor (2358 7385 ; [email protected])

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

Current Research Activities: Synthesis of cyclitols and carbohydrates; asymmetric synthesis; cooking fume analysis.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Development of environmental catalysis using zeolites UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$5,000 01 Jul 2008 Development of environmental catalysis using zeolites RHT Limited HK$260,000 15 Oct 2006

Representative Research Publications: Au-yeung, Tin Lok, Chan, Ka Yee, Haynes, Richard K, Williams, Ian D., Yeung, Lam Lung (2001-2002) "Completely stereoselective P-C bond formation via base-induced 1,3 - and 1,2 -intramolecular rearrangements of aryl phosphinates, phosphinoamidates and related compounds", Tetrahedron Letter, 42, 457. Au-yeung, Tin Lok, Chan, Ka Yee, Haynes, Richard K, Williams, Ian D., Yeung, Lam Lung (2001-2002) "Reactions of (RP)- and (SP)-tert-butylphenylphosphinobromidates and tert-butylphenylthionophosphinochloridates with heteroatom nucleophiles; preparation of P-chiral binol phosphinates and related compounds", Tetrahedron Letter, 42, 453.

Hongkai WU Assistant Professor (2358 7246 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Research focuses on the interdisciplinary frontiers of microfluidics, bioanalytical science and materials chemistry. Current interests include the technologies in MEMS, microfluidics, soft lithography, and surface chemistry to design and provide new tools for the applications and understanding of fundamentals in materials, analytical and biological sciences, including microfluidic chemical reactors, high throughput single-cell analysis and chemical separations.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Generation of complex, stable chemical gradients in static, free solutions and their applications in biological science RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$180,000 01 Feb 2009 Development of integrated portable microdevices for biofluid analysis E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company HK$585,000 01 Aug 2007 Development of integrated portable microdevices for biofluid analysis UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$9,707 01 Jul 2008 Mission-specific cell microchips: a platform technology for disease diagnostics William Mong Institute of Nano Science & Technology HK$70,000 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Sun, Zhenhua, Yang, Zhi, Zhou, Jianhua, Yeung, Man Hau, Ni, Weihai, Wu, Hongkai, Wang, Jianfang (2009) "A General Approach to the Synthesis of Gold-Metal Sulfide Core-Shell and Heterostructures", Angewandte Chemie, International Edition, 48, 16, 2881-2885. Zheng, Yizhe, Dai, Wen, Wu, Hongkai (2009) "A Screw-Actuated Pneumatic Valve for Portable, Disposable Microfluidics", Lab on a Chip, 9, 3, 469-472. Su, Jing, Zheng, Yizhe, Wu, Hongkai (2009) "Generation of Alginate Microfibers with a Roller-Assisted Microfluidic System", Lab on a Chip, 9, 7, 996-1001. Zhou, Jianhua, Yan, Hui, Zheng, Yizhe, Wu, Hongkai (2009) "Highly Fluorescent Poly(dimethylsiloxane) for On-Chip Temperature Measurements", Advanced Functional Materials, 19, 2, 324-329. Yan, Hui, Zhang, Boyang, Wu, Hongkai (2008) "Chemical Cytometry on Microfluidic Chip", Electrophoresis, 29, 1775-1786 (2008). Yan, Hui, Wu, Hongkai (2008) "Magnetophoresis", Encyclopedia of Micro- and Nanofluidics, (Springer), Ed. D. Li, 1st ed. (2008). Yan, Hui, Zhao, Yongtao, Qiu, Chong, Wu, Hongkai (2008) "Micropatterning of Inorganic Precipitations in Hydrogels with Soft Lithography", Sensors Actuators B: Chemical, B132, 20-25 (2008). Yan, Hui, Wu, Hongkai (2008) "Pyroelectric Flow sensors", Encyclopedia of Micro- and Nanofluidics (Springer), Ed. D. Li, 1 ed. (2008).

Wing Yip LAM Research Assistant Professor (2358 8801 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Synthesis of Hyperbranched Poly(acylarylene)s: New Catalyst Systems, New Polymerization Routes, and New Functional Materials RGC - General Research Fund HK$343,700 01 Sep 2008

Representative Research Publications: Jim, Ka Wai, Qin, Anjun, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Haussler, Matthias, Liu, Jianzhao, Yuen, Matthew M F, Kim, Jang Kyo, Ng, Ka Ming, Tang, Ben Zhong (2009) "Facile Polycyclotrimerization of “Simple” Arylene Bipropiolates: A Metal-Free, Regioselective Route to Functional Hyperbranched Polymers with High Optical Transparency, Tunable Refractive Index, Low Chromatic Aberration, and Photoresponsive Patternabili", Macromolecules, 2009, 42, 4099-4109. Li, Zhen, Dong, Yongqiang, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Sun, Jingzhi, Qin, Anjun, Haussler, Matthias, Dong, Yuping, Sung, Ho Yung, Williams, Ian D, Kwok, Hoi Sing, Tang, Ben Zhong (2009) "Functionalized Siloles: Versatile Synthesis, Aggregation-Induced Emission, and Sensory and Device Applications", Advanced Functional Materials, 2009, 19, 905-917. Qin, Anjun, Tang, Li, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Jim, Ka Wai, Yu, Yong, Zhao, Hui, Sun, Jingzhi, Tang, Ben Zhong (2009) "Metal-Free Click Polymerization: Synthesis and Photonic Properties of Poly(aroyltriazole)s", Advanced Functional Materials, 2009, 19, 1891-1900. Zeng, Qi, Jim, Ka Wai, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Dong, Yongqiang, Li, Zhen, Qin, Anjun, Tang, Ben Zhong (2009) "New Polyacetylene-Based Chemosensory Materials for the 'Turn-on' Sensing of alpha-Amino Acids", Macromolecular Rapid Communication, 2009, 30, 170-175. Qin, Anjun, Jim, Ka Wai, Tang, Youhong, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Liu, Jianzhao, Faisal, Mahtab, Gao, Ping, Tang, Ben Zhong (2008) "Aggregation-Enhanced Emissions of Intramolecular Excimers in Disubstituted Polyacetylenes", The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2008, 112, 9281-9288. Hong, Yuning, Haussler, Matthias, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Li, Zhen, Sin, Kin Keung, Dong, Yongqiang, Tong, Hui, Liu, Jianzhao, Qin, Anjun, Renneberg, Reinhard, Tang, Ben Zhong (2008) "Label-Free Fluorescent Probing of G- Quadruplex Formation and Real-Time Monitoring of DNA Folding by a Quaternized Tetraphenylethene Salt with Aggregation-Induced Emission Characteristics", Chemistry-A European Journal, 2008, 14, 6428-6437. Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Qin, Anjun, Dong, Yongqiang, Hong, Yuning, Jim, Ka Wai, Liu, Jianzhao, Dong, Yuping, Kwok, Hoi Sing, Tang, Ben Zhong (2008) "Synthesis and Light-Emitting Properties of Disubstituted Polyacetylenes Carrying chromophoric Naphthylethynylphenyl Pendants", The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2008, 112, 11227-11235. Cheuk, Ka Leung, Li, Bingshi, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Xie, Yong, Tang, Ben Zhong (2008) "Synthesis, Chain Helicity, Assembling Structure, and Biological Compatibility of Poly(phenylacetylene)s Containing L-Alanine Moieties", Macromolecules, 2008, 41, 5997-6005. Department of Mathematics

Jian-Shu LI, Professor and Department Head

Shiu-Yuen CHENG, Chair Professor; Dean of Science

Allen MOY, Chair Professor

Kwing Lam CHAN, Professor

Kani CHEN, Professor

Jimmy C H FUNG, Professor

Jing-Song HUANG, Professor

Bing Yi JING, Professor

Yue Kuen KWOK, Professor

Weiping LI, Professor

Qi-Man SHAO, Professor

Xiaoping WANG, Professor

Lixin WU, Professor

Kun XU, Professor

Yongchang ZHU, Professor

Kung Ching CHANG, Adjunct Professor

Qiang DU, Adjunct Professor

William K M LAU, Adjunct Professor

Jeffrey R CHASNOV, Associate Professor

Beifang CHEN, Associate Professor

Yik Man CHIANG, Associate Professor

Jianping GAN, Associate Professor

Jishan HU, Associate Professor

Kin Yin LI, Associate Professor

Shiqing LING, Associate Professor

Guowu MENG, Associate Professor

Mo MU, Associate Professor

Tiezheng QIAN, Associate Professor

Man Yu WONG, Associate Professor

Yang XIANG, Associate Professor

Min YAN, Associate Professor

Huai-Liang CHANG, Assistant Professor

Xuhua HE, Assistant Professor

Shing Yu LEUNG, Assistant Professor Jian-Shu LI Professor and Department Head (2358 7412 ; [email protected])

PhD, Yale University (1987) Professor, University of Maryland, 1996-2000

Associate Professor, University of Maryland, 1992-1996

Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, 1989-1992.

Moore Instructor, MIT, 1987-1989.

Current Research Activities: Representation theory; automorphic forms.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Period integrals on Shimura varieties RGC - General Research Fund HK$557,690 01 Jul 2006

Representative Research Publications: Jiang, Dihua, Li, Jian-shu, Zhang, Shouwu (2006) "Periods and distribution of cycles on Hilbert modular varieties", Pure and Applied Mathematics Quaterly, Vol. 2, No. 1, 219-277. Li, Jianshu, Schwermer, Joachim (2003-2004) "On the Eisenstein Cohomology of Arithmetic Groups", Duke Math. Journal, Vol 123, No. 1, 141-169. Li, Jian-Shu, Paul, A., Tan, E C, Zhu, C B (2003) "The Explicit Duality Correspondence of $(Sp(p,q),O^*(2n))$", Journal of Functional Analysis, Vol. 200, pp. 71-100. Li, Jian-Shu, Schwermer, Joachim (2001-2002) "Automorphic Representations and Cohomology of Arithmetic Groups", Challenges for the 21st Century, proceedings of the International Conference on Fundamental Sciences, Singapore, 102-137. Li, Jian-Shu (2001-2002) "On the first eigenvalue of Laplacian for locally symmetric manifolds", Proceedings of First ICCMAMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics, 20, 271-278. Li, Jian-Shu, Tan, Eng Chye, Zhu, Chengbo (2001-2002) "Tensor Product of Degenerate Principal Series and Local Theta Correspondence", Journal of Functional Analysis, 186: 381-431.

Shiu-Yuen CHENG Chair Professor; Dean of Science (2358 7412 ; [email protected])

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)

Current Research Activities: Differential geometry; game theory; geometric partial differential equations.

Representative Research Publications: Cheng, Shiu-Yuen (2006) "Conference papers", Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid, August 22- 30, 2006, European Mathematical Society, Volume III, pp. 1688-1690. Allen MOY Chair Professor (2358 7422 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Chicago (1982) Gibbs Instructor in Mathematics, Yale University (1982-84) Associate Professor and Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan (1990-2001)

Current Research Activities: Representation theory; Lie theory.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Distribution algebras and the Bernstein center RGC - General Research Fund HK$473,000 01 Oct 2008

Kwing Lam CHAN Professor (2358 7424 ; [email protected] ; http://www.math.ust.hk/~maklchan)

PhD, Princeton University (1974) Senior Scientist, Applied Research Corporation (1980-94)

Current Research Activities: Astrophysics; atmospheric dynamics; large-scale computation.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Modeling of Lunar Helium - 3 Distribution with Remote Sensing Data from Chang'E-1 RGC - Direct Allocation Grant and Others HK$320,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Chan, Kwing Lam, Mayr, Hans G. (2008) "A shallow convective model for Jpiter's alternating wind bands", J. Geophys. Res., 113, E10002, doi:10.1029/2008JE003124. Tian, Chun Lin, Xu, Kun, Chan, Kwing Lam, Deng, Licai (2007) "A multidimensional gas-kinetic scheme for the Navier-Stokes equations under gravitational fields", Journal of Computational Physics, 226, 2003-2027. Chan, Kwing Lam (2007) "Rotating convection in f-boxes: Faster rotation", Astronomische Narhrichten, 328: 1059-1061. Deng, Licai, Xiong, DR, Chan, Kwing (2006) "An anisotropic nonlocal convection theory", Astrophysical Journal, 643 (1): 426-437. Brandenburg, Axel, Chan, Kwing, Nordlund, Ake, Stein, Robert (2005) "Effect of the radiative background flux in convection", Astronomische Nachrichten, 326 (8): 681-692. Mayr, Hans, Mengel, John, Talaat, ER, Porter, Hayden, Chan, Kwing (2005) "Mesopherica non-migrating tides waves: II. Influence of planetary and gravity waves", Journal of atmospheric and solar-terrestrial physics, 67 (11): 981-991. Robinson, Francis, Demarque, Piere, Guenther, David, Kim, Yong, Chan, Kwing (2005) "Simulating the outer layers of Procyon A: a comparison with the Sun", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 362: 1031-1037. Chan, JCL, Liu, YM, Chow, KC, Ding, YH, Lau, WKM, Chan, KL (2004-2005) "Design of a regional climate model for the simulation of South China summer monsoon rainfall", Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 82: 1645-1665.

Kani CHEN Professor (2358 7425 ; [email protected]) PhD, Columbia University (1994) Visiting Assistant Professor, Columbia University (1994)

Current Research Activities: Survival analysis; sequential analysis; boot-strapping; empirical process; stochastic modeling; missing data and EM algorithm.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Semiparametric efficient estimation in linear regression model with censored data RGC - General Research Fund HK$570,000 01 Nov 2007

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Kani, Ying, Zhiliang, Zhang, Hong, Zhao, Lincheng (2008) "Analysis of Absolute Deviation", Biometrika, 95; 107-122. Chen, Kani, Jin, Zhezhen, Fan, Jianqing (2008) "Design-adaptive minimax local linear regression for longitunidal/clustered data", Statistica Sinica, 18, 515-534. chen, Kani, jin, Zhezhen (2005) "Local polynomial regression analysis of clustered data.", Biometrika, 95, 59-74. Chen, Kani (2004) "Statistical estimation in the proportional hazards model with risk set sampling.", Annals of Statistics, To appear. Chen, Kani (2003) "Linear minimax efficiency for local polynomial regression smoothers", Journal of nonparametric statistics, 15(3), 343-353. Chen, Kani (2001-2002) "Parametric and semiparametric models for recapture and removal studies: a likelihood approach.", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 63(3), 607-619. Chen, Kani (2001) "Generalized case-cohort sampling", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 63(4), 791-809.

Jimmy C H FUNG Professor (2358 7419 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Cambridge (1990)

Current Research Activities: Computational fluid dynamics; turbulence; environmental studies.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The impact of urbanization on air pollution in the Pearl River Delta region RGC - General Research Fund HK$418,000 01 Jul 2007

Representative Research Publications: Lam, J.S.L., Lau, A.K.H., Fung, J.C.H. (2006) "Application of refined land-use categories for high resolution mesoscale atmospheric modelling", Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 119 (2) 263-288. Huang, Jianping, Fung, Jimmy Chi Hung, Lau, Alexis Kai Hon, Qin, Yu (2005) "Numerical simulation and process analysis of typhoon-related ozone episode in Hong Kong", Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 110 (D5): Art. No. D05301. Fung, Jimmy Chi Hung, Lau, Alexis Kai Hon, Lam, Job Sai-Lai, Yuan, Zibing (2005) "Observational and modeling analysis of a severe air pollution episode in western Hong Kong", Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 110 (D9): Art. No. D09105. Fung, Jimmy Chi Hung, Vassilicos, John Christos (2003) "Inertial particle segregation by turbulence", Phys. Rev E, 68(4), 046309-1-6. Lau, Alexis K.H., Fung, J.C.H., Li, C.C., Wu, W.M. (2003) "Aerosol, visibility, and sustainable development over China". Fung, J.C.H., Hunt, J.C.R., Perkins, R.J. (2003) "Diffusivities and velocity spectra of small inertial particles in turbulent-like flows", Proceedings A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences of the Royal Society, Vol. 459, No. 2030, Issue 8, pp. 445-493. Huang, Jason P.L., Fung, Jimmy C.H., Lau, Alexis K.H. (2002) "Study of microscale urban air dispersion by ADMS - Urban", Proceeding of Better Air Quality in Asian and Pacific Rim Cities (BAQ 2002), PS-44-1 - PS-44-6. Sobnack, Binoy M., Matthias, John R., Fung, Jimmy C.H., Williams, Charles, D.H., Inkson, John C. (2002) "Roton backflow and quasiparticle scattering at 4He surfaces", Physical Review B, 65(184521), 1-9.

Jing-Song HUANG Professor (2358 7450 ; [email protected] ; http://www.math.ust.hk/~mahuang)

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1989) Member (1989-90), Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Current Research Activities: Representation theory, Lie theory, noncommutative harmonic analysis.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Dirac cohomology and branching laws RGC - General Research Fund HK$445,000 01 Oct 2007

Representative Research Publications: Huang, Jing-Song (2006) Dirac Operators in Representation Theory, published by Birkhauser, Boston, in the book series Mathematics: Theory and Applications. Huang, Jing-Song (2006) "Dirac operators and Lie algebra cohomology", Representation Theory, volume 10, pages 299-313. Huang, Jing-Song, Pandzic, Pavle (2005) "Dirac operators in representation theory", Representations of Real and p-adic Groups, Lecture Notes Series, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, Vol. 2, World Scientific, 2004, 163-219. Huang, Jing-Song (2001-2002) "Admissible square quadruplets and semisimple symmetric spaces", Advances in Mathematics, 165, 101-123. Huang, Jing-Song, Pandzic, Pavle (2001-2002) "Dirac cohomology, unitary representations and a proof of a conjecture on Vogan", Journal of AMS, 15, 185-202. Huang, Jing-Song (2001-2002) "Invariant differential operators and eigenspace representations on an affine symmetric space", Annals of Mathematics, 154, 703-737.

Bing Yi JING Professor (2358 7485 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Syndey (1993)

Current Research Activities: Resampling methods; asymptotic expansions.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Statistical inference for jump-diffusion processes based on high frequency data in finance RGC - General Research Fund HK$445,000 01 Aug 2007 Empirical likelihood method based on pseudo-values RGC - General Research Fund HK$579,610 01 Aug 2008 Representative Research Publications: Jing, Bing Yi, Wang, Qiying (2009) "A unified approach to Edgeworth expansions for studentized statistics.", Statistic Sinica, to appear. Liang, Hanying, Jing, Bing Yi (2009) "Asymptotic normality in partial linear models based on dependent errors", Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139, 1357-1371. Qin, Gengsheng, Davis, A.E., Jing, Bing Yi (2009) "Empirical likelihood based confidence intervals for the sensitivity of a continuous-scale diagnostic test at a fixed level of specificity.", Statistical Methods in Medical Research, to appear. Jing, Bing Yi, Yuan, Junqing, Zhou, Wang (2009) "Jackknife empirical likelihood.", JASA, to appear. Bentkus, Vidmantas, Jing, Bing Yi, Zhou, Wang (2009) "On normal approximations to U-statistics.", Annals of Probability, to appear. Jing, Bing Yi, Kong, Xinbing, Liu, Zhi, Zhang, Bo (2009) "Stochastic regression and its application to hedging in finance.", Science in China, to appear. Jing, Bing Yi, Yuan, Junqing, Zhou, Wang (2008) "Empirical likelihood for non-degenerate U-statistics.", Statistics & Probability Letters, 78, 599-607. Jing, Bing Yi, Liang, Hanying (2008) "Strong limit theorems for weighted sums of negatively associated random variables.", Journal of Theoretical Probability, 21, 890-909.

Yue Kuen KWOK Professor (2358 7418 ; [email protected] ; http://www.math.ust.hk/~maykwok/)

PhD, Brown University (1985) Assistant Professor, West Virginia University (1985-87) Assistant Professor, San Jose State University (1987-90)

Current Research Activities: Financial mathematics.

Representative Research Publications: Leung, Kwai Sun, Kwok, Yue Kuen (2008) "Employee stock option valuation with repricing feature", Quantitative Finance, vol. 8(6), p.561-569. Dai, Min, Zong, Jianping, Kwok, Yue Kuen (2008) "Guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefit in variable annuities", Mathematical Finance, vol. 18(4), p.595-611. Dai, Min, Kwok, Yue Kuen (2006) "Characterization of optimal stopping regions of American path dependent options", Mathematical Finance, vol. 16, p.63-82. Leung, Seng Yuen, Kwok, Yue Kuen (2005) "Credit default swap valuation with counterparty risk", Kyoto Economics Review, vol. 25, p.25-45. Dai, Min, Kwok, Yue Kuen, Wu, Lixin (2004) "Optimal shouting policies of options with reset right", Mathematical Finance, 14(3), p.383-401. Dai, Min, Wong, Hoi Ying, Kwok, Yue Kuen (2004) "Quanto lookback options", Mathematical Finance, 14(3), p.445-467. Dai, Min, Kwok, Yue Kuen (2004) "Knock-in American options", Journal of Futures Markets, vol. 24(2), p.179-192. Chu, Chi Chiu, Kwok, Yue Kuen (2004) "Reset and withdrawal rights in dynamic fund protection", Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 34(2), p.273-295.

Weiping LI Professor (2358 7432 ; [email protected])

PhD, Columbia University (1991) Visiting Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University (1991-92)

Current Research Activities: Algebraic geometry.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Numerical Invariants on Moduli Spaces of Sheaves RGC - General Research Fund HK$380,000 01 Jul 2008

Representative Research Publications: Li, Wei-Ping, Qin, Zhenbo, Wang, Weiqiang (2004) "Hilbert schemes, integrable hierarchies, and Gromov-Witten theory", International Mathematics Research Notices, no. 40, p. 2085--2104. Li, Wei-Ping, Qin, Zhenbo, Wang, Weiqiang (2004) "Ideals of the cohomology rings of Hilbert schemes and their applications", Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 356 (2004), no. 1, p245--265. Li, Wei-Ping, Qin, Zhenbo (2003) "Stable rank-2 bundles on Calabi-Yau manifolds", International journal of mathematics, Volume 14, Numbers 10. Li, Wei-Ping, Qin, Zhenbo, Wang, Weiqiang (2003) "Stability of the cohomology rings of Hilbert schemes of points on surfaces", Journal f die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik, Vol. 554, pp. 217-234. Li, Wei-Ping, Qin, Zhenbo, Wang, Weiqiang (2002) "Vertex algebras and the cohomology ring structure of Hilbert schemes of points on surfaces", Mathematische Annalen, Vol. 324, No. 1, pp. 105-133. Li, Wei-Ping, Qin, Zhenbo, Wang, Weiqiang (2001-2002) "Generators for the cohomology ring of Hilbert schemes of points on surfaces", International Mathematics Research Notices, 20, 1057-1074. Li, Wei-Ping, Qin, Zhenbo, Wang, Weiqiang (2001-2002) "Hilbert schemes and W algebras", International Mathematics Research Notices, 27, 1427-1456. Li, Wei-Ping, Qin, Zhenbo (2001-2002) "On 1-point Gromov-Witten invariants of the Hilbert schemes of points on surfaces", Turkish Journal of Mathematics, 26(1), 53--68.

Qi-Man SHAO Professor (2358 7415 ; [email protected] ; http://www.math.ust.hk/~maqmshao)

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)

Current Research Activities: Limit theory in probability and statistics; Gaussian random fields; random matrices.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Random Determinants, Random Matrices and Concentration Inequalities in High Dimension RGC - General Research Fund HK$293,700 01 Jul 2008

Representative Research Publications: De La Pena, Victor, Lai, Tze Leung, Shao, Qi-Man (2009) Self-Normalized Processes: Limit Theory and Statistical Applications, Springer. Liu, Wei-Dong, Lin, Zhengyan, Shao, Qi-Man (2008) "The asymptotic distribution and Berry-Esseen bound of a new test for independence in high dimension with an application to stochastic optimization.", Ann. Appl. Probab., 18, no.6, 2337-2366. Jing, Bing-Yi, Shao, Qi-Man, Zhou, Wang (2008) "Towards a universal self-normalized moderate deviation", Trans. Amer. Math. Soc, 360, 4263--4285. Bentkus, V., Jing, B.Y., Shao, Q.M., Zhou, W. (2007) "Limiting distributions of the non-central t-statistic and their applications to the power of t-tests under non-normality", Bernoulli, 13, 346-364. Chen, L.H.Y., Shao, Q.M. (2007) "Normal approximation for nonlinear statistics using a concentration inequality approach", Bernoulli, 13, 581-599. Berkes, I., Horvath, L., Kokoszka, P., Shao, Q.M. (2006) "On discriminating between long-range dependence and changes in mean", The Annals of Statistics, 34, 1140-1165. Chen, M.H., Ibrahim, J.G., Shao, Q.M. (2006) "Posterior propriety and computation for the Cox regression model with applications to missing covariates", Biometrika, 93, 791-807. Chen, Louis H.Y., Shao, Qi-Man (2005) "Normal approximation", An Introduction to Stein's Method, Lecture Notes Series, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 4, 1-59.

Xiaoping WANG Professor (2358 7438 ; [email protected])

PhD, New York University (1990)

Current Research Activities: Applied and computational mathematics; nonlinear partial differential equations.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Numerical simulations of the morphology and dynamics of liquid drops on chemically patterned surfaces RGC - General Research Fund HK$445,000 01 Jan 2008 Multiscale phenomena at fluid-solid interfaces: from mathematical analysis to software engineering, microfluidics and lubrication UGC - Targets of Opportunity and Others HK$2,500,000 12 May 2007 Inter-institutional soft matter workshop Croucher Foundation HK$80,000 10 Mar 2009 Multi-phase fluid flow: Theory, simulation and experiments Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs, HKUST HK$600,000 07 Mar 2006

Representative Research Publications: Wang, Xiao-Ping, Qian, Tiezheng, Sheng, Ping (2008) "Moving contact line on chemically patterned surfaces", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 605, 59-78. Wang, Xiao-Ping, Wang, Ya-Guang (2008) "The Sharp Interface Limit of a Phase Field Model for Moving Contact Line Problem", Methods and Applications of Analysis, 14, 287-294. Garcia-Cervera, Carlos, Wang, Xiaoping (2006) "Advances in numerical micromagnetics: Spin-Polarized Transport;", Bol. Soc. Esp. Mat. Apl.;, 34, (2006) 217-221. Liu, Yue, Wang, Xiaoping, Wang, Ke (2006) "Instability of solitary waves of the Schrodinger equation with inhomogeneous nonlinearity", Transactions of the AMS,, 358 (2006) 2105-2122. Fibich, Gadi, Gavish, Nir, Wang, Xiao-Ping (2005) "New singular solutions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation", Physica D, 211, (2005):193-220. Wang, Desheng, Wang, Xiaoping (2004-2005) "Three dimensional adaptive method based on iterative grid redistribution procedure", Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 199 , Page 423-436. Qian, Tiezheng, Wang, Xiaoping, Sheng, Ping (2004) "Power-Law slip profile of the moving contact line in two phase immiscible flows", Phys. Rev. Lett, 63, 094501,. Wang, Xiao-Ping, Garcia-cervera, Carlos, Weinan, E. (2001) "A Gauss-Seidel Projection Method for Micromagnetics Simulations", Journal of Computational Physics, 171, 357-372. Lixin WU Professor (2358 7435 ; [email protected])

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

Current Research Activities: Numerical analysis; computational fluid dynamics; finance mathematics.

Representative Research Publications: Wu, Lixin (2009) Interest Rate Modeling: Theory and Practice., Chapman Hall/CRC, 353. Wu, Lixin, Ho, Siu Lum (2008) "Arbitrage pricing of credit derivatives", Credit Risk -- Models, Derivatives and Management. Financial Mathematics Series Vol. 6, Chapter 22, pp427-456. Chapman & Hall / CRC Boca Raton, London, New York (c) 2008., Vol. 6, Chapter 22. Wu, Lixin, Zhang, Fan (2008) "Fast Swaption Pricing under The Market Model with A Square-root Volatility Process", Quantitative Finance, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp163-180. Wu, Lixin, Zhang, Fan (2006) "LIBOR Market Model with Stochastic Volatility", Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization, Vol. 2, No. 2, 199-227. Wu, Lixin (2005) "Understanding Credit Default Swaps", Quantitative Methods in Finance, 2006, Sydney. Wu, Lixin, Zhang, Fan (2004) "Market Model with Stochastic Volatility: Pricing and Calibration", The 3rd Congress of Bachelier Financial Society, July 21 - 25. Wu, Lixin (2003) "Fast at-the-money calibration of the LIBOR market model through Lagrange multipliers", Journal of Computational Finance, Vol. 6, No. 2, 39-77. Avellaneda, Marco, Wu, Lixin (2001) "Credit contagion: pricing cross country risk in the Brady debt markets", Int'l J. of Theoret. and Appl. Fin., 4(6), 921-939.

Kun XU Professor (2358 7433 ; [email protected])

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

Current Research Activities: Computational fluid dynamics; gas kinetic schemes; rarefied gas; heat transfer.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A generalized computational fluid dynamics method with moving grid velocity UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$53,040 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Luo, H., Luo, L., Xu, Kun (2009) "A Discontinuous Galerkin method based on BGK scheme for the Navier-Stokes equations on arbitrary grids", Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, vol. 1, pp. 301-318. Xu, Kun, Guo, Zhaoli (2009) "Generalized gas dynamic equations with multiple translational temperatures", Modern Physics Letter B, vol. 23, pp. 237-240. Ni, G.X., Jiang, S., Xu, Kun (2009) "Remapping-free ALE-type kinetic method for flow computations", J. Comput. Phys., vol. 228, pp. 3154-3171. Communication Xu, Kun, Liu, Hongwei (2008) "A Multiple temperature kinetic model and its application to near continuum flows", in Computational Physics, vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 1069-1085. Ni, Guoxi, Jiang, Song, Xu, Kun (2008) "A DGBGK scheme based on WENO limiters for viscous and inviscid flows", Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 227, pp. 5799-5815. Xu, Kun (2008) "A Generalized Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook Model For Nonequilibrium Flows", Physics of Fluids, vol. 20, 026101. Guo, Zhaoli, Liu, Hongwei, Luo, Lishi, Xu, Kun (2008) "A comparative study of the LBM and GKS methods for 2D near incompressible flows", J. Comput. Phys., vol. 227, pp. 4955-4976. Cai, Chunpei, Liu, Danny, Xu, Kun (2008) "A one-dimensional multiple-temperature gas-kinetic BGK scheme for shock wave computation", American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal, vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 1054-1062.

Yongchang ZHU Professor (2358 7447 ; [email protected])

PhD, Yale University (1990) Visiting Member, Max Planck Institute, Bonn (1994-95) Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University (1993-94)

Current Research Activities: Infinite dimensional Lie algebras; algebras and quantum groups; vertex operator algebras; conformal field theory.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Weil representations and automorphic forms of loop groups RGC - General Research Fund HK$186,000 14 Jul 2007

Representative Research Publications: Zhu, Yongchang (2008) "Theta functions and Weil representations of loop symplectic groups", Duke Mathematical Journal, Volume 143, Number 1 (2008), 17-39. Zhu, Yongchang (2007) "An Analogue of Satake Transform for p-adic Loop Groups", Proceedings of international congress of Chinese mathematicians,, Vol 2, Dec 17-22, 2007. Kashina, Y., Sommerhauser, Y., Zhu, Yongchang (2006) "On higher Frobenius-Schur indicators", Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, No. 855, May 2006.

Kung Ching CHANG Adjunct Professor (2358 7444 ; [email protected])

Graduate from Peking University (1959) Professor, Peking University (1983- )

Current Research Activities: Partial differential equations.

Qiang DU Adjunct Professor (2358 7444 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Computational and applied mathematics; numerical and applied analysis; scientific computing.

Representative Research Publications: Du, Qiang, Mu, Mo, Wu, Ziniu (2001) "Efficient Parallel algorithms for parabolic equations", SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 39, 1469-1487. Aftalion, Amandine, Du, Qiang (2001) "The bifurcation diagram for the Ginzburg-Landau system for superconductivity", Physica D, 163, 94-105. Aftalion, Amandine, Du, Qiang (2001) "Vortices in the Bose-Einstein condensate: the critical velocities and energy diagrams in the Thomas-Fermi regime", Phy. Rev. A, 64(063603), 1-11.

William K M LAU Adjunct Professor (2358 7444 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Washington (1977) Head, Climate and Radiation Branch, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (1991- )

Current Research Activities: Climate dynamics; tropical and monsoon meteorology; ocean-atmosphere interaction.

Jeffrey R CHASNOV Associate Professor (2358 7448 ; [email protected])

PhD, Columbia University (1990) Research Fellow, NASA Ames/Stanford Center for Turbulence Research (1991-93)

Current Research Activities: Turbulence simulation and theory; evolutionary genetics; scientific computation.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Validating genomic sequence assemblies by mapping exactly duplicated regions RGC - General Research Fund HK$538,460 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications: Chasnov, Jeffrey R, So, Wai Kar, Chan, Chung Man, Chow, King L (2007) "The species, sex, and stage specificity of a Caenorhabditis sex pheromone", PNAS, 104, 6730-6735. Chasnov, Jeffrey R., Chow, King L. (2002) "Why are there males in the hermaphroditic species Caenorhabditis elegans?", Genetics, 160, 983-994. Beifang CHEN Associate Professor (2358 7449 ; [email protected])

PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo (1991) Instructor in Applied Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1991-93)

Current Research Activities: Discrete mathematics; combinatorics; geometric probability; computational geometry.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Minimal Structures of the Flow and Tension Spaces for Signed Graphs RGC - General Research Fund HK$293,700 10 Sep 2008

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Beifang (2007) "The Gauss-Bonnet formula of polytopal manifolds and the characterization of embedded graphs with nonnegative curvature", Proceedings of American Mathematical Society. Chen, Beifang, Wang, Jue (2007) "The flow and tension spaces and lattices of signed graphs", European Journal of Combinatorics. Chen, Beifang (2004) "A simplified elementary proof of Hadwiger's volume theorem", Geometriae Dedicata, vol. 105, 107-120. Chen, Beifang, Lau, Mankwong (2003) "On semi-Eulerian partially ordered sets with boundary", European Journal of Combinatorics, vol 24, 955-968. Chen, Beifang (2003) "The Pick theorem and the proof of the reciprocity law for Dedekind sums", Annals of Combinatorics, Vol 7, 425-439. Chen, Beifang, Lau, Mankwong (2003) "On the semi-Eulerian partially ordered sets with boundary", European journals of combinatorics, to appear. Chen, Beifang (2001-2002) "Lattice points, Dedekind sums, and Ehrhart polynomials of lattice polyhedra", Discrete and Computational Geometry, 28, 175-199.

Yik Man CHIANG Associate Professor (2358 7441 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of London (1991) Lecturer, Bolton Institute, UK (1991-92) Chief Research Assistant, University of Joensuu, Finland (1992)

Current Research Activities: Complex function theory; ordinary differential equations in the complex plane, orthogonal polynomials, difference equations.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Investigation of differential and functional equations in the complex plane and applications RGC - General Research Fund HK$388,460 20 Jul 2006

Representative Research Publications: Chiang, Yik-Man, Feng, Shaoji (2009) "On the growth of logarithmic differences, difference quotients and logarithmic derivatives of meromorphic functions", Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 361 (2009) no. 7, 3767--3791. Chiang, Yik-Man (2008) "Malmquist-type theorems for second-order ODEs", International Conference on Nonlinear Waves: Theory and Applications, Beijing, China, organised by M. Ablowitz, D-Y. Hsieh and J. Yang, 9-12 June 2008. Chiang, Yik-Man, Feng, Shaoji (2008) "On the growth of $f(z+\eta)$ and difference equations in the complex plane", The Ramanujan Journal, 16 (2008) 105-129. Chiang, Yik-Man (2007) "On the Nevanlinna Order of Lommel, Struve Functions and Complex Differential Equations", 1st Joint Meeting of American and the Newzealand Mathematical Societies, Special session on Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials, Victoria Univ. of Wellington, organized by D. Dominici, O. Warnaar, S. Cooper, 12-15 December 2007 (25 minutes invited talk). Chiang, Yik-Man, Ruijsenaars, Simon N. M. (2006) "On the Nevanlinna Order of Meromorphic Solutions to Linear Analytic Difference Equations", Studies in Applied Mathematics, Vol. 116 Issue 3, Page 257-287. Chiang, Yik-Man, Feng, S. J. (2005) "On the growth of entire solutions to some difference equations", Computational Methods and Function Theory 2005, University of Joensuu, Finland, organized by St. Ruscheweyh, E. B. Saff, O. Martio and I. Laine., 13--17th June 2005,. Chiang, Yik-Man, Feng, S. J. (2005) "Some Nevanlinna-type estimates related to discrete equations", International Conference on Nonlinear Waves, Integrable Systems, and their Applications, in honor of Mark Ablowitz's sixtieth birthday, University of Colorado Spring, , organized by M. Kruskal, T. Fokas, S. Chakravarty and R. Cascaval, 4--8th June 2005. Chiang, Yik-Man, Hayman, W. K. (2004) "Estimates on the growth of entire and meromorphic solutions of linear differential equations", Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici, 79, pp. 451-470.

Jianping GAN Associate Professor (2358 7421 ; [email protected] ; http://www.math.ust.hk/~magan)

PhD, McGill University, Montreal (Physical Oceanography) (1995) College of Oceanic and Atmosphere Sciences, Oregon State University (1996-2003)

Current Research Activities: Ocean circulation and ecosystem modeling, ocean dynamics and coastal oceanography

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: On the separation of upwelling coastal jet off Vietnam and its impacts on the South China Sea Circulation in the summer RGC - General Research Fund HK$463,460 01 Jan 2007 Dynamics of the Pearl River Plume and its effect on the coastal circulation over the shelf off Pearl River Estuary and Hong Kong in the wet season RGC - General Research Fund HK$883,200 01 Jan 2009 Dynamics of coupled coastal downwelling-estuarine circulation around Hong Kong waters and its effects on the sea water intrusion into the Pearl River during the dry season RGC - General Research Fund HK$484,000 01 Jan 2008 Ocean dynamics and modeling program Nansha Research Centers HK$2,100,000 01 Jan 2009 Joint Laboratory for Coastal Observations and Modeling Nansha Research Centers HK$880,000 18 Jun 2009 Coupled circulation-biogeochemistry study over the continental shelf in the Northern South China Sea during upwelling National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$559,000 01 Jan 2008 Shifting of Warming/Cooling Regime in the South China Sea and its Implication in Regional Climate Variability RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$170,000 01 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Gan, Jianping, Cheung, Y, Guo, Xiaogang, Li, Li (2009) "Intensified upwelling over a widened shelf in the northeastern South China Sea", Journal Geophysical Research (Ocean), in press. Gan, Jianping, Li, Li, Wang, Dongxiao, Guo, Xiaogang (2009) "Interaction of river plume with coastal upwelling circulation in the northeastern South China Sea", Continental Shelf Research, 29 (2009), 728-740. Swapna, P, Gan, Jianping, Lau, Alexis K H, Fung, Jimmy C H (2009) "On the warm/cold regime shift in the South China Sea: Observation and modeling study", Deep Sea Research Part 1, 56 (2009), 1039-1056. Gan, Jianping, Ho, Ho San (2008-2009) "Identification of spatial variability and eddies in the circulation of the South China Sea.", Advances in Geosciences (Ocean Science), World Scientific Publishing, b672-v12-ch17. Gan, Jianping, Qu, Tangdong (2008) "Coastal jet separation and associated flow variability in the southwest South China Sea", Deep-Sea Research Part 1, V. 55, pp1-19, doi:10.1016/j.dsr. 2007.09.008. Zu, Tingting, Gan, Jianping, Erofeeva, S. Y. (2008) "Numerical study of the tide and tidal dynamics in the South China Sea", Deep-Sea Research Part 1, V. 55, pp 137-154,10.1016/j.dsr.2007.10.007. Gan, Jianping, Li, Hui, Curchitser, Enrique, Haidvogel, Dale (2006) "Modeling South China Sea circulation: Response to seasonal forcing regimes", Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 111, C06034, doi:10.102/2005JC003298. Gan, Jianping, Allen, John (2005) "Modeling upwelling circulation off the Oregon coast", Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 110, C10S07, doi:10.1029/2004JC002692.

Jishan HU Associate Professor (2358 7434 ; [email protected])

PhD, Princeton University (1991) Visiting Assistant Professor, West Virginia University (1990-92)

Current Research Activities: Applied analysis; integrable systems.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Geometry and analysis of sub-laplacians RGC - General Research Fund HK$445,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Hu, Jishan, Yan, Min (2002) "A Link between two Fundamental Contributions of Kowalevski", The Kowalevski Property, CRM Proceedings & Lecture Notes, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI.

Kin Yin LI Associate Professor (2358 7420 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1989)

Current Research Activities: Complex function theory; Hilbert space operator theory; functional analysis.

Shiqing LING Associate Professor (2358 7459 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Hong Kong (1997)

Current Research Activities: Large sample theory; empirical processes; nonstationary time series; nonlinear time series; long memory time series; econometrics. Active Projects as Principal Investigator: On a first-order multiple threshold double autoregressive model: Structure and estimation RGC - General Research Fund HK$570,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Ling, Shiqing, Li, D. (2008) "Asymptotic inference for a nonstationary double AR(1) model", Biometrika, Volume: 95, Issue: 1, Pages: 257-263. Ling, Shiqing (2007) "Self-weighted and local quasi-maximum likelihood estimators for ARMA-GARCH/IGARCH models", Journal of Econometrics, Volume: 140, Issue: 2, Pages: 849-873. Ling, Shiqing (2007) "Testing for change-points in time series models and limiting theorems for NED sequences", Annals of Statistics, 35, 1213-1237. Ling, Shiqing (2007) "A double AR(p) model: structure and estimation", Statistica Sinica, 17, 161-175. Ling, Shiqing, Tong, Howell, Li, Dong (2007) "Ergodicity and invertibility of threshold moving-average models", Bernoulli, 13 , no. 1, 161--168. Koul, H., Ling, Shiqing (2006) "Fitting an error distribution in some heteroscedastic time series models.", Annals of Statistics, 34, 994-1012. Ling, Shiqing (2005) "Self-weighted LAD estimation for infinite variance autoregressive models.", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B., 67, Part 3, pp. 381–393. Ling, Shiqing, Tong, H. (2005) "Testing a linear MA model against threshold MA models.", Annals of Statistics, 33, 2529-2552 .

Guowu MENG Associate Professor (2358 7451 ; [email protected] ; http://www.math.ust.hk/~mameng/)

PhD, Brown University (1993)

Current Research Activities: Physics-inspired mathematics

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: S-duality in generalized kepler problems UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$53,040 30 Nov 2008

Representative Research Publications: Meng, Guo Wu (2008) "The O(1)-Kepler Problems", J. Math. Phys., 49, 102111 (2008). Meng, Guo Wu (2008) "The Representation Aspect of the Generalized Hydrogen Atoms", Journal of Lie Theory, 18(2008), No. 3, 697-715. Meng, Guowu (2008) "A Generalization of the Kepler Problem", Physics of Atomic Nuclei (J. Yadernaya fizika), Vol. 71 (2008), 946- 950. Meng, Guowu (2007) "Dirac and Yang Monopoles Revisited", CEJP, Vol. 5 (2007), pp. 570-575. Meng, Guowu (2007) "The MICZ-Kepler Problems in All Dimensions", J. Math. Phys., 48, 032105 (2007). Meng, Guowu (2006) "Legendre Transform, Hessian Conjecture and Tree Formula", Appl. Math. Lett., 19 (2006), 503-510. Meng, Guowu (2003) "A path integral derivation of chi-y-genus", J. Phys. A: Math. Gen., 36(4), 1083-1086. Meng, Guowu (2003) "Geometric construction of the quantum Hall effect in all even dimensions", J. Phys. A: Math. Gen., 36, 9415- 9423.

Mo MU Associate Professor (2358 7446 ; [email protected])

PhD, Academia Sinica (1987) Assistant Professor, Academia Sinica (1987) Research Associate, Purdue University (1987-93)

Current Research Activities: Network computing; parallel computing; scientific simulation; numerical software; numerical solution to PDEs.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Numerical methods of a mixed Navier-Stocks/Darcy model for coupling fluid flow with porous media flow RGC - General Research Fund HK$267,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Mu, Mo, Xu, Jinchao (2007) "A Two-grid Method of a Mixed Stokes-Darcy Model for Coupling Fluid Flow with Porous Media Flow", J. Numer. Anal., Vol 45, No. 5, pp 1801-1813. Mu, Mo (2005) "A Network-based Problem Solving Environment for PDEs", ACM Trans. Mathematical Software, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 508-531. Mu, Mo (2002) "A Multiple-Heaps Algorithm for Parallel Simulation of Collision Systems", Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 179, 539-556. Du, Qiang, Mu, Mo, Wu, Zi Niu (2001-2002) "Efficient Parallel Algorithms for Parabolic Problems", SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 39, pp. 1469 -- 1487, 2001.

Tiezheng QIAN Associate Professor (2358 7443 ; [email protected] ; http://www.math.ust.hk/~maqian/)

PhD, Institute of Theoretical Physics (1997) Visiting Scholar, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2000-2003)

Current Research Activities: molecular and continuum simulations of complex fluids, multiscale modeling and simulations, statstical physics

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The effect of fluid slipping on the revolution of spheroid solid particles in shear viscous flow: Simulation and experiment RGC - General Research Fund HK$545,000 01 Jan 2008 Molecular dynamics simulations and continuum hydrodynamic calculations of cavity flow: The slip boundary condition RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$105,600 01 Nov 2003

Representative Research Publications: Qian, Tiezheng, Qiu, Chunyin, Sheng, Ping (2008) "A scaling approach to the derivation of hydrodynamic boundary conditions", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol 611, 333-364. Qiu, Chunyin, Qian, Tiezheng (2008) "Numerical study of the phase slip in two-dimensional superconducting strips", Physical Review B, vol 77, 174517. Qian, Tiezheng, Wang, Xiao-Ping, Sheng, Ping (2006) "A variational approach to moving contact line hydrodynamics", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 564, pp. 333-360. Qian, Tiezheng, Wang, Xiao-Ping, Sheng, Ping (2006) "Molecular hydrodynamics of the moving contact line in two-phase immiscible flows", Communications in Computational Physics, Vol 1, 1. Qian, Tiezheng, Wang, Xiao-Ping, Sheng, Ping (2005) "Hydrodynamic slip boundary condition at chemically patterned surfaces: A continuum deduction from molecular dynamics", Physical Review E, Vol 72, 022501. Qian, Tiezheng, Wang, Xiao-Ping (2005) "Driven cavity flow: from molecular dynamics to continuum hydrodynamics", Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 749-763. Qian, Tiezheng, Wang, Xiao-Ping, Sheng, Ping (2004) "Power-law slip profile of the moving contact line in two-phase immiscible flows", Physical Review Letters, volume 93, number 9, 094501. Qian, Tiezheng, Wang, Xiao-Ping, Sheng, Ping (2003) "Molecular scale contact line hydrodynamics of immiscible flows", Physical Review E, Vol 68, 016306.

Man Yu WONG Associate Professor (2358 7436 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of London (1990) Lecturer, Hong Kong Polytechnic (1984-87) Statistician, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (1989-92)

Current Research Activities: Error in variables model; statistical inference; generalized linear models; biological and medical statistics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Power and sample size calculations for generation studies RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$52,000 01 Jun 2006 Childhood weight trajectories UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$53,040 01 Feb 2009

Representative Research Publications: Zhang, Z., Zhang, S., Wong, M.Y., Wareham, N.J., Sha, Q. (2008) "An Ensemble Learning Approach Jointly Modeling Main and Interaction Effects in Genetic Association Studies", Genetic Epidemiology, 32(4), p.285-300. Wong, Man Yu, Cox, David (2007) "On the screening of large numbers of significance tests", Journal of Applied Statistics, vol. 34, issue 7, pages 779-783. Day, N.E., Wong, Man Yu, Bingham, S., Khaw, K.T., Luben, R., Michels, K.B., Welch, A., Wareham, N.J. (2004) "Correlated measurement error - implication in nutritional epidemiology", International Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 33, pp1-9. Cox, D.R., Wong, Man Yu (2004) "A simple procedure for the selection of significant effects", Journal of the Royal Statistical Soceity, Series B, 66, 395-400. Wong, M.Y., Day, N.E., Luan, J.A., Wareham, N.J. (2004) "Estimation of magnitude in gene-environment interactions in the presence of measurement error", Statistics in Medicine, Vol. 23, p. 987 - p. 998. Wong, M.Y., Day, N.E., Luan, J.A., Chan, K.P., Wareham, N.J. (2003) "The detection of gene-environment interaction for continuous traits: should we deal with measurement error by bigger studies or better measurement?", International Journal of Epidemiology, 32, pp.51-57. Zhang, S., Wong, M.Y. (2003) "Wavelet threshold estimation for additive regression model", Annals of Statistics, 31, pp.152-173. Zhang, Shuanglin, Wong, Man Yu (2002) "Wavelet threshold estimation of regression function with random design", Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 80, 256-284.

Yang XIANG Associate Professor (2358 7430 ; [email protected])

PhD, New York University (2001) Research Associate, Princeton University (2001-2003)

Current Research Activities: Mathematical Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science, Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, Image Processing

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A generalized Peierls-Nabarro model for curved dislocations RGC - General Research Fund HK$250,000 01 Jan 2007 A fast multipole method for the long-range elastic interactions in dislocation dynamics RGC - General Research Fund HK$267,000 01 Jan 2008 A dislocation dynamics method based on adaptive level set framework and fast multipole method RGC - General Research Fund HK$293,700 01 Jan 2009 Adaptive Numerical Methods for Dislocation Dynamics Simulations RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$250,000 01 May 2008

Representative Research Publications: Xiang, Yang (2009) "Continuum approximation of the Peach-Koehler force on dislocations in a slip plane", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 57(4), 728-743. Zhu, Xiaohong, Xu, Haoyun, Xiang, Yang (2009) "Continuum model for the long-range elastic interaction on stepped epitaxial surfaces in 2+1 dimensions", Physical Review B, 79(12), 125413. Xu, Haoyun, Xiang, Yang (2009) "Derivation of a continuum model for the long-range elastic interaction on stepped epitaxial surfaces in 2+1 dimensions", SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 69(5), 1393-1414. Xiang, Yang, Wei, He, Ming, Pingbing, E, Weinan (2008) "A generalized Peierls-Nabarro model for curved dislocations and core structures of dislocation loops in Al and Cu", Acta Materialia, 56(7), 1447-1460. Quek, Siu Sin, Wu, Zhaoxuan, Zhang, Yong-Wei, Xiang, Yang, Srolovitz, David J. (2007) "Dislocation junctions as barriers to threading dislocation migration", Applied Physics Letters, 90, 011905. Xiang, Yang, Chung, Albert C.S., Ye, Jian (2006) "An active contour model for image segmentation based on elastic interaction", Journal of Computational Physics, 219(1), 455-476. Huang, Jingfang, Lai, Ming-Chih, Xiang, Yang (2006) "An integral equation method for epitaxial step-flow growth simulations", Journal of Computational Physics, 216(2), 724-743. Quek, Siu Sin, Xiang, Yang, Zhang, Yong Wei, Srolovitz, David J., Lu, Chun (2006) "Level set simulation of dislocation dynamics in thin films", Acta Materialia, 54(9), pp.2371-2381.

Min YAN Associate Professor (2358 7442 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Chicago (1990) Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University (1990-91) Assistant Professor, University of Michigan (1991-92)

Current Research Activities: Integrable systems; Hopf algebra; geometric topology; combinatorics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Homotopy Replacement of the Fixed Points of Equivariant Manifolds RGC - General Research Fund HK$114,000 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Yan, Min, Weinberger, Shmuel (2007) "Replacement theorems for compact group actions: The 2 rho theorem", Geometry, Topology, and their Interactions: An international conference in honor of Farrell-Jones Jim Davis, Daniel Juan-Pineda, Jean-Francois Lafont, Stratos Prassidis Morelia, Mexico, January 8th-13th, 2007. Weinberger, Shmuel, Yan, Min (2005) "Equivariant periodicity for compact group actions", Adances in Geometry. Yan, Min, Weinberger, Shmuel (2003-2004) "Equivariant Periodicity for Compact Group Actions", Advances in Geometry. Yan, Min, Hu, Ji-Shan (2002) "An Elementary and Direct Proof of the Painleve Property for the Painleve Equations P1, P2 and P4", Journal d'Analyse, to appear. Yan, Min, Hu, Jishan (2002) "A Link between two Fundamental Contributions of Kowalevski", The Kowalevski Property, CRM Proceedings & Lecture Notes, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI. Yan, Min, Weinberger, Shmuel (2001) "Equivariant Periodicity for Abelian Group Actions", Advances in Geometry, 1, 49-70.

Huai-Liang CHANG Assistant Professor (2358 7454 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Deformation theory by derived methods; virtual fundamental class in Gromov Witten theory and Donaldson Thomas theory.

Xuhua HE Assistant Professor (2358 7423 ; [email protected])

PhD, Massachusetts Inst of Tech

Current Research Activities: Representation theory, algebraic geometry and combinatorics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: G-stable pieces and character sheaves on the De Concini-Procesi compactification and other varieties RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$230,000 01 Aug 2008

Shing Yu LEUNG Assistant Professor (2358 7414 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Numerical methods for partial differential equations and scientific computing. Department of Physics

Tai Kai NG, Head of Department; Associate Dean of Science

Che Ting CHAN, Chair Professor; Director, William Mong Institute of Nano Science and Technology

Michael M T LOY, Chair Professor

Ping SHENG, Dr William M W Mong Chair Professor of Nanoscience

George K L WONG, Chair Professor and Director, Materials Characterization and Preparation Facility

Michael S ALTMAN, Professor

Pak Wo LEUNG, Professor

Wing Yim TAM, Professor

Zi Kang TANG, Professor, Director of Nano Science and Technology Program

Penger TONG, Professor

Ning WANG, Professor

Xiangrong WANG, Professor

Michael K Y WONG, Professor

Zhiyu YANG, Professor

Xixiang ZHANG, Professor

Zhaoqing ZHANG, Professor

Bradley A FOREMAN, Associate Professor

Kwok Kwong FUNG, Senior Lecturer

Nian LIN, Associate Professor

Iam Keong SOU, Associate Professor

Kwok Yip SZETO, Associate Professor

Jiannong WANG, Associate Professor

Weijia WEN, Associate Professor

Kam Sing WONG, Associate Professor

Tian Wen CHEN, Visiting Assistant Professor

Shengwang DU, Assistant Professor

Yilong HAN, Assistant Professor

Chi Wai LAI, Visiting Assistant Professor

Rolf Walter LORTZ, Assistant Professor Tai Kai NG Head of Department; Associate Dean of Science (2358 7506 ; [email protected])

PhD, Northwestern University (1987)

Current Research Activities: Mesoscopic physics; non-equilibrium quantum mechanical phenomena; quantum spin systems; strongly correlated metals.

Representative Research Publications: Zhou, Yi, Ng, Tai Kai (2009) "Fermi-edge problem in the presence of AC electric field", Europhysics Letters, 86, 1,17004. Feng, Xiao-Yong, Ng, Tai Kai (2009) "In-gap bound states and tunneling conductance of multi-band superconductors through a normal/superconductor/superconductor junction", Physical Review B, 79, 184503. Ng, Tai Kai (2009) Introduction to Classical and Quantum Field Theory, Wiley-VCH. Zhou, Yi, Lee, Patrick, Ng, Tai Kai, Zhang, Fu-chun (2009) "Na4Ir3O8 as a 3D spin liquid with fermionic spinons", Physical Review Letters, 101, 197201. Ng, Tai Kai, Zhou, Yi, Tang, Lei-han (2009) "Topological Glass States", Europhysics Letters, 86, 1, 10003. Wang, Shenshen, Ng, Tai-Kai (2008) "On the (circular) polarization-independence of microwave-induced resistance oscillations and zero resistance state", Physical Review B, Volume 77, p.165324. Leridon, Brigette, Ng, Tai-Kai, varma, Chandra M. (2007) "Josephson Effect for Superconductors lacking Time-Reversal and Inversion symmetries", Physical Review Letters, Volume 99, p.027002. Ng, Tai-Kai, Lee, Patrick A. (2007) "Power-law Conductivity inside the Mott gap: application to K-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu2(CN)3", Physical Review Letters, Volume 99, p.156402.

Che Ting CHAN Chair Professor; Director, William Mong Institute of Nano Science and Technology (2358 7487 ; [email protected])

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)

Current Research Activities: Electronic, structural and other physical properties of matter; surface physics; photonic band gaps; material physics; nanomaterials.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Using the idea of transformation optics to manipulate waves RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,322,178 15 Jul 2009 Electromagnetic fields and light-induced electromagnetic forces for arbitrary shaped objects and their aggregates RGC - General Research Fund HK$579,610 01 Oct 2008 Electromagnetic resonant structures and plasmonic structures RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$4,470,000 01 Mar 2007 Optics and plasmonics at the nano-scale UGC - High Impact Area HK$700,000 10 Sep 2005 The transport properties of carbon nano-materials in complex environments UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$600,000 26 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications: Cho, T H, Su, W S, Leung, Tsan Chuen, Ren, Wei, Chan, Che Ting (2009) "Electronic and optical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes under a uniform transverse electric field: A first-principles study", PHYSICAL REVIEW B, Volume: 79, Issue: 23, Article Number: 235123 (2009 ). Lai, Yun, Ng, Tsz Fai Jack, Chen, Huanyang, Han, Dezhuan, Xiao, Jun Jun, Zhang, Zhaoqing, Chan, Che Ting (2009) "Illusion Optics: The Optical Transformation of an Object into Another Object", PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, Volume: 102, Issue: 25, Article Number: 253902 (2009). Fung, Kin Hung, Chan, Che Ting (2008) "Analytical study of the plasmonic modes of a metal nanoparticle circular array", Physical Review B, Volume: 77, Issue: 20, Article Number: 205423. Ng, Jack, Tang, Chin Hang, Chan, Che Ting (2008) "Electrodynamics study of plasmonic bonding and antibonding forces in a bisphere", Physical Review B, Volume: 77, Issue: 19, Article Number: 195407. Ng, Jack, Chan, Che Ting (2008) "Size-selective optical forces for microspheres using evanescent wave excitation of whispering gallery modes", Applied Physics Letters, Volume: 92, Issue: 25, Article Number: 251109. Hang, Zhihong, Chan, Che Ting (2008) "Stability of extended structures stabilized by light as governed by the competition of two length scales", Physical Review A, Volume: 77, Issue: 6, Article Number: 063838. Chen, Huanyang, Chan, Che Ting (2007) "Acoustic cloaking in three dimensions using acoustic metamaterials", Applied Physics Letters, Volume: 91, Issue: 18, Article Number: 183518. Chen, Huanyang, Liang, Zixian, Yao, Peijun, Jiang, Xunya, Ma, Hongru, Chan, Che Ting (2007) "Extending the bandwidth of electromagnetic cloaks", Physical Review B, Volume: 76, Issue: 24, Article Number: 241104.

Michael M T LOY Chair Professor (2358 7971 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1971) Senior Manager, IBM Research (1987-93)

Current Research Activities: Nonlinear optical propagation effects; two-photon coherent transients; nonlinear optical studies of surfaces; state-selective studies of molecule-surface interactions.

Representative Research Publications: Wang, Kedong, Zhang, Xieqiu, Loy, Michael M T, Chiang, T.-C., Xiao, Xudong (2009) "Pseudogap Mediated by Quantum-Size Effects in Lead Islands", Physical Review Letters, 102, 076801. Man, K. L., Tringides, M. C., Loy, Michael M T, Altman, Michael S (2008) "Anomalous Mass Transport in the Pb Wetting Layer on the Si(111) Surface", Physical Review Letters, 101, 226102. Wang, Kedong, Chen, Gang, Zhang, Chun, Loy, Michael M T, Xiao, Xudong (2008) "Intermixing of Intrabasin and Interbasin Diffusion of a Single Ag Atom on Si(111) - (7x7)", Physical Review Letters, 101, 266107. Wang, Kedong, Zhang, Xieqiu, Loy, M.M.T., Xiao, Xudong (2008) "The role of Pb wetting layer conduction in tunneling spectroscopy of Pb nanoislands on Si(111) surface", Surface Science, 602, 1217-1222, 2008. Zhao, Aidi, Zhang, Xiequi, Chen, Gang, Loy, M.M.T., Xiao, Xudong (2006) "Initial stages of the adsorption of Ge atoms on the Si(111) – (7x7) surface", Physical Review B74, 125301 (2006)., B74, 125301 (2006). Zheng, C. Z., Yeung, C. K., Loy, M.M.T., Xiao, Xudong (2006) "Quantum Diffusion of H on Pt(111): Step Effect", Physical Review Letters, 97, 166101 (2006). Zhang, Chun, Chen, Gang, Wang, Kedong, Yang, Hongwei, Su, Tao, Chan, C.T., Loy, M.M.T., Xiao, Xudong (2005) "Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Single Cu, Ag, and Au Atoms Adsorbed on Si(111)-(7x7)", Physical Review Letters, 94, 176104 (2005). Wang, Kedong, Zhang, Chun, Loy, M.M.T., Xiao, Xudong (2005) "Time-Dependent Tunneling Spectroscopy for Studying Surface Diffusion Confined in Nanostructures", Physical Review Letters, 94, 036103 (2005).

Ping SHENG Dr William M W Mong Chair Professor of Nanoscience (2358 7474 ; [email protected] ; http://physics.ust.hk/department/staff.html)

PhD, Princeton University (1971). Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University (1971-73) Senior Research Associate, Exxon Research and Engineering Co (1979-95)

Current Research Activities: Physics of disordered materials; complex fluids; liquid crystals; wave localization and multiple scattering; physics of meso-systems and nanomaterials.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Microscopic study on the mechanism of the giant electrorheological effect RGC - General Research Fund HK$935,500 01 Sep 2007 Experimental and theoretical study of carbon nanotube superconductivity and nanostructured graphene characteristics RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$5,400,000 01 Mar 2009 KAUST Fellows Program Awards King Abdullah University of Science and Technology HK$1,560,000 15 Aug 2008 Field-tunable Colloidal Crystals Based on Mono-dispersed Magnetic Particles UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$500,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Xie, Hang, Sheng, Ping (2009) "Quantum Interference Hall Effect in Nanopatterned Two-dimensional Electron Gas Systems", Physical Review B, Volume: 79, Issue: 16, Article Number: 165307. Lortz, R., Zhang, Q.C., Shi, Wu, Ye, J.T., Qiu, C.Y., Wang, Zhe, He, H.T., Sheng, Ping, Qian, Tiezheng, Tang, Zikang, Wang, Ning, Zhang, Xixiang, Wang, Jiannong, Chan, Che Ting (2009) "Superconducting Characteristics of 4-A Carbon Nanotube-zeolite Composite", Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Volume: 106, Issue: 18, Pages: 7299-7303. Qian, Tiezheng, Qiu, C.Y., Sheng, Ping (2008) "A Scaling Approach to the Derivation of Hydrodynamic Boundary Conditions", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Volume: 611, Pages: 333-364. Mei, Jun, Liu, Z.Y., Wen, Weijia, Sheng, Ping (2008) "Dynamic Mass Density and Acoustic Metamaterials", Continuum Models and Discrete Systems CMDS 11 - Proc. of the International Symposium, Collection Sciences de la Matiere 2008, Pages: 393-411. Zhang, Jianwei, Gong, Xiuqing, Liu, C., Wen, Weijia, Sheng, Ping (2008) "Electrorheological Fluid Dynamics", Physical Review Letters, Volume: 101, Issue: 19, Article Number: 194503. Wen, Weijia, Huang, X.X., Sheng, Ping (2008) "Electrorheological fluids: Structures and Mechanisms", Soft Matter, Volume: 4, Issue: 2, Pages: 200-210. Zhang, Meng Ying, Wu, Jin Bo, Niu, X.Z., Wen, Weijia, Sheng, Ping (2008) "Manipulations of Microfluidic Droplets Using Electrorheological Carrier Fluid", Physical Review E, Volume: 78, Issue: 6, Article Number: 066305, Part: Part 2. Yang, Zhi Yu, Mei, Jun, Yang, Min, Chan, N.H., Sheng, Ping (2008) "Membrane-Type Acoustic Metamaterial with Negative Dynamic Mass", Physical Review Letters, Volume: 101, Issue: 20, Article Number: 204301.

George K L WONG Chair Professor and Director, Materials Characterization and Preparation Facility (2358 7471 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1974) Professor of Physics, Northwestern University (1989-96)

Current Research Activities: Nonlinear optics; optical properties of Quantum wells and superlattices; nanostructures of semiconductors, ferroelectrics, polymers and organic materials. Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Bi2Te3 nanowires and nanotubes: MBE growth and thermoelectric characterization RGC - General Research Fund HK$317,000 01 Jan 2008 Self-assembled Fe nanowire arrays by MBE: fabrication,magnetic and magneto-transport characterization RGC - General Research Fund HK$552,495 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Kok, M H, Lu, W, Tam, W Y, Wong, G K L (2009) "Lasing from dye-doped icosahedral quasicrystals in dichromate gelatin emulsions", Optics Express, 17 (9), pp. 7275-7284. Wang, G, Lok, S K, Chan, S K, Wang, C, Wong, G K L, Sou, I K (2009) "The formation of an aligned 1D nanostructure on annealed Fe/ZnSe bilayers", Nanotechnology, 20 (21), art. no. 215607. Wang, C, Zhang, B, You, B, Lok, S K, Chan, S K, Zhang, X X, Wong, G K L, Sou, I K (2008) "Competitive antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic coupling in a CrSe/Fe/GaAs(111)B structure", Journal of Applied Physics, 104 (2), art. no. 023916. Lok, S K, Chan, S K, Wong, G K L, Sou, I K (2008) "MBE-grown Fe nanowires on a ZnS(1 0 0) surface", Journal of Crystal Growth, 311 (7), pp. 2208-2211. Kok, MH, Lu, W, Lee, JCW, Tam, WY, Wong, GKL, Chan, CT (2008) "Lasing from dye-doped photonic crystals with graded layers in dichromate gelatin emulsions", Applied Physics Letters, vol.92, p. 151108-1-3. Sun, T., Qiu, Z.R., Su, H.M., Zhang, X.D., Zhang, Z.Q., Wong, G.K.L., Wong, K.S. (2007) "Dynamics of random laser and coherent backscattering of light from ZnO amplifying random medium", Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 91, p. 241110-3. Wang, C., Zhang, B., You, B., Lok, S. K., Chan, S.K., Zhang, Xixiang, Wong, George Ke Lun, Sou, Iam Keong (2007) "Molecular-beam-epitaxy-grown CrSe/Fe bilayer on GaAs(100) substrate", J. Appl. Phys., vol. 102, p. 083901. Jiang, F.Y., Lu, Weixin, Zhai, J.P., Ye, J.T., Wong, George K.L., Han, J.R., Tang, Zikang (2006) "Assembly of disperse red 1 molecules in the channels of AlPO4-5 single crystals for second-harmonic generation", JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, B 110, 8924-8927, 2006.

Michael S ALTMAN Professor (2358 7478 ; [email protected])

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

Current Research Activities: 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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Detailed structure of adsorbed fullerenes: A joint LEED, LEEM and total-energy study RGC - General Research Fund HK$100,000 01 Jan 2008 Quantum well resonances and quantum size effects in ultrathin metal films RGC - General Research Fund HK$538,460 01 Dec 2006 Kinetic Processes that Mediate Surface Step Morphological Evolution RGC - General Research Fund HK$833,880 01 Dec 2008

Representative Research Publications: Man, Ka Lun, Tringides, Michael, Loy, Michael M T, Altman, Michael S (2008) "Anomalous Mass Transport in the Pb Wetting Layer on the Si(111) Surface", Physical Review Letters, Volume 101, pp. 226102_1-4. Pang, Angbo, Man, Ka Lun, Altman, Michael, Stasevich, Timothy, Szalma, Ferenc, Einstein, Theodore (2008) "Step Line Tension and Step Morphological Evolution on the Si(111) (1x1) Surface", Physical Review B, Volume 77, pp. 115424, 1 - 12. Man, Ka Lun, Feng, Wing Ka, Chan, Che Ting, Altman, Michael (2007) "Vibrational Entropy-Driven Dealloying of Mo(100) and W(100) Surface Alloys", Surface Science, Volume 601, pp. L95-L101. Wu, Y.Z., Schmid, A.K., Altman, M.S., Jin, X.F., Qiu, Z.Q. (2005) "Spin-dependent Fabry-Perot Interferometer of a Cu Thin Film Grown on fcc Co(001)", Physical Review Letters, Volume 94, pp. 027201, 1-4. Man, K.L., Qiu, Z.Q., Altman, M.S. (2004) "Kinetic Limitations in Electronic Growth of Ag films on Fe(100)", Physical Review Letters, Volume 93, pp. 236104, 1-4. Man, Ka Lun, Zdyb, R., Huang, S.F., Leung, T.C., Chan, Che Ting, Bauer, E., Altman, Michael S. (2003) "Growth Morphology, Structure and Magnetism of Ultrathin Co Films on W(111)", Physical Review B, Vol. 67, pp. 184402_1-11. Chung, W.F., Feng, Yongjia, Poon, H.C., Chan, Che Ting, Tong, S.Y., Altman, Michael S. (2003) "Layer Spacings in Coherently Strained Epitaxial Metal Films", Physical Review Letters, Vol. 90, pp. 216105_1-4. Chung, W.F., Altman, Michael S. (2002) "Kinetic Length, Step Permeability and Kinetic Coefficient Asymmetry on the Si(111) (7x7) Surface", Physical Review B, Vol. 66, pp. 075338_1-5.

Pak Wo LEUNG Professor (2358 7483 ; [email protected] ; http://physics.ust.hk/phleung)

PhD, Cornell University (1990)

Current Research Activities: Application of large scale and parallel computing to condensed matter physics; low-dimension quantum spin systems and high temperature superconductivity.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Large scale numerical study of microscopic models for high temperature superconductors RGC - General Research Fund HK$267,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Chen, X., Farhoodfar, A., McIntosh, T., Gooding, R.J., Leung, Pak Wo (2008) "Critiquing variational theories of the Anderson- Hubbard model: real-space self-consistent Hartree-Fock solutions", JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER, Volume: 20, Issue: 34, Article Number: 345211. Cepas, O., Fong, C. M., Leung, Pak Wo, Lhuillier, C. (2008) "Quantum phase transition induced by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in the kagome antiferromagnet", PHYSICAL REVIEW B, Volume: 78, Issue: 14, Article Number: 140405. Leung, P. W. (2007) "Numerical study of hole correlation in the t-J model with four holes on a 32-site lattice", International Journal Of Modern Physics B, Volume: 21, Issue: 18-19, Pages: 3118-3121. Cheng, Y. F., Cepas, O., Ziman, T., Leung, P. W. (2007) "Magnon dispersion and anisotropies in SrCu2(BO3)2", Physical Review B, Vol. 75, P. 144422. Cepas, O., Cheng, Y. F., Leung, P. W., Ziman, T. (2007) "Magnon dispersion and anisotropies in SrCu2(BO3)2", March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Mar 5-9, 2007, Denver, USA, organized by the American Physical Society, Mar 5-9, 2007. Leung, P. W. (2007) "Numerical study of hole correlation in the t-J model with four holes on a 32-site lattice", Sixth International Conference on New Theories, Discoveries, and Applications of Superconductors and Related Materials (New3SC-6), Jan. 9-11, 2007, Sydney, Australia, organized by the JD Duz Institute for Superconductivity, Jan. 9-11, 2007. Leung, P. W. (2006) "Charge carrier correlation in the electron-doped t-J model", PHYSICAL REVIEW B, Vol. 73, P. 75104. Leung, P. W. (2006) "Hole correlation and antiferromagnetic order in the t-J model", PHYSICAL REVIEW B, Vol. 73, P. 14502.

Wing Yim TAM Professor (2358 7490 ; [email protected]) PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara (1985) Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson (1988-93)

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Chiral micro-structures by single photon holographic lithography RGC - General Research Fund HK$538,460 01 Sep 2006 Quasicrystals as photonic bandgap materials RGC - General Research Fund HK$935,500 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Hung, Jenny, Kok, Mang Hin, Tam, Wing Yim (2009) "Complete Photonic Bandgaps in the Visible Range from Spherical Layer Structures in Dichromate Gelatin Emulsions", App. Phys. Lett., 94, 014102. Kok, Mang Hin, Lu, Waixin, Tam, Wing Yim, Wong, George K. L. (2009) "Visible Light Lasing From Dye-doped Icosahedral Quasicrystals in Dichromate Gelatin Emulsions", Optics Express, 17, 7275-7284. Kok, Man Hin, Lu, Weixin, Lee, Jeffery Chi Wai, Tam, Wing Yim, Wong, George K. L., Chan, C. T. (2008) "Lasing From Dye-doped 1D Photonic Crystals With Gradient Layers in Dichromate Gelatin Emulsions", App. Phys. Lett., 91, 151108 (2008). Xu, Jun, Ma, Rui, Wang, Xia, Tam, Wing Yim (2007) "Icosahedral Quasicrystals for Visible Wavelength by Optical Interference Holography", Optics Express, 15, 4287-4295. Tam, Wing Yim (2006) "Icosahedral Quasicrystals by Optical Interference Holography", Appl. Phys. Lett., 89, 251111. Pang, Yee Kwong, Lee, Jeffrey Chi Wai, Ho, Cheuk Ting, Tam, Wing Yim (2006) "Realization of Woodpile Structure Using Optical Interference Holography", Optics Express 14, 9013-9019. Pang, Yee Kwong, Lee, Jeffrey Chi Wai, Lee, Hung Fai, Tam, Wing Yim, Chan, Che Ting, Sheng, Ping (2005) "Chiral microstructures (spirals) fabrication by holographic lithography", Optics Express, 13, 7615-7620 (2005). Wang, Xia, Ng, C.Y., Tam, Wing Yim, Chan, C.T., Sheng, Ping (2003) "Large area two-dimensional mesoscale quasicrystals", Adv. Materials, 15, 1526-1528.

Zi Kang TANG Professor, Director of Nano Science and Technology Program (2358 7972 ; [email protected])

PhD, Tohoku University (1992) Senior Researcher, Photodynamics Research Centre, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (1992-94)

Current Research Activities: Carbon nanotubes, nanostructured complex, optical and transport properties of of nanostructured materials; ZnO nanostructured thin films

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Resonant raman spectral study of nano-structured carbons generated in channels of porous single crystals RGC - General Research Fund HK$545,000 20 Dec 2007 Ultra-thin single-walled carbon nanotubes with a single chirality RGC - General Research Fund HK$883,200 01 Jan 2009 Study of iodine molecular chains and molecular ribbons generated in the channels of zeolite AFI and AEL single crystals RGC - Direct Allocation Grant and Others HK$550,000 30 Jun 2007 Study of electron transport in microbial fuel cells UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$75,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Lortz, Rolf Walter, Zhang, Q. C., Shi, W., Ye, J. T., Qiu, C. Y., Wang, Z., He, H. T., Sheng, Ping, Qian, Tiezheng, Tang, Zikang, Wang, Ning, Zhang, Xixiang, Wang, Jiannong, Chan, Che Ting (2009) "Superconducting characteristics of 4-A carbon nanotube--zeolite composite", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(18), 7299-7303. Tang, Zikang, Zhai, J. P., Tong, Y. Y., Hu, X. J., Saito, R., Chan, Che Ting, Sheng, Ping (2008) "Resonant Raman Scattering of Smallest Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes", Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 047402. Zhai, J. P., Lee, H. F., Li, I. L., Ruan, S. C., Tang, Z. K. (2008) "Controlling the alignment of neutral iodine molecules in the elliptical channels of AlPO4-11 crystals", Appl. Phys. Letters, 92, 43117 (2008). Li, I. L., Zhai, J. P., Launois, P., Ruan, S. C., Tang, Z. K. (2005) "Geometry, phase stability and electronic property of isolated Se chains incorporated in nanoporous matrix", J. Ame. Chem. Soci, 127, 16111 (2005). Yang, C. L., Hou, B., Li, I. L., Li, Z. M., Tang, Z. K., Wang, J. N., Liu, H. J., Ge, W. K. (2005) "Photoreflectance of 0.4 nm single-walled carbon nanotubes", Phys. Rev. B, 71, 233404 (2005). Ye, J. T., Tang, Z. K. (2005) "Raman spectra and thermal stability analysis of 0.4 nm freestanding single-walled carbon nanotubes", Phys. Rev. B, 72, 045414 (2005). Guo, J. D., Yang, C. L., Li, Z. M., Bai, M., Liu, H. J., Li, G. D., Wang, E. G., Chan, C. T., Tang, Zi Kang, Ge, W. K., Xiao, X. D. (2004) "Efficient Visible Photoluminescence from Carbon Nanotubes in Zeolite Templates", Phys. Rev. Lett., 93, 017402- 04 (2004). Li, Zhao Ming, Tang, Zi Kang, Siu, G. G., Bozovic, I (2004) "Raman characterization of 0.4 nm single-wall carbon nanotubes using the full-symmetry line group", Appl. Phys. Lett., 84, 4101-4103.

Penger TONG Professor (2358 7498 ; [email protected] ; http://physics.ust.hk/penger/)

PhD, University of Pittsburgh (1988) Assistant Professor of Physics, Oklahoma State University (1990-1995) Associate Professor of Physics, Oklahoma State University (1995-1999) Professor of Physics, Oklahoma State University (1999-2003) Visiting Scientisit in Applied Physics, Harvard University (2001)

Current Research Activities: 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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Interactions, structures, and dynamics of colloidal particles at soft interfaces RGC - General Research Fund HK$300,000 15 Sep 2006 Experimental studies of convective turbulence RGC - General Research Fund HK$317,000 15 Oct 2007 Experimental test of the steady-state fluctuation theorem of Gallavotti and Cohen in a driven far-from-equilibrium system RGC - General Research Fund HK$883,200 01 Jan 2009 Experimental study of soft/biological interfaces: from assembly to dynamics and function Germany / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$30,000 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Wei, Tan, Susheng, Zhou, Yi, Ng, Tai-Kai, Ford, Warren T., Tong, Penger (2009) "Attraction between weakly charged silica spheres at a water-air interface induced by surface-charge heterogeneity", Physical Review E, 79, 041403. He, Xiaozhou, Tong, Penger (2009) "Measurements of the thermal dissipation field in turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection", Physical Revew E, 79, 026306. Peng, Y., Chen, W., Fischer, TH. M., Weitz, D. A., Tong, P. (2009) "Short-time self-diffusion of nearly hard spheres at an oil-water interface", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 618, 243. Kalyankar, Makrand G., Matson, W. R., Tong, Penger, Ackerson, Bruce J. (2008) "Pattern formation in a rotating suspension of non-Brownian buoyant particles", Physics of Fluids, 20, 083301. Chen, Wei, Tong, Penger (2008) "Short-time self-diffusion of weakly charged silica spheres at aqueous interfaces", Europhysics Letters, 84, 28003. Matson, W. R., Ackerson, B. J., Tong, Penger (2008) "Measured scaling properties of the transition boundaries in a rotating suspension of non-Brownian settling particles", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 597, 233. Andreatta, Gaelle, Wang, Yong Jian, Lee, Fuk Kay, Polidori, Ange, Tong, Penger, Pucci, Bernard, Benattar, Jean-Jacques (2008) "Molecular Transfer of Surfactant Bilayers: Widening the Range of Substrates", Langmuir, 24, 6072. Shang, Xiao-Dong, Tong, Penger, Xia, Ke-Qing (2008) "Scaling of the Local Convective Heat Flux in Turbulent Rayleigh-Benard Convection", Physical Review Letters, 100, 244503.

Ning WANG Professor (2358 7489 ; [email protected] ; http://physics.ust.hk/phwang)

PhD, The University of Science and Technology, Beijing (1990) Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong (1997-2000)

Current Research Activities: One-dimensional nanomaterials synthesis and characterization; high-resolution electron microscopy; materials physics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Synthesis and characterization of functional nano-materials using porous alumina templates RGC - General Research Fund HK$300,000 01 Dec 2006 Experimental Study of Heterostructured Nanowires RGC - General Research Fund HK$883,200 01 Jan 2009 Study of atomic structures at defects and interfaces in one-dimensional nanostructures by ultra high resolution transmission electron microscopy Germany / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$24,800 01 Jan 2009 Study and engineering of surface-dependent properties and core-shell composite structures of nanomaterials RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$300,000 01 Feb 2009 Nano-science and engineering platform UGC Miscellaneous HK$3,060,000 01 Dec 2008 Nano-science and engineering platform UGC - Special Equipment Grant HK$10,000,000 01 Dec 2008

Representative Research Publications: Lok, Shu Kin, Wang, G, Cai, Yuan, Wang, Ning, Zhong, Yongchun, Wong, Kam Sing, Sou, Iam Keong (2009) "Growth temperature dependence of the structural and photoluminescence properties of MBE-grown ZnS nanowires", JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH, 311,p2630-2634. Cheng, chun, Lei, Ming, Feng, Lin, Wong, T.L, Ho, K.M., Fung, Kwok Kwong, Loy, Michael M T, Yu, D.P, Wang, Ning (2009) "High-quality ZnO nanowire arrays directly from photoresists", ACS Nano, 3 (2009) p53-58. Cheng, Yao, Wong, T.L, Ho, K.M., Wang, Ning (2009) "The Structure and Growth Mechanism of VO2 Nanowires", J. Cryst. Grow., 311(2008) p1571-1575. Cheng, chun, Xin, R.L., Leng, Yang, Yu, D.P, Wang, Ning (2008) "Chemical Stability of ZnO Nanostructures in Simulated Physiological Environments and Its Application in Determining Polar Directions", Inorg. Chem. 47(2008)7868-7873., 47, p7868-7873. Cai, Yuan, Wong, T.L, Chan, S.K, Sou, Iam Keong, Wang, Ning (2008) "Growth behaviors of ultrathin ZnSe nanowires by Au-catalyzed molecular-beam epitaxy", Appl. Phys. Lett., 93, p233107. Chan, S.K, Lok, Shu Kin, Wang, G, Cai, Yuan, Wang, Ning, Wong, Kam Sing, Sou, Iam Keong (2008) "MBE-Grown cubic ZnS nanowires", JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS, 37, p1433-1437. Feng, Lin, Cheng, chun, Lei, Ming, Wang, Ning, Loy, Michael M T (2008) "Spatially resolved photoluminescence study of single ZnO tetrapods", Nanotechnology, 19 , p405702. Xin, R.L., Leng, Yang, Wang, Ning (2008) "Ultrastructure study of hydroxyapatite precipitation on ceramic surfaces in dog model", MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING C-BIOMIMETIC AND SUPRAMOLECULAR SYSTEMS, 28, p1255-1259.

Xiangrong WANG Professor (2358 7488 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Rochester (1990)

Current Research Activities: Statistical physics; theoretical condensed matter physics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Magnetization dynamics of magnetic nano-particles and nano-wires subject to the influences of spin-transfer torques RGC - General Research Fund HK$570,000 01 Jan 2008 The Euler equation of the optimal trajectory for the fastest magnetization reversal in magnetic nano-structures RGC - General Research Fund HK$293,700 01 Jan 2009 Nano-spintronics - quantum control of electron spins in semiconductors RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$250,000 01 Mar 2009 Spin-dependent Chemical Potential Split UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$400,000 15 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Wang, X. R., Yan, P., Lu, J. (2009) "High field domain wall propagation velocity in magnetic nanowires", Europhysiccs Letters, 86, 67001. Zhang, Y. Y., Hu, J. P., Bernevig, B. A., Wang, X. R., Xie, X. C., Liu, W. M. (2009) "Localization and Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in disordered graphene", Phys. Rev. Lett., 102, 106401. Wang, X. R., Yan, P., Lu, J., He, C. (2009) "Magnetic field driven domain wall propagation in magnetic nanowires", Annals of Physics, 324, 1815. Zhu, W., Shi, Q. W., Wang, X. R., Chen, J., Yang, J. L., Hou, J. G. (2009) "Shape of disorder broadened Landau subbands in graphene", Phys. Rev. Lett., 102, 056803. Xiong, G, Wang, S. D., Niu, Q., Wang, Y. P., Wang, X. R. (2008) "A possible unified picture for both scaling and non-scaling plateau-to-plateau transitions in quantum Hall systems", Europhysics Letters, 82, 47008. Wang, W.G., Yee, K.J., Kim, D.H., Han, K.J., Wnag, X.R., Ni, C., Moriyama, T., Opila, R., Zhu, T., Xiao, Q. (2008) "Microstructure, magnetic, and spin-dependent transport properties of (Zn,Cr)Te films fabricated by magnetron sputtering", Phys. Rev. B, 77, 155207. Wang, W.G., Yee, K.J., Kim, D.H., Han, K.J., Wang, X.R., Ni, C., Moriyama, T., Opila, R., Zhu, T., Xiao, Q. (2008) "Microstructure, magnetic, and spin-dependent transport properties of (Zn,Cr)Te films fabricated by magnetron sputtering", Phys. Rev. B, 77, 155207. Lu, Jie, Peng, L. M., Yin, Sun, Sun, Z. Z., Wang, X.R. (2007) "Proximity and anomalous field-effect characteristics in double- wall carbon nanotubes", Appl. Phys. Lett., 90, 052109.

Michael K Y WONG Professor (2358 7480 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (1986) Current Research Activities: Machine learning; learning dynamics; econophysics; complex and disordered systems; optimization; telecommuncations network management.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A statistical physics approach to optimization of multiclass and labelled traffic on networks RGC - General Research Fund HK$361,000 01 Sep 2007 The Colour Diversity Problem and Potts Glass RGC - General Research Fund HK$293,700 01 Dec 2008

Representative Research Publications: Yeung, C. H., Wong, K. Y. Michael (2009) "Optimal Resource Allocation in Random Networks with Transportation Bandwidths", J. Stat. Mech., P03029 (2009). Fung, C. C. Alan, Wong, K. Y. Michael, Wu, Si (2008) "Dynamics of Neural Networks with Continuous Attractors", Europhys. Lett., 84, 18002 (2008). Wong, K. Y. Michael, Saad, David (2008) "Minimizing Unsatisfaction in Colourful Neighbourhoods", J. Phys. A: Math. Theor., 41, 324023 (2008). Yang, Huiming, Ting, Yim Shan, Wong, Kwok Yee Michael (2008) "Effects of Payoff Functions and Preference Distributions in an Adaptive Population", Phys. Rev. E, 77, 031116. Yeung, Chi Ho, Wong, Kwok Yee Michael, Zhang, Yi-Cheng (2008) "Models of Financial Markets with Extensive Participation Incentives", Phys. Rev. E, 77, 026107. Wong, Kwok Yee Michael, Saad, David (2007) "Inference and Optimization of Real Edges on Sparse Graphs - A Statistical Physics Perspective", Phys. Rev. E, 76, 011115 (22 pages). Wong, Kwok Yee Michael, Lim, Sze Wah, Gao, Zhuo (2004) "Dynamical Mechanisms of Adaptation in Multiagent Systems", Physical Review E, Volume 70, 025103R (4 pages). Wu, Si, Wong, Kwok Yee Michael, Li, Bo (2002) "A Dynamic Call Admission Policy with Precision QoS Guarantee Using Stochastic Control for Mobile Wireless Networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 10, 257-271.

Zhiyu YANG Professor (2358 7485 ; [email protected])

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

Current Research Activities: Optical properties of nanostructured materials; Sonic meta-materials; polymer relaxation dynamics; semiconductor interfaces and quantum structures; semiconductor spintronics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Realization of negative refraction acoustic metamaterials RGC - General Research Fund HK$545,000 01 Sep 2007 Electric field induced intrinsic spin polarization in HgCdTe alloys and HgTe/CdTe superlattices RGC - General Research Fund HK$538,460 01 Jul 2006 Coherent Ultrasonic Sources from Phononic Crystals UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$400,000 01 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Yang, Z, Yang, Min, Chan, N. H., Sheng, Ping (2008) "Membrane-type acoustic metamaterial with negative dynamic mass", Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 2043401. Wong, C. C., Qin, Zongyi, Yang, Zhiyu (2008) "The absence of physical aging effects on the surface relaxations of rubbed polystyrene", Eur. Phys. J. E, 25, 291 - 298. Miao, JianYing, Xu, Zuli, Zhang, X. Y., Wang, Ning, Yang, Zhiyu, Sheng, Ping (2007) "Micropumps Based on the Enhanced Electroosmotic Effect of Aluminum Oxide Membranes", Advanced Materials, 19, 4234 - 4237. Shiu, K. P., Qin, Zongyi, Yang, Zhiyu (2007) "The absence of physical aging effects on the relaxation of rubbing-induced birefringence in polystyrene", Eur. Phys. J. E, 24, 385 - 397. Shiu, Kai Pong, Qin, Zongyi, Yang, Zhiyu (2005) "The effects of thermal annealing on the relaxation of rubbing-induced birefringence in polystyrene", Eur. Phys. J. E, 17, 139 - 147. Ho, Kin Ming, Yang, Zhiyu, Zhang, Xixiang, Sheng, Ping (2005) "Measurements of sound transmission through panels of locally resonant materials between impedance tubes", Applied Acoustics, 66, 751-765. Zhang, Weifeng, Qin, Zongyi, Yang, Zhiyu (2005) "Reflectance difference spectroscopy microscope for nanometer step height detection", Journal of Applied Physics, 97, 74314. Qin, Zongyi, Chen, Yonghai, Shiu, K. P., Yang, Z. (2004) "Molecular Segmental Distortion in Rubbed Polystyrene", Macromolecules, 37, 3378.

Xixiang ZHANG Professor (2358 7493 ; [email protected])

PhD, Universitat de Barcelona (1992) Research Scientist, Universitat de Barcelona (1992-97)

Current Research Activities: Magnetoelectronics; macroscopic quantum tunneling of magnetization; magnetocaloric effect and magneto- refrigerants; thin film fabrication by magnetron sputtering; nano-structural materials.

Representative Research Publications: Lortz, Rolf Walter, Zhang, Qucheng, Shi, W, Ye, JT, Qiu, CY, Wang, Zhe, He, HT, Sheng, Ping, Qian, Tiezheng, Tang, Zikang, Wang, N, Zhang, Xixiang, Wang, Jiannong, Chan, Che Ting (2009) "Superconducting characteristics of 4- angstrom carbon nanotube-zeolite composite", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Volume: 106, Issue: 18, Pages: 7299-7303. Gao, JH, Liang, GL, Cheung, JS, Pan, Y, Kuang, Y, Zhao, F, Zhang, Bei, Zhang, Xixiang, Wu, EX, Xu, Bing (2008) "Multifunctional yolk-shell nanoparticles: A potential MRI contrast and anticancer agent", JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Volume: 130, Issue: 35, Pages: 11828-11833. Xu, WJ, Zhang, Bei, Wang, Zhe, Chu, SS, Li, W, Wu, ZB, Yu, RH, Zhang, Xixiang (2008) "Scaling law of anomalous Hall effect in Fe/Cu bilayers", EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B, Volume: 65, Issue: 2, Pages: 233-237. Zhang, X.X., Zhang, B., Yu, S.Y., Liu, Z.H., Xu, W.J., Liu, G.D, Chen, J.L., Cao, Z.X., Wu, G.H. (2007) "Combined giant inverse and normal magnetocaloric effect for room-temperature magnetic cooling", Phys. Rev. B, 76, 132403. Zhang, B, Zhang, X.X., Yu, S.Y., Chen, J.L., Cao, Z.X., Wu, G.H. (2007) "Giant magnetothermal conductivity in the Ni–Mn–In ferromagnetic shape memory alloys", Appl. Phys. Lett., 91, 012510. Du, J., Zhang, B., Zheng, R.K., Zhang, X.X. (2007) "Memory effect and spin-glass-like behavior in Co-Ag granular films", Phys. Rev. B, 75, 014415. Zheng, R.K., Gu, H.W., Xu, B., Fung, K.K., Zhang, X.X., Ringer, S.P. (2006) "Self-Assembly and Self-Orientation of Truncated Octahedral Magnetite Nanocrystals", Adv. Mater., 18, 2418–2421. Zheng, R.K., Gu, H.W, Xu, B., Zhang, X.X. (2006) "The origin of the non-monotonic field dependence of the blocking temperature in magnetic nanoparticles", Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter, 18 (26): 5905-5910.

Zhaoqing ZHANG Professor (2358 7482 ; [email protected]) PhD, University of Pennsylvania (1974) Research Professor, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica (1986-89)

Current Research Activities: Many-body theory; fractals; electronic structure and transport properties in disordered systems; wave propagation and localization in random media; mesoscopic physics; photonic crystals; band gaps for acoustic and elastic waves; nonlinear photonic crystals.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Transport of localized waves in the weakly localized regime RGC - General Research Fund HK$250,000 01 Oct 2006 Elastic metamaterials and some associated novel phenomena RGC - General Research Fund HK$463,688 01 Sep 2008

Representative Research Publications: Lai, Yun, Chen, Huanyang, Zhang, Zhao-Qing, Chan, Che Ting (2009) "Complementary Media Invisibility Cloak that Cloaks Objects at a Distance Outside the Cloaking Shell", Phys. Rev. Lett., 102, 093901. Zhang, Z. Q., Chabanov, A. A., Cheung, S. K., Wong, C. H., Genack, A. Z. (2009) "Dynamics of localized waves: Pulsed microwave transmission in quasi-one-dimensional media", Phys. Rev. B, 79, 144203. Lai, Yun, Ng, J, Chen, Huanyang, Han, Dezhuan, Xiao, Jun Jun, Zhang, Zhao-Qing, Chan, Che Ting (2009) "The optical transformation of an object into another object", Phys. Rev. Lett., 102, 253902. Wu, Ying, Lai, Yun, Wan, Y, Zhang, Zhao-Qing (2008) "Wave propagation in strongly scattered random elastic media: Energy equilibration and crossover from ballistic to diffusive behavior", Phys. Rev. B, 77, 125125. Wu, Ying, Lai, Yun, Zhang, Zhao-Qing (2007) "Effective medium theory for elastic metamaterials in two dimensions", Phys. Rev. B, 76, 205313. Wu, Ying, Li, J., Zhang, Zhao-Qing, Chan, Che-Ting (2006) "A dynamical effective medium theory for magnetodielectric composite: Beyond the long-wavelengthlimit", Phys. Rev. B, 74, 085111. Cheung, Sai-Kit, Zhang, Zhao-Qing (2005) "The scaling behavior of classical wave transport in mesoscopic media at the localization transition", Phys. Rev. B, 72, 235102. Xie, Ping, Zhang, Zhao-Qing (2005) "Large enhancement of third-harmonic generation induced by coupled gap solitons in Chi(3) nonlinear photonic crystals", Phys. Rev., E 71, 026610.

Bradley A FOREMAN Associate Professor (2358 7527 ; [email protected])

PhD, Cornell University (1995)

Current Research Activities: Theoretical semiconductor physics: electrons and phonons in low- dimensional systems; effects of strain in optoelectronic devices; envelope- function theory; high-speed semi- conductor lasers; quantum mechanics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Optical gauge potentials and their effects in cold atoms RGC - General Research Fund HK$293,700 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Song, Jianjun, Foreman, Bradley A, Liu, X.-J., Oh, C. H. (2008) "Wave function engineering and circulating spin current in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates", Europhysics Letters, Vol. 84, Article no. 20012, pp. 1-6. Foreman, Bradley A. (2007) "Accurate quadratic-response approximation for the self-consistent pseudopotential of semiconductor nanostructures", Physical Review B, Vol. 76, article no. 045326, pp. 1-14. Foreman, Bradley A. (2007) "Valence-band mixing in first-principles envelope-function theory", Physical Review B, Vol. 76, article no. 045327, pp. 1-16. Foreman, Bradley A. (2007) "Choosing a basis that eliminates spurious solutions in k.p theory", Physical Review B, Vol. 75, Article No. 235331, pp. 1-14. Foreman, Bradley A. (2006) "First-principles effective-mass Hamiltonian for semiconductor nanostructures in a magnetic field", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Volume 18, pages 1335-1345. Foreman, Bradley A. (2005) "First-principles envelope-function theory for lattice-matched semiconductor heterostructures", Physical Review B, Volume 72, article 165345, pages 1-23. Foreman, Bradley A. (2005) "Quadratic response theory for spin-orbit coupling in semiconductor heterostructures", Physical Review B, Volume 72, article 165344, pages 1-19. Foreman, Bradley Alan (2002) "Consequences of local gauge symmetry in empirical tight-binding theory", Physical Review B, Vol. 66, article 165212, pp. 1-22.

Kwok Kwong FUNG Senior Lecturer (2358 7473 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Bristol (1979) Research Professor and Deputy Director, Beijing Laboratory of Electron Microscopy (1985-91)

Current Research Activities: Characterization of crystal structures and crystal defects by transmission electron microscopy; semiconductor nanostructures; epitaxial passive oxide films on nano-particles of metals.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Helium liquefier, compressor and purifier system UGC Miscellaneous HK$5,909,000 01 Mar 2009

Representative Research Publications: Rao, Jiancun, Zhang, Xixiang, Qin, Boxiong, Fung, Kwok Kwong (2003) "High resolution transmission electron microscopy study of epitaxial passive films on nanocubes of chromium", Philosophical Magazine Letters, Vol. 83(6), pp. 395-401. Li, Zongquan, Chen, Jiuling, Zhang, Xixiang, Li, Yongdan, Fung, K.K. (2002) "Catalytic synthesized carbon nanostructures from methane using nanocrystalline Ni", Carbon, 40, 409-415. Fung, K.K. (2002) "Transmission electron microscopy study of epitaxial passive oxide films on nanoparticles of metals", J. Chinese Elec. Microsc. Soc., 21, 247-252. Zhang, Xixiang, Qin, B.X., Wen, G.H., Kwok, Y.S., Fung, K.K. (2001) "Magnetic colloids composed of metal nanoparticles of Fe", Materials Science & Engineering C, C16, 119-21. Wang, X.S., Zhai, G., Yang, J., Wang, L., Hu, Y., Li, Z., Tang, J.C., Wang, X., Fung, K.K., Cue, Nelson (2001) "Nitridation of Si(111)", Surf. Sci., 494, 83-94. Wang, Ning, Fung, Kwok Kwong, Wang, S, Yang, Sihe (2001) "Oxide-assisted nucleation and growth of copper sulphide nanowire arrays", Journal of Crystal Growth, 233, 226-232.

Nian LIN Associate Professor (2358 7494 ; [email protected] ; http://www.phys.ust.hk/phnlin/) PhD, HKUST (1997) Research group leader (1999-2007), molecular nanostructures group, Nanoscale Science Department, Max-Planck- Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany

Current Research Activities: (1) Design supramolecular self-assembly at solid surfaces in ultra-high vacuum conditions in aim of fabricating low-dimensional supramolecular nanomaterials. (2) Study the physical/chemical properties of these novel systems, e.g., molecular magnetism, nanoporosity, biomimetic catalysts and supramolecular host-guest recognition, by means of low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy. (3)Excitation and characterization of single chemical bonds by means of low-temperature STM/STS

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Fabrication and characterization of two-dimensional supramolecular coordination nanostructures RGC - General Research Fund HK$668,417 01 Jan 2009 Scanning tunneling microscopy: theory applied to nanostructure analysis RGC - General Research Fund HK$280,000 01 Jan 2009 Investigation of adsorption of siloles molecules at Cu(111) surfaces Germany / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$27,800 01 Jan 2009 Investigation of σ*-π* Conjugation and Monolayer Growth Mechanism of Siloles Molecules RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$170,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Shi, Ziliang, Lin, Nian (2009) "Porphyrin-Based Two-Dimensional Coordination Kagome Lattice Self-Assembled on a Au(111) Surface", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 5376-5377. Ning, Yuesheng, Jiang, Jun, Shi, Ziliang, Fu, Qiang, Liu, Jianzhao, Luo, Yi, Tang, Benzhong, Lin, Nian (2009) "Single Molecule's Conductance Depending On Its Orientation", J. Phys. Chem. C., 113, 26. Lin, Nian, Stepanow, Sebastian, Ruben, Mario, Barth, Johannes (2009) "Surface-Confined Supramolecular Coordination Chemistry", Top. Curr. Chem., 287, 1-44. Lin, Nian, Stepanow, Sebastian, Barth, Johannes (2008) "Modular assembly of low-dimensional coordination architectures on metal surfaces", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, vol. 20, page 184002-184016.

Iam Keong SOU Associate Professor (2358 7476 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Illinois, Chicago (1990)

Current Research Activities: Thin film growth by molecular beam epitaxy; II-VI semiconductor quantum structures; magnetic nano-structures; UV and visible optoelectronic devices; structural and transport properties of thin films.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Ordered semiconductor nanowires on a dislocation network RGC - General Research Fund HK$545,000 01 Sep 2007 A novel nanotrench template: control of its ordering and its use in surface plasmon resonance coupling RGC - General Research Fund HK$668,417 01 Jan 2009 ZnMgS based UV flame detectors for fire-safety applications Science and Technology Development Fund, Macau Special Administrative Region HK$900,995 01 Sep 2008 Representative Research Publications: Wang, G, Lok, S K, Chan, S K, Wang, C, Wong, G K L, Sou, I K (2009) "The formation of an aligned 1D nanostructure on annealed Fe/ZnSe bilayers.", Nanotechnology, vol.20, no.21, pp. 215607 (4 ). Wang, C, Zhang, B, You, B, Lok, S K, Chan, S K, Zhang, X X, Wong, G K L, Sou, I K (2008) "Competitive antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic coupling in a CrSe/Fe/GaAs(111)B structure.", Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 104, no. 2, pp. 023916 (7). Cai, Y, Wong, T L, Chan, S K, Sou, I K, Su, D S, Wang, N (2008) "Growth behaviors of ultrathin ZnSe nanowires by Au- catalyzed molecular-beam epitaxy.", Applied Physics Letters, vol.93, no.23, pp. 233107 (3 ). Chan, S K, Lok, S K, Wang, G, Cai, Y, Wang, Y J, Wang, N, Sou, I K (2008) "Formation mechanism of nanotrenches induced by mobile catalytic nanoparticles", Applied Physics Letters, vol.92, pp. 183102-1-3. Cai, Yuan, Chan, Siu Keung, Sou, Iam Keong, Chan, Yu Fai, Su, Dang Sheng, Wang, Ning (2007) "Temperature dependent growth direction of ultrathin ZnSe Nanowires", Small, vol. 3, No. 1, page 111-115. Chan, S. K., Cai, Y., Wang, N., Sou, I. K. (2006) "Control of growth orientation for epitaxially grown ZnSe nanowires", Applied Physics Letters,, vol.88, 13108-1-3. Cai, Yuan, Chan, Siu Keung, Sou, Iam Keong, Chan, Yu Fai, Su, Dang Sheng, Wang, Ning (2006) "The size-dependent growth direction of ZnSe nanowires", Advanced Materials, Vol. 18, 109-114. Chan, S.K., Liu, H.J., Chan, C.T., Zhang, Z.Q., Ge, W.K., Sou, I.K. (2005) "Te antisite incorporation in ZnSTe thin films", Physical Review B - Condensed Matter., vol 71, pp 195421, 1-5.

Kwok Yip SZETO Associate Professor (2358 7479 ; [email protected] ; http://web.phys.ust.hk/index.php? option=com_akostaff&Itemid=88&func=fullview&staffid=109&catid=74)

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1985) Assistant Professor of Physics, York University (1987-91)

Current Research Activities: 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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Interdisciplinary research on the energy landscape of complex systems using networks RGC - General Research Fund HK$279,500 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Chan, Ching King, Szeto, Kwok Yip (2009) "Decay of Invincible Cells of Cooperators in the Evolutionary Prisoner's Dilemma Game", EvoStar 2009 The main European events on Evolutionary Computation, Tubingen, Germany, 2009 April, 15-17, LNCS 5484, pp. 243-252, 2009, M. Giacobini et al. (Eds.)Springer-Verlag. Zhu, Wei, Wang, Zhengfei, Shi, Qinwei, Szeto, Kwok Yip, Chen, Jie, Hou, J.G. (2009) "Electronic Structure of Gapped Graphene with Coulomb Potential", Physical Review B 1. W. Zhu, M. L. Liang, Q. W. Shi, K. Y. Szeto, J. Chen, J. G. Hou;, Volume 79, p155430 (2009). Szeto, Kwok Yip, Zhang, Jian (2006) "Adaptive Genetic Algorithm and Quasi-Parallel Genetic Algorithm: Application to low- dimensional Physics", I. Lirkov, S. Margenov, and J. Wasniewski (Eds.): LSSC 2005, June 2005, LNCS3743, pp.189-196, 2006. Springer-Verlag. Ma, Chun Wai, Szeto, Kwok Yip (2006) "Linear relation on the correlation in complex networks", Physical Review E, 73,047101(2006). Guo, Zizheng, Szeto, Kwok Yip (2005) "Damage spreading in two-dimensional trivalent cellular structures with competing Glauber and Kawasaki dynamics", Physical Review E, 71,066115. Szeto, Kwok Yip, Fu, Xiiujun, Tam, Wing Yim (2002) "Universal Topological Properties of Two-dimensional Cellular Patterns", Phys.Rev. Lett., 138302-1 -138302-3. Tam, W. Y., Zeitek, R., Szeto, K. Y., Stavans, J. (1997) "First-Passage Exponent in Two-Dimensions: Soap Froth vs. the Potts Model", Phys. Rev. Letters, 78, 1588-1591. Aste, T., Szeto, K. Y., Tam, W. Y. (1996) "Statistical properties and Shell analysis in random cellular structures", Phys. Rev, E54, 5482-5492.

Jiannong WANG Associate Professor (2358 7497 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Bristol (1990)

Current Research Activities: Physics of semiconductor low-dimensional structures; magneto-transport and magneto-optical properties; fabrication of semiconductor nanostructures; novel device applications.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Low-temperature transport properties of metallic ferromagnetic GaMnAs RGC - General Research Fund HK$707,690 01 Jan 2007 Investigation of the physical properties of fluorine ions in the III-nitride material systems RGC - General Research Fund HK$343,700 01 Jan 2009 Towards a THz laser based on cyclotron emission France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$30,600 01 Jan 2009 Nano-spintronics - quantum control of electron spins in semiconductors RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$620,000 01 Mar 2009

Representative Research Publications: Ding, Lu, Li, Baikui, He, Hongtao, Ge, Weikun, Wang, Jiannong, Ning, J.Q., Dai, X.M., Ling, C.C., Xu, S.J. (2009) "Classification of bound exciton complexes in bulk ZnO by magnetophotoluminescence spectroscopy", J. Applied Physics, 105, 053511. He, Hongtao, Wang, Yuqi, Ge, Weikun, Wang, Jiannong (2008) "Discrete current steps and period-adding bifurcations observed in an ac-driven GaAs/AlAs semiconductor superlattice", Semicond. Sci. Technol., 23, 085003. Li, Baikui, Ge, Weikun, Wang, Jiannong, Chen, Kevin J. (2008) "Persistent photoconductivity and carrier transport in AlGaN/GaN heterostructures treated by fluorine plasma", Appl. Phys. Lett., 92, 082105. He, Hongtao, Wang, Yuqi, Ge, Weikun, Wang, Jiannong (2008) "Phase-dependent bistable transitions in a weakly-coupled GaAs/AlAs superlattice", New Journal of Physics, 10, 033019. Li, Baikui, Wang, Chao, Sou, Iam Keong, Ge, Weikun, Wang, Jiannong (2007) "Anomalous photocurrent observed in a Fe-ZnS:Fe Schottky diode", Appl. Phys. Lett., 91, 172104. Zhao, Lijuan, Zhang, Bei, Pang, Qi, Yang, Shihe, Zhang, Xixiang, Ge, Weikun, Wang, Jiannong (2006) "Chemical synthesis and magnetic properties of dilute magnetic ZnTe:Cr crystals", Appl. Phys. Lett., 89, 092111. Yang, Chunlei, He, Hongtao, Ding, Lu, Cui, L.J., Zeng, Y.P., Wang, Jiannong, Ge, Weikun (2006) "Spectral dependence of spin photocurrent and current-induced spin polarization in an InGaAs/InAlAs two-dimensional electron gas", Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 96 186605. Pang, Qi, Zhao, Lijuan, Cai, Yuan, Nguyen, Duc Phuong, Regnault, N., Wang, Ning, Yang, Shihe, Ge, Weikun, Ferreira, Robson, Bastard, Gerald, Wang, Jiannong (2005) "CdSe nano-tetrapods: controllable synthesis, structure analysis, and electronic and optical properties", Chemistry Materials, 17, pp5263-5267.

Weijia WEN Associate Professor (2358 7979 ; [email protected]) PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1995)

Current Research Activities: Soft condensed matter physics; electro- rheological and magnetorheological fluids; field-induced pattern and structure transition; thin film physics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Characterizing enhanced EM wave transmission of functional materials RGC - General Research Fund HK$317,000 01 Jan 2008 Fabrication and characterization of magnetically responsive elastic microspheres RGC - General Research Fund HK$668,417 01 Jan 2009 Wave functional materials National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$799,000 01 Jan 2008 "KAUST-HKUST Research Collaboration"-"Out of Kingdom" for micro/nanofluidics HKUST R and D Corporation Ltd. HK$220,000 01 Sep 2008

Representative Research Publications: Chen, H, Hou, B, Chen, S, An, X, Wen, Weijia, Chan, Che Ting (2009) "Design and Experimental Realization of a Broadband Transformation Media Field Rotator at Microwave Frequencies", Phys. Rev. Lett., 102, 183903. Gong, Xiuqing, Peng, Suili, Wen, Weijia, Sheng, Ping (2009) "Design and Fabrication of Magnetically Functionalized Core/Shell Microspheres for Smart Drug Delivery", Adv. Funct. Mater., 19, 292. Niu, Xize, Zhang, Mingying, Wu, Jinbo, Wen, Weijia, Sheng, Ping (2009) "Generation and manipulation of 'smart' droplets", Soft Matter, 5, 576. Gong, Xiuqing, Wen, Weijia, Sheng, Ping (2009) "Microfluidic fabrication of porous polymer microspheres: Dual reactions in single droplet", Langmuir, 25, 7072. Zhang, Jianwei, Gong, Xiuqing, Liu, Chun, Wen, Weijia, Sheng, Ping (2008) "Electrorheological Fluid Dynamics", Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 194503. Zhang, Mingying, Wu, Jinbo, Niu, Xize, Wen, Weijia, Sheng, Ping (2008) "Manipulations of microfluidic droplets using electrorheological carrier fluid", Phys. Rev. E, 78, 066305. Hou, B, Wen, Weijia (2008) "Transmission resonances of electromagnetic wave through metallic gratings: phase and field characterizations", Optics Express, 16, 17098. Mei, Jun, Hou, Bo, Ke, MZ, Peng, SS, Jia, H, Liu, ZY, Shi, Jing, Wen, Weijia, Sheng, Ping (2008) "Acoustic wave transmission through a bull's eye structure", Applied Physics Letters.

Kam Sing WONG Associate Professor (2358 7475 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Oxford (1987)

Current Research Activities: Ultrashort pulse lasers; time-resolved spectroscopy; semiconductor and polymer physics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Ultrafast optical switching and tri-stability in one- and two-dimensional photonic crystals RGC - General Research Fund HK$317,000 01 Sep 2007 Fabrication of photonic crystals by two-photon single-beam holographic lithography and infiltration of the polymer photonic crystal templates by high refractive index semiconductors using electrodeposition method RGC - General Research Fund HK$552,495 01 Sep 2008 Fabrication of photonic crystals with defects using phase-controlled one-step holographic lithography RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,160,437 01 Sep 2009

Representative Research Publications: Zhong, Yongchun, Djurisic, Aleksandra B., Hsu, Yuk Fan, Wong, Kam Sing, Brauer, Gerhard, Ling, Chi Chung, Chan, Wai Kin (2008) "Exceptionally long exciton photoluminescence lifetime in ZnO tetrapods", J. Phys. Chem. C, 112, 16286. Cheng, Kin Hei, Zhong, Yongchun, Xie, Bo Yu, Dong, Yong Qiang, Hong, Yuning, Sun, Jing Zhi, Tang, Benzhong, Wong, Kam Sing (2008) "Fabrication and ultraviolet lasing in PMMA/TPE polymer nanowires", J. Phys. Chem. C, 112, 17507. Su, Hui Min, Ye, Jian Ting, Tang, Zi Kang, Wong, Kam Sing (2008) "Resonant second-harmonic generation in monosized and aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes", Physical Review B, 77, 125428. Sun, T, Qiu, Z. R., Su, H. M., Zhang, X. D., Zhang, Z.Q., Wong, G.K.L., Wong, K.S. (2007) "Dynamics of random laser and coherent backscattering of light from ZnO amplifying random medium", Appl. Phys. Lett., 91, 241110. Tong, Hui, Hong, Yuning, Dong, Yongqiang, Ren, Yan, Haussler, Matthias, Lam, Jacky W. L., Wong, Kam Sing, Tang, Ben Zhong (2007) "Color-tunable aggregation-induced emission of a butterfly-shaped molecule comprising a pyran skeleton and two cholesteryl wings", J. Phys. Chem. B, 111, 2000-2007. Zhong, Yongchun, Wu, Lijun, Su, Humin, Wong, Kam Sing, Wang, Hezhou (2006) "Fabrication of photonic crystals with tunable surface orientation by holographic lithography", Optics Express, 14 6837-6842. Wu, Lijun, Tong, Woody Y. Y., Zhong, Yongchun, Wong, Kam Sing, Hua, Jianli, Haubler, Matthias, Lam, Jacky W. L., Tang, Ben Zhong (2006) "Photo-cross-linkable light-emitting polymers for holographic patterning", Appl. Phys. Lett., 89, 191109-1-3. Zhong, Yongchun, Wong, Kam Sing, Zhang, Weili, Look, D.C. (2006) "Radiative recombination and ultra-long exciton photoluminescence lifetime in GaN freestanding film via two-photon excitation", Appl. Phys. Lett., 89, 022108-1-3.

Tian Wen CHEN Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 7984 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Shengwang DU Assistant Professor (2358 7486 ; [email protected] ; http://www.phys.ust.hk/dusw)

PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1999-2005 Postdoctoral scholar, Stanford University, 2005-2008

Current Research Activities: Laser cooling and trapping; Atom Optics; Quantum Optics; Linear & Nonlinear Optics with cold atoms

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Narrow-linewidth tunable diode laser system RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$300,000 10 Aug 2008

Representative Research Publications: Du, Shengwang, Wen, Jianming, Belthangady, Chinmay (2009) "Temporally shaping biphoton wave packets with periodically modulated driving fields", Physica Review A, Vol. 79, Issue 4, pp. 043811. Du, Shengwang, Oh, Eun (2009) "Three-wire magnetic trap for direct forced evaporative cooling", Physical Review A, Vol. 79, Issue 1, pp. 013407. Jeong, Heejeong, Du, Shengwang (2009) "Two-way transparency in the light-matter interaction: optical precursors with electromagnetically induced transparency", Physical Review A, Vol. 79, Issue 1, pp. 011802(R). Du, Shengwang, Wen, Jianming, Rubin, Morton H. (2008) "Narrowband biphoton generation near atomic resonance", Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 25, Issue 12, pp. C98-C108. Du, Shengwang, Belthangady, Chinmay, Kolchin, Pavel, Yin, G. Y., Harris, S. E. (2008) "Observation of optical precursors at the biphoton level", Optics Letters, Vol. 33, Issue 18, pp. 2149-2151. Wen, Jianming, Du, Shengwang, Rubin, Morton H., Oh, Eun (2008) "Two-photon beating experiment using biphotons generated from a two-level system", Physical Review A, Vol. 78, Issue 3, pp. 033801.

Yilong HAN Assistant Professor (2358 7492 ; [email protected] ; http://www.phys.ust.hk/yilong/)

PhD, University of Chicago (2003) Postdoctoral fellow; University of Pennsylvania; 2004-2007

Current Research Activities: Experimental soft matter physics and statistical mechanics. Digital video microscopy investigation of interactions, dynamics and phase behavior of colloids; pattern formation and geometrical frustration in model systems.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Video Microscopy Investigation of Phase Behavior in Temperature-Sensitive Colloids RGC - General Research Fund HK$668,417 01 Jan 2009 Phase behaviors and geometrical frustration in colloids RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$200,000 01 Oct 2007 Experimental Study of Motions of Nano- and Micro-particles: from Ellipsoids in One Dimensional Channels to Spheres in Low Temperature Quantum Fluids UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$500,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Han, Yilong, Shokef, Yair, Alsayed, Ahmed, Yunker, Peter, Lubensky, Tom, Yodh, Arjun (2008) "Geometric frustration in buckled colloidal monolayers.", Nature, volume 456, page 898-903.

Chi Wai LAI Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 7970 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Rolf Walter LORTZ Assistant Professor (2358 7491 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Thermodynamic and transport properties of superconductors and materials with novel electronic properties under extreme conditions: high pressure and strain, high magnetic fields, micro- and nanoscopic samples, thin films.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Thermodynamic investigation of superconductivity in carbon nanotubes by means of high resolution AC specific heat experiments RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$300,000 01 Oct 2008 Thermodynamic and transport properties of unconventional superconductors under the influence of high pressure RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$128,188 01 Nov 2008 High-resolution thermal expansion and magnetic torque experiments on superconducting carbon nanotubes UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$159,120 01 Nov 2008 MPMS@SQUID VSM for characterization of magnetic nanomaterials UGC Miscellaneous HK$2,344,000 08 Aug 2008

Representative Research Publications: Lortz, Rolf, Zhang, Qiucen, Shi, Wu, Ye, Jiang Ting, Qiu, Chunyin, Wang, Zhe, He, Hongtao, Sheng, Ping, Qian, Tiezheng, Tang, Zikang, Wang, Ning, Zhang, Xixiang, Wang, Jiannong, Chan, Che Ting (2009) "Superconducting characteristics of 4-A carbon nanotube-zeolite composite", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 106,18,7299- 7303. Atmospheric, Marine & Coastal Environment Program

Paul James HARRISON, Professor and Director of AMCE Program

William F BARRON, Visiting Scholar

Arthur P S LAU, Assistant Research Scientist, Institute for Environment and Sustainable Development, and Applied Technology Center Paul James HARRISON Professor and Director of AMCE Program (2358 7348 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Washington (1974) Assistant Professor (1975-81) Associate Professor (1981-86) and Professor (1986-2002), University of British Columbia, Canada

Current Research Activities: Biological oceanography: ecophysiology of marine phytoplankton; primary productivity; nutrient uptake kinetics; eutrophication/nutrient pollution.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Collaboration and exchange programs between UST and PML Croucher Foundation HK$45,000 25 Jul 2009 Dynamics of dissolved oxygen (potential hypoxia) and benthic release of nutrients in the bottom layer: Effects of light penetration and tidal shoaling in shallow vs deep areas in Hong Kong waters RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,077,914 01 Jul 2005 Bacterial consumption of dissolved oxygen and nutrient remineralization of phytoplankton organic matter of different N:P ratios RGC - General Research Fund HK$837,300 01 Jul 2006

Representative Research Publications: Harrison, Paul J. (2008) "A comparative overview of weathering intensity and HCO3 flux in the world's major rivers with emphasis on the Changjiang, Huanghe, Zhujiang (Pearl) and Mississippi Rivers", Cont. Shelf Res, 28: 1538-1549. Harrison, Paul J. (2008) "Comparison of hypoxia among four river-coastal systems, the Changjinag (Yangtze), Mississippi, Pearl and Rhone rivers", Cont. Shelf Res, 28: 1521-1537. Harrison, Paul J. (2008) "Coupled changes in the cell morphology and the elemental (C, N, and Si) composition of the pennate diatom Pseudo-nitzschia due to iron deficiency", Limnol. Oceanogr, 52: 2270-2284. Harrison, Paul J. (2008) "Identification and assessment of domoic acid production in oceanic Pseudo-nitzschia (Bacillariophyceae) from iron-limited waters in the northeast subarctic Pacific", J. Phycol, 44: 650-661. Harrison, Paul J. (2008) "Influence of the Pearl River estuary and vertical mixing in Victoria Harbor on water quality in relation to eutrophication impacts in Hong Kong waters", Marine Pollution Bulletin, 54: 646-656. Harrison, Paul J. (2008) "Nitrogen over enrichment in sub-tropical Pearl River estuarine coastal waters: Possible causes and consequences", Cont. Shelf Res., 28: 1435-1442. Harrison, Paul J. (2008) "Ocean urea fertilization for carbon credits poses high ecological risks", Mar. Poll. Bull, 56: 1049-1056. Harrison, Paul J. (2008) "Physical-biological coupling in the Pearl River Estuary", Cont. Shelf Res, 28: 1405-1415.

William F BARRON Visiting Scholar (2358 6675 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Arthur P S LAU Assistant Research Scientist, Institute for Environment and Sustainable Development, and Applied Technology Center (2358 6915 ; [email protected])

PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(1995)

Current Research Activities: Bioaerosols; environmental biomonitoring; biomarkers; environmental education.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Biomarker approach in characterizing the bacteria loading in ambient aerosols in the Pearl River Delta RGC - General Research Fund HK$427,699 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Leung, W.K., Lau, Arthur P.S., Yeung, King Lun (2009) "Bactericidal and sporicidal performance of a polymer-encapsulated chlorine-coated surface", Journal of Applied Microbiology, vol 106, 1463-1472. Cheng, Jessica Y.W., Chan, Chak Keung, Lee, C.-T., Lau, Arthur P.S. (2009) "Carbon content of common airborne fungal species and fungal contribution to aerosol organic carbon in a subtropical city", Atmospheric Environment, vol 43, 2781-2787. Lee, Alex K.Y., Li, Yong Jie, Lau, Arthur P.S., Chan, Chak Keung (2008) "A re-evaluation on the atmospheric significance of octanal vapor uptake by acidic particles: roles of particle acidity and gas-phase octanal concentration", Aerosol Science and Technology, vol 42, no. 12, 992-1000. Li, Yong Jie, Lee, Alex K.Y., Lau, Arthur P.S., Chan, Chak Keung (2008) "Accretion reactions of octanal catalyzed by sulfuric acid: product identification, reaction pathways, and atmospheric implications", Environmental Science and Technology, vol 42, no. 19, 7138-7145. Cheng, Jessica Y.W., Lau, Arthur P.S., Fang, Ming (2008) "Assessment of the atmospheric fungal prevalence through field ergosterol measurement I - Determination of the specific ergosterol content in common ambient fungal spores and yeast cells", Atmospheric Environment, vol 42, 5526-5533. Cheng, Jessica Y.W., Lau, Arthur P.S., Fang, Ming (2008) "Assessment of the atmospheric fungal prevalence through field ergosterol measurement II: Establishing the conversion factor", Atmospheric Environment, vol 42, 5534-5541. Lau, Arthur P.S. (2008) "Bioaerosols - Significance, Assessment and Impact in the Atmosphere", Conference on Climate and Environment in the Pearl River Delta City Cluster, Guangzhou,PRC, January 7-9, 2008. Cheng, Jessica Y.W., Lau, Arhtur P.S., Fang, Ming (2007) "Fungal Contribution To The Ambient Organic Carbon", European Aerosol Conference 2007, Salzburg, September 9-14, 2007. [CBME] [CIVL] [CSE] [ECE] [IELM] [MECH]

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONIC AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Edmond KO, Acting Head of Department and Adjunct Professor

Chi Ming CHAN, Chair Professor

Ka Ming NG, Chair Professor

Chak Keung CHAN, Professor

Guohua CHEN, Professor

Furong GAO, Professor

I-Ming HSING, Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Director, Bioengineering Graduate Program

Gordon MCKAY, Professor

Yongli MI, Professor

Ming FANG, Adjunct Professor

Otto C C LIN, Adjunct Professor

John P BARFORD, Associate Professor and Director, Bioengineering Graduate Program

Ping GAO, Associate Professor

Xijun HU, Associate Professor

David Chi-Wai HUI, Associate Professor

King Lun YEUNG, Associate Professor

Ying CHAU, Assistant Professor

Henry H N LAM, Assistant Professor

Kathy Q LUO, Adjunct Assistant Professor Edmond KO Acting Head of Department and Adjunct Professor (2358 8355 ; [email protected])

PhD, Stanford University (1980)

Current Research Activities: Sol-gel preparation of solid materials; heterogeneous catalysis; acidity of mixed oxides; engineering education.

Chi Ming CHAN Chair Professor (2358 7125 ; [email protected])

PhD, California Institute of Technology (1979) Project Manager and Senior Scientist, Raychem Corporation (1979-92)

Current Research Activities: Surface and interface science; polymer blends and alloys; conductive composite polymers; crosslinking of polymers; adhesion phenomena.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The effects of a non-crystalline component on the chain folding and lamellar thickness of monodisperse oligomers RGC - General Research Fund HK$343,700 01 Jan 2009 The effects of particle size, coating coverage and interfacial strength on the thermal and mechanical properties of calcium carbonate powder filled polypropylene and low-density polyethylene RGC - General Research Fund HK$669,000 01 Jan 2007 Surface modification of halloysite nanotubes and its effects on the mechanical and thermal properties of the nanocomposites RGC - General Research Fund HK$400,400 01 Jan 2008 To enhance the attachment of cells, proteins and peptides on microplates by surface treatment for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) applications Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited & Industries HK$2,402,350 01 Jan 2009 Multi-technique surface analysis system including imaging XPS, AES and UPS UGC Miscellaneous HK$1,798,000 01 Oct 2008 Multi-technique surface analysis system including imaging XPS, AES and UPS UGC - Special Equipment Grant HK$5,992,909 01 Oct 2008

Representative Research Publications: Lin, Yong, Chen, Haiben, Chan, Chi Ming, Wu, Jingshen (2008) "High Impact Toughness Polyethylene/CaCO3 Nanocomposites and the Toughness Mechanism", Macromolecules, 41, 9204-9213. Wang, Yong, Chan, Chi Ming, Ng, Kai Mo, Li, Lin (2007) "What Controls the Lamellar Orientation at the Surface of Polymer Films during Crystallization", Macromolecules, 41, 2548-2553 (2008). Wang, Yong, Chan, Chi-Ming, Jiang, Yong, Li, Lin, Ng, Kai-Mo (2007) "AFM Studies of the Molecular-weight Dependence of Lamellar Growth Kinetics of Polymers near the Glass transition Temperature", Macromolecules, 40, 4002-4008 (2007). Wang, Yong, Chan, Chi-Ming, Li, Lin, Ng, Kai-Mo (2006) "Concentric-Ringed Structures in Polymer Thin Films", Langmuir, 22, 7384-7390 (2006). Cheung, Zhuo-Lin (2005) "Morphology-Driven Surface Segregation in a Blend of Poly(e-caprolactone) and Poly(vinyl chloride)", Langmuir, 21, 7968-7970. Wang, Yong, Chan, Chi-Ming, Yong, Jiang, Li, Lin, Ng, Kai Mo (2004) "Real-time Observation of the Lamellar Branching Induced by an AFM Tip and the Stability of Induced Nuclei", Langmuir, 20, 8220-8223. Lei, Yu-Gao, Chan, Chi-Ming, Li, Jianxiong, Ng, Kai Mo, Jiang, Yong, Li, Lin (2002) "The Birth of an Embryo and Development of the Founding Lamella of Spherulites as Observed by Atomic Force Microscopy", Macromolecules, 35, 6751-6753. Chan, Chi-Ming, Wu, Jingshen, Li, Jina-Xiong, Cheung, Ying-Kit (2002) "Polypropylene/calcium carbonate nanocomposites", Polymer, 43, 2981-2992.

Ka Ming NG Chair Professor (2358 7238 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Houston (1980) Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1980-2000) Visiting Scientist, MIT (1989) Visiting Research Engineer, DuPont Central R&D (1995-96)

Current Research Activities: Development of processes with multiphase reactions, separation and purification using extraction and crystallization, solids processing; applications in manufacture of pharmaceuticals and specialty chemicals.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Development of Nanomization Process for Enhancing the Aqueous 'Solubility' of Organic Compounds RGC - General Research Fund HK$343,700 01 Oct 2008 An integrated approach for chiral resolution by crystallization RGC - General Research Fund HK$484,000 01 Aug 2007 Chinese medicine research and drug development UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$432,900 01 Apr 2008 Research on nanotechnology-enabled products CHEVRON HK$156,000 01 Jan 2006 Processing of nanomaterials, advanced materials and pharmaceuticals research ClearWaterBay Technology, Inc. HK$78,000 01 Feb 2005 Nano and advanced materials for dyes, pigments, and related processes and applications Fong's National Engineering Company Limited HK$500,000 01 Apr 2005 Research on nanotechnology-enabled products UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$3,899 01 Jul 2006 Product and process development of salt and salt-based products Green Salt Group Limited HK$70,000 15 Feb 2003 General research and development of salt production Green Salt Group Limited HK$112,000 10 Jun 2004 Nanotechnology in Energy INERGI Corporation Limited HK$100,000 11 Sep 2006 Solid products and processes Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation HK$788,120 01 Nov 2002 Manufacturing technologies for nanomaterials Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation HK$38,040 15 Mar 2003 Crystallization and solids processing, including integrated manufacturing technologies for nanomaterials Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation HK$408,000 01 Apr 2004 Research on crystallization and solids processing, including integrated manufacturing technologies for nanomaterials Mitsubishi Chemical Research Corporation HK$306,000 01 Apr 2006 Research on air remediation and related issues STL Electronics Limited HK$80,000 01 Dec 2003 Chinese medicine research and drug development UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$432,900 24 Jul 2008 Representative Research Publications: Schroer, Joseph, Ng, Ka Ming (2003) "Process Paths of Kinetically Controlled Crystallization: Enantiomers and Polymorphs", Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 42(10), 2230-2244. Fung, Ka Y., Ng, Ka Ming (2003) "Product-Centered Process Synthesis and Development: Pharmaceutical Tablets and Capsules", AIChE J., 49(5), 1193-1215. Ng, Ka Ming (2002-2003) "Design and Development of Solids Processes-a Systems Engineering Perspective", Powder Tech., 126, 205-210. Singh, Divya, Samant, Ketan, Ng, Ka Ming (2002) "Design of Homogeneous Biphasic Catalytic Processes", AIChE Journal, 48(9), 1991-2005. Kelkar, Vaibhav, Ng, Ka Ming (2002) "Development of Fluidized Catalytic Reactors- Screening and Scale-up", AIChE Journal, 48(7), 1486-1506. Wibowo, Christianto, Samant, Ketan, Ng, Ka Ming (2002) "High-Dimensional Solid-Liquid Phase Diagrams Involving Compounds and Polymorphs", AIChE Journal, 48(10), 2179-2192. Ng, Ka Ming (2002) "Teaching Chemical Engineering to Business and Science Students", Chem. Eng. Edu., 222-225, Summer. Wibowo, Christianto, Ng, Ka Ming (2002) "Workflow for Process Synthesis and Development: Crystallization and Solids Processing", Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 41(16), 3839-3848.

Chak Keung CHAN Professor (2358 7124 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~keckchan)

PhD, California Institute of Technology (1992) Process Engineer, Ralph M Parsons Company (1991-92)

Current Research Activities: Aerosol physics and chemistry; air pollution; light scattering and spectroscopy.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Effects of particle phase state and relative humidity on the heterogeneous aging of organic aerosols RGC - General Research Fund HK$668,417 01 Jan 2009 Air quality research Civic Exchange HK$700,000 01 Jul 2009 Development of an Integrated Platform for Size Segregation and Mechanistic Study of the Toxicity of Ultrafine Particles RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$300,000 30 Jun 2008 Assessment of the allergic and carcinogenic potential of nanoparticles by cellular markers William Mong Institute of Nano Science & Technology HK$70,000 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Fang, Ming, Chan, Chak Keung, Yao, Xiaohong (2009) "A reflective look of the atmospheric particulate pollution in China", Atmospheric Environment, the 50th Anniversary Special Issue, 43, 79-86. Ling, Tze Yan, Chan, Chak Keung (2009) "Partial crystallization and deliquescence of particles containing ammonium sulfate and dicarboxylic acids", J. Geophysical Research - Atmosphere, 113, D14205, doi:10.1029/2008JD009779., 113, D14205, doi:10.1029/2008JD009779. Yeung, Ming, Lee, Alex, Chan, Chak Keung (2009) "Phase transition and hygroscopic properties of internally mixed ammonium sulfate and adipic acid (AS-AA) particles by optical microscopic imaging and Raman Spectroscopy", Aerosol Science and Technology, 43:387-399. Lee, Alex, Li, Yongjie, Lau, Arthur P S, Chan, Chak Keung (2008) "A re-evaluation on the atmospheric significance of octanal vapor uptake by acidic particles: roles of particle acidity and gas-phase octanal concentration”, Aerosol Science and Technology", Aerosol Science and Technology, 42, 992-1000. Li, Yongjie, Lee, Alex, Chan, Chak Keung (2008) "Accretion reactions of octanal catalyzed by sulfuric acid: Product identification, reaction pathways and atmospheric implications", Environmental Science and Technology, 42, 7138-7145. Chan, Chak, Yao, Xiao (2008) "Air Pollution in Mega Cities in China - a Review", Atmospheric Environment, 42, 1-42. Lee, Alex, Ling, Tsz, Chan, Chak (2008) "Understanding hygroscopic growth and phase transformation of aerosols using single particle Raman spectroscopy in an electrodynamic balance", Faraday Discussions, 137, 245 - 263. Wu, Hong, Chan, Man, Chan, Chak (2007) "FTIR characterization of polymorphic transformation of ammonium nitrate", Aerosol Science and Technology, 41, 581-588.

Guohua CHEN Professor (2358 7138 ; [email protected])

PhD, McGill University (1994)

Current Research Activities: Environmental management; industrial wastewater treatment; solid waste treatment; drying of solids.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Fundamental study of -FeOOH coated maghemite nanoparticles for fast adsorption and recovery of Cr(VI) RGC - General Research Fund HK$538,460 01 Jan 2007 Electrochemical Tech. Colour Smart Limited HK$10,000 01 Apr 2008 Lithium ion EV batteries - development and production Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$4,288,900 01 Apr 2009 Nanoparticle materials fabrication UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$12,000 05 Aug 2006 Electrochemical Tech. UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$500 01 Jul 2008 Production of carbon nanotube and CNT application as catalyst support and advanced material for energy storage Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited & Industries HK$4,491,000 01 Apr 2009 Center for green products and processing technologies Nansha Research Centers HK$4,163,588 01 Aug 2007 Nanoparticle materials fabrication Topin Battery (China) Ltd. HK$120,000 05 Aug 2006

Representative Research Publications: Zhang, Huanjun, Chen, Guohua, Bahnemann, Detelf (2009) "Photoelectrocatalytic Materials for Environmental Applications", Journal of Materials Chemistry, 19, 5089-5121. Chen, Guohua, Lau, K.K.S., Gleason, K.K. (2009) "iCVD growth of poly(N-vinylimidazole) and poly(N-vinylimidazole-co-N- vinylpyrrolidone)", Thin Solid Films, 517 (12) 3539-3542. Wang, Wei, Chen, Guohua (2007) "Freeze Drying with Dielectric-Material-Assisted Microwave Heating: Experimental and Theoretical Investigations", AIChE J., 53(12) 3077-3088. Guo, Liang, Chen, Guohua (2007) "High-Quality Diamond Film Deposition on Titanium Substrate using Hot-Filament Chemical Vapor Deposition Method", Diamond and Related Materials, 16: 1530-1540. Wang, Wei, Chen, Guohua, Mujumdar, Arun (2007) "Physical Interpretation of Solids Drying: An Overview on Mathematical Modeling Research", Drying Technology - An International Journal, 25(4) 659-668. Hu, Jing, Chen, Guohua, Lo, Irene (2006) "Selective Removal and Recovery of Various Heavy Metals by Maghemite (γ-Fe2O3) Nanoparticles: performance and mechanism", Journal of Environmental Engineering, 132 (7) 709-715. Chen, Xueming, Chen, Guohua (2004) "Proper HFCVD Conditions for Fabrication of Ti/BDD Electrodes", Journal of Electrochemical Society, 151(4) B214-219. Chen, Guohua (2004) "Electrochemical Technologies in Wastewater Treatment", Separation and purification technology, 38(1) 11- 41. Furong GAO Professor (2358 7139 ; [email protected])

PhD, McGill University (1993) Senior Research Engineer, Moldflow International Ltd (1993-95)

Current Research Activities: Process modeling, control and monitoring; polymer processing;

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Development of an injection molding sensor for through cycle monitoring and control RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,103,700 01 Jan 2008 Polymer processing control and monitoring Jiangsu Shanhu Cable Co., Ltd. HK$360,000 25 Apr 2006 Center for Polymer Processing and Systems (CPPS) Nansha Research Centers HK$6,104,000 01 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications: Liu, Tao, Gao, Furong (2009) "A Generalized Approach for Relay Identification of Non-minimum Phase Processes", Automatica, Vol. 45, pp. 1072-1079. Wang, Youqing, Zhou, Donghu, Gao, Furong (2009) "Generalized Predictive Control of Linear Systems with Actuator Arrearage Faults", Journal of Process Control, Vol. 19, pp. 803-815. Gao, Furong, Yang, Yi (2009) "Injection Molding Control", Injection molding technlogy technlogy and fundamentals, M.R. Kamal, A.I. Isayev, S.J. Liu, page number 0-926, Hanser Publishers, Munich. Yao, Yuan, Gao, Furong (2009) "Phase and transition based batch process modeling and online monitoring", Journal of Process Control, Vol. 19, pp 826-826. Liu, Tao, Gao, Furong, Wang, Youqing (2008) "A systematic approach for on-line identification of second-order process model from relay feedback test", AIChE Journal, Vol. 54, pp. 1560-1578. Lu, Junde, Gao, Furong (2008) "Model migration with inclusive similarity for development of a new process model", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol. 47, pp. 9508-9516. Liu, Tao, Gao, Furong (2008) "Robust step-like identification of low-order process model under nonzero initial conditions and disturbance", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 53, pp. 2690-2695. Yao, Yuan, Gao, Furong (2008) "Subspace Identification for Two-Dimensional Dynamic Batch Process Statistical Monitoring", Chemical Engineering Science, Vol. 63, pp 341-3418.

I-Ming HSING Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Director, Bioengineering Graduate Program (2358 7131 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~kehsing)

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1997)

Current Research Activities: Bioanalytical Microsystem, DNA Detection, Electrochemistry and Fuel Cell

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Electrochemistry based real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technique and its implementation on a microchip platform RGC - General Research Fund HK$538,460 01 Jan 2007 Novel DNA-Aptamer based bioanalytical microsystem UGC - High Impact Area HK$550,000 10 Sep 2005 Center for Bioengineering and Biomedical Devices Nansha Research Centers HK$3,329,000 01 Apr 2007 Electrochemical micromachining technology Raymond Industrial Limited HK$150,000 01 Sep 2005 Mission-Specific Cell Microchips: A Platform Technology for Disease Diagnostics UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$450,000 15 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Chen, W, Zhang, HF, Hsing, I-Ming (2009) "A new photoanode architecture of dye sensitized solar cell based on ZnO nanotetrapods with no need for calcination", ELECTROCHEMISTRY COMMUNICATIONS, Volume: 11, Issue: 5, Pages: 1057-1060. Zhao, Wenting, Lin, Li, Hsing, I-Ming (2009) "Rapid Synthesis of DNA-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles in Salt Solution Using Mononucleotide-Mediated Conjugation", BIOCONJUGATE CHEMISTRY, Volume: 20, Issue: 6, Pages: 1218-1222. Luo, XT, Lee, TMH, Hsing, I-Ming (2008) "Immobilization-free sequence-specific electrochemical detection of DNA using ferrocene-labeled peptide nucleic acid", ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, Volume: 80, Issue: 19, Pages: 7341-7346. Yeung, SSW, Lee, T M H, Hsing, I-Ming (2008) "Electrochemistry-based real-time PCR on a microchip", Analytical Chemistry, Volume 80, Issue 2, Pages 363-368. Zhao, W, Lee, T M H, Hsing, I-M (2007) "Tunable Stabilization of Gold Nanoparticles in Aqueous Solutions by Mononucleotides", Langmuir, 23 (13) : 7143 - 7147 Jun 19 2007. Yeung, S W, Lee, T M H, Cai, H, Hsing, I-M (2006) "A DNA biochip for on-the-spot multiplexed pathogen identification", Nucleic Acids Research, 34 (18) e118 Oct 2006. Yeung, S S W, Lee, T M H, Hsing, I-M (2006) "Electrochemical Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128 (41), 13374-13375, 18 Oct 2006. Cai, Hong, Lee, Ming Hung Thomas, Hsing, I-Ming (2006) "Label-free protein recognition using an aptamer-based impedance measurement assay", Sensors and Actuators B, 114-433-437.

Gordon MCKAY Professor (2358 8412 ; [email protected])

PhD (1970) and DSc (1992), Bradford University Reader, Queen's University, Belfast (1986) Managing Director, CPE (1987-92) Senior Process Specialist, Foster Wheeler (1992-95)

Current Research Activities: Wastewater treatment for dyes and metals using adsorption, ion exchange and ozonation; biopolymers from crab and prawn shells; process design; ions; dioxin removal; MSW processing; production of new adsorbents.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Integrated co-combustion pilot plant Green Island Cement Co. Ltd. HK$600,000 01 Mar 2004 Activated carbon production using char produced by waste tyre pyrolysis in Hong Kong UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$4,585 01 Jul 2008 Activated carbon production using char produced by waste tyre pyrolysis in Hong Kong Global Power & Energy Company Limited HK$146,500 08 May 2007

Representative Research Publications: Lee, Vinci, Cheung, Wai Hong, McKay, Gordon (2008) "PCDD/PCDF reduction by the cocombustion process", Chemosphere, 70, pp. 682-688. Gerente, Claire, Lee, Vinci, Le Cloirec, Pierre, McKay, Gordon (2007) "Application of chitosan for the removal of the metals from wastewaters by adsorption - Mechanisms and model review", Critical Reviews in Envirommental Science and Technology, 37 ( 1 ), pp. 41 - 127. Lam, Koon Fung, Yeung, King Lun, McKay, Gordon (2007) "Efficient approach for Cd2+ and Ni2+ removal and recovery using mesoporous adsorbent with tunable selectivity", Environmental Science and Technology, 41, pp.3329-3334. Cheung, Wai Hong, Lee, Vinci, McKay, Gordon (2007) "Minimizing dioxin emissions from integrated MSW thermal treatment", Environmental Science and Technology, 41, pp.2001-2007. Lam, Koon Fung, Fong, C M, Yeung, King Lun, McKay, Gordon (2007) "Recovery of high purity gold and silver using mesoporous adsorbents", Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis, 170, pp.1969-1974. Cheung, Wai Hung, Lee, Vinci Kwok Choi, McKay, Gordon (2007) "Minimizing Dioxin Emissions from Integrated MSW Thermal Treatment", Environmental Science and Technology, 41, 2001-2007. Lam, Koon Fung, Yeung, King Lun, McKay, Gordon (2007) "Selective Mesoporous Adsorbents for Cr2O72- and Cu2+ Separation", Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 100, 191-201. Lam, Koon Fung, Yeung, King Lun, McKay, Gordon (2006) "A rational approach in the design of selective mesoporous adsorbents", Langmuir, 22, 9632-9641.

Yongli MI Professor (2358 7127 ; [email protected])

PhD, Syracuse University (1991)

Current Research Activities: Bio-templating preparation of nano materials; glass transition of polymer nano particles; functional polymers; high-performance polymer blends; macromolecular condensed state of the single-molecule single chains of polymers.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Construction of DNA 3-D superstructures by DNA self-assembly RGC - General Research Fund HK$538,460 30 Dec 2006 Purification of Phosphorus by a Zero Pollution Zone-Melting Technique RGC - General Research Fund HK$374,539 31 Dec 2008 Development of the self-cleaning polymer surfaces RGC - General Research Fund HK$756,000 31 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications: Zhang, Xueyun, Mi, Yongli (2009) "Dynamics of a Stick-Jump Contact Line of Water Drops on a Strip Surface", LANGMUIR, Volume: 25, Issue: 5, Pages: 3212-3218 Published: MAR 3 2009. Zhu, Jinhao, Wei, Bryan, Yuan, Yuan, Mi, Yongli (2009) "UNIQUIMER 3D, a software system for structural DNA nanotechnology design, analysis and evaluation", NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH, Volume: 37, Issue: 7, Pages: 2164-2175 Published: APR 2009. Wei, Bryan, Cheng, Jie, Luo, Kathy Q, Mi, Yongli (2008) "Capture and release of protein by a reversible DNA-induced sol- gel transition system", ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, Volume: 47, Issue: 2, Pages: 331-333 Published: 2008. Wei, Bryan, Cheng, Jie, Luo, Kathy Q, Mi, Yongli (2008) "Capture and release of protein by a reversible DNA-induced sol- gel transition system", Angew Chemie-International Edition, Volume: 47, Issue: 2, Pages: 331-333, 2008. Lu, Xiaolin, Cheng, Immensee, Mi, Yongli (2007) "Discovery of the bi-layered structure in spin-coated polyacrylamide films on the gold surface", Polymer, Vol: 48, 682-686, Jan 26 2007. Wei, Bryan, Wang, Zhengyu, Mi, Yongli (2007) "Uniquimer: Software of de novo DNA sequence generation for DNA self- assembly - An introduction and the related applications in DNA self-assembly", Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, vol: 4, 133-141, JAN 2007. Wei, Diming, Mi, Yongli (2005) "A new triple crossover triangle (TXT) motif for DNA self-assembly", BIOMACROMOLECULES, volume 6, page 2528-2532. Wei, Diming, Mi, Yongli (2005) "A New Triple Crossover Triangle (TXT) Motif for DNA Self-Assembly", The 11th International Meeting on DNA Computing London, Ontario, Canada, June 6-9, 2005. Ming FANG Adjunct Professor (2358 6916 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Illinois (1970)

Current Research Activities: Air pollution characterization and control; environmental catalysis; coastal water quality monitoring.

Representative Research Publications: Fang, Ming, Chan, Chak Keung, Yao, X.H. (2009) "Managing air quality in a rapidly developing nation: China", Atmospheric Environment, 43, 79-86. Lau, N.T., Chan, Chak Keung, Fang, Ming (2008) "The effect of water on the catalytic reduction of NO and SO2 by CO over La2O2S", Applied Catalysis B, Environmental, 79, 110-116. Lau, N.T., Chan, Chak Keung, Fang, Ming (2008) "The role of SO2 in the decomposition and reduction of NO over lanthanum oxysulfide", Applied Catalysis B: Environment, 97,110-116. Feng, J.L., Guo, Z.G., Chan, Chak K., Fang, Ming (2007) "Properties of organic matter in PM2.5 at Changdao Island, China - A rural site in the transport path of the Asian continental outflow", Atm. Env., 41, 1924-1935, 2007. Yao, X.H., Chan, Chak K., Lau, N.T., Fang, Ming (2007) "Size distributions and formation of submicron particles in vehicle plumes in Hong Kong", Atm. Env., 41, 3328-3338, 2007. Yao, Xiaohong, Chan, Chak K., Lau, N.T., Fang, Ming (2006) "On the time-averaging of ultrafine particle number size spectra in vehicular plumes", Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 4801-07. Yao, Xiaohong, Chan, Chak K., Lau, N.T., Lau, P.S., Fang, Ming (2006) "Possible Sampling Artifact in Real Time Particle Size Distributions Related to Sampling Rate", Aerosol Science & Technology, 40, 1080-89. Feng, J.L., Hu, Min, Chan, Chak K., Fang, Ming, He, Y.L., Tang, X.Y. (2006) "A comparative study of the organic matter in PM2.5 from three Chinese megacities in three different climatic zones", Atmospheric Environment, 40, 3983-3994.

Otto C C LIN Adjunct Professor (2358 6161 ; [email protected])

PhD, Columbia University (1967) Vice-President (1983-88) and President (1988-94), Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan Dean of Engineering and Professor, National Tsing-Hua University (1977-79, 1983-95)

Current Research Activities: Management of R&D and innovation; science-technology and national competitiveness; technology diffusion; polymers for electronics applications.

Representative Research Publications: Lin, Otto C.C. (2003) "Formulation of a Vision; Chemical Engineering in the 21st Century", In: Chemical Engineering: Vision of the World. Editor, R. C. Darton, R.G.H. Prince and D.G. Wood. Elsevier Science B.V, Chapter 6. Lin, O.C.C. (2003) "National Innovation System and the Role of the Institute", Six Countries Programme Conference, Industry Canada, Vancouver, June. John P BARFORD Associate Professor and Director, Bioengineering Graduate Program (2358 7237 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of New South Wales (1979) Associate Professor, University of Sydney (1979-98) Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore (1989)

Current Research Activities: Mathematical modeling of biochemical / wastewater processes; metabolic engineering.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Desulfurication of pyrolysis oil UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$17,500 01 Jul 2008 Desulfurication of pyrolysis oil Global Power & Energy Company Limited HK$35,000 04 Feb 2008

Representative Research Publications: Ip, Alvin, McKay, Gordon, Barford, John (2009) "Reactive Black dye adsorption/desorption onto different adsorbents: Effect of salt, surface chemistry, pore size and surface area", Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 337,32-38. Ip, Alvin, McKay, Gordon, Barford, John (2008) "Adsorption of dissolved Reactive Black dye from aqueous phase onto different adsorbents", CHISA, Prague,Czech Republic,August 2008. Yue, Cui, Barford, John, Renneberg, Reinhard (2007) "Amperometric Determination of Tyrosinase Catecholase Activity with a Screen-printed Electrode", Chemia Analityczna (Chemical Analysis Warsaw), (2007) 52: 5-14. Yue, Cui, Barford, John, Renneberg, Reinhard (2007) "Development of a glucose-6-phosphate biosensor based on coimmobilized p-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase", Biosensors & Bioelectronics, (2007) 22: 2754-2758. Yue, Cui, Barford, John, Renneberg, Reinhard (2007) "Development of a glucose-6-phosphate biosensor based on coimmobilized p-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase", Biosensors & Bioelectronics, (2007) 22: 2754-2758. Yue, Cui, Barford, John, Renneberg, Reinhard (2007) "Development of an L-glutamate biosensor using the coimmobilization of L-glutamate dehydrogenase and p-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase on a Clark-type electrode", Sensors and Actuators B-Chemicals, (2007) 121,2,696-700. Yue, Cui, Barford, John, Renneberg, Reinhard (2007) "Development of an interference-free biosensor for L-glutamate using a bienzyme salicylate hydroxylase/L-glutamate dehydrogenase system", Enzyme and Microbial Technology, (2007) 41,6-7,689-693. Yue, Cui, Barford, John, Renneberg, Reinhard (2007) "Development of an interference-free biosensor for glucose-6- phosphate using a bienzyme-based Clark-type electrode", Sensors and Actuators B-Chemicals, (2007) 123: 696-700.

Ping GAO Associate Professor (2358 7126 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Cambridge (1990)

Current Research Activities: Diffusion in polymers; rheology of liquid crystalline polymers and polymer blends; cold extrusion of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Preparation of high performance Carbon nanotube reinforced TLCP composite fibers RGC - General Research Fund HK$326,211 01 Jan 2009 Development of ternary nanocomposites of carbon nanotube and nano-silver filled epoxy resin for lead-free electronic packaging RGC - General Research Fund HK$804,000 01 Jan 2008 Carbon nanotube composites UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$9,108 08 Nov 2006 Carbon nanotube filled polymer composites UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$12,368 01 Feb 2008 High performance polymer nanocomposite fibers for electronic applications Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited & Industries HK$5,547,391 01 Mar 2008 Carbon nanotube filled polymer composites NXP Semiconductors Hong Kong Limited HK$247,350 01 Feb 2008 Carbon nanotube composites Philips Electronics Hong Kong Limited HK$182,164 08 Nov 2006

Representative Research Publications: Fang, Liming, Gao, Ping, Leng, Yang (2007) "High strength and bioactive hydroxyapatite nano-particles reinforced ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene", Composites Part B: Engineering,, 38 (3) 345-351. Fang, Liming, Gao, Ping, Leng, Yang (2006) "Processing and Mechanical Properties of HA/UHMWPE Nanocomposites", Biomaterials, 27 (20): 3701-3707. Gao, Ping (2006) "Processing: Strong fibers for bullet-proof vests", Advanced Composite Bulletin, Page 8. Ruan, Shilun, Gao, Ping, Yu, Tongxi (2006) "Ultra-Strong Gel-Spun UHMWPE Fibers Reinforced Using Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes", Polymer, 47(5): 1604-1611. Fang, Liming, Leng, Yang, Gao, Ping (2006) "Processing and Mechanical Properties of HA/UHMWPE Nanocomposites", Biomaterials, 27 (20): 3701-3707. Fang, Liming, Leng, Yang, Gao, Ping (2005) "Processing of Hydroxyapatite Reinforced Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene for Biomedical Applications", Biomaterials, 26, 3471-3478. Gao, Ping, Shen, Feng, Chen, Xueming, Chen, Guohua (2005) "Removal of Chromium (VI) From Wastewater by Combined Electrocoagulation and Electrofloatation", Separation and Purification Science and Technology, 43, pp. 117-123. Yang, Zhimou, Gu, Hongwei, Fu, Degang, Gao, Ping, Jing, Kwok Lam, Xu, Bing (2004) "Enzymatic Formation of Supramolecular Hydrogels", Advanced Materials, 16, 1440-1444.

Xijun HU Associate Professor (2358 7134 ; [email protected] ; http://home.ust.hk/~kexhu)

PhD, University of Queensland (1993) Research Officer, University of Queensland (1993-94) Engineer, Guangzhou R&D Base of Biotechnology (1985-88)

Current Research Activities: Development of heterogeneous nano-porous catalyst by chemical vapour deposition (CVD) and its application in wastewater treatment by catalytic wet oxidation, photo-oxidation; Nanocomposite particles of Fe/clay as catalyst for photo-Fenton reaction; Continuous wastewater treatment by catalytic wet oxidation using a trickle bed reactor; Modified MCM-41 materials for efficient storage and rapid release of hydrogen; Multicomponent adsorption equilibrium and kinetics in heterogeneous porous media; Characterization of microporous solids; fabrication of Meso-Structured Crystals for Electrical and Optical Applications.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Development of a Novel TS-1/clay Composite as a Highly Selective and Efficient Catalyst for the Production of Cyclohexanone Oxime RGC - General Research Fund HK$343,700 31 Dec 2008 Development and demostration of key technologies for the green manufacturing of lychee juice products Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology HK$53,266 01 Jul 2009

Representative Research Publications: Yip, Alex Chi Kin, Lam, Frank Leung Yuk, Hu, Xijun, Li, Ping, Yuan, Wei Kang (2009) "Study on the Synthesis of Clay- based Titanium Silicalite-1 Catalytic Composite", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 48, 5266-5275. Lam, Frank Leung Yuk, Martin, Tommy Chi Yan, Hu, Xijun (2008) "A template-free nano-wrapping technique for the fabrication of copper hollow nanospheres smaller than 20 nm", Chemical Communications, 6390-6392. Zhang, Ying, Lam, Frank Leung Yuk, Hu, Xijun, Yan, Zifeng (2008) "Formation of an ink-bottle-like pore structure in SBA-15 by MOCVD", Chemical Communications, 5131-5133. Lam, Frank Leung Yuk, Hu, Xijun (2007) "In-situ Oxidation for Stabilization of Fe/MCM-41 Catalyst Prepared by Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition", Catalysis Communications, 8, 1719-1723. Yip, Alex Chi Kin, Lam, Frank Leung Yuk, Hu, Xijun (2007) "Novel bimetallic catalyst for the photo-assisted degradation of Acid Black 1 over a broad range of pH", Chemical Engineering Science, 62, 5150-5153. Lam, Frank L Y, Yip, Alex C K, Hu, Xijun (2007) "Copper/MCM-41 as a Highly Stable and pH-insensitive Heterogeneous Photo Fenton-like Catalytic Material for the Abatement of Organic Wastewater", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 46, 3328- 3333. Wang, Huan, Lam, Frank L.Y., Hu, Xijun, Ng, Ka Ming (2006) "Ordered Mesoporous Carbon as an Efficient and Reversible Adsorbent for the Adsorption of Fullerenes", Langmuir, 22, 4583-4588. Yip, Alex Chi-Kin, Lam, Frank Leung-Yuk, Hu, Xijun (2005) "A novel heterogeneous acid-activated clay supported copper catalyst for the photobleaching and degradation of textile organic pollutant using Photo-Fenton-like reaction", Chemical Communications, 3218 - 3220.

David Chi-Wai HUI Associate Professor (2358 7137 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (1991) Senior Consultant, Mitsubishi Chemical Corp (1992-97)

Current Research Activities: Energy conservation; steam and power system design and optimization; production planning and scheduling; site-modeling and waste minimization.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Sustainable design of Chemical Process RGC - General Research Fund HK$358,660 01 Jan 2009 Solving large-scale chemical process synthesis problems via parallel evolutionary approaches RGC - General Research Fund HK$418,000 01 Jan 2008 Tire liquefaction Global Power & Energy Company Limited HK$90,000 01 Dec 2006 A multi-stage pyrolysis process for the treatment of Hydrocarbon waste and biomass Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$3,551,040 01 Jun 2009

Representative Research Publications: Lai, Sau Man, Hui, Chi Wai (2008) "Process Flexibility for Multivariable Systems", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 47(12); 4170-4183. He, Yaohua, Hui, Chi-Wai (2007) "Automatic Rule Combination Approach for Sequential Process Scheduling Problems", AIChE Journal, Volume 53, Issue 8, Date: August 2007, Pages: 2026-2047. Li, Wenkai, Hui, Chi-Wai (2007) "Apply Marginal Value Analysis in Refinery Planning", Chemical Engineering Communications, 194:962–974. LI, Wenkai, Hui, Chi-Wai, Li, Anxue (2005) "Integrating CDU, FCC and product blending models into refinery planning", Computers and Chemical Engineering, Volume 29, Issue 9, Pages 1867-2048. Hirata, K., Sakamoto, H., O'young, L., Cheung, K.Y., Hui, C.W. (2004) "Multi-site utility integration - an industrial case study", Comput. & Chem. Engng., 28/1-2 pp. 139-148. Hui, Cw, Chen, B, Mckay, G. (2002) "Contact Time Optimization of Two-Stage Batch Adsorber systems using the Modified Film- Pore Diffusion Model", Chemical Engineering Science, 57(14), 2863-2873. Li, Wenkai, Hui, Cw, Hua, B, Tong, Z (2002) "Scheduling Crude Oil Unloading, Storage and Processing", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 41, pp. 6723-6734. Gupta, Avaneesh, Hui, Chi Wai (2001) "A Bi-Index continuous time MILP model for Short-term Scheduling of Single-stage Multi- product Batch Plants with Parallel Line", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 25, 40.

King Lun YEUNG Associate Professor (2358 7123 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Notre Dame (1993)

Current Research Activities: 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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Base catalysis in membrane and catalytic membrane microreactors for fine chemical syntheses RGC - General Research Fund HK$300,000 01 Aug 2006 Synthesis of nanoscale mesoporous silica in microfluidic reactor RGC - General Research Fund HK$416,300 01 Sep 2009 Mesoporous MCM-41 membrane for separation and recovery of dissolved precious metals France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$18,000 01 Jan 2009 Chalcone synthesis in a microchannel membrane microreactor Germany / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$18,200 01 Jan 2009 Production of photocatalytic materials for air pollution treatment by a microwave plug-flow reactor Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$370,000 01 Sep 2008 Joint laboratory in nano science & technology William Mong Institute of Nano Science & Technology HK$100,000 01 Jan 2009 Nanomaterial synthesis in microreactor William Mong Institute of Nano Science & Technology HK$70,000 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Arruebo, Manuel, Ho, Wing Yan, Arbiol, Jesus, Santamaria, Jesus, Yeung, King Lun (2008) "Preparation of magnetic nanoparticles encapsulated by an ultra-thin silica shell via transformation of magnetic Fe-MCM-41", Chem Mater, 20, 486-493. Lam, Koon Fung, Chen, Xinqing, Fong, Chimie, Yeung, King Lun (2008) "Selective mesoporous adsorbents for Ag+/Cu2+ separation", Chem. Commun., 2034-2036. Cao, Shengli, Yao, Nan, Yeung, King Lun (2008) "Synthesis of freestanding silica and titania-silica aerogels with ordered and disordered mesopores", J. Sol-Gel Sci. Technol, 46, 323-333. Heng, Samuel, Yeung, King Lun, Djafer, Malik, Schrotter, Jean-Christophe (2007) "A novel membrane reactor for water ozone treatment", J. Membr. Sci., 289, 67-75. Wong, Ling Wai, Yeung, King Lun (2007) "Biological applications of zeolite microspheres", Stud. in Sur. Sci. and Catal., 170B, 1508-1513. Cao, Shengli, Yeung, King Lun, Yue, Po-Lock (2007) "Performance of freestanding, mesoporous titania-silica aerogel catalyst for gas phase photocatalytic oxidation of TCE", Appl. Catal. B, 76, 64-72. Lam, Koon Fung, Yeung, King Lun, McKay, Gordon (2007) "Preparation of Selective Mesoporous Adsorbents for Cr2O72- and Cu2+ Separation", Microporous and Mesoporous Mater., 100, 191-201. Wong, L. W, Sun, W. Q., Chan, N. W., Lai, W. Y., Leung, W. K., Tsang, J. C, Wong, Y. H., Yeung, K. L. (2007) "Zeolite microneedles for transdermal drug delivery", Stud. in Sur. Sci. and Catal, 170A (2007) 525-530. Ying CHAU Assistant Professor (2358 8935 ; [email protected])

PhD (2005), and Postdoctoral Associate (2005), Massachusetts Institute of Technology Biochemical Engineer, Merck Research Labs (1995-99)

Current Research Activities: Biomedical engineering; drug delivery; cancer targeting; tissue engineering; biomaterial; polymer and peptide design.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Protease-responsive nanostructured drug delivery systems assembled by new block copolymers RGC - General Research Fund HK$317,000 01 Jan 2008 Novel matrix-metalloproteinase-activated polymer-peptide conjugates for targeted anticancer treatment RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,232,500 01 Jan 2007 Nanomedicine and drug delivery for the eye UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$550,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications: Li, Zhongyu, Chau, Ying (2009) "Synthesis of linear polyether polyol derivatives as new materials for bioconjugation", Bioconjugate Chemistry, 20(4):780-789. Zhong, Jeiying, Chau, Ying (2008) "Antitumor activity of a membrane lytic peptide cyclized with a linker sensitive to membrane type 1-matrix metalloproteinase", Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, 7(9):2933-40. Wang, Weiping, Yang, Zhimou, Patanavanich, Siamrut, Xu, Bing, Chau, Ying (2008) "Controlling Self-assembly within Nanospace for Peptide Nanoparticle Fabrication", Soft Matter, DOI: 10.1039/b801890a. Chau, Ying, Luo, Ying, Cheung, Alex, Nagai, Yusuke, Zhang, Shuguang, Kobler, James, Zeitels, Steven, Langer, Robert (2008) "Incorporation of a Matrix Metalloproteinase-Sensitive Substrate into Self-Assembling Peptides – A Model for Biofunctional Scaffolds", Biomaterials, 29(11):1713-9.

Henry H N LAM Assistant Professor (2358 7133 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~kehlam/)

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005) Postdoctoral Scientist, Institute for Systems Biology (2005-08)

Current Research Activities: Proteomics, mass spectrometry

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Extracting useful information from existing public proteomic data to expand our knowledge of the proteome and to improve data analysis methods RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$167,160 01 Sep 2008

Representative Research Publications: Picotti, Paola, Lam, Henry, Campbell, David, Deutsch, Eric W., Mirzaei, Hamid, Ranish, Jeff, Domon, Bruno, Aebersold, Ruedi (2008) "A database of validated assays for the targeted mass spectrometric analysis of the S. cerevisiae proteome", Nature Methods, 5, 913-914. Lam, Henry, Deutsch, Eric W., Eddes, James S., Eng, Jimmy K., Stein, Stephen E., Aebersold, Ruedi (2008) "Building consensus spectral libraries for peptide identification in proteomics", Nature Methods, 5, 873-875. Bodenmiller, Bernd, Campbell, David, Gerrits, Bertran, Lam, Henry, Jovanovic, Marko, Picotti, Paola, Schlapbach, Ralph, Aebersold, Ruedi (2008) "PhosphoPep - a database of protein phosphorylation sites for systems level research in model organisms", Nature Biotechnology, 26, 1339-1340.

Kathy Q LUO Adjunct Assistant Professor (2358-8956 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust..hk/ ~qluo)

PhD, University of British Columbia (1995) Research Associate, Department of Biology, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1998-2003)

Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Division of Biology, California, USA (1995-1998)

Current Research Activities: Using fluorescent biosensor to screen anti-cancer drugs from traditional Chinese Medicine; study the mechanisms of drug action to eliminate cancer cells; using nanotechnology to improve the water solubility and bio-availability of anti-cancer drugs.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Developing and manufacturing nano-structured oral dosage forms of isoflavone and insulin with improved bioavailability Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited & Industries HK$3,490,000 07 Apr 2009

Representative Research Publications: Huang, S.X., Feng, Chao, Zhou, Y., Xu, G., Han, Q.B., Qian, C.F., Chang, Donald C, Luo, Kathy Q, Xu, H.X. (2009) "Bioassay-guided isolation of xanthones and polycyclic polyprenylated acylphloroglucinols from Garcinia oblongifolia", Journal of Natural Products, 72:130-135. Xu, G., Feng, Chao, Zhou, Y., Han, Q.B., Qiao, C.F., Huang, S.X., Chang, Donald C, Luo, Kathy Q, Xu, H.X. (2008) "Bioassay and ultraperformance liquid chromatograph/mass spectrometry guided isolation of apoptosis-inducing benzophenones and xanthones from the pericarp of Garcinia yunnanensis Hu", Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 56:11144-11150. Zhou, Lingli, Chan, W.K., Xu, N.H., Xiao, K., Luo, H.W., Luo, Kathy Q, Chang, Donald C (2008) "Tanshinone IIA, an isolated compound from Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge, induces apoptosis in HeLa cells through mitotic arrest", Life Sciences, 83:394-403. Wei, B, Cheng, I, Luo, K Q, Mi, Yongli (2007) "Capture and release of protein by a reversible DNA-induced sol-gel transition system", Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 120:337-339. Zhang, J, Ng, K M, Luo, K Q (2007) "Extraction and purification of isoflavones from soybeans and characterization of their estrogenic activities", Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 55:6940-6950. Tian, Honglei, Ip, Louisa, Luo, Houwei, Chang, Donald Choy, Luo, Kathy Qian (2007) "A high throughput drug screen based on fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) for anticancer activity of compounds from herbal medicine", British Journal of Pharmacology, 150: 321-334. Chang, Donald C., Zhou, Liying, Luo, Kathy Q. (2005) "Using GFP and FRET technologies for studying signaling mechanisms of apoptosis in a single living cell", In: Shen, X. and Wijk, R.V. (eds.) Biophotonics-Optical Science and Engineering for the 21st Century, Springer, New York. pp 25-38. Luo, K.Q., Chang, D.C. (2004) "The gene-silencing efficiency of siRNA is strongly dependent on the local structure of mRNA at the target region", Biochem. & Biophys. Res. Commun., 318:303-310. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Christopher K Y LEUNG, Professor and Head of Department; Director, Advanced Engineering Materials Facility

Moe M S CHEUNG, Chair Professor; Co-Director, Institute for the Environment

Howard Ju-Chang HUANG, Professor Emeritus

Chihchen CHANG, Professor

Guanghao CHEN, Professor, Director of MSC Environmental Engineering

Mohamed S GHIDAOUI, Professor

Lambros KATAFYGIOTIS, Professor

Jun Shang KUANG, Professor

Zongjin LI, Professor

Hong Kam LO, Professor

Irene M. C. LO, Professor and Associate Director, Environmental Engineering Graduate Program

Charles W W NG, Professor of Civil Engineering; Director of Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility; Associate Dean of Engineering

Yeou-Koung TUNG, Professor

Hai YANG, Professor

Kwok Leung CHUNG, Adjunct Professor

Xiangsong LI, Professor Emeritus

Wilson H TANG, Professor Emeritus

Chun Man CHAN, Associate Professor

Alexis Kai-Hon LAU, Director, Environmental Central Facility; Adjunct Associate Professor, MATH/AMCE

Chii SHANG, Associate Professor

Yu-Hsing WANG, Associate Professor

Limin ZHANG, Associate Professor; Associate Director, Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility

Wei Chung HU, Visiting Assistant Professor

Gang WANG, Assistant Professor

Xiangru ZHANG, Assistant Professor

Xueqing ZHANG, Assistant Professor

Jidong ZHAO, Assistant Professor Christopher K Y LEUNG Professor and Head of Department; Director, Advanced Engineering Materials Facility (2358 7152 ; [email protected])

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1990) Assistant and Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1992-97)

Current Research Activities: Construction materials; fiber-reinforced concrete; composites in civil engineering; composite micro-mechanics; fracture mechanics; optical fiber sensors.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Pseudo-ductile Permanent Formwork for Durable Concrete Structures RGC - General Research Fund HK$774,105 01 Dec 2008 Transport properties of pseudoductile cementitious composites RGC - General Research Fund HK$763,200 01 Jan 2008 Development and applications of shrinkage-compensating high peformance fiber reinforced cementitious composites RGC - General Research Fund HK$658,500 01 Jan 2007 Advanced Composite Materials Technology Research Center Nansha Research Centers HK$4,634,000 01 Apr 2007 Improving the performance of glass fiber reinforced plastics (GFRP) concrete reinforcements through nanotechnologies UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$550,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications: Pan, Jinlong, Leung, Christopher Kin Ying (2007) "Debonding along the FRP/Concrete Interface under Combined Pulling/Peeling Effects", Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol.74, No.1/2, pp. 132-150. Leung, Christopher Kin Ying, Cheung, Yin Nee, Zhang, Jun (2007) "Fatigue Enhancement of Concrete Beam with ECC Layer", Cement and Concrete Research, Vol.37, No. 5, pp. 743-750. Leung, Christopher, Yang, Yong (2006) "An Energy-based Model for Debonding of FRP Plate from Concrete Substrate", ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Vol.132, No.6, pp. 583-593. Leung, Christopher, Klenke, Marcus, Tung, W.K., Luk, Herman (2006) "Determination of Nonlinear Softening Behavior for the FRP Composite/Concrete Interface", ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Vol.132, No.5, pp.498-508. Xu, Ying, Leung, Christopher, Tong, Pin, Jiang, Yi, Lee, Stephen (2005) "Interfacial debonding detection in bonded repair with a fiber optical interferometric sensor", Composite Science and Technology, Volume 65, Issue 9, Pages 1428-1435. Leung, Christopher, Olson, Noah, Wan, K.T., Meng, Aidong (2005) "Theoretical Modelling of Signal Loss vs Crack Opening for a Novel Crack Sensor", ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Vol.131, No.8, pp.777-790. Leung, C.K.Y. (2001) "Delamination Failure in Concrete Beams Retrofitted with a Bonded Plate", ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Vol.13, No.2 pp.106-113. Leung, C.K.Y. (2001) "Modeling of Concrete Cracking induced by Steel Corrosion", ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Vol.13, No.3, pp.169-175.

Moe M S CHEUNG Chair Professor; Co-Director, Institute for the Environment (2358 8191 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~mscheung/index.html)

PhD, The University of Calgary, Canada (1971) Director, Ottawa-Carleton Bridge Research Institute, University of Ottawa (1995-2003) Director, Technology, Public Works & Government Services Canada (1996-2003)

Current Research Activities: Finite element & finite strip methods; static & dynamic analysis of bridges and buildings; composite materials & fiber-reinforced polymers; reliability-based structural assessments; and durability of concrete structures.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Performance and Dynamic Characteristics of Composite Long-span Cable-stayed Bridges RGC - General Research Fund HK$279,610 01 Jan 2009 Operational requirements for long span bridges under strong wind conditions RGC - General Research Fund HK$836,000 01 Jan 2008 Enhancing environmental sustainability and awareness in Hong Kong and the region UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$200,000 15 Oct 2006 Environment and sustainable development UGC - Strategic Initiatives HK$7,500,000 05 May 2008 Finite Strip Analysis and Probability - based Assessment of Highway Bridges NSERC Research Grant - Can $25,000 per year

Representative Research Publications: Cheung, Mo Shing, Shen, Zhenyuan, Chan, Ben Y.B. (2009) "An integrated Finite Strip Solution for Slab-on-girder Bridges and Box Girder Bridges", Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, Vol. 1229, Number 1, PP 1-22. Cheung, Mo Shing, Song, Zhaobin (2009) "Fracture Analysis of Plates and Plate-Girder Bridges by Finite Strip Method", Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 135, Issue 2, PP 198-205. Cheung, Mo Shing, Zhao, Juan, Chan, Ben Y.B. (2009) "Service Life Prediction of RC Bridge Structures Exposed to Chloride Environments", Bridge Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 14, Number 3, PP 164-178. Cui, Yihua, Noruziaan, Bahman, Lee, Stephen, Cheung, Mo Shing, Tao, Jie (2008) "DSC Analysis and Mechanical Properties of Wood Plastic Composites", Reinforced Plastics and Composites, Online First. Cui, Yihua, Cheung, Mo Shing, Noruziaan, Bahman, Lee, Stephen, Tao, Jie (2008) "Development of Ductile Composite Reinforcement Bars for Concrete Structures", Materials and Structures, Vol. 41, Number 9, PP 1509-1518. Cheung, Mo Shing, So, Kevin K.L., Zhang, Xueqing (2008) "Life Cycle Cost Management Strategy on Corrosion Deterioration and Fatigue Damage of Steel Girder Bridge", Key Engineering Materials, Vols. 385-387, PP 845-848. Cheung, Mo Shing, Noruziaan, Bahman, Yang, Cheng-Yu (2007) "Health Monitoring Data in Assessing Critical Behavior of Bridges", Journal of Structure & Infrastructure Engineering, Vol.3, Number 4, December 2007, pp325-342. Cheung, Mo Shing, Yang, Chengyu, Noruziaan, Bahman (2007) "Health Monitoring Data in Assessing Critical Behavior of Bridges", Journal of Structure & Infrastructure Engineering, Vol.3, Number 4, 2007.

Howard Ju-Chang HUANG Professor Emeritus (2358 7165 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Texas, Austin (1967) Professor of Civil Engineering (1975-92) and Director of Environmental Research Center (1979-92), University of Missouri-Rolla, Visiting Professor, Kyoto University (1999-2000), Senior Environmental Advisor, Formosa Plastic Group, Taiwan (1989-1993)

Current Research Activities: Innovative and space-saving wastewater treatment, including enhanced primary treatment, nucleated precipitation for heavy metal removal, intensified biological systems for high rate organic removal, including hybrid reactor and aerobic sludge blanket with novel oxytenation, anaerobic treatment of high suslfate wastewater.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Upgrading and Improving Dyeing Wastewater Treatment (through HKUST RandD Corporation Ltd) China Dyeing Holdings, Ltd. Hong Kong HK$195,000 31 May 2003 Compact Treatment Technologies Pilot Trial Study (through HKUST RandD Corporation Ltd) Drainage Services Department, HKSAR HK$1,083,400 01 Dec 2003 Pilot Trial for Improved Primary Wastewater Treatment (through HKUST RandD Corporation Ltd) Drainage Services Department, HKSAR HK$1,450,000 15 Aug 2004

Representative Research Publications: Xiao, Feng, Ma, Jun, Huang, Ju-Chang (2008) "Effects of Low Temperature on Coagulation of Kaolinite Suspensions", Water Research, Vol. 42, pp.2983-2992. Yang, X., Shang, Chii, Huang, Ju-Chang (2005) "DBP Formation in Breakpoint Chlorination of Wastewater", Water Research, Vol 39, pp. 4755-4767. Khanal, S. K., Huang, Ju-Chang (2005) "Online Oxygen Control for Sulfide Oxidation in Anaerobic Treatment of High Sulfate Wastewater", Journal of Water Environment Research, Vol 77, No.5 (Sept-October 2005). Sharma, Keshab, Huang, Ju-Chang (2004) "High Rate Treatment by Aerobic Upflow Sludge Blanket (AUSB) with External Oxygenation", Water Science and Technology, Vol 50, No. 8, 722-730. Khanal, Samir K., Huang, Ju-Chang (2003) "Anaerobic Treatment of High Sufate Wastewater with Oxygenation to Control Sulfide Toxicity", Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 129, No. 12, pp.1104-1111. Sun, Jingmei, Shang, Chii, Huang, Ju-Chang (2003) "Co-removal of Hexavalent Chromium with Copper Precipitation", Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 37, No. 18, pp. 4281-4287. Khanal, Samir K., Huang, Ju-Chang (2003) "ORP Based Oxygenation for Sulfide Control in Anaerobic Treatment of High Sulfate Wastewater", Water Research, Vol. 37, No. 9, pp. 2053-2062. Khanal, Samir Kumar, Huang, Ju-Chang (2003) "Anaerobic Treatment of High Sufate Wastewater with Oxygenation to Control Sulfide Toxicity", Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, In press.

Chihchen CHANG Professor (2358 7201 ; [email protected])

PhD, Purdue University (1993)

Current Research Activities: Structural health monitoring; vibration control of structures; wind and earthquake effects on structures; dynamic measurement and system identification; structural dynamics; bridge dynamics; artificial intelligence.

Representative Research Publications: Ji, Yufong, Chang, Chih Chen (2008) "Non-target image-based technique for bridge cable vibration measurement", Journal of Bridge Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 13, No. 1, 34-42. Ji, Yufong, Chang, Chih Chen (2008) "Non-target stereo vision technique for spatiotemporal response measurement of line-like structures", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 134, No. 6, 466-474. Poon, Chun-Wing, Chang, Chih Chen (2007) "Identification of nonlinear elastic structures using empirical mode decomposition and nonlinear normal modes", Smart Structures and Systems, Vol. 3, No. 4, 423-437. Sun, Zhi, Chang, Chih Chen (2007) "Vibration based structural health monitoring: wavelet packet transform based solution", Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 4, 313-323. Ji, Y.F., Chang, C.C. (2007) "A flexible videogrammetric technique for three-dimensional structural vibration measurement", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 133, No. 6, 656-664. Sun, Z., Chang, C.C. (2006) "Covariance-driven wavelet technique for structural damage assessment", Smart Structures and Systems, Vol. 2, No. 2, April 2006, 127-140. Chang, Chih Chen, Sun, Zhi (2005) "Structural damage localization using spatial wavelet packet signature", Smart Structures and System, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 29-46. Sun, Zhi, Chang, Chih Chen (2004) "A statistical wavelet-based method for structural health monitoring", Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 130, No. 7, pp. , 1055-1062. Guanghao CHEN Professor, Director of MSC Environmental Engineering (2358 8752 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~ceghchen/)

DEng, Kyoto University (1990) Technical Manager, Unix Co Ltd, Japan (1990-92) Research Scientist, Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore (1992-94)

Current Research Activities: Biological treatment processes; biosewer development; minimization of excess sludge in activated sludge processes; MBR processes

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Towards sustainable sewage treatment in Hong Kong-A novel onsite urine nitrification bioreactor for the new high-rise buildings RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,102,500 01 Sep 2007

Representative Research Publications: Tsang, W L, Wang, J, Lu, H, Li, S, Chen, G H, Van Loosdrecht, M C M (2009) "A Novel Sludge Minimized Biological Nitrogen Removal Process for Saline Sewage Treatment.", Water Science and Technology, 59(10), 1893-1899. Wang, J, Lu, H, Tsang, W L, Lau, G, Chen, G H, Van Loosdrecht, M C M (2009) "A novel sulfate reduction-autotrophic denitrification-nitrification integrated (SANI) process for saline wastewater treatment", Water Research, 43, pp. 2363-2372. Jiang, F, Leung, D. H. W., Li, S Y, Chen, G H, Okabe, S, Van Loosdrecht, M C M (2009) "A sewer biofilm model for prediction of pollutant transformation in sewer", Water Research, 43, pp.3187-3198. Lau, G. N., Sharma, K.R., Chen, Guang-Hao, Loosdretch, Mark C. M. (2006) "Integration of sulfate reduction, autotrophic denitrification and nitrification to achieve low-cost excess sludge minimization for Hong Kong sewage.", Water Science and Technology, 53(3), pp.227-235. Wong, M.H., Shang, Chii, Chen, Guang-Hao (2005) "Bacteriophage MS-2 Removal by Submerged Membrane Bioreactor.", Water Research, 39 (17), 4211-4219. Saby, Sebastien, Djafer, Malik, Chen, Guang-Hao (2003) "Effect of low ORP in anoxic sludge zone on excess sludge production in an oxic-settling-anoxic activated sludge process (OSA process)", Water Research, 37(1), pp. 11-20. Saby, S., Djafer, M., Chen, Guang Hao (2001-2002) "Impact of chlorination step on sludge reduction in an activated sludge process", Water Research, 36(3), 656-666. Chen, Guang Hao, Mo, Hau Kwok, Liu, Yu (2001-2002) "Utilization of a metabolic uncoupler, 3, 3’, 4’, 5-tetrachlorosalicylanilide to reduce sludge growth in activated sludge culture", Water Research, 36(8), 2077-2083.

Mohamed S GHIDAOUI Professor (2358 7174 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Toronto (1993)

Current Research Activities: My general interests are in the fields of hydraulics, water resources and environmental fluid mechanics. In particular, modelling of surface, sub-surface and closed conduit flows: unsteady friction in conduits; turbulence modelling of fast transients; flow stability; numerical modelling of surface and closed conduit flows; water quality modelling; parameter estimation; inverse analysis and water quality; modelling of island wake flows; Boltzmann theory and its application in hydraulics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Investigation of Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability in Sewers & Tunnels RGC - General Research Fund HK$491,906 01 Jan 2009 Investigation of wind-driven Langmuir circulations in coastal water RGC - General Research Fund HK$867,105 01 Jul 2006 Transient growth analysis of free shear instabilities in surface water RGC - General Research Fund HK$356,400 01 Jul 2007

Representative Research Publications: Nixon, W, Ghidaoui, M S (2007) "A Numerical Sensitivity Study of Unsteady Friction in Simple Systems with External Flows", Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, 133(7), 736-749. Chan, F C, Ghidaoui, M S, Kolyshkin, A A (2006) "Can the Dynamics of Shallow Wakes be Reproduced from a Single Time- averaged Profile?", Physics of Fluids, American Institute of Physics, Vol 18, pp 048105-1 to 048105-4. Ghidaoui, M S, Zhao, Ming, McInnis, D A, Axworthy, H H (2005) "A Review of Waterhammer Theory and Practice", Applied Mechanics Review, Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 58, 49-76. Zhao, M, Ghidaoui, M S, Kolyshkin, A A (2004) "Investigation of the Mechanisms Responsible for the Breakdown of Axisymmetry in Pipe Transient", Journal of Hydraulic Research, IAHR, 42(6), 645-656. Zhao, M, Ghidaoui, M S (2004) "Godunov-Type Solutions for Water Hammer Flows", Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, 130(4), 341-348. Kolyshkin, A A, Ghidaoui, M S (2003) "Stability Analysis of Shallow Wake Flows", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 494, 355-377. Ghidaoui, M.S., Koliskins, Andrejs (2002) "A Quasi-steady Approach to the Instability of Time Dependent Flows in Pipes", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 465, 301-330. Ghidaoui, Mohamed S., Kolyshkin, A.A. (2001) "Stability Analysis of Velocity Profiles in Waterhammer", Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, 127(6), 499-512.

Lambros KATAFYGIOTIS Professor (2358 8750 ; [email protected])

PhD, California Institute of Technology (1991) Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Akron (1991-94)

Current Research Activities: Structural dynamics, control and reliability; computational stochastic mechanics; system identification; damage detection; random vibrations; earthquake and wind engineering.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Development of advanced MCMC algorithms for solving model updating, response prediction, structural reliability and structural optimization problems RGC - General Research Fund HK$279,610 01 Jan 2009 Development of standardized wireless system for health monitoring of typical pedestrian, highway, and railway bridges RGC - General Research Fund HK$720,833 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications: Lam, Heung Fai, Katafygiotis, Lambros S., Mickleborough, Neil (2004) "Application of a Statistical Model Updating Approach for Phase I of the IASC-ASCE SHM Benchmark Study", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, 130(1), 34-48. Johnson, Erik A., Lam, Heung Fai, Katafygiotis, Lambros S., Beck, James L. (2004) "The Phase I IASC-ASCE Structural Health Monitoring Benchmark Problem Using Simulated Data", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, 130(1), 3-15. Yuen, Ka Veng, Katafygiotis, Lambros (2003) "Bayesian Fast Fourier Transform Approach for Modal Updating Using Ambient Data", Advances in Structural Engineering - An International Journal, 6(2), pp. 81-95. Katafygiotis, Lambros, Cheung, Sai Hung (2002) "A New Efficient MCMC Based Simulation Methodology for Reliability Calculations", Proc. Fifth World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM V). Katafygiotis, Lambros, Cheung, Sai Hung, Joseph (2002) "A Novel Markov Chain Monte Carlo Based Simulation Method for Solving Structural Reliability Problems", Proc. Fifth European Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN 2002), 789-794. Papadimitriou, Costas, Katafygiotis, Lambros (2001-2002) "A Bayesian Methodology for Structural Integrity and Reliability Assessment", International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems, 4(1), 93-100. Yuen, Ka Veng, Katafygiotis, Lambros (2001-2002) "Bayesian Modal Updating Using Complete Input and Incomplete Response Noisy Measurements", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, 128(3), 340-350. Katafygiotis, Lambros, Yuen, Ka Veng (2001-2002) "Bayesian Spectral Density Approach for Modal Updating Using Ambient Data", Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 30(8), 1103-1123.

Jun Shang KUANG Professor (2358 7162 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Hong Kong (1988); PhD, Cambridge University (1991)

Current Research Activities: Analysis and design of structural systems; earthquake-resistant design; reinforced concrete structures; tall buildings; large-scale experimental evaluation of concrete structures and components.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Seismic vulnerability assessment of tall and vertically irregular buildings RGC - General Research Fund HK$450,482 01 Sep 2008

Representative Research Publications: Baczkowski, B.J., Kuang, J.S. (2008) "A New Approach To Testing Concrete Coupling Beams Subjected To Reversed Cyclic Loading", Magazine of Concrete Research, Volumn 60, No. 4, pp. 301-309. Wong, H.F., Kuang, J.S. (2008) "Effects of beam-column depth ratio and reinforcement details on seismic behaviour of exterior beam-column joints", Structures and Buildings, Proceedings of ICE, Volume 161, No. 2, pp. 91-101. Kuang, J.S., Ho, Y.B. (2008) "Seismic behavior and ductility of squat reinforced concrete shear walls with non-seismic detailing", ACI Structural Journal, Volume 105, No. 2, pp. 225-231. Zhang, Hexin, Kuang, J.S. (2007) "Eight-Node Discrete Reissner-Mindlin Plate Element Based On Boundary Interpolation Using Timoshenko Beam Function", International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Volume 69, No. 7, pp. 1345-1373. Kuang, J.S., Ho, Y.B. (2007) "Enhancing the ductility of non-seismically designed reinforced concrete shear walls", Structures and Buildings, Proceedings of ICE, Volume 160, No. 3, pp. 139-149.

Zongjin LI Professor (2358 8751 ; [email protected])

PhD, Northwestern University (1993) Research Associate, Department of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University (1993-94)

Current Research Activities: Fiber-reinforced cementitious composites; durability of concrete; non-destructive test of infrastructure; using extrusion technique to develop new building products; functional material development.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Investigation of the relationship between porosity and resistivity in cement-based materials RGC - General Research Fund HK$491,906 01 Oct 2008 Fundamental study on properties of contemporary concrete structure during construction period National Science Foundation of China HK$747,600 01 Jan 2009 Ductile Concrete with High Tensile Strength UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$400,000 01 Jun 2008 Representative Research Publications: Li, Zongjin, Leung, Christopher K Y, Xi, Yunping (2008-2009) Structural Renovation in Concrete, 2009., Taylor & Francis Ltd, pp 348. Xiao, Lianzhen, Li, Zongjin (2008) "Early-age hydration of fresh concrete monitored by non-contact electrical resistivity measurement", Cement and Concrete Research, 38(3): 312-319. Chau, CK, Li, Zongjin (2008) "Microstructure of magnesium oxychloride sorel cement", Advances in cement research, 20(2):85- 92. Chau, CK, Li, Zongjin (2008) "Microstructures of Magnesium Oxychloride", Materials and Structure, 41(5):853-862. Li, Zongjin, Chau, CK (2008) "Reactivity and Application of Magnesium Oxide in Sorel Cement", Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 20(3): 370-383. Li, Zongjin, Huang, Shifeng, Qin, Lei, Cheng, Xin (2007) "An investigation on 1-3 cement based piezoelectric composites", Smart Materials & Structures, 16(4): 999-1005. Zhou, Xiangming, Li, Zongjin (2007) "Numerical Simulations of Upsetting Process of the Fresh Fiber-Cement Paste", Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, 133(11): 1192-1199. Li, Zongjin, Li, Xiangyu (2007) "Squeeze flow of viscoplastic cement-based extrudate", Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, 133 (9): 1003-1008.

Hong Kam LO Professor (2358 8742 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~cehklo/)

PhD, Ohio State University (1991) Assistant Research Engineer, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley (1993-96)

Current Research Activities: Transportation systems modeling; intelligent transportation systems; dynamic traffic assignment; traffic simulation; traffic signal control; traffic flow theory.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Optimal transportation supply and demand management over time RGC - General Research Fund HK$843,480 31 Dec 2006 Robust signal control for congested traffic RGC - General Research Fund HK$407,550 31 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications: Lin, W, Lo, Hong Kam (2009) "Investigating Braess’ Paradox with Time-Dependent Queues", Transportation Science, 43(1), 117- 126. Lo, Hong Kam, Szeto, W Y (2009) "Time-Dependent Transport Network Design under Cost-Recovery", Transportation Research Part B, 43, 142-158. Bie, J, Lo, Hong Kam, Wong, S C (2008) "Circulatory Markings at Double-Lane Traffic Roundabout: Comparison of Two Marking Schemes", ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, 134 (9), 378-388. Wang, D Z W, Lo, Hong Kam (2008) "Multi-fleet ferry service network design with passenger preferences for differential services", Transportation Research Part B, 42, 798-822. Tang, S, Lo, Hong Kam (2008) "The Impact of Public Transport Policy on the Viability and Sustainability of Mass Railway Transit - The Hong Kong Experience", Transportation Research Part A, 42, 563- 576. Siu, B, Lo, H (2008) "Doubly Uncertain Transport Network: Degradable Capacity and Stochastic Demand", European Journal of Operational Research, 191, 164-179. Wang, D Z W, Lo, H (2008) "Multi-fleet ferry service network design with passenger preferences for differential services", Transportation Research Part B, 42, 798-822. Han, D, Lo, H, Sun, J, Yang, H (2008) "The toll effect on price of anarchy when costs are nonlinear and asymmetric", European Journal of Operational Research, 186(1), 300-316.

Irene M. C. LO Professor and Associate Director, Environmental Engineering Graduate Program (2358 7157 ; [email protected] ; http://home.ust.hk/~irenelo/main.htm)

PhD, University of Texas, Austin (1992) Visiting Associate Professor, Technical University of Denmark (1999) Senior Engineer, Golder Associates (1999) Visiting Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison (2000)

Current Research Activities: Clay liners for waste disposal facilities; remediation of contaminated lands; chemical (hazardous) waste treatment; pollutant transport in saturated and unsaturated soils; geotechnical centrifuge modeling.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Laboratory and Pilot-scale Study of Metal Extraction from Contaminated Soils using EDDS and Metal-EDDS Complexes: Kinetics, Effectiveness and Soil Dissolution RGC - General Research Fund HK$647,245 01 Dec 2008 Removal of TCE and Cr(VI) from NOM-rich groundwater by zero-valent iron: performance and mechanistic study RGC - General Research Fund HK$577,800 31 Dec 2006 Innovative Technology with Zero Waste Discharge for Remediation of Heavy Metal Contaminated Groundwater Using Nanoscale Iron- based Magnetic Particles UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$400,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Tsang, D. C. W, Yip, T.C.M., Lo, I. M. C. (2009) "Kinetic interactions of EDDS with Soils: 2. Metal-EDDS complexes in uncontaminated and metal-contaminated soils", Environ. Sci. Technol.. Liu, M. Y, Tsang, D. C. W, Hu, J., Ng, K. T. W, Liu, T.Z, Lo, I. M. C. (2008) "Adsorption of Methylene Blue and Phenol by Wood Derived Activated Carbon", ASCE J. of Environmental Engrg., 134(5), 338-345. Liu, T., Tsang, D. C. W, Lo, I. M. C. (2008) "Cr(VI) Reduction kinetics by zero-valent iron in moderately hard water with humic acid: Humic acid adsorption and iron dissolution", Environ. Sci. Technol., 42(6), 2092-2098. Yip, T.C.M, Tsang, D.C.W, Ng, K.T.W, Lo, I. M. C. (2008) "Empirical modeling of heavy metal extraction by EDDS from single- metal and multi-metal contaminated soils", Chemosphere, 74, 301-307. Lo, Irene M. C., Ong, Say Kee, Surampalli, Rao, Bhandari, Alok, Champagne, Pascale, Tyagi, R. D. (2008) Natural Processes and Systems for Hazardous Waste Treatment, ASCE book publication, ISBN # 0-7844-0939-0, 280 pp. Lai, K. C. K., Lo, I. M. C. (2008) "Removal of Chromium (VI) by Acid-washed Zero-valent Iron under Various Groundwater Geochemistry Conditions", Environ. Sci. Technol., 42(4), 1238-1244. Liu, T., Tsang, D. C. W., Lo, Irene M. C. (2008) "Cr(VI) Reduction kinetics by zero-valent iron in moderately hard water with humic acid: Humic acid adsorption and iron dissolution", Environ. Sci. Technol., 42(6), 2092-2098. Lai, K. C. K., Lo, Irene M. C. (2008) "Removal of Chromium (VI) by Acid-washed Zero-valent Iron under Various Groundwater Geochemistry Conditions", Environ. Sci. Technol., 42(4), 1238-1244.

Charles W W NG Professor of Civil Engineering; Director of Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility; Associate Dean of Engineering (2358 8760 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ce.ust.hk/faculty/cecwwng.asp)

PhD, University of Bristol (1992) Independent Consultant, Mott MacDonald Group (1993) Ove Arup & Partners (1995) Housing Department (1999) Scott Wilson (2000) MCA (2000)

Current Research Activities: Centrifuge modeling; numerical analysis and constitutive models; slope stability; soil-structure interaction problems such as piles, retaining walls, excavations and tunnels; unsaturated soils.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Three-dimensional Centrifuge Modelling of Tunnelling Effects on Pile Groups in Soft Ground RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,190,930 01 Jan 2009 Mechanisms and predictions of deformation due to deep excavation RGC - General Research Fund HK$687,750 31 Dec 2006 Instrumentation on Deep Foundation Chun Wo Construction & Engineering Co. Ltd. HK$200,000 10 Jul 2006 Geotechnical centrifuge modelling Geotech Engineering Limited HK$150,000 01 Sep 2005 Centrifuge modelling tests of soil-nailed fill slopes Geotechnical Engineering Office HK$760,000 01 Oct 2002 Geotechnical Centrifuge Modelling UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$21,800 11 Jul 2003 Geotechnical centrifuge modelling UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$11,250 01 Sep 2005 Study of rainfall infiltration mechanisms and stability of slopes in HK UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$7,000 20 Dec 2006 Green slope engineering for Hong Kong RGC - Collaborative Research Fund - Seed Funding HK$200,000 02 May 2008 Research and development of preservation technology for cultural relics at Dunhuang and the Silk Road Ministry of Science and Technology HK$100,000 10 Nov 2007 Three-dimensional centrifuge and numerical modelling of tunneling effects on dykes National Science Foundation of China HK$373,800 01 Jan 2007 Study of rainfall infiltration mechanisms and stability of slopes in HK Ove Arup & Partners HK$280,000 20 Dec 2006 Geotechnical centrifuge facility PVL Technologies, Inc. HK$195,000 01 Apr 2006

Representative Research Publications: Ng, Charles W W, Yung, S Y (2008) "Determination of the anisotropic shear stiffness of an unsaturated decomposed soil", Geotechnique, Vol. 58, No 1, page 23-25. Ng, Charles W W, Menzies, B (2007-2008) Advanced Unsaturated Soil Mechanics and Engineering, Taylor & Francis (incorporating A A Balkema Publishers, page 687. Zhou, X W, Ng, Charles W W (2007) "Analytical solution for estimating surface settlements induced by multiple tunnel excavation", Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Vol 29, No 11, page 1703-1710. Xu, G M, Ng, Charles W W (2007) "Dimensional analysis and centrifuge modelling of quay wall of large-diameter bottomless cylinders", Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Vol 29, No 10, page 1544-1552. Liu, H L, Ng, Charles W W, Fei, K (2007) "Performance of a geogrid-reinforced and pile-supported highway embankment over soft clays: a case study", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol 133, No 12, page 1483-1493. Zhang, M, Ng, Charles W W (2007) "Rainfall simulation techniques in centrifuge modelling of slopes", Journal of Rock and Soil Mechanics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Vol 28, Supp. Oct, page 53-57. Lei, G H, Ng, Charles W W (2007) "Rectangular barrettes and circular bored piles in saprolites", Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Vol 160, Issue 4, page 237-242. Ng, Charles W W, Cui, Y, Chen, R, Delage, P (2007) "The axis-translation and osmotic techniques in shear testing of unsaturated soils: a comparison", Soils and Foundations, Vol. 47, No 4, page 675-684. Yeou-Koung TUNG Professor (2358 8764 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Texas, Austin (1980) Professor of Statistics and Statistical Hydrologist, University of Wyoming, Laramie (1985-96)

Current Research Activities: Water resources systems analysis; urban drainage and water distribution systems; reliability and uncertainty analyses applied to water resources/quality management and hydraulic structural designs.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Application of risk-based approach to hydrosystems engineering project design and analysis RGC - General Research Fund HK$279,610 31 Dec 2008 Probabilistic analysis of water hammer modeling and applications RGC - General Research Fund HK$584,000 31 Dec 2006 Ventilation design for high-rise residential buildings PolyU - Dean's Reserve HK$180,000 14 Nov 2008

Representative Research Publications: Xu, YP, Tung, YK (2007) "Decision-making in water management under uncertainty", J. of Water Resources Management (Online). Tung, Yeou-Koung, Yen, Ben-Chie, Melching, Charles S. (2006) Hydrosystems Engineering Reliability Assessments and Risk Analysis, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 2006. 495pp.. Wu, Shiang-Jen, Yang, Jinn-Chuang, Tung, Yeou-Koung (2006) "Identification and stochastic generation of representative rainstorm temporal patterns in Hong Kong Territory", J. of Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment, 20(3): 171-183. Wang, Ying, Tung, Yeou-Koung (2006) "Stochastic generation of GIUH-based flow hydrograph", J. of River Basin Management, IAHR, 4(1): 49-56, 2006. Tung, Y.K. (2005) "Flood defense systems design by risk-based approaches", Water International, IWRA, 30(1): 50-57. Tung, Y.K., Yen, B.C. (2005) Hydrosystems Engineering Uncertainty Analysis, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 2005. Chen, Xingyuan, Tung, Yeou-Koung (2003) "Investigation of polynomial normal transformation", J. of Structural Safety, 25: 423-445. Lansey, Kevin, Mays, Larry, Tung, Yeou-Koung (2002) "Reliability and availability analysis of water distribution systems", In: Urban Water Supply Handbook, edited by L.W. Mays. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Chapter 10.

Hai YANG Professor (2358 7178 ; [email protected])

PhD, Kyoto University (1992)

Current Research Activities: Transportation economics; bi-level mathematical programming and applications; traffic control; road pricing; intelligent transportation systems.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Modeling bilateral searching and meeting behaviors of taxi drivers and customers RGC - General Research Fund HK$380,600 01 Jan 2008 Trial-and-error implementation of congestion pricing with unknown demand functions RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$69,000 30 Jun 2005 Representative Research Publications: Han, D., Yang, Hai (2009) "Congestion pricing in the absence of demand functions", Transportation Research, 45E, No.1, 159-171. Guo, X.L., Yang, Hai (2009) "User heterogeneity and bi-criteria system optimum", Transportation Research, 43B, No.4, 379-390. Xiao, F, Yang, H (2008) "Efficiency loss of private road with continuously distributed value-of-time", Transportmetrica, Vol.4, No.1, 19-32. Yang, H, Zhang, X (2008) "Existence of anonymous link tolls for system optimum on networks with multiple equilibrium behaviors", Transportation Research, Vol.42B, No.2. Huang, HJ, Liu, TL, Yang, H (2008) "Modeling the evolutions of day-to-day route choice and year-to-year ATIS adoption with stochastic user equilibrium", Journal of Advanced Transportation, Vol.42, No.2, 111-127. Zhang, X, Yang, H, Huang, HJ (2008) "Multiclass multicriteria mixed equilibrium on networks and uniform link tolls for system optimum", European Journal of Operational Research, Vol.189, No.1, 146-158. Tian, Q, Huang, HJ, Yang, H (2007) "Equilibrium properties of the morning rush-hour commuting in a many-to-one mass transit system", Transportation Research, Vol.41B, No.6, 616-631. Huang, HJ, Tian, Q, Yang, H, Gao, ZY (2007) "Modal split and commuting pattern on a bottleneck-constrained highway", Transportation Research, Vol.43E, No.5, 578-590.

Kwok Leung CHUNG Adjunct Professor (2358 7180 ; [email protected])

MSc, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (1988) Deputy Director, Drainage Services Department, HKSAR (1996-1999) Project Manager, Works Bureau, HKSAR (1999-2001)

Current Research Activities: Project implementation; contract management; construction site work; consultant practices; engineers in society; new town development; sustainable development; flood control and environmental protection.

Xiangsong LI Professor Emeritus (2358 7177 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Davis (1990) Adjunct Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis (1992-93)

Current Research Activities: Soil mechanics; soil dynamics; geotechnical earthquake engineering; constitutive modeling; computational mechanics; signal processing; instrumentation and control systems.

Representative Research Publications: Su, D, Li, XS, Xing, F (2009) "Estimation of the apparent permeability in the dynamic centrifuge tests", Geotechnical Testing Journal, 32(1):22-30. Yang, ZX, Li, XS, Yang, J (2008) "Interpretation of torsional shear results for nonlinear stress-strain relationship", INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS, 32(10):1247-1266. Su, Dong, Li, Xiang Song (2008) "Impact of Multi-directional Shaking on Liquefaction Potential of Level Sand Deposit", Geotechnique, 58(4):259-267. Yang, Zhongxuan, Li, Xiang Song, Yang, Jun (2008) "Quantifying and Modeling Fabric Anisotropy of Granular Soils", Geotechnique, 58(4):237-248. Yang, Zhongxuan, Li, Xiang Song, Yang, Jun (2007) "Interpretation of Torsional Shear Results for Nonlinear Stress-Strain Relationship", International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 32(10):1247-1266. Ming, Haiyan, Li, Xiang Song, Dafalias, Y.F. (2007) "Numerical Study of Impact of Soil Anisotropy on Seismic Performance of Retaining Structure", International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE, 7(5):382-388. Li, X.S. (2007) "Thermodynamics Based Constitutive Framework for Unsaturated Soils, Part 1: Theory", Geotechnique, 57(5):411- 422. Li, X.S. (2007) "Thermodynamics Based Constitutive Framework for Unsaturated Soils, Part 2: A basic triaxial model", Geotechnique, 57(5):423-435.

Wilson H TANG Professor Emeritus (2358 8700 ; [email protected])

PhD, Stanford University (1969) Professor (1980-95) and Associate Head (1989-91), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign Professor and Head, Department of Civil Engineering,HKUST(1996-2001)

Current Research Activities: Risk, reliability and decision analysis of engineering systems; uncertainty modeling.

Representative Research Publications: Zhang, Limin, Xu, Yao, Tang, Wilson H. (2008) "Calibration of models for pile settlement analysis using 64 field load tests", Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 45(1), 59-73. Law, Raymond P.H., Zhou, Gongdan, Ng, Charles W.W., Tang, Wilson H. (2008) "Experimental and three-dimensional numerical investigations of the impact of dry granular flow on a barrier", Proc. of 10th Int. Sym. On Landslides and Engineered Slopes. Taylor & Francis Group, Xi'an, China, June 30-July 4, 2008, 415-420. Katafygiotis, Lambros S., Zhang, Limin, Tang, Wilson H., Cheung, Moe M.S. (2008) Proc. the 4th Asian-Pacific Symposium on Structural Reliability and Its Applications APSSAR'08, Department of Civil Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, June 19-20, 2008. Zhang, Lulu, Zhang, Limin, Tang, Wilson H. (2008) "Similarity of soil variability in centrifuge models", Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 45(8), 1118-1129. Zhang, Jie, Tang, Wilson H., Zhang, Limin, Chu, Lai Fan (2008) "Study of efficient Markov chains for identifying geotechnical model uncertainty", Proc. the 4th Asian-Pacific Symposium on Structural Reliability and Its Applications APSSAR'08. Department of Civil Engineering,The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, June 19-20, 2008, 208-213. Li, Dianqing, Tang, Wilson H., Zhang, Limin (2008) "Updating occurrence probability and size of defect for bored piles", Structural Safety, 32(2), 130-143. Zhang, Jie, Tang, Wilson H., Zhang, Limin, Zheng, Yinren (2007) "Calibrating and comparing reliability analysis procedures for slope stability problems", Proceeding of the first international symposium on geotechnical safty&risk. Tongji University, Shanghai, China, October 18-19, 2007. FA-3-6. Low, Bak Kong, Tang, Wilson H. (2007) "Efficient Spreadsheet Algorithm for First-Order Reliability Method", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 133(12), 1378-1387.

Chun Man CHAN Associate Professor (2358 7173 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Waterloo (1993) Structural Engineer (1985-87) and Director of Computer Operations (1987-89), Office of Irwin G Cantor Assoicate(2001-02), Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Limited

Current Research Activities: Structural optimization of tall buildings; computer aided engineering; wind effects on buildings; seismic performance-based design, design of steel and composite structures.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Numerical wind load prediction and aerodynamic shape optimization of tall buildings RGC - General Research Fund HK$609,000 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications: Chan, Chun Man, Chui, J.K.L., Huang, Mingfeng (2009) "Integrated Aerodynamic Load Determination and Stiffness Design Optimization of Tall Buildings", Journal of Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings, Vol. 18, No. 1, 59-80. Chan, Chun-Man, Wong, Kin-Ming (2008) "Structural Topology and Element Sizing Design Optimisation of Tall Steel Frameworks Using a Hybrid OC-GA Method", Journal of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol. 35, No. 5, 473-478. Zou, Xiaokang, Chan, Chun-Man, Li, Gang, Wang, Qian (2007) "Multiobjective Optimization for Performance-Based Design of Reinforced Concrete Frames", Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 133, No. 10, 2007, 1462-1474. Cross, Paul, Vesey, David, Chan, Chun-Man (2007) "Analysis and Design Optimization of Highrise Structures", Computational Analysis of Complex Structures, ASCE. CHAN, Chun-Man, WANG, Qian (2006) "Nonlinear Stiffness Design Optimization of Tall Reinforced Concrete Buildings under Service Loads", Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 132, No. 6, 978-990. CHAN, Chun-Man, CHUI, J.K.L. (2006) "Wind-induced Response and Serviceability Design Optimization of Tall Steel Buildings", Journal of Engineering Structures, Vol. 28, No. 4, 503-513. ZOU, Xiao-Kang, CHAN, Chun-Man (2005) "An Optimal Resizing Technique for Seismic Drift Design of Concrete Buildings Subjected to Response Spectrum and Time History Loadings”, Computers and Structures", Computers and Structures, Vol. 83, Nos. 19- 20, 1689-1704. ZOU, Xiao-Kang, CHAN, Chun-Man (2005) "Optimal Seismic Performance-Based Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings Using Nonlinear Pushover Analysis", Journal of Engineering Structures, Vol. 27, No. 8, 1289-1302.

Alexis Kai-Hon LAU Director, Environmental Central Facility; Adjunct Associate Professor, MATH/AMCE (2358 6944 ; [email protected] ; http://envf.ust.hk)

PhD, Princeton University (1991) Research Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle (1993-94)

Current Research Activities: Air Quality and Environmental studies; Atmospheric science; Regional climate change; geophysical data analysis; numerical weather prediction.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Development of an observation-based model to study impact of secondary inorganic aerosols on visibility impairment in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,359,650 01 Jan 2007 Regional air quality data compilation Civic Exchange Limited HK$100,000 01 Dec 2007 Air quality study for Hong Kong and Beijing Civic Exchange Limited HK$110,000 01 Dec 2007 Air quality study for Pearl River Delta and Beijing Civic Exchange Limited HK$500,000 01 Jan 2008 Air quality improvement for the 16th Asian Game and beyond Fu Tak Iam Foundation Limited HK$3,000,000 01 Jan 2009 Air quality study for Pearl River Delta and Beijing UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$250,000 01 Jan 2008 Atmospheric research center Nansha Research Centers HK$6,224,000 01 Jul 2006 Atmospheric research center Nansha Research Centers HK$11,300,000 01 Jul 2008 An integrated system for real-time characterization of aerosols UGC Miscellaneous HK$2,831,000 01 Oct 2008 An integrated system for real-time characterization of aerosols UGC - Special Equipment Grant HK$9,437,962 01 Oct 2008

Representative Research Publications: Wang, Lei, Lau, Kai-Hon, Zhang, Qing-Hong, Fung, Chi-Hong (2008) "Observation of non-developing and developing tropical disturbances over the South China Sea using SSM/I satellite", Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L10802, doi:10.1029/2008GL033446. Lau, Alexis Kai-Hon, Wong, Tze Wai, Yu, Jian Zhen, Yu, Ignatius Tak-Sun, Louie, Peter Kwok Keung (2007) "Toxic Air Pollutant Monitoring in Hong Kong: Environmental and Health Implications", Air Pollution: New Research. Editor: James V. Livingston, 1- 78, ISBN 1-59454-569-3. Wang, Lei, Lau, Alexis Kai Hon, Fung, Jimmy Chi Hung, Gan, Jian Ping (2007) "The relative vorticity of ocean surface winds from the QuikSCAT satellite and its effects on the geneses of tropical cyclones in the South China Sea", Tellus A, Online Early Articles., doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2007.00249.x. Lo, Jeff C F, Lau, Alexis K H, Chen, Fei, Fung, Jimmy C H, Leung, Kenneth K M (2007) "Urban Modification in a Mesoscale Model and the Effects on the Local Circulation in the Pearl River Delta Region", Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 46, 457-474. Huang, Jian-Ping, Fung, Jimmy C H, Lau, Alexis K H (2006) "Integrated processes analysis and systematic meteorological classification of ozone episodes in Hong Kong", Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 111, D20309, doi:10.1029/2005JD007012. Lo, Jeff C F, Lau, Alexis K H, Fung, Jimmy C H, Chen, Fei (2006) "Investigation of enhanced cross-city transport and trapping of air pollutants by coastal and urban land-sea breeze circulations", Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 111, D14104, doi:10.1029/2005JD006837. Lam, Job Sai Lap, Lau, Alexis Kai Hon, Fung, Jimmy Chi Hung (2006) "Application of refined land-use categories for high resolution mesoscale atmospheric modeling", Boudnary-Layer Meteorology, 119 (2), 263-288. Yuan, Zibing, Lau, Alexis Kai Hon, Zhang, Hongyi, Yu, Jianzhen, Louie, Peter Kwok Keung, Fung, Jimmy Chi Hung (2006) "Identification and spatiotemporal variation of dominant PM 10 sources over Hong Kong", Atmospheric Environment, 40, 1805- 1815.

Chii SHANG Associate Professor (2358 7885 ; [email protected])

PhD, Purdue University (1999) Research Associate of Agricultural Engineering, National Taiwan University (1999-2000)

Current Research Activities: Physico/chemical processes; environmental chemistry/ instrumentation; disinfection processes/DBPs; heavy metal removal; subsurface contaminant transport remediation. Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Formation of nitrogenous disinfection by-products through interactions of chlorine, ammonia, bromide and organic matter RGC - General Research Fund HK$577,170 01 Jan 2009 The TiO2-modified UV-C disinfection process for inhibition of post-irradiation bacteria recovery: Mechanism assessment and process development RGC - General Research Fund HK$441,091 01 Nov 2007 The fate, transport, transformation and toxicity of manufactured carbon nanomaterials in wastewater UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$445,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications: Yang, Xin, Shang, Chii, Lee, Wontae, Westerhoff, Paul, Fan, Chihhao (2008) "Correlations between organic matter properties and DBP formation during chloramination", Water Research, 42(8-9), 2329-2339. Yang, Xin, Shang, Chii, Westerhoff, Paul (2007) "Factors affecting formation of haloacetonitriles, haloketones, chloropicrin and cyanogen halides during chloramination", Water Research, 41(6), 1193-1200. Fang, Qian, Shang, Chii, Chen, Guohua (2006) "MS2 inactivation by chloride-assisted electrochemical disinfection", Journal of Environmental Engineering, 132(1), 13-22. Liu, Wei, Cheung, Lo-Man, Yang, Xin, Shang, Chii (2006) "THM, HAA and CNCl formation from UV irradiation and chlor(am)ination of selected organic waters", Water Research, 40, 2033-2043. Shang, Chii, Wong, Hiu Man, Chen, Guang-Hao (2005) "Bacteriophage MS-2 removal by submerged membrane bioreactor", Water Research, 39(17), 4211-4219. Yang, Xin, Shang, Chii (2004-2005) "Chlorination byproduct formation in the presence of humic acid, model nitrogenous organic compounds, ammonia and bromide", Environmental Science & Technology, 38(19), 4995-5001. Xie, Li, Shang, Chii (2004-2005) "Role of humic acid and quinone model compounds in bromate reduction by zero valent iron", Environmental Science & Technology, 39(4), 1092-1100.

Yu-Hsing WANG Associate Professor (2358 8757 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~ceyhwang/)

PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology (2001) Engineer, Taiwan Area National Expressway Engineering Bureau, Taiwan (1996-97)

Current Research Activities: Damping mechanisms in particulate media; Innovativewave-based characterizations; physico-chemical soil behavior; Initiation mechanisms of flow landslides.

Representative Research Publications: Dong, Xiaobo, Wang, Yu-Hsing (2009) "A broadband dielectric measurement technique: theory, experimental verification, and application", Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 25-38. Wang, Yu-Hsing, Ma, Chun Hung (2009) "Characterizing bond breakages in cemented sands using a MEMS accelerometer", Geotechnical Testing Journal, ASTM, Vol. 32, No. 2, DOI: 10.1520/GTJ101469. Wang, Yu-Hsing, Tsui, King Yuen (2009) "Experimental characterization of dynamic property changes in aged sands", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 135, No. 2, pp. 259-270. Wang, Yu-Hsing, Xu, Dapeng, Tsui, King Yuen (2008) "Discrete element modeling of contact creep and aging in sand", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 134, No. 9, pp. 1407-1411. Wang, Yu-Hsing, Leung, Shun-Cheong (2008) "Integrated characterizations of cemented sand by experimental investigation and numerical simulations", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 134, No. 7, pp. 992-1004. Wang, Yu-Hsing, Mok, Chit Man Benjamin (2008) "Mechanisms of small-strain shear-modulus anisotropy in soils", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 134, No. 10, pp. 1516-1530. Dong, Xiaobo, Wang, Yu-Hsing (2008) "The effects of the pH-influenced structure on the dielectric properties of kaolinite sediments", Soil Science Society of America Journal, Vol. 72, No. 6, pp. 1532-1541. Wang, Yu-Hsing, Leung, Shun Cheong (2008) "A particulate-scale investigation of cemented sand behavior", Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 29-44.

Limin ZHANG Associate Professor; Associate Director, Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility (2358 8720 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~cezhangl)

PhD, Sichuan University (1989) Visiting Scientist, Karlsruhe University (1995) Post-doc Associate, University of Florida (1996-1998)

Current Research Activities: Pile foundations; embankments and slopes; multi-phase flow; centrifuge modeling; geotechnical risk and reliability-based design.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Water infiltration through cracked soils for landslides study RGC - General Research Fund HK$962,880 01 Dec 2006 Investigation of failure of embankment dams and levees - from initiation to breach RGC - General Research Fund HK$770,986 01 Dec 2007 System performance and reliability of bridge pile foundations in inland waterways subject to vessel impact RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,002,798 01 Sep 2008 An explicit risk-based approach for large-dam safety decisions UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$620,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications: Zhang, L.M. (2009) "Challenges in multi-hazard risk assessment and management: Geohazard chain in Beichuan Town caused by Great Wenchuan Earthquake", Proc. 2nd International Symposium on Geotechnical Safety ands Risk (IS-Gifu 2009), Gifu, Japan, 11-12 June 2009, Taylor & Francis Group, London, 237-244. Li, X., Zhang, L.M. (2009) "Characterization of dual-structure pore-size distribution of soil", Canadian Geotech Journal, 46, 2, 129- 141. Zhang, L.M., Chu, L.F. (2009) "Developing partial factors for serviceability limit state design of large-diameter bored piles", Contemporary Topics in In Situ Testing, Analysis, and Reliability of Foundations, ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication No. 186, - International Foundations Congress and Equipment Expo ‘09 (IFCEE09), Orlando, USA, 15-19 March 2009, 262-269. Zhang, L.M., Wong, Eric Y.W. (2007) "Centrifuge modeling of large diameter bored pile groups with defects", Journal of Geotech. Geoenviron. Engrg., ASCE, 133(9), 1091-1101. Kong, L.G., Zhang, L.M. (2007) "Centrifuge modeling of response of pile groups under torsion", Journal of Geotech. Geoenviron. Engrg., ASCE, 133(11), 1374-1384. Zhang, L.M., Wang, H. (2007) "Development of residual forces in long driven piles in weathered soils", Journal of Geotech. Geoenviron. Engrg., ASCE, 133(10), 1216-1228. Zhang, L.M., Chen, Qun (2006) "Analysis of seepage failure of the Gouhou rockfill dam during reservoir water infiltration", Soils and Foundations, 46(5), 557-568. Zhang, Limin, Li, D.Q., Tang, W.H. (2006) "Impact of routine quality assurance on reliability of bored piles", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 132(5), 622-630.

Wei Chung HU Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 7179 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of South Australia Current Research Activities: Adjustment computations, satellite geodesy and Hamiltonian mechanics, symmetry groups in PDEs, engineering education with emphasis on implementation of e-mathematics (CAS/spreadsheet methods/VBA).

Representative Research Publications: Hu, Wei Chung (2007-2008) Efficient Methods for Least Squares Estimation, Publisher: McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 9780071281768.

Gang WANG Assistant Professor (2358 7161 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Current Research Activities: Geotechnical earthquake engineering and soil dynamics; computational geomechanics; numerical modeling of soil-structure interaction; micromechanics of heterogenous materials.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Monitoring and mitigation of blast vibration damage to urban infrastructure RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$200,000 01 Jun 2009 Developing multiscale hydrogeological system for slope hazard monitoring, modeling and mitigation in Hong Kong UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$117,000 02 Feb 2009

Representative Research Publications: Li, Shaofan, Wang, Gang (2008) Introduction to Micromechanics and Nanomechanics, World Scientific Publishing, 500 pages.

Xiangru ZHANG Assistant Professor (2358 8479 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Current Research Activities: Water and wastewater treatment process chemistry; emerging contaminant detection and control; environmental sensors; drinking water security.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Fast selective detection and occurrence assessment of highly polar halogenated disinfection byproducts in drinking water RGC - General Research Fund HK$607,136 01 Oct 2007 Identification, Formation and Toxicity of Polar Brominated Disinfection Byproducts from Chlorination of Saline Sewage Effluents RGC - General Research Fund HK$663,469 31 Dec 2008 Detection of iodinated disinfection byproducts in drinking water RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$167,160 15 Dec 2006

Representative Research Publications: Zhai, Hongyan, Zhang, Xiangru (2009) "A new method for differentiating adducts of common drinking water DBPs from higher molecular weight DBPs in electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry analysis", Water Research, 43(8): 2093-2100. Xiao, Feng, Zhang, Xiangru, Ma, Jun (2009) "Relative insignificant role of electrophoretic mobility determination in evaluating Fe(III) coagulation performance", Separation and Purification Technology, 68: 273-278. Xiao, Feng, Zhang, Xiangru, Lee, C. (2008) "Is electrophoretic mobility determination meaningful for aluminum(III) coagulation of kaolinite suspension?", Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 327: 348-353. Liu, Guojing, Zhang, Xiangru, Talley, J.W., Neal, C.R., Wang, H.Y. (2008) "Effect of NOM on arsenic adsorption by TiO2 in simulated As(III)-contaminated raw waters", Water Research, 42(8-9): 2309-2319. Zhang, Xiangru, Talley, J.W., Boggess, B., Ding, Guoyu, Birdsell, D. (2008) "Fast selective detection of polar brominated disinfection byproducts in drinking water using precursor ion scans", Environmental Science and Technology, 42(17): 6598-6603. Liu, Guojing, Zhang, Xiangru, McWilliams, L., Talley, J.W., Neal, C.R. (2008) "Influence of ionic strength, electrolyte type, and NOM on As(V) adsorption onto TiO2", Journal of Environmental Science and Health - Part A, 43(4), 430-436. Liu, Guojing, Zhang, Xiangru, Talley, J.W. (2007) "Effect of copper(II) on natural organic matter removal during drinking water coagulation using aluminum-based coagulants", Water Environmental Research, 79(6): 593–599. Zhang, Xiangru, Minear, R.A. (2006) "Control of high molecular weight disinfection byproducts in drinking water by coagulation", Water Science and Technology: Water Supply, 6(6): 137–146.

Xueqing ZHANG Assistant Professor (2358 8480 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Project management and financial engineering; construction engineering and management; management information system; computer simulation.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Performance of rubber dams RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$167,160 01 Dec 2006

Representative Research Publications: Mao, X. M., Zhang, Xueqing (2008) "Construction process reengineering by integrating lean principles and computer simulation techniques", Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 134 (5), 371-381. Mao, Xiaoming, Zhang, Xueqing, AbourRizk, Simaan, M. (2008) "Construction process reengineering by integrating lean principles and computer simulation techniques", Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 134 (5), 371-381. Zhang, Xueqing (2007) "Financial engineering in infrastructure development through public private partnerships", keynote speech, International Conference on Concession Public/Infrastructure Projects, Dalian, China, 38-50, August 24-26. Mao, Xiaoming, Zhang, Xueqing, AbouRizk, Simaan, M. (2007) "Integrating theory of inventive problem solving into the value engineering process", Innovations in Structure Engineering and Construction, Taylor & Francis Group, Volume 2, 1453-1458. Zhang, Xueqing (2007) "Flexible structures", International Water Power & Dam Construction, 59(2), 32-37. Zhang, Xueqing (2006) "Factor analysis of public clients' best value objective in public-privately partnered infrastructure projects", Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 132(9), 956-965. Zhang, Xueqing (2006) "Markov-based optimization model for building facilities management", Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 132(11), 1203-1211. Jidong ZHAO Assistant Professor (2358 8481 ; [email protected])

PhD, Tsinghua

Current Research Activities: Constitutive modeling of geomaterials; nonlinear finite elements; micromechanics and multiscale modeling of granular materials; gradient plasticity; limit and shakedown analysis; soft soil.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Experimental and numerical shakedown analysis of asphalt pavements in Hong Kong RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$200,000 20 Oct 2008 Micromechanics-based modeling of collapse in soils and earth structures UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$117,000 02 Feb 2009

Representative Research Publications: Pedroso, D, Sheng, DC, Zhao, Jidong (2009) "The concept of reference curves for constitutive modelling in soil mechanics", Computers & Geotechnics, 36(1-2): 149-165. Zhao, Jidong, Pedroso, D (2008) "Strain Gradient Theory in Orthogonal Curvilinear Coordinates", International Journal of Solids and Structures, 45: 3507-3520. Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Mounir HAMDI, Head of Department and Professor

Roland T CHIN, Chair Professor and Vice-President for Academic Affairs

Lionel M NI, Chair Professor

Ting Chuen PONG, Professor and Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs

Siu Wing CHENG, Professor; Associate Head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Director of Sino Software Research Institute.

Cunsheng DING, Professor

Mordecai J GOLIN, Professor

Andrew B HORNER, Professor

Dik Lun LEE, Professor

Bo LI, Professor

Fangzhen LIN, Professor

Frederick H LOCHOVSKY, Professor

Dimitris PAPADIAS, Professor

Long QUAN, Professor

Vincent Y SHEN, Professor of Computer Science; Manager of W3C Office in Hong Kong

Steven S SKIENA, Visiting Professor

Chi-Keung TANG, Professor

Qiang YANG, Professor

Dit-Yan YEUNG, Professor

Lianwen (Nevin) ZHANG, Professor

Heung Yeung SHUM, Adjunct Professor

Sunil ARYA, Associate Professor

Brahim BENSAOU, Associate Professor

Gary Shueng-Han CHAN, Associate Professor

Shing Chi CHEUNG, Associate Professor; Associate Director of Cyberspace Center

Albert Chi-Shing CHUNG, Associate Professor

James Tin-Yau KWOK, Associate Professor

Yunhao LIU, Associate Professor

Qiong LUO, Associate Professor

Brian Kan-Wing MAK, Associate Professor

Jogesh K MUPPALA, Associate Professor

Wilfred Siu Hung NG, Associate Professor

Helen C SHEN, Associate Professor

Chiew-Lan TAI, Associate Professor

Dekai WU, Associate Professor Qian ZHANG, Associate Professor

Lei CHEN, Assistant Professor

Lin GU, Assistant Professor

Sunghun KIM, Assistant Professor

Huamin QU, Assistant Professor

David ROSSITER, Visiting Assistant Professor

Pedro V SANDER, Assistant Professor

Raymond C W WONG, Assistant Professor

Ke YI, Assistant Professor

Charles C ZHANG, Assistant Professor Mounir HAMDI Head of Department and Professor (2358 6984 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Pittsburgh (1991)

Current Research Activities: High-speed networking; ATM packet switching; wireless communications; parallel computing; high-performance computer architectures.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Multi-stage architectures for high-capacity Internet routers RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$50,000 01 Jan 2006 QoS-Capable Internet Switches and Routers with Wireless Support UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$400,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Wu, B., Li, Xin, Yeung, L., Hamdi, Mounir (2009) "Minimizing Internal Speedup for Performance Guaranteed Switches with Optical Fabrics", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 17, Issue 2, Page(s): 632 - 645. Wang, Fang, Hamdi, Mounir, Muppala, K R Jogesh (2009) "Using Parallel DRAM to Scale Router Buffers", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 20, No. 5, May 2009, pp. 710-724. Pu, Jian, Hamdi, Mounir (2008) "Enhancements on Router-Assisted Congestion Control for Wireless Networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, June 2008, pp. 2253 - 2260. Xia, Qiuyan, Hamdi, Mounir (2008) "Smart Sender: A Practical Rate Adaptation Algorithm for Multirate IEEE 802.11 WLANs", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, May 2008, pp. 1764 - 1775. Xia, Qiuyan, Hamdi, Mounir (2007) "Cross Layer Design for IEEE 802.11 WLANs: Joint Rate Control and Packet Scheduling", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, pp. 2732-2740, July 2007. Hamdi, Mounir, Elhanany, Itamar (2007) High Performance Packet Switching Architectures, Springer London. Li, Xin, Hamdi, Mounir (2003) "On Scheduling Optical Switches with Reconfiguration Delay", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 21, No. 7, pp. 1156-1165, Sept. Chan, Lawrence, Hamdi, Mounir (2003) "An Active Queue Management Scheme Based on a Capture-Recapture Model", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 21, Issue 4, pp. 572-283.

Roland T CHIN Chair Professor and Vice-President for Academic Affairs (2358 6161 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Missouri-Columbia (1979) Analyst, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (1979-81) Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1981-95)

Current Research Activities: Computer vision; image processing; pattern recognition; digital signal processing.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited (NAMI) Innovation and Technology Commission HK$61,400,000 20 Apr 2006

Representative Research Publications: Ngai, E.C.H., Lyu, Michael, Chin, Roland (2004) "An authentication service against dishonest users in mobile ad hoc networks", IEEE Aerospace Conference, March. Wong, P.H.W., Hung, R.T.W., Lee, J.Y.B., Liew, S.C., Kim, C.S., Chin, Roland (2003-2004) "Rate estimation for H.264/AVC spatial resolution reduction", International Conference on Image Processing. Cheung, K. W., Yeung, D. Y., Chin, R. T. (2002) "Bidirectional deformable matching with application to handwritten character extraction", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, PAMI-24, no. 8. Cheung, K. W., Yeung, D. Y., Chin, R. T. (2002) "On deformable models for visual pattern recognition", Pattern Recognition, Vol 35, no. 7. Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C., Chin, R.T. (2001) "Exploiting image indexing techniques in DCT domains", Pattern Recognition, 34(9). Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C., Zhang, H.J., Chin, R.T. (2001) "On clustering and retrieval of video shots", ACM Multimedia Modeling, Ottawa, Canada. Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C., Chin, R.T. (2001) "Video partitioning through temporal slice coherency", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 11(8).

Lionel M NI Chair Professor (2358 7009 ; [email protected])

PhD, Purdue University (1980) Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University (1981-2002) Director of Microelectronic Systems Architecture Program, US National Science Foundation (1995-96)

Current Research Activities: Pervasive computing; computer architecture; computer networking; Internet technologies; interconnection networks; distributed systems; operating systems; wireless communications.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Probabilistic Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks RGC - General Research Fund HK$321,033 01 Oct 2008 On-chip network design and scheduling parallel programs Intel Corporation HK$234,000 01 Jun 2007 On-chip network design and scheduling parallel programs Intel Corporation HK$452,400 01 Oct 2008 Operating system courseware using Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Research Asia HK$195,000 01 Dec 2004 Special project of MSRA 10th anniversary for joint labs Microsoft Research Asia HK$120,000 01 Aug 2007 Fundamental theory and key technologies of wireless sensor network Ministry of Science and Technology HK$841,050 01 Sep 2006 Fundamental theory and critical technologies for wireless sensor networks UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$1,000,000 01 Sep 2007 Digital Life Research Center Nansha Research Centers HK$8,384,000 01 Jul 2006 Digital Life Research Center Nansha Research Centers HK$10,000,000 01 Jul 2008 Trustworthy computing for large-scale peer-to-peer systems National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$799,000 01 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications: Zhu, Hongzi, Zhu, Yanmin, Li, Minglu, Ni, Lionel M S (2009) "HERO: Online Real-time Vehicle Tracking", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 740-752. Liu, Yunhuai, Zhang, Qian, Ni, Lionel (2008) "Opportunity-based Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks", the 28th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. Zhu, Yanmin, Ni, Lionel (2008) "Probabilistic Approach to Provisioning Guaranteed QoS for Distributed Event Detection", Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2008. Ni, Lionel, Liu, Yunhao, Zhu, Yanmin (2007) "China's National Research Project on Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp. 78-83. Zhang, Dian, Ma, Jian, Chen, Quanbin, Ni, Lionel (2007) "An RF-based System for Tracking Transceiver-free Objects", Proc. of the 2007 IEEE Annual Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2007), New York, March 2007. Zhu, Feng, Mutka, Matt, Ni, Lionel Ming-Shuan (2006) "A Private, Secure, and User-centric Information Exposure Model for Service Discovery Protocols", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 418-429. Zhu, Feng, Mutka, Matt, Ni, Lionel Ming-Shuan (2005) "Service Discovery in Pervasive Computing Environments", IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 81-90. Ni, Lionel, Liu, Yunhao, Lau, Yiu-C, Patil, Abshiek (2004) "LANDMARC: Indoor Location Sensing Using Active RFID", ACM Wireless Network, Vol. 10, pp. 701-710.

Ting Chuen PONG Professor and Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs (2358 6974 ; [email protected])

PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1984) Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Minnesota (1990-95)

Current Research Activities: Computer vision; artificial intelligence; pattern recognition; robotics; image analysis.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Techniques for Visualizing Uncertainty in Large-scale Astrophysical Data RGC - General Research Fund HK$300,322 15 Oct 2008 Interactive multimedia virtual campus Education Bureau, Government of HKSAR HK$180,000 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications: Wang, Feng, Ngo, C.W., Pong, Ting Chuen (2008) "Simulation a Smartboard by Real-time Gesture Detection in Lecture Videos", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 10, No. 5. Wang, Feng, Ngo, C.W., Pong, Ting Chuen (2008) "Structuring Low-quality Videotaped Lectures for Cross-Reference Browsing by Video Text Analysis", Pattern Recognition, Vol. 41, No. 10. Wang, F, Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C. (2007) "Lecture Video Editing by Integrating Posture, Gesture and Text", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Volume 9, Number 2, page 397-409. Wang, Feng, Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C. (2005) "Exploiting Self-Adaptive Posture-base Focus Estimation for Lecture Video Editing", ACM Multimedia Conference, Singapore. Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C., Zhang, H.J. (2003) "Motion Analysis and Segmentation through Spatio-Temporal Slices Processing", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 341-355. Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C., Zhang, H.J. (2002) "Motion-based Video Representation for Scene Change Detection", International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 127-142. Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C., Chin, R. (2001) "Exploiting Image Indexing Techniques in DCT Domain", Pattern Recognition, 34. Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C., Chin, R. (2001) "Video Partitioning by Temporal Slice Coherency", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 11.

Siu Wing CHENG Professor; Associate Head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Director of Sino Software Research Institute. (2358 6973 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cs.ust.hk/faculty/scheng) PhD, University of Minnesota (1992)

Current Research Activities: Computational geometry, mesh generation, manifold reconstruction, data structures, design and analysis of algorithms.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Deforming surface triangulations RGC - General Research Fund HK$396,000 01 Jan 2008 Reconstructing Manifolds of Arbitrary Topology RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,317,900 01 Sep 2009

Representative Research Publications: Cheng, Siu Wing, Chiu, Man-Kwun (2009) "Dimension detection via slivers", Proceedings of the 20th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, New York, January 4-6, 2009, pages 1001-1010. Cheng, Siu-Wing, Na, Hyeon-Suk, Vigneron, Antoine, Wang, Yajun (2008) "Approximate Shortest Paths in Anisotropic Regions", SIAM Journal on Computing, volume 38, 802-824. Cheng, Siu-Wing, Dey, Tamal (2008) "Maintaining Deforming Surface Meshes", Proceedings of the 19th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 112-121, Jan 20-22, 2008. Cheng, Siu-Wing, Dey, Tamal, Ramos, Edgar, Ray, Tathagata (2007) "Sampling and Meshing a Surdface with Guaranteed Topology and Geometry", SIAM Journal on Computing, volume 37, 1199-1227. Cheng, Siu-Wing, Na, Hyeon-Suk, Vigneron, Antoine, Wang, Yajun (2007) "Querying Approximate Shortest Paths in Anisotropic Regions", Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry, June 6-8, 84-91. Cheng, Siu-Wing, Poon, Sheung-Hung (2006) "Three-Dimensional Delaunay Mesh Generation", Discrete & Computational Geometry, 36, 419-456. Cheng, Siu-Wing, Dey, Tamal K., Ramos, Edgar A. (2005) "Manifold Reconstruction from Point Samples", Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2005, 1018-1027. Cheng, Siu-Wing, Dey, Tamal K., Edelsbrunner, Herbert, Facello, Michael A., Teng, Shang-Hua (2000) "Sliver Exudation", Journal of Association of Computer Machinery, 47, 883-904.

Cunsheng DING Professor (2358 7021 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cse.ust.hk/faculty/cding/)

PhD, University of Turku, Finland (1997) Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore (1997-2000)

Current Research Activities: Cryptography; coding theory; computer security.

Representative Research Publications: Ding, Cunsheng (2009) "Optimal and perfect difference systems of sets", J. Combinatorial Theory Ser. A, Vol. 116, No. 1, pp. 109-- 119. Ding, Cunsheng (2009) "The weight distribution of some irreducible cyclic codes", IEEE Trans. Information Theory, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 955--960. Ding, Cunsheng (2008) "Optimal constant composition codes from zero-difference balanced functions", IEEE Trans. Information Theory, Vol. 54, No. 12, pp. 5766--5770. Ding, Cunsheng, Yin, Jianxing (2008) "Sets of optimal frequency hopping sequences", IEEE Trans. Information Theory, Vol. 54, No. 8, pp. 3741--3745, August 2008. Ding, Cunsheng, Feng, Tao (2007) "A generic construction of complex codebooks meeting the Welch bound", IEEE Trans. Information Theory, Vol. 53, No. 11, pp. 4245--4250. Ding, Cunsheng, Mioso, Marko, Yuan, Jin (2007) "Algebraic constructions of optimal frequency hopping sequences", IEEE Trans. Information Theory, Vol. 53, No. 7, pp. 2606--2610. Ding, Cunsheng, Wang, Zeying, Xiang, Qing (2007) "Skew Hadamard difference sets from the Ree-Tifts slice sympletic spreads in PG(3, 3^{2h+1})", J. Combinatorial Theory A, Vol. 114, No. 5, pp. 867--887. Ding, Cunsheng, Helleseth, Tor, Klove, Torleiv, Wang, Xuesong (2007) "A general construction of authentication codes", IEEE Trans. Information Theory, Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 2229--2235.

Mordecai J GOLIN Professor (2358 6993 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cs.ust.hk/~golin/)

PhD, Princeton University (1990) Researcher, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (1990-92)

Current Research Activities: Design and analysis of algorithms; computational geometry; combinatorics; information theory.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: On the existence and construction of restricted prefix-free codes RGC - General Research Fund HK$396,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Golin, Mordecai, Li, Jian (2008) "More Efficient Algorithms and Analyses for Unequal Letter Cost Prefix-Free Coding", More Efficient Algorithms and Analyses for Unequal Letter Cost Prefix-Free Coding, 54(8). Bar-Noy, Amotz, Feng, Yi, Golin, Mordecai (2007) "Paging Mobile Users Efficiently and Optimally", Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2007), 1910-1918, 6-12 May 2007, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Fleischer, Rudolf, Golin, Mordecai, Zhang, Yan (2006) "Online Maintenance of k-Medians and k-Covers on a Line", Algorithmica, 45(4), August 2006, pp 549-567. Cheng, Siu-WIng, Funke, Stefan, Golin, Mordecai, Kumar, Piyush, Poon, Sheung-Hung, Ramos, Edgar (2005) "Curve reconstruction from noisy samples", Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, Volume 31, pp 63-100. Biedl, Therese, Chan, Timothy, Demaine, Erik, Fleischer, Rudolf, Golin, Mordecai, King, James, Munro, Erik (2004) "Fun-Sort-- or the Chaos of Unordered Binary Search", Discrete Applied Mathematics, 144, pp. 231-236. Ahn, H-K, Cheng, Siu-Wing, Choeng, Otfried, Golin, Mordecai, Oostrum, R. Van (2003-2004) "Competitive facility location: the Voronoi game", Theoretical Computer Science, (310) 1-3 457-467. Ding, Cunsheng, Golin, Mordecai, Klove, Torliev (2003-2004) "Meeting the Welch and Karystinos-Pados Bounds on DS-CDMA Binary Signature Sets", Designs, Codes and Cryptography, (30) 73-84. Golin, Mordecai, Naa, Hyeonsuk (2003) "On the Average Complexity of 3D-Voronoi Diagrams of Random Points On Convex Polytopes", Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, Vol. 25, pp. 197-231.

Andrew B HORNER Professor (2358 6998 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cs.ust.hk/~horner)

PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1993) Current Research Activities: Computer music; audio engineering; psychoacoustics; musical acoustics; genetic algorithms.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Effects of Critical Band Data Reduction on Musical Instrument Sounds RGC - General Research Fund HK$315,855 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Horner, Andrew, Beauchamp, James, So, Richard (2009) "Detection of Time-Varying Harmonic Amplitude Alterations due to Spectral Interpolations between Musical Instrument Tones", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125(1), 492-502. Fröjd, Martin, Horner, Andrew (2009) "Sound Texture Synthesis using An Overlap-Add/Granular Synthesis Approach", Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 57(1/2), 29-37. Horner, Andrew, Beauchamp, James (2008) "Instrument Modeling and Synthesis", Handbook of Signal Processing in Acoustics, D. Havelock, S. Kuwano, and M. Vorlander, editors, New York: Springer, pp. 375-397. Horner, Andrew (2007) "A Comparison of Wavetable and FM Data Reduction Methods for Resynthesis of Musical Sounds", Book chapter in Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Musical Sounds, J. Beauchamp, editor, New York: Springer, pp. 228-249. Horner, Andrew (2007) "Evolution in Digital Audio Technology", Book chapter in Evolutionary Computer Music, E. R. Miranda, J.A. Biles, editors, London: Springer, pp. 52-78. Horner, Andrew, Beauchamp, James, So, Richard (2006) "A Search for Best Error Metrics to Predict Discrimination of Original and Spectrally Altered Musical Instrument Sounds", Journal of the Audio Engineering Society,, 54(3), 140-156. Horner, Andrew, Beauchamp, James, So, Richard (2004) "Detection of Random Alterations to Time-Varying Musical Instrument Spectra", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116(3), pp. 1800-1810. Horner, Andrew, Ayers, Lydia (2002) Cooking with Csound Part 1: Woodwind and Brass Recipes, Madison Wisconsin: A-R Editions (Computer Music and Digital Audio Series).

Dik Lun LEE Professor (2358 7017 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cse.ust.hk/~dlee/)

PhD, University of Toronto (1985) Associate Professor, Ohio State University (1991-94)

Current Research Activities: Database systems; information retrieval; mobile computing.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Architectures, indexing and scheduling in an open data broadcast system RGC - General Research Fund HK$413,618 16 Dec 2007 Semantic location modeling, distance browsing and query processing for mobile indoor applications RGC - General Research Fund HK$688,000 01 Dec 2006

Representative Research Publications: Ye, Mao, Tang, Xueyan, Lee, Dik Lun (2009) "Fair Delay Tolerant Mobile Data Ferrying", 10th International Conference on Mobile Data Management: Systems, Services and Middleware (MDM 2009), Taipei, Taiwan, Apr. 2009. Li, Dandan, Lee, Dik Lun (2008) "A topology-based semantic location model for indoor applications", 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2008), Irvine, CA, USA, Nov 2008, Article No. 6, 10 pages. Li, Dandan, Zhu, Qijun, Lee, Dik Lun (2008) "An Embedded Indoor Location Model for Query Processing", 2008 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'08)Nevada, USA, July, 2008, 747-753. Leung, Wai Ting, Ng, Wilfred S H, Lee, Dik Lun (2008) "Personalized Concept-Based Clustering of Search Engine Queries", IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering (TKDE), 20(11): 1505-1518. Chen, Qiuxia, Lee, Dik Lun, Lee, Wang Chien (2008) "Rule-Based WiFi Localization Methods", IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2008), Shanghai, China, Dec 2008, 252-258. Lee, Dik Lun (2008) "To Find or To be Found, That is the Question in Mobile Information Retrieval", SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Mobile Information Retrieval (MobIR 2008), Singapore, July, 2008, 7-10. Li, Dandan, Lee, Dik Lun (2008) "A Lattice-based Semantic Location Model for Indoor Navigation", 9th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'08), Beijing, China, Apr, 2008. Dang, E.K.F., Luk, Robert, Ho, Kei Shiu Edward, Chan, Stephen Chi Fai, Lee, Dik Lun (2008) "A New Measure of Clustering Effectiveness: Algorithms and Experimental Studies", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Vol. 59, No. 3, Feb 2008, 390-406.

Bo LI Professor (2358 6976 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cs.ust.hk/faculty/bli/index.html)

PhD, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1993) Member of Technical Staff, IBM Networking System adjunct researcher, Microsoft Research Asia

Current Research Activities: Peer-to-peer communications, video streaming over the Internet, content distribution, and sensor networks.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Internet Video Broadcast: Server Allocations and Placement RGC - General Research Fund HK$642,067 01 Dec 2008 Non-cooperative behavior and control in wireless ad hoc networks RGC - General Research Fund HK$696,000 01 Nov 2007 Large Scale Peer-to-Peer based Live Video Streaming over the Internet: Theory and Practice National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$791,000 15 Dec 2007 Inside coolstreaming: design options and measurements UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$620,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications: Li, Bo, Xie, Susu, Qu, Yang, Keung, Yi, Liu, Jiangchuan, Lin, Chuang, Zhang, Xinyan (2008) "Inside the New Coolstreaming: Principles, Measurements and Performance Implications,”", IEEE Infocom, Phoenix, AZ, April 13-17, 2008, 1031-1039. Liu, Jiangchuan, Rao, Sanjay, Li, Bo, Zhang, Hui (2008) "Opportunities and Challenges of Peer-to-Peer Internet Video Broadcast", Proceedings of the IEEE, 96(1):11-24, January 2008. Long, Chengnian, Li, Bo, Zhang, Qian, Zhao, Bin, Yang, Bo, Guan, Xinping (2008) "The End-to-End Rate Control in Multiple- Hop Wireless Networks: Cross-Layer Formulation and Optimal Allocation", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Control and Communications, 26(4):719-731, May 2008. Li, Bo, Xie, Susu, Keung, Yi, Liu, Jiangchuan, Stocai, Ion, Zhang, Hui, Zhang, Xinyan (2007) "Inside the New Coolstreaming: Principles and Measurements", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 25(9):1-13, December 2007. Long, Chengnian, Zhang, Qian, Li, Bo, Yang, Huilong, Guan, Xinping (2007) "Non-Cooperative Power Control for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Repeated Games", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 25(6):1101-1112, August 2007. Zhang, Xinyan, Liu, Jiangchuan, Li, Bo, Yum, Peter (2005) "DONet: A Data-Driven Overlay Network For Efficient Live Media Streaming", IEEE Infocom’2005, Miami, Florida, March 13-17. Liu, Jiangchuan, Li, Bo, Zhang, Ya-Qin (2004) "An End-to-End Adaptation Protocol for Layered Video Multicast Using Optimal Rate Allocation", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, (6)7: 87-102, February. Wu, Si, Wong, Michael, Li, Bo (2002) "A dynamic call admission control policy with precision QoS guarantee using stochastic control for mobile wireless networks", IEEE /ACM Transactions on Networking, 10, 257-271. Fangzhen LIN Professor (2358 6975 ; [email protected])

PhD, Stanford University (1991)

Current Research Activities: Artificial intelligence; knowledge representations; robotics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Proving the termination of certain Golog programs RGC - General Research Fund HK$327,937 01 Sep 2008 First-order loop formulas RGC - General Research Fund HK$534,000 01 Nov 2006

Representative Research Publications: Lin, Fangzhen, Chen, Yin (2007) "Discovering Classes of Strongly Equivalent Logic Programs", Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 28: 431-451. Lin, Fangzhen, Zhou, Yi (2007) "From Answer Set Logic Programming to Circumscription via Logic of GK", International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'07), 441-446, January 2007. Zhou, Yi, Lin, Fangzhen, Zhang, Yan (2007) "General Default Logic", International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR'07), 241-253, May 2007. Nayak, Abhaya, Chen, Yin, Lin, Fangzhen (2006) "Forgetting and Knowledge Update", Australian Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2006, 131-140, December 2006. LIN, Fangzhen, CHEN, Yin (2005) "Discovering classes of strongly equivalent logic programs", Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, 30 JULY - 5 AUGUST 2005. Joohyung, Lee, Fangzhen, Lin (2004) " Loop formulas for circumscription", National Conference of American Association for Artificial Intelligence, San Jose, CA, pp. 281-286, July 2004. Fangzhen, Lin, Zhao, Yuting (2004) "ASSAT: Computing answer sets of a logic program by SAT solvers.", Artificial Intelligence, 157(1-2): 115-137. Fangzhen, Lin, Xishun, Zhao (2004) "On odd and even cycles in normal logic programs.", National Conference of American Association for Artificial Intelligence, San Jose, CA, July 2004, pp 80-85.

Frederick H LOCHOVSKY Professor (2358 6996 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cse.ust.hk/~fred)

PhD, University of Toronto (1978) Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto (1988-94) Visiting Scientist, IBM San Jose Research Lab (1983) Visiting Professor, The Boeing Company (1997-1998)

Current Research Activities: Information systems design; database design; data and knowledge base integration; Web information management.

Representative Research Publications: Su, Weifeng, Wang, Jiying, Lochovsky, Frederick (2009) "ODE: Ontology-assisted data extraction", ACM Trans. on Database Systems, Volume 34, Issue 2, Article No. 12 (June 2009). Hu, Jian, Wang, Gang, Lochovsky, Frederick, Sun, Jian-Tao, Chen, Zheng (2009) "Understanding user’s query intent with Wikipedia", 18th International World Wide Web Conference, Madrid, Spain, April 20-24, 471-480. Su, Weifeng, Wang, Jiying, Lochovsky, Frederick (2006) "Holistic schema matching for web query interfaces", Proc. 10th Intl. Conf. on Extending Database Technology, Munich, Germany, 26-30 March, 77-94. Pun, Joshua C.C., Lochovsky, Frederick (2005) "Finding high-quality web pages using cohesiveness", Proc. 10th Intl. Conf. on Information Quality, Cambridge, U.S.A., 4-6November, 247-261. Wang, Gang, Lochovsky, Frederick, Yang, Qiang (2004) "Feature selection with conditional mutual information maximin in text categorization", Proc. 13th ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management, 342-349. Wang, Jiying, Wen, Ji-Rong, Lochovsky, Frederick, Ma, Wei-Ying (2004) "Instance-based schema matching for web databases by domain-specific query probing", Proc. 30th Intl. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases, 408-419. Pun, Joshua, Lochovsky, Frederick (2004) "Ranking search results by web quality dimensions", Journal of Web Engineering, 3(3&4), 216-235. Wang, Jiying, Lochovsky, Frederick (2003) "Data extraction and semantic assignment for Web databases", Proc. 12th Intl. World Wide Web Conference, 20-24 May, Budapest, Hungary, 187-196.

Dimitris PAPADIAS Professor (2358 6971 ; [email protected])

PhD, NTU Athens (1994) Assistant Professor, University of Maine (1995-96) ERCIM Fellow, German National Research Center for Information Technology (1996)

Current Research Activities: Data and knowledge base systems; spatial databases; spatio-temporal databases; constraint satisfaction algorithms; data warehouses.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Authenticated Query Processing for Outsourced Databases RGC - General Research Fund HK$497,084 01 Oct 2008 k-Medoid and related queries in very large spatial databases RGC - General Research Fund HK$534,000 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications: Yang, Yin, Papadias, Dimitrios, Papadopoulos, Stavros, Kalnis, Panos (2009) "Authenticated Join Processing in Outsourced Databases", ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), Providence, RI, USA, June 29th - July 2. Vu, Quang Hieu, Ooi, Beng Chin, Papadias, Dimitris, Tung, Anthony (2008) "A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases", Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), Vancouver, Canada, pp. 915-926, June 9-12. Markowetz, Alexander, Yang, Yin, Papadias, Dimitris (2007) "Keyword Search on Relational Data Streams", ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), Beijing, China, pp. 605-616, June 14-17, 2007. Mouratidis, Kyriakos, Bakiras, Spiridon, Papadias, Dimitris (2006) "Continuous Monitoring of Top-k Queries over Sliding Windows", Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), Chicago, IL, June 26-29. Mouratidis, Kyriakos, Hadjieleftheriou, Marios, Papadias, Dimitris (2005) "Conceptual Partitioning: An Efficient Method for Continuous Nearest Neighbor Monitoring", Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), Baltimore, MD, pp. 634-645, June 13-16, 2005. Tao, Yufei, Yiu, Manlung, Papadias, Dimitris, Hadjieleftheriou, Marios, Mamoulis, Nikos (2005) "RPJ: Producing Fast Join Results on Streams through Rate-based Optimization", Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), Baltimore, MD, pp. 371-382, June 13-16, 2005. Tao, Yufei, Faloutsos, Christos, Papadias, Dimitris, Liu, Bin (2004) "Prediction and Indexing of Moving Objects with Unknown Motion Patterns", Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), Paris, June 13-18, ACM Press, to appear. Papadias, Dimitris, Tao, Yufei, Fu, Greg, Seeger, Bernhard (2003) "An Optimal and Progressive Algorithm for Skyline Queries", Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), San Diego, CA, June 9-12, pp. 443-454. Long QUAN Professor (2358 7018 ; [email protected])

PhD, INPL-INRIA (1989) Senior Research Scientist, CNRS/INRIA, France (1990-2001)

Current Research Activities: Computer vision; 3D reconstruction; image-based modeling and rendering.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Reconstruction of Urban Scenes from Images RGC - General Research Fund HK$327,937 01 Jan 2009 Image-based street view modeling Google Inc. HK$312,000 01 Jan 2009 Image-based modeling and rendering of trees Microsoft Research Asia HK$120,000 01 Aug 2007 A collaborative research proposal with MSRA on image deblurring from single and multiple images Microsoft Research Asia HK$80,000 01 Jul 2008 Image-based large-scale monuments modeling Microsoft Research Asia HK$160,000 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Paris, Sylvain, Sillion, Francois, Quan, Long (2006) "A Surface Reconstruction Method Using Global Graph Cut Optimization", International Journal of Computer Vision, volume 66, number 2, pages 141-162. Wei, Yichen, Ofek, Eyal, Quan, Long, Shum, Harry (2005) "Modeling Hair from Multiple Views", ACM Transactions on Graphics, volume 24, number 3, pages 816-820. Lhuillier, Maxime, Quan, Long (2005) "A quasi-dense approach to surface reconstruction from uncalibrated images", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, volume 27, number 3, pages 418-433. Wei, Yichen, Quan, Long (2005) "Asymmetrical occlusion handling using graph cut for multi-view stereo", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, volume 2, pages 902-909, June 2005. Zeng, Gang, Matsushita, Yasuyuki, Quan, Long, Shum, Heung-Yeung (2005) "Interactive shape from shading", IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, volume 1, pages 343-350, June 2005. Jiang, Guang, Wei, Yichen, Quan, Long, Tsui, Hung-tat, Shum, Heung-Yeung (2005) "Outward-looking circular motion analysis of large image sequences", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, volume 27, number 2, pages 271-277. Jiang, Guang, Quan, Long, Tsui, Hung-Tat (2004) "Circular Motion Geometry Using Minimal Data", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, volume 26, number 6. Wei, Yichen, Quan, Long (2004) "Region-Based Progressive Stereo Matching", Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, volume 1, pages 106-113.

Vincent Y SHEN Professor of Computer Science; Manager of W3C Office in Hong Kong (2358 7010 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cs.ust.hk/~shen)

PhD, Princeton University (1969) Assistant & Associate Professor of Computer Sciences, Purdue University (1969-85) Manager & Program Director, Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corp (1985-90) Science Advisor, Innovation & Technology Commission, The Government of Hong Kong SAR (2000-03)

Current Research Activities: Software productivity and quality; Internet computing; computer-aided instruction. Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Web Profile Integration and Trust Determination in Social Networks RGC - General Research Fund HK$642,067 01 Jul 2008 A privacy framework with transitive relationships in pervasive computing RGC - General Research Fund HK$396,000 01 Sep 2007

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Benfeng, Shen, Vincent Y. (2006) "Transforming Web Pages to Become Standard-Compliant through Reverse Engineering", Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility, WWW2006, Edinburgh, 14-22, May 2006. Hong, Dan, Yuan, Mingxuan, Shen, Vincent (2005) "Dynamic Privacy Management: a Plug-in Service for the Middleware in Pervasive Computing", Proceedings of MobileHCI’05, September 2005, Salzburg, Austria, pp. 1-8., pp.1-8, September 2005. Chen, Shan, Hong, Dan, Shen, Vincent Y. (2005) "An Experimental Study on Validation Problems with Existing HTML Webpages", Proceedings of The 2005 International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'05: June 27-30, 2005, Las Vegas, USA), Volume and page numbers not yet available. The conference period is June 27-30. Liu, Alan, Shen, Vincent, Muppala, Jogesh (2002) "Security issues on server-side credit-based electronic payment systems", Third International Symposium on Electronic Commerce (ISEC02), Research Triangle Park, NC, USA, 18-19 October, pp. 47-57.

Steven S SKIENA Visiting Professor (2358 6972 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Representative Research Publications: Mehler, Andrew, Skiena, Steven S (2009) "Expanding Network Communities from Representative Examples", ACM Trans. Knowledge Discovery from Data. Zhang, Wenbin, Skiena, Steven S (2009) "Improving Movie Gross Prediction Through News Analysis", IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. Web Intelligence (WI 2009), Milan, Italy. Ambekar, Anurag, Ward, Charles, Mohammed, Jahangir, Male, Swapna, Skiena, Steven S (2009) "Name-Ethnicity Classification from Open Sources", 15th ACM SIGKDD Conf. Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2009), Paris France, June 28-July 1, 2009.

Chi-Keung TANG Professor (2358 8775 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Southern California (2000)

Current Research Activities: Computer vision; computer graphics; human-computer interaction.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: ShapePalettes: An Interactive Approach to 3D Markup RGC - General Research Fund HK$327,937 01 Dec 2008 Shadow extraction: Research and applications RGC - General Research Fund HK$560,000 31 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications: Qi, Shan, Li, Zharon, Jia, Jiaya, Tang, Chi Keung (2008) "Fast Image/Video Upsampling", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), vol. 27, no. 5, December 2008. Wu, Tai-Pang, Sun, Jian, Tang, Chi-Keung, Shum, Heung-Yeung (2008) "Interactive Normal Reconstruction from a Single Image", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), vol. 27, no. 5, December 2008. Lin, Zhouchen, He, Junfeng, Tang, Xiaoou, Tang, Chi Keung (2008) "Limits of Learning-Based Superresolution Algorithms", International Journal on Computer Vision (IJCV), vol. 80, no. 3, December 2008. Tai, Yu-Wing, Brown, Michael S., Tang, Chi-Keung, Shum, Heung-Yeung (2008) "Texture Amendment: Reducing Texture Distortion in Constrained Parameterization", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), vol. 27, no. 5, December 2008. Jia, Jiaya, Tang, Chi-Keung (2008) "Image Stitching Using Structure Deformation", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), vol. 29, no. 4, April 2008. Wu, Tai-Pang, Tang, Chi-Keung, Brown, Michael, Shum, Heung-Yeung (2007) "ShapePalettes: Interactive Normal Transfer via Sketching", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), vol. 26, no. 3, article 44. Wu, Tai-Pang, Tang, Chi-Keung, Brown, Michael S., Shum, Heung-Yeung (2007) "Natural Shadow Matting", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), vol 26, no. 2, article 8. Tai, Yu-Wing, Jia, Jiaya, Tang, Chi-Keung (2007) "Soft Color Segmentation and its Applications", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), vol. 29, no. 9, pp 1520 - 1537.

Qiang YANG Professor (2358 8768 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Maryland (1989)

Current Research Activities: artificial intelligence: data mining, machine learning, automated planning and case-based reasoning, with applications to Web, wireless sensor networks and bioinformatics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Center for computational system biology RGC - Collaborative Research Fund - Seed Funding HK$200,000 02 May 2008 Co-mining: Bridging the physical world and the virtual world by mining the geolocation and web search data Microsoft Research Asia HK$154,000 01 May 2009 Discovery of SNP patterns in multi-gene disorders UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$620,000 15 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications: Xu, Qian, Hu, Hao, Xue, Hong, Yu, Weichuan, Yang, Qiang (2009) "Semi-supervised protein subcellular localization", In BMC Bioinformatics Journal, 2009, 10:S47 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S1-S47. Xue, Gui-Rong, Han, Jie, Yu, Yong, Yang, Qiang (2009) "User language model for collaborative personalized search.", ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 27(2): (2009). Yin, jie, Shen, dou, Li, Zenian, Yang, Qiang (2008) "Activity recognition via user-trace segmentation", ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Volume 4, Issue 4 (August 2008). Hu, Hao, Pan, Jialin, Zheng, Wenchen, Liu, nan, Yang, Qiang (2008) "Real World Activity Recognition with Multiple Goals.", In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2008), Seoul, South Korea September, 2008. pages 30-39. Dai, Wenyuan, Chen, Yuqiang, Xue, Guirong, Yang, Qiang, Yu, Yong (2008) "Translated Learning: Transfer Learning across Different Feature Spaces", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21, Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver Canada, December 8-11 2008. 353-360. Yang, Qiang, Pan, Jialin, Zheng, Wenchen (2008) "Estimating Location Using Wi-Fi", IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 8-13. Miao, Chunyan, Yang, Qiang, Fang, Haijing, Goh, Angela (2007) "A cognitive approach for agent-based personalized recommendation", Knowledge Based System, 20(4): 397-405 (2007). Dai, Wenyuan, Yang, Qiang, Xue, Guirong, Yu, Yong (2007) "Boosting for Transfer Learning", Proceedings of The 24th Annual International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'07), Corvallis, Oregon, USA, June 20-24, 2007. 193 - 200.

Dit-Yan YEUNG Professor (2358-6977 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cse.ust.hk/~dyyeung/)

PhD, University of Southern California Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology

Current Research Activities: Computational and statistical approaches to machine learning and pattern recognition

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Semi-supervised kernel extensions of fisher discriminant analysis RGC - General Research Fund HK$744,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Wang, Gang, Yeung, Dit Yan, Lochovsky, Frederick H (2008) "A new solution path algorithm in support vector regression", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 19(10):1753-1767. Yeung, Dit Yan, Chang, Hong, Dai, Guang (2008) "A scalable kernel-based semi-supervised metric learning algorithm with out-of-sample generalization ability", Neural Computation, 20(11):2839-2861. Yeung, Dit-Yan, Chang, Hong, Dai, Guang (2007) "Learning the kernel matrix by maximizing a KFD-based class separability criterion", Pattern Recognition, 40(7):2021-2028. Zhang, Zhihua, Kwok, James T., Yeung, Dit-Yan (2007) "Surrogate maximization/minimization algorithms and extensions", Machine Learning, 69(1):1-33. Yeung, Dit-Yan, Chang, Hong (2007) "A kernel approach for semi-supervised metric learning", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 18(1):141-149, January 2007. Zhang, Zhihua, Kwok, James T., Yeung, Dit-Yan (2006) "Model-based transductive learning of the kernel matrix", Machine Learning, 63(1):69-101, April 2006. Cheung, Kwok-Wai, Yeung, Dit-Yan, Chin, Roland T. (2002) "Bidirectional deformable matching with application to handwritten character extraction", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 24(8):1133-1139. Cheung, Kwok-Wai, Yeung, Dit-Yan, Chin, Roland (1998) "A Bayesian framework for deformable pattern recognition with application to handwritten character recognition", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 20(12): 1382-1388.

Lianwen (Nevin) ZHANG Professor (2358 7015 ; [email protected])

PhD, Beijing Normal University (1989) PhD, University of British Columbia (1994)

Current Research Activities: Artificial intelligence; knowledge representation; Bayesian networks; decision networks; planning and control under uncertainty; traditional Chinese medicine.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A Unified Framework for Latent Structure Discovery in Supervised and Unsupervised Learning RGC - General Research Fund HK$327,937 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Wang, Yi, Zhang, Nevin L., Chen, Tao (2008) "Latent tree models and approximate inference in Bayesian networks", Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 32, 879-900. Zhang, Nevin L., Yuan, Shihong, Chen, Tao, Wang, Yi (2008) "Statistical Validation of Traditional Chinese Medicine Theories", The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 14(5): 583-587. Zhang, Nevin L., Yuan, Shihong, Chen, Tao, Wang, Yi (2008) "Latent tree models and diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine", Artificial Intelligence in Medicine., 42: 229-245. Zhang, Nevin L., Guo, Haipeng (2006) Introduction to Bayesian Networks, Science Press, Beijing. Chen, Tao, Kocka, Tomas, Zhang, Nevin L. (2005) "Effective Dimensions of Partially Observed Polytrees", International Journal of Approximate Reasoning., 38(3), 311-332. Zhang, Weihong, Zhang, Nevin L. (2005) "Restricted Value Iteration: Theory and Algorithms", Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 23, 123-165. Zhang, Nevin L. (2004) " Hierarchical latent class models for cluster analysis", Journal of Machine Learning Research, 5(6):697- 723. Zhang, Nevin L., Kocka, Tomas (2004) "Efficient Learning of Hierarchical Latent Class Models", Proc. Of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI-2004), Boca Raton, Florida, November 15-17.

Heung Yeung SHUM Adjunct Professor (2358 7000 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Carnegie Mellon (1996)

Current Research Activities: Computer vision; computer graphics; multimedia; human-computer interface; robotics.

Sunil ARYA Associate Professor (2358 8769 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cs.ust.hk/~arya)

PhD, University of Maryland, College Park (1995)

Current Research Activities: Computational geometry; data structures; approximation algorithms.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Approximate geometric queries: Beyond Euclidean space RGC - General Research Fund HK$327,851 01 Jan 2009 Representative Research Publications: Arya, Sunil, Malamatos, Theocharis, Mount, David (2007) "A simple entropy-based algorithm for planar point location", ACM Transactions on Algorithms, 3(2), Article No. 17. Arya, Sunil, Malamatos, Theocharis, Mount, David (2007) "Optimal expected-case planar point location", SIAM Journal on Computing, 37(2), 584-610. Arya, Sunil, Malamatos, Theocharis, Mount, David (2006) "On the importance of idempotence", 38th Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), Seattle, WA, USA., 564-573. Arya, Sunil, Malamatos, Theocharis, Mount, David (2006) "The effect of corners on the complexity of approximate range searching", 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG), Sedona, Arizona, USA., 11-20. Arya, Sunil, Mount, David (2005) "Computational geometry: proximity and location", Handbook of data structures and applications, Chapter 63. Arya, Sunil, Malamatos, Theocharis, Mount, David (2005) "Space-time tradeoffs for approximate spherical range counting", 16th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrte Algorithms (SODA), Vancouver, 535-544. Arya, Sunil, Fu, Ho-Yam Addy (2002-2003) "Expected-case complexity of approximate nearest neighbor searching", SIAM Journal on Computing, 32(3):793-815. Arya, Sunil (2002) "Binary space partitions for axis-parallel line segments: size-height tradeoffs", Information Processing Letters, 84(4): 201-206.

Brahim BENSAOU Associate Professor (2358 7014 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cs.ust.hk/~csbb)

PhD, University of Paris VI, France (1993) Senior Member of Technical Staff, Center for Wireless Communications, Singapore (1997-2000)

Current Research Activities: Computer Networks; Wireless and Mobile Networks; Sensor networks, Performance Evaluation

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Joint contention windows adjustment and congestion control for multi-radio wireless mesh networks RGC - General Research Fund HK$756,708 01 Jul 2009

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Shan, Bensaou, Brahim (2007) "Can High-Speed Networks Survive with DropTail Queues Management?", Computer Networks, Vol 51, No 7, pp 1763-1776. Zhu, Junhua, Chen, Shan, Bensaou, Brahim, Hung, Ka Lok (2007) "Tradeoff between Lifetime and Rate Allocation in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Cross Layer Approach", IEEE INFOCOM 2007, May 2007, pp 267-275, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Zhu, Junhua, Hung, Ka Lok, Bensaou, Brahim, Nait-Abdesselam, Farid (2006) "Tradeoff Between Network Lifetime and Fair Rate Allocation in Wireless Sensor Networks with Multi-path Routing", ACM/IEEE International International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (ACM/IEEE MSWIM), 2006, October 2006, pp 301-308, Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain. Hei, X. J., Bensaou, B., Tsang, H. K. (2005) "Model-based End-to-End Available Bandwidth Inference using Queueing Analysis", Computer Networks available Online November 2005, Vol. 50, Issue 12, pp. 1916-1937. Kong, Peng Yong, Chua, Kee Cahing, Bensaou, Brahim (2003-2004) "A novel scheduling scheme to share dropping ratio while guaranteeing a delay bound in a MultiCode-CDMA network", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol 11, Issue 6, PP:994-1006. Fang, Zuyuan, Bensaou, Brahim (2003-2004) "Fair Bandwidth Sharing Algorithms based on Game Theory Frameworks for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", The 23th Conference of the IEEE Communications Society (INFOCOM). Bensaou, Brahim, Tsang, Danny H.K., Chan, King Tung (2001-2002) "Credit-based fair queueing (CBFQ): a simple service- scheduling algorithm for packet-switched networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), 9(5), 591 - 604. Huang, Xiaolong, Bensaou, Brahim (2001-2002) "On max-min Fairness and Scheduling in Wireless ad-hoc networks: Analytical framework and Implementation", Proceedings of the 2001 ACM International Symposium on Mobile ad hoc Networking & Computing, Long Beach, CA, USA , 221 - 231.

Gary Shueng-Han CHAN Associate Professor (2358 6990 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cse.ust.hk/~gchan)

PhD, Stanford University (1999) Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis (1998-99)

Current Research Activities: Internet technologies; multimedia networking; video and wireless communication networks; peer-to-peer networks

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: An efficient peer-to-peer interactive movie network RGC - General Research Fund HK$396,000 01 Jan 2008 A robust low-delay network infrastructure for large-scale peer-to-peer IPTV streaming UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$23,310 01 Aug 2008 FastMesh: a proxy-based peer-to-peer streaming protocol for scalable IPTV services Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$1,217,799 01 Sep 2008 A robust low-delay network infrastructure for large-scale peer-to-peer IPTV streaming Silicon Valley Community Foundation HK$468,000 01 Aug 2008

Representative Research Publications: Yiu, Ken, Jin, Xing, Chan, Shueng-Han Gary (2007) "VMesh: Distributed Segment Storage for Peer-to-Peer Interactive Video Streaming", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) Special Issue on Advances in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems, Vol. 25, No. 9, pp. 1717-31, December 2007. Jin, Xing, Yiu, Wai-Pun Ken, Chan, Shueng-Han Gary, Wang, Yajun (2006) "Network Topology Inference Based on End- to-End Measurements", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications special issue on Sampling the Internet, pp. 2182-2195, Vol. 24, No. 12, December 2006. Yiu, Wai-Pun, Wong, Kin-Fung, Chan, Shueng-Han Gary, Wong, Wan-Ching, Zhang, Qian, Zhu, Wen-Wu, Zhang, Ya- Qin (2006) "Lateral Error Recovery for Media Streaming in Application-Level Multicast", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, pp. 219-232, Vol. 8, No. 2, April 2006. Chen, Jiancong, Chan, S.-H. Gary, Li, Victor (2004) "Multipath Routing for Video Delivery over Bandwidth-Limited Networks", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications special issue on Design, Implementation and Analysis of Communication Protocols, pp. 1920-1932, Vol. 22, No. 10, December 2004. Chen, Jiancong, Chan, S. H. Gary, Li, O. K. Victor (2003-2004) "Multipath Routing for Video Delivery over Bandwidth-Limited Networks", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications special issue on Design, Implementation and Analysis of Communication Protocols. Chen, Jiancong, Chan, S.-H. Gary, Zhang, Qian, Zhu, Wenwu, Chen, Jin (2003) "PASA: Power Adaptation for Starvation Avoidance to Deliver Wireless Multimedia", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications special issue on Wireless Multimedia, Vol. 21, No. 10, pp. 1663-1673, December. Lee, Tak Wan, Chan, Shueng-Han Gary, Zhang, Qian, Zhu, Wen-Wu, Zhang, Ya Qin (2002) "Allocation of Layer Bandwidths and FECs for Video Multicast over Wired and Wireless Networks", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 12, No. 12, pp. 1059-1070. Chan, Kin Ching, Chan, Shueng-Han Gary (2002) "Distributed Servers Approach for Large-Scale Secure Multicast", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications special issue on Network Support for Multicast Communications, Vol. 20, No. 8, pp. 1500-1510.

Shing Chi CHEUNG Associate Professor; Associate Director of Cyberspace Center (2358 7016 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cse.ust.hk/~scc)

PhD, University of London (1994)

Current Research Activities: Software engineering issues related to ubiquitous computing, service-oriented computing, object design patterns, testing, pervasive computing, wireless sensor networks, RFID systems, embedded systems, and digital rights management.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A Study of Software Fault Localization and Coincidental Correctness 01 Jan RGC - General Research Fund HK$548,777 2009 International conference on e-business engineering 10 Aug The University of Hong Kong HK$23,400 2009 RFID benchmarking methodology, report and tool support Hong Kong R&D Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management Enabling Technologies Limited & 01 Oct HK$10,462,542 Industries 2008 Peformance Testing of RFID Embedded Systems 16 Jun UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$400,000 2008 RFID intelligent dock gate system: αGATE PORAL 01 Jan Sino Software Research Institute HK$2,656,000 2009

Representative Research Publications: Ye, Chunyang, Cheung, Shing Chi, Chan, W.K., Xu, Chang (2009) "Atomicity Analysis of Service Composition across Organizations", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol 35, No. 1, pp. 2-28. Wang, Xinming, Cheung, Shing Chi, Chan, W.K., Zhang, Zhenyu (2009) "Coincidental Correctness: Refine Code Coverage with Context Pattern to Improve Fault Localization", 31st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2009), Vancouver, Canada, May 2009, pp. 45-55. Lai, Zhifeng, Cheung, Shing Chi, Chan, W.K. (2008) "Inter-Context Control-Flow and Data-Flow Test Adequacy Criteria for nesC Applications", 16th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2008), Atlanta, USA, November 9- 14, 2008, pp. 94-104. Ye, Chunyang, Cheung, S.C., Chan, W.K., Xu, Chang (2007) "Detection and Resolution of Atomicity Violation in Service Composition", 6th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the 14th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2007), Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 3-7, 2007, pp. 235-244. Ng, T.H., Cheung, S.C., Chan, W.K., Yu, Y.T. (2007) "Do maintainers utilize deployed design patterns effectively?", 29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2007), Minneapolis, May 20-26, 2007, pp. 168-177. Ye, Chunyang, Cheung, S.C., Chan, W.K., Xu, Chang (2006) "Local Analysis of Atomicity Sphere for B2B Collaboration", 14th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2006), Portland, Oregon, USA, November 5-11, 2006, pp. 186-196. Ng, T.H., Cheung, S.C., Chan, W.K., Yu, Y.T. (2006) "Work Experience versus Refactoring to Design Patterns: A Controlled Experiment", 14th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2006), Portland, Oregon, USA, November 5-11, 2006, pp. 186-196. Xu, Chang, Cheung, S.C., Chan, W.K. (2006) "Incremental Consistency Checking for Pervasive Context", 28th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2006), Shanghai, China, May 20-28, 2006, pp. 292-301.

Albert Chi-Shing CHUNG Associate Professor (2358 8776 ; [email protected] ; http://cse.ust.hk/~achung)

DPhil, University of Oxford (2001) Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A. (Aug. 2001 - Feb. 2002)

Current Research Activities: Medical image processing and analysis; computer vision; statistical signal modeling.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Segmentation of vessels and aneurysms in magnetic resonance angiography using weighted local variances and multi-range filters RGC - General Research Fund HK$327,247 01 Sep 2008 Lo Kwee-Seong medical image analysis laboratory UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$300,000 01 Jul 2006 Lo Kwee-Seong medical image analysis laboratory K. S. Lo Foundation HK$2,100,000 01 Dec 2004

Representative Research Publications: Liao, Shu, Law, Wai Kong, Chung, Albert C S (2009) "Dominant Local Binary Patterns for Texture Classification", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 18, No. 5, pages 1107-1118, May, 2009. Law, Wai Kong, Chung, Albert C S (2009) "Efficient Implementation for Spherical Flux Computation and Its Application to Vascular Segmentation", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 18, No. 3, pages 596-612, February, 2009. So, Wai King, Chung, Albert C S (2009) "Multi-level Non-rigid Image Registration using Graph-Cuts", The 33rd International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Taipei International Convention Center, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., April 19-24, 2009, pp. 397-400. Benmansour, Fethallah, Laurent, Cohen, Law, Wai Kong, Chung, Albert C S (2009) "Tubular anisotropy for 2D vessels segmentation", IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Miami Beach, Florida, USA, June 20- 25, 2009, published electronically (8 pages). Wu, Jue, Chung, Albert C S (2008) "Markov Dependence Tree-based Segmentation of Deep Brain Structures", The 11th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, New York University, NY, USA, September 6-10, 2008, LNCS 5242, pp. 1092-1100. Gan, Rui, Chung, Albert C S, Liao, Shu (2008) "Maximum Distance-Gradient for Robust Image Registration", Medical Image Analysis, Vol. 12, No. 4, August 2008, pages 452-468. Yuan, Yuan, Chung, Albert C S (2008) "Multi-scale Model-based Vessel Enhancement using Local Line Integrals", The 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 20-24, 2008, pp. 2225-2228. Liao, Shu, Chung, Albert C S (2008) "Non-rigid Image Registration with S-alpha-S Filters", The 11th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, New York University, NY, USA, September 6-10, 2008, LNCS 5242, pp. 888-896.

James Tin-Yau KWOK Associate Professor (2358 7013 ; [email protected])

PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1996) Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University (1997-2000)

Current Research Activities: Artificial neural networks; pattern recognition; machine learning.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Efficient large margin methods in unsupervised and semi-supervised learning RGC - General Research Fund HK$369,447 01 Jan 2009 Kernel-based multiple instance learning from ambiguous examples RGC - General Research Fund HK$396,000 01 Jan 2008 Learning in one-class support vector machines RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$82,000 01 Jan 2004

Representative Research Publications: Tsang, Ivor, Kwok, James, Zurada, Jacek (2006) "Generalized core vector machines", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 17(5):1126-1140. Cheung, Pak-Ming, Kwok, James (2006) "A regularization framework for multiple-instance learning", International Conference on Machine Learning. Pittsburgh, USA, 193-200. June. Tsang, Ivor, Kwok, James (2006) "Efficient hyperkernel learning using second-order cone programming", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 17(1):48-58. Zhang, Zhihua, Kwok, James, Yeung, Dit-Yan (2006) "Model-based transductive learning of the kernel matrix", Machine Learning, 63(1):69-101. Mak, Brian, Kwok, James, Ho, Simon (2005) "Kernel eigenvoice speaker adaptation", IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 13(5):984-992. Tsang, Ivor, Kwok, James, Cheung, Pak-Ming (2005) "Core vector machines: Fast SVM training on very large data sets", Journal of Machine Learning Research, 6:363-392. Kwok, James, Tsang, Ivor (2004) "The pre-image problem in kernel methods", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 15(6):1517-1525. Li, Shutao, Kwok, James, Zhu, Hailong, Wang, Yaonan (2003-2004) "Texture classification using support vector machines", Pattern Recognition, 36(12):2883-2893.

Yunhao LIU Associate Professor (2358 7019 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cse.ust.hk/~liu/)

PhD, Michigan State University (2004)

Current Research Activities: Sensor Networks and Pervasive Computing; Peer-to-Peer Computing; Network Security

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Trustworthy RFID technologies: Methodology and practice Hong Kong R&D Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management Enabling Technologies Limited & 01 Apr HK$4,550,686 Industries 2008 Trustworthy and efficient distributed systems 10 Dec Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. HK$300,000 2007 Trustworthy distributed computing Microsoft Research Asia HK$470,000 01 Jul 2005 Uncertain data processing over senor networks 01 Dec National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$656,900 2008 Security studies in distributed environments 30 Oct University of Electronic Science and Technology of China HK$46,800 2007 Representative Research Publications: Lu, Li, Han, Jinsong, Yao, Renyi, Liu, Yunhao (2009) "ACTION: Breaking the Privacy Barrier for RFID Systems", IEEE INFOCOM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 19 - 25. Yang, Zheng, Liu, Yunhao, Li, Xiangyang (2009) "Beyond Trilateration: On the Localizability of Wireless Ad-hoc Networks", IEEE INFOCOM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 19 - 25. Chen, Hanhua, Jin, Hai, Liu, Yunhao, Ni, Lionel M S (2009) "Difficulty-aware Hybrid Search in Peer-to-Peer Networks", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages 71-82. Dong, Dezun, Liu, Yunhao, Liao, Xiangke (2009) "Fine-Grained Boundary Recognition in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks By Topological Methods", ACM MobiHoc, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 18-21. Wang, Cheng, Tang, Shaojie, Li, Xiangyang, Jiang, Changjun, Liu, Yunhao (2009) "Multicast Throughput of Hybrid Wireless Networks Under Gaussian Channel Model", IEEE ICDCS, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 22-26. Shi, Xiaoqiu, Han, Jinsong, Liu, Yunhao, Ni, Lionel M S (2009) "Popularity Adaptive Search in Hybrid P2P Systems", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Volume 69, Issue 2, Pages 125-134. Wang, Cheng, Tang, Shaojie, Li, Xiangyang, Jiang, Changjun, Liu, Yunhao (2009) "Scaling Laws on Multicast Capacity of Large Scale Wireless Networks", IEEE INFOCOM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 20-25. Li, Mo, Liu, Yunhao, Wang, Jiliang, Yang, Zheng (2009) "Sensor Network Navigation without Locations", IEEE INFOCOM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 19 - 25.

Qiong LUO Associate Professor (2358 6995 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cse.ust.hk/~luo)

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2002)

Current Research Activities: architecture-conscious database systems; query processing in pervasive computing and sensor networks; distributed information retrieval.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Relational Query Co-Processing on Graphics Processors RGC - General Research Fund HK$572,164 01 Jan 2009 Scheduling and routing for query processing in sensor networks RGC - General Research Fund HK$696,000 01 Jan 2008 Interactive data cube computation on graphics processors Microsoft Research Asia HK$147,000 01 Mar 2009

Representative Research Publications: Xiao, Xiangye, Luo, Qiong, Hong, Dan, Fu, Hongbo, Xie, Xing, Ma, Wei-Ying (2009) "Browsing on Small Displays by Transforming Web Pages into Hierarchically Structured Sub-Pages", ACM Transactions on the Web (TWeb), Volume 3, Issue 1, Jan 2009: pages 4:1-4:36. He, Bingsheng, Luo, Qiong (2008) "Cache-Oblivious Databases: Limitations and Opportunities", ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2008. Luo, Qiong, Naughton, Jeffrey F., Xue, Wenwei (2008) "Form-Based Proxy Caching for Database-Backed Web Sites: Keywords and Functions", The VLDB Journal, Volume 17, Number 3, May, 2008: pp 489-513. He, Bingsheng, Yang, Ke, Fang, Rui, Lu, Mian, Govindaraju, Naga K., Luo, Qiong, Sander, Pedro V. (2008) "Relational Joins on Graphics Processors", ACM SIGMOD Conference, Vancouver, Canada, Jun 9-12, 2008: pp. 511-524. Wu, Hejun, Luo, Qiong, Zheng, Pei, Ni, Lionel M. (2007) "VMNet: Realistic Emulation of Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Volume 18, Number 2: 277-288, Feb 2007. He, Bingsheng, Luo, Qiong, Choi, Byron (2006) "Cache-Conscious Automata for XML Filtering", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Vol. 18, No. 12, pp. 1629-1644, December 2006. Xue, Wenwei, Luo, Qiong, Chen, Lei, Liu, Yunhao (2006) "Contour Map Matching for Event Detection in Sensor Networks", ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'06), Chicago, Illinois, USA,, June 26-29, 2006. Wu, Hejun, Luo, Qiong, Xue, Wenwei (2006) "Distributed Cross-Layer Scheduling for In-Network Sensor Query Processing", the 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PERCOM'06), Pisa, Italy, March 13-17, 2006, pp 180- 189.

Brian Kan-Wing MAK Associate Professor (2358 7012 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cse.ust.hk/~mak)

PhD, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology (1998)

Current Research Activities: Speech recognition; acoustic modeling; speaker adaptation; machine learning; computer-aided learning.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: An investigation of using Linear Programming method for discriminative training problems in automatic speech recognition RGC - General Research Fund HK$352,101 01 Sep 2008 A study on using kernel methods to improve speaker and noise adaptation for robust speech recognition RGC - General Research Fund HK$355,992 01 Jan 2008 Joint optimization of the frequency-domain and time-domain transformations in deriving generalized static and dynamic mel-frequency cepstral coefficients RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$50,000 01 Jan 2006

Representative Research Publications: Mak, Brian K W, Ko, Tom (2008) "Min-max Discriminative Training of Decoding Parameters Using Iterative Linear Programming", Interspeech, pages 915-918, Sept, 2008, Brisbane, Australia. Mak, Brian Kan-Wing, Hsiao, Roger Wend-Huu (2007) "Kernel Eigenspace-based MLLR Adaptation", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, volume 15, number 3, pages 784-795, March. Mak, Brian Kan-Wing, Hsiao, Roger Wend-Huu, Ho, Simon Ka-Lung, Kwok, James T. (2006) "Embedded Kernel Eigenvoice Speaker Adaptation and its Implication to Reference Speaker Weighting", IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, volume 14, number 4, pages 1267-1280, July. Mak, Brian, Au Yeung, S. K., Lai, Y. P., Siu, Manhung (2005) "High-density Discrete HMM with the Use of Scalar Quantization Indexing", Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology 2005, Sept, 2005, Lisbon, Portugal. Mak, Brian, Chan, Kin Wah (2005) "Pruning Hidden Markov Models with Optimal Brain Surgeon", IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, volume 13, number 5, pages 993-1003, September, 2005. Mak, Brian, Tam, Yik-Cheung, Li, Qi (2003-2004) "Discriminative Auditory-based Features for Robust Speech Recognition", IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, volume 12, number 1, pages 27--36. Hsiao, Roger, Mak, Brian (2003-2004) "Discriminative Feature Transformation By Guided Discriminative Training", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, volume I, pages 897--900, May 17-21. Bocchieri, E., Mak, B. (2001) "Subspace Distribution Clustering Hidden Markov Model", IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 264-275.

Jogesh K MUPPALA Associate Professor (2358 6978 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cse.ust.hk/~muppala/)

PhD, Duke University (1991) Technical Staff, Software Productivity Consortium (1991-92)

Current Research Activities: Embedded Systems Software; High-speed networking; Performance evaluation; Stochastic Petri nets; Internet in education.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Exploiting proximity in unstructured peer-to-peer networks RGC - General Research Fund HK$384,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Wang, Feng, Hamdi, Mounir, Muppala, Jogesh K. (2009) "Using Parallel DRAM to Scale Router Buffers", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 20, No. 5, May 2009, pp. 710-724. Chang, X, Muppala, J. K., Han, Z, Liu, J. (2008) "Analysis of Interrupt Coalescing Schemes for Receive-Livelock Problem in Gigabit Ethernet Network Hosts", Proc. 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications, (ICC '08), Beijing, China, 19-23 May 2008, pp. 1835-1839. Chang, X., Muppala, J. K., Zou, P., Li, X. (2007) "A Robust Device Hybrid Scheme to Improve System Performance in Gigabit Ethernet Networks", The 32nd Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2007), Dublin, Ireland, Oct. 2007, pp. 444- 454. Tu, W., Muppala, J. K., Zhuge, H. (2007) "Distributed End Host Multicast Algorithms for The Knowledge Grid", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 19, No. 15, Oct. 2007, pp. 2013-2029. Chang, Xiaolin, Muppala, Jogesh K. (2006) "A Stable Queue-based Adaptive Controller for Improving AQM Performance", Computer Networks, Vol 50, No. 13, 2006, pp 2204-2224. Chang, Xiaolin, Muppala, Jogesh K. (2006) "The Effects of AQM on the Performance of Assured Forwarding Service", Computer Communications, Vol. 29, No. 12, 2006, pp 2294-2307. Zhang, Lei, Muppala, Jogesh K., Chanson, Samuel T. (2006) "Integrated Location Management and Location-Aided Routing System for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 66, No. 3, 2006, pp 367-378. Chang, Xiaolin, Muppala, Jogesh K. (2005) "On Improving Bandwidth Assurance in AF-based DiffServ Networks Using a Control Theoretic Approach", Computer Networks, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 816-839.

Wilfred Siu Hung NG Associate Professor (2358 6979 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cse.ust.hk/faculty/wilfred/)

PhD, University of London (1997)

Current Research Activities: Semantic Data Modeling; Data Mining; Web Searching; Graph databases; XML Databases; Adaptive Searching.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Mining Conceptual Profiles to Support Adaptive Web Searching RGC - General Research Fund HK$358,660 01 Sep 2008 Query processing on compressed XML data RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$89,066 01 Jan 2005

Representative Research Publications: Ke, Yiping, Cheng, James, Ng, Wilfred (2008) "Correlated Pattern Mining in Quantitative Databases.", ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol. 33(3). Ke, Yiping, Cheng, James, Ng, Wilfred (2008) "Efficient Correlation Search in Graph Databases.", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 20(11), pp. 1505-1518. Cheng, James, Ke, Yiping, Ng, Wilfred (2008) "Efficient Query Processing on Graph Databases.", ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol. 34(1). Lau, Ho Lam, Ng, Wilfred (2007) "A Multi-Ranker Model for Adaptive XML Searching", The VLDB Journal, 17(1) pp. 57-80. Ke, Yiping, Cheng, James, Ng, Wilfred (2007) "Correlation Search in Graph Databases", International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. ACM SIGKDD 2007, pp. 390-399. Cheng, James, Ke, Yiping, Ng, Wilfred, Lu, An (2007) "FG-Index: Towards Verification-Free Query Processing on Graph Databases", International Conference on Managing of Data. ACM SIGMOD 2007, Beijing, China, pp. 857-872. Cheng, James, Ke, Yiping, Ng, Wilfred (2006) "Delta-Tolerance Closed Frequent Itemsets", IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM, Lecture Notes in Aritifical Intelligence, Vol. 3918, pp. 462-467. Ke, Yiping, Cheng, James, Ng, Wilfred (2006) "Mining Quantitative Correlated Patterns Using an Information-Theoretic Approach", International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. ACM SIGKDD, pp. 227-236.

Helen C SHEN Associate Professor (2358 6987 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Waterloo (1982)

Current Research Activities: 3D object reconstruction; computer vision; medical imaging; multisenor-based systems; biometrics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Symmetric Image Registration: Research on Algorithms and Applications RGC - General Research Fund HK$331,389 01 Nov 2008

Representative Research Publications: Kumar, Ajay, Wong, David C.M., Shen, Helen C., Jain, Anil K. (2006) "Personal authentication using hand images", Pattern Recognition Letters, 27, 1478-1486. Wang, Jingdong, Kwok, James T., Shen, Helen C., Quan, Long (2005) "Data-dependent kernels for small-scale, high- dimensional data classification", International Joint Conferences on Neural Networks, pp. 102-107, July 31-August 4, 2005. Poon, Carmen, Wong, David C.M., Shen, Helen C. (2004-2005) "A New Method in Locating and Segmenting Palmprint into Region-of-Interest", Proc. 17th Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2004, Cambridge, U.K., August, 2004, Vol.42_4_01. Poon, Carmen, Wong, David C.M., Shen, Helen C. (2004-2005) "Personal Identification and Verification: Fusion of Palmprint Representations", Int. Conf. on Biometric Authentication (ICBA-2004), Hong Kong, July 2004, pp.782-788,. Kumar, Ajay, Wong, David C.M., Shen, Helen C., Jain, Anil K. (2003) "Personal Verification using palmprint and hand geometry biometric", Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Audio- and Video-based Person Authentication, June 9-11, Guildford, U.K.. Kumar, Ajay, Shen, Helen C. (2002) "Recognition of palmprint using wavelet-based features", Proceedings of the 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, USA, July.

Chiew-Lan TAI Associate Professor (2358 7020 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cse.ust.hk/~taicl/) PhD, University of Tokyo (1997)

Current Research Activities: Geometry processing; computer graphics; interpretation of architectural drawings.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A novel curve-skeleton extraction framework and its applications RGC - General Research Fund HK$358,660 01 Nov 2008 Fast algorithms for differential mesh editing RGC - General Research Fund HK$411,950 01 Sep 2007

Representative Research Publications: Wang, Yu-Shuen, Lee, Tong-Yee, Tai, Chiew-Lan (2008) "Focus+context visualization with distortion minimization", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 14(6): 1731--1738. Wang, Yu-Shuen, Tai, Chiew-Lan, Sorkine, Olga, Lee, Tong-Yee (2008) "Optimized Scale-and-Stretch for Image Resizing", ACM Trans. on Computer Graphics, 27(5), Article 118, 1-8. Au, Oscar Kin-Chung, Tai, Chiew Lan, Chu, Hung-Kuo, Cohen-Or, Daniel, Lee, Tong-Yee (2008) "Skeleton extraction by mesh contraction", ACM Trans. on Comp. Graphics., 27(3), Article 44, 1-10. Xu, Kun, Jia, Yuntao, Fu, Hongbo, Hu, Shimin, Tai, Chiew-Lan (2008) "Spherical piecewise constant functions for all-frequency precomputed radiance transfer", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 14(2), 454-467. Au, Oscar Kin-Chung, Fu, Hongbo, Tai, Chiew-Lan, Cohen-Or, Daniel (2007) "Handle-aware isolines for scalable shape editing", ACM Transactions on Graphics, 26(3), Article 83. Fu, Hongbo, Au, Oscar Kin-Chung, Tai, Chiew-Lan (2007) "Effective derivation of similarity transformations for implicit Laplacian mesh editing", Computer Graphics Forum, 26(1): 34-45. Au, Oscar Kin-Chung, Tai, Chiew-Lan, Liu, Ligang, Fu, Hongbo (2006) "Dual Laplacian editing for meshes", IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 12(3): 386-395, MAY/JUNE, 2006. Chu, Nelson Siu-Hang, Tai, Chiew-Lan (2006) "MoXi: real-time ink dispersion in absorbent paper", ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2005), 24(3): 504--511, 2005.

Dekai WU Associate Professor (2358 6989 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cs.ust.hk/~dekai)

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1992)

Current Research Activities: Statistical and corpus-based natural language processing; machine translation; language modeling; speech recognition; dialog systems; Internet information processing.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Learning Lexical Semantics for Statistical Machine Translation RGC - General Research Fund HK$642,067 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Saers, Markus Sidonius, Wu, Dekai (2009) "Improving Phrase-Based Translation via Word Alignments from Stochastic Inversion Transduction Grammars", Third Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-3), Boulder, Colorado, Jun 2009. Wu, Dekai, Fung, Pascale (2009) "Semantic Roles for SMT: A Hybrid Two-Pass Model", Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL HLT 2009), Boulder, Colorado, Jun 2009. Carpuat, Marine, Wu, Dekai (2007) "Improving Statistical Machine Translation using Word Sense Disambiguation", 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL 2007), Prague, Jun 2007, 61-72. Wu, Dekai (2007) "MT model space: Statistical vs. compositional vs. example-based machine translation", Machine Translation, 19: 213-227. Wu, Dekai (2006) "Textual Entailment Recognition Based on Inversion Transduction Grammars", Machine Learning Challenges, Evaluating Predictive Uncertainty, Visual Object Classification and Recognizing Textual Entailment, by Joaquin QUIÑONERO CANDELA, Ido DAGAN, Bernardo MAGNINI, and Florence d'ALCHÉ-BUC (editors),, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2006) 3944: 299-308. Wu, Dekai, Fung, Pascale (2005) "Inversion Transduction Grammar Constraints for Mining Parallel Sentences from Quasi- Comparable Corpora", Second International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-2005), Jeju, Korea: Oct 2005. Wu, Dekai, Su, Weifeng, Carpuat, Marine (2004-2005) "A Kernel PCA Method for Superior Word Sense Disambiguation", 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2004). Barcelona, Jul 2004. Carpuat, Marine, Wu, Dekai (2004-2005) "Word Sense Disambiguation vs. Statistical Machine Translation", 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2005), Ann Arbor, MI, Jun 2005.

Qian ZHANG Associate Professor (2358 8766 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cse.ust.hk/~qianzh/)

PhD, Wuhan University (1999) Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia (1999-2004) Research Manager, Wireless and Networking Group, Microsoft Research Asia (2004-05)

Current Research Activities: Wireless communications and networking; pervasive computing and mobile computing; peer-to-peer computing; multimedia networking; embedded system.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Cooperative Wireless Networking: Re-visit the Link Abstraction 01 Jan RGC - General Research Fund HK$331,389 2009 RF-based technologies for asset/personnel tracking Hong Kong R&D Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management Enabling Technologies Limited & 15 Sep HK$6,490,850 Industries 2008 Collaborative and cognitive networking 01 May Microsoft Research Asia HK$240,000 2006 Computer network and distributed computing system 01 Jan National Science Foundation of China HK$373,800 2007 Multi-dimensional diversities in wireless opportunistic networks 01 Jan National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$533,000 2008

Representative Research Publications: Zhang, Qian, Jia, Juncheng, Zhang, Jin (2009) "Cooperative relay to improve diversity in cognitive radio networks", IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume 47, Issue 2, February 2009, pp. 111-117. Jia, Juncheng, Zhang, qing, Zhang, Qian, Liu, Mingyan (2009) "Revenue Generation for Truthful Spectrum Auction in Dynamic Spectrum Access", ACM MobiHoc, 2009. Zhang, Jin, Zhang, Qian (2009) "Stackelberg Game for Utility-Based Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks", ACM MobiHoc, 2009. Jia, Juncheng, Zhang, Qian (2008) "Competitions and Dynamics of Duopoly Wireless Service Providers in Dynamic Spectrum Market", ACM MobiHoc, 2008. Zhang, Qian, Zhang, Ya-Qin (2008) "Cross-Layer Design for QoS Support in Multi-hop Wireless Networks", Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 96, No. 1, Jan. 2008. Jia, Juncheng, Zhang, Qian, Shen, Sherman (2008) "HC-MAC: A Hardware-constrained Cognitive MAC for Efficient Spectrum Management", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications, Vol. 26, Issue 1, Jan. 2008. Zhu, Yanfeng, Zhang, Qian, Niu, Zhisheng, Zhu, Jing (2008) "On Optimal QoS-aware Physical Carrier Sensing for IEEE 802.11 Based WLANs: Theoretical Analysis and Protocol Design", Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions, Volume 7, Issue 4, April 2008. Liu, Yunhuai, Zhang, Qian, Ni, Lionel (2008) "Opportunity-based Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE ICDCS, 2008.

Lei CHEN Assistant Professor (2358 6980 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Waterloo (2005) Research Assistant (2000-05), and Lecturer (2005), University of Waterloo

Current Research Activities: Multimedia databases; data management over sensor network and P2P network; stream data management; data mining; machine learning.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Efficient Near-duplicate Video Clip Detection over Large Video Databases RGC - General Research Fund HK$621,355 01 Sep 2008 NDWIRS: A near-duplicate web image retrieval system Microsoft Research Asia HK$120,000 01 May 2007

Representative Research Publications: Wang, Changliang, Chen, Lei (2009) "Continuous Subgraph Pattern Search over Graph Streams", IEEE ICDE, Shanghai. Chen, Lei, Lian, Xiang (2009) "Efficient Processing of Metric Skyline Queries", IEEE TKDE, 21, 3. Zou, Lei, Chen, Lei (2008) "Dominant Graph: An Efficient Indexing Structure to Answer Top-K Queries", ICDE 2008:536-545. Chen, Lei, Lian, Xiang (2008) "Efficient Similarity Search in Nonmetric Spaces with Local Constant Embedding", IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. (TKDE), 20(3):321-336 (2008). Lian, Xiang, Chen, Lei (2008) "Efficient Similarity Search over Future Stream Time Series", IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. (TKDE), 20(1):40-54. Zhao, Yuhai, Yu, Jeffrey Xu, Wang, Guoren, Chen, Lei, Yu, Ge, Wang, Bin (2008) "Maximal Subspace Coregulated Gene Clustering", IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., 20(1): 83-98. Lian, Xiang, Chen, Lei (2008) "Monochromatic and bichromatic reverse skyline search over uncertain databases", SIGMOD Conference 2008: 213-226. Lian, Xiang, Chen, Lei (2008) "Probabilistic Group Nearest Neighbor Queries in Uncertain Databases", IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. (TKDE), 20(6):809-824. Lin GU Assistant Professor ([email protected])

Current Research Activities: Ubiquitous computing, wireless sensor networks, operating systems, computer networks, energy-efficient computing.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Energy-efficiency in cloud computing RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$200,000 01 Feb 2009 Distributed virtualizing operating system UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$117,000 02 Feb 2009

Sunghun KIM Assistant Professor (2358 6992 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Software engineering, focusing on software evolution, program analysis, and empirical studies.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Generating unit tests that capture program properties RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$167,160 13 May 2009 Mining software bug patterns from repositories UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$117,000 02 Feb 2009

Huamin QU Assistant Professor (2358 6985 ; [email protected])

PhD, Stony Brook University (2004)

Current Research Activities: Visualization; Computer graphics; Medical imaging.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A Comprehensive Visual Analytics System for Air Pollution Analysis RGC - General Research Fund HK$569,167 01 Aug 2009

Representative Research Publications: Zhou, Hong, Cui, Weiwei, Qu, Huamin, Wu, Yingcai, Yuan, Xiaoru, Zhuo, Wei (2009) "Splatting the Lines in Parallel Coordinates", Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 28. no.3, pages 759 - 766. Cui, Weiwei, Zhou, Hong, Qu, Huamin, Wong, Pak Chung, Li, Xiaoming (2008) "Geometry-Based Edge Clustering for Graph Visualization", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 14, no. 6, pages 1277-1284. Chan, Ming Yuen, Qu, Huamin, Chung, Ka Kei, Mak, Wai Ho, Wu, Yingcai (2008) "Relation-Aware Volume Exploration Pipeline", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 14, no. 6, pages 1683 - 1690. Wu, Yingcai, Qu, Huamin (2007) "Interactive Transfer Function Design Based on Editing Direct Volume Rendered Images", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No.5, pp. 1027--1040. Qu, Huamin, Chan, Wing-Yi, Xu, Anbang, Chung, Kai-Lun, Lau, Kai-Hon, Guo, Ping (2007) "Visual Analysis of The Air Pollution Problem in Hong Kong", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 1408 - 1415. Qu, Huamin, Zhou, Hong, Wu, Yingcai (2006) "Controllable and Progressive Edge Clustering for Large Networks", 14th International Symposium on Graph Drawing 2006, Karlsruhe, Germany, pages 399 - 404. Qu, Huamin, Kaufman, Arie (2004-2005) "O-Buffer: A Framework for Sample-Based Graphics", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 10, No.4, pp. 410-421 July/August 2004.

David ROSSITER Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 8771 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of York, UK (1995)

Current Research Activities: Multimedia; Internet technologies; computer graphics; computer sound; computer music; human-computer interaction.

Representative Research Publications: Rossiter, David, Tsang, Raymond, So, Richard (2007) "Beat Deviation for Tempo Estimation Algorithms", Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, pp. 967-980, Vol. 55, No. 11, November 2007. Lam, Gibson, Rossiter, David (2007) "Streaming Multimedia Delivery in Web Services Based E-Learning Platforms", The 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, pp. 706-710. Rossiter, David, Lam, Gibson, Mak, Brian (2006) "Automatic Audio Indexing and Audio Playback Speed Control as Tools for Language Learning", The 5th International Conference on Web-based Learning, 19th July - 21st July 2006, Penang, Malaysia, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 4181, Springer-Verlag, 2006, pp. 290-299. Rossiter, David, Lam, Gibson (2006) "Language assessment using an Internet-based discussion board", book chapter in 'Improving Student Learning: Learning Oriented Assessment in Action', David Carless, Gordon Joughin and Ngar-fun Liu (Eds.), Hong Kong University Press, 2006, pp. 76-78. Lam, Gibson, Rossiter, David, Cheung, Roger (2006) "Web Content Development and Integration Using the Gong System", Proceedings of The 4th AEARU Workshop on Network Education, Taipei, Taiwan, The 4th AEARU Workshop on Network Education, 16th-17th November 2006, pp. 125-138. Lam, Gibson, Rossiter, David (2006) "Enhancing Language Learning with the Gong Web Voice System", International Conference on Tertiary/College English Teaching: IT in ELT, 1st June - 2nd June 2006, Shenyang, China and 5th June - 6th June 2006, Hong Kong, page 107. Rossiter, David, Lam, Gibson, Cheng, Vivying (2005) "The Gong System: Web-based Learning for Multiple Languages, with Special Support for the Yale Representation of Cantonese", The 4th Internet Conference on Web-based Learning, 31st July - 3rd August 2005, Hong Kong SAR, China, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 3583, Springer-Verlag, 2005, pp. 209-220.

Pedro V SANDER Assistant Professor (2358 6983 ; [email protected]) PhD, Harvard University (2003)

Current Research Activities: Computer graphics: efficient rendering and geometry processing; general purpose processing on graphics hardware.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Mesh Traversal Optimization for Efficient Geometry Processing RGC - General Research Fund HK$497,084 01 Jul 2008 Reprojection caching: A general framework for improving real-time rendering efficiency RGC - General Research Fund HK$558,000 01 Jul 2007 Interactive triangle order optimization RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$167,160 01 Jan 2007 Harnessing the power of the graphics processing unit UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$351,500 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications: Hu, Liang, Sander, Pedro V, Hoppe, Hugues (2009) "Parallel View-Dependent Refinement of Progressive Meshes.", Symposium on Interactive 3D graphics and games, Boston, Massachusetts, 2009, Pages 169-176. Sitthi-amorn, Pitchaya, Lawrence, Jason, Yang, Lei, Sander, Pedro V, Nehab, Diego, Xi, Jiahe (2008) "Automated Reprojection- Based Pixel Shader Optimization", ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH Asia), Volume 27, Issue 5 (December 2008), Article 27. Sander, Pedro V, Nehab, Diego, Chlamtac, Eden, Hoppe, Hugues (2008) "Efficient Traversal of Mesh Edges using Adjacency Primitives", ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH Asia), Volume 27, Issue 5 (December 2008), Article 144. Yang, Lei, Sander, Pedro, Lawrence, Jason (2008) "Geometry-Aware Framebuffer Level of Detail", Eurographics Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2008).. He, Bingsheng, Yang, Ke, Fang, Rui, Lu, Mian, Govindaraju, Naga, Luo, Qiong, Sander, Pedro (2008) "Relational Joins on Graphics Processors", ACM SIGMOD 2008. Nehab, Diego, Sander, Pedro, Lawrence, Jason, Tatarchuk, Natasha, Isidoro, John (2007) "Accelerating Real-Time Shading with Reverse Reprojection Caching", ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Graphics Hardware 2007, San Diego, CA, USA, pp. 25-35. Sander, Pedro, Nehab, Diego, Barczak, Joshua (2007) "Fast Triangle Order Optimization for Vertex Locality and Reduced Overdraw", ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 26(3), Article 89. Oat, Christopher, Sander, Pedro (2006) "Ambient Aperture Lighting", ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2007, Seattle, WA, USA.

Raymond C W WONG Assistant Professor (2358 6982 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Database, data mining, security, data mining for business applications, customer-centric data analysis, data warehouse, decision making, data streams, video compression and computer music.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Anonymization based attack in privacy preserving data publishing RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$167,160 15 Oct 2008 Data mining over massive data and distributed data UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$117,000 02 Feb 2009

Ke YI Assistant Professor (2358 8770 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Algorithms and data structures, I/O-efficient computation, computational geometry; databases, index structures, spatial databases, data streams, data security.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Top-k queries in uncertain databases RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$167,160 01 Nov 2007 Methods and techniques for handling today's massive data in a variety of applications UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$351,500 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications: Yi, Ke (2009) "Dynamic Indexability and Lower Bounds for Dynamic One-Dimensional Range Query Indexes", Proc. ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), Providence, RI, June 2009. Agarwal, Pankaj, Cheng, Siu-Wing, Tao, Yufei, Yi, Ke (2009) "Indexing Uncertain Data", Proc. ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), Providence, RI, June 2009. Yi, Ke, Zhang, Qin (2009) "Multi-Dimensional Online Tracking", Proc. ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), pages 1098-1107, New York, NY, January 2009. Yi, Ke, Zhang, Qin (2009) "Optimal Tracking of Distributed Heavy Hitters and Quantiles", Proc. ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), Providence, RI, June 2009. Tao, Yufei, Yi, Ke, Sheng, Cheng, Kalnis, Panos (2009) "Quality and Efficiency in High Dimensional Nearest Neighbor Search", Proc. ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Providence, RI, June 2009. Li, Feifei, Yi, Ke, Jestes, Jeffrey (2009) "Ranking Distributed Probabilistic Data", Proc. ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Providence, RI, June 2009. Zhang, Qin, Li, Feifei, Yi, Ke (2008) "Finding Frequent Items in Probabilistic Data", ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pages 819-832, June 2008. Arge, Lars, de Berg, Mark, Haverkort, Herman, Yi, Ke (2008) "The Priority R-Tree: A Practically Efficient and Worst-Case Optimal R- Tree", ACM Transactions on Algorithms, 4(1), March 2008.

Charles C ZHANG Assistant Professor (2358 6997 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Areas related to software customization such as concern mining, aspect oriented programming, product-line engineering, model driven approaches, generative programming, and domain specific languages.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The architectural adaption of infrastructure software systems to usage contexts RGC - General Research Fund HK$338,725 01 Jan 2009 The architectural adaptation of large infrastructure software systems to usage contexts RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$167,160 01 Feb 2008 Empirical software engineering techniques in infrastructural software and embedded systems UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$351,500 02 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Zhang, Chuan (2009) "FlexSync: An aspect-oriented approach to synchronization.", ICSE 2009: the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering, Vancouver, BC, Canada May 16-May 24,Pages 375-385. Zhang, Chuan (2008) "Externalizing Java server concurrency with CAL", 22nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP), 5142/2008, 362-386,2008. Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering

Ross D MURCH, Head of Department and Professor

Khaled BEN LETAIEF, Chair Professor; Director, HK Telecom Institute of IT and Center for Wireless IT

Xiren CAO, Chair Professor

Philip C H CHAN, Chair Professor; Director, Microelectronics Fabrication Facility

Hoi Sing KWOK, Chair Professor and Director, Center for Display Research

Kei May LAU, Chair Professor and Director, Photonics Technology Center

Man Sun CHAN, Professor; Director of HKUST and SIMIT Nano-Device Joint Laboratory; Deputy Director of Micro- Fabrication Facility

Roger S K CHENG, Professor

Vladimir G CHIGRINOV, Professor

Chin Tau LEA, Professor

Zexiang LI, Professor

Howard C LUONG, Professor

Li QIU, Professor

Jianan QU, Professor

Bertram Emil SHI, Professor

Johnny K O SIN, Professor; Director, Microelectronics Fabrication Facility; Director, Semiconductor Product Analysis and Design Enhancement Center

Danny H K TSANG, Professor

Man WONG, Professor

Ping Keung KO, Professor Emeritus

Oscar C. AU, Associate Professor; Advisor/Ex-Director, Computer Engineering; Director, Multimedia Technology Research Center

Amine BERMAK, Associate Professor

Kevin J CHEN, Associate Professor

Pascale N FUNG, Associate Professor

Ho-Chi HUANG, Associate Professor

Wing Hung KI, Associate Professor

Vincent K N LAU, Associate Professor

Philip K T MOK, Associate Professor

Wai Ho MOW, Associate Professor; Associate Director of Wireless IC System Design Center; Co-director of Self-Financed ELET MPhil Program

Andrew Wing On POON, Associate Professor

Chi Ying TSUI, Associate Professor

Albert Kai Sun WONG, Visiting Associate Professor

Bing ZENG, Associate Professor

Jack LAU, Adjunct Associate Professor Peng CHEN, Visiting Assistant Professor

Volkan KURSUN, Assistant Professor and Director - Nanoelectronic Circuits and Gigascale Systems Laboratory

Matthew R MCKAY, Assistant Professor

Daniel PALOMAR, Assistant Professor

Ling SHI, Assistant Professor

Kam Tim WOO, Visiting Assistant Professor

Jiang XU, Assistant Professor

Weichuan YU, Assistant Professor

Jie YUAN, Assistant Professor

Pengcheng SHI, Adjunct Assistant Professor Ross D MURCH Head of Department and Professor (2358 7044 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Canterbury (1990)

Current Research Activities: Wireless communication systems; MIMO antenna systems; antenna design; ultra wide band (UWB) systems; wireless LANs.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Cooperative Communication for Next Generation Wireless Systems RGC - General Research Fund HK$310,677 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Weng, Lingfan, Murch, Ross D (2009) "Cooperation strategies and resource allocation in multi-user OFDMA systems", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol 58, Issue 6, pp2331-2342, June 2009. Chiu, Chi-Yuk, Yan, Jie-Bang, Murch, Ross D, Yun, Jane Xing, Vaughan, Rodney G (2009) "Design and Implementation of a 6-Port Volumetric Vector Sensor Antenna", IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Accepted June 2009. Mak, Angus Ck, Rowell, Corbett R, Murch, Ross D (2009) "Low Cost Reconfigurable Landsdorfer Planar Antenna Array", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, accepted May 2009. Cheng, Wang, Murch, Ross D (2009) "On the Sum-rate Scaling Law of Downlink MU-MIMO Decomposition Transmission with Fixed Quality Imperfect CSITCommunications, Vol 8, Issue 1, pp113-117, January 2009", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol 8, Issue 1, pp113-117, January 2009. Chiu, Chi-Yuk, Murch, Ross D (2008) "Compact 4-port Antenna suitable for Portable MIMO Devices", IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol 7, 2008, pp142-144. Mak, Angus C K, Rowell, Corbett R, Murch, Ross D (2008) "Isolation Enhancement between two closely packed antennas", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol 56, No 11, Nov, 2008, pp3411-3419. Chu, Xiaoli, Murch, Ross D (2008) "Pilot-Channel-Assisted Log-Likelihood-Ratio Selective Rake Combining for Low-Rate Ultra- Wideband Communications", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol 56, No 8, August 2008, pp1313-1323, Vol 56, No 8, August 2008, pp1313-1323. Yan, Jie-Bang, Murch, Ross D (2008) "Semi-Helical Bondwire On-Chip Antenna", IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium, 5-11 July 2008, San Diego, USA.

Khaled BEN LETAIEF Chair Professor; Director, HK Telecom Institute of IT and Center for Wireless IT (2358 7064 ; [email protected])

PhD, Purdue University (1990) Assistant Professor, University of Melbourne (1990-93)

Current Research Activities: Mobile communications; OFDM; space-time processing; broadband wireless networks; multiuser detection; wireless multimedia; CDMA systems.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Traffic scheduling and rate adaptation for IEEE 802.11n MIMO wireless networks RGC - General Research Fund HK$369,600 01 Jan 2008 Cooperative diversity for ad-hoc wireless networks RGC - General Research Fund HK$960,048 01 Jan 2007 Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access for Broadband Uplink Communications RGC - General Research Fund HK$289,966 01 Jan 2009 Making Hong Kong a high-technology leader in wireless communications product innovations and services through world-class fundamental and applied research UGC - Targets of Opportunity and Others HK$2,500,000 12 May 2007 Wireless IC System Design Center Nansha Research Centers HK$10,226,000 01 Jul 2006 Cooperation and cross-layer design in cognitive radio systems National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$500,500 30 Apr 2007

Representative Research Publications: Wei, Chen, Zhi, Chen, Ben Letaief, Khaled (2009) "AsOR: An energy efficient multi-hop opportunistic routing protocol for wireless sensor networks over Rayleigh fading channels", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 8, no. 3, March 2009. Ben Letaief, Khaled, Zhang, Wei (2009) "Cooperative communications for cognitive radio networks", Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 97, No. 5, pp. 878-893, May 2009. Li, Wei, Fan, Pingyi, Ben Letaief, Khaled (2009) "Joint processing of topology control and channel assignment in wireless ad hoc networks", Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Vol. 9, No.2, pp. 269-281, Feb. 2009. Chen, Wei, Dai, Lin, Ben Letaief, Khaled, Cao, Zhigang (2008) "A unified cross-layer framework for resource allocation in cooperative networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 8, pp. 3000 - 3012, Aug. 2008. Zhang, Wei, Ben Letaief, Khaled (2008) "Cooperative spectrum sensing with transmit and relay diversity in cognitive radio networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 4761 - 4766, Dec. 2008. Huang, Weilan, Ben Letaief, Khaled, Zhang, Jingyao (2008) "Cross layer multi-packet reception based medium access control and resource allocation for space-time coded MIMO/OFDM", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 3372 - 3384, Sep. 2008. Zhang, Wei, Ben Letaief, Khaled (2008) "Full-rate distributed space-time codes for cooperative communications", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 7, pp. 2446 - 2451, Jul. 2008. Dai, Lin, Ben Letaief, Khaled (2008) "Throughput maximization of ad-hoc wireless networks using adaptive cooperative diversity and truncated ARQ", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 56, no. 11, pp. 1907 - 1918, Nov. 2008.

Xiren CAO Chair Professor (2358 7048 ; [email protected])

PhD, Harvard University (1984) Manager and Consultant Engineer, Digital Equipment Corporation (1986-93)

Current Research Activities: Discrete event system theory and applications; optical communications; signal processing; queuing theory; optimization.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Policy iteration and aggregation method in optimization of queueing systems RGC - General Research Fund HK$418,000 01 Jan 2008 Stochastic control with Lebesgue sampling RGC - General Research Fund HK$534,000 31 Dec 2006 Event-Based Optimization for Continuous-Time Markov Systems RGC - General Research Fund HK$358,660 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Zhang, Junyu, Cao, Xi-Ren (2009) "Continuous-Time Markov Decision Processes with nth-Bias Optimality Criteria", Automatica. Cao, Xi-Ren (2009) "On-Line Policy Gradient Estimation with Multi-Step Sampling", Discrete Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications. Cao, Xi-Ren (2009) "Optimal Control with Lebesgue Sampling and Time Aggregation", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Xia, Li, Chen, Xi, Cao, Xi-Ren (2009) "Policy Iteration of Customer-Average Performance in Queueing Systems", Automatica. Cao, Xi-Ren (2009) "Stochastic Learning and Optimization - A Sensitivity-Based Approach", Annual Review in Control, invited review, 2009. Cao, Xi-Ren, Zhang, Junyu (2008) "Event-Based Optimization of Markov Systems", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 53, 1076-1082, 2008. Zhang, Kan-Jian, Xu, Yan-Kai, Chen, Xi, Cao, Xi-Ren (2008) "Policy Iteration Based Feedback Control", Automatica, Vol. 44, 1055- 1061, 2008. Cao, Xi-Ren, Zhang, Junyu (2008) "The nth-Order Bias Optimality for Multi-chain Markov Decision Processes", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 53, 496-508, 2008.

Philip C H CHAN Chair Professor; Director, Microelectronics Fabrication Facility (2358 6952 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1978) Program Manager, Technology Development (1981-90) and Principal Engineer, Design Technology (1990-91), Intel Corporation

Current Research Activities: VLSI devices, circuits and systems; microelectronics; electronic packaging; integrated sensors.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNFET) with parallel aligned carbon nanotube channels RGC - General Research Fund HK$789,782 01 Jan 2008 Investigation of carbon nanotube as the filing material for integrated circuit contacts and vias UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$424,000 01 Sep 2006 Electronics, wireless and information technology UGC - Strategic Initiatives HK$8,100,000 05 May 2008

Representative Research Publications: Yu, J., Tang, Z.A., Yan, G.Z., Chan, Philip C.H., Huang, Z.X. (2009) "An Experimental Study on Micro-gas Sensors with Strip Shape Tin Oxide Thin Films", Sensors and Actuators B-Chemical, Vol. 139, No. 2, pp. 346-352. Chen, Longquan, Xiao, Zhiyong, Chan, Philip C.H., Lee, Yi-Kuen (2009) "Dual-scaled Stable Superhydrophobic Nano- flower Surfaces", Transducer 2009, Denver, USA, June 21-25, 2009, pp. 441-444. Chai, Yang, Xiao, Zhiyong, Chan, Philip C.H. (2009) "Electron-Shading Effect on the Horizontal Aligned Growth of Carbon Nanotubes Using Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition", Applied Physics Letters, 043116 (2009), pp. 94. Chai, Yang, Xiao, Zhiyong, Chan, Philip C.H. (2009) "Fabrication and Characterization of the Horizontally Aligned Carbon Nanotubes for the Interconnect Application", IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), San Diego, USA, May 26-29, 2009, pp. 1465-1469. Zhang, Min, Chan, Philip C.H., Chai, Yang, Liang, Qi, Tang, Zikang (2009) "Novel Local Silicon-Gate Carbon Nanotube Transistors for Integration to Silicon-on-Insulator Technology", IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 260-268. Huo, Xiao, Xiao, Guowei, Chen, Kevin J, Chan, Philip C.H. (2009) "Silicon-on-organic Integration of a 2.4 GHz VCO using High O Copper inductors and Solder-bumped Flip-chip Technology", IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 191-196. Chai, Yang, Chan, Philip C.H., Fu, Yunyi, Chuang, Y.C., Liu, C.Y. (2008) "Electromigration Studies of Cu/Carbon Nanotube Composite Interconnects Using Blech Structure", IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 29, No. 9, 2008, pp. 1001-1003. Chai, Yang, Chan, Philip C.H. (2008) "High Electromigration-Resistant Copper/Carbon Nanotube Composite for Interconnect Application", International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM), San Francisco, USA, Dec 15-17, 2008, pp. 607-610.

Hoi Sing KWOK Chair Professor and Director, Center for Display Research (2358 7056 ; [email protected])

PhD, Harvard University (1978) Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo (1986-92)

Current Research Activities: Display technologies; thin film materials; organic light emitting devices.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: New Generation Transflective LCD with High Optical Effciency RGC - General Research Fund HK$566,986 01 Oct 2008 Liquid crystal display without color filters RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,541,800 01 Sep 2007 Next generation display technology Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited & Industries HK$8,174,500 23 Apr 2008 Active matrix organic light emitting diode displays Ministry of Science and Technology HK$1,066,337 01 Mar 2003

Representative Research Publications: Chigrinov, Vladimir, Kozenkov, V., Kwok, Hoi Sing (2008-2009) Photoalignment of Liquid Crystalline Materials, Physics and Applications, Wiley Inter-Science, New York, 240pp. Yu, Xiaoming, Zhou, Gui Jiang, Lam, Ching Shan, Wong, Wai Yeung, Zhu, Xiu Ling, Sun, Jiaxin, Wong, Man, Kwok, Hoi Sing (2008) "A yellow-emitting iridium complex for use in phosphorescent multiple-emissive-layer white organic light-emitting diodes with high color quality and efficiency", Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol 693, pp 1518-1527. Yeung, Fion S.Y., Ho, Jacob Y L, Li, Yuet Wing, Kwok, Hoi Sing (2008) "Liquid Crystal Alignment Layer With Controllable Anchoring Energies", IEEE Journal of Display Technology, Vol. 4, pp 24-27. Li, Yuet Wing, Lee, Chung Yung, Kwok, Hoi Sing (2008) "Liquid crystal dynamic flow control by bidirectional alignment surface", Applied Physics Letters, vol 94, pp 061111. Kwok, Hoi Sing, Yeung, Fion S.Y. (2008) "Nano-structured liquid-crystal alignment layers (Invited Paper)", Journal of Society for Information Display, vol 16, pp. 911-918. Li, Yuet Wing, Kwok, Hoi Sing, Tan, Li (2008) "Passive-matrix-driven field-sequential-color displays", Journal of Society for Information Display, vol 16, pp 429-434. Li, Yuet Wing, Ho, Jacob Y L, Yeung, Fion S.Y., Kwok, Hoi Sing (2008) "Simultaneous Determination of Large Pretilt Angles and Cell Gap in Liquid Crystal Displays", IEEE Journal of Display Technology, Vol. 4, pp 13-17. 李, 陽, 孟, 志國, 吳, 春亞, 王, 文, 郭, 海成, 張, 芳, 熊, 紹珍 (2008) "多晶硅薄膜陽極微腔有機發光器件及其簡化制備流程的研究", 《半導 體學報》, vol 29, pp 144-48.

Kei May LAU Chair Professor and Director, Photonics Technology Center (2358 7049 ; [email protected])

PhD, Rice University (1981) Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1982-2000)

Current Research Activities: Compound semiconductor materials and devices for photonic and high-frequency applications; organometallic chemical vapor deposition.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: High-Mobility p-channel Heterostructure Field Effect Transistors RGC - General Research Fund HK$904,417 01 Jan 2009 Metamorphic InP-based devices on gaas substrates by MOCVD RGC - General Research Fund HK$816,750 01 Oct 2006 Integrated III-nitride transistors and microsensors RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$4,900,000 30 Jun 2008 Investigation of growth methods of GaN based LED Wafers Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$2,184,600 01 May 2008

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Peng, Chen, W. V., Yu, P.K. L., Tang, Chak Wah, Lau, Kei May, Mawst, L., Paulson, C., Kuech, T.F., Lau, S.S. (2009) "Effects of hydrogen implantation damage on the performance of InP/InGaAs/InP p-i-n photodiodes transferred on silicon", Appl. Phys., Lett. 94, article no. 012101. Tang, Chak Wah, Li, Haiou, Zhong, Zhenyu, Ng, Kai Lun, Lau, Kei May (2009) "Hetero-epitaxy of III-V Compounds lattice-matched to InP by MOCVD for Device Applications", Indium Phosphide and Related Materials, International Conference, 10-14 May 2009 , pp. 114 - 117. Lau, Kei May, Tang, Chak Wah, Li, Haiou, Zhong, Zhenyu (2008) "AlInAs/GaInAs mHEMTs on Silicon Substrates by MOCVD", Proceeding IEDM, San Francisco, CA Dec 15-17. Li, B.K., Chen, Kevin J, Lau, Kei May, Ge, W.K., Wang, J.N. (2008) "Characterization of fluorine-plasma-induced deep centers in AlGaN/GaN heterostructure by persistent photoconductivity", Phys. Stat. Sol. (c), vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 1892-1894. Ng, Kar Wei, Huang, J.M., Lau, Kei May (2008) "Growth and characterizations of GaN-based LEDs grown on wet-etched stripe- patterned sapphire substrates", IEEE/TMS J. Electronic Materials, vol. 37(10), pp.1560- 1564. Zhong, Zhenyu, Lau, Kei May (2008) "High quality GaAs film on Si (100) with excellent surface morphology grown by MOCVD", 2008 Electronic Material Conference (EMC2008), University California, Santa Barbara, CA, June 25-27, 2008. Jha, S.K., Surya, C., Chen, Kevin J, Lau, Kei May, Jelencovic, E. (2008) "Low-frequency noise properties of double channel AlGaN/GaN HEMTs", Solid-State Electronics, 52, pp. 606-611. Lee, Y.J., Kuo, H.C., Lu, T.-C., Wang, S.-C., Ng, Kar Wai, Lau, Kei May, Yang, Z.-P., Chang, A.S.-P., Lin, S.-Y. (2008) "Study of GaN-based light-emitting diodes grown on chemical wet-etching-patterned sapphire substrate with V-shaped pits roughening surfaces", IEEE J. of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 26, Issue 11, pp.1455 - 1463.

Man Sun CHAN Professor; Director of HKUST and SIMIT Nano-Device Joint Laboratory; Deputy Director of Micro-Fabrication Facility (2358 8519 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ece.ust.hk/~mchan)

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1995) Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley

Current Research Activities: Nanometric device technology; SOI technology; Non-Volatile Memory, compact device modeling (BSIM); biosensors; RF circuits; power management circuit

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Nano Phase-Change Random Access Memory (PCRAM) Cell Design and Modeling RGC - General Research Fund HK$448,894 01 Jan 2009 Silicon nanowire transistor fabrication and modeling RGC - General Research Fund HK$996,300 01 Sep 2007 Providing the basic methods and tools required for developing circuit simulation models, and applying them for developing a circuit simulation model for multi-gate MOSFETs UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$1,426 01 Jul 2008 Providing the basic methods and tools required for developing circuit simulation models, and applying them for developing a circuit simulation model for multi-gate MOSFETs New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization HK$726,240 01 Oct 2005 Representative Research Publications: Law, J. K. Y., Yeung, C. K., Hofmann, B, Ingebrandt, S, Rudd, J. A., Chan, Mansun (2009) "The Use of Microelectrode Array (MEA) to Study the Protective Effects of Potassium Channel Openers on Metabolically-Compromised HL-1 Cardiomyocytes", Physiological Measurements, vol. 30, pp. 155-167. Ng, Ricky M. Y., Wang, Tao, Liu, Feng, Zuo, Xuan, He, Jin, Chan, Mansun (2009) "Vertically Stacked Silicon Nanowire Transistors Fabricated by Inductive Plasma Etching and Stress Limited Oxidation", IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 520-522. Man, Tsz Yin, Mok, Philip K T, Chan, Mansun (2008) "A 0.9-V Input Discontinuous-Conduction-Mode Boost Converter with CMOS-Control Rectifier", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 43, Issue, 9, pp. 2036-2046. Chan, Mansun (2008) "A CMOS Active-Pixel Sensor Based DNA Micro-Array with Nano-Metallic Particles Detection Protocol", 2008 International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology, China, Oct. 20-23, 2008, pp.H5.3. Leung, Wing Yan, Man, Tsz Yin, Chan, Mansun (2008) "A High-Power-LED Driver with Power-Efficient LED-Current Sensing Circuit", 2008 European Solid-State Circuits Conference, Scotland, pp. 354-357, September 15-19, 2008. Li, Lin, Chan, Mansun (2008) "Scaling Analysis of Phase Change Memory (PCM) Driving Devices", 2008 IEEE Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits, Hong Kong, December 8-10, 2008, pp. 5A.4. Chan, Mansun (2008) "Stacked CMOS Technology", Wafer Level 3-D ICs Process Technology, C. S. Tan, R. J. Gutmann, and R. L. Reif, pp. 31-48. Law, J. K. Y., Yeung, C. K., Ingebrrandt, S, Rudd, J. A., Chan, Mansun (2008) "Using the Microelectrode Array (MEA) to Study Hyperpolarising Field Potentials of Non-Excitable Cells", 6th International Meeting on Substrate-Integrated Micro-Electrode Arrays, Germany, July 8 - 11, 2008.

Roger S K CHENG Professor (2358 7072 ; [email protected])

PhD, Princeton University (1991) Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder (1991-95)

Current Research Activities: Wireless communications; Multiuser MIMO OFDM systems; Resource Allocation; information theory and coding; digital VLSI implementation of communication algorithm.

Representative Research Publications: Yang, Yin, Cheng, Roger S K (2009) "Dynamic decode-and-forward and amplify-and-forward cooperative strategy using distributed space-time code in a MIMO system with multiple relays", IEEE International Conference on Communications 2009, Dresden, Germany, 14-18/6. Zhang, R., Au, Edward K., Cheng, Roger S K (2008) "Impacts of CFO, IQ imbalance and phase nooise on the system performance in OFDM systems", International Conference on Communications Systems (ICCS 2008), IEEE, 19- 21 Nov 2008, Guangzhou, China pp. 1041-5. Lo, Ernest S., Chan, Peter W.C., Lau, Vincent K N, Cheng, Roger, Ben Letaief, Khaled, Murch, Ross, Mow, Wai Ho (2007) "Adaptive Resource Allocation and Capacity Comparision of Downlink Multiuser MIMO-MC-CDMA and MIMI-OFDMA", IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications, pp.1083-93, March. Chan, Peter W.C., Cheng, Roger (2007) "Capacity Maximization for Zero-forcing MIMO-OFDMA Downlink System with Multisuer Diversity", IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communication, pp.1880-1889, May. Chan, Peter W. C., Lo, Ernest. S., Lau, Vincent K. N., Cheng, Roger S., Letaief, K. B., Murch, Ross D., Mow, W. H. (2007) "Performance Comparison of Downlink Multiuser MIMO-OFDMA and MC-CDMA with Transmit Side Information --- Multi-Cell Analysis", IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications, pp. 2193 - 2203, June 2007. So, K.C., Cheng, Roger (2006) "Achievable Diversity Order by Space-Time Trellis Coding Combined with MLED and OFDM over Frequency Selective Fading Channels", IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications, vol. 5, pp. 1217-22. So, K.C., Cheng, Roger (2006) "Layered maximum likelihood detection for MIMO systems in frequency selective fading channels", IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications, vol. 5, pp. 752-62. Tao, M., Cheng, Roger (2004) "Generalized Layered Space-Time Codes For High Data Rate Wireless Communications", IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, vol. 3, pp. 1067-75.

Vladimir G CHIGRINOV Professor (2358 8522 ; [email protected])

PhD, Russian Academy of Sciences (1978) Leading Scientist, Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, Moscow (1996- )

Current Research Activities: 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; LC application in fiber optics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Liquid Crystal Applications in Photonics RGC - General Research Fund HK$340,019 01 Sep 2008 Novel Photoaligned Optically Rewritable Liquid Crystal Displays and Photonics Devices RGC - General Research Fund HK$802,700 01 Sep 2009 New Optically Rewritable Electronic Paper Liquid Crystal Displays UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$400,000 01 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Chigrinov, Vladimir (2009) "Liquid crystal applications in photonics", Photonics West Conference, 7232-24,San Jose, CA, USA, January 2009. Pozhidaev, E. P., Chigrinov, Vladimir, Hegde, G., Xu, P. (2009) "Multistable electro-optical modes in ferroelectric liquid crystals", J. SID, 17/1, pp. 53-59, 2009. Dubtsov, A., Pasechnik, S., Shmeliova, D., Tsvetkov, V, Chigrinov, Vladimir (2009) "Special optical geometry for measuring twist elastic module K22 and rotational iscosity γ1 of nematic liquid crystals", Appl. Phys. Lett, 94, 181910-1-181910-3. Kwok, Hoi Sing, Chigrinov, Vladimir (2008) "Development of Photoalignment Technologies", 22ndt ntern. Liq. Cryst. Conf, Plenary lecture, Jeju, Korea, July 2008. Pozhidaev, E. P., Hegde, G., Xu, P., Chigrinov, Vladimir, Kwok, Hoi Sing (2008) "Electrically Controlled Birefringent Colors of Smectic C* Deformed Helix Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Cells", Ferroelectrics, Vol. 365, pp. 35-38. Hegde, G., Xu, P., Pozhidaev, E. P., Chigrinov, Vladimir, Kwok, Hoi Sing (2008) "Electrically controlled birefringence colours in deformed helix ferroelectric liquid Crystals", Liq. Cryst, Vol. 35, No. 9, pp. 1137-1144. Pozhidaev, E. P., Chigrinov, Vladimir, Hegde, G., Kwok, Hoi Sing (2008) "Inherent Continuous, Hysteretic Free and Memorized Gray Scale of FLC Display Cells Based on Bi- and Multistability Effects", Ferroelectrics, Vol. 364, pp. 95-101. Muravsky, A., Murauski, A., Chigrinov, Vladimir, Kwok, Hoi Sing (2008) "Light Printing of Grayscale Pixel Images on Optical Rewritable Electronic Paper", Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 47, No. 8, pp. 6347-6353.

Chin Tau LEA Professor (2358 7090 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Washington (1982) Professor of Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1991-96)

Current Research Activities: Broadband and wireless network architectures; high-speed electronic and photonic switching; network protocols. Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Theory and Applications of Oblivious Routing and Traffic Demand Uncertainties RGC - General Research Fund HK$310,677 01 Dec 2008

Representative Research Publications: Lea, Chin-Tau, Lin, Beychi, Hamdi, Mounir (2007) "An Architecture for TSI-Free Nonblocking Optical TDM Switches", IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, March 2007, pp.694-702. Zhang, Meng, Lau, Vincent, Lea, Chin-Tau (2007) "On mobility and cross-layer scheduling", ICC 2007, Gasgow England. Chu, Jian, Lea, Chin-Tau (2007) "Optical link weights for maximizing QoS traffic", ICC 2007, Glasgow, England, 2007. Zhang, Meng, Lea, Chin-Tau (2006) "Impact of mobility on CDMA call admission control", IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, vol 55, no. 6, pp. 1908-1922. Lea, Chin-Tau (2005) "Expanding the switching capabilities of optical crossconnect", IEEE Trans. On Communications, vol 52, no. 11, pp. 1940-1945. Meng, Z, Lea, Chin Tau (2004) "On the Mobility/Capacity conversion in wireless networks", IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Techology. Chen, An, Lea, Chin Tau (2004) "Routing and Time-Slot Assignment in Optical TDMNetworks", IEEE JSAC, November 2004, Vol. 22, No. 9, pp. 1648-1657. Fleisher, Rudolf, Golin, Mordecai, Lea, Chin Tau (2004) "Maximum residual energy routing algorithms", Information Processing Letter, Vol 89, issue 2, Jan, pp. 57-63.

Zexiang LI Professor (2358 7051 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1989) Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Robotics Research Laboratory, New York University (1990-92)

Current Research Activities: Robot manipulation; multifingered robotic hands; geometric analysis of robotic mechanisms; intelligent control and nonlinear systems; motion control and manufacturing.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Integrated Structure/Control Design of Lower Mobility Parallel Mechanisms for Semiconductor Applications RGC - General Research Fund HK$334,841 01 Jan 2009 Tolerance-based motion control system design and implementation RGC - General Research Fund HK$881,000 01 Dec 2006

Representative Research Publications: Meng, J., Zhang, D.J., Li, Zexiang (2009) "Assembly problem of overconstrained and clearance-free parallel manipulators", ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 131, pp.011013-1:9. Lou, Yunjiang, Gong, Wei, Li, Zexiang, Zhang, Jianjun, Yang, G.L. (2009) "Natural Frequency Based Optimal Design of a Two-Link Flexible Manipulator", 2009 IEEE Int'l Conference on Robotics & Automation, Kobe, Japan, May 12-17/2009. Xu, J.J., Li, Zexiang (2008) "A Kinematics Model of Finger Gaits by Multifingered Hand as Hybrid Automaton", IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp.467-479. Li, J.G., Zhang, T.H., Li, Zexiang (2008) "A complete self-adaptive NURBS interpolator", Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 19(9), pp. 1095-1099. Wu, Y. Q., Li, Zexiang, Ding, H., Lou, Yunjiang (2008) "Quotient kinematics machines: Concept, analysis and synthesis", IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Nice, France, 22-29, Sept., 08, pp.1964-1969. Xiong, Z.H., Li, Z.X. (2003) "On the Discrete Symmetric Localization Problem", International Journal of Machine Tools & Manufacture, 43(9):863-870. Xiong, Z.F., Li, Z.X. (2003) "Probe radius compensation of workpiece localization", ASME Trans. on Manufact. Science and Technology, 125(1):100-104. Liu, G.F., Xu, J.J., Li, Z.X. (2002) "Automatic real-time grasping force determination for multifingered manipulation: Theory and experiments", IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, pp. 1675-1680.

Howard C LUONG Professor (2358 8514 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ee.ust.hk/~eeluong)

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1994)

Current Research Activities: Low-power, low-voltage, high-speed analog integrated circuits; RF integrated circuits for wireless communications.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: RF Blocker Filtering for Narrow-Band and Multi-band Wireless Receivers RGC - General Research Fund HK$469,468 01 Jan 2009 Design and integration of IC modules for software-defined radio receivers RGC - General Research Fund HK$418,000 01 Sep 2007

Representative Research Publications: Rong, Sujiang, Ng, Alan, Luong, Howard Cam (2009) "0.9mW 7GHz and 1.6mW 60GHz Frequency Dividers with Locking- Range Enhancement in 0.13um CMOS", IEEE International Solid-State Circuit Conference, San Francisco, February 2009. Zheng, Hui, Lou, Shuzuo, Chan, Tat-Fu, Shen, Chen, Lu, Dong-Tian, Luong, Howard Cam (2009) "A 3.1-8.0 GHz MB-OFDM UWB Transceiver in 0.18-um CMOS", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, February 2009. Lou, Shuzuo, Luong, Howard Cam (2008) "A Linearization Technique for RF Receiver Front-End Using Second-Order- Intermodulation Injection", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, November 2008. Wang, Evelyn, Lou, Shuzuo, Chui, Kay, Rong, Sujiang, Lok, Chi Fung, Zheng, Hui, Chan, Sherlock, Man, Adam, Luong, Howard Cam, Lau, Vincent, Tsui, CY (2008) "A Single-Chip UHF RFID Reader in 0.18-um CMOS", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), August 2008, August 2008. Zheng, Hui, Luong, Howard Cam (2008) "Ultra-Low-Voltage 20-GHz Dividers Using Transformer Feedback in 0.18-um CMOS Process", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, October 2008. Rong, Sujiang, Luong, Howard (2007) "1V 4GHz-and-10GHz Transformer-Based Dual-Band Quadrature VCO in 0.18-um CMOS", 2007 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), San Jose, USA, September 2007. Zheng, Hui, Luong, Howard (2007) "A 0.5-V 16GHz-20GHz Differential Injection-Locked Divider in 0.18um CMOS Process", 2007 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), San Jose, USA, September 2007. Leung, Lincole, Lau, Dennis, Lou, Shuzuo, Ng, Wing Lun, Wang, Rachel, Wong, G, Wu, Patrick, Zheng, Hui, Cheung, Vincent, Luong, Howard (2007) "A 1-V 86-mW-RX 53-mW-TX Single-Chip CMOS Transceiver for WLAN IEEE 802.11a", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), September 2007.

Li QIU Professor (2358 7067 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ee.ust.hk/~eeqiu)

PhD, University of Toronto (1990) Research Associate, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota (1992-93)

Postdoctoral Fellow, the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Canada (1992)

Current Research Activities: Systems control theory; signal processing; mathematics in infomation technology.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: From singular values to canonical angles RGC - General Research Fund HK$267,000 31 Dec 2007 Measures of Instability RGC - General Research Fund HK$491,820 01 Jan 2009 Mixed H_2/H_infinity optimization with order constraint RGC - General Research Fund HK$527,988 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications: Su, Weizhou, Qiu, Li, Chen, Jie (2007) "Fundamental limit of discrete-time systems in tracking multi-tone sinusoidal signals", Automatica, 43, 15-30. Qiu, Li, Zhang, Y., Li, C.K. (2005) "Unitarily invariant metrics on the Grassmann space", SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, vol. 27, pp. 507-531. Gan, W.C., Qiu, Li (2004) "Torque and velocity ripple elimiation of AC permanent magnet motor control systems using the internal model principle", IEEE / ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, Vol.9, pp. 436-447. Su, W, Qiu, Li, Chen, J (2003) "Fundamental performance limitations in tracking sinusoidal signals", IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, pp. 1371-1380. Ding, Z., Qiu, L. (2003) "Blind MIMO channel identification from second order statistics using rank deficient channel convolution matrix", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 51, Issue 2, pp. 535-544. Qiu, L., Chen, T. (1999) "Multirate sampled-data systems: all H∞ suboptimal controllers and the minimum entropy controller", IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, 44, pp. 537-550, 1999. Qiu, L., Bernhardsson, B., Rantzer, A., Davison, E.J., Young, P.M., Doyle, J.C. (1995) "A formular for computation of the real stability radius", Automatica, 31, pp. 879-890, 1995. Qiu, L., Davison, E.J. (1993) "Perfomance limitations of non-minimum phase systems in the servomechanism problem", Automatica, 29, pp. 337-349, 1993.

Jianan QU Professor (2358 8541 ; [email protected])

PhD, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1991) Research Fellow, British Columbia Cancer Research Center (1992-94) Staff Scientist, Ontario Laser and Lightwave Research Centre (1995-97)

Current Research Activities: Applications of optics in medicine; biomedical instrumentation; analytical laser spectroscopy; laser technology and optical design.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Advanced photonics technology for the assessment of tissue viability in vivo RGC - General Research Fund HK$379,717 01 Jan 2009 Imaging tissue pathology with the combination of diffused reflectance and autofluorescence RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$92,000 01 Jan 2004 New endogenous fluorescence biomarkers for non-invasive diagnosis of early cancer UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$620,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications: Li, Dong, Zheng, Wei, Qu, Jianan (2009) "Two-photon autofluorescence microscopy of multicolor excitation", Optics Letters, V.33, 2365-2367. Zheng, Wei, Wu, Yicong, Li, Dong, Qu, Jianan (2008) "Epithelial autofluorescence: single- versus two-photon excitation", Journal of Biomedical Optics, V.13, 054010. Wu, Tao, Cheung, T. H., Yim, S. F., Qu, Jianan (2008) "Optical imaging of cervical precancerous lesions based on active stereo vision and motion tracking", Optics Express, V.16, 11224-11230. Li, Dong, Zheng, Wei, Qu, Jianan (2008) "Time-resolved spectroscopic imaging reveals the fundamentals of cellular NADH fluorescence", Optics Letters, V.33, 2365-2367. Wu, Tao, Qu, Jianan (2007) "Optical imaging for medical diagnosis based on active stereo vision and motion tracking", Optics Express, V.15, p.10421-10426. Wu, Tao, Qu, Jianan, Xu, Min (2007) "Unified Mie and fractal scattering by biological cells and subcellular structures", Optics Letters, vol. 32, p.2324-2326. Wu, T. Tao, Qu, Jianan (2007) "Optical imaging for medical diagnosis based on active stereo vision and motion tracking", Optics Express, V.15, 10421-10426. Wu, T. Tao, Qu, Jianan, Xu, Min (2007) "Unified Mie and fractal scattering by biological cells and subcellular structures", Optics Letters, Vol. 32, 2324-2326.

Bertram Emil SHI Professor (2358 7079 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ee.ust.hk/~eebert)

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1994)

Current Research Activities: Analog VLSI neural networks; cellular neural networks; neuromorphic and biologically inspired engineering; computer vision; image, speech and signal processing; nonlinear dynamics; nonlinear circuit theory.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Hierarchical Hebbian learning in neuromorphic networks RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,095,750 01 Jan 2007 Binary coding in neuromorphic sensory systems RGC - General Research Fund HK$391,591 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Zhao, Laura, Shi, Bertram E (2009) "Integrating Contrast Invariance into a Model for Cortical Orientation Map Formation", Neurocomputing, vol. 72, pp. 1887-1899, Mar. 2009. Tsang, Eric, Shi, Bertram E (2008) "Normalization enables robust validation of disparity estimates from neural populations", Neural Computation, vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 2464-2490, Oct. 2008. Lam, Stanley, Shi, Bertram (2007) "Recursive Anisotropic 2D Gaussian Filtering Based on a Triple-Axis Decomposition", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 1925-1930, Jul. 2007. Merolla, Paul, Arthur, John, Shi, Bertram, Boahen, Kwabena (2007) "Expandable Networks for Neuromorphic Chips", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 301-311, Feb. 2007. Choi, Thomas, Merolla, Paul, Arthur, John, Boahen, Kwabena, Shi, Bertram (2005) "Neuromorphic implementation of orientation hypercolumns", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems -I: Regular Papers, Jun. 2005, Vol. 52, No. 6, pp. 1049-1060. Tsang, Eric, Shi, Bertram (2004) "A preference for phase-based disparity in a neuromorphic implementation of the binocular energy model", Neural Computation, Aug. 2004, vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 1579-1600. Choi, Thomas, Shi, Bertram, Boahen, Kwabena (2004) "An ON–OFF orientation selective address event representation image transceiver chip", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 342-353, Feb. Shi, Bertram, Luo, Tao (2004) "Spatial Pattern Formation via Reaction-Diffusion Dynamics in 32 x 32 x 4 CNN Chip", IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems—I: Regular Papers, 51, no. 5, pp. 939-947, May.

Johnny K O SIN Professor; Director, Microelectronics Fabrication Facility; Director, Semiconductor Product Analysis and Design Enhancement Center (2358 7052 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Toronto (1988) Senior Member of Research Staff, Philips Laboratories, New York (1988-91)

Current Research Activities: Power semiconductor devices and ICs; thin film transistors; RF SOI devices; integrated sensor and MEMS devices; semiconductor failure analysis.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A Fast Switching Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor with a Novel Collector RGC - General Research Fund HK$602,421 01 Sep 2008

Representative Research Publications: Hu, D., Sin, J.K.O., Wu, Y., Kang, B.W. (2009) "A New Internal Transparent Collector IGBT", IEEE International Symposium on Power Device & ICs, Barcelona, Spain, June 2009. Wu, R.X., Su, Y.P., Sin, J.K.O., Hui, S.Y. (2008) "Characteristics of Monolithic Coreless Transformers for Power Supply-on-Chip Applications", 1st International Workshop on Power Supply-On-Chip, Cork, Ireland, pp. 75, Sept. 2008. Ng, J., Sin, J.K.O., Guan, L. (2008) "A Novel Planar Power MOSFET with Laterally-uniform Body and Ion-implanted JFET region", IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 375-377. Ng, J., Sin, J.K.O., Guan, L. (2008) "A Novel Sub-Low Power MOSFET with Improved on-Resistance and Threshold Variation", IEEE International Symposium on Power Semiconductors & ICs, pp. 91-94, Orlando, Florida, USA. Wu, Y., Tian, B., Huang, H., Hu, D., Sin, J.K.O, Kang, B. (2008) "Evaluation of Trench-Gate Bipolar-Mode JFETs Used as High- Side Transistors in Low-Voltage Buck Converters", IEEE International Symposium on Power Semiconductors & ICs, pp. 127-130, Orlando, Florida, USA. Onishi, Y., Wang, H., Xu, H.P.E., Ng, W.T., Wu, R., Sin, J.K.O (2008) "SJ-FINFET: A New Low Voltage Lateral Superjunction MOSFET", IEEE International Symposium on Power Semiconductors & ICs, pp. 111-114, Orlando, Florida, USA. Guan, L., Sin, J.K.O. (2007) "Transient Characterization of the Planar DMOS With a Metal/Poly-Si Replacement Gate", IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, Vol. 54, No. 7, pp. 1789-1792. Wu, Y., Cheng, X., Sin, J.K.O., Kang, B. (2007) "A Power Bipolar Integrated Device with Schottky Extension of Anode", The 38th IEEE Power Electronics Specialist Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA, June 17-21, 2007.

Danny H K TSANG Professor (2358 7045 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ee.ust.hk/~eetsang)

PhD, University of Pennsylvania (1989)

Principal Architect, Sycamore Networks, U.S.A. (2000-2001) Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Statistics & Computing Science, Dalhousie University (1989-92)

Current Research Activities: Video streaming over Internet, IPTV, VoIP, CDN, and P2P networks; congestion controls; quality of services guarantee in Internet; IP multicast; multimedia networking; wireless networks.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Analysis and design of dynamic power saving schemes in IEEE 802.16e RGC - General Research Fund HK$365,191 01 Jan 2008 Representative Research Publications: Bensaou, Brahim, Kong, Z. N., Tsang, Danny H K (2009) "A Measurement-Assisted, Model-Based Admission Control Algorithm for IEEE 802.11e", Journal of Interconnection Networks. Zhao, Qinglin, Tsang, Danny H K, Sakurai, T. (2009) "A Simple and Approximate Model for Nonsaturated IEEE 802.11 DCF", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Luan, H., Kwong, K. W., Hei, X. J., Tsang, Danny H K (2009) "Adaptive Topology Formulation for Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming", Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications. Ma, M., Tsang, Danny H K (2009) "Joint Design of Spectrum Sharing and Routing with Channel Heterogeneity in Cognitive Radio Networks", Physical Communication Journal (ELSEVIER) Special issue on: Cognitive Radio: Algorithms & System Design, Vol. 2, Issues 1-2, pp. 127-137. Zhao, Qinglin, Tsang, Danny H K (2008) "An Equal-spacing-based Design for QoS Guarantee in IEEE 802.11e HCCA Wireless Networks", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 7, No. 12, pp. 1474-1490. Wu, Yuan, Tsang, Danny H K (2008) "Joint Rate and Power Allocation in Spectrum Sharing Networks with Balanced QoS Provisioning and Power Saving", ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications. Lin, B. C., Lea, Chin-Tau, Tsang, Danny H K, Xu, Jiang (2008) "Reducing Wavelength Conversion Range in Space/Wavelength Switches", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 20, No. 17. Zhao, Q. L., Tsang, D. H. K., Sakurai, T. (2008) "A Simple Model for Nonsaturated IEEE 802.11 DCF Networks", IEEE Communications Letter.

Man WONG Professor (2358 7057 ; [email protected])

PhD, Stanford University (1988) Technical Staff, Semiconductor Process and Design Center, Texas Instruments (1989-92)

Current Research Activities: Advanced device fabrication technology; thin film transistors and general device physics; micro-electromechanical systems; organic light-emitting diodes.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Fabrication and characterization of transparent thin-film transistors RGC - General Research Fund HK$435,600 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Zhang, Dongli, Chow, Thomas, Wong, Man (2008) "A Polycrystalline Silicon Thin-Film Transistor with Self-Aligned Metal Electrodes Formed Using Aluminum-Induced Crystallization", The IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 55(8), Aug/2008. pp.2181-2186. Wong, Man, Chow, Thomas, Wong, Chun Cheong, Zhang, Dongli (2008) "A Quasi Two-Dimensional Conduction Model for Polycrystalline Silicon Thin-Film Transistor Based on Discrete Grains", The IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 55(8), Aug/2008. pp.2148-2156. Peng, Huajun, Zhu, X. L., Sun, J. X., Yu, X., Wong, Man, Kwok, Hoi Sing (2006) "Improvement of Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Using Semitransparent Ag as Anode.", Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 88(3), Jan/2006. 033509:3 pages. Qiu, Cheng Feng, Xie, Zhi Liang, Chen, Hai Ying, Tang, Ben Zhong, Wong, Man, Kwok, Hoi Sing (2004) "Electrophosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diode Using Aluminum Bis(2-Methyl-8-Quinolinato) 4-Phenylphenolate as an Electron- Transport Layer", The IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 10(1), Jan, Feb, pp.101-106. Wong, Man, Meng, Zhi Guo, Kwok, Hoi Sing (2004) "Metal-Induced Laterally Crystallized Polycrystalline Silicon: Technology, Devices and Systems", Proceedings of the 8th Asian Symposium on Information Display (ASID'04). Nanjing, China, Feb 15-17, pp. 20- 25. Li, Gang, Zohar, Yitshak, Wong, Man (2004) "Piezoresistive Microphone with Integrated Amplifier Realized Using Metal- Induced Laterally Crystallized Polycrystalline Silicon", The 17th IEEE Conference on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems. Maastricht, the Netherlands, Jan 25-29, pp. 548-551. Wong, Man, Meng, Zhi Guo, Shi, Xue Jie (2003) "Characteristics and Stability of Improved Re-Crystallized Metal-Induced Laterally Crystallized Polycrystalline-Silicon Thin-Film Transistors for Display Applications", The Journal of the Society for Information Display, Vol. 11(4), pp. 633-637. Shi, Xue Jie, Henttinen, K, Suni, T, Suni, L, Lau, S.S., Wong, Man (2003) "Characterization of Low-Temperature Processed Single- Crystalline Silicon Thin-Film Transistor on Glass", The IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 24(9), Sept, pp. 574-576.

Ping Keung KO Professor Emeritus (2358 7055 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1982) Professor and Vice Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley (1990- 93)

Current Research Activities: High-speed VLSI devices, technology, and circuits; MOS device modeling for circuit simulation; CAD tools for integrated circuit design.

Representative Research Publications: Lam, S., Wang, H., Lee, W.K., Ko, Ping Keung, Chan, Man Sun (2002) "A Comparative Study of RF Noise Characteristics of Different Submicron SOI MOSFET Structures on SIMOX Technology", 60th Annual Device Research Conference Digest, June, Santa Barbara, USA, 65-66. Lam, S., Ki, Wing Hung, Ko, Ping Keung, Chan, Man Sun (2002) "An Enhanced Compact Waffle MOSFET for RF Integrated Circuits", 60th Annual Device Research Conference Digest, 24-26 June, Santa Barbara, 73-74. Ng, Allen Fai Lun, Ko, Ping Keung, Chan, Man Sun (2002) "Determining the onset frequency of nonquasistatic effects of the MOSFET in AC simulation", IEEE Electron Device Letters, 23(1), 37-39. Zhang, X., Lam, S., Ko, Ping Keung, Chan, Man Sun (2002) "High-Speed Mixed Signal and RF Circuits Design with Compact Waffle MOSFET", IEEE Hong Kong Electron Devices Meeting Proceedings, 22 June, Hong Kong, 79-82. Shen, C., Xu, C., Huang, R., Ko, Ping Keung, Chan, Man Sun (2001) "A New Active Pixel Sensor (APS) Architecture on SOI Substrate for Low Voltage Operation", Proceedings of 9th International Symposium on IC Technology, Systems & Applications, 3-5 September, Singapore, 275-278. Xue, M., Xu, W., Lu, G., Carles, M., Sucher, Nikolaus J., Ip, Nancy Y., Ko, Ping Keung, Chan, Man Sun (2001) "A Study of the Spectral Sensitivity of Photodiode from a Standard CMOS Process for DNA Detection", Proceedings of 9th International Symposium on IC Technology, Systems & Applications, 3-5 September, Singapore, 303-306. Chan, Man Sun, Ko, Ping Keung (2001) "Development of a Viable 3D Integrated Circuit Technology", Science in China, Information Science, Vol. 44, No. 4, August 2001, pp. 241-248. Ng, A.F.L., Ko, Ping Keung, Chan, Man Sun (2001) "Evaluation of the Impact of Non-Quasi-Static Effects in RF Applications", Extended Abstract of 2001 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials, 26-28 September, Tokyo, Japan, 446-447.

Oscar C. AU Associate Professor; Advisor/Ex-Director, Computer Engineering; Director, Multimedia Technology Research Center (2358 7053 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ee.ust.hk/~eeau/)

PhD, Princeton University (1991) IEEE Distinguished Lecturer; IEEE Senior member; Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology; Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing; Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - I; Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Signal Processings Systems; Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Multimedia; Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Franklin Institute; Chairman, IEEE CAS Multimedia Systems and Applications Technical Committee; Member, IEEE CAS Visual Signal Processing and Communication TC; Member, IEEE CAS Digital Signal Processing TC; Member, IEEE SP Multimedia Signal Processing TC; Consultant, ASTRI/Hutchison/HKBN/ICAC/HK Police/Peoples Telephone/AnTech/etc; Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University; ;

Current Research Activities: Video/image compression standards such as MPEG-1/2/4, H.261/3/4, AVS, JPEG/JPEG-2000, fast algorithms, motion estimation, intra- prediction, mode selection, rate control, transcoding, scalable video coding, distributed video coding, multi-view video coding, de-noising, de-blocking, de-interlacing, error concealment, watermarking, high-dynamic imaging, tone mapping, subpixel rendering, compressive sensing, inverse halftoning, GPU processing, hardware-software co-design. Variable speed speech/audio playback.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Subpixel Based Downsampling: Theories, Algorithms, Applications RGC - General Research Fund HK$752,043 01 Aug 2009 Low complexity secure information access platform Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$7,161,000 01 Apr 2009 The Next Generation Mobile Multimedia IC Initiative RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$300,000 01 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Guo, Liwei, Au, Oscar C L, Ma, Mengyao, Liang, Zhiqin, Wong, Peter H.W. (2009) "A Novel Analytic Quantization Distortion Model for Hybrid Video Coding", IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technologies, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 627-641, May 2009. Zhou, Jiantao, Au, Oscar C L, Wong, Peter H.W. (2009) "Adaptive Chosen-ciphertext Attack on Secure Arithmetic Coding", IEEE Trans. On Signal Processing, Vol. 57, No. 5, pp. 1825-1838, May 2009. Ma, Mengyao, Au, Oscar C L, Chan, Gary S H, Guo, Liwei (2009) "Error Resilient Coding using B Frames in H.264", IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technologies, accepted for publication in Mar 2009. Guo, Liwei, Au, Oscar C L, Ma, Mengyao, Liang, Zhiqin (2009) "Fast Multi-Hypothesis Motion Compensated Filter for Video Denoising", Journal of Signal Processing Systems, accepted for publication in Mar 2009. Guo, Liwei, Au, Oscar C L, Ma, Mengyao, Wong, Peter H.W. (2009) "Integration of Recursive Temporal LMMSE Denoising Filtering for Video Codec", IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technologies, accepted for publication in Jun 2009. Chen, Yan, Au, Oscar C L, Fan, Xiaopeng (2009) "Simultaneous MAP-Based Video Denoising and Rate-Distortion Optimized Video Encoding", IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technologies, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 15-26, Jan 2009. Fan, Xiaopeng, Au, Oscar C L (2009) "Wyner-Ziv Based Bidirectionally Decodable Video Coding", Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, accepted for publication in Mar 2009. Ma, Mengyao, Au, Oscar C L, Guo, Liwei, Chan, Gary S H, Fan, Xiaopeng, Hou, Ling (2008) "Alternate Motion- Compensated Prediction for Error Resilient Video Coding", Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Vol. 19, No. 7, pp. 437-449, Oct. 2008.

Amine BERMAK Associate Professor (2358 8992 ; [email protected])

PhD, Paul Sabatier University (1998) Senior Lecturer, Edith Cowan University (2002)

Current Research Activities: VLSI circuits and systems; packaging technologies; CMOS image senors; smart vision systems; VLSI implementation of artificial neural networks. Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Self-powered CMOS image sensor for ultra-low power portable imaging systems RGC - General Research Fund HK$615,076 31 Dec 2007 A high-end polarimetric image sensor for next generation imaging systems RGC - General Research Fund HK$755,982 01 Oct 2008 VLSI neural chip for olfactory coding National Center for Scientific Research HK$138,000 15 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Shoushun, Bermak, Amine, Boussaid, Farid (2006) "A Compact Reconfigurable Counter Memory for Spiking Pixels", IEEE Electron Device Letter, Vol. 27, Issue 4, pp. 255-257, April 2006. Bermak, Amine, Yung, YatFung (2006) "A DPS Array with programmable Resolution and reconfigurable Conversion Time", IEEE Transaction on Very Large Scale Integration (TVLSI), Vol. 14, Issue 1, pp. 15-22 Jan. 2006. Bermak, Amine, Brahim-belhouari, Sofiane (2006) "Bayesian Learning using Gaussian Process for Gas Identification", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, Volume 55, Issue 3, pp. 787-792, June 2006. Kitchen, Alistair, Bermak, Amine, Bouzerdoum, Abdessellam (2005) "A Digital Pixel Sensor Array with Programmable Dynamic Range", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Volume 52, Issue 12, pp. 2591-2601, Dec. 2005. Brahim-Belhouari, Sofiane, Bermak, Amine, Shi, Minghua, Chan, Philip (2005) "Fast and Robust Gas Identification System Using an Integrated Gas Sensor Technology and Gaussian Mixture Models", IEEE Sensors Journal, Volume 5, Issue 6, pp. 1433-1444, Dec. 2005. Bermak, Amine, Brahim-Belhouari, Sofiane, Shi, Minghua, Martinez, Dominique (2005) "Pattern Recognition Techniques for Odor Discrimination in Gas Sensor Array", The Encyclopedia of Sensors, Craig A. Grimes , Elizabeth C. Dickey , Michael V. Pishko (editors),, SBN : 1-58883-056-X, American Scientific Publishers, 2005. Chen, Shoushun, Bermak, Amine (2004-2005) "A low power CMOS imager based on time-to-first-spike encoding and Fair arbitration", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS2005, Kobe, Japan, May 2005, pp. 5306-5309. Brahim-Belhouari, Sofiane, Bermak, Amine (2004-2005) "Gas identification using density models", Pattern Recognition Letters, May 2005, 26 (6): 699-706.

Kevin J CHEN Associate Professor (2358 8969 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Maryland (1993) Research Engineer, NTT LSI Laboratories, Japan (1994-96) Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong (1996-98) Member of Technical Staff, Agilent Technologies, Inc. (1998-2000)

Current Research Activities: RF/microwave devices and circuits: design, fabrication and characterization; GaN-based microwave power transistors; RF/microwave power amplifiers; RF micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS).

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Wide-Bandgap GaN Smart Power Chip Technologies RGC - General Research Fund HK$499,846 01 Jan 2009 Enhancement-mode AlGaN/GaN HEMTs and their circuit applications RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,282,000 01 Sep 2006 Drain profile engineering for high-performance gan-based power transistors RGC - General Research Fund HK$521,950 01 Jan 2008 Monolithically integrated high-performance rectifiers and transistors for GaN power integrated circuits Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$1,113,870 01 Dec 2008

Representative Research Publications: Wang, Maojun, Yuan, Li, Cheng, C., Beling, C., Chen, Kevin J. (2009) "Defect formation and annealing behaviors of fluorine- implanted GaN layers revealed by positron annihilation spectroscopy", Applied Physics Letters, vol. 94, 061910, 2009. Wang, Maojun, Yuan, Li, Chen, Kevin J., Xu, Fujun, Shen, Bo (2009) "Diffusion mechanism and the thermal stability of fluorine ions in GaN after ion implantation", Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 105, 083519, April 2009. Chen, Wanjun, Wong, King Yuen, Chen, Kevin J. (2009) "Single-Chip Boost Converter using Monolithically Integrated AlGaN/GaN Lateral Field-Effect Rectifier and Normally-off HEMT", IEEE Electron Device Lett., vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 430-432, 2009. Wang, Ruonan, Cai, Yong, Chen, Kevin J. (2009) "Temperature Dependence and Thermal Stability of Planar-Integrated Enhancement/Depletion-mode AlGaN/GaN HEMTs and Digital Circuits", Solid State Electronics, vol. 53, pp. 1-6, 2009. Yuan, Li, Wang, Maojun, Chen, Kevin J. (2008) "Atomistic Modeling of Fluorine Implantation and Diffusion in III-Nitride Semiconductors", International Electron Device Meeting, IEEE Electron Device Society, San Francisco, USA, Dec. 15-17, 2008. pp. 543-546. Chen, Kevin J. (2008) "Fluorine Plasma Ion Implantation (Treatment) Technology: a New Dimension in GaN Electronic Device Processing", The 9th Int. Conf. on Solid-State and Integrated-Circuit Technology (ICSICT08), Beijing, Oct. 20-23, 2008. Yuan, Li, Wang, Maojun, Chen, Kevin J. (2008) "Molecular dynamics calculation of the fluorine ions' potential energies in AlGaN/GaN Heterostructures", Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 104, 116106, 2008. Chen, Wanjun, Wong, King Yuen, Chen, Kevin J. (2008) "Monolithic Integration of Lateral Field Effect Rectifier with Normally-off HEMT for GaN-on-Si Switch-mode Power Supply Converters", International Electron Device Meeting, IEEE Electron Device Society, San Francisco, USA, Dec. 15-17, 2008, pp. 141-144.

Pascale N FUNG Associate Professor (2358 8537 ; [email protected])

PhD, Columbia University (1997)

Current Research Activities: Speech and speaker recognition; understanding and dialogue strategies in speech recognition; multilinguality in speech and language; machine translation; cross-language information processing.

Representative Research Publications: Wu, Dekai, Fung, Pascale (2009) "Can Semantic Role Labeling Improve SMT?", Annual Conference of European Association of Machine Translation 2009, Barcelona, Spain. Wu, Dekai, Fung, Pascale (2009) "Semantic Roles for SMT: A Hybrid Two-Pass Model", Joint Conference of the North American Chapter of ACL/Human Language Technology, 2009. Zhang, Jian Justin, Huang, Shilei, Fung, Pascale (2008) "RSHMM++ for extractive lecture speech summarization", IEEE/ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2008, Goa, India. Carpuat, Marine, Ngai, Grace, Fung, Pascale (2002) "Creating a Bilingual Ontology: A Corpus-Based Approach for Aligning WordNet and HowNet", Proceedings of the 1st Global WordNet Conference. Wong, Ping Wai, Fung, Pascale (2002) "Nouns in WordNet and HowNet: an Analysis and Comparison of Semantic Relations", Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Global WordNet Conference. Liu, Yi, Fung, Pascale (2001) "Estimating Pronunciation Variations from Acoustic Likelihood Score for HMM Reconstruction", Eurospeech.

Ho-Chi HUANG Associate Professor (2358 7046 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Washington (1991) Current Research Activities: Integrated guided-wave optics; silicon-based optoelectronic technologies; CMOS AMLCD technology; ASIC design.

Representative Research Publications: Zhang, Baolong, Li, KuenKuen, CHIGRINOV, Vladimir, Kwok, Hoi-Sing, Huang, Ho-Chi (2005) "Application of Photoalignment Technology to Liquid-Crystal-on-Silicon Microdisplays", Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 44, No. 6A, pp. 3983 991. Huang, Ho-Chi, Zhang, Baolong, Kwok, Hoi-Sing, Cheng, Po-Wing, Chen, Yen-Chen (2005) "Color Filter Liquid-Crystal-on- Silicon Microdisplays", Society for Information Display, International Symposium, May 20-22, 2005, pp. 880-883. Zhang, Baolong, Peng, Hua-Jun, Kwok, Hoi-Sing, Huang, Ho-Chi (2005) "Three-dimensional Optical Analyses of Fringing Effect in Small Color Pixels", Society for Information Display, international Symposium, 20-22 May, 2005, pp. 1302-1305. Zhang, Baolong, Li, Kuen Kuen, Huang, Ho-Chi, Kwok, Hoi-Sing (2003) "Application of photo-alignment technology on silicon microdisplay", The 23rd International display research conference, Sept 15-18.

Wing Hung KI Associate Professor (2358 8516 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ee.ust.hk/~eeki)

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (1995) Senior Design Engineer, Micro Linear (1992-95)

Current Research Activities: Analysis and design of switch mode and switched-capacitor power converters, low voltage switched op-amp, switched-capacitor circuits and fundamental analog integrated circuits.

Representative Research Publications: Su, Feng, Ki, Wing Hung (2009) "Digitally assisted quasi V2 hysteretic buck converter with fixed frequency and without using large-ESR capacitor", IEEE Int'l Solid-State Circ. Conf., San Francisco, Feb. 2009, pp. 446-447. Su, Feng, Ki, Wing Hung, Tsui, Chi Ying (2009) "Regulated switched-capacitor doubler with interleaving control for continuous output regulation", IEEE J. of Solid-State Circ., Vol.44, No.4, pp.1112-1120, Apr. 2009. Su, Feng, Ki, Wing-Hung, Tsui, Chi-Ying (2008) "Ultra fast fixed frequency hysteretic buck converter with maximum charging current control and adaptive delay compensation for DVS applications", IEEE J. of Solid-State Circ., vol.43, no.4, pp.815-822, April 2008. Yi, Jun, Ki, Wing-Hung, Tsui, Chi-Ying (2007) "Analysis and design strategy of UHF micro-power CMOS rectifiers for micro- sensor and RFID applications", IEEE Trans. on Ckts. & Sys., Part I, Vol.54, No.1, pp.153–166, Jan 2007. Su, Feng, Ki, Wing-Hung (2007) "Design strategy for step-up charge pumps with variable integer conversion ratios", IEEE Trans. on Ckts. & Sys., Part II, Vol.54, No.5, pp.417–421, May 2007. Lam, Yat-Hei, Ki, Wing-Hung, Tsui, Chi-Ying (2006) "Integrated low-loss CMOS active rectifier for wirelessly powered devices", IEEE Trans. on Ckts. & Sys., Part II, Vol.53, No.12, pp.1378–1382, Dec 2006. Lam, Yat Hei, Ki, Wing Hung, Tsui, Chi Ying (2006) "Adaptively-Biased Capacitor-Less CMOS Low Dropout Regulator with Direct-Current Feedback", Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference, LSI University Design Contest, pp.104–105, Jan. 2006. (Special Feature Award). Chui, Martin Y. K., Ki, Wing-Hung, Tsui, Chi-Ying (2004) "A programmable integrated digital controller for switching converters with dual-band switching and complex pole-zero compensation", IEEE J. of Solid–State Ckts. , Vol.40, No.3, pp.772–780, March, 2005.

Vincent K N LAU Associate Professor (2358 7066 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Cambridge (1997) System Engineer, Hong Kong Telecom (1992-95). Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies (1997-99 & 2001-03). Assistant Professor, The University of Hong Kong (1999-2001, 2003-2004). Technology Consultant, ASTRI (2003-)

Current Research Activities: Wireless communications; information theory with partial feedback; multi-user OFDM/MIMO cross layer scheduling; baseband ASIC algorithm and architecture design.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Delay-sensitive multi-user resource allocation for wireless systems with outdated channel state knowledge RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,332,000 01 Jan 2008 Robust closed loop cross layer designs for multi-user MIMO/OFDM wireless systems RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,032,000 01 Jan 2007 On the design of OFDM/MIMO partial CSI feedback for point-to-point wireless link RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Jun 2005 Ultra-wideband wireless communications for multimedia applications UGC - High Impact Area HK$1,550,000 16 Sep 2004 Cognitive communications for next generation wireless systems UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$550,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications: Lau, Kin, Kwok, Ricky (2006) Channel Adaptive Technologies and Cross Layer Designs for Wireless Systems with Multiple Antennas, John Wiley and Sons (NY). Lau, Vincent (2005) "On the Performance of Multi-cell Wireless Systems with Multiuser Detection and Multiple Antennas - Uplink Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol 4, issue 4, pp 1388 - 1393. Lau, Vincent (2005) "Optimal Downlink Space-Time Scheduling Design with Convex Utility Functions - Multiple Antenna Systems with Orthogonal Beamforming", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol 54, issue 4, pp 1322 - 1333. Lau, Vincent (2005) "Proportional Fair Space Time Scheduling for Wireless System with partial feedback", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Volume 53, Issue 8, Page(s):1353 – 1360, Aug 2005. Lau, Kin Nang (2004) "A theoretical framework of uplink macroscopic optimization for multicell systems with multiuser detection", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Volume: 53, Issue: 6, pp.1769-1779. Lau, Kin Nang (2004) "An analytical comparison of partial power-feedback designs for MIMO block fading channels", IEEE Transactions on Communication, vol.52, no.5, pp 691-693. Lau, Kin Nang (2004) "Analytical Framework for multiuser uplink MIMO Uplink Space-Time Scheduling Design with Convex Utility Functions", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications,, vol. 3, no.5, pp.1832-1843. Lau, Kin Nang, Liu, YouJian, Chen, TaiAnn (2004) "Capacity of Memoryless Channels and Block-Fading Channels with Designable Cardinality-Constrained Channel State Feedback", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol.50, no.9, pp.2038-2049.

Philip K T MOK Associate Professor (2358 8517 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ece.ust.hk/~eemok)

PhD, University of Toronto (1995) Current Research Activities: Analog integrated circuits for telecommunications and power electronics applications; power management integrated circuits and systems.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A Monolithic Digital-Control DC-DC Converter with Fast Transient Response RGC - General Research Fund HK$852,637 01 Sep 2008 A linearization IC for WLAN power amplifier applications RGC - General Research Fund HK$841,190 01 Sep 2007 A Monolithic Single-Inductor Multiple-Output Switching Converter with Low Cross-Regulation RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,220,707 01 Jul 2009

Representative Research Publications: Yi, Jun, Ki, Wing Hung, Mok, Philip K T, Tsui, Chi Ying (2009) "Dual-Power-Path RF-DC Multi-Output Power Management Unit for RFID Tags", IEEE 2009 Symp. on VLSI Techology & Circuits, Kyoto, Japan, June 2009. Man, Tsz Yin, Mok, Philip K T, Chan, Man Sun (2008) "A 0.9-V Input Discontinuous-Conduction-Mode Boost Converter With CMOS-Control Rectifier", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 43, No. 9, pp. 2036-2046, Sept 2008. Mai, Yuan Yen, Mok, Philip K T (2008) "A Constant Frequency Output-Ripple-Voltage-Based Buck Converter Without Using Large ESR Capacitor", IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems - II, Vol. 55, No. 8, pp. 748-752, Aug 2008. Chan, Man Pun, Mok, Philip K T (2008) "Fully Integrated Digital Controller IC for Buck Converter with a Differential-Sensing ADC", 2008 IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits, Hong Kong, Dec 2008. Man, Tsz Yin, Mok, Philip K.T., Chan, Mansun (2008) "An Auto-Selectable Frequency Pulse-Width Modulator for Buck Converters with Improved Light-Load Efficiency", IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA, pp. 440- 441, Feb 2008. Man, Tsz Yin, Leung, Ka Nang, Leung, Chi Yat, Mok, Philip K.T., Chan, Mansun (2008) "Development of Single- Transistor-Control LDO Based on Flipped Voltage Follower for SoC", IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems - I, Vol. 55, No. 5, pp. 1392- 1401, Jun 2008. Man, Tsz Yin, Mok, Philip K.T., Chan, Mansun (2007) "A High Slew-Rate Push-Pull Output Amplifier for Low-Quiescent Current Low-Dropout Regulators with Transient-Response Improvement", IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems - II, Vol. 54, No. 9, pp. 755-759, Sept 2007. Wu, Patrick Y., Mok, Philip K.T. (2007) "A Monolithic Buck Converter with Near-Optimum Reference Tracking Response Using Adaptive-Output-Feedback", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 42, No. 11, pp. 2441-2450, Nov 2007.

Wai Ho MOW Associate Professor; Associate Director of Wireless IC System Design Center; Co-director of Self-Financed ELET MPhil Program (2358 7070 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ee.ust.hk/~eewhmow)

PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1993) Visiting Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1994) Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University (1997-99)

Current Research Activities: Wireless communications, coding and information theory with emphasis on various aspects of signal design and detection methods. Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A novel data detection method for single-carrier systems with impulsive noise and multi-carrier systems with narrowband interference RGC - General Research Fund HK$391,591 01 Dec 2007 New directions in network coding RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$300,000 02 Oct 2008 Low-PAPR preamble design and effective multi-user detection for MIMO-OFDMA with inter-cell interference RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$70,125 01 Jun 2006

Representative Research Publications: Mow, Wai Ho (2009) "Recursive Constructions of Detecting Matrices for Multiuser Coding: a Unifying Approach", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol.55, no.1, Jan 2009, pp. 93-98. Tang, Xiaohu, Mow, Wai Ho (2008) "A New General Construction of Zero Correlation Zone Sequences Based on Interleaved Perfect Sequences", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol.54, no.12, December 2008, pp. 5729-5734. Li, Tao, Mow, Wai Ho, Siu, Man Hung (2008) "Joint Erasure Marking and Viterbi Decoding Algorithm for Unknown Impulsive Noise Channels", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol.7, no. 9, September 2008, pp. 3407-3416. Chan, H.Y., Mow, Wai Ho (2008) "Non-binary source-to-channel symbol mappings with minimized distortion", US Patent Application, No. xx/xxx,xxx, in Feb 2008. Gan, Ying Hung, Mow, Wai Ho (2008) "Novel Joint Sorting and Lattice Reduction for Delay-Constrained LLL-reduction-aided MIMO Detection", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 15, 2008, pp. 194-197. Au, K. Edward, Mow, Wai Ho (2008) "On Accelerating the Computation of Weight Enumerators for Convolutional Codes", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 6, Jun 2008, pp.2009-2014. Li, Tao, Mow, Wai Ho, Siu, Manhung (2007) "Joint Erasure Marking and List Decoding to Combat Unknown Interferenc", US Patent filed on July 11, 2007. (Docket No. TTC.TP-WSOM.004/TPIPP139US). Li, Tao, Mow, Wai Ho, Siu, Manhung (2007) "Robust Joint Erasure Marking Viterbi Algorithm Decoder", US Provisional Patent, Serial No. 60/956,435, filed on August 17, 2007. (Docket No. TTC.TP-WSMC.004/TPIPP164US).

Andrew Wing On POON Associate Professor (2358 7905 ; [email protected])

PhD, Yale University (2001)

Current Research Activities: Silicon micro-photonics; micro-cavity optics; optical communications.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Optical manipulation of microparticles using integrated microphotonic devices on a silicon chip RGC - General Research Fund HK$489,749 16 Sep 2008 Silicon microresonator-based photonic integrated circuits for high-data-rate signal processing applications RGC - General Research Fund HK$752,357 01 Jul 2007 Electron beam lithography system for nanoelectronics and nanotechnology UGC Miscellaneous HK$6,300,000 08 Aug 2008 Electron beam lithography system for nanoelectronics and nanotechnology UGC - Special Equipment Grant HK$10,000,000 08 Aug 2008 Silicon photonics for WDM optical access networks CUHK - Research Committee Group Research Grant HK$30,000 01 Apr 2008

Representative Research Publications: Zhou, Linjie, Chen, Hui, Poon, Andrew Wing On (2008-2009) "On-chip NRZ-to-PRZ format conversion using narrow-band silicon microring resonator-based notch filters", Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 26, pp.1950-1955. Xu, Fang, Poon, Andrew Wing On (2008) "Silicon cross-connect filters using microring resonator coupled multimode- interference-based waveguide crossings", Optics Express, 16, pp. 8649 - 8657, June 2008. Luo, Xianshu, Poon, Andrew Wing On (2007) "Coupled spiral-shaped microdisk resonators with non-evanescent asymmetric inter-cavity coupling", Optics Express, 15, pp. 17313 -17322, Dec. 2007. Zhou, Linjie, Poon, Andrew Wing On (2007) "Electrically reconfigurable silicon microring resonator-based filter with waveguide- coupled feedback", Optics Express, 15, pp. 9194 - 9204, July 2007. Lee, Jonathan Yi Ho, Luo, Xianshu, Poon, Andrew Wing On (2007) "Reciprocal transmissions and asymmetric modal distributions in waveguide-coupled spiral-shaped microdisk resonators", Optics Express, 15, pp. 14650 - 14666, Oct. 2007. Zhou, Linjie, Poon, Wing On (2007) "Fano resonance-based electrically reconfigurable add-drop filters in silicon microring resonator-coupled Mach-Zehnder interferometers", Optics Letters 32, pp. 781-783, Apr 2007. Li, Chao, Zhou, Linjie, Poon, Wing On (2007) "Silicon microring carrier-injection-based modulators/switches with tunable extinction ratios and OR-logic switching by using waveguide cross-coupling", Optics Express 15, pp. 5069-5076, Apr 2007. Zhou, Linjie, Poon, Wing On (2006) "Silicon electro-optic modulators using p-i-n diodes embedded 10-micron-diameter microdisk resonators", Optics Express 14, pp. 6851-6857, Jul 2006.

Chi Ying TSUI Associate Professor (2358 7071 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Southern California (1994)

Current Research Activities: VLSI design and CAD algorithms for energy efficient high-performance microprocessors; low-power embedded systems; low-energy wireless multimedia systems.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: High performance and low power MIMO Signal Detection Algorithm and VLSI Architecture Design using a 2-stage approach RGC - General Research Fund HK$403,881 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Choi, Ricky Y K, Tsui, Chi Ying (2009) "A Low Energy Two-Step Successive Approximation Algorithm for ADC Design", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Taipei, May 2009. Jin, Jie, Tsui, Chi Ying (2008) "A Low Power Layered Decoding Architecture for LDPC Decoder Implementation for IEEE 802.11n LDPC Codes", IEEE International SYmposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, Bangalore, India, August 2008, pp.253- 258. Wang, Wenting, Lou, Shuzuo, Chui, Kay, Rong, Sujiang, Lok, Chi Fung, Zheng, Hui, Chan, Hin-Tat, Man, Sau- Wing, Luong, Howard C, Lau, Vincent K N, Tsui, Chi Ying (2008) "A Single-Chip UHF RFID Reader in 0.18-μm CMOS", IEEE Journal of Solid States and Circuits, Volume: 43, Issue: 8, pp. 1741-1754. Yi, Jun, Ki, Wing Hung, Mok, Philip K T, Tsui, Chi Ying (2008) "Dual-Power-Path RF-DC Multi-Output Power Management Unit for RFID Tags", IEEE VLSI Circuit Symposium, Kyoto, Japan, June 2009. Su, Feng, Ki, Wing Hung, Tsui, Chi Ying (2008) "Regulated Switched-Capacitor Doubler with Interleaving Control for Continuous Output Regulation", IEEE Journals on Solid States and Circuits, vol. 44, issue 4, pp. 1112-1120. Tsui, Chi Ying, Au, Yi Ching, Choi, Yiu Kee (2008) "Minimizing the Total Power Consumption Using Least Leakage Vector Assisted Technology", Integration, the VLSI Journal, Volume 41 Issue 1, pp 76-86. Su, Feng, Ki, Wing Hung, Tsui, Chi Ying (2008) "Ultra Fast Fixed-Frequency Hysteretic Buck Converter With Maximum Charging Current Control and Adaptive Delay Compensation for DVS Applications", IEEE Journal Of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 815-922, April 2008. Lam, Hing-Mo, Tsui, Chi Ying (2007) "A MUX-based High-Performance Single-Cycle CMOS Comparator", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, Vol. 54, No. 7, July 2007, pp.591-595. Albert Kai Sun WONG Visiting Associate Professor (2358 7065 ; [email protected])

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988) Member of Technical Staff (1988-93), Distinguish Member of Technical Staff (1993-96), Technical Manager (1996- 98) and Director, Sales & Technical Marketing (1998-2000), Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies; Chief Operating Officer, Transtech Services Group (2000-01); Vice President, Wireless Communication Systems, ASTRI (2002-04)

Current Research Activities: Data and optical networking; telecommunications; convergence protocols; R&D Management

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Multimodal localization techniques for people tracking RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$30,000 30 Jun 2009

Representative Research Publications: Ouyang, Wentao, Wong, Albert K S (2009) "A TOA-based Enhanced Wireless Location Estimation Algorithm in Dense NLOS Environments", WCNC, IEEE, Budapest, April 5-8, 2009. Wong, Albert K S, Woo, Kam Tim, Lee, Albert, Cheng, Kwok Wai, Xiao, Xiaoming, Luk, Vincent (2009) "An AGPS- Based Elderly Tracking System", International Conference on Ubiquitous Future Networks, IEEE, Hong kong, June 7-9, 2009. Zhang, Ying, Wong, Albert K S (2009) "Combined AOA and TOA NLOS Localization with Nonlinear Programming in Severe Environments", WCNC, IEEE, Budapest, April 5-8, 2009. Luo, Zhifeng, Wong, Albert K S (2009) "Interleaver Design Based on Linear Congruences for IDMA Systems", IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology, IEEE, Sand Key Beach, Florida, April 20-21. Luk, Vincent, Wong, Albert K S (2008) "Gossip-based Delay-Sensitive N-to-N Information Dissemination Protocol", Globecom, IEEE, New Orleans, November 30 - December 4, 2008. Xu, Yizhi, Au, Edward, Wong, Albert K S, Wang, Qin (2008) "Time-of-Arrival Estimation for IR-UWB Systems in Dense Multipath Environment", PIMRC, IEEE, Cannes, France, September 14-17, 2008. Chen, An, Wong, Albert Kai-Sun, Lea, Chin-Tau (2008) "On the Space Reuse Efficiency of TSI-free OTDM Rings", IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 322-324. Chen, An, Lea, Chin-Tau, Wong, Albert Kai-Sun (2007) "A New Optical TDM Ring Architecture", IEEE Transaction on Communications, Vol.55, No.11, pp.2134-2141.

Bing ZENG Associate Professor (2358 7058 ; [email protected])

PhD, Tampere University of Technology (1991)

Current Research Activities: Digital signal and image processing; image and video coding; arbitrarily-shaped object representation and coding; real-time streaming of multimedia contents over Internet and wireless; texture synthesis and its applications.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Intelligent Technologies in Image and Video Coding RGC - General Research Fund HK$327,937 01 Oct 2008 Representative Research Publications: Wu, F., Fu, J.-J., Lin, Z.-C., Zeng, B. (2009) "Analysis on rate-distortion performance of compressive sensing for binary sparse sources", Data Compression Conference (DCC-2009), Snowbird, Utah, USA, Mar. 16-18, 2009. Ho, T.-C., Zeng, B. (2008) "Super-resolution image by edge-constrained curve-fitting in the threshold decomposition domain", 16th European Signal Processing Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, Aug. 25-29, 2008. Zeng, Bing, Fu, Jinjin (2008) "Directional Discrete Cosine Transforms - A New Framework For Image Coding", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 305-313, March 2008. Cai, Hua, Zeng, Bing, Shen, Guobin, Xiong, Zixiang, Li, Shipeng (2006) "Error-Resilient Unequal Error Protection of Fine Granularity Scalable Video Bitstreams", EURASIP J. on Applied Signal Processing, Special issue on Advanced Video Technoligies and Applications for H.264/AVC and Beyond, Vol. 2006, Article ID 45412, 11 pages. Zhang, Wei, Zeng, Bing (2006) "Seamless bitstream switching in multi-rate based video streaming systems", EURASIP J. on Applied Signal Processing, Special issue on Advanced Video Technoligies and Applications for H.264/AVC and Beyond, Vol. 2006, Article ID 49084, 11 pages. Shen, Guobin, Zeng, Bing, Liou, M. L. (2003) "Adaptive Vector Quantization with Codebook Updating Based on Locality and History", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 12, pp. 283-295. Zeng, Bing (2002) "Digital Image and Video Compression and Processing", Readings in Multimedia Computing and Networking, Edited by Kevin Jeffay and Hong-Jiang Zhang, published by Morgan Kaufmann.

Jack LAU Adjunct Associate Professor (2358 7043 ; [email protected])

PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1994)

Current Research Activities: Consumer electronics; high frequency analog integrated circuits for wireless applications.

Representative Research Publications: Tsui, Hau-Yiu, Lau, Jack (2003) "A 5GHz 56dB Voltage Gain 0.18um CMOS LNA with Built-in Tunable Channel Filter for Direct Conversion 802.11a Wireless LAN Receiver", IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium. Tsui, Hau-Yiu, Lau, Jack (2003) "Experimental Results and Die Area Efficient Self-Shielded On-Chip Vertical Solenoid Inductors for Multi-GHz CMOS RFIC", IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium. Liu, Yu, Lau, Jack (2002) "A Power-Based Source Routing for Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Communications", Fourth IEEE Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks. Liu, Yu, Lau, Jack (2002) "A novel link state routing protocol and TCP performance investigation in ad hoc networks", IEEE International Conference on networks. Zhang, Zhaofeng, Lau, Jack (2001) "A flicker-noise-free DC-offset-free harmonic mixer in a CMOS process", 2001 IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference, 113 -116.

Peng CHEN Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 5033 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Volkan KURSUN Assistant Professor and Director - Nanoelectronic Circuits and Gigascale Systems Laboratory (2358 7043 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~eekursun/index.htm)

PhD (2004), University of Rochester, New York, USA August 2004 - August 2008, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

May/June 2008, Visiting Professor, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan

April 2004 - August 2004, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Rochester, New York, USA

Current Research Activities: Emerging Integrated Circuit Technologies, Power-Aware Design, Design for Manufacturability, Reliability and Yield Issues in Scaled Nanometer Integrated Circuits (ICs), Parameter Variation Tolerant IC Design, On-Chip Noise Analysis and Noise Suppression Techniques, High Efficiency and High Quality Power Generation and Delivery, Modeling and Characterization of Nanoscale Devices and Interconnect

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Globally asynchronous locally synchronous microprocessors RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$200,000 01 Aug 2008 High efficiency monolithic power supplies with temperature-sensing and dynamic voltage scaling capabilities for low-power multi-VDD systems-on-chip UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$117,000 02 Feb 2009

Representative Research Publications: Tawfik, Sherif A., Kursun, Volkan (2009) "Dual Supply Voltages and Dual Clock Frequencies for Lower Clock Power and Suppressed Temperature-Gradient Induced Clock Skew", IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Volume 17, Number 6, pp. 638-645, June 2009. Tawfik, Sherif A., Kursun, Volkan (2009) "Low Power and High Speed Multi Threshold Voltage Interface Circuits", IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Volume 17, Number 5, pp. 638-645, May 2009. Kumar, Ranjith, Kursun, Volkan (2009) "Temperature-Adaptive Voltage Scaling for Enhanced Energy Efficiency in Subthreshold Memory Arrays", Microelectronics Journal, Volume 40, Issue 6, pp. 1013-1025, June 2009. Tawfik, Sherif A., Kursun, Volkan (2008) "Clock Distribution Networks with Gradual Signal Transition Time Relaxation for Reduced Power Consumption", Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 1173 - 1191, December 2008. Tawfik, Sherif A., Kursun, Volkan (2008) "Portfolio of FinFET Memories: Innovative Techniques for an Emerging Technology", IEEE International Systems on Chip (SoC) Design Conference, November 2008. Kumar, Ranjith, Liu, Zhiyu, Kursun, Volkan (2008) "Technique for Accurate Power and Energy Measurement with the Computer- Aided Design Tools", Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 399-421, July 2008. Kumar, Ranjith, Kursun, Volkan (2008) "Temperature-Adaptive Energy Reduction Techniques for Nano-CMOS Circuits Displaying Reversed Temperature Dependence", Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 423-438, July 2008. Kumar, Ranjith, Kursun, Volkan (2008) "Temperature-Adaptive Voltage Tuning for Enhanced Energy Efficiency in Ultra-Low- Voltage Circuits", Microelectronics Journal, Volume 39, Issue 12, pp. 1714-1727, December 2008.

Matthew R MCKAY Assistant Professor (2358 5035 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Sydney Current Research Activities: MIMO signal processing for wireless systems; random matrix theory; cooperative signaling for ad-hoc and sensor networks; image and statistical signal processing.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Adaptive MIMO Signaling Design for Multi-User Broadband Wireless Communication Systems RGC - General Research Fund HK$553,524 01 Jan 2009 Condition number distributions of Wishart Matrices with applications to MIMO RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$67,160 29 Jun 2009 Limited-feedback-optimized wireless transceivers: a new paradigm for ubiquitous wireless broadband access UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$400,000 01 May 2008

Representative Research Publications: Edward, Au, Matthew, McKay, Mow, Wai Ho (2008) "Analytical Performance of MIMO-SVD Systems in Ricean Fading Channels with Channel Estimation Error and Feedback Delay", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 1315- 1325, Apr. 2008. McKay, Matthew (2008) "Impact of Correlation on the Capacity of Multiple Access and Broadcast Channels with MIMO-MRC", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 2397-2407, June 2008. McKay, Matthew (2008) "MIMO Multichannel Beamforming: SER and Outage Using New Eigenvalue Distributions of Complex Noncentral Wishart Matrices", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 424-434, Mar. 2008. McKay, Matthew (2007) "Beamforming/Multiplexing Switching for Coded-MIMO in Spatially-Correlated Channels Based on Closed-Form BER Approximations", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 56, pp. 2555-2567, Sept. 2007.

Daniel PALOMAR Assistant Professor (2358 7060 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ece.ust.hk/~palomar/)

3/2006 - 7/2006 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Research Associate 3/2004 - 2/2006 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Fulbright Research Fellow 11/2003 - 3/2004 University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy Visiting Researcher 8/2003 - 11/2003 Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden Guest Researcher 1/1999 - 8/2003 Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain Research Assistant 1/2002 - 12/2002 Telecomm. Tech. Center of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Visiting Researcher 4/2001 - 11/2001 Stanford University, Stanford, CA Visiting Researcher

Current Research Activities: Financial engineering; MIMO radar; Cognitive radio systems; Robust designs Game theory for competitive communications; Information theory and estimation theory; Random matrix theory for communication systems; MIMO communication systems via convex optimization theory and majorization theory

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Distribution of the Eigenvalues of Random Covariance Matrices with Applications to the Performance Characterization of MIMO Communication Systems RGC - General Research Fund HK$571,647 01 Jan 2009 Precoder design for MIMO channels with arbitrary signaling RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$67,160 29 Jun 2009 Distributed optimization of infrastructureless MIMO communication networks via game theory National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$667,600 01 Jan 2009 Waveform design for MIMO radar: an emerging and promising technology RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$300,000 01 May 2008

Representative Research Publications: Ordonez, Luis, Palomar, Daniel, Fonollosa, Javier (2009) "Ordered Eigenvalues of a General Class of Hermitian Random Matrices With Application to the Performance Analysis of MIMO Systems", IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 672- 689. Scutari, Gesualdo, Palomar, Daniel, Barbarossa, Sergio (2009) "The MIMO Iterative Waterfilling Algorithm", IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 57, no. 5, pp. 1917-1935. Scutari, Gesualdo, Palomar, Daniel, Barbarossa, Sergio (2008) "Cognitive MIMO Radio: Competitive Optimality Design Based on Subspace Projections", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 46-59. Scutari, Gesualdo, Palomar, Daniel, Barbarossa, Sergio (2008) "Competitive Design of Multiuser MIMO Systems based on Game Theory: A Unified View", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 25, no. 7, pp. 1089-1103. Palomar, Daniel, Chiang, Mung (2007) "Alternative Distributed Algorithms for Network Utility Maximization: Framework and Applications", IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, Vol. 52, No. 12, pp. 2254-2269. Chiang, Mung, Tan, Chee Wei, Palomar, Daniel, O'Neill, Daniel, Julian, David (2007) "Power Control by Geometric Programming", IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, Vol. 6, No. 7, pp. 2640-2651. Palomar, Daniel, Jiang, Yi (2007) MIMO Transceiver Design via Majorization Theory, Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory, Now Publishers, 2006. Palomar, Daniel, Verdu, Sergio (2007) "Representation of Mutual Information via Input Estimates", IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 453-470.

Ling SHI Assistant Professor (2358 7055 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Networked sensing, estimation, and control; distributed estimation, control, and optimization; sensor scheduling, signal processing, and data fusion.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Distributed sensor fusion and state estimation RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$167,160 01 Jan 2009 Networked control system laboratory UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$117,000 02 Feb 2009

Kam Tim WOO Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 8540 ; [email protected])

PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2005) Current Research Activities: Data clustering; automatic modulation recognition; automatic control; wireless communications.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A mobile data-based voice conferencing system for fleet management applications RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$30,000 30 Jun 2009 An elderly tracking system using a wearable AGPS and cellular tracking device Office of the Telecommunications Authority & Others HK$226,000 01 Aug 2009

Representative Research Publications: Wong, Albert K S, Woo, Kam Tim, Lee, Albert, Cheng, Kwok Wai, Xiao, Xiaoming (2009) "An AGPS-Based Elderly Tracking System", International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUN), IEEE, HK, Jun 7, 2009 - Jun 9, 2009. Woo, Kam Tim, Kok, Chi Wah (2007) "Clustering based distribution fitting algorithm for Automatic Modulation Recognition", IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication, pp. 13-18, 2007. Woo, Kam-Tim, Kok, Chi-Wah (2006) "A Fast Constant Modulus Algorithm for Blind Equalization", IEEE TENCON 2006, 2006 Nov. pp. 1 - 4.

Jiang XU Assistant Professor (2358 5036 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ece.ust.hk/~eexu/)

PhD, Princeton University Research Associate, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA Research Associate, NEC Laboratories America, USA Member of Technical Staff, Sandbridge Technology Inc., USA

Current Research Activities: Embedded Systems, Multiprocessor Systems, Computer Architecture, System-on-Chip and Network-on-Chip, Hardware/Software Codesign, Low-Power VLSI Design, Nanoelectronic Design

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Hierarchical Irregular-Topology Network-on-Chip Architectures and Design Methodologies for Systems-on-Chip RGC - General Research Fund HK$327,937 01 Sep 2008 A domain-specific HW/SW reconfigurable MPSoC architecture family and its design methodology RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$167,160 01 Jan 2008 Exploring the new opportunities brought by NoC and studying multimedia sensor networks and very large scale sensor networks UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$351,500 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications: Gu, Huaxi, Zhang, Wei, Xu, Jiang (2009) "A Low-power Fat Tree-based Optical Network-on-Chip for Multiprocessor System-on- Chip", Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, IEEE. Gu, Huaxi, Mo, Kwai Hung Morton, Xu, Jiang, Zhang, Wei (2009) "A Low-power Low-cost Optical Router for Optical Networks-on-Chip in Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip", IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI. Wen, Xing, Au, Oscar C L, Xu, Jiang, Liang, Zhiqin, Yang, Yi, Tang, Weiran (2009) "A Novel Multiple Description Video Coding based on H.264/AVC Video Coding Standard", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. Xu, Jiang, Wolf, Wayne, Zhang, Wei (2009) "Double-Data-Rate, Wave-Pipelined Interconnect for Asynchronous NoCs", IEEE Micro, May/June 2009 (vol. 29 no. 3) pp. 20-30. Gu, Huaxi, Xu, Jiang, Wang, Zheng (2008) "A Novel Optical Mesh Network-on-Chip for Gigascale Systems-on-Chip", IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems. Gu, Huaxi, Xu, Jiang, Wang, Zheng (2008) "Design of Sparse Mesh for Optical Network on Chip", IEEE Asia Pacific Optical Communications. Gu, Huaxi, Xu, Jiang, Wang, Zheng (2008) "ODOR: a Microresonator-based High-performance Low-cost Router for Optical Networks-on-Chip", International Conference on Hardware-Software Codesign and System Synthesis. Lin, Bey-Chi, Lea, Chin-Tau, Tsang, Danny H K, Xu, Jiang (2008) "Reducing Wavelength Conversion Range in Space/Wavelength Switches", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol 20, pp.1458 - 1460.

Weichuan YU Assistant Professor (2358 7054 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ece.ust.hk/~eeyu)

PhD, University Kiel, Germany

Current Research Activities: Bioinformatics and computational biology; biomedical image analysis along with computer vision.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Developing robust algorithms for mass spectrometry data analysis and their applications in cancer biomarker discovery RGC - General Research Fund HK$435,600 01 Oct 2007 Developing robust algorithms for tissue deformation analysis using ultrasound images RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$67,160 30 Jun 2009 Integrated Proteomics Data Analysis with Applications to Complex Disease Diagnosis and Drug Target Discovery RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$300,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Wan, Xiang, Yang, Can, Yang, Qiang, Xue, Hong, Tang, Nelson, Yu, Weichuan (2009) "MegaSNPHunter: A Learning Approach to Detect Disease predisposition SNPs and High Level Interactions from Whole Genome Data", BMC Bioinformatics, 10:13. He, Zengyou, Yang, Chao, Yang, Can, Qi, Robert Zhong, Tam, Po Ming, Yu, Weichuan (2009) "Optimization-Based Peptide Mass Fingerprinting for Protein Mixture Identification", 13th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB2009), organized by John Kececioglu, The University of Arizona, USA, Tucson, Arizona,USA, May 18-21, 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5541, 16-30. Yang, Can, He, Zengyou, Wan, Xiang, Yang, Qiang, Xue, Hong, Yu, Weichuan (2009) "SNPHarvester: A filtering- based approach for detecting epistatic interactions in genome-wide association studies", Bioinformatics, 25:504-511. Yu, Weichuan, He, Zengyou, Liu, Junfeng, Zhao, Hongyu (2008) "Improving Mass Spectrometry Peak Detection Using Multiple Peak Alignment Results", Journal of Proteome Research, 7:123-129. He, Zengyou, Yang, Can, Yu, Weichuan (2008) "Peak Bagging for Peptide Mass Fingerprinting", Bioinformatics, 24:1293- 1299. Yu, Weichuan, Wu, Baolin, Huang, Tao, Li, Xiaoye, Williams, Kenneth, Zhao, Hongyu (2006-2007) "Statistical Methods In Proteomics", Springer Handbook of Engineering Statistics, Chapter 34, pp.623-638, Publisher Springer London, 2006. Yu, Weichuan, Li, Xiaoye, Liu, Junfeng, Wu, Baolin, Williams, Kenneth, Zhao, Hongyu (2006) "Multiple Peak Alignment in Sequential Data Analysis: A Scale-Space-Based Approach", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Vol. 3, pp. 208-219.

Jie YUAN Assistant Professor (2358 8029 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Current Research Activities: VLSI and sensory circuit design, mixed-signal IC, analog IC, bio-MEMS and circuit techniques for MEMS devices.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Sigma Delta beamforming technique for next-generation hand-held medical ultrasound systems RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$67,160 30 Jun 2009 Integrated wireless capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer for bio-medical applications France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$30,600 01 Jan 2009 Ultra-low Power Intra-Body Data Transceiver for Implantable Bio-Medical Micro-systems UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$450,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Fung, Shueng Wai, Liu, Bing, Yuan, Jie, Guo, Qing (2009) "A Low-Noise Monolithic CMOS Bio-Potential Detector", 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 653-656, May 24-27, Taipei, Taiwan, 2009. Liu, Bing, Yuan, Jie (2009) "A Wide Dynamic Range High Linearity In-Pixel Data Acquisition Front-End for Computed Tomography", 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 2301-2304, May 24-27, Taipei, Taiwan, 2009. Chan, Ho Yeung, Yuan, Jie (2009) "Activity-Based Wide Dynamic Range Highly Linear CMOS Imaging Sensor", 2009 International Solid-State Circuits Conference(ISSCC) Student Forum, San Francisco, Feb. 8, 2009. Yuan, Jie, Chan, Ho Yeung, Fung, Shueng Wai, Liu, Bing (2009) "Digital Calibration Technique for A Highly Linear Wide Dynamic Range CMOS Imaging Sensor", IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 45, No. 9, pp. 449-451, Apr. 2009. Yuan, Jie (2009) "Modeling, Quantitative Analysis and Design of Switched-Current Pipeline A/D Converters", IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, Vol. 56, pp. 727-739, Apr. 2009. Yuan, Jie, Song, Ning, Farhat, Nabil, Van Der Spiegel, Jan (2009) "The Low-Power Element Design for a Spatio-Temporal Pattern Clustering System", Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 59, pp. 287-300, Mar. 2009. Yuan, Jie, Nabil, Farhat, Jan, Van der Spiegel (2008) "Background Calibration with Piecewise Linearized Error Model for CMOS Pipeline A/D Converter", IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 55, pp. 311-321, Feb. 2008. Yuan, Jie, Ning, Song, Nabil, Farhat, Jan, Van der Spiegel (2007) "Cort-X II: The low-power Element Design for a Dynamic Neural Network", IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 54, pp. 1130-1134, Dec. 2007.

Pengcheng SHI Adjunct Assistant Professor (2358 8529 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ee.ust.hk/~eeship/)

PhD, Yale University (1996)

Current Research Activities: Visual information processing and its biomedical applications: medical imaging; computer vision; image analysis; virtual and augmented reality.

Representative Research Publications: Wong, Chun Lok, Shi, Pengcheng (2004-2005) "Finite Deformation Guided Nonlinear Filtering for Multiframe Cardiac Motion Analysis", Lecture Notes in Computer Science: MICCAI'2004, 3216: 867-874. Ho, Hon Pong, Chen, Yunmei, Liu, Huafeng, Shi, Pengcheng (2004-2005) "Level Set Active Contours on Unstructured Point Cloud", IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Diego, June 2005, pp. 690-697 (Vol II). Liu, Huafeng, Shi, Pengcheng (2004-2005) "Motion and Elasticity Characterization with Iterative Sequential H-infinity Criteria", Lecture Notes in Computer Science: MICCAI'2004, 3216: 33-40. Yuan, Xin, Shi, Pengcheng (2004-2005) "Physics Based Contrast Marking and Inpainting Based Local Texture Comparison for Clustered Microcalcification Detection", Lecture Notes in Computer Science: MICCAI'2004, 3216: 814-821. Liu, Huafeng, Sinusas, Albert, Shi, Pengcheng (2004) "State Space Analysis of Cardiac Motion with Biomechanical Constraints", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, In press. Liu, Huafeng, Shi, Pengcheng (2003) "Meshfree Representation and Computation: Applications to Cardiac Motion Analysis", Lecture Notes in Computer Science: IPMI, 2732:560-572. Shi, Pengcheng, Liu, Huafeng (2003) "Stochastic Finite Element Framework for Joint Estimation of Cardiac Kinematic Functions and Material Parameters", Medical Image Analysis, 7(4): 445-464. Liu, Huafeng, Shi, Pengcheng (2003) "Simultaneous Estimation of Left Ventricular Motion and Material Properties with Maximum a Posteriori Strategy", IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'03), Madison, 161-168. Dept of Industrial Engg & Logistics Management

Fugee Tsung, Acting Head; Professor; Director of the Quality lab; IELM Undergraduate Program Chair

Chung-Yee LEE, Chair Professor and Director, Logistics and Supply Chain Management Institute

Mitchell M TSENG, Chair Professor and Director, Advanced Manufacturing Institute

Raymond K M CHEUNG, Professor

Ravindra S GOONETILLEKE, Professor

Hau L LEE, Adjunct Professor

L. Jeff HONG, Associate Professor

Wei JIANG, Visiting Associate Professor

Ajay JONEJA, Associate Professor

Neville K S LEE, Associate Professor and Associate Department Head

Xiangtong QI, Associate Professor

Richard H Y SO, Associate Professor

Rachel Q ZHANG, Associate Professor

Kaijie ZHU, Associate Professor

Ning CAI, Assistant Professor

Qian LIU, Assistant Professor

Ho Yin MAK, Assistant Professor Fugee Tsung Acting Head; Professor; Director of the Quality lab; IELM Undergraduate Program Chair (2358 7106 ; [email protected] ; http://qlab.ieem.ust.hk)

PhD, Univeristy of Michigan Visiting Scholar, Stanford University (2005) Research Engineer, R&D, Rockwell International (1994) Quality Engineer, Powertrain Quality Office, Ford Motor Company (1995-96) Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Chrysler Corporation (1997)

Current Research Activities: Quality engineering and management; statistical process control (SPC), monitoring and diagnosis; design of experiments (DOE) and Taguchi methods; Six Sigma implementation.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Bayesian process control for nanomanufacturing with mixed-resolution information RGC - General Research Fund HK$279,610 01 Jan 2009 Fraud detection in a dynamic environment using statistical process control techniques RGC - General Research Fund HK$558,000 01 Jan 2008 A unified methodology for quality improvement in the service industry RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$64,300 30 Jun 2003 Adaptive statistical process control schemes for dynamic process monitoring RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$70,125 01 Jan 2006

Representative Research Publications: Li, Y., Tsung, Fugee (2009) "False Discovery Rate-Adjusted Charting Schemes For Multistage Process Fault Diagnosis and Isolation", Technometrics, 51, 186-205. Zou, Changliang, Tsung, Fugee, Wang, Z. (2009) "Monitoring Profiles Based on Nonparametric Regression Methods", Technometrics, 50, 512-526. Wang, H., Tsung, Fugee (2009) "Tolerance Intervals with Improved Confidence Levels for Binomial and Poisson Variables", Technometrics, 51, 25-33. Zou, Changliang, Tsung, Fugee, Liu, Y. (2008) "A Change Point Approach for Phase I Analysis in Multistage Processes", Technometrics, 50, 344-356. Zou, Changliang, Tsung, Fugee (2008) "Directional MEWMA Schemes for Multistage Process Monitoring and Diagnosis", Journal of Quality Technology, 40, 407-427. Wang, Kaibo, Tsung, Fugee (2008) "An Adaptive T2 chart for Monitoring Dynamic Systems", Journal of Quality Technology, 40, 109-123. Zou, Changliang, Wang, Z., Tsung, Fugee (2007) "A Self-Starting Control Chart for Linear Profiles", Journal of Quality Technology, 39, 364-375. Zou, Changliang, Tsung, Fugee, Wang, Z. (2007) "Monitoring General Linear Profiles Using Multivariate EWMA schemes", Technometrics, 49, 395-408.

Chung-Yee LEE Chair Professor and Director, Logistics and Supply Chain Management Institute (2358 7092 ; [email protected])

PhD, Yale University (1984) Rockwell Professor, Texas A&M University (1996-2001)

Current Research Activities: Logistics management; production scheduling; production and operations management. Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Procurement risk management using options RGC - General Research Fund HK$382,800 01 Sep 2007 In-bound logistics scheduling National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$730,700 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Feng, Lee, Chung-Yee (2009) "Minimizing the Makespan in a Two-Machine Cross-Docking Flow Shop Problem", European Journal of Operational Research, 193, pp. 59-72. Fu, Ke, Hsu, Vernon, Lee, Chung-Yee (2009) "Optimal Component Acquisition for a Single-Product, Single-Demand Assemble-to- Order Problem with Expediting", Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 11, pp. 229-236. Zhou, S.X., Chao, X., Lee, Chung-Yee (2009) "Optimal Transportation Policies for Production/Inventory Systems with an Unreliable and a Reliable Carrier", Journal of Global Optimization, 44, pp. 251-271. Zhou, Wei-Hua, Lee, Chung-Yee (2009) "Pricing and Competition in A Transportation Market with Empty Equipment Repositioning", Transportation Research Part B, 43, pp. 677-691. Zhang, Juliang, Chen, Jian, Lee, Chung-Yee (2008) "Coordinating Pricing and Inventory Control with the Demand Influenced by Promotional Decisions", International Journal of Production Economics, 116 , pp. 190-198. Cetinkaya, S., Tekin, E., Lee, C.-Y. (2008) "A Stochastic Model for Joint Inventory Replenishment and Outbound Shipment Release Decisions", IIE Transactions, vol. 40, pp. 324-340. Jaruphongsa, W., Lee, C.-Y. (2008) "Dynamic Lot-Sizing Problem with Demand Time Windows and Container-Based Transportation Cost", Optimization Letters, vol. 2, pp. 39-51. Chen, B., Lee, C.-Y. (2008) "Logistics Scheduling with Batching and Transportation ", European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 189, pp. 871-876.

Mitchell M TSENG Chair Professor and Director, Advanced Manufacturing Institute (2358 7091 ; [email protected])

PhD, Purdue University (1975) Group Manager, Applied Intelligent Systems Group, Digital equipment Corp (1982-90) US Area Engineering Manager, Digital Services (1990-93)

Current Research Activities: Mass customization; manufacturing systems design; service systems engineering.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: An Investigation of Probability-Based Configurator Design RGC - General Research Fund HK$327,937 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Radke, Andreas Martin, Tseng, Mitchell M (2009) "An Automated Approach for Identification and Resolution of Spatial Clashes in Building Design", The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Hong Kong, 8-11 December 2009. Wang, Yue, Tseng, Mitchell M (2009) "Recommendation for Custom Product via Probabilistic Relevance Model", The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), Hong Kong, 8-11 December 2009. Wang, Yue, Tseng, Mitchell M (2009) "Shapley Value Based Attribute Selection For Configurators", The ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, ASME, San Diego, California, USA, August 30 - September 2, 2009, DETC2009-86904. Wang, Yue, Tseng, Mitchell (2008) "Incorporating Probabilistic Model of Customers' Preferences in Concurrent Engineering", Annals of the CIRP, Volume 57/1, pp.137-140, 2008. Wang, Yue, Tseng, Mitchell (2007) "A Bayesian Betwork Based Configurator Design", 2007 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Dec 2-4 2007, Singapore. Zhang, Mei, Tseng, Mitchell (2007) "A Product and Process Modeling Based Approach to Study Cost Implications of Product Variety in Mass Customization", IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol.54, Issue 1, p.130-144, 2007. Chen, Songlin, Tseng, Mitchell (2007) "Aligning Demand and Supply Flexibility in Custom Product Co-Design", International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Volume 19, Number 4, Dec 2007 pp. 596-611, 2007. Yang, Sen, Tseng, Mitchell (2007) "An Evo-Devo Framework For Computional Design Synthesis Based on a Regulation Process", ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conferences, 4- 7 Sept 2007, Las Vegas.

Raymond K M CHEUNG Professor (2358 7111 ; [email protected])

PhD, Princeton University (1993) Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnic (1985-87) Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering, Iowa State University (1993-96)

Current Research Activities: Transportation systems management; logistics and distribution planning; network modeling and optimization; stochastic and dynamic optimization.

Representative Research Publications: Cheung, Raymond, Xu, Dongsheng, Guan, Yongpei (2007) "A Solution Method for a Two-dispatch Delivery Problem with Stochastic Customers", Journal of Mathematical Modeling and Algorithm, 6(1): 87-107. Cheung, Raymond, Lee, Allen (2006) "Connectivity at Inter-modal Hub Cities: the Case of Hong Kong", Building Supply Chain Excellence in Emerging Economies, chapter 9, 201-221. Hwe, Siu-kee, Cheung, Raymond, Wan, Yat-wah (2006) "Merging Bus Routes in Hong Kong's Central Business District: Analysis and Models", Transportation Research Part A, 40(10):918-935. Xu, Dongsheng, Shi, Ning, Cheung, Raymond (2006) "Heavy traffic analysis of single vehicle loop in automated storage and retrieval systems", OR Spectrum, Accepted for publication. Cheung, Raymond, Lee, Allen (2005) "Connectivity at Inter-modal Hub Cities: the Case of Hong Kong", Building Supply Chain Excellence in Emerging Economies. Cheung, Raymond, Hang, Darren, Shi, Ling (2004-2005) "A Labeling Method for Resource-Task Assignment under Uncertain Task Durations", Operations Research Letters, 33, 411-420. Guan, Yongpei, Cheung, Raymond (2003-2004) "The Berth Allocation Problem: Models and Solution Methods", OR Spectrum, V26, 75-92. Cheung, Raymond, Tong, Judy, Slack, Brian (2003-2004) "The Transition from Freight Consolidation to Logistics: The Case of Hong Kong", Journal of Transport Geography, 11, 245-253.

Ravindra S GOONETILLEKE Professor (2358 7109 ; [email protected] ; http://www-ieem.ust.hk/dfaculty/ravi)

PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo (1990) Senior Ergonomist, Biomechanics Corporation of America Human Factors Manager/Researcher, NIKE Sports Research Lab

Current Research Activities: Human performance modeling; human-computer interaction; product development. Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Foot arch modeling and characterization RGC - General Research Fund HK$380,235 30 Dec 2008 Investigating the effects of footbed design parameters on plantar pressure, posture and comfort RGC - General Research Fund HK$431,004 01 Dec 2007 Differentiating cultural and cognitive effects on human performance in process control RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$92,000 01 Jan 2004

Representative Research Publications: Goonetilleke, Ravindra, Hoffmann, Errol, Luximon, Ameersing (2009) "Effects of Pen Design on Drawing and Writing Performance", Applied Ergonomics, 40(2), March, 292 - 301. Luximon, Ameersing, Goonetilleke, Ravindra S (2009) "Footwear Development and Foot Modeling", Handbook of Digital Human Modeling, Ed. V. Duffy., Chapter 13. Goonetilleke, Ravindra, Hoffmann, Errol, Lau, Wing-Chun (2009) "Pistol shooting accuracy as dependent on experience, eyes opened and available viewing time", Applied Ergonomics, 40(3), May 2009, 500-508. Au, Emily, Yim Lee, Goonetilleke, Ravindra S. (2007) "A qualitative study on the comfort and fit of ladies' dress shoes", Applied Ergonomics, 38(6), 687-696. Xiong, Shuping, Witana, Channa P., Goonetilleke, Ravindra S. (2007) "The Use of a Foot Dorsal Height Model for the Design of Wellington Boots", Proceedings of Agriculture Ergonomics Development Conference, 26-29 November 2007, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 65-70. Li, Yanzhi, Chen, Lijuan, Goonetilleke, Ravindra (2006) "A heuristic-based approach to optimize keyboard design for single- finger keying applications", International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 36(8), 695-704. Zhang, Yan, Goonetilleke, Ravindra Stephen, Plocher, Thomas, Liang, Sheau-Farn Max (2005) "Time-related behaviour in multitasking situations", International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 62, pp. 425-455. Lau, Wing Chung, Goonetilleke, Ravindra S., Shih, Heloisa M. (2002) "Visual search strategies and eye movements when searching Chinese character screens", International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Vol. 57(6), pp. 447-468.

Hau L LEE Adjunct Professor (2358 8231 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Pennsylvania (1983) Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield, Sequoia Capital Professor, Stanford University (1977- )

Current Research Activities: E-business; supply chain management; inventory systems; global logistics systems design and control; manufacturing strategy.

L. Jeff HONG Associate Professor (2358 7096 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ielm.ust.hk/dfaculty/hongl)

PhD, Northwestern University (2004)

Current Research Activities: Monte Carlo methods with applications on sensitivity analysis, robust optimization and financial engineering. Optimization via simulation. Applied probability, stochastic modeling and applied statistics. Operations management and logistics. Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Continuous optimization via simulation using line search algorithms RGC - General Research Fund HK$534,000 01 Sep 2006 Sensitivity analysis for risk measures and its applications RGC - General Research Fund HK$391,591 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Hong, L. Jeff (2009) "Estimating quantile sensitivities.", Operations Research, vol 57, 118-130. Hong, L. Jeff, Liu, Guangwu (2009) "Simulating sensitivities of conditional value-at-risk.", Management Science, vol 55, 281- 293. Hong, L. Jeff, Nelson, Barry (2007) "A framework of locally convergent random search algorithms for discrete optimization via simulation", ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Volume 19, Article 19. Hong, L. Jeff, Nelson, Barry (2007) "Selecting the best system when systems are revealed sequentially", IIE Transactions, Volume 39, 723-734. Hong, L. Jeff (2006) "Fully sequential indifference-zone selection procedures with variance-dependent sampling", Naval Research Logistics, 53:464-476. Hong, L. Jeff, Nelson, Barry (2006) "Discrete optimization via simulation using COMPASS.", Operations Research, 54:115-129. Hong, L. Jeff, Nelson, Barry (2005) "The tradeoff between sampling and switching: New sequential procedures for indifference- zone selection.", IIE Transactions, 37:623-634.

Wei JIANG Visiting Associate Professor (2358 8230 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Statistical learning and data mining; information systems and quality managment; quality control; risk management in logistics management and financial applications.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: High-dimensional process control through variable selection RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$99,960 29 Jan 2009

Ajay JONEJA Associate Professor (2358 7119 ; [email protected])

PhD, Purdue University (1993) Research Assistant, NSF Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Purdue University (1988-93)

Current Research Activities: CAD/CAM integration for manufacturing processes; computer-aided process planning; mass customization; rapid prototyping.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Quasi-static bio-mechanical modeling of human foot for computer-aided design of customized footwear RGC - General Research Fund HK$564,776 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Xu, Ying, Joneja, Ajay, Tang, Kai (2009) "Surface Deformation under Area Constraints", Computer-Aided Design and Applications, v 6 n 1-4. Xu, Ying, Joneja, Ajay (2008) "A new constrained shape deformation operator with application in footwear design", 28th Computers and Information in Engg Conf, ASME IDETC 08, New York, New York, Aug 3-6, 2008. Lin, Hongwei, Tang, Kai, Joneja, Ajay, Bao, Hujun (2007) "Generating strictly non-self-overlapping structured quadrilateral grids", Computer Aided Design, v 39, n 9, Sept 2007. Liu, Yongjin, Tang, Kai, Joneja, Ajay (2007) "Modeling dynamic developable meshes by the Hamilton principle", Computer Aided Design, Vol 39, No 9, pp.719-731, Sept 2007. Liu, Yongjin, Tang, Kai, Joneja, Ajay (2006) "An efficient implementation of RBF-based progressive point-sampled geometry", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4077, pp. 637-642, 2006. Liu, Yongjin, Tang, Kai, Joneja, Ajay (2005) "2D sketch-based shape modeling with a fast and stable numerical engine", Computer and Graphics, v 29, n 5. Joneja, Ajay, Fu, Jing, Tang, Kai (2005) "Modeling Wrinkles on Smooth Surfaces for Footwear Design", Computer-Aided Design, v 37, n 8. Liu, Yongjin, Tang, Kai, Joneja, Ajay (2005) "Multi-resolution shape modeling and editing in reverse engineering", International Journal of Image and Graphics, v 5, n 4, pp. 765-787.

Neville K S LEE Associate Professor and Associate Department Head (2358 7104 ; [email protected])

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1973) Senior Consultant Engineering and Technical Program Manager, Digital Equipment Corp (1989-94)

Current Research Activities: Low cost precision manufacturing technology; ultra-precision manufacturing system; agile manufacturing; management of product development.

Representative Research Publications: Lee, Neville K.S., Lau, Leo P.F. (2006) "Capacitive Sensor Systems for Industrial Applications", Encyclopedia of Sensors by American Scientific Publishers, Volume 1, pp 463-485. Lee, Neville K., An, Yingfei, Tsung, Fugee (2005) "Studying Effects of Screw-Fastening Process On Assembly Accuracy", Int. J. of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol 25, pp.491-499, (2005). Lee, Neville K.S., Li, Z.Q. (2004) "Effect of Securing Processes on Precision Assembly", ASPE 2004 Annual Conference in Orlando, Flordia, ASPE 2004 Annual Conference Proceeding. Lee, Neville K.S., Li, Z.Q. (2004) "Pushing the Precision Level of Mechanical Alignment System into the Nano Meter Region", ASPE 2004 Annual Conference in Orlando, Flordia, ASPE 2004 Annual Conference Proceeding. Lee, Neville K. S., Yu, Grace, Chen, J. J., Joneja, Ajay (2003) "Effect of Mechanical Alignment System on Assembly Accuracy", ASME Journal of Mfg. Science and Engineering, Vol 125 , pp. 595-608. Lee, Neville (2002) "An Ultra-precision Alignment System for Micro Machining", IEEE Conference on Industrial Engineering, Bangkok, Thailand. Yu, Grace, Lee, Neville, Ceglarek, Derek (2002) "Budding Assembly Accuracy in The Presence of Workpiece Surface Roughness and Dimensional Error", 7th Annual Design for Manufacture Conference, ASME International DETC, Montreal, Canada. Lee, Neville K., Yu, Grace (2002) "Design Considerations of High Precision Mechanical Alignment System-with Performance Moving into the nm Region", 2002 CIRP Design Seminar, Hong Kong. Xiangtong QI Associate Professor (2358 8231 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~ieemqi)

PhD, University of Texas at Austin (Management Science) (2003); Nankai University

Current Research Activities: Production scheduling, inventory control, supply chain management, manpower planning

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Integrated logistics scheduling models RGC - General Research Fund HK$534,000 01 Jan 2007 Production scheduling with order quotation RGC - General Research Fund HK$561,600 01 Jan 2008 Integrated sequencing and scheduling models and algorithms for time-sensitive logistics system National Science Foundation of China HK$0 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Qi, Xiangtong (2008) "Coordinated logistics scheduling for in-house production and outsourcing", IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, V.5, 188-192. Qi, Xiangtong (2006) "A logistics scheduling model: Scheduling and transshipment for two processing centers", IIE Transactions, V.38, 609-618. Xu, Minghui, Qi, Xiangtong, Yu, Gang, Zhang, Hanqin (2006) "Coordinating dyadic supply chains when production costs are disrupted", IIE Transactions, V.38, 765-775. Yang, Jian, Qi, Xiangtong, Yu, Gang (2005) "Disruption management in production planning", Naval Research Logistics, V.52, 420- 442. Qi, Xiangtong (2005) "A logistics scheduling model: Inventory cost reduction by batching", Naval Research Logistics, V.52, 312- 320, 2005. Yang, Jian, Qi, Xiangtong, Xia, Yusen (2005) "A production-inventory system with Markovian capacity and outsourcing option", Operations Research, V.53, 328-349. Yu, Gang, Qi, Xiangtong (2004) Disruption Management: Framework, Models and Applications. Qi, Xiangtong, Bard, Jonathan, Yu, Gang (2004) "Class scheduling for pilot training", Operations Research, V.52, 148-162.

Richard H Y SO Associate Professor (2358 7105 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ieem.ust.hk/dfaculty/so)

PhD, University of Southampton (1995) Research Fellow, Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, UK (1995)

Current Research Activities: Computational ergonomics with focuses on human visual and audio processes. Academics projects include a biological plausible computational neuroscience model to optimize Virtual Reality Interfaces, and Mass-Customization of 3D surround sound systems. Industrial projects include headphone-based virtual surround algorithms for ValenceTech micro-electronics Ltd., business-process re- engineering using IT solutions for Leung's company, and food delivery scheduling for DisneyLand (HK).

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Towards a biologically-inspired and individually-adjustable computational model for visually induced motion sickness (contract extension of HKUST6154/04E) RGC - General Research Fund HK$360,000 30 Dec 2007 Representative Research Publications: Horner, Andrew B, Beauchamp, Jim, So, Richard H Y (2009) "Detection of time-varying harmonic amplitude alterations due to spectral interpolations between musical instrument tones. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125(1), 492-502. Rossiter, David, Tsang, Raymond, So, Richard (2007) "Beat Deviation for Tempo Estimation Algorithms.", Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 55, pp.967-980. So, Richard, Leung, N.M., Braasch, Jonas, Leung, K.L. (2007) "A low cost, non-individualized surround sound system based upon head related transfer functions: An Ergonomics study and prototype development", Applied Ergonomics, 37, pp.695-707. Horner, Andrew, Beauchamp, Jim, So, Richard (2006) "A Search for Best Error Metrics to Predict Discrimination of Original and Spectrally Altered Musical Instruments Sounds", Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Vol. 54, pp.140-156. Kurniawan, S.H., So, R.H.Y., Tseng, M.M. (2006) "Consumer Decision Quality in Mass Customisation.", International J. Mass Customisation, 1, pp.176-194. Ng, T.Y., Tsung, Fugee, So, Richard, Li, T.S., Lam, K.Y. (2005) "Six sigma approach to reducing fall hazards among cargo handlers working on top of cargo containers: a case study.", International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantages, Vol.1, no.2., pp.188-209. Horner, Andrew, Beauchamp, James, So, Richard (2004-2005) "Discrimination of Sustained Musical Instrument Sounds Resynthesized with Random Spectrum Alteration", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116, pp.1800-1810. Ji, Tin Tin, Lor, Felix, So, Richard (2004) "Integrating a computational model of optical flow into the cybersickness dose value prediction model.", Proceedings of the 48th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, New Orleans, LA, USA, 20- 24 September.

Rachel Q ZHANG Associate Professor (2358 7113 ; [email protected] ; http://www1.ieem.ust.hk/aboutus/profile.html?id=26)

PhD, Northwestern University (1994) Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan (1994-2000) Assistant Professor, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University (2000-2004)

Current Research Activities: Inventory and supply chain management; joint operational and financial decisions.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The impact of counterfeiting RGC - General Research Fund HK$534,000 01 Jan 2007 Should Purchasing Activities be Outsourced along with Production? RGC - General Research Fund HK$331,389 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Frank, Katia, Ahn, Hyun Soo, Zhang, Rachel Q (2009) "Inventory Policies in Multi-item Systems with Different Life Cycles", Naval Research Logistics, 56, 127-141. Zhu, Kaijie, Zhang, Rachel, Tsung, Fugee (2007) "Pushing Quality Improvement along Supply Chains", Management Science, 53(3), 421-436. Zhou, Shu, Jackson, Peter, Roundy, Robin, Zhang, Rachel (2007) "The Evolution of Family Level Sales Forecasts into Product Level Forecasts: Modeling and Estimation", IIE Transactions, 39, 831-843. Zhu, Kaijie, Zhang, Rachel, Tsung, Fugee (2007) "Pushing Quality Improvement along Supply Chains", Management Science, 53(3), 421-436.

Kaijie ZHU Associate Professor (2358 7115 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Stanford (2002) Pre-professional Intern, IBM T J Watson Research Center (2000)

Current Research Activities: Supply chain management; production planning; inventory control; marketing-operations interfaces.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Impacts of China's export-oriented tax policies on supply chain decisions RGC - General Research Fund HK$546,000 01 Sep 2007 Improving the supply of apparel assortment under quick response RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Mar 2003

Ning CAI Assistant Professor (2358 8232 ; [email protected])

PhD, Columbia University (2008)

Current Research Activities: Financial engineering, computational finance, and applied probability.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Probabilistic properties of first passage times of a flexible jump diffusion process RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$167,160 01 Jan 2009 Financial Engineering Problems Relating to Jump Diffusion Processes UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$117,000 02 Feb 2009

Qian LIU Assistant Professor (2358 7118 ; [email protected])

PhD, Columbia University (2006)

Current Research Activities: Supply chain management; revenue management and pricing; marketing operations interface; behavioral operations management.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Pricing and Capacity Management with Customer Psychological Satisfaction RGC - General Research Fund HK$327,937 01 Sep 2008 Optimal pricing of services with switching costs RGC - General Research Fund HK$640,786 01 Jul 2007 Selling to heterogeneous customers with uncertain valuations under returns policies RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$67,160 30 Jun 2009

Representative Research Publications: Liu, Qian, Van Ryzin, Garrett (2009) "Capacity Rationing with Strategic Customers", International Series in Operations Research and Management Science: Consumer-Driven Demand and Operations Management Models, Vol. 131: 397-419. Liu, Qian, van Ryzin, Garrett (2008) "On the Choice-Based Linear Programming Model for Network Revenue Management", Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Vol. 10, Page 288 - 310. Liu, Qian, van Ryzin, Garrett (2008) "Strategic Capacity Rationing to Induce Early Purchases", Management Science, Vol. 54. Page 1115-1131.

Ho Yin MAK Assistant Professor (2358 7116 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Supply chain design; operations and coordination; applied optimization; transportation and logistics management. Department of Mechanical Engineering

Matthew M F YUEN, Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering and Professor; President & CEO HKUST RandD Corp; Acting VP-RD

Tongxi YU, Chair Professor; Director, Institute of Integrated Microsystems

Tongyi ZHANG, Chair Professor

Lilong CAI, Professor

Christopher Yu Hang CHAO, Professor

Chin Tsau HSU, Professor and Director, Center for Energy and Thermal Systems

Jang Kyo KIM, Professor; Associate Dean of Engineering

John H S LAU, Visiting Professor

Shi-Wei Ricky LEE, Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Director of Center for Advanced Microsystems Packaging

Yang LENG, Professor

Qingping SUN, Professor

Jingshen WU, Professor

Tianshou ZHAO, Professor; Director, Center for Sustainable Energy Technology

See Chun KOT, Professor Emeritus

Yongsheng GAO, Associate Professor

David Chuen Chun LAM, Associate Professor

Yi-Kuen LEE, Associate Professor; Associate Director of Center for Bioengineering & Biomedical Devices in Nansha Campus; Associate Director of Institute of Integrated Microsystem; Research Affiliate in Bioengineering Graduate Program

Huihe QIU, Associate Professor

Kai TANG, Associate Professor

Zhigang LI, Assistant Professor

Moses L F NG, Visiting Assistant Professor

Shuhuai YAO, Assistant Professor

Wenjing YE, Assistant Professor Matthew M F YUEN Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering and Professor; President & CEO HKUST RandD Corp; Acting VP- RD (2358 7189 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Bristol (1977) Senior Research Technologist, Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, GEC(1975-77) Senior Design Engineer, Babcock & Wilcox (1977-79) Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, University of Hong Kong (1979-91)

Current Research Activities: Geometric modeling; CAD/CAM; electronic packaging; polymer processing.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: MD design and AFM evaluation of SAM structures as adhesion promoter for electronic packages RGC - General Research Fund HK$457,591 01 Sep 2007 3D garment research Barrivel Group (HK) Co. Ltd. HK$500,000 01 Aug 2008 The encapsulation material and manufacture technology of high-power LED Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$4,514,800 01 Sep 2008 3D garment research UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$25,000 01 Aug 2008 CAD/CAM research Private Donor HK$75,000 15 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Wong, Cell Kit Ying, Yuen, Matthew M F, Xu, Bing (2009) "Thiol-based self-assembly nanostructures in promoting interfacial adhesion for copper-epoxy joint", Applied Physics Letters, 94 (26), art. no. 263102. Wong, Cell Kit Ying, Yuen, Matthew M F (2008) "Thiol based chemical treatment as adhesion promoter for Cu-epoxy interface", IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, 31 (2 SPEC. ISS.), pp. 297-308. Zhang, Kai, Chai, Yang, Yuen, Matthew M.F., Xiao, Guowei, David, Chan, Philip C.H. (2008) "Carbon nanotube thermal interface material for high-brightness light-emitting-diode cooling", Nanotechnology, 19 (21), art. no. 215706. Fan, Haibo, Yuen, Matthew Ming Fai (2007) "Material properties of the cross-linked epoxy resin compound predicted by molecular dynamics simulation", Polymer, 48 (7), pp. 2174-2178. Fan, Haibo, Wong, Cell Kit Ying, Yuen, Matthew Ming Fai (2006) "A multi-scale method to investigate delamination in electronic packages", Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, 20 (10), pp. 1061-1078. Luo, Zegang, Yuen, Matthew Ming Fai (2004-2005) "Responsive 2D/3D Apparel Product Design", Computer Aided Design, v37,n6, 623-630. Wang, Charlie Changling, Wang, Yu, Yuen, Matthew Ming Fai (2004) "Design automation for customized apparel products", Computer Aided Design, v37, n7, 675-691. Zhang, Dongliang, Yuen, Matthew Ming Fai (2001-2002) "A coherence-based collision detection method for dressed human simulation", Computer Graphics Forum, 21(1), 33-42.

Tongxi YU Chair Professor; Director, Institute of Integrated Microsystems (2358 7182 ; [email protected])

PhD (1983) and ScD (1995), Cambridge University Professor and Head, Solid Mechanics Division, Peking University (1984-91) Reader, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (1992-95)

Current Research Activities: Impact dynamics; engineering plasticity; structural crashworthiness and failure; mechanics of sheet material forming; energy absorbing materials and devices; mechanics of micro components.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Numerical techniques and studies of dynamic behavior of porous solids with large porosity RGC - General Research Fund HK$777,600 01 Jul 2007 Dynamic characterization of high-strength fibers/yarns and niti microtubes by using a mini-shtb system RGC - General Research Fund HK$725,250 01 Oct 2006 Nano-composites DSM Research, Material Science Centre HK$237,750 01 May 2004 Study of coupled thermal/mechanical/electrical issues fabric sensor packaging - subcontract under HKRITA Project Fabric sensors for three-dimensional pressure mapping (ITP/034/07TP) The Hong Kong Polytechnic University HK$60,000 02 Feb 2009

Representative Research Publications: Zhang, X.W., Su, H., Yu, T.X. (2009) "Energy absorption of an axially crushed square tube with a buckling initiator", Int. J. Impact Engng., 36(3), 402-417. Ruan, D., Leung, M.Y., Lu, G., Yu, T.X., Cao, J. (2009) "Impact tests on Lincoln wool fibers using a mini Split Hopkinson Tensile Bar", Textile Research Journal, 79(5), 444-452. Zhu, B., Teng, J., Yu, T.X., Tao, X.M. (2009) "Theoretical modeling of large shear deformation and wrinkling of plain woven composite", Journal of Composite Materials, 43(2), 125-138. Yu, T.X., Zhang, X.W. (2008) "Adaptive energy absorbers (Plenary lecture)", The 9th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Engineering Plasticity and Its Applications (AEPA 2008), Daejeon, Korea, 20-24 October, 2008. Leung, M.Y., Yu, T.X. (2008) "Dynamic characterization of micro-scale samples using Hopkinson tensile bar technique", J. Strain Analysis, 43(7), 595-607. Zhu, C.Z., Guo, W.L., Yu, T.X. (2008) "Energy dissipation of high-speed nano- bearing from double-walled carbon nanotubes", Nanotechnology 19, No. 465703. Hu, L.L., Yu, T.X., Gao, Z.Y., Huang, X.Q. (2008) "Inhomogeneous deformation of polycarbonate circular honeycombs under in- plane compression", Int. J. Mech. Sci., 50(7), 1224-1236. Gao, Z.Y., Yu, T.X., Zhao, H. (2008) "Mechanical behavior of metallic hollow sphere (MHS) materials: An experimental study", ASCE J. Aerospace Eng., 21(4), 206-216.

Tongyi ZHANG Chair Professor (2358 7192 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Science and Technology, Beijing (1985) Associate Research Scientist, Yale University (1990-93)

Current Research Activities: Defects of crystals and microstructures of materials; environmental effect on materials; hydrogen in metals; mechanical properties of materials; fracture of piezoelectrics and ferroelectrics; micro/nano mechanics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Pre-plate frame (PPF) project ASM Assembly Materials Limited HK$325,000 01 Aug 2004 Mechanical and/or electrical characterization of nano materials Eastland Limited HK$312,000 01 Sep 2006 Design and realization of structural materials with high strength and high ductility RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$576,500 30 Jun 2009 Hong Kong - Beijing UST Joint Research Center Nansha Research Centers HK$5,496,000 01 Jul 2006 Size-dependent Properties in Nanometer-thick Ferroelectric, Ferromagnetic and Magnetoelectric Films UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$400,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Ping, Zhaoxia, He, Yedong, Gu, Changdong, Zhang, Tong-Yi (2009) "Electroless plating of Ni-P coatings on carbon steel in a stirred bed of glass balls", Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, Vol. 39, pp. 879-885. Gu, Changdong, Xu, Hui, Zhang, Tong-Yi (2009) "Fabrication of high aspect-ratio through-wafer copper interconnects by reverse pulse electroplating", Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 19, 065011. Wang, Jie, Kamlah, Marc, Zhang, Tong-Yi (2009) "Phase field simulations of ferroelectric nanoparticles with different long-range- electrostatic and -elastic interactions", Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 105, 014104. Zhang, Tong-Yi (2009) "Strained Ferroelectric Thin Films", International Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 21-40. Gu, Changdong, Zhang, Tong-Yi (2008) "Electrochemical synthesis of silver polyhedrons and dendritic films with superhydrophobic surfaces", Langmuir, Vol. 24, pp. 12010-12016. Zhang, Tong-Yi (2008) "Microbridge Tests", Micro and Nano Mechanical Testing of Materials and Devices, edited by Fuqian Yang and J.C.M. Li, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, (2008) pp. 215-285. Chan, Wing Kin, Luo, Miao, Zhang, Tongyi (2008) "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Four-Point Bending Tests on SiC Nanowires", Scripta Materialia, Vol. , 59 , pp.692-695. Wang, Jie, Zhang, Tong-Yi (2008) "Phase field simulations of a permeable crack parallel to the original polarization direction in a ferroelectric mono-domain", Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 75, pp. 4886-4897.

Lilong CAI Professor (2358 7209 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Toronto (1990) Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University (1990-93)

Current Research Activities: Control of nonlinear systems; instrumentation and measurement; robotics; automation of manufacturing processes.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Development of an integrated machine-version system for Diamond auto-grading RGC - General Research Fund HK$346,923 15 Dec 2008 Development of an automatic electromechanical system to sort diamonds into different grades according to their colour/impurity characteristics Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$2,185,000 01 Apr 2008

Representative Research Publications: Zuo, Wei, Zhu, Yang, Cai, Lilong (2009) "Fourier-Neural-Network-Based Learning Control for a Class of Nonlinear Systems With Flexible Components", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 139-151, JAN 2009. Liao, J., Cai, Lilong (2008) "A calibration method for uncoupling projector and camera of a structured light system", proceedings of IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics 2008., 7/2008/Xi'an, China, pp. 770-774, (ISBN: 978-1- 4244-2494-8). Zuo, Wei, Cai, Lilong (2008) "Adaptive-Fourier-Neural-Network-Based Control for a Class of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS, Volume: 19, Issue: 10, Pages: 1689-170, OCT 2008. Zuo, Wei, Jiang, Junmin, Cai, Lilong (2007) "Trajectory Tracking Control Using Fourier Series Based Learning Controller with Phase Compensation", the proceedings of the IASTED conference on Intelligent Systems and Control (ISC 2007), p(592), November, 2007 Boston, USA. Zhao, Xin, Cai, Lilong (2007) "Current Control For Single Phase AC Resistance Spot Welding Systems Using Fourier Learning Scheme", the proceedings of the 26th IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Identification, and Control', pp. 7-12, Feb. 12-14, 2007, Innsbruck, Austria. Liao, Jiarui, Cai, Lilong (2006) "A novel approach for 3D discontinuity measurement of combining relative and absolute methods", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics 2006,12/07/Kunming, China. Mei, Weilong, Li, Vincent, Cai, Lilong (2006) "Application of Finite Element Analysis in the Simulation of Spot Welding Process", Engineering Journal of WuHan University, pp. 94-99, Vol. 39, 2006. (ISSN 1671-8844). Mei, Weilong, Li, Vincent, Cai, Lilong (2006) "Application of Finite Element Analysis on the Simulation of Spot Welding Process", ANSYS-CHINA Conference 2006,Nov, 2006 Hainan, China.

Christopher Yu Hang CHAO Professor (2358 7210 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1994) Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (1995-97)

Current Research Activities: Expiratory Aerosol Transport in Indoor Environments; Risk Assessment of Respiratory Disease Transmission; Thermofluid and Energy

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Transport Dynamics of Ultrafine Particles and Exposure in Multi-Compartment Indoor Environments RGC - General Research Fund HK$510,676 01 Oct 2008 Dispersion of expiratory aerosols in indoor environments with buoyancy generated turbulence RGC - General Research Fund HK$613,500 01 Jan 2007 A study of the mass transfer and reaction characteristics of catalytic oxidation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in a fixed-bed reactor with micro/meso-porous catalysts RGC - General Research Fund HK$517,000 01 Jan 2008 The effect of co-combustion of coal and biomass on combustion performance and pollutant emissions CLP Research Institute Limited HK$537,500 01 Jul 2003 The effect of co-combustion of coal and biomass on combustion performance and pollutant emissions UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$53,750 01 Jul 2003

Representative Research Publications: Chao, Christopher Y H, Wan, M. P., Morawska, L., Johnson, G. R., Ristovski, Z. D., Hargreaves, M., Mengersen, K., Corbett, S., Li, Y., Xie, X., Katoshevski, D. (2009) "Characterization of Expiratory Air Jets and Droplet Size Distributions immediately at the Mouth Opening", Journal of Aerosol Science, 40, pp. 122-133. Sze To, Gin Nam, Wan, M. P., Chao, Christopher Y H, Fang, L., Melikov, A. (2009) "Experimental Study of Dispersion and Deposition of Expiratory Aerosols in Aircraft Cabins and Impact on Infectious Disease Transmission", Aerosol Science and Technology, 43, pp. 466-485. Wan, M.P., Sze To, Gin Nam, Chao, Christopher Y H, Fang, L., Melikov, A. (2009) "Modeling the Fate of Expiratory Aerosols and the Associated Infection Risk in an Aircraft Cabin Environment", Aerosol Science and Technology, 43, pp. 322-343. Morawska, L., Johnson, G. R., Ristovski, Z. D., Hargreaves, M., Mengersen, K., Corbett, S., Chao, Christopher Y H, Li, Y., Katoshevski, D. (2009) "Size Distribution and Sites of Origin of Droplets Expelled during Expiratory Activities", Journal of Aerosol Science, 40, pp. 256-269. Sze To, Gin Nam, Wan, M. P., Chao, Christopher Y H, Wei, F., Yu, S. C. T., Kwan, Joseph K C (2008) "A Methodology for Estimating Airborne Virus Exposures in Indoor Environments using the Spatial Distribution of Expiratory Aerosols and Virus Viability Characteristics", Indoor Air, 18, pp. 425-438. Kwong, C. W., Chao, Christopher Y H, Hui, K. S., Wan, M. P. (2008) "Catalytic Oxidation of Toluene using Zeolite and MCM-41 Materials", Environmental Science and Technology, 42, pp. 8504-8509. Hui, K. S., Chao, Christopher Y H (2008) "Methane Emissions Abatement by Multi-ion-exchanged Zeolite A Prepared from Both Commercial-grade Zeolite and Coal Fly Ash", Environmental Science and Technology, 42, pp. 7392-7397. Chao, C.Y.H., Wan, M.P., Sze To, G.N. (2008) "Transport and Removal of Expiratory Droplets in Hospital Ward Environment", Aerosol Science and Technology, 42, pp. 377-394. Chin Tsau HSU Professor and Director, Center for Energy and Thermal Systems (2358 7188 ; [email protected])

PhD, Stanford University (1977) Senior Research Scientist, Space and Technology Group, TRW Inc (1978-91)

Current Research Activities: Flow, heat and mass transfer in porous media; sediment transport; environmental fluid mechanics; remote sensing; energy efficiency testing.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Key materials and the application technology of high specific energy and long life lithium batteries Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$3,448,722 01 Apr 2009

Representative Research Publications: Hsu, Chin Tsau, Kuang, Jun (2005-2006) "On coherent vortices in turbulent plane jets generated by surface water waves.", Advances in Engineering Mechanics Reflections and Outlooks, 660-668. Hsu, Chin Tsau (2004-2005) "Dynamic Modeling of Convective Heat Transfer in Porous Media.", Handbook of Porous Media-2nd edition, 39-80. Hsu, Chin Tsau (2002-2003) "Heat and Mass Transport in Porous Media", Environmental Fluid Mechanics – Theory and Applications, 257-295. Hsu, Chin Tsau (2002) "'Heat and Mass Transport in Porous Media' Environmental Fluid Mechanics - Theory and Applications", ASCE Press, New York, USA, in press. Chen, X.W., Hsu, Chin Tsau, Chiew, Y.M. (2002) "A semi-analytical model for solid concentration in turbulent pipe flows with dispersed particles", ASCE Journal of Engg. Mechanics, 128(4), 487-492. Qiu, Hui He, Jia, Wang Cun, Hsu, Chin Tsau (2001) "Optimization of optical particle sizing in multiphase flows", Optical Engineering, 40 (11), 2586-2593. Qiu, Hui He, Liu, Wei, Hsu, Chin Tsau (2001) "The effect of second order refraction on optical bubble sizing in multiphase flows", KSME International Journal, 15(12), 1801-1807.

Jang Kyo KIM Professor; Associate Dean of Engineering (2358 7207 ; [email protected] ; http://www.me.ust.hk/?q=mejkkim)

PhD, University of Sydney (1991) Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Korean Air (1979-83) ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sydney (1992) Lecturer, Australian National University (1993-94) Visiting Research Scientist, Research Centre for Advanced Science & Technology (RCAST), University of Tokyo, Japan (1998) Tan Chin Tuan Excange Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (1999)

Current Research Activities: Nanocomposites reinforced with carbon nanotube, nanofiber, graphite, nanoclay, nano-fillers & fibre reinforced composites; Synthesis of graphene, graphene reinforced nanocoposites, graphene films for transparent conductors; Nanostructured materials for renewable energy systems: Li ion batteries, supercapacitors, wind turbine systems; Interface science; adhesion mechanisms in various composite materials; nanoscopic characterization of interphase; Damage and fracture of advanced composite materials, microstructure-property relationships; Reliability of microelectronic packages: delamination failures, shrinkage stresses, wire bonding

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Self-healing fibres with nanocomposite coating RGC - General Research Fund HK$402,600 01 Sep 2007

Representative Research Publications: Geng, Y, Wang, S.J, Kim, J.K (2009) "Preparation of Graphite Nanoplatelets and Graphene Sheets", J Colloid Interface Sci., 336 (2009) 592-598. Ma, P.C, Tang, B.Z, Kim, J.K (2008) "Decoration of Carbon Nanotube (CNT) with Silver Nanoparticles for Improving the Electrical Conductivity in CNT/Epoxy Nanocomposites", Carbon, 46 (2008) 1497-1505. Geng, Y, Liu, M.Y, Li, J, Shi, X.M, Kim, J.K (2008) "Effects of surfactant treatment on mechanical and electrical properties of CNT/epoxy nanocomposites", Composites Part A, 39 (2008) 1876-1883. Li, Jing, Ma, Peng-Cheng, Chow, Wing-Sze, To, Chi-Kai, Tang, Ben-Zhong, Kim, Jang-Kyo (2007) "Correlations between percolation threshold, dispersion state and aspect ratio of carbon nanotube", Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 17, pp: 3207-3215. Siddiqui, Naveed A., Woo, Ricky S.C, Kim, Jang-Kyo, Leung, Christopher.K.Y., Munir, A. (2007) "Mode I interlaminar fracture behaviour and mechanical properties of CFRPs with nanoclay filled epoxy matrix", Composites Part A, Vol. 38, 449-460. Ma, Peng Cheng, Kim, Jang-Kyo, Tang, Ben Zhong (2006) "Functionalization of carbon nanotubes using a silane coupling agent", Carbon, Vol. 44, 3232-3238. Sham, Man Lung, Kim, Jang-Kyo (2006) "Surface functionalities of multi-wall carbon nanotubes after UV/ozone and TETA treatments", Carbon, 44, 768-777. Kim, Jang-Kyo, Hu, Chugang, Woo, Ricky S.C., Sham, Man Lung (2005) "Moisture barrier characteristics of organoclay- epoxy nanocomposites", Composites Science & Technology, Vol. 65 (2005) 805-813.

John H S LAU Visiting Professor (2358 7181 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Packaging of electronic, optoelectronic, photonic, and MEMS components and systems. Lead-free SMT, flip-chip WLP, TSV and other enabling technologies for 3D IC Integration and SiP.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Impacts of nano-particle on lead-free solder joint reliability RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 15 Jan 2009

Shi-Wei Ricky LEE Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Director of Center for Advanced Microsystems Packaging (2358 7203 ; [email protected] ; http://www.me.ust.hk/~rickylee)

PhD, Purdue University (1992) Visiting Assistant Professor, Purdue University (1993)

Current Research Activities: Flip chip technologies and wafer level packaging, through silicon vias and 3D packaging, passive alignment of optical fibers and LED packaging, lead-free soldering and solder joint reliability, computational modeling and stress analysis.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Failure Mechanism of Lead-free Solder Joints in Printed Circuit Board Assembly under Repetitive Mechanical Drop Loading RGC - General Research Fund HK$348,649 01 Aug 2008 Investigation of Sn-Cu-Ni (SCN) Alloy as a Low Cost High Temperature Alternative for Lead-free Soldering RGC - General Research Fund HK$765,431 01 Aug 2009 Characterization of board level solder joint reliability of Etched Leadless Packages (ELP) PT UNISEM HK$416,600 01 Feb 2007 Characterization of board level solder joint reliability of Etched Leadless Packages (ELP) UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$6,420 01 Jul 2008 Evaluation of package and board level solder joint reliability of Ceramic Ball Grid Array (CBGA) packages under ball pull, ball shear, mechanical bending and shock loadings Sun Microsystems Inc. HK$934,200 19 Feb 2007

Representative Research Publications: Song, F., Jiang, T., Lo, J. C. C., Lee, S. W. R., Newman, K. (2009) "Investigation of Mixed SAC and SnPb Solder Balls under High Speed Ball Shear and Pull Tests", Proc. 10th International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical & Multi-Physics Simulation & Experiments in Micro-Electronics & Micro-Systems (EuroSimE), Delft, Netherlands, 26-29 April, pp. 1-8. Lee, S. W. R., Tong, Y. W., Chan, Y. S., Lo, J. C. C., Zhang, R. (2009) "Process Development and Prototyping for the Assembly of LED Arrays on Flexible Printed Circuit Tape for General Solid State Lighting", Proc. 59th Electronic Components & Technology Conference (ECTC), San Diego, CA, 26-29 May, pp. 2137-2142. Lam, J. K. S., Lee, S. W. R. (2008) "Development of Novel Dicing Process by Anisotropic Wet Etching with Convex Corner Compensation", Proc. 10th Electronics Packaging Technology Conference (EPTC), Singapore, 9-12 December, pp. 161-166. Huang, X., Lee, S. W. R., Li, M., Chen, W. T. (2008) "Gold Embrittlement of Solder Joints in Wafer Level Chip Scale Package on Printed Circuit Board with Ni/Au Surface Finish", IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 185- 191. Lo, Jeffery Chi Chuen, Jia, Bian Fen, Liu, Zhe, Zhu, Jiang, Lee, Shi-Wei Ricky (2008) "Reliability Study of Surface Mount Printed Circuit Board Assemblies with Lead-free Solder Joints", Soldering & Surface Mount Technology, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 30-38. Tsui, Yat Kit, Lee, Shi-Wei Ricky (2005) "Design and Fabrication of a Flip-Chip-on-Chip 3D Packaging Structure and Through- Silicon-Via for Underfill Dispensing", IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 413-420. 劉, 漢誠, 汪, 正平, 李, 寧成, 李, 世瑋 (2005) 電子製造技術：利用無鉛、無鹵素和導電膠材料, 化學工業出版社, 北京, 中國, ISBN 7- 5025-7004-7, 548 pages. Yan, Chien-Chun, Lee, Shi-Wei Ricky, Huang, Xingjia (2004) "Comparison of Solder Ball Shear Strengths for Various Nickel Platings on the Bond Pads of a PBGA Substrate", Soldering & Surface Mount Technology, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 21-26.

Yang LENG Professor (2358 7185 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Virginia (1989) Research Engineer, Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Chongqing (1982-84)

Current Research Activities: Mechanical behavior of engineering materials; biomedical materials; novel materials processing.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Electrochemical Surface Modifications for Transcutaneous/transgingival Titanium Implants RGC - General Research Fund HK$619,974 01 Jan 2009 Biomedical materials with immobilized biomolecules and surface micropatterning National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$519,800 01 Jan 2009 Study of the Osteoinduction Mechanism of Bioceramic Materials UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$400,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Lin, Liwen, Chow, King Lau, Leng, Yang (2009) "Study of hydroxyapatite osteoinductivity with an osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells", Journal of Biomedical Materials Research A, 89A: 326-335. Leng, Yang, Xin, Renlong (2008) "Analytical TEM Study of Biomineral Phases", Biomaterials in Asia, Tetsuya Tateishi, 494-505. Leng, Yang (2008) Materials Characterization: Introduction to microscopic and spectroscopic methods, John Wiley & Sons, 337 pages. Xin, Renlong, Leng, Yang, Wang, Ning (2006) "In Situ TEM Examinations of Octacalcium Phosphate to Hydroxyapatite Transformation", Journal of Crystal Growth, 289 (2006) 339-344. Xin, Renlong, Leng, Yang, Chen, Jiyong, Zhang, Qiyi (2005) "A Comparative Study of Calcium Phosphate Formation on Bioceramics In Vitro and in Vivo", Biomaterials, 26 (2005) 6477-6486. Zhang, Qiyi, Leng, Yang (2005) "Electrochemical Activation Titanium for Biomimetic Coating of Calcium Phosphate", Biomaterials, Vol. 26, 3853-3859. Lu, Xiong, Leng, Yang (2005) "Theoretical Analysis of Calcium Phosphate Precipitation in Simulated Body Fluid", Biomaterials, Vol. 26, pp. 1097-1108. Lu, Xiong, Leng, Yang (2004) "TEM Study of Calcium Phosphate Precipitation on Bioactive Titanium Surfaces", Biomaterials, Vol. 25, pp. 1779-1786.

Qingping SUN Professor (2358 8655 ; [email protected] ; http://www-mech.ust.hk/~meqpsun)

PhD, Tsinghua University (1989) Professor, Tsinghua University (1994) Visiting Professor, Uni- versity of Metz, France (1994, 1996, 1998)

Current Research Activities: Shape memory alloy single and polycrystals; phase transition and material instability and propagation in solid; implant biomaterials and nano-micro tribology.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: On grain size dependence of the stress hysteresis in shape memory alloy polycrystals: Role of material internal length scales RGC - General Research Fund HK$327,851 01 Jul 2008 Phase transition behavior of NiTi shape memory alloy polycrystals at intermediate tensile strain rates of 0.1/s-100/s RGC - General Research Fund HK$896,274 01 Sep 2009

Representative Research Publications: He, Yongjun, Sun, Qingping (2009) "Effects of structural and material length scales on stress-induced martensite macro-domain patterns in tube configurations", International Journal of Solids and Structures, 46 (2009) 3045-3060. Sun, Qingping, He, Yongjun (2008) "A multiscale continuum model on the grain size dependence of the stress hysteresis in shape memory alloy polycrystals", Int. J. Solids and Structures, 45 (2008) 3868-3896. Feng, Xiqiao, Qian, Linmao, Yan, Wenyi, Sun, Qingping (2008) "Wearless scratch on NiTi shape memory alloy due to phase transformational shakedown", Applied Physics Letters, 92, 121909, 2008. Feng, Xiqiao, Sun, Qingping (2007) "Shakedown analysis of shape memory alloy structures", Int. J. Plasticity, 23, pp. 183-206. YAN, W. Y., SUN, Q.P., FENG, X.Q., QIAN, L.M. (2006) "Determination of transformation stresses of shape memory alloys thin film – a method based on spherical indentation", Applied Physics Letter,, 88, p. 241912. FENG, P., SUN, Q.P. (2006) "Experimental investigation on Macroscopic Domain Formation and Evolution in Polycrystalline NiTi Microtubing under Mechanical Force", J. Mech. Phys. Solids,, 54, pp. 1568-1603. NG, K. L., SUN, Q. P. (2006) "Stress-induced Phase Transformation and Detwinning in NiTi Tubes", Mechanics of Materials, 38, pp. 41-56. Qian, Linmao, Xiao, Xudong, Sun, Qingping, Yu, Tongxi (2004) "Anomalous relationship between hardness and wear properties of a superelastic nickel-titanium alloy", Applied Physics Letter, Vol. 84, No. 7, pp. 1076-1078.

Jingshen WU Professor (2358 7200 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Sydney (1994) Australian Research Council (ARC) Post-doctoral Fellow (1995-96)

Current Research Activities: Processing-morphology-property relationships of polymer nanocomposites; polymers and polymer nanocomposites in microelectronic applications; reliability and failure analysis of microelectronic packages.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Structure, property and modification of low cost nanocomposites for electronic packaging applications ASAT Limited HK$1,458,000 01 Oct 2002 Processing optimization and characterization of PBGA packages ASAT Limited HK$420,000 01 Oct 2008 Pb-free solder joint strength and reliability under impact and vibration ATI Technologies Inc. HK$1,021,644 20 Oct 2006 Structure, property and modification of low cost nanocomposites for electronic packaging applications UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$36,450 01 Oct 2003 Pb-free solder joint strength and reliability under impact and vibration UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$29,990 20 Oct 2006 Failure mechanisms and property-structure relationship of flip-chip packages UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$25,800 01 Jul 2006 Center for Engineering Materials and Reliability Nansha Research Centers HK$6,152,000 01 Jul 2006 Center for Engineering Materials and Reliability Nansha Research Centers HK$2,000,000 01 Jul 2008 Development of a Novel Carbon Nanotube-Glass Fiber Sensor RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$450,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Zhang, Zheming, Xu, Zhengjian, Wu, Jingshen, Yu, Tongxi (2007) "A New Method for Single Solder Ball Impact Test", JEDEC/IPC Global Conferences on Lead Free Reliability and Reliability Testing for RoHS Lead Free Electronics, Austin, Texas, 3- 5/Dec/2007. Ye, Yueping, Chen, Haibin, Wu, Jingshen, Ye, Lin (2007) "High Impact Strength Epoxy Nanocomposites with Natural Nanotubes", Polymer, Volume 48, Page 6426-6433. Xu, Zhengjian, Zhang, Zheming, Wu, Jingshen, Yu, Tongxi (2007) "Mechanical properties of lead-free solder alloys and finite element simulation on solder ball shear under high speed impact", JEDEC/IPC Global Conferences on Lead Free Reliability and Reliability Testing for RoHS Lead Free Electronics, Austin, Texas, 3-5/Dec/2007. Chen, Haibin, Wang, Mozhen, Lin, Yong, Chan, Chi-Ming, Wu, Jingshen (2007) "Morphology and Mechanical Property of Binary and Ternary Polypropylene Nanocomposites with Nanoclay and CaCO3 Particles", Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Volume 106, Page 3409-3416. Yan, Liling, Wang, Ke, Wu, Jingshen, Ye, Lin (2007) "Hydrophobicity of model surfaces with closely packed nano- and micro- spheres", Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, Volume 296, Issue 1-3, p.123-131. Chen, Haibin, Wu, Jingshen (2007) "Understanding the Underlying Physics of the Essential Work of Fracture on the Molecular Level", Macromolecules, Volume 40, p.4322-4326. Wang, Ke, Chen, Ling, Wu, Jingshen, Toh, Mei Ling, He, Chaobin, Yee, Albert (2005) "Epoxy Nanocomposites with Highly Exfoliated Clay: Mechanical Properties and Fracture Mechanisms", Macromolecules, Vol 38, 788-800. Wang, Siuming, Wu, Jingshen, Leng, Yang (2005) "Mechanical Behaviour of PLA/HA Composite in Simulated Physiological Environment", Key Engineering Materials, vol. 288-289, 231-236.

Tianshou ZHAO Professor; Director, Center for Sustainable Energy Technology (2358 8647 ; [email protected] ; http://www.me.ust.hk/~mezhao)

PhD, University of Hawaii (1995) Lecturer, Tianjin University (1986-91)

Current Research Activities: Fuel cell; microscale heat transfer; phase-change flow and heat transfer in capillary structures; electronic cooling; heat pipes; advanced air conditioning and refrigeration systems.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Coupled heat and mass transfer in passive silicon-based direct methanol fuel cells RGC - General Research Fund HK$538,836 01 Jan 2006 Bubble dynamics and mass transport in microfluidic direct methanol fuel cells RGC - General Research Fund HK$734,000 01 Jan 2007 Mass transport in the nano-structured electrode of polymer electrolyte-based fuel cells RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,222,800 01 Jan 2008 Microfluidic Water-Management Systems for Air-Breathing Fuel Cells RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,104,631 01 Jan 2009 Transport phenomena in passively-operated micro direct methanol fuel cells RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$70,125 01 Jan 2006 Direct ethanol fuel cell Sumitomo Corporation HK$200,000 01 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications: Yang, Weiwei, Zhao, Tianshou, Chen, Rong, Xu, Cao (2009) "An approach for determining the liquid water distribution in a liquid-feed direct methanol fuel cell", J. Power Sources, 190 (2009) 216-222. Li, Yinshi, Zhao, Tianshou, Liang, Zhenxing (2009) "Effect of polymer binders in the anode catalyst layer on performance of alkaline direct ethanol fuel cells", J. Power Sources, 190 (2009) 223-229. Zhao, Tianshou, Xu, Cao, Chen, Rong, Yang, Weiwei (2009) "Mass transport phenomena in direct methanol fuel cells", Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 35 (2009) 275-292. Liang, Zhenxing, Zhao, Tianshou, Xu, Jianbo, Zhu, Liande (2009) "Mechanism study of the ethanol oxidation reaction on palladium in alkaline media", Electrochimica Acta, 54 (2009) 2203-2208. Zhao, Tianshou (2009) Micro Fuel Cells - Principle and Applications, Elsevier, ISBN: 0123747139. Yang, Weiwei, Zhao, Tianshou (2009) "Numerical investigations of the effect of the membrane electrode assembly structure on water crossover in a liquid-feed direct methanol fuel cell", J. Power Sources, 188 (2009) 433-446. Li, Yinshi, Zhao, Tianshou, Liang, Zhenxing (2009) "Performance of alkaline electrolyte-membrane based direct ethanol fuel cells", J. Power Sources, 187 (2009) 387-392. Zhu, Liande, Zhao, Tianshou, Xu, Jianbo, Liang, Zhenxing (2009) "Preparation and characterization of carbon-supported submonolayer palladium decorated gold nanoparticles for the electro-oxidation of ethanol in alkaline media", J. Power Sources, 187 (2009) 80-84.

See Chun KOT Professor Emeritus (2358 7187 ; [email protected]) PhD, Cornell University (1971) Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong (1974-90)

Current Research Activities: Computational fluid dynamics; environmental fluid dynamics; atmospheric dispersion; wind tunnel modeling; airport wind shear.

Representative Research Publications: Yim, Steve H. L., Fung, Jimmy C.H., Lau, Alexis K. H., Kot, See Chun (2007) "Developing a high-resolution wind map for a complex terrain with a coupled MM5/CALMET system", Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 112, D05 106, doi:10.1029/2006JD007752, 2007. Fung, Jimmy C H, Yim, Steve H L, Lau, Alexis K H, Kot, S C (2007) "Wind Energy Potential in Guangdong Province", International Conference on Climate Change,May 2007, Hong Kong, 29-31 May 2007. Guan, Wei Bing, Kot, See Chun, Wolanski, E (2005) "3-D fluid-mud dynamics in the Jiaojiang Estuary, China", Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, Vol 65, pp 747-762, 2005. Lam, KS, Cheng, ZL, Kot, SC, Tsang, CW (2004-2005) "Chemical charateristics of Aerosols at Coastal Station in Hong Kong II", J. of Environmental Sciences, Vol 16, no. 2, pp.212-221. Wang, T, Lam, KS, Tsang, CW, Kot, SC (2004-2005) "On the Variability and Correlation of Surface Ozone and Carbon Monoxide Observed in Hong Kong using Trajectory and Regression Analyses", Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2004, vol. 21, no.1, pp. 141- 152. Kot, See Chun, Yu, Chi Wai (2003) "Wind-tunnel Testing of Stack Effect of Amoy Garden", International Conference on Pollution in the Metropolitan and Urban Environment (POLMET 2003) organised by the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers in Hong Kong, POLMET 2003 p. 97. Kot, See Chun (2001-2002) "Dispersion Modelling", Chapter in 'The Air We Breathe:Air Pollution in Hong Kong', The HKU Press, Hong Kong.

Yongsheng GAO Associate Professor (2358 8649 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Birmingham (1992) Lecturer, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (1987-88)

Current Research Activities: Manufacturing process control; grinding technology; tolerances and measurement technology; precision engineering.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Actively cooled megasonic cooling for surface grinding RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$70,125 01 Jan 2006 The sixth international symposium on measurement technology and intelligent instruments UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$7,213 28 Nov 2003

Representative Research Publications: Gao, Yongsheng, Lai, Honkeung (2008) "Use of actively cooled and activated coolant for surface quality improvement in ductile material grinding", International Journal of Materials and Process Technology, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 14-26. Gao, Yongsheng, Xiao, Kai, Zhang, Yunfei, Chan, Yuensing (2008) "Use of air beam for in-process optical measurement in precision machining", Key Engineering Materials, Vol. 381-382, pp. 183-186. Gao, Yongsheng, Tse, Shuetfung (2007) "Modelling of piezoelectric micro positioning system using direct mapping and numerical analysis for precision grinding process control", Int J Abrasive Tech, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 143-150. Gao, Yongsheng, Lai, Honkeung (2007) "Effects of actively cooled coolant for grinding ductile materials", Key Engineering Materials, 339, pp. 427-433. Tse, Shuetfung, Gao, Yongsheng (2007) "Modeling of micro-positioning system using direct mapping and polynomial fit for precision grinding process control", Key Engineering Materials, 329, pp. 791-796. Tse, Shuetfung, Gao, Yongsheng (2007) "Modeling of piezoelectric actuator based nano-positioning system using multi- polynomial regression with C1 continuity", Key Engineering Materials, 339, pp. 434-441. Gao, Yongsheng, Tse, Shuetfung (2006) "A study of the piezoelectric constant models for nano-positioning in precision machining", Proc ICFDM 2006, GZ, China, 2, pp. 139-144. Gao, Yongsheng, Tse, Shuetfung (2005) "An analysis of the discontinuity in the modeling of sinusoidal excitation for piezoelectric actuator based micro-positioning system for surface grinding control", Proc Euspen 2005, France, 2, pp. 377-380.

David Chuen Chun LAM Associate Professor (2358 7208 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara (1991) Research Staff, Hitachi Research Lab, Hitachi Ltd (1991-94)

Current Research Activities: Relations between material processing, properties and process mechanics; rapid prototyping, tooling and manufacturing; adhesive technology and interface mechanics in electronic packaging.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Characterization and modeling of viscoelastic strain gradient effects in small-scaled structures for sensors and microelectronic devices RGC - General Research Fund HK$655,200 01 Jan 2008 Research and development of statistical process-reliability relations on multilayerd flexible substrates Compass Technology Co. Ltd. HK$756,000 01 Sep 2006 Research and development of statistical process-reliability relations on multilayerd flexible substrates UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$18,900 01 Sep 2006

Representative Research Publications: Wang, Jun, Lam, David C C (2009) "Model and analysis of size-stiffening in nanoporous cellular solids", J. Mater. Sci., Vol 44, pp.985-991. Qiao, D, Pang, GKH, Mui, MK, Lam, David C C (2008) "A New PCB-based low-cost accelerometer for human motion sensing", IEEE, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automation and logistics, Qingdao, China Sept. 2008. Ren, Yuxing, Lam, David C C (2008) "Properties and microstructures of low-temperature-processable ultra-low-dielectric porous polyimide films", J. Electronic Mater., Vol. 37, No 7. Leung, Stanley YY, Lam, David CC (2008) "Geometric and Compaction Dependence of Printed Polymer-Based RFID Tag Antenna Performance", IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing, vol. 31, pp.120-125, 2008. Shek, KT, Lam, David CC (2008) "Insertion behavior of microneedles for drug delivery", Adv. Mater. Res., vol. 47-50, pp.1442- 1445. Ren, Yuxing, Lam, David CC (2008) "Properties and microstructures of low-temperature-processable ultra-low-dielectric porous polyimide films", Journal of Electronic Material, vol. 37, pp. 955-61. Lam, David C, Wang, Jun, Yang, Fan (2007) "Hygrothermal failures from small defects in lead-free solder reflowed electronics packages", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ADVANCED PACKAGING, Vol. 30, No. 4, November 2007. Leung, Stanley YY, Lam, David CC (2007) "Performance of printed polymer based RFID antenna on curvilinear surface", IEEE CPMT Transactions in Electronic Packaging Manufacturing, vol. 30, pp. 200-205, 2007. Yi-Kuen LEE Associate Professor; Associate Director of Center for Bioengineering & Biomedical Devices in Nansha Campus; Associate Director of Institute of Integrated Microsystem; Research Affiliate in Bioengineering Graduate Program (2358 8663 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~meyklee)

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (2001) Research Assistant, University of California, Los Angeles (1997-2001); Research Assistant, National Taiwan University (1992-1995)

Current Research Activities: Bio-MEMS/NEMS: micro biosensor chip; micro electroporation chip for DNA transfection, micro thermal inkjet; micro/nano capillary electrophoresis chip; micro biometric sensor; micro inertia sensor chip; micro chaotic mixing; DNA fluorescence microscopy.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Microelectroendocytosis cell chips for large DNA transfection with high cell viability RGC - General Research Fund HK$468,050 01 Sep 2007 Nonlinear electrophoretic dynamics of large DNA molecules in micro electrophoresis chip with nanopillar arrays RGC - General Research Fund HK$745,000 01 Sep 2006 Nanofluidics chips for biomedical applications Defond Electrical Industries Ltd. HK$100,000 01 Sep 2008 Giant electrorheological fluid based-digital microfluidics France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$30,600 01 Jan 2009 Nanofluidics chips for biomedical applications UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$5,000 01 Sep 2008 High-throughput micro electroporation cell chip technology for DNA transfection Kenreal International Trading Co. Ltd. HK$78,000 01 Jan 2004

Representative Research Publications: Ling, Yun-Yang, Zhang, Yechi, Wen, Weijia, Tabeling, Patrick, Lee, Yi-Kuen (2009) "An Integrated Micro Giant Electrorheological Fluid Valves for Micro Flow Cytometry", Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS and MOEMS, Vol. 8, No. 2, 021103. He, Huiqi, Chang, Donald C, Lee, Yi-Kuen (2009) "Battery-Powered Miniaturized Electroporation System for In-Situ Gene Transfer in Stem Cell Research", The 4th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (IEEE NEMS 2009), Shenzhen, China, pp. 458-462, Jan 5-8. Chen, Longquan, Xiao, Zhiyong, Chan, Philip C H, Lee, Yi-Kuen (2009) "Dual-Scaled Stable Superhydrophobic Nano- Flower Surfaces", The 15th International Conf. on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystem (Transducers 2009), Dever, CO, USA, pp.441-444, 21-25 Jun. Lin, Ran, Chang, Donald C, Lee, Yi-Kuen (2009) "Study of Single-Cell Electroendocytosis Using Bio-MEMS Technology", The 15th International Conf. on Soid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystem (Transducers 2009), Dever, CO. USA, pp.2366-2369, 21-25 Jun. Ling, Yun-Yang, Zhang, Yechi, Wen, Weijia, Tabeling, Patrick, Lee, Yi-Kuen (2008) "Design and Fabrication of Integrated Micro GER Valves for Micro Flow Cytometry", 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Transducers and Micro-Nano Technology 2008 (APCOT 2008), Tainan, Taiwan, 22-25 Jun. He, Huiqi, Lee, Yi-Kuen, Chang, Donald C. (2008) "Nonlinear Current Response of Micro Electroporation and Resealing Dynamics for Human Cancer Cells", Bioelectrochemistry, Vol. 72, No. 2, pp.161-168. Cao, Xinping, Chiang, Wen-Jen, King, Ya-Chin, Lee, Yi-Kuen (2007) "Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting Circuit With Feedforward and Feedback DC-DC PWM Boost Converter for Vibration Power Generator System", IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp.679-685, 2007. Lee, Yi-Kuen, Shih, Chiang, Tabeling, Patrick, Ho, Chih-Ming (2007) "Experimental Study and Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Time-periodic Micro Chaotic Mixers", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 575, pp.425-448, 2007.

Huihe QIU Associate Professor (2358 7190 ; [email protected])

PhD, Erlangen-Nuremberg University (1994)

Current Research Activities: Coherent optical diagnostics; micro-optical sensors; multiphase flows and heat transfer; micro-casting and cooling.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Bubble Dynamics and Heat Transfer in Microchannels with 3D Patterned Surface Charges RGC - General Research Fund HK$358,660 01 Jan 2009 Interfacial Film Dynamics in Pulsating Multiphase Micro Flows RGC - General Research Fund HK$579,411 01 Jan 2006 Droplet dynamics and control in immiscible microfluids RGC - General Research Fund HK$386,000 01 Jan 2007 Transport dynamics and coalescence of spreading microdroplets on a heterogeneous surface RGC - General Research Fund HK$711,360 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Ji, Haifeng, Qiu, Huihe (2008) "2D fringe probing of liquid film dynamics of a plug bubble in a micropipe", Measurement Science & Technology, 20, 025402-025409. Zhang, Peng, Qiu, Huihe (2008) "Investigation of the patterned surface modification on 3D vortex flow generation in a micropipe", Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 18, pp115030-115037. Hong, Fangjun, Qiu, Huihe (2007) "Characterization of Variable Thermal Contact Resistance in Rapid Contact Solidification Utilizing Novel Ultrasound Technique", Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 129. Qiu, Huihe, Wang, Xishi (2006) "Experimental Study on Interfacial Film Dynamics of Oscillating Multiphase Micro Flows", 13th International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics, June 26-29, 1036, 1-12. Zhao, Yong, Qiu, Huihe (2006) "Measurements of Multicomponent Microdroplet Evaporation by Using Novel Optical Techniques", Experiments in Fluids, 40, pp60-69. Hong, Fangjun, Qiu, Huihe (2005) "Experimental Study on Rapid Solidification Process Using a Novel Ultrasound Technique", Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 30/1, pp17-26. Wang, Xishi, Qiu, Huihe (2005) "Fringe Probing of Gas-Liquid Interfacial Film in a Micro Capillary Tube", Applied Optics, Vol. 44, No. 22, pp4648-4653. Xue, Zhenlan, Wang, Xishi, Hong, Fangjun, Zhang, Peng, Qiu, Huihe (2005) "Interfacial Film Dynamics of Oscillating Plug/Slug Flows in Mini/Micro Channels", International Conference on Jets, Wakes and Separated Flows, Toba-shi, Mie, Japan, October 5-8, P-015, 1-6.

Kai TANG Associate Professor (2358 8656 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~mektang)

PhD, University of Michigan (1990) Software specialist, Applicon Inc (1991-2001)

Current Research Activities: Solid modeling; CAD/CAM; geometric algorithms; multi-axis surface machining algorithms; feature recognition; robotics algorithms.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A new MRG algorithm for 3D shape matching RGC - General Research Fund HK$382,800 01 Jan 2008 Representative Research Publications: Wang, Charlie, Tang, Kai (2007) "Woven model based geometric design of elastic medical braces", Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 67-69, 2007. Wang, Huawei, Tang, Kai, Qin, Kai-huai (2006) "Efficient wavelet construction with Catmull-Clark subdivision", The Visual Computer, Vol. 22, pp. 874-884, 2006. Tang, Kai, Wang, Charlie, Chen, Danny (2006) "Minimum area convex packing of two convex polygons", International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 41 - 74. Liu, Yong-jin, Tang, Kai, Joneja, Ajay (2005) "2D sketch-based shape modeling with a fast and stable numerical engine", Computers & Graphics, Vol. 29, pp. 778-793. Wang, Charlie, Tang, Kai (2005) "Optimal boundary triangulations of an interpolating ruled surface", ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 291-301. Wang, Charlie, Tang, Kai, Yeung, Benjamin (2005) "Freeform surface flattening based on fitting a woven mesh model", Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 37/8, pp. 799-814, 2005. Tang, Kai, Wang, Charlie (2005) "Modeling developable folds on a strip", ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 200., No. 1, pp. 35-47. Fu, Jing, Joneja, Ajay, Tang, Kai (2005) "Modeling wrinkles on smooth surfaces for footwear design", Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 37/8, pp. 815-823, 2005.

Zhigang LI Assistant Professor (2358 7186 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Delaware

Current Research Activities: Transport phenomena (micro/nano-scale); nonlinear dynamics/chaos; complex fluids; numerical simulations (MD, MC, DPD)

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Active transport of gases in non-uniform nanochannels RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$167,160 01 Nov 2007 Exploration of novel approaches for biomolecule separation through micro/nano-fluidic networks UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$351,500 01 Nov 2007

Representative Research Publications: Li, Zhigang (2009) "Surface effects on friction-induced fluid heating in nanochannel flows", Physical Review E, 79, 026312. Li, Zhigang, Drazer, German (2008) "Hydrodynamic interactions in dissipative particle dynamics", Physics of Fluids, 20, 103601. Li, Zhigang (2008) "Understanding Nanoscale Surface Effects", 6th US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena - Science and Engineering, July 13-16, 2008, Boston.

Moses L F NG Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 7196 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Energy conversion technologies, hydrogen and fuel cells, fuel cells power plant, solar thermoelectric, BiPV, small wind power generation, batteries and electrical vehicles, heat transfer in non-Newtonian fluids.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Investigation of building integrating photovoltaic (BiPV) power generation in Hong Kong RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$30,000 30 Jun 2009

Shuhuai YAO Assistant Professor (2358 7205 ; [email protected])

PhD, Stanford University

Current Research Activities: Micro-/nano-scale fluid dynamics and heat transfer, micropumping and micromixing, thermal management for microelectronics, chemi/bioanalytical devices.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Enhancement of nucleate boiling in microchannels with micro/nano structured surfaces RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$200,000 01 Dec 2008 Biomimic energy harvesting system UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$120,000 02 Feb 2009

Representative Research Publications: Yao, Shuhuai (2008) Electroosmotic Pump Technologies - Theory, Design, and Demonstration, VDM Verlag. Waldauer, Steven, Bakajin, Olgica, Ball, Terry, Chen, Yujie, DeCamp, Stephen, Kopka, Michaela, Jager, Marcus, Singh, Vijay, Wedemeyer, William, Weiss, Shimon, Yao, Shuhuai, Lapidus, Lisa (2008) "Ruggedness in the folding landscape of protein L", HFSP Journal, 2(#6), pp. 388-395.

Wenjing YE Assistant Professor (2358 7194 ; [email protected])

PhD, Cornell University

Current Research Activities: Numerical methods (DSMC, MD, BEM); computational mechanics; modeling and design of micro/nano systems; rarefied gas transport.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Combined Molecular and Continuum Hybrid Simulation Techniques for Efficient Modeling of Gas Flows in Microelectromechanical/Nanoelectromechanical Devices RGC - General Research Fund HK$327,937 01 Sep 2008 Numerical investigation and characterization of Knudsen force RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$167,160 30 Jun 2007 Numerical techniques driven by various engineering design applications and developing computational prototypes for actual applications & computational tools for fundamental studies UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$351,500 15 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications: Ye, Wenjing, Yan, Fei (2009) "On the convergence of the panel method for potential problems with non-smooth domains", Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Vol. 33, pp. 837-844. Gang, Hong, Ye, Wenjing (2008) "Molecular Dynamic Simulation of Squeeze-film Damping in the Free-molecule Regime", The 26th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Kyoto, Japan; July 21 - 25, 2008; pp. 1027 - 1032. Ye, Wenjing (2008) "A New Transformation Technique for Evaluating Nearly Singular Integrals", Computational Mechanics, Vol. 24, No. 3, PP. 457 - 466. Masters, Nathan, Ye, Wenjing (2008) "Multiscale Modeling of Heat Transfer in a Thermally Sensing Atomic Force Microscope", ASME International Conference on Micro/Nanoscale Heat Transfer, Jan. 5 - Jan. 10, 2008. Ye, Wenjing (2008) "The Boundary Element Method and its Applications to the Modeling of MEMS Devices", Encyclopedia of Micro- Fluidics and Nano-Fluidics. Masters, Nathan, Ye, Wenjing (2007) "Octant Flux Splitting Information Preservation DSMC Method for Thermally Driven Flows", Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 226, pp. 2044 - 2062. Wang, Xin, White, Jacob, Kanapka, Joel, Ye, Wenjing, Aluru, Narayan (2006) "Algorithms in FastStokes and its Applications to Micromachined Device Simulation", IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 248-257. Ding, Jian, Ye, Wenjing (2006) "Grid Based Integral Approach for Quasilinear Problems", Computational Mechanics, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 114-118. [ACCT] [ECON] [FINA] [ISOM] [MGMT] [MARK]

DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE

DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS, BUSINESS STATISTICS & OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT

DEPARTMENT OF MARKETING Department of Accounting

Kevin C W CHEN, Department Head and Chair Professor

Guochang ZHANG, Professor

K P RAMASWAMY, Adjunct Professor

Peter F CHEN, Associate Professor

Gilles HILARY, Associate Professor

Clive LENNOX, Associate Professor

Patrick J HARVEY, Adjunct Associate Professor

Sabrina Y S KWAN, Adjunct Associate Professor

Brian W SEMKOW, Adjunct Associate Professor

Tai-Yuan CHEN, Assistant Professor

Chia-Chun HSIEH, Assistant Professor

Charles Y HSU, Assistant Professor

Allen H HUANG, Assistant Professor

Kai Wai HUI, Assistant Professor

Kirill NOVOSELOV, Assistant Professor

Shiheng WANG, Assistant Professor

Amy Y ZANG, Assistant Professor

Mingshan ZHANG, Assistant Professor

Yong ZHANG, Assistant Professor Kevin C W CHEN Department Head and Chair Professor (2358 7585 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1985) Assistant and Associate Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick (1989-99)

Current Research Activities: Accounting information and securities pricing; use of accounting information in contract enforcement and regulation.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Are founders, descendents, and professionals rewarded differently as CEOs in Hong Kong's family firms? RGC - General Research Fund HK$441,692 01 Jan 2008 Centralized RA support for 2007 RPC projects of Accounting Department UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$150,000 01 Jun 2007 The timeliness of earnings information and the frequency of interim financial reporting: an international comparison UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$81,161 30 Jun 2009

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Kevin C W, Chen, Zhihong, Wei, Kuo-chiang (2009) "Legal protection of investors, corporate governance, and the cost of equity capital", Journal of Corporate Finance, 115, 3, 273-289. Chen, Kevin C.W., Wang, Jiwei (2007) "Accounting-Based Regulation in Emerging Markets: The Case of China’s Seasoned Equity Offerings", The International Journal of Accounting, Vol. 42, No. 3, 2007, pp. 221-236. Chen, Kevin, Yuan, Hongqi (2004) "Earnings Management and Resource Allocation: Evidence From China’s Accounting-Based Regulation of Rights Issues", The Accounting Review, Vol. 79, No. 3, pp. 645-665. Chen, Kevin C.W., Schoderbek, M.P., Danielson, M.G. (2003) "Analysts’ Interpretation of Transitory Earnings Components: Evidence from Forecast Revisions after Disclosure of the 1993 Deferred Tax Adjustment", Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, Vol. 18, No. 3, Summer 2003, pp. 333-354. Chen, Kevin, Danielson, Morris, Schoderbek, Michael (2003) "Analysts' Interpretation of Transitory Earnings Components: Evidence from Forecast Revisions after Disclosure of the 1993 Deferred Tax Adjustment", Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance, Vol. 18, No. 3. Chen, Kevin, Yuan, Hongqi (2001) "Earnings management and resource allocation: Evidence from China’s accounting-based regulation of rights issue.", 2001 American Accounting Association annual conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Guochang ZHANG Professor (2358 7569 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of British Columbia (1992) Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo (1991-93)

Current Research Activities: Accounting information and equity valuation; the roles of accounting and finance in resolving agency conflicts; management accounting in China.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Analyst forecast revisions and the informational efficiency of stock prices: the case of R&D intensive industries RGC - General Research Fund HK$271,250 01 Jan 2009 Segment profitability, misvaluation, and corporate divestment RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$61,000 01 Jan 2005 Earnings Sensitivities to Macroeconomic Conditions: The Business Cycle Risk RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$176,282 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Peter, Zhang, Guochang (2007) "How do accounting variables explain stock price movements? Theory and evidence.", Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 43. Chen, Peter, Zhang, Guochang (2007) "Segment profitability, misvaluation, and corporate divestment", The Accounting Review, Vol. 82: pp. 1-26. Chen, Peter, Zhang, Guochang (2004) "Profitability (ROE), Earnings and Book Value in Equity Valuation: A Geometric View and Empirical Evidence", 2004 Information, Markets, and Organizations (Harvard Business School), June 21- 22. Chen, Peter, Zhang, Guochang (2003) "Heterogeneous investment opportunities in multiple segment firms and the incremental value relevance of segment accounting data", The Accounting Review, Vol. 78, pp.397-428. Zhang, Guochang (2001) "Private information production, public disclosure, and the cost of capital: Theory and implications", Contemporary Accounting Research, 18(2): 363-384. Biddle, Gary, Chen, Peter, Zhang, Guochang (2001) "When capital follows profitability: Non-linear residual income dynamics", Review of Accounting Studies, 6, 229-265.

K P RAMASWAMY Adjunct Professor (2358 7556 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Kansas (1993) Visiting Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire (1993-94)

Current Research Activities: Management accounting in international context; mergers and acquisitions.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Educational research on the impact of soft skills development among undergraduate accounting majors RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$20,000 15 Dec 2002 Research on mergers and acquisitions, educational issues and management accounting RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$10,000 01 Nov 2004 Research on my teaching-related topics RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$8,000 01 Dec 2005

Representative Research Publications: Ramaswamy, Kadangode P., Waegelein, James F. (2003) "The Influence of Long-term Performance Plans, Method of Payment, and Type of Acquisition on Post-Merger Financial Performance", Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 115-126.

Peter F CHEN Associate Professor (2358 7572 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Alberta (1998) Instructor, University of Alberta (1996-98)

Current Research Activities: Financial reporting of segment information; financial reporting issues for banks; accounting information and valuation. Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Conflicts of interest and analysts' stock recommendations: Evidence from Hong Kong RGC - General Research Fund HK$325,000 01 Sep 2007 The effect of insider trading on regulated and voluntary management earnings forecasts in Hong Kong RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 30 Jun 2009 Does NASD 2711 Change Analysts' Independence in Making Stock Recommendation in Overseas Markets? RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$127,804 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Peter, Hou, Qingchuan (2009) "The Underwriter's Conflicts of Interest and Earnings Forecasts in Prospectuses: Evidence from Hong Kong Initial Public Officing", HKUST, Seoul National and SMU Joint Research Symposium 2009, Singapore Management University, Singapore, page 39-61. Chen, Peter, Zhang, Guochang (2007) "How do Accounting Variables Explain Stock Price Movements? Theory and Evidence", Journal of Accounting and Economics, 43, 219-244, 2007. Chen, Peter F., Zhang, Guochang (2007) "Segment Profitability, Misvaluation, and Corporate Divestment", The Accounting Review, 82(1), 1-26. Chen, Peter F, Zhang, Guochang (2006) "How do financial statement data inform investors about the change in equity value? Modelling and empirically testing the relation between operating performance and market performance", IAAER conference on reporting financial performance Research, IAAER conference on reporting financial performance research, March 19-20. Chen, Peter F, Zhang, Tianyu (2005) "Pyramidal ownership structure and proprietary disclosures: Evidence from segment reporting in Hong Kong", International journal of Business Research, Volume IV, Number 1, pp.85-95. Chen, Peter F., Zhang, Guochang (2003) "Heterogeneous Investment Opportunities in Multiple-Segment Firms and the Incremental Value Relevance of Segment Accounting Data", The Accounting Review, Vol. 78, 397-428. Chen, Peter F., Mehrotra, Vikas, Sivakumar, Ranjini, Yu, Wayne (2001-2002) "Layoffs, Shareholders' Wealth, and Corporate Performance", Journal of Empirical Finance, 8(2), 171-199. Biddle, Gary C., Chen, Peter F., Zhang, Guochang (2001-2002) "When Capital Follows Profitability: Non-linear Residual Income Dynamics", Review of Accounting Studies, 6,pp.229-265.

Gilles HILARY Associate Professor (2358 7579 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Chicago (2002) Auditor, KPMG/EY (1995-97) Teaching Assistant, University of Chicago (1997-2002)

Current Research Activities: Corporate governance and disclosure of information; behavioral economics; international accounting.

Representative Research Publications: Biddle, Gary, Hilary, Gilles (2006) "Accounting Quality and Firm-level Capital Investment", The Accounting Review, Vol. 81, Iss. 5, 2006, pp.963-982. Hilary, Gilles (2006) "Organized Labor and Information Asymmetry in Financial Markets", The Review of Accounting Studies, Vol. 11, Iss. 4, 2006, pp.963-982. CHANG, Xin, DASGUPTA, Sudipto, HILARY, Gilles (2006) "Analyst Coverage and Financing Decisions.", Journal of Finance, Vol. 61, Iss 6, 3009-3048. Hilary, Gilles, Menzly, Lior (2006) "Does Past Success Lead Analysts to Become Overconfident?", Management Science, Vol. 52, No. 4, 2006, pp. 489-500. Hilary, Gilles, Lennox, Clive (2005) "The Credibility of Self-regulation: Evidence from the Accounting Profession's Peer Review Program", Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 40, 2005, pp. 211-229. Clive LENNOX Associate Professor (2358 7571 ; [email protected])

PhD, Oxford University (1998) Reader, Bristol University (1998-2001)

Current Research Activities: Auditing, financial distress and economic methodology.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Who cares about accounting frauds: Individual or institutional investors RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$117,600 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications: Lennox, Clive, Caramanis, Constantinos (2008) "Audit effort and earnings management", Journal of Accounting and Economics, volume 45, pp. 116-138. Lennox, Clive, Geiger, Marshall, North, David (2008) "The hiring of accounting and finance officers from audit firms: how did the market react?", Review of Accounting Studies, volume 13, pp. 55-86. Lennox, Clive, Park, Chul (2007) "Audit Firm Appointments, Audit Alumni, and Audit Committee Independence", Contemporary Accounting Research, 2007, Vol. 24, No. 1: 235-258. Lennox, Clive, Park, Chul (2006) "The Informativeness of Earnings and Management's Issuance of Earnings Forecasts", Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2006, Vol. 42, No. 3: 439-458. Lennox, Clive, Hilary, Gilles (2005) "The Credibility of Self-Regulation: Evidence from the Accounting Profession’s Peer Review Program", Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2005, Vol. 40, No. 1-3: 211-229. Lennox, Clive (2005) "Audit quality and executive officers' affiliations with CPA firms", Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 39, pp. 201-231. Lennox, Clive (2001-2002) "Self-serving Disclosures by Chairpersons of Failing UK Companies", Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics, 8(2): 63-81. Lennox, Clive, Ireland, Jen (2001-2002) "The Large Audit Firm Fee Premium: A Case of Selectivity Bias?", Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, 17(1): 73-91.

Patrick J HARVEY Adjunct Associate Professor (2358 7561 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Southern California (1994) Hong Kong University 1995-1999 IBM Marketing, 1986-1989 Coopers & Lybrand 1982-86

Current Research Activities: Anti-counterfeiting and counterfeiting; fraud, tax evasion and 'black economy' controls and measurements.

Representative Research Publications: Walls, W. David, Harvey, Patrick (2006) "Digital Pirates in Practice: Analysis of Market Transactions in Hong Kong's Pirate Software Arcades", International Journal of Management, Vol. 23 No. 2 June 2006 pages -207-214. Harvey, Patrick, Walls, W.david (2003) "Laboratory markets in pirate goods: Hong Kong versus Las Vegas", Applied Economics Letters, Volume 10, Number 14/15, pages 883-887 November. Harvey, Patrick James, Walls, W. David (2003) "The Revealed Demand for Pirate Goods: Probit Analysis of Experimental Data", International Journal of Management, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 194-201. Harvey, Patrick (2001) "'Gresham's Law and Accounting Standard Setting'", International Accounting Conference, National Accounting Institute, Beijing China. Harvey, Patrick (2001) "'International Accounting and China: New Opportunities'", Hong Kong International Accounting Association. Harvey, Patrick, Walls, David (2001) "Task Completion Time and Accountant Performance", International Journal of Management, 18(3), 358-371.

Sabrina Y S KWAN Adjunct Associate Professor (2358 7566 ; [email protected])

PhD, London Business School (1996)

Current Research Activities: Accounting and capital markets; international accounting; taxation.

Representative Research Publications: Kallapur, Sanjay, Kwan, Sabrina (2004) "The Value Relevance and Reliability of Brand Assets Recognized by UK Firms", The Accounting Review, 79.1, January 2004, p.151-172.

Brian W SEMKOW Adjunct Associate Professor (2358 7560 ; [email protected])

PhD, Queen's University, Kingston (1982)

Current Research Activities: Law and economics; Asian financial market deregulation and internationalization; comparative corporate governance.

Tai-Yuan CHEN Assistant Professor (2358 7575 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Texas at Dallas (2006)

Current Research Activities: Corporate governance, corporate disclosures, and executive compensation.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Family firms, auditor's fees, and earnings management RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 10 Aug 2006 The characteristics and determinants of long-term incentive plans RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$148,800 30 Jun 2007 CEO perquisites in family firms UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$55,000 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Ali, Ashiq, Chen, Tai-Yuan, Natarajan, Ram (2008) "Compensation Contracts of Professional CEOs of Family and Non-Family Firms", American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, L.A., USA. Banker, Rajiv, Bardhan, Indranil, Chen, Tai-Yuan (2008) "The role of manufacturing practices in mediating the impact of Activity- Based Costing on plant performance", Accounting, Organizations, and Society, 33, 1-19. Ali, Ashiq, Chen, Tai-Yuan, Suresh, Radhakrishnan (2007) "Corporate disclosures by family firms", Journal of Accounting and Economics, 44, 238-286.

Chia-Chun HSIEH Assistant Professor (2358 7573 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of British Columbia (2008)

Current Research Activities: Financial reporting and voluntary disclosure; analyst forecasts and recommendations; earnings quality.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Disclosure quality in capital markets from the perspective of analysts RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Sep 2008

Charles Y HSU Assistant Professor (2358 7568 ; [email protected])

PhD, Prudue University (2004) Controller, Kinder Morgan Bulk Terminals, Louisiana (1997-98)

Current Research Activities: Earning management: analysts' forecasts and voluntary disclosures.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Earnings Forecast and Analyst Behavior RGC - General Research Fund HK$421,000 01 Dec 2008 The impact of the SEC's regulation of non-GAAP disclosures RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$31,000 01 Dec 2005

Representative Research Publications: Hsu, Charles Y, Heflin, Frank (2008) "The Impact of the SEC's Regulation of Non-GAAP Disclosures", Journal of Accounting and Economics, 46, 349-365. Allen H HUANG Assistant Professor (2358 7559 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Earnings management, financial anslysts, corporate governance, and executive compensation.

Kai Wai HUI Assistant Professor (2358 7563 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Oregon (2004) Tax Accountant, Ernst and Young (1998)

Current Research Activities: Voluntary disclosures; executive compensation and contracting; financial reporting; earnings management.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Management forecast strategy and CEO disclosure credibility RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$72,920 01 Nov 2004 Accounting conservatism and management forecast frequency: An empirical study RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$31,000 01 Dec 2005 Why CEOs only take one dollar in salary? Office of the Dean of Business & Management, HKUST HK$50,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Hui, Kai Wai, Matsunaga, Steve, Morse, Dale (2009) "The impact of conservatism on management earnings forecasts", Journal of Accounting and Economics, volume 47, 192-207.

Kirill NOVOSELOV Assistant Professor (2358 7578 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Texas at Austin (2007)

Current Research Activities: Managerial Accounting, corporate governance, organizational design; centralization vs decentralization, information structures, incentive compensation.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Delegation to encourage communication of problems RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Aug 2007 Shiheng WANG Assistant Professor (2358 7570 ; [email protected])

PhD, Queen's University (2008)

Current Research Activities: International accounting, earnings management and accounting fraud, financial analyst activities.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Effects of The Mandatory Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards on Corporate Financing Activities RGC - General Research Fund HK$285,476 01 Jul 2009 Foreign analyst following and forecast accuracy around IFRS adoptions: the impact of accounting harmonization RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Sep 2008

Representative Research Publications: Wang, Shiheng, Welker, Michael (2009) "Timing Equity Issuance in Response to Information Asymmetry Arising from Mandatory Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards", American Accounting Association International Accounting Section 2009 Mid- year Meeting, Tempa, Florida, February 12-14, 2009.

Amy Y ZANG Assistant Professor (2358 7561 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Earnings management, financial analysts, managerial compensation.

Mingshan ZHANG Assistant Professor (2358 7584 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California at Los Angeles (2005)

Current Research Activities: Accounting information and its use in equity valuation; financial disclosure and its impact on the capital market; institutions.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The Warren Buffet Anomaly RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$149,840 16 Apr 2008 The conditional pricing of earnings quality UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$55,000 01 Jan 2009

Yong ZHANG Assistant Professor (2358 7574 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Rochester (2005)

Current Research Activities: Financial analysts; capital markets; earnings management; mergers and acquisitions; ownership structure; corporate governance.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The use of accounting information before and after implementation of SFAS 142 - evidence from the perspective of creditors and investors RGC - General Research Fund HK$382,855 01 Jan 2008 Are investors fooled by affiliated analysts' optimistic forecasts/recommendations? RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$50,000 01 Dec 2005

Representative Research Publications: Liu, Xiaolei, Sherman, Ann, Zhang, Yong (2009) "The Role of the Media in Initial Public Offerings", American Finance Association 2009 Annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA. Bagnoli, Mark, Watts, Susan, Zhang, Yong (2008) "Reg-FD and the competitivenss of all-star analysts", Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. Zhang, Ivy Xiying, Zhang, Yong (2007) "Accounting Discretion and Purchase Price Allocation after Acquisitions", American Accounting Association 2007 Financial Accounting and Reporting meeting, American Accounting Association 2007 Financial Accounting and Reporting meeting. Department of Economics

Danyang XIE, Head of Department, Professor

Songnian CHEN, Chair Professor

Leonard K H CHENG, Chair Professor and Dean of Business & Management

Soo Hong CHEW, Chair Professor

Edwin L C LAI, Professor

Siu Fai LEUNG, Professor

Francis T LUI, Professor and Director, Center for Economic Development

Cheng HSIAO, Adjunct Professor

David E COOK, Associate Professor

Susheng WANG, Associate Professor

Yan YU, Visiting Associate Professor

Tao ZHU, Associate Professor

Milind S RAO, Adjunct Associate Professor

William W Y CHOW, Visiting Assistant Professor

Tanjim HOSSAIN, Assistant Professor

Xinyu HUA, Assistant Professor

Kyungmin KIM, Assistant Professor

Migiwa TANAKA, Assistant Professor

Hei Wai TANG, Assistant Professor

Peng WANG, Assistant Professor

Pengfei WANG, Assistant Professor

Yong WANG, Assistant Professor

Juanyi XU, Assistant Professor Danyang XIE Head of Department, Professor (2358 7615 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Chicago Assistant Professor, University of Montreal (1991-93). Assistant Professor (1993-98) and Associate Professor (1998- 2002), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund (2001-2004)

Current Research Activities: Economic growth, money and banking.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Transitional dynamics of labor migration, income distribution, and housing needs in China RGC - General Research Fund HK$397,000 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications: Shimomura, Koji, Xie, DanYang (2008) "Advances on Stackelberg Open-Loop and Feedback Strategies", International Journal of Economic Theory, 115-133. Xie, DanYang (2008) "Technological Progress and the Urbanization Process", The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 8 : Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 16. Kongsamut, Piyabha, Rebelo, Sergio, Xie, Danyang (2001) "Beyond balanced growth", The Review of Economic Studies, 68(237), 869.

Songnian CHEN Chair Professor (2358 7602 ; [email protected])

PhD, Princeton University (1994)

Current Research Activities: Econometrics.

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Songnian, Khan, Shakeeb (2003) "Rates of Convergence for Estimating Regression Coefficients in Heteroscedastic Discrete Response", Journal of Econometrics, Vol 117, 245-278. Chen, Songnian, Khan, Shakeeb (2003) "Root-n Consistent Estimation of Heteroskedastic Sample Selection Models", Econometric Theory, 19, 1040-1064. Chen, Songnian, Khan, Shakeeb (2001) "Estimation of a Semilinear Censored Regression Model", Econometric Theory, 17, 567- 590.

Leonard K H CHENG Chair Professor and Dean of Business & Management (2358 7620 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1980) Associate Professor of Economics, University of Florida (1985-92) Visiting Professor, Fudan University (1998)

Current Research Activities: International trade and investment; market structure and applied game theory; innovation and imitation.

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Xikang, Cheng, Leonard, Fung, K.C., Lau, Lawrence (2008) "The Estimation of Domestic Value-Added and Employment Induced by Exports: An Application to Chinese Exports to the United States", China and Asia: Economic and Financial Interactions, edited by Cheung, Yin-Wong, and Kar-yiu Wong, Chapter 4, pp. 64-82. Cheng, Leonard K., Nahm, Jae (2007) "Product Boundary, Vertical Competition, and the Double Mark-up Problem", Rand Journal of Economics, Vol. 38 (No. 2, Summer, 2007), 447-467. Lau, Lawrence J., Chen, Xikang, Cheng, Leonard K., Yang, Cui Hong, Fung, K.C., Sung, Yun Wing, Zhu, Kunfu, Pei, Jiansuo, Tang, Zhipeng (2007) "非競爭型投入佔用產出模型及其應用：中美貿易順差透視 (Input-Occupancy-Output Models of the Non- Competitive Type and Their Application--An Examination of the China-U.S. Trade Surplus)", 中國社會科學(Social Sciences in China), 2007, Issue No. 5, pp.91-103. Cheng, Leonard, Ma, Zihui (2007) "China's Outward FDI: Past and Present", 中國經濟發展模式之研究學術研討會, at Acadmia Sinica, Taipei, June 28-29, 2007. Qiu, Larry, Cheng, Leonard, Fung, Michael (2007) "Trigger-Point Mechanism: Partial Commitment and Collusion", Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 25 (April 2007),156 -169. Cheng, Leonard, Ma, Zihui (2006) "A Currency Board Model with Application to Hong Kong", 2006 Far Eastern Econometric Society Meeting, at Tsinghua University, Beijing, July 8-13, 2006. Ma, Zihui, Cheng, Leonard (2006) "An Empirical Analysis of the Pressure on Hong Kong’s Currency Peg during the Asian Financial Crisis", 2006 Far Eastern Econometric Society Meeting, at Tsinghua University, Beijing, July 8-13, 2006. Tsui, Anne, Bian, Yanjie, Cheng, Leonard (2006) "Explaining the Growth and Development of the Chinese Domestic Private Sector", The Management & Performance of China’s Domestic Private Firms: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches, eds., Anne S. Tsui, Yanjie Bian, and Leonard K. Cheng, M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, New York, 2006., Chapter 1, 3-24.

Soo Hong CHEW Chair Professor (2358 7603 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of British Columbia (1981)

Current Research Activities: Economics of uncertainty; experimental economics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Neuroeconomics and Decision Making UGC - Targets of Opportunity and Others HK$2,500,000 12 May 2007 Neuroeconomics approach to theory of mind RGC - Collaborative Research Fund - Seed Funding HK$200,000 02 May 2008

Edwin L C LAI Professor (2358 7611 ; [email protected]) Current Research Activities: International trade, industrial organization, economics growth and development.

Siu Fai LEUNG Professor (2358 7618 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Chicago (1987)

Current Research Activities: Microeconomics; economics of human behavior; labor economics; econometrics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The marriage premium in Hong Kong RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$50,000 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Leung, Siu Fai (2009) "Cake Eating, Exhaustible Resource Extraction, Life-cycle Saving, and Non-Atomic Games: Existence Theorems for a Class of Optimal Allocation Problems", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 33 (2009): 1345-1360. Leung, Siu Fai (2007) "An economic application of the Dubovitskii-Milyutin version of the Maximum Principle", Optimal Control Applications and Methods, Volume 28, Issue 6 , Pages 435 - 449, November/December 2007. Leung, Siu Fai (2007) "The Existence, Uniqueness, and Optimality of the Terminal Wealth Depletion Time in Life-cycle Models of Saving under Uncertain Lifetime and Borrowing Constraint", Journal of Economic Theory, 134, 470-493. Leung, Siu Fai (2006) "The Existence, Uniqueness, and Optimality of the Terminal Wealth Depletion Time in Life-cycle Models of Saving under Uncertain Lifetime and Borrowing Constraint", Journal of Economic Theory. Chen, Kong-Pin, Chiang, Shin-Hwan, Leung, Siu Fai (2003) "Migration, Family, and Risk Diversification", Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 353-380. Leung, Siu Fai (2002) "The Dynamic Effects of Social Security on Individual Consumption, Wealth, and Welfare", Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 581-612. Leung, Siu Fai (2001-2002) "The Life-cycle Model of Saving with Uncertain Lifetime and Borrowing Constraint: Characterization and Sensitivity Analysis", Mathematical Social Sciences, 42(2), 179-201. Leung, Siu Fai, Yu, Shihti (2001-2002) "The Sensitivity of the RESET Tests to Disturbance Autocorrelation in Regression Analysis", Empirical Economics, 26, 721-726.

Francis T LUI Professor and Director, Center for Economic Development (2358 7606 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Minnesota (1985) Current Research Activities: Economic growth; social security; corruption; Chinese economy; macroeconomics; Hong Kong’s economy.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Childless families, demographic transition, and economic growth RGC - General Research Fund HK$417,500 30 Nov 2006

Representative Research Publications: Lui, Francis T. (2007-2008) "Demographic Transition, Childless Families, and Economic Growth", The Demographic Transition in the Pacific Rim, NBER-EASE, vol. 19, edited by Takatoshi Ito and Andrew Rose, forthcoming, University of Chicago Press., June 19-21, 2008. Lui, Francis T., Kwan, Yum K. (2004-2005) " How Well Has the Currency Board Performed? Evidence from Hong Kong", Critical Issues in China's Growth and Development, edited by Y. K. Kwan and Eden S. M. Yu, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press., 2005. Kwan, Yum K., Lui, Francis T. (2004) "How Well Has the Currency Board Performed? Evidence from Hong Kong", la Revue d'Economie Financière, vol. 75. Li, David D., Lui, Francis T. (2004) "Why Do Governments Dump State Enterprises? Evidence From China", Governance, Regulation, and Privatization (NBER- East Asia Seminar on Economics, edited by Takatoshi Ito and Anne O. Krueger, vol. 12, p. 211- 227. Cheng, Leonard, Kwan, Yum K., Lui, Francis T. (2003) "Currency Board, Asian Financial Crisis, and the Case for Put Options", Exchange Rate Regimes and Macroeconomic Stability. Norwell, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Chapter 10, p. 185-214. Kwan, Yum K., Cheng, Leonard K., Lui, Francis T. (2001-2002) "Credibility of Currency Boards Under Attacks: The Role of Institutional Arrangements", Regional and Global Capital Flows: Macroeconomic Causes and Consequences (NBER-East Asia Seminar on Economics, vol. 10) (eds. Ito, T. and Krueger, A.O.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Chapter 7, 233-262. Kwong, Kai-Sun, Chau, Leung-Chuen, Lui, Francis T., Qiu, Larry Q. (2001-2002) Industrial Development in Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co.. Wang, Hongling, Li, David D., Lui, Francis T. (2001-2002) "Why Do Governments Give Up Property Rights of State-Owned Enterprises", Economic Research (in Chinese), 8.

Cheng HSIAO Adjunct Professor ([email protected])

PhD, Stanford University (1972) Professor, University of South California (1985- ) Co-editor, Journal of Econometrics (1991- )

Current Research Activities: Theoretical and applied econometrics.

David E COOK Associate Professor (2358 7614 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1996)

Current Research Activities: Macroeconomics and monetary economics; international finance.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: International Business Cycles and Imperfect Labor Markets RGC - General Research Fund HK$297,600 01 Sep 2008

Representative Research Publications: Choi, Woon Gyu, Cook, David (2006-2007) "Stock Market Liquidity and the Macroeconomy: Evidence from Japan", in T. Ito and A. Rose eds. Monetary Policy with Very Low Inflation in the Pacific Rim,, University of Chicago Press. 2006. Cook, David, Devereux, Michael (2006) "Capital Flows, Discretionary Fiscal Policy, and Exchange Rate Policy", European Economic Review, Volume 50, Issue 8, November 2006, Pages 1975-1992. Cook, David, Devereux, Michael (2006) "Accounting for the East Asian Crisis: A Quantitative Model of Capital Outflows in Small Open Economies", Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Volume 38, Number 3, April 2006. Cook, David, Devereux, Michael B (2006) "External Currency Pricing and the East Asian Crisis", Journal of International Economics, Volume 69 Issue 1, June 2006. Cook, David (2006) "The Euro and Markups", Conference on European Financial Integration at Fudan University, May 2005. Cook, David (2004) "Experience and Growth", Economics Letters, 85(1) October 2004, Pages 53-56. Choi, Woon Gyu, Cook, David (2004) "Liability Dollarization and the Bank Balance Sheet Channel", Journal of International Economics, 64(2), Dec. 2004. Cook, David (2004) "Monetary Policy in Emerging Markets: Can Liability Dollarization Explain Contractionary Devaluations?", Journal of Monetary Economics, 51(6), September 2004, Pages 1155-1181.

Susheng WANG Associate Professor (2358 7630 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Toronto (1991) Lecturer of Mathematics, Nankai University (1985) Assistant Professor of Economics, Concordia University (1991-93)

Current Research Activities: Information theory; agency models.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: What factors cause firms to go bankrupt? RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$50,756 01 Feb 2009 A theory of business reorganization RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$78,500 30 Jun 2009

Representative Research Publications: Wang, Susheng (2008-2009) Math in Economics, People's University Publisher. Wang, Susheng (2008) "The Optimality of Contingent Fees in the Agency Problem of Litigation", International Review of Law and Economics, 28, 23-31. Wang, Susheng (2006-2007) Microeconomic Theory, People's University Publisher. Wang, Susheng, Zhu, Tian (2005) "Bargaining, Revenue Sharing and Control Rights Allocation", International Economic Review, 46, 895-915. Irvine, Ian (2002) "The Distribution of Wealth with Uncertain Income", Economica, to be printed.

Yan YU Visiting Associate Professor (2358 7627 ; [email protected])

PhD, Duke University (1999)

Current Research Activities: Microeconomics; theory of firm; Public Economics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Research joint ventures among asymmetric firms RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$60,000 01 Dec 2004

Representative Research Publications: Nicolo, Antonio, Yu, Yan (2008) "Strategic Divide and Choose", Games and Economic Behavior, 64(1), pp 268-289. YU, YAN (2007) "Serial cost sharing of an excludable public good available in multiple units", Social Choice and Welfare, 29(3), October 2007, pp539-555. Yu, Yan (2006) "Public Goods Provision: on Generalizing the Jackson-Moulin Mechanism", Journal of Public Economic Theory, 8(1), 49-60. Yu, Yan (2005) "Public goods provision: Unit-by-unit cost-sharing rules and the core", Review of Economic Design, 9, 363-376. YU, Yan (2004-2005) "Serial Cost sharing of an excludable public good available in multiple units", Second World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Games 2004 Marseille, France, July 5-9, 2004. YU, Yan (2004-2005) "Unit-by-Unit Proportional Cost Sharing of Public Goods", The Seventh International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare Osaka University, Japan, July 21-25, 2004. Yu, Yan (2002-2003) "Public Good Provision: on Generalizing the Jackson-Moulin Mechanism", 4th International Conference on Public Economic Theory, Duke University. Yu, Yan (2001-2002) "Public Goods Provision: Unit-by-Unit Cost-sharing Rules and the Core".

Tao ZHU Associate Professor (2358 7601 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Macroeconomics, monetary economics.

Milind S RAO Adjunct Associate Professor (2358 7599 ; [email protected]) PhD, Columbia University (1989) Assistant Professor, Columbia University (1998-2001)

Current Research Activities: Macroeconomics; money and growth theory; brain drain

William W Y CHOW Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 7598 ; [email protected])

PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Economics) (1998) Economist, Kanae Capital Limited (2002-2003)

Current Research Activities: Forecasting; bayesian econometrics; technology and development

Representative Research Publications: Chow, Wai Yip William (2008) "Volatility of stock price as predicted by patent data: An MGARCH perspective", Journal of Empirical Finance, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2008, Pages: 64-79.

Tanjim HOSSAIN Assistant Professor (2358 7605 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~tanjim)

PhD, Princeton University (2004)

Current Research Activities: Industrial Organization; experimental economics; applied microeconomic theory.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Estimating Competition Effect Using Private Information: Evidence from Tea Auctions RGC - General Research Fund HK$663,000 01 Sep 2008 Private signals, information processing and the no trade theorem - An experimental investigation RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications: Hossain, Tanjim, Morgan, John (2009) "The Quest for QWERTY", American Economic Review, May 2009, 99(2), 435-440. Hossain, Tanjim (2008) "Learning by Bidding", RAND Journal of Economics, Summer 2008, Vol. 39(2), 509-529. Hossain, Tanjim, Morgan, John (2006) "...Plus Shipping and Handling: Revenue (Non)Equivalence in Field Experiments on eBay", Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, Volume 6, Issue 2, Article 3. Xinyu HUA Assistant Professor (2358 7609 ; [email protected])

PhD, Northwestern University (2005)

Current Research Activities: Contract theory; economics of organizations; industrial organization; law and economics; applied micro.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Product Recall and Liability RGC - General Research Fund HK$286,996 01 Jan 2009 Ex-ante Contracts and Renegotiation Clauses UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications: Hua, Xinyu (2007) "Strategic ex ante contracts: rent extraction and opportunity costs", The RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 38 Issue 3, pages 786-803.

Kyungmin KIM Assistant Professor (2358 7613 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Game theory, microeconomic theory, public economics, industry organization.

Migiwa TANAKA Assistant Professor (2358 7619 ; [email protected])

PhD, Johns Hopkins University (2008)

Current Research Activities: Empirical industrial organization, applied microeconometrics, computational economics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Durable goods oligopoly in the Tokyo condominium market RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Nov 2008 Hei Wai TANG Assistant Professor (2358 7626 ; [email protected])

PhD, MIT (2008)

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The determinants of intra-firm trade in China RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 02 Jul 2008

Peng WANG Assistant Professor (2358 7630 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Econometrics, macroeconomics, international economics, empirical finance.

Pengfei WANG Assistant Professor (2358 7612 ; [email protected])

PhD, Cornell University (2007)

Current Research Activities: Firm-level investment, Inventory Business Cycles

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Firm Entry, Irreversible Capacity Investment, and the Business Cycle RGC - General Research Fund HK$580,305 30 Nov 2008 Expectation-driven fluctuations without sunspots: A labor market approach RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Sep 2007 Trade and Growth with Heterogeneous Sectors RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$158,654 15 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Wang, Pengfei, Wen, Yi (2007) "Imperfect Competition and Indeterminacy of Aggregate Output", Journal of Economic Theory, Forthcoming. Wang, Pengfei, Wen, Yi (2007) "Inflation Dynamics: A Cross-Country Investigation", Journal of Monetary Economics, October 2007, 54(7), pp. 2004-31. Yong WANG Assistant Professor (2358 7625 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Political economy, macro and development, economic theory, international economics.

Juanyi XU Assistant Professor (2358 7604 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of British Columbia (2004)

Current Research Activities: International macroeconomics, monetary economics, macroeconomics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Learning and Exchange Rate Dynamics RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 13 Nov 2006 Vertical trade and exchange rate policy UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: SHI, KANG, Xu, Juanyi (2007) "Optimal Monetary Policy with Vertical Production and Trade", Review of International Economics, vol. 15 (3), Pg. 514-537. Devereux, Michael, Shi, Kang, Xu, Juanyi (2007) "Global monetary policy under a dollar standard", Journal of International Economics, Volume 71, Issue 1, 8 March 2007, Pages 113-132. Department of Finance

Ka Lok CHAN, Head of Department and Chair Professor

Sudipto DASGUPTA, Chair Professor

John K C WEI, Chair Professor; Director of MSc(FA)/(IM) Programs

Vidhan Krishan GOYAL, Professor

Jerome YEN, Visiting Professor

Jonathan A BATTEN, Adjunct Professor

Prescott BEIGHLEY, Adjunct Professor

Laurence FRANKLIN, Adjunct Professor

Roger KING, Adjunct Professor

Bruno H SOLNIK, Adjunct Professor

Jie GAN, Associate Professor

Nengjiu JU, Associate Professor

Peter Ian MACKAY, Associate Professor

Mark S. SEASHOLES, Associate Professor

Chu ZHANG, Associate Professor

Veronique J A LAFON-VINAIS, Adjunct Associate Professor

Angela L P NG, Adjunct Associate Professor

Lynn K F PI, Adjunct Associate Professor

Ilona BABENKA, Assistant Professor

Darwin CHOI, Assistant Professor

Fei DING, Assistant Professor

Du DU, Assistant Professor

Xiaolei LIU, Assistant Professor

Sophie X NI, Assistant Professor

Rik S SEN, Assistant Professor

Yuri TSERLUKEVICH, Assistant Professor

Mungo I G WILSON, Assistant Professor Ka Lok CHAN Head of Department and Chair Professor (2358 7680 ; [email protected])

PhD, Ohio State University (1990) Associate Professor, Arizona State University (1995-97)

Current Research Activities: Dynamics of asset prices; market micro- structure; derivatives; international financial markets.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Stock price synchronicity and liquidity RGC - General Research Fund HK$494,000 01 Jan 2009 Proposed Center for Fund management UGC - High Impact Area HK$500,000 16 Oct 2003 Short-sale constraints and A-H share premiums RGC - General Research Fund HK$190,380 01 Jul 2008 Center for fund management UGC - Strategic Initiatives and Others HK$1,050,000 05 May 2008

Representative Research Publications: Ahn, Hee-Joon, Cai, Jun, Chan, Kalok, Yasushi, Hamao (2007) "Tick Size Change and Liquidity Provision on the Tokyo Stock Exchange", Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol 21, 173-194. Chan, Kalok, Hameed, Allaudeen (2006) "Stock Price Synchronicity and Analyst Coverage in Emerging Markets", Journal of Financial Economics, Vol 80, 115-147. Chan, Kalok, Wei, K.C. John, Wang, Junbo (2004-2005) "Under-pricing and Long-term Performance of IPOs in China", Journal of Corporate Finance, 10, 409-430. Chan, Kalok, Covrig, Vincentiu, Ng, Lilian (2004-2005) "What Determines the Domestic Bias and Foreign Bias? Evidence from Mutual Fund Equity Allocations Worldwide", Journal of Finance, 60, 1495-1534. Bae, Keehong, Chan, Kalok, Ng, Angela (2003-2004) "Investability and Return Volatility in Emerging Equity Markets", Journal of Financial Economics, Vol 71, 239-263. Chan, Kalok, Allaudeen, Hameed, Lau, Sie-Ting (2003) "What If Trading Location is Different from Business Location? Evidence from Jardine Group Trading", Journal of Finance, Vol. 58, pp. 1221-1446. Chan, Kalok, Chung, Peter, Fong, Wai-Ming (2002) "The Informational Role of Stock and Option Volume", Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 15, pp.1049-1075. Ahn, Hee-Joon, Bae, Kee-Hong, Chan, Kalok (2001-2002) "Limit Orders, Depth, and Volatility", Journal of Finance, 56, 767- 788.

Sudipto DASGUPTA Chair Professor (2358 7685 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Southern California (1987) Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics, University of Southern California (1987-95)

Current Research Activities: Corporate finance; auction theory; industrial organization; game theory.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Bank Health, Supply of Finance and Capital Structure RGC - General Research Fund HK$606,703 01 Sep 2009 The Relationship between Risk and Savings-to-Cash Flows Sensitivity RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$158,654 16 Apr 2008 Macroeconomic conditions, financial constraints, and corporate financing decisions UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$55,000 01 Mar 2009

Representative Research Publications: Chang, Yuk Ying, Dasgupta, Sudipto (2007) "Beyond Internal Capital Markets: The In-House Transmission of Adverse Sales Shocks and the Collateral Channel", Journal of Corporate Finance, Volume 13, Issue 5, pages: 743-770. Adam, Tim, Dasgupta, Sudipto, Titman, Sheridan (2007) "Financial Constraints, Competition and Hedging in Industry Equilibrium", Journal of Finance, Volume 62, Issue 5, Pages: 2445-2473. Dasgupta, Sudipto, Kunal, Sengupta (2007) "Corporate Liquidity, Investment and Financial Constraints: Implications from a Multi- Period Model'", Journal of Financial Intermediation, 16, 151 - 174. Dasgupta, Sudipto, Chang, Xin (2007) "Target Behavior and Financing: How Conclusive is the Evidence?", American Finance Association Meetings, Chicago, January 2 - 4, 2007. Dasgupta, Sudipto, Hansen, R. (2006-2007) "Auctions in Corporate Finance", in B. E. Eckbo (ed.), Handbook of Corporate Finance: Empirical Corporate Finance (North-Holland/Elsevier, Handbooks in Finance series), Chapter 3. Dasgupta, Sudipto, Hilary, Gilles, Xin, Chang (2006) "Analyst Coverage and Financing Decisions", Journal of Fanance, Vol. 61, Iss 6, 3009-3048, December 2006. DASGUPTA, Sudipto, Gan, Jie, Gao, Ning (2006) "Lumpy Information Disclosure and Stock Return Synchronicity: Evidence from ADR Listings", Western Finance Assocition Meeting, Keystone, Colorado, June 21-24, 2006. Dasgupta, Sudipto, Tsui, Kevin (2004) "Auctions with Cross-Shareholdings", Economic Theory, July 2004; 24(1): 163-94.

John K C WEI Chair Professor; Director of MSc(FA)/(IM) Programs (2358 7676 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1984) Associate Professor of Finance, Indiana University (1989-92)

Current Research Activities: Asset pricing; investment; behavioral finance; international finance.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Investor Protection, Corporate Investments and Stock Returns: The International Evidence RGC - General Research Fund HK$576,000 01 Jan 2009 Cultures and Finance RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$176,282 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Wei, K.C. John, Xie, Feixue (2008) "Accruals, capital investments, and stock returns", Financial Analysts Journal, 64 (Number 5), 34-44. Chen, Kevin C W, Chen, Zhihong, Wei, K.C. John (2008) "Legal protection of investors, corporate governance, and the cost of equity capital", Journal of Corporate Finance, 15, 273-289 (lead article). Wei, K.C. John, Zhang, Yi (2008) "Ownership structure, cash flow, and corporate investment: Evidence from East Asian economies before the financial crisis", Journal of Corporate Finance, Volume 14, pp. 118-132. Chou, Pin-Huang, Wei, K.C. John, Chung, Huimin (2007) "Sources of contrarian profits in the Japanese market", Journal of Empirical Finance, Volume 14, pp. 261-286. Bae, Kee-Hong, Lim, Chanwoo, Wei, K.C. John (2006) "Corporate governance and conditional skewness in the world’s stock markets", Journal of Business, 79, 2999-3028. Titman, Sheridan, Wei, K.C. John, Xie, Feixue (2004-2005) "Capital investments and stock returns", Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Volume 39, pp. 677-700. Chan, Kalok, Wang, Junbo, Wei, K. C. John (2004) "Under-pricing and long-term performance of IPOs in China", Journal of Corporate Finance, Volume 10, pp 409-430. Chui, Andy C.W., Titman, Sheridan, Wei, K. C. John (2003) "Intra-industry momentum: The case of REITs", Journal of Financial Markets, Volume 6, pp 363-387.

Vidhan Krishan GOYAL Professor (2358 7678 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Pittsburgh (1995)

Current Research Activities: Capital structure; Corporate valuation; international corporate finance; corporate governance; mergers and acquisitions; debt contracts; banking.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Financial Constraints and Corporate Policies: Evidence from Private Firms RGC - General Research Fund HK$724,800 01 Jan 2009 Debt maturity and asymmetric information: evidence from default risk changes RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$78,500 30 Jun 2009 Managerial incentives and leverage adjustment RGC - General Research Fund HK$341,000 01 Dec 2006 Value Added by a New CEO : The First 100 days RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$176,282 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Frank, Murray, Goyal, Vidhan K (2009) "Capital structure decisions: Which factors are reliably important?", Financial Management, Volume 38, pages 1-37. Bae, Kee-Hong, Goyal, Vidhan K (2009) "Creditor Rights, Enforcement and Costs of Loan Finance", Journal of Finance, Volume 64, pages 823-860. Frank, Murray, Goyal, Vidhan K (2009) "Profits and Capital Structure", American Finance Association Meetings, January 2009. Organized by the American Finance Associations, San Francisco, USA, January 3-5, 2009. Bae, Kee-Hong, Goyal, Vidhan K (2008) "Equity market liberalization and corporate governance", 4th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, December 2008. Frank, Murray, Goyal, Vidhan K (2008) "Tradeoff and Pecking Order Theories of Debt", The Handbook of Empirical Corporate Finance, Espen Eckbo (editor), Volume II, Elsevier Science, pages 135-202. Bae, Kee-Hong, Goyal, Vidhan Krishan (2008) "Equity Market Liberalization and Corporate Governance", The 6th NTU International Conference on Economics, Finance and Accounting - Financial Engineering and Financial Intermediation, May 2008. Adam, Tim, Goyal, Vidhan Krishan (2008) "Investment opportunity set and its proxy variables", Journal of Financial Research, Volume 31, Pages 41-63. Frank, Murray Z., Goyal, Vidhan K. (2006) "Corporate Leverage Adjustment: How Much Do Managers Really Matter?", Minnesota- Wisconsin Corporate Finance Conference, May 20-22, 2006.

Jerome YEN Visiting Professor (2358 8204 ; [email protected]) Current Research Activities: Financial engineering; risk management.

Representative Research Publications: Bai, Belinna, Yen, Jerome, Yang, Xiaoguang (2008) "False Financial Statements: Characteristics of China's Listed Companies and CART Detecting Approach", International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, Vol 7, Issue 2, Page 339 - 359. Li, Z. F., Yen, Jerome, Yao, J., Fan, T., Chang, L. (2007) "An Analysis of the China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Incident Based on Risk Management", Journal of Systems Engineering, Theory, and Applications, Vol. 27, No.1, pp.23-32. Lai, K. K., He, Kaijian, Yen, Jerome (2007) "Modeling VaR in Crude Oil Market: A Multi Scale Nonlinear Ensemble Approach Incorporating Wavelet Analysis and ANN", Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, LNCS 4487.

Jonathan A BATTEN Adjunct Professor (2358 8202 ; [email protected] ; http://www.bm.ust.hk/fina/staff/jabatten.html)

PhD, The University of Sydney # External Research Associate, Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS); Trinity College, Dublin; March 2005 - present. # Professor of Management, Graduate School of Management; Macquarie Graduate School of Management; August 2004 - 2009. # Visiting Professor of Finance, Seoul National University, Korea; August 2002 - August 2005. # Honorary Professor of Arts, Deakin University, Melbourne; November 2002 - 2007. # Professor of Finance, Deakin University, Melbourne; March 2000 - August 2002. # Senior Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University Singapore; January 1999 to March 2000. # Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Western Sydney; 1997-1999, 1990-1995.

Current Research Activities: Editor : Emerging Markets Review http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/620356/description#description Co- editor : International Review of Financial Analysis http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/620166/description#description Associate Editor: Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy (Routledge) Journal of Banking and Finance (Elsevier) Research in International Business and Finance (Elsevier)

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Yield spreads and real interest rates RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$50,000 07 Jun 2009

Representative Research Publications: Batten, Jonathan A., Vo, Xuan-Vinh (2009) "An Analysis of the relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth", Applied Economics, 41, 1621-1641. Batten, Jonathan A., Gannon, Gerry, Thuraisamy, Kannan (2008) "Credit Spread Dynamics: Evidence from Latin America", Credit Risk - Models, Derivatives and Management, Wagner N. Financial Mathematics Volume 6 pg, 97-114. Batten, Jonathan, Philosophov, Leonid, Philosophov, Vladimir (2008) "Predicting the event and time horizon of bankruptcy using financial ratios and the maturity schedule of long-term debt", Mathematics and Financial Economics, 1 (3): 181-222. Batten, Jonathan, Ellis, Craig, Fetherston, Thomas (2008) "Sample Period Selection and Long-Term Dependence: New Evidence from the Dow Jones", Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 36 (5): 1126-1140. Batten, Jonathan, Gerry, Gannon, Kannan, Thuraisamy (2008) "The Credit Spread Dynamics of Latin American Euro Issues in International Bond Markets", Journal of Multinational Financial Management, 18: 328-345. Batten, Jonathan, Szilagyi, Peter (2007) "Domestic Bond Market Development: The Arirang Bond Experience in Korea", World Bank Research Observer, 22: 165-195. Batten, Jonathan, Hoontrakul, Pongsak (2007) "What are the Next Steps for Bond Market Development in Thailand?", International Finance Review, 8: 497-519. Batten, Jonathan, Szilagyi, Peter (2007) "Covered interest parity arbitrage and temporal long-term dependence between the US dollar and the Yen", Physica A, Volume 376, pages 409-421.

Prescott BEIGHLEY Adjunct Professor (2358 7689 ; [email protected])

PhD, Purdue University (1970) Senior Lecturer, University of Otago (1999-2002). Invited Associate Professor, University of Macau (2002-03)

Current Research Activities: Financial risk management; banking and financial institutions.

Laurence FRANKLIN Adjunct Professor (2358 7688 ; [email protected])

JD, Stanford Law School (1976), CPA (1980) China Country Head/Asia Pacific Regional Counsel, First Chicago Bank (1981-88) Deputy MD, AIA Capital Corp (1989-98) GM-Investments & Head Legal Counsel, Hutchison Whampoa China Ltd (2000-01)

Current Research Activities: Investment strategies in Asia, venture capital; China; business law.

Roger KING Adjunct Professor (2358 8259 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Entrepreneurship; family businesses; corporate governance.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Center for Asian Family Business & Entrepreneurship Studies UGC - High Impact Area HK$1,700,000 04 Nov 2002 Research on Asian family business RBS Coutts Bank Ltd HK$77,511 01 Dec 2008 Business case development center UGC - Strategic Initiatives HK$2,500,000 05 May 2008 Center for Asian Family Business & Entrepreneurship Studies UGC - Strategic Initiatives HK$1,500,000 05 May 2008

Bruno H SOLNIK Adjunct Professor (2358 7670 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: International finance; investments; valuation.

Jie GAN Associate Professor (2358 7665 ; [email protected])

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology(1999) Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University (2000-02)

Current Research Activities: Corporate finance; financial institutions; real estate finance.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Housing Wealth and Consumption: An Empirical Investigation RGC - General Research Fund HK$784,000 01 Jan 2009 Toeholds, winner's curse, and overbidding: An empirical investigation of Hong Kong land auctions RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$174,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications: Dasgupta, Sudipto, Gan, Jie, Gao, Ning (2009) "Stock Return Synchronicity and the Informativeness of Stock Prices: Theory and Evidence", Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming. Gan, Jie (2008) "Housing Wealth and Consumption Growth: Evidence from a Large Panel Dataset of Households", Western FInance Association Conference; Financial Intermediation Research Society Conference. Gan, Jie (2008) "Property Market Bubbles, Toeholds, and the Winners' Curse: Evidence from Hong Kong Land Auctions", Financial Intermediation Research Society Conference, June 2008. Gan, Jie (2007) "Collateral, Debt Capacity, and Corporate Investment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment", Journal of Financial Economics, vol. 85, pp. 709-734. Gan, Jie (2007) "The Dark Side of Concentrated Ownership in Privatization: Evidence from China", Indian School of Business Summer Research Conference 2007, Conference on Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets 2007 (Istanbul, Turkey). Gan, Jie (2007) "The Real Effects of Asset Market Bubbles: Loan- and Firm-Level Evidence of a Lending Channel", Review of Financial Studies, vol 20, pp. 1941-1973. Gan, Jie (2007) "Collateral, Debt Capacity, and Corporate Investment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment", Journal of Financial Economics , Vol 65 (3): 709-734, Sep 2007. Gan, Jie, Riddiough, Tim (2006) "Monopoly and Information Advantage in the Market for Residential Mortgages", Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming.

Nengjiu JU Associate Professor (2358 8318 ; [email protected])

PhD, Michigan State University (1993); PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1998) Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Maryland, College Park, (1998-2005)

Current Research Activities: Stock valuation; option valuation; term structure of interest rates; asset pricing; density approximations; capital structure.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Theory and applications of dynamic contracts in continuous-time UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$148,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications: Ju, Nengjiu, Hui, Ou-Yang (2006) "Capital Structure, Maturity Structure, and Stochastic Interest Rates", Journal of Business, Vol 79, 2469-2502. Bakshi, Gurdip, Ju, Nengjiu, Hui, Ou-Yang (2006) "Estimation of Continuous-Time Models with an Application to Equity Volatility Dynamic", Journal of Financial Economics, Vol 82, 227-249. Ju, Nengjiu, Parrino, Robert, Poteshman, Allen, Weishach, Michael (2005) "Horses and Rabbits? Trade-Off Theory and Optimal Capital Structure", Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, V40, , 259-281.

Peter Ian MACKAY Associate Professor (2358 8319 ; [email protected])

PhD, Purdue University (1998) Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas (1998-2005)

Current Research Activities: Corporate finance; financial institutions and management; international finance; real options; risk management.

Representative Research Publications: MacKay, Peter, Akdogu, Evrim (2006) "Investment and Competition", 2006 Financial Intermediation Research Society Shanghai Conference, June 2006. MacKay, Peter, Phillips, Gordon (2005) "How Does Industry Affect Firm Financial Structure?", Review of Financial Studies, 18 (4) p. 1433-1466.

Mark S. SEASHOLES Associate Professor (2358 7668 ; [email protected] ; www.seasholes.com)

Ph.D. Harvard University Current Research Activities: Liquidity

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Investor Trading, Market Frictions, and Asset Prices RGC - General Research Fund HK$495,892 01 Jul 2009 Liquidity and stock markets RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 08 Sep 2008

Chu ZHANG Associate Professor (2358 7684 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Chicago (1992) Assistant & Associate Professor, University of Alberta (1991-2000)

Current Research Activities: Theory and empirical study of investments.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Why do stock return volatilities change over time? RGC - General Research Fund HK$664,000 01 Dec 2007 Why are the returns on China’s treasury bonds so predictable? RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$38,000 30 Jun 2009 An analysis of derivative warrants RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$40,000 29 Jun 2007 On the Relationship between Expected Returns and Expected Idiosyncratic Volatilities UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications: Zhang, Chu (2009) "On the explanatory power of firm-specific variables in cross-sections of expected returns", Journal of Empirical Finance, Volume 16, 306-317. Fan, Longzhen, Zhang, Chu (2007) "Beyond Segmentation: The Case of China's Repo Markets", Journal of Banking and Finance, 31, 939-954. Wei, Steven, Zhang, Chu (2006) "Why did individual stocks become more volatile?", Journal of Business, 79, 259-292. Wei, Steven, Zhang, Chu (2005) "Idiosyncratic risk does not matter: A re-examination of the relationship between average returns and average volatilities", Journal of Banking and Finance, 29, 603-621. Xu, Ming, Zhang, Chu (2001) "The explanatory power of R&D for the cross-section of stock returns: Japan 1985-2000".

Veronique J A LAFON-VINAIS Adjunct Associate Professor (2358 7686 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Debt and credit markets; banks and financial institutions; SRI and CSR.

Angela L P NG Adjunct Associate Professor (2358 7664 ; [email protected])

PhD, Stanford University (1997)

Current Research Activities: International finance; asset pricing; emerging equity markets; empirical finance.

Representative Research Publications: Bekaert, Geert, Harvey, Campbell, Ng, Angela (2005) "Market Integration and Contagion", Journal of Business, Volume 78, Pages 39-70. Bae, Kee-Hong, Chan, Kalok, Ng, Angela (2004) "Investibility and Return Volatility", Journal of Financial Economics, 71, 239- 263. Bekaert, Geert, Harvey, Campbell R., Ng, Angela (2003) "Market Integration and Contagion", Econometric Society Meeting, Washington D.C.. Chan, Kalok, Bae, Kee-Hong, Ng, Angela (2002) "Investibility and Return Volatility", Pacific-Basin Capital Markets Research Center Meeting, Japan. Bekaert, Geert, Harvey, Campbell R., Ng, Angela (2002) "Market Integration and Contagion", European Finance Association, Berlin.

Lynn K F PI Adjunct Associate Professor (2358 7687 ; [email protected])

PhD in Finance, Georgia State University, 1992 Executive Director of Certification, Institute of Financial Planners of Hong Kong, 2003-2006

Current Research Activities: Personal Financial Planning; Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Investments

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Corporate restructuring, information and market expectations RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$61,345 15 May 2006 MPF Fund Styles, Flows and Related Allocation Decisions CPU - Public Policy Research HK$446,000 01 Sep 2007 Ilona BABENKA Assistant Professor (2358 7679 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (2006)

Current Research Activities: Theoretical and empirical corporate finance; contract theory; payout policy; capital structure.

Representative Research Publications: Babenko, Ilona (2009) "“Share Repurchases and Pay-Performance Sensitivity of Employee Compensation Contracts,”", Journal of Finance, Volume 64, p. 117-151.

Darwin CHOI Assistant Professor (2358 7672 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Empirical asset pricing; market microstructure; behavioral finance.

Fei DING Assistant Professor (2358 5051 ; [email protected])

PhD, Duke University (2007)

Current Research Activities: Financial contracting theory in corporations; the money management industry (mutual funds and hedge funds); venture capital; market microstructure.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Capital allocation and diversification under correlated hidden cash flows RGC - General Research Fund HK$356,500 01 Jan 2009 Information gathering: organization and incentives RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Dec 2007

Du DU Assistant Professor (2358 5049 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Chicago (2007)

Current Research Activities: Theoretical and empirical asset pricing including derivatives, investments, capital markets, and real estate; financial econometrics; computational finance and macroeconomics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Understanding the Common Sources of Event Risk Premium in Financial Markets RGC - General Research Fund HK$521,488 30 Sep 2008 Inaccurately observed habit formation and asset pricing RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Oct 2007

Xiaolei LIU Assistant Professor (2358 7661 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Rochester (2005)

Current Research Activities: Empirical corporate finance; market efficiency anomalies; empirical market microstructure.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Financing using Assets-backed Securities -- An empirical analysis RGC - General Research Fund HK$427,616 01 Sep 2009 Range-based trading rules RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$68,000 11 Jun 2007 How does off-balance sheet liability affect a firm's capital structure UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Dec 2006 Investment-based expected stock returns UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Dec 2007 Investor activism and its effect on financing decisions UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$55,000 01 Dec 2008

Representative Research Publications: Liu, Laura Xiaolei, Zhang, Yong, Sherman, Ann (2009) "The role of the media in Initial Public Offerings", The American Finance Association (AFA) Conference, 2009, SanFrancisco, CA, USA, January 3, 2009 through January 5, 2009. Liu, Laura Xiaolei, Zhang, Lu (2008) "Momentum Profits, Factor Pricing, and Macroeconomic Risk", The Review of Financial Studies, November 2008, Volume 21, Number 6, 2417-2448. Liu, Laura Xiaolei, Sherman, Ann, Yong, Zhang (2008) "The Role of the Media in Initial Public Offerings", The 2008 European Financial Management/Oxford University Symposium on IPOs, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2008. Liu, Laura Xiaoliu, Sherman, Ann, Yong, Zhang (2007) "The Role of Media in Initial Public Offerings", Chinese Internationl Conference in Finance, Chengdu China, July 2007. Liu, Laura Xiaolei, Sherman, Ann, Zhang, Yong (2007) "The Role of the Media in Initial Public Offerings", The Second International Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, Seoul, Forea, December, 2007. Liu, Laura Xiaolei, Whited, Toni, Zhang, Lu (2007) "Regularities", American Finance Association Conference 2007, Chicago, 2007.

Sophie X NI Assistant Professor (2358 5052 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2007)

Current Research Activities: Investments; empirical options; asset pricing theory; behavioral finance.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Sentiment and Option Smile RGC - General Research Fund HK$596,612 31 Dec 2008 Curse on the option expiration date RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Jan 2008 Does Managerial Risk Aversion Implied by Stock Option Exercises Explain Corporate Diversification? RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$142,788 30 Apr 2008

Representative Research Publications: Ni, Sophie (2008) "Volatility Information Trading in the Option Market", Journal of Finance, Volume 63, Number 3, June 2008 , pp. 1059-1091.

Rik S SEN Assistant Professor (2358 8298 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Corporate finance; executive compensation; corporate governance; behavioral corporate finance; derivatives.

Yuri TSERLUKEVICH Assistant Professor (2358 8016 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California at Berkeley (2006)

Current Research Activities: Corporate finance; capital structure; investments and real options; security design.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Financing with Convertible Bonds RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 20 Oct 2006 Optimal call strategy for convertible bonds UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 15 Nov 2007

Representative Research Publications: Tserlukevich, Yuri (2008) "Can Real Options Explain Financing Behavior?", Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 89, Issue 2, August 2008, Pages 232-252. Tserlukevich, Yuri, Hennessy, Christopher (2008) "Taxation, agency conflicts, and the choice between callable and convertible debt", Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 143, Issue 1, November 2008, Pages 374-404.

Mungo I G WILSON Assistant Professor (2358 7672 ; [email protected])

PhD, Harvard University (2004)

Current Research Activities: Finance; asset pricing. Dept of Info Sys, Business Stat & Operations Mgt

Albert HA, Head of Department and Professor

Albert Y LO, Chair Professor

Kar Yan TAM, Dean of Undergraduate Education; Chair Professor of Information and Systems Management; Director, Center for Electronic Commerce

Inchi HU, Professor

Lancelot F JAMES, Professor

James Y L THONG, Professor; Deputy Head

Shaohui ZHENG, Professor

Ki Ling CHEUNG, Associate Professor

Theodore H K CLARK, Associate Professor

Kai Lung HUI, Associate Professor

James S H KWOK, Visiting Associate Professor

Ronald LAU, Visiting Associate Professor

Qing LI, Associate Professor

Shu Ming NG, Associate Professor

Mike Ka Pui SO, Associate Professor

Yan XU, Associate Professor

Hongtao ZHANG, Associate Professor

Paul W FORSTER, Adjunct Associate Professor

Anthony T K CHAN, Visiting Assistant Professor

Garvin Percy DIAS, Visiting Assistant Professor

Jeevan JAISINGH, Assistant Professor

Yingying LI, Assistant Professor

Jae Yun MOON, Assistant Professor

Stephen W H SHUM, Assistant Professor

Raymond G SIN, Assistant Professor

Xuhu WAN, Assistant Professor

Sean X XU, Assistant Professor

Seunghee YU, Assistant Professor

Michael X ZHANG, Assistant Professor

Xinghua ZHENG, Visiting Assistant Professor

Hang CHAN, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Hilton CHAN, Adjunct Assistant Professor Albert HA Head of Department and Professor (2358 7724 ; [email protected] ; http://www.bm.ust.hk/~ismt/staff/imayha.html)

PhD, Stanford University (1992) Associate Professor, Yale School of Management (1997-2001) Assistant Professor, Yale School of Management (1992-1997)

Current Research Activities: Coordination of product and process development; stochastic models for production and inventory control; incentive in operations; supply chain management.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Information sharing in a supply chain with a common retailer RGC - General Research Fund HK$327,937 01 Oct 2008

Representative Research Publications: Ha, Albert, Tong, Shilu (2008) "Contracting and Information Sharing under Supply Chain Competition", Management Science, 2008. Ha, Albert, Li, Lode, Ng, Shu-Ming (2003-2004) "Price and Delivery Logistics Competition in a Supply Chain", Management Science, Volume 49, page 1139-1153.

Albert Y LO Chair Professor (2358 7730 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1978) Associate Professor of Statistics, State University of New York at Buffalo (1985-93)

Current Research Activities: Bayesian statistics; cluster analysis; curve estimations; re-sampling methods; missing data problems.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Conjugate priors in bayesian nonparametric statistics models RGC - General Research Fund HK$267,000 01 Dec 2007 Bayesian nonparametric methods and a statistical model for clustering RGC - General Research Fund HK$388,460 01 Jul 2006 Consistency of posterior distributions: the undominated case RGC - General Research Fund HK$293,700 01 Jan 2009

Kar Yan TAM Dean of Undergraduate Education; Chair Professor of Information and Systems Management; Director, Center for Electronic Commerce (2358 8448 ; [email protected])

PhD, Purdue University Assistant Professor of Information Systems, University of Texas, Austin (1987-92) Research Scientist, Electronic Data Systems (1991)

Current Research Activities: Technology adoption; human computer interface; web personalization

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program UGC - Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program HK$7,300,000 30 Aug 2005

Representative Research Publications: Tam, K. Y., Ho, S. Y. (2006) "Understanding the Impact of Web Personalization on User Information Processing, Behavior and Judgment", MIS Quarterly, 30, 4, 865-890. Hong, Se-Joon, Tam, Kar Yan (2006) "Understanding the Adoption of Multi-purpose Information Appliances: The Case of Mobile Data Services", Information Systems Research, Vol 17 No 2 162-179. Tam, Kar Yan, Ho, Shuk Ying (2005) "Web Personalization as a Persuasion Strategy: An Elaboration Likelihood Model Perspective", Information Systems Research, Vol. 16, No. 3 271-291. Hong, W. L., Thong, J. Y. L., Tam, K. Y. (2005) "The Effects of Information Format and Shopping Task on Consumers’ Online Shopping Behavior: A Cognitive Fit Perspective", Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 21, 3, 149-184. Hong, W H, Thong, J. Y. L., Tam, K. Y (2004) "Does Animation Attract Online Consumers’ Attention? The Effect of Flash on Information Search Tasks", Information Systems Research, Volume 15, No. 1, 2004, 60-86. Hong, Weiyin, Thong, J.Y.L., Wong, Wai-Man, Tam, Kar Yan (2002) "Determinants of User Acceptance of Digital Libraries: An Empirical Examination of Individual Differences and System Characteristics", Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 18, No. 3, 97-124.

Inchi HU Professor (2358 7734 ; [email protected])

PhD, Stanford University (1985) Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Pennsylvania (1986-93)

Current Research Activities: Sequential analysis; stochastic control; stochastic process; statistical inference.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Accerlation of stochastic approximation and optimization via coupling spline models RGC - General Research Fund HK$546,675 31 Oct 2007 Efficient variance reduction method for estimating value at risk with heavy-tailed risk factors RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$80,000 30 Jun 2009

Representative Research Publications: Ho, Kwok Wah, Hu, Inchi (2008) "Flexible modelling of Random Effects in Linear Mixed Models - a Bayesian approach", Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, vol. 52, pp. 1347-1361. Chan, Hock Peng, Fuh, Cheng-Der, Hu, Inchi (2007) "Optimal Strategies For A Class Of Sequential Control Problem With Precedence Relation", Annals of Statistics, vol. 35, pp. 1722 - 1748. Fuh, Cheng-Der, Hu, Inchi (2007) "Estimation in hidden Markov models via efficient importance re-sampling", Bernoulli, Vol. 13, pp. 492 - 513. Hu, Inchi (2006) "A dynamic statistician with timeless contributions", Statistica Sinica, Vo. 16, pp. 677 - 682. Fuh, Cheng-Der, Hu, Inchi (2006) "Bayesian stochastic estimation of the maximum of a regression function", Random Walks, Sequential Analysis, and Related Topics, pp. 269 - 280. Chan, Hock Peng, Fuh, Cheng-Der, Hu, Inchi (2006) "Multi-armed bandit problems with precedence relations", Time Series and Related Topics, Volume 52, IMS Lecture Notes - Monograph Series, pp. 223 - 236. Fuh, Cheng-Der, Hu, Inchi (2004) "Efficient importance sampling for events of moderate deviations with applications", Biometrika, vo. 91, pp. 471 - 490. Hu, Inchi, Lee, Chi-Wen (2003) "Bayesian adaptive stochastic processes termination", Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 28, pp. 361-381.

Lancelot F JAMES Professor (2358 7742 ; [email protected])

PhD, The State University of New York at Buffalo (1993) Visiting Scholar, INRA and CREST, France (1994-95) Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University (1995-2002)

Current Research Activities: Bayesian statistics; Bayesian poisson calculus; financial econometrics; semiparametric models; survival analysis; resampling methods; sequential importance sampling and MCMC methods; random measures.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The study of GGC and dirichlet mean functionals with applications to models for financial econometrics RGC - General Research Fund HK$570,000 01 Jul 2007

Representative Research Publications: James, Lancelot F., Lijoi, Antonio, Prunster, Igor (2008) "Distributions of linear functionals of two parameter Poisson Dirichlet random measures", Annals of Applied Probability, volume 18 pages 521-551. James, Lancelot F. (2006) "Poisson calculus for spatial neutral to the right processes.", Annals of Statistics, vol. 34 pages 416- 440. James, Lancelot F. (2005) "Bayesian Poisson process partition calculus with an application to Bayesian Levy moving averages.", Annals of Statistics, vol. 33 pages pages 1771-1799. James, Lancelot (2004-2005) "Functionals of Dirichlet processes, the Cifarelli-Regazzini Identity and Beta-Gamma processes", Annals of Statistics, volume 33 pages 647-660. Ishwaran, Hemant, James, Lancelot F. (2004) "Computational methjods for multiplicative intensity models using weighted gamma processes: proportional hazards, marked point processes, and panel count data", Journal of the American Statistical Association, volume 99 no. 465 pages 175-190. James, Lancelot F. (2003-2004) "A simple proof of the almost sure discreteness of a class of random measures", Statistics and Probability Letters, volume 65 no.4 pages 363-368. Ishwaran, Hemant, James, Lancelot F. (2003-2004) "Generalized weighted Chinese restaurant processes for species sampling mixture models", Statistica Sinica, volume 13 no. 4 pages 1211-1235. Ishwaran, Hemant, James, Lancelot F. (2003) "Some further developments for stick-breaking priors: finite and infinite clustering and classification", Sankhya, volume 65 no. 3 pages 577-592.

James Y L THONG Professor; Deputy Head (2358 7631 ; [email protected] ; http://home.ust.hk/~jthong)

PhD, National University of Singapore (1997)

Current Research Activities: IT adoption and implementation; IT in small business; computer ethics; human-computer interaction. Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Determinants of service quality for online services RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$61,831 01 Jan 2009 The Impact of Modern Web Animation on Consumer Behavior RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$127,804 30 Jun 2008 A review of the agile methodologies literature UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$55,000 01 Dec 2008

Representative Research Publications: Hu, P.J.H., Brown, S.A., Thong, J.Y.L., Chan, F.K.Y., Tam, Kar Yan (2009) "Determinants of service quality and continuance intention of online services: The case of eTax", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60 (2), 292- 306. Hong, Weiyin, Thong, J.Y.L., Tam, Kar Yan (2007) "How do Web users respond to non-banner-ads animation? The effects of task type and user experience", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58 (10), 1467-1482. Thong, J.Y.L., Hong, S.J., Tam, Kar Yan (2006) "The effects of post-adoption beliefs on the expectation-confirmation model for information technology continuance", International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Vol. 64, No. 9, pp. 799-810. Hong, S.J., Thong, J.Y.L., Tam, Kar Yan (2006) "Understanding continued IT usage behavior: A comparison of three models in the context of mobile Internet", Decision Support Systems, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 1819-1834. Hong, Weiyin, Thong, J.Y.L,, Tam, Kar Yan (2005) "The effects of information format and shopping task on consumers’ online shopping behavior: A cognitive fit perspective", Journal of Management Information Systems, 21 (3), 151-188. Hong, Weiyin, Thong, J.Y.L., Tam, Kar Yan (2004) "Does animation attract online users' attention? The effects of flash on information search performance and perceptions", Information Systems Research, 15 (1), 60-86. Peace, A.G., Galletta, D.F., Thong, J.Y.L. (2003) "Software piracy in the workplace: A model and empirical test", Journal of Management Information Systems, 20 (1), 153-177. Hong, Weiyin, Thong, J.Y.L., Wong, W.M., Tam, Kar Yan (2002) "Determinants of user acceptance of digital libraries: an empirical examination of individual characteristics and system characteristics", Journal of Management Information Systems, Winter, 18(3) 97-124.

Shaohui ZHENG Professor (2358 7751 ; [email protected])

PhD, Columbia University (1994) Assistant Professor, HKUST (1994-2000)

Current Research Activities: Supply chain management; production and quality control; queuing systems; Markov decision processes.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Managing capacity expansion for service firms with uncertain supplies RGC - General Research Fund HK$350,222 01 Sep 2007

Representative Research Publications: Chao, Xiuli, Chen, Hong, Zheng, Shaohui (2009) "Dynamic Capacity Expansion for a Service Firm with Capacity Deterioration and Supply Uncertainty", Operations Research, Vol. 87, Pages 82-93. Li, Qing, Zheng, Shaohui (2006) "Joint Inventory Replacement and Pricing Control for Systems with Uncertain Supply and Demand", Operations Research, Vol. 54, Pages 696-705. Chao, Xiuli, Liu, Liming, Zheng, Shaohui (2003) "Resource Allocation in Multisite Service Systems with Intersite Customer Flows", Management Science, 49, 1739-1752. Yao, David, Zheng, Shaohui (2002-2003) Dynamic Control of Quality in Production-Inventory Systems, Springer. Ki Ling CHEUNG Associate Professor (2358 7737 ; [email protected])

PhD, Stanford University (1990) Material Analyst, Sun Microsystems Inc (1990) Management Consultant, Teknekron Corporation (1990-92)

Current Research Activities: Total quality management; supply chain management; production and operations management.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Implementing Ordering Postponement in a Supply Chain RGC - General Research Fund HK$572,988 01 Nov 2008

Representative Research Publications: Cheung, Ki Ling, Zhang, Sheng Hao (2008) "Balanced and Synchronized Ordering in a Supply chain", IIE Transactions, Vol. 40, pp. 1-11. Zhang, Sheng Hao, Cheung, Ki Ling (2008) "Replenishment Sequencing in a Supply Chain with Balanced Ordering", Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 198-203. Yuan, Xue-Ming, Cheung, Ki Ling (2003) "Optimal Inventory Policy for Systems with Demand Cancellations", IIE Transactions, Volume 35, pp. 739-747. Cheung, Ki Ling (2002) "A risk-return framework for inventory management", Supply Chain Management Review, 6, 50-55. Cheung, Ki Ling, Lee, Hau L. (2002) "The inventory benefit of shipment coordination and stock rebalancing in a supply chain", Management Science, 48(2), 300-306.

Theodore H K CLARK Associate Professor (2358 7634 ; [email protected])

DBA, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration (1994) Electrical Engineer, IBM (1982-84) Management Consultant, McKinsey and Company (1985-90)

Current Research Activities: IT strategy; inter-organizational systems; process re-design; electronic commerce.

Kai Lung HUI Associate Professor (2358 7641 ; [email protected])

PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2000) 2006-2008, Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong 2000-2008, Assistant-Associate Professor, National University of Singapore

Current Research Activities: Information privacy, new product introduction, social interaction Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Delayed product introduction: welfare and public policy RGC - General Research Fund HK$150,200 01 Jan 2009 Information presentation and consumer disclosure RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Jun 2009

James S H KWOK Visiting Associate Professor (2358 7652 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of London (1997)

Current Research Activities: Multimedia database management systems; digital watermarking; digital rights management; copyright and intellectual property protection; peer-to-peer (P2P) technology; knowledge management.

Representative Research Publications: Kwok, S.H., Liu, S.M., Cheung, S.C., Tam, K.Y. (2003) "Digital Rights Management with Web Services", Electronic Markets, 13, 2, pp. 133-140. Yang, C.C., Kwok, S.H. (2003) "Efficient Gamut Clipping for Color Image Processing using LHS and YIQ", Optical Engineering, Vol. 42 (3), pp.701-711. Kwok, S.H., Cheung, S.C., Wong, K.C., Tsang, K.F., Lui, S.M., Tam, K.Y. (2003) "Integration of Digital Rights Management into the Internet Open Trading Protocol", Decision Support Systems, Vol. 34 (4), pp. 413-425. Kwok, James S.H. (2002) "Digital Rights Management for Mobile Multimedia", Mobile Commerce: Current States and Future Trends, 97-111. Yang, Christopher C., Kwok, S.H., Yip, Milo (2002) "Image Browsing for Infomediaries", Proceedings of the Thirty-fifth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2608-2614. Lui, S.M., Lang, Karl R., Kwok, S.H. (2002) "Participation Incentive Mechanisms in Peer-to-Peer Subscription Systems", Proceedings of the Thirty-fifth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 3957-3963. Kwok, S.H., Yang, Christopher C. (2002) "Watermarking in Online Media E-Business", Proceedings of the Third IEEE Conference on Information Technology (ITCC-2002), 158-163. Lui, S.M., Kwok, S.H. (2001) "A Comprehensive Analysis of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) File Sharing Software: System Architecture and Interoperability of File Sharing Protocol", The 6th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference Of International Telecommunications Society, 669- 677.

Ronald LAU Visiting Associate Professor (2358 8348 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Alabama (1991) Associate Professor, University of South Dakota (1997-2001)

Current Research Activities: Operations management; enterprise resource planning; SAP software applications; supply chain management; quality management.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Benchmarking the supply chain performance in Hong Kong RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$13,000 01 Jan 2004 Enterprise systems implementation for small and midsize manufacturing companies RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$20,000 01 Jan 2005

Representative Research Publications: Lau, R. S. M., Xie, J., Zhao, X. (2008) "Effects of Inventory Policy on Supply Chain Performance: A Simulation Study of Critical Decision Parameters", Computers & Industrial Engineering, vol. 55, no. 10, pp. 620-633. Lee, J.C.Y., Lau, R.S.M. (2005) "ERP Implementation Project at TS Group", Asian Case Research Journal, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 263- 282. Lam, K, Lau, R.S.M. (2004) "A Simulation Approach to Restructuring Call Centers", Business Process Management Journal, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 481-494. Lau, R.S.M., Zhao, X., Xiao, M. (2004) "Assessing Quality Management in China with MBNQA Criteria", International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 699-713. Zhao, X., Lau, R.S.M., Lam, K. (2002) "Optimizing the Service Configuration with the Least Total Cost Approach", International Journal of Service Industry Management Journal, 13(4), pp. 348-361. Lau, R.S.M., Zhao, X., Lai, F. (2002) "Survey of MRPII Implementation and Benefits in Mainland China and Hong Kong", Production and Inventory Management Journal, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 65-71. Lau, R.S.M. (2002) "Competitive Factors and Their Relative Importance in the U.S. Electronics and Computer Industries", International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 22(1), 125-135. Zhao, X., Xie, J., Lau, R.S.M. (2001) "Improving the Supply Chain Performance: Use of Forecasting Models versus Early Order Commitments", International Journal of Production Research, 39(17), 3923-3939.

Qing LI Associate Professor (2358 7749 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of British Columbia (2001) Sessional Instructor, University of British Columbia (2000)

Current Research Activities: Supply chain management; stochastic and dynamic models in operations; incentive and information issues in operations and information systems.

Representative Research Publications: Li, Qing, Wu, Xiaoli, Cheung, Ki Ling (2009) "Optimal Policies for Inventory Systems with Separate Delivery-Request and Order-Quantity Decisions", Operations Research, Volume 57, Issue 3, Pages 626-636. Li, Qing, Xu, He, Zheng, Shaohui (2008) "Periodic review inventory systems with random yield and demand: bounds and heuristics", IIE Transactions, vol. 40, 434-444. Li, Qing, Ha, Albert (2008) "Reactive capacity and inventory competition under demand substitution", IIE Transactions, vol. 40, 707-717. Li, Qing (2007) "Risk, risk aversion and the optimal time to produce", IIE Transactions, Vol. 39, 145-158. Li, Qing, Zheng, Shaohui (2006) "Joint inventory replenishment and pricing control for systems with uncertain yield and demand", Operations Research, Vol. 54 696-705, Jul/Aug Iss. 4. Li, Qing, Atkins, Derek (2005) "On the effect of demand randomness on a price/quantity setting firm.", IIE Transactions, Volume 37, page 1143 -1153. Li, Qing, Atkins, Derek (2002) "Coordinating replenishment and pricing in a firm", Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 241-257. Shu Ming NG Associate Professor (2358 7725 ; [email protected])

PhD, Carnegie Mellon University (1986) Postdoctoral Fellow (1987), Carnegie Mellon University. Assistant Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Southern California (1987-92)

Current Research Activities: Supply chain management; modeling and improvement of service and manufacturing systems; system optimization.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Outsourcing, capacity sharing and risk management in supply chain management RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$31,000 30 Jun 2009

Representative Research Publications: Ha, Albert Y., Li, Lode, Ng, Shu Ming (2003-2004) "Price and Delivery Logistics Competition in a Supply Chain", Management Science, Volume 49, No. 9, pp.1139-1153.

Mike Ka Pui SO Associate Professor (2358 7726 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Hong Kong (1996) Assistant Lecturer, University of Hong Kong (1994-96)

Current Research Activities: Nonlinear time series analysis; financial time series modeling; market volatility study; modeling the dynamic structure of economic data; Value at Risk estimation in financial markets.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A Class of Copula GARCH Models and its Applications to Financial Risk Management RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$176,282 01 Jun 2008 Multivariate volatility modeling with factor structures UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$55,000 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Lau, John W, So, Mike K P (2008) "Bayesian Mixture of Autoregressive Models", Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 53, 38- 60. So, Mike K.P. (2006) "Bayesian Analysis of Nonlinear and Non-Gaussian State Space Models via Multiple-try Sampling Methods", Statistics and Computing, 16, 125-141. So, Mike K.P., Chen, Cathy W.S., Liu, Feng-Chi (2006) "Best Subset Selection of Autoregressive Models With Exogenous Variables and Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity Errors", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, 55, 201-224. Chen, Cathy W.S., So, Mike K.P. (2006) "On a Threshold Heteroscedastic Model", International Journal of Forecasting, 22, 73-89. Wong, Chi-Ming, So, Mike K.P. (2003) "On Conditional Moments of GARCH Models, With Applications to Multiple Period Value at Risk Estimation", Statistica Sinica, 13, 1015-1044. So, Mike K.P. (2003) "Posterior Mode Estimation for Nonlinear and Non-Gaussian State Space Models", Statistica Sinica, 13(1), 255-274. So, Mike K.P., Li, W.K., Lam, K. (2002) "A Threshold Stochastic Volatility Model", Journal of Forecasting, 21, 473-500. So, Mike K.P. (2002) "Bayesian Analysis of Long Memory Stochastic Volatility Models", Sankhya, B64(1), 1-10. Yan XU Associate Professor (2358 7640 ; [email protected])

PhD, Strathclyde University (1997)

Current Research Activities: Telecommunications regulations and policy; operational management of telecommunications; management information system.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Messaging Communications: The Technology, Application and Regulation UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Jan 2007 Evaluation of effective communication platforms for electronic commerce UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Xu, Yan, Yu, Calvin (2009) Innovated by Hong Kong, HKUST Business School &. Infowide Publishing House. Xu, Yan (2009) "Towards a Layered Regulatory Model for Local Fixed Network Competition: The Case of Hong Kong", Summit Conference on Telecommunications Regulatory Practice, The National Telecommunications Commission of Thailand, Bangkok, 2-3 April 2009. Xu, Sean, Xu, Yan, Zheng, Xiaona (2008) "Communication Platforms in Electronic Commerce: A Three-Dimension Analysis", INFO, Vol. 10, No.2, 2008, pp. 47-56. Xu, Yan, Gong, Min, Thong, James (2006) "Two Tales of One Service: User Acceptance of Short Message Service (SMS) in Hong Kong and China", INFO, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2006, pp.16-28. Xu, Yan (2004) "3G Licensing in Hong Kong: the Debate", Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 28, pp. 213-226. Xu, Yan (2003-2004) "Mobile Data Communications in China", Communications of ACM, Vol. 46, No. 12, pp. 80-85. Xu, Yan, Thong, James Y.L. (2003-2004) "Tariff-quality Equilibrium and Its Implications for Telecommunications Regulation", Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 27, pp.301-315. Xu, Yan, Pitt, Douglas (2002-2003) Chinese Telecommunications Policy, Artech House Publisher: Boston, London.

Hongtao ZHANG Associate Professor (2358 7755 ; [email protected])

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1990) Management Consultant, CSC Consulting (1990-94)

Current Research Activities: Coordination in production and service systems; supply chain management; value of information and incentives for information exchange; coordination of global operations.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Information sharing, confidentiality, and contracting in competing supply chains RGC - General Research Fund HK$548,988 01 Aug 2007 Queue Jumping and Queue Discipline: Theoretical and Experimental Studies RGC - General Research Fund HK$611,570 01 Sep 2009 Queue jumping and queue disciplines UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$55,000 01 Jan 2009 Representative Research Publications: Li, Lode, Zhang, Hongtao (2008) "Confidentiality and Information Sharing in Supply Chain Coordination", Management Science, Vol. 54, No. 8, p.1467-1481. STEIN, William, Rapoport, Amnon, SEALE, Darryl, Zhang, Hongtao, Zwick, Rami (2007) "Batch Queue with Choice of Arrivals: Equilibrium Analysis and Experimental Study", Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 59, Number 2, May 2007. BODOFF, David, LEVECQ, Hugo, Zhang, Hongtao (2006) "EDGAR on the Internet: the Welfare Effect of Wider Information Distribution in an Experimental Market of Risky Assets", Experimental Economics, Volume 9, pp.361-381, Dec 06, No. 4. Zhang, Hongtao (2002) "Vertical Information Exchange in a Supply Chain with Duopoly Retailers", Production and Operations Management, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 531-546. Li, Lode, Zhang, Hongtao (2002) "Supply Chain Information Sharing in a Competitive Environment", Supply Chain Structures: Coordination, Information and Optimization (eds. Song, J.S. and Yao, D.D.), 161-206. Li, Lode, Porteus, Evan, Zhang, Hongtao (2001) "Optimal Operating Policies for Multiplant Stochastic Manufacturing Systems in a Changing Environment", Management Science, 47(11), 1539-1551.

Paul W FORSTER Adjunct Associate Professor (2358 7649 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Irvine (2000)

Current Research Activities: Impact of information technology on organizations; information systems and global logistics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Carbon strategy for third party logistics providers UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$30,000 30 Jun 2009

Representative Research Publications: Forster, Paul, Demmer, Simson (2009) "Climate Change and International Air Freight", Air Transport Research Society, Abu Dhabi, June 27-30. Leung, Kelvin, Forster, Paul (2006-2007) "DHL in China: The Role of Logistics Governance", Building Supply Chain Excellence in Emerging Economies, Chung-Yee Lee and Hau Lee, Eds, Springer.Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, Vol. 98. forster, Paul (2004-2005) "A Socio-Technical Model of Information Quality in Logistics Interorganizational Information Systems: An Empirical Study", Second International Workshop on Data and Information Quality (DIQ), June, 14th 2005 - Porto (Portugal). forster, Paul, tang, Ya (2004-2005) "The Role of Online Shopping and Fulfillment in the Hong Kong SARS Crisis", Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Jan 3-6. Forster, Paul, Tam, Tony (2004-2005) "Weblogs and Student-Centered Learning: Personal Experiences in MBA Teaching", Information Systems Education Conference, Nov. 6. forster, Paul, tam, Tony (2004-2005) "Weblogs and Student-Centered Learning: Personal Experiences in MBA Teaching", Information Systems Education Journal, 2004. bodoff, david, forster, paul (2004) "A Virtual Market Teaching Electronic Market Concepts in Information Systems Education", Journal of Information Systems Education, Volume 16, Number 1 (Spring 2005). Forster, Paul, Regan, Amelia (2003-2004) "Information technology adoption and use in non-integrated air cargo operations", Transportation Research Board 2004 Annual Meeting, Washington D.C, January 11-15.

Anthony T K CHAN Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 7729 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Michigan (1992) Visiting Lecturer, Eastern Michigan University (1990-92)

Current Research Activities: Time series analysis and stochastic control with applications in financial derivative markets.

Garvin Percy DIAS Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 7654 ; [email protected])

PhD, Fudan University, Shanghai (1998) Visiting Scholar, HKUST (1999-2000)

Current Research Activities: Group decision support systems; mobile computing; electronic commerce; web-based information systems; intelligent computing; human computer interface.

Jeevan JAISINGH Assistant Professor (2358 7639 ; [email protected])

PhD, Purdue University (Management Information Systems) (2003)

Current Research Activities: Economics of information systems; information privacy; electronic commerce.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Individuals' preference structures for transactional e-government services RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$78,500 30 Jun 2009 Optimal Disclosure Policy for Vulnerabilities Affecting Multiple Software RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$144,551 01 Jun 2008 Vulnerability disclosure policies for open source software UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Jaisingh, Jeevan, Barron, Jack, Mehta, Shailendra, Chaturvedi, Alok (2008) "Privacy and Pricing Personal Information", European Journal of Operational Research, 187(3), pp. 857-870. Kwan, Samuel, Jaisingh, Jeevan, Tam, Kar Yan (2008) "Risk Of Using Pirated Software And The Impact On Software Protection Strategies", Decision Support Systems, 45(3), pp. 504-516. Jaisingh, Jeevan (2007) "Piracy on File-sharing Networks: Strategies for Recording Companies", Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, 17(4), pp. 1-20. See-To, Eric, Jaisingh, Jeevan, Tam, Kar Yan (2007) "Analysis of Micro-Payment Systems: User Adoption and Firm Strategies", Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, 8(1), 63-83, Feb.

Yingying LI Assistant Professor (2358 7744 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Financial econometrics, financial risk management, high-frequency data, volatility estimation and market microstructure, statistical inference for stochastic processes, asymptotic statistics.

Jae Yun MOON Assistant Professor (2358 7635 ; [email protected])

PhD, New York University, 2004

Current Research Activities: voluntary technical support groups, online customer communities, human computer interaction

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: An exploratory study of everyday communication practices using multiple media RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$43,880 01 Mar 2005

Representative Research Publications: Hahn, Jungpil, Moon, Jae Yun, Zhang, Chen (2008) "Emergence of new project teams from open source software developer networks: Impact of prior collaboration ties", Information Systems Research, 19(3), 369-391. Moon, Jae Yun, Sproull, Lee (2008) "The role of feedback in managing the Internet-based volunteer workforce", Information Systems Research, 19(4), 494-515. Hahn, Jungpil, Moon, Jae Y., Zhang, Chen (2005-2006) "Impact of social ties on open source project team formation.", Ernesto Damiani, Brian Fitzgerald, Walt Scacchi, Marco Scotto and Giancarlo Succi (Eds.). Open Source Systems. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Volume 203. Boston: Springer., 307-317. Sproull, Lee, Conley, Caryn, Moon, Jae Yun (2005) "Prosocial behavior on the net", Amichai-Hamburger, Yair (Ed.). The Social Net: Human behavior in cyberspace. Oxford University Press., 139-161.

Stephen W H SHUM Assistant Professor (2358 7758 ; [email protected] ; http://www.bm.ust.hk/~ismt/staff/sshum.html)

PhD, Operations Research, MIT

Current Research Activities: Supply chain management; revenue management; operations incentives; marketing-operations interface

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Contracting, Renegotiation, and Competition in Supply Chains RGC - General Research Fund HK$327,247 01 Oct 2008 Marketing efforts of distribution channels and supply chain contracting RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Sep 2007

Raymond G SIN Assistant Professor (2358 7632 ; [email protected] ; http://www.bm.ust.hk/~ismt/staff/rsin.html)

PhD, University of Southern California

Current Research Activities: Economics of electronic commerce; web-based personalization; information privacy; intermediated electronic markets; game theory; industrial organization.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Dynamic price leadership in electronic markets RGC - General Research Fund HK$429,000 01 Aug 2007 Estimating online search costs - implications of price formats RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$90,000 01 Oct 2005 An experimental study of the value of online privacy UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$55,000 30 Jun 2009

Representative Research Publications: Sin, Raymond G., Jia, Jia (2009) "Non-intrusive Personalization: Optimal Contract Design and Welfare Implications", The Third China Summer Workshop on Information Management, Guangzhou, China, June 27-28, 2009. Chellappa, Ramnath K., Sin, Raymond G., Siddarth, S. (2009) "Price-formats as a Source of Price Dispersion: A Study of Online and Offline Prices in the Domestic US Airline Market", Information Systems Research, forthcoming. Sin, Raymond G., Shum, Stephen (2008) "Investments in Search Engine Optimization: Externalities and Welfare Implications", 20th Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE 2008), Paris, France, December 13 - 14. Sin, Raymond G., Shum, Stephen (2008) "Investments in Search Engine Optimization: Externalities and Welfare Implications", Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE 2008), Paris, France, December 13-14, 2008. Sin, Raymond G., Jia, Jia (2008) "Resolving the Personalization-Privacy Dilemma: Designing a Privacy-Preserving Contract for Online Personalization", Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Information Systems & Technology (CIST) - INFORMS 2008, Washington D.C., October 11-12. Sin, Raymond G., Jia, Jia (2008) "Resolving the Personalization-Privacy Dilemma: Designing a Privacy-Preserving Contract for Online Personalization", Conference on Information Systems & Technology (CIST), Washington D. C., October 11-12, 2008. Chellappa, Ramnath K., Sin, Raymond G. (2007) "An Economic Model of Portal Competition under Privacy Concerns", 9th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2007), Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A. Invited Paper, August 19-22, 2007. Sin, Raymond G., Chellappa, Ramnath K. (2007) "Competition for Customer Information: Online Personalization in the Presence of Privacy Concerns", 2007 INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, Singapore. Invited Paper., June 28-30, 2007.

Xuhu WAN Assistant Professor (2356 7731 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Southern California (2005)

Current Research Activities: Executive compensation and incentive theory; quantitative finance and risk management; stochastic optimal control.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Capital Asset Pricing With Single-Sided and Double-Sided Moral Hazards RGC - General Research Fund HK$669,479 25 Aug 2009 General equilibrium with moral hazard RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$29,624 01 Jun 2009

Representative Research Publications: Sung, Jaeyoung, Wan, Xuhu (2009) "Equilibrium equity premium, interest rate and cost of capital in In a moral -hazard economy", North america econometric society , summer meeting. Cvitanic, Jaksa, Wan, Xuhu, Zhang, Jianfeng (2008) "Principal-Agent Problems with Exit Options", The B.E. Journal in Theoretical Economics, 8. Ju, Nengjiu, Wan, Xuhu (2006) "Pay-Performance Sensitivity of Executive Compensation In Continuous Time Model", Workshop in Contract theory Organizer: CUHK , Finance department, Dec 22, 2006.

Sean X XU Assistant Professor (2358 7637 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Irvine (2005)

Current Research Activities: Corporate governance and technology investment; interorganizational systems use in supply chain management; innovation adoption and diffusion.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Inter-firm coordination under standards changes: Network effects and path dependency RGC - General Research Fund HK$501,992 01 Oct 2007

Representative Research Publications: Dong, Shutao, Xu, Sean Xin, Zhu, Kevin (2009) "Information Technology in Supply Chains: The Value of IT-enabled Resources under Competition", Information Systems Research, 20(1): 18-32. Dedrick, Jason, Xu, Sean Xin, Zhu, Kevin (2008) "How does Information Technology Shape Supply Chain Relationships? Evidence on the Number of Suppliers", Journal of Management Information Systems, 25(2): 41-72. Zhu, Kevin, Kraemer, Kenneth, Gurbaxani, Vijay, Xu, Sean Xin (2006) "Migration to open-standard interorganizational systems: Network effects, switching costs, and path dependency", MIS Quarterly, vol 30, special issue on standard-making, page 515-539. Zhu, Kevin, Kraemer, Kenneth, Xu, Sean Xin (2006) "The process of innovation assimilation by firms in different countries: A technology diffusion perspective on e-business", Management Science, vol 52, issue 10, page 1557-1576. Seunghee YU Assistant Professor (2358 7651 ; [email protected])

PhD, Carnegie Mellon University (2005) Research associate, Korea Information Society Development Institute (1995-98). Instructor, Carnegie Mellon University (2002-03)

Current Research Activities: IT assimilation; business value of IT; E-procurement.

Representative Research Publications: Yu, Seunghee, Mishra, Abhay, Gopal, Anand, Slaughter, Sandra, Mukhopadhyay, Tridas (2008) "IT Infusion and its Performance Impacts: An Empirical Investigation of E-Procurement in the Service Industry", the 13th Conference on Information Systems & Technology (CIST) - INFORMS 2008, Washington D.C., October 11-12, 2008. Ho, Kai Wing Kevin, Yoo, Byungjoon, Yu, Seunghee (2007) "An empirical analysis on factors affecting the success of different formats of online auction", Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on e-Business (WEB 2007), 9 December 2007 Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Ho, Kai Wing Kevin, Yoo, Byungjoon, Yu, Seunghee, Tam, Kar Yan (2007) "The effect of culture and product categories on the level of use of Buy-It-Now (BIN) auctions by sellers", Journal of Global Information Management, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 1-19. Ho, Kai Wing, Yu, Seunghee, Yoo, Byungjoon, Tam, Kar Yan (2006) "A study on the effect of product types and culture on the level of use of BIN auctions by sellers", the 10th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2006), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., 6-9 July, 2006.

Michael X ZHANG Assistant Professor (2358 7644 ; [email protected])

PhD, MIT (2006)

Current Research Activities: Pricing of information goods, online advertising, online reputation systems.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Understanding The Influence of Online Consumer Reviews on the Demand for Experience Goods RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Aug 2006 On the Impact of Information Technology in Financial Markets RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$149,840 01 May 2008

Representative Research Publications: Dellarocas, Chrysanthos, Zhang, Xiaoquan (Michael), Awad, Neveen (2007) "Exploring the Value of Online Product Reviews in Forecasting Sales: The Case of Motion Pictures", Journal of Interactive Marketing, 21,23-45.

Xinghua ZHENG Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 7750 ; [email protected]) Current Research Activities: Stochastic interacting particle systems, random walks, statistical inference for financial models, random matrices.

Hang CHAN Adjunct Assistant Professor (2358 7633 ; [email protected])

Graduate of University of Waterloo (1982)

Current Research Activities: IT outsourcing; IT strategy for enterprise; IT development in China.

Hilton CHAN Adjunct Assistant Professor (2358 7633 ; [email protected])

PhD, HK University of Science and Technology (2000).

Current Research Activities: IT strategy; cyber crime investigation; computer forensics and e-commerce laws; corporate information security management; information analysis and knowledge discovery. Department of Management

Jiatao LI, Head of Department and Professor

Larry J L FARH, Chair Professor

Steve DEKREY, Adjunct Professor and Associate Dean of Business and Management; Director, MBA/EMBA/MSC Programs

John HULPKE, Adjunct Professor

Prithviraj CHATTOPADHYAY, Associate Professor

Elizabeth GEORGE, Associate Professor

Ya-Ping GONG, Associate Professor

Riki TAKEUCHI, Associate Professor

Heli C WANG, Associate Professor

Kin Fai Ellick WONG, Associate Professor

Stephen W NASON, Adjunct Associate Professor

Man Chi CHAO, Assistant Professor

Jinyu HE, Assistant Professor

Zhi HUANG, Assistant Professor

Jeroen G KUILMAN, Assistant Professor

Alex B MARKLE, Assistant Professor

Emily M NASON, Assistant Professor

Bilian NI SULLIVAN, Assistant Professor Jiatao LI Head of Department and Professor (2358 7757 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Texas, Dallas (1992) Management Consultant, McKinsey & Co (1994-96)

Current Research Activities: International strategy; competitive strategy; organization theory; alliances/joint venture success in China; international corporate governance.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Knowledge management and innovation strategy: The challenge for latecomers RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$174,000 30 Jun 2007 Centralized RA support for 2007 RPC projects of MGTO Dept UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$200,000 01 Jun 2007 Globalizing Chinese firms: Moving up the ladder in human resources in the global playing field UGC - School-based Initiatives and Others HK$50,000 30 Jun 2008 Center for innovation & strategy UGC - Strategic Initiatives HK$2,500,000 05 May 2008

Representative Research Publications: Kuilman, Jeroen G, Li, Jiatao (2009) "Grades of Membership and Legitimacy Spillovers: Foreign Banks in Shanghai, 1847- 1935.", Academy of Management Journal, 51 (2): 229-245 (Lead article). Kuilman, Jeroen G, Vermeulen, Ivar, Li, Jiatao (2009) "The Consequents of Organizer Ecologies: A Logical Formalization", Academy of Management Review, 34 (2): 253-272. Li, Jiatao (2008) "Asymmetric Interactions between Foreign and Domestic Banks: Effects on Market Entry", Strategic Management Journal, 29: 873-893. Lee, Seung-hyun, Shenkar, Oded, Li, Jiatao (2008) "Cultural Distance, Investment Flow and Control in Cross-Border Cooperation", Strategic Management Journal, 29: 1117-1125. Li, Jiatao, Kozhikode, Rajiv Krishnan (2008) "Knowledge Management and Innovation Strategy: The Challenge for Latecomers in Emerging Economies", Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 25: 429-450. Li, Jiatao, Yue, Deborah R. (2008) "Market Size, Legal Institutions, and International Diversification Strategies: Implications for the Performance of Multinational Firms", Management International Review, 48 (6): 667-688. Li, Jiatao, Harrison, J. Richard (2008) "National Culture and the Composition and Leadership Structure of Boards of Directors", Corporate Governance: An International Review, 16 (5): 375-385. Wang, Heli, Li, Jiatao (2008) "Untangling the Effects of Over-Exploration and Over-Exploitation on Organizational Performance: The Moderating Role of Environmental Dynamism", Journal of Management, 34 (5): 925-951.

Larry J L FARH Chair Professor (2358 7735 ; [email protected])

PhD, Indiana University (1983) Associate Professor of Management, Louisiana State University (1988-93)

Current Research Activities: Guanxi and managerial networking; organizational justice and citizenship behavior; leadership and organizational culture; cross-cultural management research.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Managing innovation in new product teams in China: A multilevel, longitudinal investigation RGC - General Research Fund HK$571,690 20 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications: Farh, Jiing-Lih, Liang, Jian, Chou, Li-Fang, Cheng, Bor-Shiuan (2008) "Paternalistic leadership in Chinese Organizations: Research progress and future research direction.", Leadership and Management in China: Philosophies, Theories & Practices, Chao- Chuan Chen & Yueh-Ting Lee. Chen, Xiaoping, Tsui, Anne, Farh, Jiing-Lih (2008) Empirical Methods in Organization and Management Research (Chinese). Farh, Jiing-Lih, Hackett, Rick, Chen, Zhijun (2008) "Organizational citizenship behavior in the global world", Handbook of Cross- cultural Management, 165-184. Farh, Jiing-Lih, Hackett, Rick, Liang, Jian (2007) "Individual-level cultural values as moderators of perceived organizational support-employee outcomes relationships: Comparing the effects of power distance and traditionality", Academy of Management Journal, 50, 715-729. Pillutla, Madan, Farh, Jiing-Lih, Lee, Cynthia, Lin, Zhiang (2007) "An investigation of traditionality as a moderator of reward allocation", Group and Organizational Management, 32, 233-253. Farh, Jiing-Lih, Hackett, Rick, Liang, Jian (2007) "Individual-level cultural values as moderators of perceived organizational support-employee outcomes relationships: Comparing the effects of power distance and traditionality", Academy of Management Journal, 50, 715-729. Farh, Jiing-Lih, Cannella, Albert, Lee, Cynthia (2006) "Approaches to scale development in Chinese management research", Management and Organization Review, 2: 1-18. Gong, Yaping, Farh, Jiing-Lih (2006) "Asymmetric reactions to common dialect group identity in vertical dyads in Chinese organizations", Best Paper Proceedings of the Annual National Meeting of Academy of Management, August.

Steve DEKREY Adjunct Professor and Associate Dean of Business and Management; Director, MBA/EMBA/MSC Programs (2358 8749 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Iowa (1982) Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (1983-89). Director of MBA Program and Lecturer, University of Florida (1989-95)

Current Research Activities: Leadership development; personality assessments; executive education.

John HULPKE Adjunct Professor (2358 7736 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1977) Department Chair and Professor, California State University (1989-97). MBA Program Director, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) (2001-02)

Current Research Activities: Relationship of business and society: how managers deal with issues such as discrimination and environmental pollution, and how changing economics policies in China relate to social issues.

Representative Research Publications: Hulpke, John, Lau, Cubie, Sharif, Naubahar (2006) "On Line Ethics Debates", Presented to European Computer Applications in Philosophy Conference (ECAP 06), Trondheim Norway, 22-24 June 2006. Malkani, Madhu, Hulpke, John, Lau, Cubie, Ho, Teresa (2005) "CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS – WHAT NEXT?", International Journal of Case Method Research & Application, Volume XVII, Issue No. 4, December 2005, pages 503-514. Hulpke, John, Kelly, Aidan, To, Michelle (2005) "Aha! Using Computers to Teach Creatively", Academy for Creative Teaching, Eighth Creative Teaching Conference (ACT 8), World Association of Case Research and Application 2005, San Juan Puerto Rico, January 2005. Hulpke, John, Kelly, Aidan, To, Michelle (2005) "Computers teaching ethics: killing three birds with one stone?", Asia Pacific - Computer Applications in Philosophy (AP-CAP) , Bangkok, January 2005. Goggin, Liu, Kelly, Aidan, Hulpke, John, Lau, Cubie, To, Michelle (2005) "Guanxi: What the Irish See, and Do Not See", Fifth International Symposium on Multinational Business Management, Nanjing, May 2005. Hulpke, John, To, Michelle, Kelly, Aidan, Li, Lily (2004) "Careers of Chinese Women: Half the sky, not much Earth?", 2004 Hawaii International Conference on Business, Honolulu, July 2004. Hulpke, John, Kelly, Aidan, To, Michelle, Li, Lily (2004) "Careers of Chinese Women: Half the sky, not much Earth?", Hawaii International Conference on Business University of Hawaii East West Center Honolulu, 21-24 June 2004. Hulpke, John, Kelly, Aidan, Levine, Jacqueline, To, Michelle (2003-2004) "Career Structures: a look at China", Inaugural International Conference International Association for Chinese Management Research Beijing, 16-19 June 2004.

Prithviraj CHATTOPADHYAY Associate Professor (2358 7740 ; [email protected])

PhD, The University of Texas at Austin

Current Research Activities: Relational demography, managerial cognition and emotions, and employment externalization.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The impact of professional dissimilarity on emotions and identification in surgical teams RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Chattopadhyay, P., George, E., Shulman, A. (2008) "The asymmetrical influence of sex dissimilarity in distributive vs. colocated work groups", Organization Science, 19: 581-593.

Elizabeth GEORGE Associate Professor (2358 7727 ; [email protected])

PhD, The University of Texas at Austin

Current Research Activities: Consequences of employment externalization, diversity in organizations, and individual role in institutional change.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Asymmetric effect of work status differences on attitudes of standard and non-standard workers RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Nov 2007 Research on integrated human resource management systems The University of New South Wales HK$143,525 01 Jul 2007 Representative Research Publications: Ashford, Sue, George, Elizabeth, Blatt, Ruth (2008) "Old assumptions, new work: The opportunities and challenges of research on nonstandard employment", Annals of the Academy of Management, J. P. Walsh & A. P. Brief (Eds), Vol. 1. pages 65-118. Chattopadhyay, Prithviraj, George, Elizabeth, Shulman, Arthur (2008) "The influence of sex dissimilarity in distributive versus collocated groups", Organization Science, 19: 581-593.

Ya-Ping GONG Associate Professor (2358 7748 ; [email protected])

PhD, Ohio State University (2002)

Current Research Activities: Subsidiary staffing in multinational firms; multinational groups; human resources management systems and firm performance; cross- cultural adjustment issues; social identity; goal orientation and goal setting

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Managing human resources for creativity: A cross-level, longitudinal examination of the impacts of human resource practices on employee creativity RGC - General Research Fund HK$283,015 01 Jul 2009

Representative Research Publications: Gong, Yaping, Law, Kenneth, Chang, Song, Xin, Katherine (2009) "Human resource management and firm performance: The differential role of managerial affective and continuance commitment", Journal of Applied Psychology, 94: 263-275. Kim, Hyondong, Gong, Yaping (2009) "The roles of tacit knowledge and OCB in the relationship between group-based pay and firm performance.", Human Resource Management Journal, 19(2): 120-139. Gong, Yaping, Chang, Song (2008) "Institutional antecedents and performance consequences of employment security and career advancement practices: Evidence from the People's Republic of China", Human Resource Management, Volume 47, page 33-48. Gong, Yaping, Shenkar, Oded, Luo, Yadong, Nyaw, Mee-Kau (2007) "Parent multiplicity and international joint venture performance: The mediating role of contract completeness and partner cooperation", Strategic Management Journal, volume 28, page 1021-1034. Gong, Yaping, Fan, Jinyan (2006) "Longitudinal examination of the role of goal orientation in cross-cultural adjustment", Journal of Applied Psychology, volume 91, pp. 176-184. Gong, Yaping, Shenkar, Oded, Luo, Yadong, Nyaw, Mee-Kau (2005) "Human resources and international joint venture performance: A system perspective", Journal of International Business Studies, volume 36, pp. 505-518. Gong, Yaping (2003) "Subsidiary staffing in multinational enterprises: Agency, resources, and performance", Academy of Management Journal, 46, 728-739. Gong, Yaping (2003) "Toward a dynamic process model of staffing composition and subsidiary outcomes in multinational enterprises", Journal of Management, 29, 259-280.

Riki TAKEUCHI Associate Professor (2358 7741 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Maryland, College Park (2003) Current Research Activities: Expatriate adjustment and international HRM; strategic HRM; social exchange relationships (organizational justice and organizational citizenship behaviors).

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Motives approach to organizational citizenship behaviors: moderating the effects social exchange relationship quality RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$128,000 30 Jun 2007 Accumulated knowledge on expatriate adjustment: a review and synthesis for way forward UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$55,000 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Takeuchi, Riki, Wang, Mo, Marinova, Sophia V., Yao, Xin (2009) "The role of domain-specific perceived organizational support during expatriation and their implications for performance", Organization Science, 20, 3, 621-634. Takeuchi, Riki, Shay, Jeffrey P., Li, Jiatao (2008) "When does decision autonomy increase expatriates' adjustment? An empirical test.", Academy of Management Journal, 51, 45-60. Takeuchi, Riki, Lepak, David P., Wang, Heli, Takeuchi, Kazuo (2007) "An empirical examination of the mechanisms mediating between high performance work systems and the performance of Japanese organizations", Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 1069- 1083. Wang, Mo, Takeuchi, Riki (2007) "The role of goal orientation during expatriation: A cross-sectional and longitudinal investigation", Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 1437-1445. Yun, Seokhwa, Takeuchi, Riki, Liu, Wei (2007) "Employee self-enhancement motives and job performance behaviors: Investigating the moderating effects of employee role ambiguity and managerial perceptions of employee commitment", Journal of Applied Psychology, 92(3), 745-756. Cao, Qing, Maruping, Likoebe, Takeuchi, Riki (2006) "Disentangling the effects of CEO turnover and succession on organizational capabilities: A social network perspective", Organization Science, 17(5), 563-576. Takeuchi, Riki, Wang, Mo, Marinova, Sophia (2005) "Antecedents and consequences of psychological workplace strain during expatriation: A cross-sectional and longitudinal investigation.", Personnel Psychology, 48, 925-948. Takeuchi, Riki, Tesluk, Paul E., Yun, Seokhwa, Lepak, David P. (2005) "An integrative view of international experiences", Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 48, pp. 85-100.

Heli C WANG Associate Professor (2358 7743 ; [email protected])

PhD, Ohio State University (2002)

Current Research Activities: Corporate diversification and M&A; internal capital markets; agency theory and corporate governance; risk management; stakeholder theory.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Corporate philanthropy and financial performance of Chinese firms: the roles of social expectations and political access RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$24,991 30 Jun 2009 Firm-specific knowledge resources and competitive advantage: The roles of economic- and relationship-based employee governance mechanisms RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$74,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications: He, Jinyu, Wang, Heli (2009) "Firm innovative knowledge assets and economic performance: The asymmetric roles of incentive- and monitoring-based governance mechanisms.", Academy of Management Journal., In print. Wang, Heli, He, Jinyu, Mahoney, Joseph (2009) "Firm-specific knowledge resources and competitive advantage: The roles of economic- and relationship-based employee governance mechanisms.", Strategic Management Journal, In print. Choi, Jae Pil, Wang, Heli (2009) "Stakeholder relations and the persistence of corporate financial performance.", Strategic Management Journal, in print. Wang, Heli, Barney, Jay (2004) "Employee incentives to make firm specific investment: Implications for resource-based theories of corporate diversification", Academy of Management Review. Lim, Sonya, Wang, Heli (2004) "The Effect of Financial Hedging on the Incentives for Corporate Diversification: The Role of Stakeholder Firm-specific Investments", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, N/A, forthcoming.

Kin Fai Ellick WONG Associate Professor (2358 8063 ; [email protected])

PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong (2000)

Current Research Activities: Managerial decision making; human judgment and decision processes; language processing; human attention.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Understanding justice perceptions from interpersonal input comparisons: A prospect theory perspective RGC - General Research Fund HK$445,000 01 Jan 2009 Individual differences in self-regulation and job performance RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$55,200 30 Jun 2009

Representative Research Publications: Wong, Kin Fai Ellick, Chen, H.-C. (2009) "Forward and backward repetition blindness in speed and accuracy", Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35, 778-786. Wong, Kin Fai Ellick, Kwong, Jessica Y. Y. (2007) "Effects of rater goals on rating patterns in performance evaluation: Evidence from an experimental field study", Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 577-585. Wong, Kin Fai Ellick, Kwong, Jessica Y. Y. (2007) "The role of anticipated regret in escalation of commitment", Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 545-554. Wong, Kin Fai Ellick, Yik, Michelle, Kwong, Jessica Y. Y. (2006) "Understanding the emotional aspects of escalation of commitment: The role of negative affect", Journal of Applied Psychology, 91 (2), 282-297. Wong, Kin Fai Ellick, Kwong, Jessica Y. Y. (2005) "Comparing two tiny giants or two huge dwarfs? Preference reversals owing to number size framing.", Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 98, 54-65. Wong, Kin Fai Ellick (2005) "The role of risk in making decisions under escalation situations", Applied Psychology: An International Review, 54 (4), 584-607. Wong, Kin Fai Ellick, Kwong, Jessica Y. Y. (2005) "Between-individual comparisons in performance evaluation: A perspective from prospect theory", Journal of Applied Psychology, 90, 284-294. Wong, Kin Fai Ellick (2002) "The relationship between attentional blink and psychological refractory period", Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 54-71.

Stephen W NASON Adjunct Associate Professor (2358 7759 ; [email protected]) Current Research Activities: Organizational learning, cross-cultural and Chinese management, international human resource management, and joint venture effectiveness in China.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Organizational learning in hyper-dynamic environments: Hong Kong and PRC RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$20,000 01 Nov 2002 Organizational learning in hyper-dynamic environments: Hong Kong and PRC RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$10,000 01 Nov 2004

Representative Research Publications: Milliman, John, Nason, Stephen, Zhu, Cherrie, De Cieri, Helen (2002) "An Exploratory Study of the Purpose of Performance Appraisal in Asia, Latin America, and North America", Human Resource Management Journal, 41: 87-102.

Man Chi CHAO Assistant Professor (2358 7739 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Multicultural psychology; globalization organizational behavior; normative judgments; social identification; social categorization.

Jinyu HE Assistant Professor (2358 7738 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (2005)

Current Research Activities: Competitive dynamics; coopetition; strategic factor markets; corporate governance.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Corporate governance and firm-level competitive behavior RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$90,000 01 Nov 2005 CEO-board interaction and corporate decision marking: A social status perspective RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$15,000 01 Apr 2009 The Strategic Consequences of Firm-level and Industry-level Co-opetition UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Dec 2006 The strategic antecedences, patterns, and performance implications of inter-firm co-opetition UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications: Gnyawali, Devi R., He, Jinyu, Madhavan, Ravindranath (2006) "Effects of Network Structure on Competitive Behavior: An Empirical Examination", Journal of Management, 32(4): 507-530. Zhi HUANG Assistant Professor (2358 7732 ; [email protected])

PhD, Boston College

Current Research Activities: Organizational theory, organizational sociology, status and relational network structures, and organizational behaviors and outcomes.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: What to signal? Status and patterns of organizational market signaling RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 22 Oct 2007

Jeroen G KUILMAN Assistant Professor (2358 7745 ; [email protected])

Ph.D., Erasmus University Rotterdam

Current Research Activities: Organizational sociology, international strategy/management, organizational theory, and industrial dynamics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The Demography of Resources: Founding Conditions, Innovation Adoption, and Organizational Performance in the U.K. Airline Industry, 1919-1975 RGC - General Research Fund HK$327,313 01 Jul 2009

Representative Research Publications: Kuilman, Jeroen G, Li, Jiatao (2009) "Grades of Membership and Legitimacy Spillovers: Foreign Banks in Shanghai, 1847- 1935", Academy of Management Journal, 52: 229-245. Kuilman, Jeroen G, Vermeulen, Ivar, Li, Jiatao (2009) "The Consequents of Pre-Entry Ecologies: A Logical Formalization", Academy of Management Review, 34: 253-272. Kuilman, Jeroen G, Wezel, Filippo C (2008) "Reaching consensus? Name extensions and organizational mortality in the U.K. passenger airline industry", Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim, August 2008. Kuilman, Jeroen G, Vermeulen, Ivar, Li, Jiatao (2008) "The Consequents of Organizer Ecologies: A Logical Formalization", Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim, August 2008, Included in the AOM Best Paper Proceedings.

Alex B MARKLE Assistant Professor (2358 7736 ; [email protected]) Current Research Activities: Organizational behavior; managerial learning in different cultural settings; managerial judgment and decision making.

Emily M NASON Assistant Professor (2358 7746 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (2005)

Current Research Activities: Organizational justice; negotiations and conflict management; behavioral decision making; cross-cultural human resource and knowledge management.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Knowledge creation and management in Singapore's transition to a knowledge-based economy RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$90,000 23 Jul 2005 Organizational justice in the context of uncertainty RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$15,000 30 Jun 2009

Bilian NI SULLIVAN Assistant Professor (2358 7747 ; [email protected])

PhD, Stanford University (Organization Behavior) (2003)

Current Research Activities: Organizational learning and change; organizational and inter-organizational networks; international management; decision-making

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The Role of Institutional Factors in Firm Innovation: Innovation Policies (or Regulations) and Firm Innovation in China RGC - General Research Fund HK$941,000 01 Dec 2008 Institutional and relational influences on firm innovations in China UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 15 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications: Sullivan, Bilian, Morris, M, Podolny, J (2008) "Culture and Coworker Relations: Interpersonal Patterns in American, Chinese, German, and Spainish Divisions of a Global Retail Bank", Organization Science, 19: 517 - 532. Sullivan, Bilian, Morris, M, Podolny, J (2008) "Culture and Coworker Relations: Interpersonal Patterns in American, Chinese, German, and Spanish Divisions of a Global Retail Bank", Organization Science, 19: 517 - 532. Sullivan, Bilian, Haunschild, P, Page, K (2007) "Organizations non-gratae?: The impact of unethical corporate behavior on interorganizational netwoks", Organization Science, 18: 55 - 70. Sullivan, Bilian, Haunschild, Pamela, Page, Karen (2007) "Organizations non-gratae?: The impact of unethical corporate behavior on interorganizational networks", Organization Science, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp55 - 70. Sullivan, Bilian, Tang, Yi (2007) "The Contingent Role of Small World Networks on Firm Performance: Evidence from Venture Capital Firms", AOM Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management Meetings. Sullivan, Bilian, Stewart, Daniel (2006) "Can Connections always Help? Network Ties and the Formation of Reputation Evaluation", Academy of Management Meetings in Atlanta, Academy of Management Meetings in Atlanta. Sullivan, Bilian, Tang, Yi, Haunschild, Pamela (2006) "Learning Capability and Firm Networks in Formation of Strategic Alliances for Start-up Companies", Academy of Management Meetings in Atlanta, Academy of Management Meetings in Atlanta. Sullivan, Bilian (2005) "Notes on the Evolution of a Research Community: Organization Studies in Anglophone North America,1945-2000.", Organization Science, Vol. 16, Issue 1: 85-95. Department of Marketing

A V MUTHUKRISHNAN, Acting Head and Associate Professor

Wilfried R R VANHONACKER, Chair Professor

Jaideep SENGUPTA, Professor

Jeongwen CHIANG, Adjunct Professor

Amnon RAPOPORT, Adjunct Professor

Robert S WYER, Adjunct Professor

Rashmi ADAVAL, Associate Professor

Kristiaan HELSEN, Associate Professor

Inseong SONG, Associate Professor

Rongrong ZHOU, Associate Professor

Joseph SALVACRUZ, Adjunct Associate Professor

Amy N DALTON, Assistant Professor

Rodolphe T G DUCLOS, Assistant Professor

Maria GALLI, Assistant Professor

Liang GUO, Assistant Professor

Jiewen HONG, Assistant Professor

Anirban MUKHOPADHYAY, Assistant Professor

Yi XIANG, Assistant Professor

Ying ZHAO, Assistant Professor

Oliver Yue ZHAO, Adjunct Assistant Professor A V MUTHUKRISHNAN Acting Head and Associate Professor (2358 7715 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Florida (1993) Assistant Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University (1993-95)

Current Research Activities: Consumer judgment and decision making.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Ambiguity Aversion and Established Brand Preference RGC - General Research Fund HK$609,098 01 Sep 2009 Ambiguity aversion and preference for the established brand RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$84,000 30 Jun 2007 Centralized RA support for 2007 RPC projects of Marketing Department UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$100,000 01 Jun 2007 Farmers' crop choices and decision making UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Dec 2007 Ambiguity aversion and preference for the established brand UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$55,000 01 Dec 2008 Sticky choices in unfiltered choice sets UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$55,000 01 Feb 2009

Representative Research Publications: Muthukrishnan, A.V., Chattopadhyay, Amitava (2007) "Just Give Me Another Chance: The Strategies for Brand Recovery from a Bad First Impression", Journal of Marketing Research, XLIV 334-345. Muthukrishnan, A. V., Wathieu, Luc (2007) "Superfluous Choices and the Persistence of Preference", Journal of Consumer Research, 33, 454-460. Wathieu, Luc, Muthukrishnan, Anaimalai, Bronnenberg, Bart (2004) "The Asymmetric Effect of Discount Retraction on Subsequent Choice", Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 31, Number 3, December 2004,652-657. Wathieu, Luc, Muthukrishnan, Anaimalai, Bronnenberg, Bart (2004) "Refereed Conference Paper", Behavioral Decision Research in Management (BDRM), Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA, April. Zwick, Rami, Rappoport, Amnon, Lo, Allison, Muthukrishnan, Anaimalai (2003) "Consumer Sequential Search: Not Enough or Too Much?", MARKETING SCIENCE, Vol. 22 (4), 503-519. Zwick, Rami, Rappoport, Amnon, Lo, Allison, Muthukrishnan, Anaimalai (2003) "Journal Article", MARKETING SCIENCE, Vol. 22 (4), 503-519. Pham, Michel, Muthukrishnan, Anaimalai (2002) "Search and Alignment in Judgment Revision: Implications for Brand Positioning", Journal of Marketing Research, 39, 18-30. Nedungadi, Prakash, Chattophadhyay, Amitava, Muthukrishnan, Anaimalai (2001) "Category Structure, Brand Recall, and Choice", International Journal of Research in Marketing, 18, 191-202.

Wilfried R R VANHONACKER Chair Professor (2358 7691 ; [email protected])

PhD, Purdue University (1979) Professor of Marketing, INSEAD, Fontainebleau (1990- )

Current Research Activities: Dynamic choice modeling; data trans- ferability; choice set/consideration set formation process modeling; brand loyalty development and customer satisfaction measurement; cross-cultural marketing issues with PRC focus.

Representative Research Publications: Vanhonacker, Wilfried R (2004) "Guanxi Networks in China", The China Business Review, 31 (number 3), 48-53. Vanhonacker, Wilfried R (2004) The China Casebook, McGraw Hill Education, Singapore, 1-350. Vanhonacker, Wilfried R (2004) "When Good Guanxi Turns Bad", Harvard Business Review, April 2004, 18-19.

Jaideep SENGUPTA Professor (2358 7718 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Cali- fornia, Los Angeles (1996) Marketing Executive, ANZ Grindlays Bank (1991)

Current Research Activities: Effects of marketing communications; consumer information processing; attitude strength; e-commerce.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Flattery and its Consequences: A New Look RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$176,282 15 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Mukhopadhyay, Anirban, Sengupta, Jaideep, Ramanathan, Suresh (2008) "Recalling Past Temptations: An Information- Processing Perspective on the Dynamics of Self-Control", Journal of Consumer Research, 35 (4), December, 586-599. Sengupta, Jaideep, Dahl, Darren (2008) "Gender-Related Reactions to Gratuitous Sex Appeals in Advertising", Journal of Consumer Psychology, vol 18 (1), 62-78. Sengupta, Jaideep, Zhou, Rongrong (2007) "Understanding Impulsive Eaters' Choice Behaviors: The Motivational Influences of Regulatory Focus", Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 44 Issue 2, p297-308. Johar, Gita, Sengupta, Jaideep, Aaker, Jennifer (2005) "Two Roads to Updating Brand Personality Impressions: Trait versus Evaluative Inferencing", Journal of Marketing Research, November (2005) 458- 469. Sengupta, Jaideep, Fitzsimons, Gavan (2004-2005) "The Effects of Analyzing Reasons on the Stability of Brand Attitudes", Journal of Consumer Research, Vol 31 (December 2004), 705-711. Gorn, Gerald, Chattopadhyay, Amitava, Sengupta, Jaideep, Tripathi, Shashank (2003-2004) "Waiting for the Web: How Screen Color Affects Time Perception", Journal of Marketing Research, Vol 41 (2), pp. 215-225. Johar, Gita, Sengupta, Jaideep (2002) "The effects of dissimulation on the accessibility and predictive power of weakly held attitudes", Social Cognition, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 247-293. Sengupta, Jaideep, Gorn, Gerald (2002) "Absence Makes the Mind Grow Sharper: The Effect of Element Omission on Subsequent Recall", Journal of Marketing Research, 39, 186-201.

Jeongwen CHIANG Adjunct Professor (2358 7700 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Minnesota (1988) Assistant Professor, Washington University (1992)

Current Research Activities: Consumer choice; promotion; customer satisfaction; database marketing; competition in telecommunication industry. Representative Research Publications: Chiang, Jeongwen (2002) "Product Innovation Strategies for Established Market Pioneers and Later Entrants", Strategy Management Journal, Vol. 23(9), pp. 855-866.

Amnon RAPOPORT Adjunct Professor ([email protected])

PhD, University of Northern Carolina (1965) Karl Eller Professor, University of Arizona (1989- )

Current Research Activities: Individual choice behavior; behavioral game theory; interactive behavior: bargaining, coordination.

Robert S WYER Adjunct Professor (2358 7713 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Colorado (1962) Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1973)

Current Research Activities: Information processing; representation of narrative information in memory and its use in judgment; priming effects on comprehension, judgment and decisions; memory processes; affect and cognition.

Representative Research Publications: Wyer, Robert S (2009) "Culture and information processing: A conceptual framework", In R. S. Wyer, C.-y. Chiu & Y.-y Hong (Eds). Understanding culture: Theory, research and application. New York: Psychology Press., pp. 431-455. Hung, I.W.P., Wyer, Robert S (2009) "Differences in perspective and the influence of charitable appeals: When imagining oneself as the victim is not always beneficial", Journal of Marketing Research, 46, 421-434. Steinhart, Y., Wyer, Robert S (2009) "Motivational roots of need for cognition", European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 608- 621. Jiang, Y.W., Wyer, Robert S (2009) "The role of visual perspective in information processing", Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 486-495. Wyer, Robert S (2008) "Automaticity", In Donsbach (Ed.), The International encyclopedia of communication. Malden, MA: Wiley- Blackwell., vol. 1, pp. 276-278. Hong, Y.Y., Wyer, Robert S, Fong, C.P.S. (2008) "Chinese working in groups: Effort dispensability versus normative influence", Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 11, 187-195. Lee, H.J., Park, J.W., Lee, J.Y., Wyer, Robert S (2008) "Disposition effects and underlying mechanisms in the e-trading of stocks", Journal of Marketing Research, 45, 362-378. Shen, H., Wyer, Robert S (2008) "Procedural priming and consumer judgments: Effects on the impact of positively and negatively valenced information", Journal of Consumer Research, 34, 727-737.

Rashmi ADAVAL Associate Professor (2358 7714 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1996) Visiting Assistant Professor and Research Associate, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1996-98)

Current Research Activities: Impact of affect and other contextual cues on evaluations; narrative representations of visual and verbal information in memory; automaticity; stereotyping.

Representative Research Publications: Adaval, Rashmi (2007) "The Role of Language and Images in the Creation and Use of Advertising Myths", Psycholinguistic Phenomena in Marketing Communications, Edited by Tina M. Lowrey, Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 177-202. Adaval, Rashmi, Linda M., Isbell, Wyer, Robert S. (2007) "The Impact of Pictures on Narrative- and List-Based Impression Formation: A Process Interference Model", Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43 (May) 352-364. Adaval, Rashmi (2007) "The Role of Language and Images in the Creation and Use of Advertising Myths", in Tina M. Lowrey (ed.), Psycholinguistic Phenomena in Marketing, Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 177-202. Aradhna, Krishna, Wagner, Mary, Yoon, Carolyn, Adaval, Rashmi (2006) "Effects of Extreme-Priced Products on Consumer Reservation Prices", Journal of Consumer Psychology, April, 2006. Adaval, Rashmi (2005) "Culture and Cognition: The Case of Irrational Beliefs about Luck", Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. 33, eds: Connie Pechman and Linda Price, Ann Arbor, MI: Association of Consumer Research. Adaval, Rashmi (2004-2005) "Memory for Observed Social Interactions: The Influence of Processing Goals on the Mental Representation of Visual and Auditory Information", Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, July, 450-465. Adaval, Rashmi, Wyer, Robert (2004) "Communicating about a social interaction: Effects on memory for protagonists' statements and nonverbal behaviors", Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 40, pp. 450-465. Wyer, Robert, Adaval, Rashmi (2003-2004) "Pictures, Words, and Media Influence: The Interactive Effects of Verbal and Nonverbal Information on Memory and Judgments", The Psychology of Entertainment Media: Blurring the Lines Between Entertainment and Persuasion, Editor: L. J. Shrum, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, Mahwah, New Jersey, pp. 137-159.

Kristiaan HELSEN Associate Professor (2358 7720 ; [email protected])

PhD, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (1990) Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Chicago (1990-95)

Current Research Activities: Competitive marketing; hazard rate modeling; international marketing; new products modeling.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The impact of product recalls on consumer behavior and market responsiveness: An empirical cross-country analysis RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,323,486 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Helsen, Kristiaan (2002) "The domain of competitive response to new product introductions: The case of refrigerated orange juice", European Marketing Academy, Minho (Portugal), CD-Rom. Helsen, Kristiaan (2001) "The domain of competitive response to new product introductions: The case of refrigerated orange juice", Marketing Science Conference, INFORMS, Wiesbaden. Inseong SONG Associate Professor (2358 7706 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Chicago (2002)

Current Research Activities: Dynamics of the demand for new products; measuring and exploiting consumer heterogeneity; understanding firms' strategic and competitive behaviors.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: An optimal sampling network for new product testing RGC - General Research Fund HK$620,800 01 Aug 2007

Representative Research Publications: Song, Inseong, Chintagunta, Pradeep K. (2007) "A Discrete-Continuous Model for Multicategory Purchase Behavior of Households", Journal of Marketing Research, Volume XLIV, 595-612. Song, Inseong, Chintagunta, Pradeep K. (2006) "Measuring Cross-Category Price Effects with Aggregate Store Data", Management science, Volume 52, Number 10, October 2006, 1594-1609. Anderson, Eric T., Song, Inseong (2004-2005) "Coordinating Price Reductions and Coupon Events", Journal of Marketing Reserach, Volume XLI, November 2004, 411-422. Song, Inseong, Chintagunta, Pradeep K. (2003-2004) "A Micromodel of New Product Adoption with Heterogeneous and Forward- Looking Consumers: Application to the Digital Camera Category", Qauntitative Marketing and Economics, Volume 1, 371-407. Chintagunta, Pradeep K., Bonfrer, Andre, Song, Inseong (2002) "Investigating the effects of store brand introduction on retailer demand and pricing behavior", Management Science, Vol. 48, No. 19, 1242-1267.

Rongrong ZHOU Associate Professor (2358 7702 ; [email protected] ; http://www.bm.ust.hk/~mark/staff/mkrrzhou.html)

PhD, Columbia University (2001)

Current Research Activities: Consumer decision making; financial decision making; customer experiences in services; social influences in consumer behavior.

Representative Research Publications: Krishna, Aradhna, Zhou, Rongrong, Zhang, Shi (2008) "“The Effect of Self-Construal on Spatial Judgments'", Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 35, August, 337-348. Zhou, Rongrong, Soman, Dilip (2008) "Consumers Waiting in Queues: The Role of First-order and Second-order Justice", Psychology and Marketing, Vol. 25, March, 262-279. Sengupta, Jaideep, Zhou, Rongrong (2007) "Understanding Impulsives' Choice Behaviors: The Motivational Influences of Regulatory Focus,", Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 44, May, page 297- 308. Zhou, Rongrong, Sengupta, Jaideep (2006) "Motivational Influences in Consumer Behavior: The Role of Regulatory Focus", Advances in Consumer Research, vol. XXXIII. Zhou, Rongrong, Pham, Michel Tuan (2004) "Advances in the Psychology of Consumer Investment", Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. 31, 604-606. Zhou, Rongrong, Pham, Michel Tuan (2004) "Promotion and Prevention across Mental Accounts: When Financial Products Dictate Consumers' Investment Goals", Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 31, Number 1, June. Zhou, Rongrong, Soman, Dilip (2003) "Looking Back: Exploring the Psychology of Queuing and the Effect of the Number of People Behind", Journal of Consumer Research, 29 (March) 517-530. Zhou, Rongrong (2001-2002) "Waiting for Service: Affective Responses, Satisfaction and Decision-making of Consumers Waiting in Queues", Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. 29.

Joseph SALVACRUZ Adjunct Associate Professor (2358 7697 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Kentucky (1993) Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland (1994- )

Current Research Activities: Strategic marketing management; branding; international marketing and business; food and agribusiness marketing; applied economics / econometrics.

Amy N DALTON Assistant Professor (2358 7698 ; [email protected])

PhD, Duke University

Current Research Activities: Nonconscious processes and behaviors: identity and self-esteem; motivation and goal pursuit.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Brands as self-expression vehicles: valuing brands we want to be like and devaluing those we don't RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Oct 2008

Rodolphe T G DUCLOS Assistant Professor (2358 7692 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Consumer psychology; preference formation and evolution; decision making; impulsivity and self-regulation; charitable behavior.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: 1. The psychology of donation behavior: Why do consumers engage in prosocial behavior? 2. When is income tax perceived fair? RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 03 Nov 2008

Representative Research Publications: Duclos, Rodolphe, Bettman, Jim, Bloom, Paul, Zauberman, Gal (2008) "Charitable Giving: How Ego-Threats Impact Donations of Time and Money", Conference name: Journees de Recherche en Marketing de Bourgogne. Organized by: LABORATOIRE D'ECONOMIE ET DE GESTION, UMR CNRS 5118, CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN MARKETING DE BOURGOGNE, Equipe de Recherche de l'IAE Dijon, Membre du LEG., Location: Dijon, France; Period: November 2008; Volume 13.

Maria GALLI Assistant Professor (2358 7707 ; [email protected])

PhD, INSEAD (2004)

Current Research Activities: Associative learning; attitude-behavior relationship; automaticity.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Cross-cultural differences in reactivity to emotion-eliciting visual and verbal stimuli: Impact on consumer responses RGC - General Research Fund HK$813,450 01 Jan 2009

Liang GUO Assistant Professor (2358 7717 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~mkguo)

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (2004)

Current Research Activities: Marketing Strategy; Information and Contract; Economics of Social Culture; Structural Modeling of Consumer and Firm Behavior and Market Structure

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Voluntary Quality Disclosure and Market Interaction: Theoretical and Experimental Analysis RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,088,500 01 Jul 2008 The benefits of strategic store expansion in a distribution channel RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$78,500 30 Jun 2009

Representative Research Publications: Guo, Liang (2009) "The Benefits of Downstream Information Acquisition", Marketing Science, 28 (3), 457-471. Guo, Liang, Zhao, Ying (2009) "Voluntary Quality Disclosure and Market Interaction", Marketing Science, 28 (3), 488-501. Guo, Liang, Villas-Boas, J. Miguel (2007) "Consumer Stockpiling and Price Competition in Differentiated Markets", Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 16 (4), 827-858. Guo, Liang (2006) "Removing the Boundary between Structural and Reduced-Form Models", Marketing Science, 25(6), 629-632. Guo, Liang (2006) "Consumption Flexibility, Product Configuration, and Market Competition", Marketing Science, 25(2), 116-130.

Jiewen HONG Assistant Professor (2358 7694 ; [email protected])

PhD, Northwestern University

Current Research Activities: Affect and consumer judgment and decision making; consumer self-regulation; culture and persuasion.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Cultural differences in consumer decision making RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Sep 2008

Representative Research Publications: Wan, Echo Wen, Hong, Jiewen, Sternthal, Brian (2009) "The Effect of Regulatory Orientation and Decision Strategy on Brand Judgments", Journal of Consumer Research, 35 (April), 10266-1038.

Anirban MUKHOPADHYAY Assistant Professor (2358 7708 ; [email protected])

PhD, Columbia University (2004)

Current Research Activities: Consumer decision processes and their marketing implications; self-control and intertemporal behavior; agents, recommendations, and preferences; effects of consumers' implicit theories.

Representative Research Publications: Mukhopadhyay, Anirban, Sengupta, Jaideep, Ramanathan, Suresh (2008) "Recalling Past Temptations: An Information- Processing Perspective on the Dynamics of Self-Control", Journal of Consumer Research, 35, 4 (December), 586-599. Gershoff, Andrew, Mukherjee, Ashesh, Mukhopadhyay, Anirban (2008) "What's Not to Like? Preference Asymmetry in the False Consensus Effect", Journal of Consumer Research, 34, 1 (June), 119-125. Gershoff, Andrew, Mukherjee, Ashesh, Mukhopadhyay, Anirban (2007) "Few Ways to Love, but Many Ways to Hate: Attribute Ambiguity and the Positivity Effect in Agent Evaluation", Journal of Consumer Research, 33, 4 (March), 499-505. Mukhopadhyay, Anirban, Johar, Gita (2007) "Tempted or Not? The Effect of Recent Purchase History on Responses to Affective Advertising", Journal of Consumer Research, 33, 4 (March), 445-453. Gershoff, Andrew, Mukherjee, Ashesh, Mukhopadhyay, Anirban (2006) "’I Love It’ or ‘I Hate It’? The Positivity Effect in Stated Preferences for Agent Evaluation", Marketing Letters, 17, 103-117. Mukhopadhyay, Anirban, Johar, Gita (2005) "Where There Is a Will, Is There a Way? Effects of Lay Theories of Self-Control on Setting and Keeping Resolutions", Journal of Consumer Research, 31, 4 (March), 779-786.

Yi XIANG Assistant Professor (2358 7712 ; [email protected])

PhD, INSEAD Current Research Activities: Media strategy; marketing strategy; market evolution; business-to-business marketing; marketing channels; information economics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The packaging of news RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$81,893 01 Feb 2009

Ying ZHAO Assistant Professor (2358 7701 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (2001)

Current Research Activities: Empirical modeling of competitive strategies; impact of Internet on marketing strategies; pricing; consumer choice models and consumer decision making.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Modeling consumer choice behavior in the wake of product-harm crisis UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$55,000 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Guo, Liang, Zhao, Ying (2009) "Voluntary Quality Disclosure and Market Interaction", Marketing Science, volume 28 Nomver 3 May-June 2009. Chen, Yuxin, Yang, Sha, Zhao, Ying (2008) "A Model of Consumer Brand Choice with Negotiated Prices", Management Science, 54(3), 538-549. Zhao, Ying (2006) "Price Dispersion in the Grocery Market", Journal of Business, 79, 1175-1192. Zhao, Ying (2004) "Performance of Store Brands: A Cross-Country Analysis of Consumer Store Brand Preferences, Perceptions, and Risk", Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 41(1), 86-115. Zhao, Ying (2004) "Retailer, Manufacturers, and Individual Consumers: Modeling the Supply Side in the Ketchup Marketplace", Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 42, Iss. 1; p. 83-102.

Oliver Yue ZHAO Adjunct Assistant Professor (2358 7633 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Alberta (2000)

Current Research Activities: Business intelligence; marketing intelligence/CRM; data modeling; data mining; knowledge discovery and management. [HUMA] [SOSC]

DIVISION OF HUMANITIES

DIVISION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Division of Humanities

Zongli LU, Acting Head of Department and Associate Professor

Yiu Ming FUNG, Chair Professor

Chang Tai HUNG, Chair Professor

William TAY, Chair Professor

Kim Chong CHONG, Professor

William S Y WANG, Adjunct Professor

Charles W H CHAN, Associate Professor

Jianhua CHEN, Associate Professor

Li Fen CHEN, Associate Professor

Siu Woo CHEUNG, Associate Professor

Flora L T FU, Associate Professor

Virgil K Y HO, Associate Professor

Tik Sang LIU, Associate Professor

Jingtao SUN, Associate Professor

Xinyang WANG, Associate Professor

Simon M H WONG, Associate Professor

Angelina C C YEE, Associate Professor and Director, Center for Cultural Studies

Kam-Ming YIP, Associate Professor

Min ZHANG, Associate Professor

Xiaonong ZHU, Associate Professor

Kit Yee CHAN, Assistant Professor

Guanglin LIU, Assistant Professor

Jianxiong MA, Assistant Professor

Daisy S Y NG, Visiting Assistant Professor

Kenny K K NG, Assistant Professor

Lisa L M WONG, Assistant Professor

Carine Y M YIU, Assistant Professor Zongli LU Acting Head of Department and Associate Professor (2358 7761 ; [email protected])

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)

Current Research Activities: 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.

Representative Research Publications: Lu, Zongli (2008) "〈略論民間歌謠在漢代的政治作用及相關迷思〉 Political Roles and Myths of Folk Rhymes in Han China", 《社會 科學戰線》 Social Science Front, 9 (2008): 106-124. Lu, Zongli (2008) "〈讖緯與十六國北朝的政治與社會〉 Chen Prophecy and Apocrypha in Early Medieval Politics and Society of the North China .", 《1至6世紀中國北方社會、民族與邊疆國際學術研討會論文集》 Proceedings of the International Conference on Society, Ethnics, and Frontier Regions in North China, 1st to 6th Centuries Beijing: Science Press, 2008, pp. 253-298. Luan, Baoqun, Tian, Songqing, Lu, Zongli (2008) 王應麟《困學紀聞》(全校本) Ri zhi lu jishi (quanjiao ben), A thoroughly collated emended, and punctuated edition. Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 2008, 3 Vols. Luan, Baoqun, Lu, Zongli (2006) Gu Yanwu 顧炎武《日知錄集釋》(全校本) Ri zhi lu jishi (quanjiao), 3 vols, 2022 pages. Lu, Zongli (2006) "〈漢代 “妖言” 探討〉 An Exploration of Portentous Words in the Han Empire", 《中國史研究》 Research of Chinese History, 4 (2006): 39-58. Lu, Zongli (2005) "〈讖緯與魏晉南朝文學〉 Chen Prophecy and Apocryphal in Early Medieval Chinese Literature", 《漢魏六朝文學 與宗教》Han-Wei-Liuchao wenxue yu zongjiao, Ge Xiaoyin ed., 136-194. Lu, Zongli (2003) Power of the Words: Chen Prophecy in Chinese Politics, AD 265-518 , Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien: the Peter Lang AG, 349 pp. Lu, Zongli (2003) "“Han dai de liuyan yu eyan” 漢代的流言與訛言 Rumor and Rumor-like Utterance in the Han Empire", Lishi Yanjiu 歷史研究 Historical Research, No. 2 (2003): 14-31.

Yiu Ming FUNG Chair Professor (2358 7792 ; [email protected])

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)

Current Research Activities: New Confucianism; the logic of Chinese language; comparative philosophy.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Contemporary Neo-Confucianism in the modern context RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$27,148 01 Mar 2004

Representative Research Publications: Fung, Yiu-ming (2009) "A New Interpretation of the Relation between Ren and Li in the Analects (論語中仁與禮關係新詮)", NCCU Philosophical Journal (Taiwan: National Chengchi University)., no.21, pp. 129-158. Fung, Yiu-ming (2009) "Philosophy in the Han Dynasty", History of Chinese Philosophy, ed. by Bo Mou, Routledge., pp.269-302. Fung, Yiu-ming (2009) "School of Names", History of Chinese Philosophy, ed. by Bo Mou, Routledge., pp.164-188. Fung, Yiu Ming (2008) "Problematizing Contemporary Confucianism in East Asia", Teaching Confucianism, ed. by Jeffrey L. Richey, Oxford University Press, pp. 193-234. Fung, Yiu Ming (2007) "A Logical Perspective on 'Discourse on White-Horse'", Journal of Chinese Philosophy, USA, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 515-536. Fung, Yiu Ming (2007) "Paradigm Shifts in Chinese Confucianism (中國儒學的典範轉移)", Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture (International Edition), South Korea, vol. 8, pp. 1-33. Fung, Yiu-ming (2007) "Contemporary Confucianism in East Asia: The Main Problematic and Approaches", Journal of Nanjing University (Philosophy, Humanities and Social Sciences), Vol.44, No.2, pp.113-127. Fung, Yiu-ming (2007) "Paradigm Shifts in Chinese Confucianism", Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture (Korea), Vol.11, pp.147-187 .

Chang Tai HUNG Chair Professor (2358 7805 ; [email protected])

PhD, Harvard University (1981) Professor of History (1992-98), Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies (1993-98), Carleton College, Minnesota, USA

Current Research Activities: Modern Chinese cultural history; Chinese popular and folk culture; contemporary Chinese rituals and politics.

Representative Research Publications: Hung, Chang-tai (2009) "The Politics of National Celebrations in China", 'The People's Republic of China at 60: An International Assessment,' Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA., USA, 1-3 May 2009. Hung, Chang-tai (2008) "The Cult of the Red Martyr: Politics of Commemoration in China", Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 279-304. Hung, Chang-tai (2007) "Oil Paintings and Politics: Weaving a Heroic Tale of the Chinese Communist Revolution", Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 783-814. Hung, Chang-tai (2007) "Mao's Parades: State Spectacles in China in the 1950s", The China Quarterly, vol. 190, pp. 411-431. Hung, Chang-tai (2006) "〈空間與政治：擴建天安門廣場〉(Space and Politics: Expanding Tiananmen Square)", 《兩岸分途：冷戰 初期的政經發展》(Parting Ways: Politics and Economics across the Taiwan Straits since 1949), ed. by Chen Yung-fa (Taipei: Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, 2006), 207-259. Hung, Chang-tai (2005) "The Red Line: Creating a Museum of the Chinese Revolution", The China Quarterly, vol. 184, pp. 914- 933. Hung, Chang-tai (2005) "The Dance of Revolution: Yangge in Beijing in the Early 1950s", The China Quarterly, vol. 181, pp. 82-99. Hung, Chang-tai (2003) "Book review of Milena Dolezelova-Velingerova and Oldrich Kral (eds.), The Appropriation of Cultural Capital: China's May Fourth Project", The China Quarterly, vol. 173, pp. 238-239.

William TAY Chair Professor (2358 7825 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, San Diego (1977) Professor of Literature and Director of Graduate Studies, University of California, San Diego (1990)

Current Research Activities: Critical theory; cultural criticism; twentieth-century literature in Chinese.

Representative Research Publications: Tay, William (2007) 《從諾貝爾到張愛玲》 From the Nobel Prize to Eileen Chang, 255 pages. Tay, William (2005) 《電影類型與類型電影》 Film Genres and Genre Films (Tien-ying lei-hsing y lei-hsing tien-ying), 282 pages. Tay, William (2004) 《縱目傳聲》Distant Views, Echoing Voices, Hong Kong: Cosmos, 382 pages. Tay, William S. (2003) 《小說地圖》 A Map of Fiction, Taipei: iFront, 150 pages.

Kim Chong CHONG Professor (2358 7794 ; [email protected])

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

Current Research Activities: Ethics; comparative philosophy; early Confucianism; Zhuangzi.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A translation of Zhu Xi's philosophical works RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Mar 2005

Representative Research Publications: Chong, Kim-chong (2009) "Classical Confucianism (II): Meng Zi and Xun Zi", History of Chinese Philosophy, Bo Mou, pp.189-207. Chong, Kim-chong (2008) "Xunzi on Capacity, Ability and Constitutive Rules", Searle's Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy-- Constructive Engagement, Bo Mou, pp.295-310. Chong, Kim-chong (2008) "Xunzi and the Essentialist Mode of Thinking of Human Nature", Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Volume 35 No.1, 2008, pages 63-78. Chong, Kim-chong (2007) Critical Perspectives on Values Education in Asia, Singapore: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007. (Co-edited with Charlene Tan). Chong, Kim-chong (2007) Early Confucian Ethics--Concepts and Arguments (Chicago: Open Court, 2007), 185 pages. Chong, Kim-chong (2006) Conceptions of Virtue East and West (Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Academic), 301 pages. (Co- edited). Chong, Kim-chong (2006) "Zhuangzi and the Nature of Metaphor", Philosophy East and West, 56:3 (July 2006) pp.370-391. Chong, Kim-chong (2006) Scholarly Book (edited), Conceptions of Virtue East and West (Singapore: Marshall Cavendish), 301 pages.

William S Y WANG Adjunct Professor ([email protected])

PhD, University of Michigan (1960).Post-doctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1961). Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley (1965-94).

Current Research Activities: Evolution theory and linguistics; languages and peoples of China; language engineering.

Charles W H CHAN Associate Professor (2358 7765 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Toronto (1994) Lecturer, University of Western Ontario (1993-94)

Current Research Activities: Classical Confucianism; Song and Ming Neo-Confucianism; Taoism; Tokugawa Japanese Confucianism; comparative Chinese and Japanese thought and culture.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A study of Chu Hsi's interpretation of the Chung-yung RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$46,400 01 Jun 2009

Representative Research Publications: Chan, Wing Hoi (2007) "“糊塗齋主人筆下的當代知識分子” (Contemporary Chinese intelligentsia as portrayed by the late Professor Yao-tung Lu)", In 《結網三篇》 (Chieh-wang San-pien). Ed. C.L. Huang. Taipei: Tao-hsiang, 2007., pp. 261-322. Chan, Wing Hoi (2006) "朱子《中庸》結構說 上 (On Chu Hsi's analysis of the structure of the Chung-yung I ).", 《儒學、文化與宗 教——賀劉述先教授七秩壽慶論文集》 (Confucianism, Culture and Religion——Volume in Celebration of the 70th Birthday of Professor Shu-hsien Liu). Eds. Ming-huei Lee, Hai-yen Yeh and Chung-yi Cheng. Taipei: Taiwan Hsueh Sheng Shu Chu, 200, pp. 63-96. Chan, Wing Hoi (2006) "“從章句的分析到義理的通貫——朱子《中庸章句》的研究” (From the anatomy of the verses and sentences to the search for the internal consistency of the entire text: A study on the Zhongyong Zhangju by Zhu Xi).", 「注釋、詮釋與建構——朱 子與四書」國際學術會議 (International Conference on Zhu Xi and the Four Books——Commentaries, Hermeneutics, and Philosophical Construction), organized by Research Centre for Chinese Philosophy and Culture, Department of Philosophy, May 16-18, 2006. Chan, Wing Hoi (2001) "A Critical Analysis of the 'Sorai Gakkan' by Yoshikawa Kojiro", Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy Academia Sinica, 19, 499-550. Chan, Wing Hoi (2001) "A Preliminary Analysis of Chu Hsi's and Sorai's Interpretations of the Doctrine of the Mean", Transcendence and Immanence--Comparative and Multi-dimensional Perspectives, Hong Kong, 145-171. Chan, Wing Hoi (2001) "Introduction", Transcendence and Immanence--Comparative and Multi-dimensional Perspectives, Hong Kong, iii-xxxvi. Chan, Wing Hoi (2001) "On Chu Hsi's Interpretation of the Doctrine of the Mean: Focusing on the Concepts of Tao-shin and Jen- shin in the 'Preface' to His Commentary on the Book", Marching into the 21st Century of the Chu Hsi Study--Collection of Essays in Commemoration of the 870th Anniversary of Chu Hsi's Birthday and the 800th Anniversary of His Death, Jie-ren Zhu, Shanghai, 57-77. Chan, Wing Hoi, Liu, Shu Hsien, Cheng, Chung Yi, Fung, Yiu Ming (2001) Transcendence and Immanence--Comparative and Multi-dimensional Perspectives, Hong Kong.

Jianhua CHEN Associate Professor (2358 8909 ; [email protected])

PhD, Fudan University (1988) and Harvard University (2002) Lecturer of Chinese Literature, Fudan University (1988) Instructor of Chinese Literature, Oberlin College (2001-02)

Current Research Activities: Chinese poetics and hermeneutics; Ming-Qing literature; Republican urban and popular culture; Chinese revolution discourses and translation theory; Chinese literary and visual modernity.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Popular literature, politics, and visuality: A study of Zhou Shoujuan, domestic fiction and film, 1911-1927 RGC - General Research Fund HK$372,996 01 Sep 2007 Representative Research Publications: Chen, Jianhua (2009) "An Archaeology of Repressed Popularity: Zhou Shoujuan, Mao Dun, and Their 1920s Literary Polemics", Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture: Cannibalization of the Canon, eds., Carlos Rojas and Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, pp. 91-114. New York: Routledge. 陳, 建華 (2009) "共和憲政與家國想像：周瘦鵑與《申報‧自由談》，1921-1926", 文人論政——民國時期知識份子與報刊, 李金詮主編， 頁211-238，臺北：政大出版社，2009. 陳, 建華 (2008) "凝視與窺視：李漁《夏宜樓》與明清視覺文化", 《政大中文學報》 Bulletin of Department of Chinese Literature, National ChengChi University, 第9期（2008年6月），頁25-54. Chen, Jianhua (2008) "Canon Formation and Linguistic Turn: Literary Debates in Republican China, 1919-1949", In Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm: In Search of Chinese Modernity, ed. by Kai-Wing Chow, Tze-ki Hon, Hung-yok Ip, and Don C. Price (New York: Lexington Books), pp. 51-70. 陳, 建華 (2007) 《革命與形式--茅盾早期小說的現代性展開, 1927-1930》, 上海：復旦大學出版社, 288 pages. 陳, 建華 (2007) "〈1920年代「新」、「舊」文學之爭與文學公共空間的轉型--以文學雜誌「通信」與「談話會」欄目為例〉", 載於王汎 森等：《中國近代思想史的轉型時代--張灝院士七秩祝壽論文集》，臺北：聯經, 頁429-462. 陳, 建華 (2007) "〈中國電影批評的先驅--周瘦鵑《影戲話》讀解〉", 載於陳平原主編：《現代中國》，第9輯，北京：北京大學出版社, 頁53-76. 陳, 建華 (2006) 《帝制末與世紀末--中國文學文化考論》, 上海：上海教育出版社，324 頁。.

Li Fen CHEN Associate Professor (2358 7813 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Washington (1990)

Current Research Activities: Fiction; literary theory and cultural criticism; modern literature.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Thinking green: writing and filming ature in China and Taiwan UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$30,000 30 Jun 2009

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Li Fen (2009) "〈從馬肉米粉到蘇飛蛋奶酥—白先勇的饑餓事〉(From Rice Noodle to Souffl: Bai Xianyong’s Hunger Narrative)", 《台灣文學學報》(Bulletin of Taiwanese Literature) (National ChengChi University, Taiwan), Vol. 14. pp. 19-46. Chen, Li Fen (2008) "〈天花板下的旅人：尋找黃國峻〉(The Traveler under the Ceiling: In Search of Huang Guojun)", 《台灣文學研 究》(Taiwan Literature Studies) (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan), Vol. 1, No. 2. pp. 5-43. Chen, Li-fen (2007) "〈天花板下的旅人：尋找黃國峻〉(The Traveler under the Ceiling: In Search of Huang Guojun)", Interdisciplinary Interlocution: International Conference on Taiwan Literature and Culture under Globalization. National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan., Oct. 26- 27. Chen, Li-fen (2007) "〈誰怕張愛玲？--從黃碧雲的相機說起〉(Who's Afraid of Aileen Chang? - Huang Biyun and Her Camera)", 《張 愛玲：文學．電影．舞台》(Aileen Chang: Literature, Film, Stage). Ed. Lin Xingqian, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press., pp. 61-78. Chen, Li-Fen (2002) "Discoursing 'Taiwan': The Literary and Cultural Critiques in Taiwan in the 1990s", Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 111-145. Chen, Li-Fen (2002) "The Discourse of Naivete: Xi Xi's 'Mourning Breasts' and Women's Writings", Hong Kong Literature as/and Cultural Studies (eds. Zhang Meichun and Zhu Yiaowei), Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 517-530. Siu Woo CHEUNG Associate Professor (2358 7763 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Washington (1996)

Current Research Activities: Ethnicity and ethno-historical processes in South China and Vietnam; subject- identity constitution and representation; cultural politics among border peoples; anthropology of tourism.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Writing indigenism: Non-Han intellectuals' Chinese writings on Miao-Yi identities and frontier politics in southwest China during the republican period RGC - General Research Fund HK$674,040 01 Aug 2006

Representative Research Publications: Cheung, Siu-woo (2008) "梁聚五關於苗族身份認同的書寫：近代中國邊緣族群以漢語文表述我族身份認同的個案研究(Liang Juwu's Writings on Miao Identity: A Case Study of Marginal Ethnic Groups' Self-Representation through Chinese Writing in Mod", 《中國人類學 評論》(Review of Chinese Anthropology), Vol. 7, pp. 75-93. Cheung, Siu-woo (2006) "〈廣西京族跨國身份認同：試探中國邊界跨境民族研究〉(Transnational Identity Among the Jing People in Guangxi: On the Study of China's Cross-border Ethnic Groups).", In Tiantai Wu, ed.,《族群與社會》(Ethnicity and Society), pp., 231- 260. Taibei: Wu-nan. Liu, Tik-sang, Cheung, Siu-woo (2006) 《大澳》(Tai-O). Cheung, Siu-woo (2006) "〈廣西京族跨國身份認同：試探中國邊界跨境民族研究〉(Transnational Identity Among the Jing People in Guangxi: On the Study of China’s Cross-border Ethnic Groups)", 《族群與社會》(Ethnicity and Society), pp. 231-260. Cheung, Siu-woo (2004) " 'Miao Identity in Western Guizhou: Indigenism and the Politics of Appropriation in Southwest China during the Republican Period.'", Nicholas Tapp, Jean Michaud, Christian Culas, and Gary Lee, eds., Hmong/Miao in Asia, Chiangmai: Silkworm., pp.237-272. Cheung, Siu-woo (2004) " 〈中越邊界跨境交往與廣西京族跨國身份認同〉(Cross-border interaction along the Sino-Vietnamese border and the transnational identity among the Jing people in Guangxi)", 《歷史人類學刊 》(Journal of History and Anthropology), Volume 2, issue 1, pp. 89-133. Cheung, Siu-Woo (2004) "Miao Identity in Western Guizhou: Indigenism and the Politics of Appropriation in Southwest China during the Republican Period", Hmong/Miao in Asia, pp. 237-272. Cheung, Siu-Woo (2003) "'東江游擊隊與抗日戰爭期間的西貢' (The East River Guerilla Column and the Community of Sai Kung during the Anti-Japanese War)", 《西貢風物》(Customs and Heritage in Sai Kung), pp. 149-164.

Flora L T FU Associate Professor (2358 8024 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1995)

Current Research Activities: History of Chinese painting; Ming and Qing landscape painting; representation of famous mountains.

Representative Research Publications: Fu, Li-tsui, Flora (2009) Framing Famous Mountains: Grand Tour and Mingshan Paintings in Sixteenth Century China, The Chinese University Press. Fu, Li Tsui (2003) "From Grand Tour to Arm-Chair Travel: Paintings of Famous Mountains by Xong Xu", InternationalSymposium on Famous Mountains and Paintings of Famous Mountains in China. Fu, Li-Tsui (2001) "Shitao 'In the Spirit of Poems by Su Dongpo'", Enchanting Images: Late Chinese Painting and Calligraphy from the Shih-t'ou Shu-wu Collection (Taipei: Rock Publishing, 2001), pp. 110-112. Fu, Li Tsui (2001) "Shitao's 'In the Spirit of Poems by Su Dongpo'", Enchanting Images: Late Chinese Painting and Calligraphy from the Shih-t'ou Shu-wu Collection, Taipei, Rock Publishing, 110-112. Fu, Li-Tsui (2001) "Wen Boren 'Fourteen Views of Xunyang'", Enchanting Images: Late Chinese Painting and Calligraphy from the Shih-t'ou Shu-wu Collection, Taipei, Rock Publishing, 29-31. Fu, Li Tsui (2001) "Wen Boren's 'Fourteen Views of Xunyang'", Enchanting Images: Late Chinese Painting and Calligraphy from the Shih-t'ou Shu-wu Collection (Taipei: Rock Publishing, 2001), pp. 29-31.

Virgil K Y HO Associate Professor (2358 7802 ; [email protected])

DPhil, Oxford University (1995) Research Fellow, IASSA, Gothenburg University (1989-94)

Current Research Activities: Social and cultural history of modern China; perceptions and aspects of life in Republican Canton; political culture and political symbolisms in modern China.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The socio-cultural meanings of dwellings and architecture in Late-Qing and Republican Canton UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$80,000 08 Jun 2009

Representative Research Publications: Ho, Virgil kit yiu (2006) Understanding Canton: Rethinking popular culture in Republican Period. Ho, Virgil kit yiu (2005) "Martyrs or Ghosts? A Short Cultural History of a Tomb in Revolutionary Canton, 1911-1970", East Asian History, no.27, pp.99-138. Ho, Virgil Kit Yiu (2005) "What is wrong with capital punishment? Official and unofficial attitudes toward capital punishment in modern and contemporary China", The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment, pp. 274-290. Ho, Virgil Kit Yiu (2004-2005) "‘Martyrs or Spirit Soldiers? A short cultural history of a tomb in revolutionary Canton, 1911-1970’", East Asian History, in print. Ho, Kit Yiu Virgil, Aijmer, Goran (2001) Cantonese Society in a Time of Change. Ho, Virgil Kit Yiu (2001) "To laugh at a penniless man rather than a prostitute: The unofficial worlds of prostitution in late-Qing and early-Republican South China", European Journal of East Asian Studies, vol. 1, no. 1; pp.103-37.

Tik Sang LIU Associate Professor (2358 7799 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Pittsburgh (1995)

Current Research Activities: Family and kinship; popular religion in South China; ethnicity; ecological anthropology; visual anthropology.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Hong Kong's seafood system in a regional and global context RGC - General Research Fund HK$750,175 01 Jan 2008 Redefining the West River: Ming and Qing state building and the transformation of native society RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$496,560 01 Jul 2007 A study of the professional Daoist traditions in Hong Kong, the Pearl River Delta area, and South Vietnam RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$53,000 01 Feb 2004 The globalization of seafood consumption in Hong Kong RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$33,000 30 Jun 2005 Research and teaching activities: South China Research Center Give to UST Program HK$33,000 01 Mar 2004 Pan-Pearl River Delta Research Station, South China Research Center, HKUST Nansha Research Centers HK$2,301,000 01 Jul 2006 Pan-Pearl River Delta Research Station, South China Research Center, HKUST Nansha Research Centers HK$1,800,000 01 Jul 2008 Hong Kong culture and heritage Private Donor HK$20,000 01 Jun 2007 South China Research Center UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$200,000 18 Aug 2008 South China Research Center UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$70,000 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Liu, Tik-sang (2008) "Custom, Taste and Science: Raising Chickens in the Pearl River Delta Region, South China", Anthropology and Medicine, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 7-18. Liu, Tik-sang, Lo, Wai Ling (2007) Fengshui and Heritage: Documents of the Instance of Relocating the Ping Shan Tang Ancestral Grave in Nam Wan, Hong Kong's New Territories (in Chinese). Hong Kong: South China Research Center, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.. Liu, Tik-sang, Cheung, Siu-woo (2006) Tai O; Study of Local History, No. 2 (in Chinese) 大澳; 香港地區史研究之二 ., Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Co., Ltd.. Liu, Tik-Sang (2003) "A Nameless but Active Religion: An Anthropologist's View of Local Religion in Hong Kong and Macau", China Quarterly, 174: 373-394. Liu, Tik-Sang (2003) "From an Alliance Temple to a Local Cultural Symbol: The Local Political Meaning of Tian Hou Cult in Hong Kong's New Territories", (in Chinese) The Development and Changes of Mazu Cult. Editors: Meirong Lin, Xun Zhang, and Xianghui Cai. Taiwan: Taiwan Association for Religious Studies, 79-94. Liu, Tik-Sang, Cheung, Siu-Woo, Choi, Chi-Cheung (2002) Hong Kong History, Culture, and Society, Hong Kong: South China Research Center, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Liu, Tik-Sang (2002) "Ritual, Context, and Identity: The Lingmu Ritual of the Liangshan Yi People in Sichuan", Ethnography in China Today: A Critical Assessment of Methods and Results (ed. Daniel L. Overmyer), Taiwan, Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., Ltd., 157- 169. Liu, Tik-Sang (2002) "The Construction of Local Identity: The Cultural Interpretation of Tian Hou Cult in Hong Kong (Reprinted)", A Carnival of Gods: Studies of Religions in Hong Kong (ed. Chan Shun-hing), Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 222-235.

Jingtao SUN Associate Professor (2358 7795 ; [email protected])

PhD, The University of British Columbia (Chinese Linguistics) (2000) Lecturer, Peking University Visiting Assistant Professor, The University of Wisconsin at Madison Lecturer, The University of California at Davis (2001-2003)

Current Research Activities: My research field is Chinese linguistics, with emphasis on the interface between morphology and phonology. I am currently researching the morphological derivation in Old Chinese and the fission process in word formation in modern dialects. Recent publications: "Morphological Evidence for Reconstructing Lax-Tense Vowels in Old Chinese." 《語言暨語言學》專刊《李方桂先生百年誕辰紀念論文 集》 Special issue of Language and Linguistics: Collected Essays for Commemorating the Centennial Birthday of The Late Professor Li Fang-Kuei . (forthcoming) "Fission reduplication in Classical Chinese." Essays in Pre-Modern Chinese Grammar (ed. Ken-ichi Takashima). (forthcoming) "Retrogressive Reduplication in Old Chinese." In Journal of Chinese Linguistics Vol. 31.2:187-217. 2003. <試 論'於'字聲調的不規則演變> A Discussion on the Irregular Tonal Change of the Word yu . 《語言學論叢》 Collected Papers on Linguistics vol. 26. pp.44-58. 2002.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Word families in old Chinese: A study of morpho-phonological interface, dialectal variation, and lexical change RGC - General Research Fund HK$786,600 01 Nov 2007

Representative Research Publications: Sun, Jingtao (2008) "<說“營 ”——兼釋“宮”“營”二字> An Interpretation of yingku 營 - with some additional thoughts on gong 宮 and ying 營", 《華學》 Sinology, 9-10: 114-120. Sun, Jingtao (2008) 古漢語重疊構詞法研究 A Study of Reduplicative Morphology in Old Chinese, Shanghai: Shanghai Educational Publishing House, 239 pages. Sun, Jingtao (2007) "從兒化看音節的重量> A discussion on syllable weight on the basis of retroflex suffixation", 《中國語文》 Studies of Chinese Language, 4:298-301. Sun, Jingtao (2007) "語法化過程中無標記語音成分的實現 The realization of unmarked phonological components in grammaticalization", 《語法化與語法研究》 Studies on grammaticalization and grammar, 3:209-230. Sun, Jingtao (2006) "<順平(小城北)話的“入派三聲”> “Redistribution of entering tone among other three tones” in Shunping (Xiaochengbei) dialect", 《山高水長：丁邦新先生七秩壽慶論文集》(《語言 語言學》專刊外編之六) Linguistic Studies in Chinese and Neighboring Languages: Festschrift in Honor of Professor Pang-Hsin Ting on His 70th Birthday (Language and Linguistics Monograph series number W-6), pp.689-699. Sun, Jingtao (2006) "Fission Reduplication in Modern Chinese Dialects", Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, 1.1: 105-126. 孫 Sun, 景濤 Jingtao (2005) "<連讀變調與輕聲產生的年代> Tone sandhi and the time when neutral tone started", 《方言》 Dialect, 4: 329-336. SUN, Jingtao (2005) "Morphological Evidence for Reconstructing Lax-Tense Vowels in Old Chinese", 《漢語史研究：紀念李方桂先 生百年冥誕論文集》 Essays in Chinese Historical Linguistics: Festschrift in Memory of Professor Fang-Kuei Li on His Centennial Birthday (Special issue of《語言和語言學》 Language and Linguistics ), pp.147-162.

Xinyang WANG Associate Professor (2358 7767 ; [email protected])

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

Current Research Activities: Chinese diaspora history; comparative immigration studies; history of Sino-foreign relations.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Assimilation of Chinese in Thailand, 1840s to 1940s - melting pot or cultural pluralism? RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$60,000 01 Feb 2003 Changing attitudes of Chinese-Americans towards U.S. Politics: 1943-2008 UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 15 Jun 2009

Representative Research Publications: Wang, Xinyang (2001) "Devotion to the Madonna and Veneration of Ancestors: Religous Adjustment of Italian and Chinese Immigrants in New York City, 1890-1970", Studi Emigrazion (Emigration Studies), December, XXXVIII, 895-900. Wang, Xinyang (2001) Surviving the City: The Chinese Immigrant Experience in New York City, 1890-1970., Lamham, MD.: Roman & Littlefield Publishers.

Simon M H WONG Associate Professor (2358 7772 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Toronto (1996) Instructor, Wilfrid Laurier University (1993)

Current Research Activities: Confucianism; Neo-Confucianism; Taoism; Chinese Buddhism.

Representative Research Publications: Wong, Simon Man Ho (2009) "'Mou Tsung-san's Idea of 'Returning from Exoteric to Esoteric Teachings' and the Convergence of Confucianism and Christianity' (in Chinese)", Contemporary Confucianism and Spirituality, Ed. by Department of Religion and Philosophy, Hong Kong Baptist University, Guilin: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2009; pp. 215-233. Wong, Simon Man Ho (2008) "'A Re-evaluation of Chen Baisha's Learning of Nature' (in Chinese)", Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, Vol. 38, Issue 4 (2008): pp. 599-634. Wong, Simon Man Ho (2008) "An Introduction to Buddhist Thought--the History, Thoughts of Schools and Characteristics of Chinese Buddhism (in Chinese)", Chinese Civilization and the Way of Autonomy (book in Chinese), pp. 157-191. Wong, Simon Man Ho (2006) "Huang ZongXi's Theory of Mind as Seen in His Teacher's View on Mencius' (in Chinese)", Confucianism, Culture and Religion--Collection of Essays of the Celebration of the 70th Birthday of Mr. Liu Shu-hsien, pp. 25-42. Wong, Simon Man Ho (2003) "Hsiung Shih-li's Concept of Change", Second Collection of the Academic Discussions Concerning the Profound Orchard, Collection of Essays of the International Symposium on Hsiung Shih-li and the Chinese Traditional Culture (in Chinese), 165-175. Wong, Simon Man Ho (2002) "Mou Tsung-san's Discussion of the 'Perfect Teaching' of Buddhism (in Chinese)", The Sixth Conference on the Synthesis of Confucianism and Buddhism; Department of Philosophy, Hua-fan University; Taiwan.. Wong, Simon Man Ho (2001) "A Comparative Study of Confucianism and Buddhism from the Perspective of Liu Tsung-chou (in Chinese)", Transcendence and Immanence: Comparative and Multidimensional Perspectives, 173-194. Wong, Simon Man Ho (2001) "The Taoist Thought in Shao Yung's 'Kuan-wu nei-wai p'ien' (in Chinese)", Philosophical and Religious Taoism: Collection of Essays of the Second International Conference (Volume on Philosophical Taoism), 445-463.

Angelina C C YEE Associate Professor and Director, Center for Cultural Studies (2358 7798 ; [email protected])

PhD, Harvard University (1986) Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University (1989-90) Assistant and Associate Professor, University of Maryland (1990-95)

Current Research Activities: Narrative and drama; cultural criticism; colonial and post-colonial studies; gender studies.

Representative Research Publications: Yee, Angelina (2001-2002) "Cultural Studies and Higher Education in Hong Kong", International Symposium on Higher Education Boundary 2 and Hong Kong University Hong Kong University. Yee, Angelina (2001-2002) "Yang Kui", Modern Chinese Writers, 1900-149. Kam-Ming YIP Associate Professor (2358 7788 ; [email protected])

PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1993) Lecturer, Hong Kong Baptist University (1993-95)

Current Research Activities: Philosophy of language; Chinese logic; methodology of thinking; Taoism.

Representative Research Publications: Yip, Kam Ming (2006) "〈對孟子論辯的邏輯分析〉 A Logical Analysis of Mencius’Argumentation", In the Conference Proceedings on Confucianism, Culture, Religion and Comparative Philosophy—Presented to Professor Lui Shui-hsien in Honor of His Retirement, ed. By Lee Ming-hui, et al. Taiwan:Xuesheng Publishing Company, 2006., 53-61. Yip, Kam-Ming (2003) Logical Analysis and the Philosophy of Name and Disputation, Xue Sheng Publication, Taipei, 238 pages. Yip, Kam-Ming (2001) "〈圖靈機功能主義與道教全真派的心靈?〉 Turing Functionalism and the Taoist Conception of Mind .", In《天人之際與人禽之辨--比較與多元的?點》 Transcendence & Immanence--Comparative and Multidimensional Perspectives , ed. by Charles Chan et al.. Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001., 271-285.

Min ZHANG Associate Professor (2358 7803 ; [email protected])

PhD, Peking University (1991) Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, National University of Singapore (1993-99)

Current Research Activities: Chinese linguistics; Chinese historical grammar; Chinese dialectology; cognitive grammar of Chinese.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Center for Chinese Linguistics UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$60,000 01 Oct 2008

Xiaonong ZHU Associate Professor (2358 7797 ; [email protected])

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

Current Research Activities: evolutionary linguistics; Chinese historical phonology; Chinese dialectology; experimental phonetics; phonology.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A typological study of tone patterns in non-Cantonese Chinese dialects of Guangdong RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$40,000 30 Jun 2009 Speech sounds with special articulatory/phonatory features in Chinese dialects: A basic research topic in Chinese experimental phonology RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,098,000 15 Aug 2006

Representative Research Publications: Zhu, Xiaonong, Long, Congjun (2009) "弛聲化：佤語鬆元音. Slack voice: lax vowels in the Wa language", 《民族語文》Minority Languages of China, 2009.3. Zhu, Xiaonong, Liu, Zemin, Xu, Fuqiong (2009) "自發新生內爆音：來自贛語、閩語、哈尼語、吳語的一手材料. Implosives developed from natural sound change: new findings from Gan, Min, Hani, and Wu", 《方言》Dialect, 2009.1. Zhu, Xiaonong (2008) "音節和音節學. Syllable and syllabics.", 《東方語言學》Oriental Linguistics, 4: 142-164. Zhu, Xiaonong, Zhou, Xuewen (2008) "嘎裂化：哈尼語緊元音. Creaky voice: On the nature of tense vowels in the Hani language", 《民族語文》 Minority Languages of China, 2008.4: 9-18. Zhu, Xiaonong (2008) 《方法：語言學的靈魂》. 北京大學出版社. Methodology: The Soul of Linguistics. Beijing University. Zhu, Xiaonong, Cun, Xi (2007) "清濁音變圈：自然音變和泛時層次 A circle of sound changes in voicing", 《歷史層次與方言研究》 Historical Strata and Dialect Studies, ed by Pang Hsin Ting. 166-186. Shanghai Education Press., 166-186. Zhu, Xiaonong (2007) "近音. On approximant", 《方言》Dialect, 1: 2-9. 2007. Zhu, Xiaonong (2007) "證早期上聲帶假聲. Shangsheng originates from falsetto", Zhongguo Yuwen《中國語文》, 2:160-168. 2007.

Kit Yee CHAN Assistant Professor (2358 7807 ; [email protected])

PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2000)

Current Research Activities: Chinese Literature, Modern Chinese Fiction, Hong Kong Literature

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Literati's footsteps in the Kowloon Peninsula (1937-1969) RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$99,000 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Chan, Kit Yee (2009) "〈九十年代香港文學的建構方式──兼論余非小說〉 Constructing Hong Kong Literature of the 1990s: With a Study of Yu Fei's Short Stories .", .《中國文哲研究通訊》 Newsletter of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy (The Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Taipei), 19:1 (March 2009): 81-115. Chan, Kit Yee (2009) "〈論鍾曉陽〈良宵〉與香港的互文性〉 A discussion on the relationship between Sharon Zhong’s A Night for Romance and Hong Kong from the perspective of intertextuality", 《政大中文學報》 Bulletin of The Department of Chinese Literature of National Chengchi University, No. 11(June 2009):199-228. Chan, Kit Yee (2008) "〈《我城》的現代性：「未來觀」與「時間共存」〉 Modernity in My City: 'Concept of Future' and 'Coexistence of Different Temporalities'", 《中山人文學報》 Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung), Number 26 (Winter 2008): pp.61-76. Chan, Kit Yee (2008) "〈西西《我城》的科幻元素與現代性〉 An analysis of the scientific elements and the modernity of Xixi's My City", 《東華漢學》 Dong Hwa Jornal of Chinese Studies (National Dong Hwa University, Hualien), Vol. 8(Winter 2008): 231-253. Chan, Kit Yee (2008) "〈西西《我城》的科幻元素與現代性〉 An analysis of the scientific elements and the modernity of Xixi’s My City", 香港文學史研討會：騰飛的歲月──1949以來的香港文學研討會 The International Conference on the History of Hong Kong Literature , The University of Hong Kong, 28-30 April 2008. Chan, Kit Yee (2007) "〈「邊緣」內外：探討六十年代港台形塑「本土」文學經驗的異同──從殖民地文化空間看香港小說〉", 《苦 悶與蛻變：六○、七○年代台灣文學與社會》?台北：文津書局，2007年5月）, 頁684-718. Chan, Kit Yee (2006) "不忘來時路﹝下﹞－－選讀《香港文學》欣賞教材套﹝光碟版﹞之小說篇", 《城市文藝》，香港, 第3期，2006年4月，頁72-75. Chan, Kit Yee (2006) "不忘來時路﹝上﹞－－選讀《香港文學欣賞教材套》﹝光碟版﹞之小說篇", 《城市文藝》，香港, 第2期，2006年3月，頁65-70.

Guanglin LIU Assistant Professor (2358 7806 ; [email protected])

PhD, Harvard University (2005)

Current Research Activities: Political economy of late Imperial China; Neo-Confucianism and the market economy in a historical perspective; quantitative approaches in historical exploration.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Warfare and the market in China, 755-1279 RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$60,000 30 Jun 2009 Global Prices and Incomes, 1200-1950, Stage 2 National Science Foundation HK$199,196 15 Sep 2007

Representative Research Publications: Liu, Guanglin William (2007-2008) "Inland Trade and Water Transports in Pre-industrial China, 1000-1800", Trading Networks in Early Modern East Asia, Billy So & Angela Schottenhammer eds (accepted), East Asian maritime history, vol.13.

Jianxiong MA Assistant Professor (2358 7766 ; [email protected])

PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2007)

Current Research Activities: Ethnicity; kinship; tourism anthropology; ethnic minorities in China and in highland Southeast Asia.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Cross-border minorities: the case of the Lahu and the Wa on the borderland of Southwest Yunnan and Myanmar RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Ma, Jianxiong (2009) "Local Knowledge Constructed by the State: Reinterpreting Myths and Imagining the Migration History of the Lahu in Yunnan, Southwest China", Asian Ethnology, Volume 68, Number I. 2009, 111-129. Ma, Jianxiong (2008) "Reconstructing Lahu History in China", Challenging the Limits: Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region, p. 275-288.

Daisy S Y NG Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 7796 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film; Hong Kong film and culture; gender studies; cultural studies; interpreting studies.

Representative Research Publications: Ng, Daisy S Y (2008-2009) "Screen Memories: Re-configurations of the Past in Hong Kong Nostalgia Cinema", Evolving Cultural Memory in China and her Neighbours, Lee Cheuk-Yin and Hsiung Ping-chen.

Kenny K K NG Assistant Professor (2358 8908 ; [email protected])

PhD, Harvard University (2004)

Current Research Activities: modern chinese literary and cultural studies; media, visual and verbal culture; colonial cultural history and chinese cinema; globalization and modern Chinese culture.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Localism, nation building, and fictional writing: A study of Li Jieren and the modern Chinese historical novel RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$50,000 01 Jun 2006 Chinese cinemas in the cold war period: An trans-regional inquiry RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Jun 2008 Cultural production and circuits at Chinese locations in times of emergency RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$40,000 30 Jun 2009 Localism, nation building, and fictional writing: A study of Li Jieren and the modern Chinese historical novel RGC - General Research Fund HK$110,000 01 Sep 2006

Representative Research Publications: Ng, Kenny K K (2009) "Hong Kong Cinema in her Later Life: Zhang Ailing’s Comic Imagination", Rereading Zhang Ailing (Chinese), Chen Zishan and Luo Gang (eds.), Shanghai: Shanghai shudian, 2009, 296-315. Ng, Kenny K K (2009) "Political Censorship of Hong Kong Cinema in the Cold War Period", Cold War and Hong Kong Cinema (Chinese), Wong Ain-ling and Lee Pui-tak (eds), Hong Kong: Hong Kong Film Archive, 2009, 53-69. Ng, Kenny K K (2008) "Inhibition vs. Exhibition: Political Censorship of Chinese and Foreign Cinemas in Postwar Hong Kong", Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 2.1: 23-35. Ng, Kenny K K (2008) "The Romantic Comedies of Cathay/MP&GI in the 1950s and 60s: Language, Locality, and Urban Character.", Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, No. 49 (Spring 2007) . Ng, Kenny K K (2008) "The Screenwriter as Cultural Broker: Travels of Zhang Ailing’s Comedy of Love", Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, 20.2 (Fall 2008): 131-184. Ng, Kenny Kwok Kwan (2008) "〈李劼人「大河小說」中的地緣詩學與歷史想像〉", 《墨痕深處：文學、歷史、記憶論集》Eds. Fan Sin-piu, et al. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 329-349. Ng, Kenny K K (2008) "語言、地域、地緣政治—20世紀五六十年代國泰/電懋的都市喜劇", 都市文化中的現代中國, 姜進主編，上海: 華東師範大學出版社，2007，305-322。. Ng, Kenny Kwok Kwan (2008) "Inhibition vs. Exhibition: Political Censorship of Chinese and Foreign Cinemas in Postwar Hong Kong", Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 2.1 (May/June 2008).

Lisa L M WONG Assistant Professor (2358 7790 ; [email protected])

PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1999)

Current Research Activities: Modern poetry; lyrical theory; comparative poetics.

Representative Research Publications: Wong, Lai-ming Lisa (2007) "The Making of a Poem: Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Spender, and Yang Mu", The Comparatist, vol 31, pages 130-147. Wong, Lai-ming, Lisa (2006) "A Promise (Over)Heard in Lyric", New Literary History: A Journal of Theory & Interpretation, 37.2 (Spring 2006): 271-284. Wong, Lai-ming, Lisa (2006) "Between You and I: the Performative Utterance in Lyric", International Journal of the Humanities, 3.8 (2005/2006): 135-138. Wong, Lai-ming, Lisa (2006) "Epiphany in Echoland: Cross-cultural Intertextuality in Yang Mu's Poetry", Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 31.1 (March 2004) [October 2006]: 27-38. Wong, Lai-ming, Lisa (2006) "Voices from a Room of One's Own: Examples from Contemporary Chinese Women's Poetry", Modern China: An International Quarterly of History and Social Science, 32.3 (July 2006): 385-408.

Carine Y M YIU Assistant Professor (2358 7801 ; [email protected])

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

Current Research Activities: Chinese linguistics; Cantonese dialect; Chinese dialectology; syntax; semantics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Directional verbs in early Cantonese colloquial texts: A study of metaphorical extension and word order change RGC - General Research Fund HK$664,950 01 Jan 2009 Cantonese tones at the turns of the 19th and 20th centuries: Acoustic and statistical analyses RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 May 2007 The lexicalization patterns of motion events in Chinese dialects: a study of directional verbs and basic word order RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$50,000 22 Jun 2009

Representative Research Publications: 姚, 玉敏 (2009) "〈香港粵語上聲變化初探：語音實驗研究〉", 語言 語言學, 第10卷，第2期，269-291. 姚, 玉敏 (2008) "粵語開始體“起上”的產生", 中國語言學集刊, 第2卷，第 2期，127-147. Yiu, Yuk Man Carine (2007) "The use of dui, shuang and fu in Cantonese, Mandarin and in the history of the Chinese language", Studies in Cantonese Linguistics 2. Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong., 75-94. 姚, 玉敏 (2007) 從共時和歷時角度探討“翻”及一些相關現象, 第十屆國際粵方言研討會論文集.中國社會科學出版社, 北京, 319-334. Yiu, Yuk Man Carine (2006) "粵語趨向動詞的非空間位移用法 The metaphorical use of directional verbs in Cantonese", 中國語文研 究 Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 第二期, 總第二十二期 [Series no. 22, no. 2]. Division of Social Science

Raymond Sin Kwok WONG, Head of Division and Professor

James LEE, Chair Professor

Alvin Y SO, Chair Professor

David Zweig, Chair Professor; Director, Center on China's Transnational Relations

Erik Baark, Professor

X L DING, Professor

James Kai-Sing KUNG, Professor

Yongshun CAI, Associate Professor

Carsten A HOLZ, Associate Professor

Agnes Shuk-Mei KU, Associate Professor

Yi-Min LIN, Associate Professor

John Z MA, Associate Professor

Gerald R PATCHELL, Associate Professor

Barry SAUTMAN, Associate Professor

Ming SING, Associate Professor

Edward Jow-Ching TU, Associate Professor

Xiaogang WU, Associate Professor

Michelle YIK, Associate Professor

Yun Chung CHEN, Assistant Professor

Hye Jee CHO, Assistant Professor

Li HAN, Assistant Professor

Wenkai HE, Assistant Professor

Ying LIN, Assistant Professor

Naubahar SHARIF, Assistant Professor

Satoru SHIMOKAWA, Assistant Professor

Kevin K P TAM, Assistant Professor

Ja Ian CHONG, Research Assistant Professor Raymond Sin Kwok WONG Head of Division and Professor (2358 7782 ; [email protected])

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

Current Research Activities: Social inequality and stratification, sociology of education, comparative sociology, quantitative methodology, survey research methods, and economic sociology

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Gender segregation and work inequality in East Asia RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 May 2009

Representative Research Publications: Wong, Raymond S K (2008) "A New Breed of Chinese Entrepreneurs? Critical Reflections", Chinese Entrepreneurship in a Global Era, Raymond Sin-Kwok Wong, Pp. 3-22. Wong, Raymond S K (2008) Chinese Entrepreneurship in a Global Era, Routledge. Wong, Raymond S K (2008) "Contemporary Changes of Chinese Entrepreneurship in Hong Kong", Chinese Entrepreneurship in a Global Era, Raymond Sin-Kwok Wong, Pp. 59-80. Wong, Raymond S K (2008) "The Spirit of Chinese Entrepreneurship: Management Practices Among Hong Kong Business Owners", Chinese Entrepreneurship in a Global Era, Raymond Sin-Kwok Wong, Pp. 177-200.

James LEE Chair Professor (2358 7777 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Chicago (1983)

Current Research Activities: 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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A silent social revolution in Jiangsu, China: the changing origins of Suzhou University undergraduates, 1933-2002 RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 17 Jun 2009

Alvin Y SO Chair Professor (2358 7780 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (1982) Professor of Sociology, University of Hawaii (1993-98)

Current Research Activities: Globalization and Asia; social classes in China; Hong Kong's development.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Globalization and the restructuring state-society in East Asia UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$164,400 01 May 2008

Representative Research Publications: Chiu, Stephen, So, Alvin Y C, Tam, May (2008) "Flexible Employment in Hong Kong: Trends and Patterns in Comparative Perspective", Asian Survey, vol 48(#4), Pp. 673-702. So, Alvin Y C (2008) "Globalization and the State Power in China", Power and Sustainaibility of the Chinese State, Keun Lee, Joon-Han Kim and Wing T. Woo. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, pp. 167-185. So, Alvin Y C (2008) "Primitive Accumulation in Modern China as a Historical Process.” Dialectical Anthropology", Dialectical Anthropology, vol. 32 (#3-4), no page number because it is published electronically. So, Alvin Y C (2008) "Social Conflict in Hong Kong after 1997: The Emergence of a Post-Modernist Mode of Social Movements?", Hong Kong SAR's First Decade: Retrospect and Prospects, edited by Ming K. Chan, pp. 233-251. So, Alvin (2007) "Globalization and the transition from neoliberal capitalism to State developmentalism in China", International Review of Modern Sociology, 33:61-76, vol. Pp.:61-76. So, Alvin (2007) "Peasant Conflict and Local Predatory State in the Chinese Countryside", Journal of Peasant Studies., vol, 34 (#3- 4), Pp. 1-22. Baark, Erik, So, Alvin (2006) "The Political Economy of Hong Kong’s Quest for High-Tech Innovation", Journal of Contemporary Asia, 31 (#1): 102-120. So, Alvin Y. (2005) "Beyond the Logic of Capital and the Polarization Model: The State, Market Reforms, and the Plurality of Class Conflict in China", Critical Asian Studies, vol. 37 (#3), pp. 481-494.

David Zweig Chair Professor; Director, Center on China's Transnational Relations (2358-7832 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cctr.ust.hk)

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)

Current Research Activities: Movement of Human Capital in East Asia and Overseas Chinese Scholars (and returnees); Chinese politics and political economy; rural development in China; Sino- American relations; Chinese foreign policy and resource diplomacy; East Asian international political economy; East Asian international relations.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Hong Kong People on the Mainland: A Force for Integration? CPU - Public Policy Research HK$799,017 01 Sep 2007 Center on China's Transnational Relations UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$170,000 19 Sep 2008

Representative Research Publications: Zweig, David Stephen, Ye, Shulan (2008) "A Crisis is Looming: China's Energy Challenge in the Eyes of University Students", Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 17, no 55. Zweig, David Stephen, Chung, Siu-Fung, Han, Donglin (2008) "Redefining the 'Brain Drain': China's Diaspora Option", Science, Technology and Society, Vol. 13, No. 1 (2008): 1-33. Zweig, David Stephen (2008) "Returnees, Diasporas, and Failure: Can governments benefit from skilled outmigration?", SSRC Migration and Development Conference paper No. 5, pp. 1-16, Migration and Development Essays on Future Directions for Research and Policy at http://programs.ssrc.org/intmigration/5Zweig.pdf.. Zweig, David Stephen, Don, Devoretz (2008) "Special issue - Migration and Mobility (Edited Book)", Pacific Affairs, Vol. 81, No. 2 (September 2008): 171-258. Zweig, David, Han, Donglin (2008) "'Sea Turtles' or 'Seaweed'? The Employment of Overseas Returnees in China", prepared for the France/ILO Symposium 2008, Fourth dialogue between France and the ILO on the social dimension of globalization, 'The Internationalization of Labour Markets', 15 May 2008, Paris, France. Zweig, David, Ye, Shulan (2008) "A Crisis is Looming: China's Energy Challenge in the Eyes of University Students", Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 17, no. 55 (2008). Zweig, David (2008) "Hong Kong has a Rare Opportunity", Hong Kong Journal, No 10, April 2008. Zweig, David, Chung, Siu-Fung, Han, Donglin (2008) "Redefining the 'Brain Drain': China's Diaspora Option", Science, Technology and Society, Vol. 13, No. 1 (2008): 1-33.

Erik Baark Professor (2358 7831 ; [email protected])

University of Lund, Sweden Associate Professor (1988-99) and Director, Institute of Social Sciences (1992-94), Technical University of Denmark

Current Research Activities: Science and technology policy in China; technology assessment; national innovation systems; international technology transfer; innovation processes in engineering consultancy.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Hong Kong as an innovation hub: complementary innovation linkages with the mainland RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$304,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications: Baark, Erik (2009) "Science and Technology Policy", Encyclopedia of Modern China, Volume 3, p.336-341. Sharif, Naubahar, Baark, Erik (2009) "Understanding the Dynamism in Hong Kong’s Innovation Environment", Journal of Knowledge-based Innovation in China, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 56-75. Baark, Erik (2008) "The Development of Innovative Capacity in Hong Kong", Greater China's Quest for Innovation, p. 317-336. Sharif, Naubahar, Baark, Erik (2008) "From Trade Hub to Innovation Hub: Hong Kong", Small Country Innovation Systems: Comparing Globalization, Change and Policy in Asia and Europe (Edited by Charles Edquist and Leif Hommen) Cheltenham U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2008, p. 194-234. Sharif, Naubahar, Baark, Erik (2008) "Mobilizing Technology Transfer from University to Industry: The Experience of Hong Kong Universities", Journal of Technology Management in China, Vol. 3, Issue 1, p. 47-65. Baark, Erik (2007) "Knowledge and Innovation in China: Historical Legacies and Institutional Reform", Asia Pacific Business Review, Vol. 13, No. 3, p. 337-356. Baark, Erik, Sharif, Naubahar (2007) "From Trade Hub to Innovation Hub: The Role of Hong Kong's Innovation System in Linking China to Global Markets", Innovation: management, policy and practice, Vol. 8, no. 1-2, p. 193-209. Baark, Erik, Sharif, Naubahar (2006) "Hong Kong's Innovation System in Transition: Challenges of Regional Integration and Promotion of High Technology", B.A Lundvall, P. Intarakumnerd and J. Vang (eds) Asia's Innovation Systems in Transition, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar 2006, p. 123-147.

X L DING Professor (2358 7818 ; [email protected])

PhD, Harvard University (1992) Research Fellow, Australian National University (1996-98) Current Research Activities: Comparative capitalisms; state-society relations; development/modernization; social history; political humor.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The new generation of ent-down youth in China: counterproductive political training? RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$40,000 01 Jun 2009

Representative Research Publications: Ding, Xueliang (2009) "Introduction to the Chinese Edition of Mao's Last Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals (English edition by Harvard University Press, 2006)", in Mao Zedong Zuihoude Geming (Hong Kong: The Thinker's Press, 2009), pp. xiv-xxiii. Ding, Xueliang (2009) "The Illicit Asset Stripping in Chinese Firms", re-published in a 4-volume set entitled The Politics of Modern China: Critical Concepts by London: Routledge, 2009. The paper was originally published as the lead article in The China Journal no.43 (January 2000), pp. 1-28. Ding, Xue-liang (2007) Zhongguo Jingji Zai Jueqi China's Economic Re-Emergence: Promises and Challenges, Beijing: Peking University Press. Ding, Xue-liang (2006) "Core Institutional Elements of A Research University", A Collection of Public Lectures by Leading Scholars (Guoqiang Tian, ed., Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Press, 2006), Volume 1, pp. 260-274. Ding, X. L. (2006) "India and China: Each Has Its Own Problems but There Is A Big Difference", Carnegie ChinaNet (Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), June Issue 2006. Ding, X.L. (2006) "The Chinese Cultural Revolution Was A Revolution of Everyone Revenging on Everyone - Reflections on the Cultural Revolution at Its 40th Anniversary", Reflexion (Taipei: Linking Publishing Company, in Chinese), No. 1, 2006, pp. 153-175. Ding, Xue-liang (2006) "The Chinese Cultural Revolution Was A Revolution of Everyone Revenging on Everyone - Reflections on the Cultural Revolution at Its 40th Anniversary.", Reflexion (Taipei: Linking Publishing Company, in Chinese), No. 1, pp. 153-175. Ding, Xue-liang (2006) "To Institutionalize Social Justice", China and World Affairs (Beijing: Tsinghua University, in Chinese), No. 1, pp. 25-33.

James Kai-Sing KUNG Professor (2358 7824 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Cambridge (1991) Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University in St Louis (1990-92)

Current Research Activities: China's agricultural and rural development; property rights economics; economic history.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Public finance and land conversion: an empirical study of changing fiscal incentives on local government's behavior in China Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Exchange, Taiwan HK$117,000 01 Jul 2009 The political economy of land reform in China: New evidence from a "Commercialized" village community RGC - General Research Fund HK$501,600 01 Oct 2006 Determinants of Local Public Goods Provision in Rural China RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$330,000 02 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Kung, James K S, Cai, Yongshun, Sun, Xiulin (2009) "Rural Cadres and Governance in China: Incentive, Institution, and Accountability", The China Journal, 62. Kung, James K S (2008) "The Political Economy of Land Reform in China's 'Newly Liberated Areas': Evidence from Wuxi County", China Quarterly, 195:675-690. Kung, James, Xu, Chenggang, Zhou, Feizhou (2007-2008) "From Industrialization to Urbanization: The Social Consequences of Changing Fiscal Incentives on Local Governments' Behavior", In Joseph E. Stiglitz (ed.), Institutional Design for China's Evolving Market Economy.. Kung, James (2007) "Famine: East Asia", Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World: 1750 to the Present. Kung, Kai-sing (2007) Famine in East Asia, Forthcoming in OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE MODERN WORLD, editor in chief, Peter Stearns (George Mason University). Kung, Kai-sing (2006) "Do Secure Land Use Rights Reduce Fertility? The Case of Meitan County in China.", Land Economics, Vol. 82, No. 1 (Feb. 2006): 36-55. Kung, Kai-sing, Lin, Yi-min (2006) "The Decline of Township-and-Village Enterprises in China's Economic Transition.", World Development, Accepted for publication (scheduled publication date early 2007). Kung, James (2005) "Land Reallocation in Rural China: Empirical Evidence from Six Provinces", International Conference of Globalization & Chinese Agriculturem, held at China Agricultural University, Beijing, September 17-18, 2005.

Yongshun CAI Associate Professor (2358 7823 ; [email protected])

PhD, Stanford University (2001) Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore (2001-04)

Current Research Activities: Collective action and social movements; political participation; institution building and regime transition; Chinese politics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Social Conflicts and Government Response in China: A Comparative Study RGC - General Research Fund HK$307,000 10 Sep 2008 Social conflicts and social stability in China Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Exchange, Taiwan HK$106,158 01 Jul 2008

Representative Research Publications: Cai, Yongshun (2008) "Power structure and regime resilience: Contentious politics in China", British Journal of Political Science, vol. 38, no. 3 (2008), pp. 411-432. Cai, Yongshun (2008) "Local Governments and the Suppression of Popular Resistance in China", China Quarterly, no. 193, pp. 24- 42. Cai, Yongshun (2008) "Social Conflicts and Modes of Action in China", China Journal, vol. 59, pp. 62-82. Cai, Yongshun (2006-2007) "Civil Resistance and Rural of Law in China: the Case of Defending Home Owners Rights", Grassroots Politics in China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), pp. 174-195. Cai, Yongshun (2005) "Home Owners' Resistance in Urban China: The Case of a Moderate Middle Class", Asian Survey, no. 5 (2005), pp. 777-799. Cai, Yongshun, Yang, Songcai (2005) "State Power and unbalance legal development in China", Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 14, no. 42 (2005), pp. 117-134. Cai, Yongshun (2005) State and Laid-Off Workers in Reform China: The Silence and Collective Action of the Retrenched, London: Routledge Curzon, 2005. Cai, Yongshun (2004) "Irresponsible state: Local cadres and image building in China", Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, vol. 20, no.4 (December 2004), pp. 20-41.

Carsten A HOLZ Associate Professor (2358 7835 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~socholz/) PhD, Cornell University (1995)

Current Research Activities: Development economics; China's economy; applied macroeconomics and monetary economics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Economic fragmentation and domestic trade patterns in China RGC - General Research Fund HK$376,508 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Holz, Carsten (2008) "China's Economic Growth 1978-2025: What We Know Today about China's Economic Growth Tomorrow", World Development, Vol. 36, no. 10 (Oct. 2008): 1665-91. Holz, Carsten, Brandt, Loren (2006) "Spatial Price Differences in China: Estimates and Implications", Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 55, no. 1 (Oct. 2006): 43-86. Holz, Carsten A (2006) "China's Reform Period Economic Growth: How Reliable Are Angus Maddison's Estimates", Review of Income and Wealth, 52, no. 1 (March 2006): 85-119. Holz, Carsten A (2006) "New Capital Estimates for China", China Economic Review, 17, no. 2 (2006): 142-85. Holz, Carsten (2004) "Deconstructing China’s GDP Statistics", China Economic Review, Vol. 15, no. 2 (2004): 164-202. Holz, Carsten (2003) China's State-owned Enterprises between Profitability and Bankruptcy, Singapore: World Scientific, August. Holz, Carsten A. (2003) "'Fast, Clear and Accurate': How Reliable Are Chinese Output and Economic Growth Statistics?", The China Quarterly, No. 173, pp. 122-63. Holz, Carsten A. (2002) "Long Live China's State-owned Enterprises: Deflating the Myth of Poor Financial Performance", Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 493-529.

Agnes Shuk-Mei KU Associate Professor (2358 7784 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (1995) Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (1993-2000)

Current Research Activities: Cultural sociology; civil society and public sphere; Hong Kong culture and politics; gender issues.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A preliminary comparative study of cultural developments in Hong Kong and Taipei RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$35,000 01 Feb 2006

Representative Research Publications: Ku, Agnes S M, Tsui, Clarence (2008) "The 'Global City' as a Cultural Project - the Case of the West Kowloon Cultural District", Hong Kong Mobile: Making a Global Population, edited by Helen Siu and Agnes Ku, HK: HKU Press. Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes (2004) "'Immigration Policies, Discourses, and the Politics of Local Belonging in Hong Kong (1950-1980).'", Modern China, Vol 30 (3), pp. 326-360. Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes (2004) "'Negotiating the Space of Civil Autonomy in Hong Kong - Power, Discourses and Dramaturgical Representations.'", The China Quarterly, No. 179, pp. 647-664. Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes, Pun, Ngai (2004) Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation, and the Global City , editied by Agnes S. Ku and Ngai Pun. London : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. Ku, Shuk-Mei Agnes (2002) "Beyond the Paradoxical Conception of 'Civil Society without Citizenship'", International Sociology, 17 (4): 551-570. Ku, Shuk Mei Agnes (2001) "Hegemonic Construction, Negotiation and Displacement - Struggle over Right of Abode in Hong Kong", International Journal of Cultural Studies, 4 (3): 259-278. Ku, Agnes S. (2001) "The 'Public' Up Against the State - Narrative Cracks and Credibility Crisis in Postcolonial Hong Kong", Theory, Culture and Society 18(1): 121-44. Also in Narrating Hong Kong Culture and Identity, edited by N. Pun. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press (2003). Ku, Agnes S. (2000) "Revisiting THE Notion Of 'Public' in Habermas's Theory-Towards a Theory of Politics of Public Credibility", Socialogical Theory, 18 (2):216-240.

Yi-Min LIN Associate Professor (2358 7816 ; [email protected])

PhD, Yale University (1991) Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley (1991-92)

Current Research Activities: Political economy; organizations and institutions.

John Z MA Associate Professor (2358 7829 ; [email protected])

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

Current Research Activities: Migration and family dynamics in developing countries; geographical information systems (GIS).

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Center for Demography and Sustainable Development (CDSD) Nansha Research Centers HK$2,100,000 01 Jul 2008

Representative Research Publications: Ma, Zhongdong, Zhang, Weimin, Liang, Zai, Cui, Hongyan (2004) "Labor migration: A New Income Growth Point in Rural China", Population Research, 28 (3): 1-15. Liang, Zai, Ma, Zhongdong (2004) "The floating Population of China: New Evidence from the 2000 Population Census", Population and Development Review, 30 (3): 467-488. Devoretz, D.J., Ma, Zhongdong, Zhang, K (2003) "Triangular Human Capital Flows: Empirical Evidence from Hong Kong and Canada", in Reitz, J.G. edited Host Societies and the Reception of Immigrants, USMEX press: California. Ma, Zhongdong (2002) "Social capital mobilization and income returns to entrepreneurship: the case of return migration in rural China", Environment and Planning A, 34(10): 1763-84. Devoretz, Don, Ma, Zhongdong (2002) "Triangular human capital flows between sending, entrepot and the rest of the world destinations", Special Issue on Migration and Globalizaiton, Canadian Studies in Population, 29(1): 53-69. Gerald R PATCHELL Associate Professor (2358 7781 ; [email protected])

PhD, Simon Frazer University (1991)

Current Research Activities: Economic and cultural geography; geography of Japan; cooperative communities and the diffusion of organizations; environmental management and regional development.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Japanese origins RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$60,000 30 Jun 2009

Representative Research Publications: Patchell, Jerry (2008) "Collectivity and Differentiation: a tale of two wine territories", Environment and Planning A, Vol. 40 pages 2364 - 2383. Patchell, Gerald (2003) "Governance for University-Industry Collaboration in Hong Kong", in Roel Rutten, Frans Boekema, and Elsa Kuijpers (eds.), Universities, Knowledge Infrastructure and the Learning Region. London: Routledge. Patchell, Gerald R., Eastham, Tony (2003) "Governance for University-Industry Collaboration in Hong Kong", In: Economic Geography of Higher Education: Knowledge, Infrastructure and Learning Regions. Routledge, London, UK, Chapter 3, pp. 42-68. Patchell, Jerry (2002) "Linking Production and Consumption: the coevolution of interaction systems in the Japanese house industry", Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 92, 284-301.

Barry SAUTMAN Associate Professor (2358 7821 ; [email protected])

PhD, Columbia University (1990) Visiting Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins/Nanjing University Center (1991-92) Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Utah, 1990

Current Research Activities: 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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Ethnic Tibetan Cadres in Tibet's development RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$62,858 30 Jun 2009 The 2008 "Pro-China" demonstrations about Tibet and China's public diplomacy University of Southern California, Center on Public Diplomacy HK$117,000 25 Oct 2008

Representative Research Publications: Sautman, Barry, Yan, Hairong (2008) "Forest for the Trees: Trade, Investment and the China-in-Africa Discourse", Pacific Affairs, 81(1):9-29. Sautman, Barry, Yan, Hairong (2007) East Mountain Tiger, West Mountain Tiger: China, Africa, the West and 'colonialism' in Africa, Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies (Baltimore: University of Maryland School of Law), Monograph no. 186. Sautman, Barry, Yan, Hairong (2007) "Friends and interests: China's distinctive links with Africa", African Studies Review, 50:75- 114. Sautman, Barry (2006) "'Demographic Annihilation' an Tibet", in Barry Sautman & June Dreyer (eds.), Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development and Society in a Disputed Region (Armonk: ME Sharpe), (2006): 230-257. Sautman, Barry, Dreyer, June (2006) Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development and Society in a Disputed Region, (Armonk: ME Sharpe), 2006. Sautman, Barry, Dreyer, June (2006) "Introduction", in Barry Sautman & June Dreyer (eds.), Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development and Society in a Disputed Region (Armonk: ME Sharpe), (2006): 3-22. Sautman, Barry, He, Baogang (2006) "The Politics of the Dalai Lama's New Initiative for Autonomy", Pacific Affairs, 78:4 (2006): 601-629. Sautman, Barry (2005) "China's Vulnerability to Ethnic Minority Separatism in Tibet", Asian Affairs: an American Review, 31:2 (2005): 87-118.

Ming SING Associate Professor (2358 7839 ; [email protected])

DPhil, Oxford

Current Research Activities: Democratization of Asia and the World, comparing political culture, Hong Kong politics, comparative study of governance.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Public Support for Democracy in East Asia RGC - General Research Fund HK$457,250 01 Jan 2009 Conceptions of democracy, institutional legacy, and authority orientations in Asia: a test of the "Asian values" hypothesis UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$38,000 29 Jun 2009

Representative Research Publications: Sing, Ming (2009) "'The quality of life in Hong Kong'", Social Indicators Research., Volume 92, Number 2 , June, 2009. Sing, Ming (2009) "Hong Kong at the Crossroads: Public Pressure for Democratic Reform", Politics and Government in Hong Kong: Crisis under Chinese Sovereignty. Sing, Ming (2009) "Hong Kong's Democrats Hold Their Own", Journal of Democracy, Volume 20, (1), 98-112.

Edward Jow-Ching TU Associate Professor (2358 7776 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Tennessee (1983) Research Associate, Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, State University of New York (1980-92)

Current Research Activities: Comparative study of recent population changes and policy implications in Taiwan, China, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Mortality transition in Hong Kong and its major theoretical and policy implications CPU - Public Policy Research HK$657,600 30 Sep 2006

Representative Research Publications: Tu, Jow Ching, Yuan, Xin, Zhang, Xia (2006-2007) "Fertility Transition in Hong Kong and Taiwan", in Transition and Challenge: China's Population at the Beginning of the 21st Century Edited by Zhongwei Zhao and Fei Guo, Oxford University Press, page 71-86 Oxford University Press. Tu, Jow Ching (2006) "Education, Gender and Migration", International conference on New Rural Development, Jinan, Shandong, China, October 28-29, 2006. Tu, Jow Ching (2003) "Patterns of Lowest-Low Fertility in Hong Kong", Journal of Population and Social Security, Volume 1, Supplement pp. 629-642. Tu, Jow Ching (2002) "A model of Intermarriage Involving Attribute Exchange", Global Economic Review, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 109- 124. Tu, Jow Ching, Yuan, Xin (2002) "Replacement Migration in Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin", Journal of Population, Vol. 24, pp. 59- 87.

Xiaogang WU Associate Professor (2358 7827 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~sowu)

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (Sociology) (2001) Non-residential faculty associate, California Population Research Center

Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow(2001-2003), Research Affiliate (2005-), Population Studies Center, University of Michigan Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan (2001-2003)

Speech Writer/Policy Research Officer for the Mayor, Shanghai Municipal Government, CHINA

Current Research Activities: Institutional Structure and Social Mobility in State Socialist China; Inequalities in Mainland China and Hong Kong

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Social Mobility and Stratification Dynamics in China Since Mid-1990s RGC - General Research Fund HK$661,520 01 Sep 2008 Self-employment and private entrepreneurship in China's economic transition Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Exchange, Taiwan HK$273,000 01 Jul 2008 Hong Kong panel study of social dynamics (HK-PSSD) CPU - Strategic Public Policy Research HK$3,960,000 30 Jun 2009 Chinese College Students Panel Survey: A Pilot Study RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$320,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Wu, Xiaogang (2009) "Household Registration, Social Exclusion, and Rural Migrants in Chinese Cities.", Socialist China, Capitalist China: Social tension and political adaptation under economic globalization, Pp 29-54 edited by Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne, Routledge. Wu, Xiaogang (2009) "Income Inequality and Distributive Justice: A Comparative Analysis of Mainland China and Hong Kong.", The China Quarterly, forthcoming. Lin, Thung-hong, Wu, Xiaogang (2009) "The Transformation of the Chinese Class Structure, 1978-2005.", Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, forthcoimng. Xie, Yu, Wu, Xiaogang (2008) "Danwei Profitability and Earnings Inequality in Urban China.", the China Quarterly, 195(September): 558-81. Bian, Yanjie, Wu, Xiaogang, Li, Lilu (2008) Social Stratification and Mobility: New Development on China Studies., Renmin University Press.. Wu, Xiaogang (2007) "Family Resources and Educational Stratification: The Case of Hong Kong, 1981-2001", Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, Volume 3 :173-201. Wu, Xiaogang, Treiman, Donald (2007) "Inequality and Equality under Chinese Socialism: The Hukou System and Intergenerational Occupational Mobility", American Journal of Sociology, 113(2):415-45. Wu, Xiaogang (2006) "Communist Cadres and Market Opportunities: Entry to Self-Employment in China, 1978-1996. The Research Paper Award from Asia and Asian American Section, American Sociological Association, 2006", Social Forces, 85 (1): 389-411.

Michelle YIK Associate Professor (2358-7815 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~emotion/)

PhD, UBC (Psychology) Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong (1999-2001) SSHRC Post-doctoral fellow, University of Victoria (1998-1999)

Current Research Activities: Emotion; Personality; Culture

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Judging Others' Emotions: A Process of Anchoring and Adjustment RGC - General Research Fund HK$620,080 02 Oct 2008 Happiness is a choice UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$164,400 01 May 2008

Representative Research Publications: Yik, Michelle (2009) "The bipolarity of momentary affect: Reply to Schimmack.", Cognition and Emotion, 23, 605-610. Yik, Michelle (2007) "Culture, gender, and the bipolarity of momentary affect", Cognition and Emotion, vol 21, pp. 664-680. Wong, Ellick, Yik, Michelle, Kwong, Jessica (2006) "On the emotional core of escalation of commitment: The role of negative affectivity.", Journal of Applied Psychology, 91, 282-297. McCrae, Robert, Terracciano, Antonia, Yik, Michelle (2005) "Universal features of personality traits from the observer’s perspective: Data from 50 cultures.", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 88, 547-561. Yik, Michelle, Russell, James (2004) "On the relationship between circumplexes: Affect and Wiggins’ IAS.", Multivariate Behavioral Research, vol. 39, 203-230. Yik, Michelle, Russell, James (2003) "Chinese affect circumplex: I. Structure of recalled momentary affect", Asian Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 6, pp. 185-200. Yik, Michelle, Russell, James, Ahn, Chang-Kyu, Fernandez Dols, Jose Miguel, Suzuki, Naoto (2002-2003) Relating the Five-Factor Model of personality to a circumplex model of affect: A five-language study, In R. R. McCrae & J. Allik (Eds.), The Five-Factor Model of personality across cultures. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, pp. 79-104. Paulhus, Delroy, Duncan, Jacqueline, Yik, Michelle (2002) "Patterns of shyness in East-Asian and European-heritage students", Journal of Research in Personality, Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 442-462.

Yun Chung CHEN Assistant Professor (2358 7819 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (2004)

Current Research Activities: City and regional economic development; Innovation Studies; Cultural & Creative industries; Urban studies

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The Production Networks of the Film Industry in Hong Kong: Flexible Specialization, Labor Market and Creative Cluster RGC - General Research Fund HK$857,790 01 Jan 2009 Making a new working class: A study of collective actions in a dormitory labor regime of South China RGC - General Research Fund HK$177,480 01 Sep 2008 The restructuring of the movie industry in Hong Kong: flexible specialization, innovation and the labor market RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$403,890 18 Jun 2007 The center for cultural studies UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$80,250 01 Mar 2007

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Shin-Horng, Chen, Yun Chung, Wen, Pei-Chang (2009) "MNCs' Offshore R & D Mandates and Host Countries' Locational Advantages: A Comparsion Between Taiwan and China", China Information, 23(1): 159-187. Chen, Yun Chung, Vang, Jan (2008) "MNCs, Global Innovation Networks and Developing Countries: Insights from Motorola in China", International Journal of Business and Management Research, 1(1): 11-30, 2008. Chen, Yun Chung (2008) "The Limits of Brain Circulation: Chinese Returnees and Technological Development in Beijing", Pacific Affairs, V81 N2: 195-215. Chen, Yun Chung (2008) "Why do Multinational Corporations locate their advanced R&D centers in Beijing?", Journal of Development Studies, 44(5):610-632. Chen, Yun Chung, Pun, Ngai (2007) "Neoliberalism and Privatization in Hong Kong after the 1997 Financial Crisis", China Review, 7(2) 65-92. Chen, Yun Chung (2007) "Neoliberalism, Urban Crises and the New Preservation Movement in Hong Kong", International Conference of Critical Geography, Mumbai, 3-7 December 2007. Chen, Yun Chung (2007) "The Upgrading of Multinational’s Regional Innovation Networks in China", Asia Pacific Business Review, 13(3): 373-403. Chen, Yun-Chung (2006) "Changing the Shanghai Innovation Systems: The Role of Multinational Corporations' R&D Centres", Science, Technology and Society, 11 (1): 67-107.

Hye Jee CHO Assistant Professor (2358 7830 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Political economy of international finance and investment, globalization and development, comparative political economy, international organizations, statistical methods.

Li HAN Assistant Professor (2358 7838 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: Development economics, labor economics, public economics and Chinese economy. Wenkai HE Assistant Professor (2358 7775 ; [email protected])

PhD, MIT (2007)

Current Research Activities: Political economy of development, comparative study of state formation, economic history, comparative historical analysis in social science.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Interactions between the state and market in the process of centralizing public finance in Meiji Japan: 1872-1905 RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Jun 2009

Ying LIN Assistant Professor (2358 7834 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Washington (2007)

Current Research Activities: China's political economy, the role of FDI in industrialization and technological innovation, state policy and development, international policy economy.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The impacts of ownership and public investment on industrial technology innovation in China RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$99,000 01 Mar 2008

Naubahar SHARIF Assistant Professor (2358 7826 ; [email protected] ; http://www.nsharif.com)

PhD, Cornell University (2005)

Current Research Activities: 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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Regional, sectoral and technological innovation systems conceptual approaches: Inception, development and diffusion RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$99,900 30 Jun 2006 Wheels of Change? A Comparison of the Automotive Parts and Accessory Systems (APAS) Industries of Shanghai and Hong Kong RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$80,000 01 Jun 2008 Examining the government's role in university-industry links within Hong Kong's innovation system UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$40,000 01 Jun 2009

Representative Research Publications: Huang, Can, Sharif, Naubahar (2009) "Manufacturing Dynamics and Spillovers: The Case of Guangdong Province and Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan (HKMT)", Research Policy, Vol no. 38, Issue no. 5, pages 813-828. Sharif, Naubahar, Baark, Erik (2009) "Understanding the Dynamism in Hong Kong's Innovation Environment", Journal of Knowledge-based Innovation in China, Volume 1, Issu no.1, pages 56-75. Sharif, Naubahar, Baark, Erik (2008) "The Innovation System of The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), People's Republic of China (PRC)", Small Country Innovation Systems: Globalization, Change and Policy in Asia and Europe, Charles Edquist and Leif Hoemmen, pages 194-234. Sharif, Naubahar, Baark, Erik (2007) "Mobilizing Technology Transfer from University to Industry: The Experience of Hong Kong Universities", Journal of Technology Management in China, Vol. 3, no.1 (2008): 47-65. Sharif, Naubahar (2006) "An Examination of Recent Developments in Hong Kong's Innovation System: 1990 to the Present", Science and Public Policy, Vol. 33, Number 7. Sharif, Naubahar (2006) "Emergence and Development of the National Innovation Systems Concept", Research Policy, Vol. 35, Iss. no.5 (2006): 745-766. Baark, Erik, Sharif, Naubahar (2006) "From Trade Hub to Innovation Hub: The Role of Hong Kong's Innovation System in Linking China to Global Markets", Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice, Vol. 8, Iss. no.1-2 (2006). Sharif, Naubahar, Baark, Erik (2006) "The Tamest of Tigers? Understanding Hong Kong's Innovation System and Innovation Policies", International Journal of Technology and Globalization, Vol. 1, Iss. no.3-4 (2005): 462-479.

Satoru SHIMOKAWA Assistant Professor (2358 7836 ; [email protected])

PhD, Cornell University (2007)

Current Research Activities: Development microeconomics, health economics, applied econometrics, Chinese economy.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Detecting explanations for the puzzled observation of gender bias in China: the introduction of asymmetric consumption response and asymmetric response by gender RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$98,800 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Shimokawa, Satoru, Chang, Hung-Hao, Pinstrup-Andersen, Per (2009) "Understanding the Differences in Obesity among Working Adults between Taiwan and China", Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 18(1): 88-95. Pinstrup-Andersen, Per, Shimokawa, Satoru (2008) "Do Poverty and Poor Health and Nutrition Increase the Risk of Armed Conflict Onset?", Food Policy, 33 (6): 513-520. Shimokawa, Satoru (2008) "The Labor Market Impact of Body Weight in China: A Semiparametric Analysis", Applied Economics, v40(8): 949-968. Pinstrup-Andersen, Per, Shimokawa, Satoru (2007) "Rural Infrastructure and Agricultural Development", Rethinking Infrastructure for Development (Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics), pp175-204. Kevin K P TAM Assistant Professor (2358 7828 ; [email protected])

PhD, HKU (2006)

Current Research Activities: Cultural processes, forensic attitudes and judgments; happiness; human-nature relationship.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: What values do parents prefer in their children? The role of social norms RGC - General Research Fund HK$516,810 01 Sep 2009 How evidence for genetic predisposition to criminality affects forensic attitudes and judgements RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Apr 2009

Representative Research Publications: Tam, Kevin K P, Au, Al, Leung, Angela Ka-Yee (2008) "Attributionally more complex people show less punitiveness and racism", Journal of Research in Personality, 42, pp.1074-1081. Tam, Kevin K P, Leung, Angela Ka-Yee, Chiu, Chi-Yue (2008) "On being a mindful authoritarian: Is need for cognition always associated with less punitiveness?", Political Psychology, 29, pp77-92.

Ja Ian CHONG Research Assistant Professor (2358 7814 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: External intervention, state formation and state-building, East Asian international relations, US-China relations, nationalism, security, foreign policy, grand strategy, international relations, qualitative methods. Language Center

Arthur MCNEILL, Director

Gregory C A JAMES, Professor

Lynne FLOWERDEW, Senior Instructor

John C MILTON, Director, English Courses, College of Life-Long Learning; Senior Instructor, Language Centre

Susanna Pui-San HO, Instructor; Manager of Writing and Speaking through the Curriculum Programme

Mark HOPKINS, Instructor, Self-Access Centre Manager

Sarah TOOGOOD, Instructor;SAC Adviser Arthur MCNEILL Director (2358 7878 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Gregory C A JAMES Professor (2358 5775 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Exeter (1989) Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, University of Exeter (1989) Tutor to Overseas Students and Director, Testamur in English Language and Literature, University of Exeter (1985- 89) Vice-Principal, English Division, Institute of Language in Education, Hong Kong (1983-85) Lecturer, Language Centre, University of Exeter (1979-83)

Current Research Activities: Applied linguistics; lexicography and lexicology; languages in education; South Asian languages.

Representative Research Publications: James, Gregory (2004) "The good, the bad and the ugly: Some cultural elements in modern English-English-Tamil dictionaries", First International Conference in Indian lexicography, Annamalai University, India, January. James, Gregory (2004) "Three approaches to French-Tamil lexicography: An examination of three eighteenth-century manuscript dictionaries", Second International Conference on Missionary/Colonial Linguistics, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, March. James, Gregory (2004) "Walking with kings, nor losing the common touch: Kipling, Baden-Powell and the legacy of Thiruvalluvar", In S. Krishnamoorthy (Ed.), Ikkala ulakirkut Tirukkural. Chennai: International Institute of Tamil Studies, Vol 3, pp. 131–41. James, Gregory, So, Bronson Ming-Cheung (2003-2004) "The first European dictionary of Chinese: A missionary learning tool", 14th Southeast Asian Linguistics Conference, Thammasat University, Thailand, May. James, Gregory (2003) "Bilingualisation as a genre", Lexicography: Critical Concepts. Ed. R. R. K. Hartmann. London & New York: Routledge, Vol. III, pp. 450-458. Hartmann, Reinhard, James, Gregory (2002-2003) Dictionary of Lexicography, London & New York: Routledge, 1998. 2nd ed., published as an e-book, 2002. Japanese translation: Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 2003.

Lynne FLOWERDEW Senior Instructor (2358 7855 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Liverpool (2003)

Current Research Activities: Corpus linguistics, genre and discourse analysis, syllabus design and methodology. Representative Research Publications: Flowerdew, Lynne (2008) "Corpora and context in professional writing", Advances in Discourse Studies., In V. Bhatia, J. Flowerdew and R. Jones (eds), pp. 115-127. London: Routledge. Flowerdew, Lynne (2008) Corpus-based analyses of the Problem-Solution pattern: a phraseological approach, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Flowerdew, Lynne (2008) "Determining discourse-based moves in professional reports", Corpora and Discourse: The challenge of different settings., In A. Annelie and R. Reppen (eds), pp. 117-133. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Flowerdew, Lynne (2008) "Using corpus data to have a closer look at the experiential function", New Developments in the Study of Ideational Meaning: From language to multimodality, E. Ventola & C. Jones (eds), pp. 35-45. London: Equinox. Flowerdew, Lynne (2008) "Corpus Linguistics for LSP: defining, refining and redefining specificity", American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, 28 March 2008. Flowerdew, Lynne (2005) "An integration of corpus-based and genre-based approaches to text analysis in EAP/ESP: Countering criticisms against corpus-based methodologies", English for Specific Purposes, 23 (3): 321-332. Flowerdew, Lynne (2005) "Integrating Traditional and critical appproaches to syllabus design: the 'what', the 'how' and the 'why?'", Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 4 (2): 135-147. Flowerdew, Lynne (2003) "A combined corpus and systemic-functional analysis of the Problem-Solution pattern in a student and professional corpus of technical writing", TESOL Quarterly, vol. 37, no 3.

John C MILTON Director, English Courses, College of Life-Long Learning; Senior Instructor, Language Centre (2358 7849 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~lcjohn/index.htm)

PhD, Lancaster University (2001) Senior Lecturer, Acting Director and Assistant Director of English Center, The University of Bahrain, Bahrain (1982- 91) 'Foreign Expert', Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electrical Engineering, Hubei, P.R.C. (1981-82)

Current Research Activities: Analysis of the writing of non-native speakers of English; development of Information Technology for language learning and instruction; online tools, resources, learning materials and activities.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Development of writing tools Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs/HKUST and Others HK$1,650,000 04 Mar 2005

Representative Research Publications: Milton, John (2005) "From Parrots to Puppet masters: fostering creative and authentic language use with online tools", 'Distance Education and Languages: Evolution and Change' Eds: B. Holmberg, M Shelley & C. White: Multilingual Matters. Milton, John (2002-2003) "Design Principles for an Online EFL Course", Directions in CALL: Experience, Experiments and Evaluation, 165-178.

Susanna Pui-San HO Instructor; Manager of Writing and Speaking through the Curriculum Programme (2358 7852 ; [email protected])

PhD, Macquarie University (2005)

Current Research Activities: Reading and writing; Language for specific purposes; Interdisciplinary discourse.

Representative Research Publications: Ho, Susanna P S (2008) "How well can university students write for workplace situation?", APacLSP 08 - Partnerships in Action: Research, Practice and Training, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 8-10 December 2008. Ho, Susanna Pui-san (2008) "Adopting an interactive model of teaching writing to postgraduate Engineering students", Responding to change: Flexibility in the delivery of language programmes jointly organised by Language Centre, HKUST (Hong Kong) and Faculty of Humanities, PAYAP University (Chiang Mai, Thailand), 7-11 January 2008. Ho, Susanna Pui-San (2007) Research report, Exploring writing strategies used by Accounting/Finance majors at university and in the workplace, Volume seven. Ho, Susanna Pui-San (2006) "Exploring writing strategies employed by Accounting / Finance majors in the University and the workplace", Diversity and Community in Applied Linguistics: Interface, Interpretation, Interdisciplinary, the Applied Linguistics and Language in Education Research Group, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 20-22 September 2006. Toogood, Sarah, Pemberton, Richard, Ho, Susanna Pui-San, Tsang, Elza (2004) "A hands-on session with VELA: a Virtual English Language Adviser", Autonomy and Language Learning: Maintaining Control, 14-18 June. Toogood, Sarah, Ho, Susanna Pui-San, Pemberton, Richard, Jones, Priscilla (2004) "Catering for Tertiary Language Learners: Different provisions for Self-Access Language Learning Support", Proceedings of the Second Teaching and Learning Symposium, 17 May. Pemberton, Richard, Toogood, Sarah, Ho, Susanna Pui San, Lam, Jacqueline Kam-mei (2001) "Approaches to advising for self-directed langauge learning", Learner Autonomy: New Insights, 16-25.

Mark HOPKINS Instructor, Self-Access Centre Manager (2358 7873 ; [email protected])

MSc, University of Aston (1992) NET, Tai Po Government Secondary School (1995-97) Senior Lecturer, Institut Teknology Brunei (1992-95)

Current Research Activities: Language-in-education policy and practice in Hong Kong and S.E Asia; individual and societal language planning; self-directed language learning.

Representative Research Publications: Hopkins, Mark (2008) "Through a glass, darkly: processes and effects of teaching L3 through L2", Mediating Multilingualism: Meanings and Modalities, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, 2-5 June 2008. Hopkins, Mark (2006) "Policies Without Planning?: The Medium of Instruction Issue in Hong Kong", Language and Education, Volume 20, Number 4, pages 270-285. Hopkins, Mark (2005) "Representations of English in Hong Kong’s postcolonial language planning and societal attitudes.", Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Social Communication. Centre for Applied Linguistics, Santiago, Cuba., pp. 315- 320. January 24-28, 2005. Hopkins, Mark (2004) "The place of ideology in postcolonial educational language planning: An example from Hong Kong.", Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Bilingualism. University of Vigo-Galicia, Spain, October 23-26, 2002.

Sarah TOOGOOD Instructor;SAC Adviser (2358 7843 ; [email protected] ; http://www.sarahtoogood.com) MA, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Current Research Activities: Integrating self-access learning into classroom-based courses; advising for self-access language learning; developing VELA: Virtual English Language Adviser - an interactive, self-adaptive advising database for self-access language learners of English. http://vela.ust.hk

Representative Research Publications: Pemberton, Richard, Toogood, Sarah, Barfield, Andy (2009) Maintaining Control: Autonomy and Language Learning, Hong Kong University Press. Toogood, Sarah, Pemberton, Richard (2007) "Support Structures for Self-access Learning", In Barfiled, A. & Brown, S. H. (eds.), Reconstructing Autonomy in Language Education, pp. 180-195. Toogood, Sarah (2006) "VELA (Virtual English Language Adviser:", Independence (Newsletter of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language Learner Autonomy Special Interest Group), (38) 14-15. Toogood, Sarah (2005) "Taking control or jumping through hoops: issues with SALL in mainstream courses", Keynote address, 2nd Independent Learning Association Oceania Conference, Manukau Institute of Technology, Auckland, http://www.independentlearning.org/ 9-12 September 2005. Toogood, Sarah, Pemberton, Richard, Ho, Susanna, Tsang, Elza (2004) "A hands-on session with VELA: a Virtual English Language Adviser", Autonomy and Language Learning: Maintaining Control - An International Conference jointly hosted by the Language Centre HKUST and the School of International Studies Zhejiang University, http://lc.ust.hk/~centre/conf2004/presenterindex.html Confrence period: 14th -18th June. Toogood, Sarah, Pemberton, Richard, Ho, Susanna, Jones, Priscilla (2004) "Catering for Tertiary Language Learners: Different Provisions for Self-Access Language Learning Support", Teaching and Learning Symposium. Teaching Innovations: Continuous Learning and Improvement. CELT, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, http://celt.ust.hk/tlsymp04/papers.html#4, Conference Period: 17th May. Toogood, Sarah, Pemberton, Richard (2002) "Integrating self-directed learning into the curriculum: a case study", Learner Autonomy 7: Challenges to Research and Practice, 86-110. Benson, Philip, Toogood, Sarah (2002) Learner Autonomy 7: Challenges to Research and Practice, Dublin. Authentik.