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THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

REPORT ON RESEARCH ACTIVITIES, 2008-09 to RESEARCH GRANTS COUNCIL

RGC REPORT 1: OVERVIEW

1. YEAR IN REVIEW

Our research mission, drawn from the Laws of Hong Kong 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 contribute 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.

HKUST continues to mature as a research-intensive university. One way of illustrating this statement is by reference to global rankings of universities in the international media. 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 for the past four years by the Times Higher Education Supplement.

Locally, the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in Hong Kong provides another indicator of our excellence in research. While comparison of the RAE results for the year 1999 and the year 2006 shows that 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.

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 becoming a dynamo for change and a catalyst in Hong Kong’s transition to a knowledge-based society. In just 18 short years, it has found recognition on the world stage of research universities.

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.

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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:

• Prof Mingjie Zhang and his team published a series of high-profile research papers in a number of prestigious international journals in 2008-09. Among them, the article to be published in Cell highlights their ground-breaking research in elucidating how actin filament-based motor myosin VI transports its cargoes in living cells. In addition, they have published an article in Molecular Cell describing how a neuronal protein called UNC5 guides different neurons to connect with each other to form functional brain circuits, and another article in the of Proceedings National Academy of Science (USA) describing protein complexes are organized. Prof Zhang’s other research focus, namely how signaling proteins in brain cells are assembled by scaffold proteins, was summarized in an invited review article published in Nat. Rev. Neurosci.

• Dr Yilong Han is the first author of a paper “Geometric frustration in buckled colloidal monolayers” published in Nature. Dr. Han and his colleagues are able to build a new, tunable soft-matter system with geometric frustration in which they can visualize the dynamics of frustration, thermal excitations and defects in the system directly.

• Development of a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) microchip by a HKUST team, led by Prof I-Ming Hsing, has brought on-the-spot testing of forensic evidence at crime scenes and disease diagnosis in surgeries a step closer. The team miniaturized the technology needed to perform PCR using electrochemical DNA sensors to provide simultaneous DNA amplification and detection on a silicon-glass microchip. The advance drew international attention with HKUST’s results published in the American Chemical Society journal Analytical Chemistry.

• Prof Pascale Fung's group has developed a first of its kind lecture speech transcription and summarization system that is capable of automatically transcribing lecture and conference presentations and summarizes them into bullet points with hierarchical rhetorical structures, in a process that is akin to automatic generation of power point slides from talks. They have shown that this type of structural summarization is far more comprehensible and useful to humans than conventional extractive summaries where salient sentences are compiled together into a summary.

• Prof Jiang Xu developed the first fully optical on-chip network, FONoC, for multiprocessor systems-on-chips using existing device technologies. The new method lowers the power consumption by one order of magnitude compared with existing solutions, and has been published in a top international conference.

• “一种应用于 AVS-S 的熵编码加密算法” (A light-weight integrated encryption and entropy coding method for AVS-S) was accepted into the AVS-S standard, which is the surveillance profile of the China AVS standard. Apart from Prof Oscar Au, the team includes several students.

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• “基于‘L-条带’的无损抗误差转码” (L-slice and lossless error resilient transcoding) was accepted into the new mobile profile of the China AVS standard. Apart from Prof Oscar Au, the team includes several students.

• Prof Wai Ho Mow and his postgraduate students settled the previously thought intractable problem of determining the exact weight enumerators of the CDMA2000 and other convolutional codes of comparable complexity. The problem is relevant to performance evaluation of coded communication systems and was partially addressed in many technical publications in the coding community.

• Prof Li Zexiang and his project team carried out a successful expedition in Tibet with their Unmanned Aerial Vehicle: Zhufeng Explorer. They test-flew their robot in a number of locations in Tibet, and collected a large set of data for future research purposes. It is perhaps the first flying robot to encounter Mt Everest at such a close distance.

• The team from ECE co-invented the first robot ever used by Chinese archaeologists for underground exploration. This two-year project is jointly run by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the National Museum, and the Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, and Prof Li Zexiang of the Department of ECE is the co-Principal Investigator. In the joint effort, they built a robot that could collect useful data in ancient tombs and help archaeologists plan excavations.

• The proposal prepared by Prof Oscar Au’s team from the ECE Department has been selected as one of the Innovative TD-SCDMA Services and Applications for the Hong Kong Cyberport TD-SCDMA Service Development Centre. The title of the project is: “High quality video streaming based on advanced video/audio coding techniques and optimized adaptive streaming algorithms”.

• Prof Ravindra Goonetilleke was awarded a US patent, “Method and Apparatus for determining flare on foot and shoe-last” filed in 2008.

• Prof Jeff Hong and his collaborators have successfully developed a software package called Industrial Strength COMPASS on the design of locally convergent algorithms for discrete optimization via simulation.

• Prof Gilles Hilary, in collaboration with Prof Sudipto Dasgupta in FINA and a former student Xin Chang, showed that companies audited by Big 6 firms are more likely to issue equity as opposed to debt than are those audited by small audit firms. In addition, companies audited by Big 6 auditors are able to make larger equity issues than are those audited by small auditors, but the difference narrows when market conditions improve.

• Profs Gilles Hilary and Kai Wai Hui documented that firms located in counties with higher levels of religiosity display lower degrees of risk exposure, as measured by variances in equity returns or returns on assets. They exhibit a lower investment rate and less growth, but generate a more positive market reaction when they announce new investments.

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• In a collaborative study, Prof Charles Hsu showed that rules implemented by the US Securities and Exchange Commission in 2003 reduced the frequency of earnings reports that exclude special gains and losses, but they also reduced the association between earnings information and stock returns.

• A paper by Prof. Tanjim Hossain and his co-authors, entitled "Shrouded Attributes and Information Suppression: Evidence from the Field," was recently accepted by the prestigious Quarterly Journal of Economics and Finance.

• Prof Laura Liu has examined evidence of historical market-to-book related to current leverage is consistent with a partial adjustment model of leverage. When a firm's leverage target is time varying and there exists adjustment costs, the firm's current leverage reflects its past targets, thus past market-to-book. Her paper "Historical market-to-book in a partial-adjustment model of leverage" will be published in Journal of Corporate Finance.

• Prof Yuri Tserlukevich and PhD student MAO Lei have recently investigated the incentives of the companies to reduce the burden of financial liabilities using cash and liquid securities. A puzzling result is that investors can sell their liabilities at the market prices only if they fail to coordinate.

• Prof Mark Seasholes has identified how financial intermediaries, inventories and revenues can be used to predict market-level liquidity. When intermediaries take on large amounts of risk or lose money, liquidity dries up. The paper, "Time Variation in Liquidity: The Role of Market Maker Inventories and Revenues", which is a joint project with Carole Comerton-Forde (Univ. of Sydney), Terrence Hendershott (UC Berkeley), Charles Jones (Columbia), and Pamela Moulton (Fordham), will be published in Journal of Finance.

• Prof Sudipto Dasgupta’s paper "Transparency, Stock Return Synchronicity, and the Informativeness of Stock Prices: Theory and Evidence", co-authored with Jie Gan and Ning Gao, will be published in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. The paper shows, theoretically, that stock return synchronicity can be higher in a more transparent information environment. Around major information events such as seasoned equity offerings and ADR listings, the paper demonstrates both theoretically and empirically that stock return synchronicity decreases prior to the information event, and subsequently increases.

• Co-authored with Xin Chang and Gilles Hilary, Prof Sudipto Dasgupta’s paper "The Effect of Auditor Quality on Financing Decisions" has been published in Accounting Review. The paper presents a model and provides empirical evidence showing that auditor quality affects the financing decisions of companies, and that higher audit quality reduces the impact of market conditions on client financial decisions and capital structure.

• Prof Sudipto Dasgupta’s paper titled "Target Behavior and Financing: How Conclusive is the Evidence?”, co-authored with Xin Chang, will be published in Journal of Finance. The paper shows that a large set of empirical tests of target behavior lack power and cannot reject the null hypothesis of no target behavior even when it is wrong.

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• Profs Kevin C.W. Chen (ACCT) and K.C. John Wei (FINA) and their co-author, Professor Zhihong Chen, in their paper “Legal protection of investors, corporate governance, and the cost of equity capital” published in Journal of Corporate Finance (2009) examine the effect of firm-level corporate governance on the cost of equity capital in emerging markets and how the effect is influenced by country-level legal protection of investors. They find that firm-level corporate governance has a significantly negative effect on the cost of equity capital in these markets.

• Prof K.C. John Wei (FINA) and his co-author, Feixue Xie, in a paper published in Financial Analysts Journal (2008), titled, “Accruals, capital investments, and stock returns,” find that the “accruals anomaly” and the “capital investment anomaly” are distinct, even though capital investments and accruals may be related in a certain way. The evidence suggests that managers in companies ranked highest in both accruals and capital investments may be overly optimistic about future demand for their products.

• Prof Jae Yun Moon of ISOM and her colleague have developed a framework for understanding the phenomenon of the volunteer-based Internet workforce and examined the role of feedback in producing and sustaining high quality contributions from this workforce. They show that the presence of systematic quality feedback systems has a positive effect on volunteer retention and work quality.

• Prof Sean Xu of ISOM and his colleagues have investigated the role of information technology (IT) in supply chain management. Their study sheds light on the key drivers of IT-enabled supply chains, and provides insights into how competition shapes IT value. While commodity-like resources have diminishing value under competition, the effect is even stronger for managerial resources.

• Prof Shaohui Zheng (ISOM) and his co-authors have studied the capacity expansion problem of such a service firm, and developed simple optimal management strategy. They further established the robustness of the optimal strategy under various market conditions.

• Prof Flora L T Fu published Framing Famous Mountains: Grand Tour and Mingshan Paintings in Sixteen-Century China (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2009).

• Prof Lisa L M Wong published Rays of the Searching Sun: The Transcultural Poetics of Yang Mu (New Comparative Poetics, No. 23, P.I.E. Peter Lang S.A., Brussels, 2009).

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Events

Many prestigious research events were held in 2008-09:

• HKUST hosted the ACM Collegiate Programming Contest (Hong Kong) on June 20, 2009. This year, 17 regular teams from eight tertiary institutes in Hong Kong took part in the challenge. The winning team of the local contest will be going on to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) international contest.

• The Center for Economic Development (HKUST) collaborated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research, and several other international institutions in hosting the 20th Annual East Asian Seminar on Economics (Commodity Prices and Markets) on June 26-27, 2009.

• Marketing Research Camp 2008 was held on December 9-10, 2008. Four scholars from the quantitative and psychology fields were invited to present in a two-day research camp. Talks were provided to give opportunities for researchers and PhD students to exchange ideas in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. It also gave opportunities for PhD students to communicate with scholars before starting their careers. In this event, Prof Gal Zauberman (University of Pennsylvania), Prof Sridhar Moorthy (University of Toronto), Prof Pradeep Chintagunta (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) and Prof Amitava Chattopadhyay (INSEAD) were invited to present in the camp.

• HKUST Workshop on Information and Quality was held at HKUST on May 26-27, 2009. Prof Chakravarthi Narasimhan (Washington University), Prof K. Sudhir (Yale University), Prof Rajeev Tyagi (University of California, Irvine), Prof J. Miguel Villas-Boas (University of California, Berkeley), Prof Sofia Berto Villas-Boas (University of California, Berkeley) and Prof Jinhong Xie (University of Florida) from the quantitative field of marketing were invited to present their recent work in this focused area. The talks provided opportunities for the invited researchers to interact with our faculty and PhD students.

• The Department of Finance invited top academics from the field of finance and presented their research from December 16-17, 2008 at the HKUST Finance Symposium. The theme was Asset Pricing/Behavioral Finance. List of speakers were from UC Davis, Emory University, Yale University, UC Berkeley, Duke University, MIT, Oxford University, Columbia Business School, University of Pennsylvania and Nomura.

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 1,416 Masters and 147 doctoral graduates from HKUST in 2008 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

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bachelor’s 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 $507.2 million in ITF funding over the ten-year period 1999-2009 (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 $475.5 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 Huawei-HKUST Innovation Laboratory was set up to explore cutting-edge telecommunication technologies. An opening ceremony was held on 16 April 2009 to mark the official launch of the laboratory. Funded by Huawei, this lab will support mid-to-short-term as well as long-term research and development projects starting in the area of wireless communications and networks and eventually moving into new areas in Engineering and beyond.

• HKUST has teamed up with aircraft manufacturer Boeing to develop a wireless system. Prof Gary Chan (CSE) currently leads a team of researchers working on the project called Lean Aviation Network (LAviNet) that will enhance the efficiency of aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul. With preliminary research started, the design, testing and commissioning of LAviNet is expected to take two years.

• Profs Chung-Yee Lee, Jeff Hong and Ajay Joneja had collaboration with Jardine OneSolution (HK) Limited on “Decision Support System for Inventory Replenishment”.

• Prof Jeff Hong has worked on a project “Scheduling and Operations Enhancement” with ENW Electronics Limited.

• Prof Xiangtong Qi has been working with the Hongkong International Terminals (HIT) on the development of a simulation package for a comprehensive study of the performance of different operations in an automatic container yard.

• Prof Ravindra Goonetillke has started a project with Motorola Inc. USA on the “Usability and Comfort Testing of the WT 4090 Terminal and RS 409 Ring Scanner”.

• Prof Xiangtong Qi has been collaborating with ANJI-TNT on identifying and solving the logistics scheduling problem.

In 2008-09 alone:

¾ TTC evaluated 45 invention disclosures from HKUST researchers.

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¾ TTC arranged for the filing of 135 patent applications worldwide, including full and provisional applications with the US Patent Office and Trademark Office.

¾ HKUST received notification of the granting of 25 patents.

¾ RDC signed 139 R&D contracts with industrial and public sector clients, worth more than $55 million.

¾ RDC licensed 14 patents, 1 assignment and 2 software systems.

¾ RDC continued to incubate 10 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 was showered with three high honors in 2008/09 – The Leader of the Year 2008 in the Research Category by the Sing Tao News Corporation Limited, The Asian Knowledge Leaders Award 2008 by the Asian Knowledge Management Association, and Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation (HLHL) Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress 2008. Prof Ip was one of only two scholars from Hong Kong selected for the prestigious HLHL awards to honor scientists and academics who have made significant breakthroughs in scientific and technological developments.

• Dr. Jun Xia is the first runner-up in the Life Science category of the first annual Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning’s (ASAIHL) – Scopus Young Scientists Awards 2008. This award is presented by Elsevier to recognize outstanding young scientists and researchers in the Asia-Pacific region who have made significant contributions to scholarship and research.

• Gene-vinate Limited (GVN), a member company of the University’s R&D Entrepreneurship Program co-founded by Prof Wan-Keung R. Wong (BICH) and Prof Nelson Cue (CL3), won a certificate of merit at the Hong Kong Awards for Industries in recognition of its effort in applying cutting-edge scientific discoveries to skin-care products.

• Prof Guohua Chen was appointed as a Changjiang Scholar (Chair) by the Ministry of Education. This appointment is for 3 years (2009-2012) concurrent with his appointment as an Adjunct Professor at Dalian University of Technology.

• Professor Chi Ming Chan has been named one of the Top 50 Authors (Most Cited, 2002-2008) in Polymer.

• Prof Chak Keung CHAN’s paper 'Understanding hygroscopic growth and phase transformation of aerosols using single particle Raman spectroscopy in an

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electrodynamic balance', co-authored with K Y Lee and T Y Ling (PhD and MPhil students), was named a hot article by Faraday Discussions in 2008.

• Prof. Chak K Chan has been appointed as an Editor-in-Chief of Atmospheric Environment. Prof. Chan is the 8th Editor-in-Chief appointed by the journal and the first appointed outside the U.S. and Europe.

• Prof Ka Ming Ng has been invited as a Guest Professor for a Summer School in the South China University of Technology.

• Prof Ying Chau’s lab focuses on the development of drug delivery carriers and biomaterials. The synthesis of polyether polyol derivatives, which are superior to polyethylene glycol – a widely used polymer in drug delivery, was reported by postdoctoral associate Dr. Zhongyu Li and Prof Chau in the American Chemical Society journal Bioconjugate Chemistry in 2009 and named the 10th most read article by the journal.

• Prof Irene Lo received the 2009 Wesley W. Horner Award from the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for her paper on "Effects of Seepage Velocity and Temperature on the Dechlorination of Chlorinated Aliphatic Hydrocarbons".

• Prof Charles Ng was selected as a recipient of the R M Quigley Honorable Mention by the National Research Council (NRC), Canada, for publishing one of best three papers in Canadian Geotechnical Journal.

• A paper by Prof Christopher Leung, Dr. Stephen Li and their co-authors, entitled "Effect of Size on the Failure of Geometrically Similar Concrete Beams Strengthened in Shear with FRP Strips," has been selected as the Best Applied Research Paper published in the ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction.

• Two papers submitted by HKUST research teams have won two out of a total of three best paper awards at the 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications held in late April 2009 in Australia. The first paper on how search engines should be run and developed has won for Prof Dik Lun Lee (CSE) and his doctorate student Budi Yuwono the inaugural DASFAA 10+ (Database Systems for Advanced Applications) Best Paper Award 2009. The second Award went to Dr. Lei Chen and his doctorate student Xiang Lian for their research paper "Probabilistic Inverse Ranking Queries over Uncertain Data” which attempts to answer inverse ranking queries on imprecise data accurately and efficiently.

• Prof Mounir Hamdi’s paper "Supporting VCR-like operations in derivative tree-based P2P streaming systems", co-authored by Tianyin Xu, Jianzhong Chen, Wenzhong Li, Sanglu Lu and Yang Guo has won for him the Best Paper Award at Communications Software and Services Symposium of the IEEE International Conference on Communications 2009 which took place in Dresden, Germany in June 2009.

• The paper "Opportunity-based Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks" co- authored by Dr Yunhuai LIU, Dr Qian ZHANG and Prof Lionel M. NI beat over 600 other papers to win the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on

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Distributed Computing Systems 2008 in Beijing. This Opportunity-based Topology Control system effectively improves the energy efficiency of wireless sensor networks (WSNs).

• Prof Mansun Chan was awarded Top Reviewer of Microelectronics Reliability, Elsevier Publishing, for his Exceptional Contribution to the Quality of Microelectronics Reliability.

• The paper titled "Scaling Analysis of Phase Change Memory (PCM) Driving Devices" by Prof Mansun Chan and his student Lin LI has received the Best Device Paper Award in the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Electron Device and Solid-State Circuit.

• Prof Khaled Ben Letaief and ECE MPhil graduate Mr. Shaolei Ren won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Communications Conference, 14-19 June 2009, Dresden, Germany, for their paper titled "Minimum Sum Expected Distortion in Cooperative Networks".

• The paper titled “Cooperative Communications for Cognitive Radio Networks”, published by Prof Khaled Ben Letaief was ranked No.1 in the Top Documents Accessed in May 2009 for the Proceedings of the IEEE. The paper was also ranked 13th in the Top 100 papers accessed in all of IEEE Xplore in May 2009.

• Prof Jiang Xu and his team from the ECE Department have been awarded the Best Paper – Honorable Mention Award by IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) 2009 for their paper titled "A Low-power Low-cost Optical Router for Optical Networks-on-Chip in Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip”. Their paper presented the current best optical on-chip router for next-generation multiprocessor system-on-chips.

• Prof Khaled Ben Letaief of the ECE Department has won the very prestigious IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications for his paper titled "A Unified Cross-Layer Framework for Resource Allocation in Cooperative Networks", which appeared in the 2008 August issue of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

• The paper titled "Cooperative spectrum sensing with transmit and relay diversity in cognitive radio networks", published by Prof Khaled Ben Letaief and Wei Zhang of the ECE Department, was one of the Top 100 papers accessed in IEEE Xplore in January 2009.

• Prof Vijay Bhargava has been awarded Distinguished Visiting Fellowship (DVF) by the Royal Academy of Engineering.

• Prof Ross Murch has been elected IEEE Fellow for his contributions to multiple antenna systems for wireless communications. The IEEE Fellow grade is one of the Institute's most prestigious honors. It recognizes extraordinary accomplishments in the profession and is conferred upon a person with unusual distinction and record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest following a very rigorous review.

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• Two papers from the ECE Department have been accepted for presentation at the 2009 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), which is also known as “the Chip Olympics”. The first paper titled "Digitally Assisted Quasi V2 Hysteretic Buck Converter with Fixed Frequency and without using Large-ESR Capacitor" was from Dr Feng Su and Prof Wing-Hung Ki. The second paper titled "0.9mW 7GHz and 1.6mW 60GHz Frequency Dividers with Locking-Range Enhancement in 0.13µm CMOS" was from postgraduate students Sujiang Rong and Alan Wing Lun Ng, and Prof Howard C. Luong.

• Prof Amine Bermak has been awarded the 2008 Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation for serving as General Co-Chair in DELTA 2008, an IEEE conference that was organized in HKUST. This award is given once a year to recognize individuals who have provided outstanding services and contributions to Test Technology Technical Council (TTTC) programs and activities.

• Prof Kei May LAU was featured in the IEEE Member Profiles: “LED There Be Light!” in August 2008.

• Prof Mitchell Tseng, Director of the HKUST Advanced Manufacturing Institute, has successfully initiated the establishment of the Global Advanced Manufacturing Institute (GAMI), co-founded by the Ministry for Science, Research and Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg Germany, KIT Karlsruher Institute of Technology, Universität Karlsruhe, the Institute for Production Science and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in September 2008.

• Prof Fugee Tsung has been the Regional Vice President of Asia, Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) since 2008. Prof Tsung has also served as an elected member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) National Leadership Council since 2008.

• Prof Mitchell Tseng was appointed as Adjunct Professor for the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program in Sep 2008. Prof Tseng has also been awarded Fellow by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

• Prof Xiangtong Qi has taken up the position of Vice President of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Hong Kong in 2008.

• Prof Ravindra Goonetilleke’s research on Wearable Terminal and Scanner with the Design Research Innovation and Design Department of Motorola Inc. USA was selected as the Most Innovative Product of the Year 2008 by the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

• Prof Ning Cai received an Honorable Mention in the prestigious George E. Nicholson Student Paper Competition by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2008.

• Prof Qian Liu was the recipient of the M&SOM Meritorious Service Award. She won the award consecutively in 2007 and 2008.

• Prof Chung-Yee Lee has been awarded Fellow by the Hong Kong Academy of Science.

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• Prof Chung-Yee Lee served as the panel chair for Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminal and the Hong Kong Airport Authority on the Future Trend of Air Logistics Industry, and was a panel member in the Taiwan National Science Council on the Area of Excellence: Knowledge Management.

• 清华大学年轻教师刘永进副教授因论文"Modeling dynamic developable meshes by the Hamilton principle" 榮獲第九届北京青年優秀論文一等獎。此得獎论文系依 刘永进博士在香港科技大学从事博士后研究的部分成果而成，湯凱教授是该論 文的作者之一。

• Prof Ricky Lee has been awarded 2008 ASME EPPD (Electronic & Photonic Packaging Division) Mechanics Awards, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the applications of engineering mechanics in the field of electronic and/or photonic packaging, including stress analysis, reliability study, experimental methods and computational modeling.

• Prof Jang-Kyo Kim was elected the President of the Asian and Australasian Association for Composite Materials (AACM) for a two-year term in its Council Meeting on 25 September 2008. He previously served the organization in the capacity of Executive Secretary (1997-2004) and Vice President (2004-2006) in the past 10 years.

• Prof Q P Sun, together with other people, received the Natural Science Award of Minister of Education (中国教育部自然科学奖) (二等奖) in 2009.

• Prof Leonard Cheng was awarded the Peikang Chang Development Economics Outstanding Achievement Prize by the Peikang Chang Research Foundation of Development Economics for his joint research on the calculation of Chinese domestic value-added and employment generated by Chinese exports to the U.S. and U.S. domestic value-added and employment generated by U.S. exports to China in February 2009.

• Xueliang Ding won the 2009 SOPA award for Excellence in Feature Writing in Chinese for his special column《丁學良回望中國改革”三十年”》

Student Achievements

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

• PhD student Alan Siu Lun Wong is the only PhD student in Hong Kong who won the prestigious Butterfield-Croucher Studentship in 2008/09. This Award is given to the ‘best candidate’ selected in the medical and biological sciences category in the annual exercise for Croucher Studentships tenable in Hong Kong. Mr. Wong, together with another PhD student, Pak Kan, are the two only local awardees of the Croucher Foundation Research Studentship in 2008/09.

• PhD student Lin Yong has her paper “Effects of surface modification of the filler on the impact toughness of polypropylene/CaCO3 nanocomposites” being nominated to the Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium, Salt Lake City, 2009.

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Selection in this symposium is a distinct honor of recognition among the polymer community.

• PhD student Weiping Wang was selected to present his work “Morphology and Size- Controlled Self-Assembling of Enzyme-Responsive Peptides” in the Inaugural Bionanotechnology Graduate Student Award Session at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 2008 and received Honorable Mention.

• MPhil student Qilei Zhang won the best poster award with a prize of Euro750 at the 60th Polymer Processing Society conference in Italy.

• CIVL MPhil student Yu Chun Ying won the 2008/09 Fugro Prize established by the HKIE Geotechnical Division to recognize geotechnical study, research or project work with significant contributions to the advancement of the geotechnical practice in Hong Kong, undertaken by HKIE members under the age of 35. Another CIVL MPhil student Ma Chun Hung was the first runner-up.

• CIVL graduate Yuen Yu Ping received The Best Student Award in Structural Engineering (2007-08) from The Joint Structural Division of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and the Institution of Structural Engineers, UK.

• Undergraduates Yin Hengli and Liu He joined the 2009 Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition in June 2009 with their Final-Year Project “Designing Freeform Models with 3D Curves” and won the Gold Prize in the Final Round held in Yunnan.

• Programming Teams led by the CSE Department have won HKUST the Champion University Award at the IBM DB2 UDB Inter-University Programming Contest 2009. Team members include undergraduates Wong Ka Chun, Li Yuliang, Yu Ka Cheuk, Lam Wing Kwun, Kwok Chun Wing, Ng Cheuk Ki, Yan Zhepeng, Chen Chen, Li Maocheng, Chan Sing Fu, Wong Kai Hong, Lee Ka Wai Ralf, Zhao Zhou, Hung Chiu Lung Desmond and Chen Qifeng.

• PhD candidates Chen Jia and Yuan Lu received the Best Student Poster Award at the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) held in Alaska.

• ECE PhD candidate Xianshu Luo has won the IEEE Photonics Society Best Student Paper Award for the 14th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC 2009). Xianshu Luo's winning paper is titled "Dual-Microring Resonator-Coupled Cross-Connect Switch Element for On-Chip Optical Interconnection", and co- authored with another ECE PhD candidate Shaoqi Feng and Prof Andrew Poon.

• ECE postgraduate student, King Yuen Wong, has won the ISPSD'09 Charitat Award for the best student paper in the 21st International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs, held in Barcelona, Spain, June 14-17, 2009. King Yuen's paper is titled "Integrated Voltage Reference and Comparator Circuits for GaN Smart Power Chip Technology" and co-authored with Wanjun Chen and Prof Kevin Chen of the ECE Department.

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• The paper titled "Activity-Based Wide Dynamic Range Highly Linear CMOS Imaging Sensor" by ECE MPhil student Chan Ho Yeung was accepted for presentation at the ISSCC Student Forum in San Francisco on Feb. 8, 2009.

• ECE PhD candidate Man Pun Chan has won the EDSSC 2008 Student Paper Contest, First Prize for the 4th IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid- State Circuits. Man Pun Chan's winning paper is titled ”Fully Integrated Digital Controller IC for Buck Converter with a Differential-Sensing ADC”, and co-authored with Prof Philip Mok.

• The team “Tech4Enviro” led by ECE students Wang Mingyu (ECE) and Zhu Shucheng (CPEG) has been awarded Championship of the 2009 YDC E-Challenge for their project titled “GPS Robotic Water Analyzer”.

• ECE students Wang Mingyu (ECE) and Zhu Shucheng (CPEG) have won the 2nd prize in the Hang Seng Green Challenge Student Project Competition under the Best FYP Category for their project, titled "GPS Robotic Water Analyzer”. Another outstanding student team that consists of ECE international student Meenakshi Sundaram Ragavan also won the 2nd prize in the Competition under the interdisciplinary category for their project titled "Reducing Paper Use in Computer Barns".

• ECE Students Chan Chin Pang, Chan Ming Pui, and Li Hon Kwok have won the Varitronix 30th Anniversary Scholarship for the Best FYP on Display Technology for their Final Year Project on "Photo-Aligning Materials and Technology: Physics and Application in Liquid Crystal Devices".

• ECE students are honorable to have received 8 awards in the 2008-09 Hong Kong Youth Design Competition as follows:

1. Award for the organization with the most participants

Category 1: Creative designs for elderly assistive devices 2. Champion – eCube by ELEC students John Wong Chun Yung, Cheng Chun Fai and Vincent Cheng Kam Tim 3. Most Creative Award - Embedded Cognitive Therapy in Digital Photo Frame by ELEC students Lau Ming Tak, Carmen Lau Ka Man and Rainy Lam Po Chu

Category 2: Creative designs for elderly home appliances 4. Most Creative Award - Automatic Volume Remote Controller by ELEC students Lo Chun Sing, Suen Wai Chung and Kwan Man Yin 5. Most Practical Award - Pills On Time by E:EC students Esther Wong Pui Yin, Philip Li and Kelvin Leung Ming Fai

Category 3: Creative designs to enhance standard of living

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6. Champion - GPS-based Elderly Tracking System by ELEC graduates Andy Chan Ho Ting, Kiki Cong Fung Kei and Gloria Kong Lai Yan 7. Certificate of Merit - Electronic Controlled Power Supply by CPEG students Feilee Li Fei Lee, Helen Ching Nga Ying and Karen Wong Ching Yu 8. Certificate of Merit - Fishing Game by ELEC students Walter Tsui Ying Lun, Jason Lai Yan Man and Cheung Pak Ming

• ECE students triumphed in the SAMSUNG Joint Universities Creative Technology Awards. Our students are honourable to have received 3 Top and 2 Excellency awards as follows:

- Most Creative Award – “Embedded Cognitive Therapy in Digital Photo Frame” by Lau Ming Tak, Lau Ka Man and Lam Po Chu (ELEC students) - Technical Competency Award – “The Possible Life” by Yeung Chi Ho and Yu Lap Fai (ECE and CSE MPhil students) and Chan Yik Hei (ELEC student) - Most Caring Award – “The Braille Printer” by Lee Kwan Pak Patrick, Woo Hoi Ki and Chan Ning Ching (ELEC students) - Excellency Award – “Embedded Cognitive Therapy in Digital Photo Frame” - Excellency Award – “The Braille Printer”

• PhD graduate Dr. Channa Witana has received the 2008 Best PhD Thesis Award from the Hong Kong Ergonomics Society.

• MPhil student Vincent Wong has won the Outstanding Ergonomics Project Award 2008 at the Master Thesis level by the Hong Kong Ergonomics Society.

• The team composed of undergraduate students Lixuan Shen, Shuling Yao, Tan Aik Yeoh and Wenhui Yu was the champion of the 2008 Student Project Competition: Industrial Experience for Students by the Hong Kong Society of Quality in April 2008.

Research Funding

• A collaborative project entitled "Protein trafficking: mechanism and diseases” was awarded a HK$5 million Collaborative Research Grant (previously Central Allocation Grant) by the Hong Kong Research Grant Council. Dr Jun Xia (BICH) is the principal investigator for this project. Co-investigators include faculty members from HKUST, CUHK and HKU. This project is expected to make important contributions to understanding a number of human diseases such as diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases.

• Prof Zongjin Li has been awarded RMB$30-million as chief scientist of a 5-year project entitled “Basic Research on Environmentally Friendly Contemporary Concrete under China's National Basic Research Program, also known as the 973 project managed by China Ministry of Science and Technology. The project involves 50 researchers from HKUST and 7 other institutions in China.

• Dr. Gary Chan’s ITF project “FastMesh: a proxy-based peer-to-peer streaming protocol for scalable IPTV services” was awarded 1.2 million.

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• Dr. Cheung Shing-Chi’s project “RFID benchmarking methodology, report and tool support” was awarded $10,179,720 by LSCM (HK R&D Centre on Logistics & Supply Chain Management).

• Prof Xueliang Ding has won a grant of HK$126,000 from The Boyuan Foundation for a public policy proposal.

• Prof James Kung received a research award of US$15,000 from the Chiang Ching- kuo Foundation for his project “Public Finance and Land Conversion: An Empirical Study of Changing Fiscal Incentives on Local Governments’ Behavior in China”.

• Prof James Lee was awarded a two-year R01 grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for approximately US$840,000 for a project on social science data dissemination.

• Prof Xiaogang Wu, together with a group of other social scientists, has been awarded a Hong Kong Strategic Public Policy Research Grant (2009-2014). The primary purpose of this project is to establish a household panel survey for data collection at both household and individual levels to track social and economic changes in Hong Kong and their impact on individuals’ lives. The project is an important infrastructure building exercise for social science research in Hong Kong and for comparative studies of Chinese societies. The study will also assist in the formulation of policies based on solid analysis of quantitative survey data to tackle problems related to inequality and poverty, education, employment, marriage and family to improve the quality of life of Hong Kong people.

In the RGC General Research Fund program announced on 30 June 2009, HKUST researchers were awarded $96.9 million - 18.7% 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 (47%) ¾ the highest funding per eligible faculty ($227 k) ¾ the highest participation rate (30.3% of eligible faculty were funded)

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.

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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.

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.

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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 organized 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 2008-09, HKUST received a Direct Allocation Grant from RGC of $7.19 million. $5.5 million was used to support new faculty and $1.69 million for new projects.

In addition, UGC funding in the amount of $2 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 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.

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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 Mainland China, 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 [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 [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 [HUMA] [SOSC]

DIVISION OF HUMANITIES

DIVISION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE [ENVR]

DIVISION OF ENVIRONMENT 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

Zhenguo WU, 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

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

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: 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 Tumor suppressor Fhit protein as a novel target of G proteins RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,428,466 01 Dec 2008

Representative Research Publications: Yuen, Jessie W. F., Poon, Lydia S. W., Chan, Anthony S. L., Yu, Frances W. Y., Lo, Rico K. H., Wong, Y. H. (2010) "Activation of STAT3 by multiple combinations of Gbetagamma subunits", Intl. J. Biochem. Cell Biol., 42: 1052-1059. Yeung, Wendy W. S., Wong, Y. H. (2010) "Galpha16 interacts with Class IA phosphatidylinositol 3-kinases and inhibits Akt signaling", Cell. Signal, 22: 1379-1387. Yung, H. S., Lai, K. H., Chow, K. B. S., Ip, Nancy Y., Tsim, Karl W. K., Wong, Y. H;, Wu, Zhenguo, Wise, H (2010) "Nerve growth factor-induced differentiation of PC12 cells is accompanied by elevated adenylyl cyclase activity", NeuroSignals, 18: 32-42. Hu, Sharry Y., Ho, Maurice K. C., Chan, Stanley K. H., New, David C., Wong, Y. H. (2010) "Synthesis of substituted 3- methoxyphenylpropyl amides as highly potent MT2-selective melatonin ligands", Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., 20: 2582-2585. Lee, Maggie M. K., Wong, Y. H. (2009) "CCR1-mediated activation of nuclear factor-kappaB in THP-1 monocytic cells involves pertussis toxin-insensitive Galpha14 and Galpha16 signaling cascades", J. Leukocyte. Biol., 86: 1319-1329. Mak, Carmen K. M., Yeung, Patrick K.K., Kwok, Alvin C. M., Wong, Y. H., Wong, Joseph T. Y. (2009) "Multiplex fluorimetric assays for monitoring algal toxins", J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K, 89: 287-293. Yeung, Wendy W. S., Wong, Y. H. (2009) "The RhoA-specific guanine nucleotide exchange factor p63RhoGEF binds to Galpha16 and inhibits the canonical phospholipase Cbeta pathway", Cell. Signal, 21: 1317-1325. 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.

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 Elucidating the functional roles of Cdk5 in synaptic plasticity RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,725,000 01 Dec 2009 Molecular neuroscience: basic research and drug discovery UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$27,500,000 01 Sep 2007 Control of pandemic and inter-pandemic influenza - characterization of H5N1 infection in neuronal cells UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$740,000 01 Jan 2008 Croucher forum on molecular neuroscience Croucher Foundation HK$285,000 01 Jun 2005 Molecular neuroscience: Basic research and drug discovery Office of the Dean of Science, HKUST HK$4,590,000 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$12,000,000 01 Sep 2007 State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience at HKUST UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$500,000 01 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Ng, Yu Pong, Lee, S., Cheung, T. K. W., Nicholls, J. M., Peiris, J. S., Ip, Nancy Y. (2010) "Avian influenza H5N1 virus induces cytopathy and proinflammatory cytokine responses in human astrocytic and neuronal cell lines", Neurosci., 168: 613-623. Hu, Y. M., Ip, Fanny C F, Fu, Guangmiao, Pang, Tracy H.H., Ye, W. C., Ip, Nancy Y. (2010) "Dammarane Saponins from Gynostemma pentaphyllum", Phytochemistry, 71(10): 1149-57. Shi, Lei, Butt, Busma W Y, Ip, Fanny C F, Dai, Ying, Jiang, L., Yung, W. H., Greenberg, M. E., Fu, Amy K. Y., Ip, Nancy Y. (2010) "Ephexin1 is required for structural maturation and neurotransmission at the neuromuscular junction", Neuron, 65: 204-216. Ou, C. Y., Poon, V. Y. N., Maeder, C., Lehrman, E., Fu, Amy K. Y., Park, M., Fu, Ada W.-Y., Ip, Nancy Y., Shen, K. (2010) "Two cyclin-dependent kinase pathways are essential for polarized trafficking of presynaptic components", Cell, 141: 846-858. Wan, Jun, Fu, Amy K. Y., Ip, Fanny C F, Ng, H. K., Hugon, J., Page, G., Wang, Jerry H., Lai, Kwok On, Wu, Zhenguo, Ip, Nancy Y. (2010) "Tyk2/STAT3 signaling mediates Abeta-induced neuronal cell death: Implications in Alzheimer's disease", J. Neurosci., 30(20): 6873-6881. Li, J. J., Ng, E. K., Ng, Yu Pong, Wong, C . Y. P., Yu, J., Jin, H. C., Cheng, V. Y. Y., Go, M. Y. Y., Cheung, P. K. F., Man, E. P. S., Ebert, M. P. A., Chan, F. K. L., Sung, J. J. Y., Ip, Nancy Y., Leung, W. K (2009) "Identification of retinoic acid-regulated nuclear matrix-associated protein (RAMP) as a novel regulator of gastric cancer", British Journal of Cancer, 101: 691-698. Lai, Kwok On, Ip, Nancy Y. (2009) "Recent advances in understanding the roles of Cdk5 in synaptic plasticity", Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1792: 741-745. Cheung, Zelda H Y, Ip, Nancy Y. (2009) "The emerging role of autophagy in Parkinson's disease", Mol. Brain, 2:29.

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: Structural and functional studies of the C-terminal cargo-binding domain of Myosin VI RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,380,000 01 Jul 2009 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 Structural and Functional Characterization of the ZU5-LD-DD Supramodules from UNC5b and Ankyrins RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,725,000 01 Sep 2009 Protein-phosphoinositides interactions in neuronal signaling RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$6,000,000 01 May 2008 Structural Biology of Neuronal Signaling and Neurodisorders: a seeding proposal for next round of AoE competition UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$400,000 15 Jun 2010 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 Comprehensive discovery of splice variants for the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases: A platform for novel protein drug candidates Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$6,774,650 01 Apr 2010 Biomedical Research Institute in the Shenzhen PKU-HKUST Medical Center UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant and Others HK$1,739,700 01 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Wen, W, Yu, J, Pan, L.F, Weng, J, Wang, W, Ong, Y.S, Tran, T.H, Hong, W, Zhang, M (2010) "Lipid-induced Conformational Switch Controls Fusion Activity of Longin Domain SNARE Ykt6", Mol Cell, 37, 383-395. Yan, J, Pan, L.F, Chen, X, Wu, L, Zhang, M (2010) "The Structure of the Harmonin/Sans Complex Reveals an Unexpected Interaction Mode of the Two Usher Syndrome Proteins", PNAS, 107, 4040-4045. Wang, R, Wei, Z, Jin, H, Wu, H, Yu, C, Wen, W, Chan, L.-N, Wen, Z, Zhang, M (2009) "Auto-inhibition of UNC5b Revealed by the Cytoplasmic Domain Structure of the Netrin Receptor", Mol Cell, 33, 692-703. 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.

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: Chen, M L, Ip, S P, Tsai, S H, Ko, Robert K M, Che, C T (2010) "A 'Yang-invigorating' Chinese herbal formula protects against alcohol- induced toxicity in CYP2E1 cDNA-transfected HepG2 (E47) cells", J. Ethnopharmcol., 128: 116-122. Ko, Robert K M, Chiu, P Y, Leung, H Y, Siu, A H L, Chen, N, Leong, Pou Kuan, Poon, M K T (2010) "Long-term dietary supplementation with a Yang-invigorating Chinese herbal formula increases lifespan and mitigates age-associated declines in mitochondrial antioxidant status and functional ability of various tissues in male and female C57BL/6L mice", Rejuven. Res., 13: 168-171. Leong, Pou Kuan, Chen, N, Chiu, P Y, Leung, H Y, Ma, C W, Tang, Q T, Ko, Robert K M (2010) "Long-term treatment with Shengmai San-derived herbal supplement (Wei Kang Su) enhances antioxidant response in various tissues of rats with protection against carbon tetrachloride hepatotoxicity", J. Med. Food, 13: 427-438. Pan, S Y, Dong, J C, Dong, H G, Yu, Z L, Chen, S B, Fong, W F, Han, Y F, Ko, Robert K M (2010) "New perspectives on Chinese herbal medicine (Zhong-Yao) research and development", eCAM, doi: 10.1093/ecam/neq056. Chen, N, Ko, Robert K M (2010) "Schisandrin B-induced glutathione antioxidant response and cardioprotection are mediated by reactive oxidant species production in rat hearts", Biol. Pharm. Bull., 33: 825-829. Chen, N, Chiu, P Y, Ko, Robert K M (2009) "A red wine extract supplement protects against apoptosis and inhibits changes in mitochondrial permeability and membrane potential", J. Compliment. Integr. Med., 7 (1): Article 3. Mao, Q Q, Ip, S P, Ko, Robert K M, Tsai, S H, Che, C T (2009) "Effects of peony glycosides on mice exposed to chronic unpredictable stress: evidence on antidepressant-like activity", J. Ethnopharmcol., 124: 316-320. Ko, Robert K M, Chen, N, Chiu, P Y (2009) "Protective effect of red wine extract supplement against myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury in rats: Effects on mitochondrial antioxidant status and structural parameters", J. Complement. Integr. Med., 6 (1): Article 21.

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

Representative Research Publications: Ma, Hoi Tang, Poon, Randy Y C (2010) "Genome reduplication: redeployment of cyclin-CDK complexes and spontaneous oscillation of APC/C", Cell Cycle, 9: 431-2. Poon, Randy Y C (2010) Polyploidization and Cancer, Springer, New York. Ma, Hoi Tang, Tsang, Yiu Huen, Marxer, Miriam, Poon, Randy Y C (2009) "Cyclin A2-CDK2 cooperates with the PLK1-SCF - TrCP1-EMI1-APC/C axis to promote genome reduplication in the absence of mitosis", Molecular and Cellular Biology, 29: 6500-6514. 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. 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.

Zhenguo WU Professor (2358 8704 ; [email protected] ; http://ibich.ust.hk/wp/?p=103)

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: 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 Center for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Research UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$1,552,500 01 Apr 2010 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 Center for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Research UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$780,000 01 Apr 2010

Representative Research Publications: Diao, Yarui, Wang, Xi, Wu, Zhenguo (2009) "SOCS1, SOCS3, and PIAS1 Promote Myogenic Differentiation by Inhibiting the Leukemia Inhibitory Factor-Induced JAK1/STAT1/STAT3 Pathway", Molecular & Cellular Biology, 29: 5084-93. 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. 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.

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: 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

Representative Research Publications: Wei, Zhun, Liu, Changdong, Wu, Xing, Xu, Naining, Zhou, Bo, Liang, Chun, Zhu, Guang (2010) "Characterization and structure determination of the Cdt1 binding domain of human minichromosome maintenance (Mcm) 6", J. Boil. Chem., 285, 12469-12473. Wang, Jiafeng, Wu, Rentian, Lu, Yongjun, Liang, Chun (2010) "Ctf4p facilitates Mcm10p to promote DNA replication in budding yeast", Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 395, 336-341. 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: Characterization and Functional Investigation of CDK5RAP2 Association with Microtubule Plus-ends RGC - General Research Fund HK$760,484 01 Oct 2009 Functional proteomics to decipher protein complexes of the cell regulatory machinery in model systems UGC - High Impact Area HK$400,000 16 Sep 2004 Representative Research Publications: Fong, K.W., Hau, S.Y., Kho, Y.S., Jia, Y., He, L., Qi, R.Z. (2009) "Interaction of CDK5RAP2 with EB1 to track growing microtubule tips and to regulate microtubule dynamics", Mol. Biol. Cell, 20(16), 3660-3670. 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.

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 Study of Microglia and Acute Myeloid Leukemia in zebrafish RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$4,600,000 01 May 2010

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.

Representative Research Publications: Song, Grace Qi Xiu, Wong, Wan Keung (2010) "Characterization and kinetic studies of a novel DNase encoded by the yjeA gene cloned from Bacillus subtilis", 2010 Hong Kong Inter-University Biochemistry Postgraduate Symposium, The Chinese University of Hong Kong , China, Poster 42, May 15, 2010. Wang, Yule Yue, Ng, Alan Ka Lun, Lam, Gigi Chui Chi, Chan, Anthony Kwun Nam, Song, Grace Qi Xiu, Sze, Brian Kin Fai, Fu, Bill Z.B., Wong, Wan Keung (2010) "Graded expression of cenA gene in E. coli using efficient B.subtilis promoters", 2010 Hong Kong Inter-University Biochemistry Postgraduate Symposium, The Chinese University of Hong Kong , China, Poster 50, May 15, 2010. Chan, Anthony Kwun Nam, Wang, Yule Yue, Ng, Alan Ka Lun, Wong, Wan Keung (2010) "Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel cellobiase gene, cba3, from Cellulomonas biazotea", 2010 Hong Kong Inter-University Biochemistry Postgraduate Symposium, The Chinese University of Hong Kong , China, Poster 05, May 15, 2010. 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.

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 Role of G-protein coupled receptor kinase 2 in AMPA receptor subunit specific trafficking and synaptic plasticity RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,380,000 01 Oct 2009 Protein trafficking: mechanism and diseases RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$5,000,000 01 Feb 2009 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

Representative Research Publications: Xu, Junyu, Xiao, Nan, Xia, Jun (2010) "Thrombospondin 1 accelerates synaptogenesis in hippocampal neurons through neuroligin 1", Nature Neuroscience, 13(1):22-4. 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: Applied Genomics Center Nansha Research Centers HK$6,900,000 01 Apr 2007 Brain metastasis cancer genomics UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$2,000,000 01 Jun 2010

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: Structural and Functional Studies of DLC1-Tensin2 Complex RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,035,000 01 Dec 2009 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 Structural and functional studies of DLC1-Tensin2 complex The TUYF Charitable Trust HK$780,000 01 Dec 2009

Representative Research Publications: Liu, Changdong, Wei, Zhun, Zhu, Guang (2010) "1H, 15N and 13C chemical shift assignments of the Cdt1 binding domain of human Mcm6", Biomolecular NMR Assignments, in press. Wei, Zhun, Liu, Changdong, Zhou, Bo, Xu, Naining, Liang, Chun, Zhu, Guang (2010) "Characterization and structure determination of the Cdt1 binding domain of human minichromosome maintenance (Mcm) 6", Journal of Biological Chemistry, 285 (17) 12469-73. Lee, Ka-ming, Yu, CW, Chan, DS, Chiu, TY, Zhu, Guang, Sze, KH, Shaw, PC, Wong, KB (2010) "Solution structure of the dimerization domain of ribosomal protein P2 provides insights for the structural organization of eukaryotic stalk", Nucleic Acids Research, in press. 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.

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 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 Cell survival mechanism in growth, differentiation and apoptosis UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$254,000 02 Nov 2009

Representative Research Publications: Chung, Kenny K K, David, Karen K (2010) "Emerging roles of nitric oxide in neurodegeneration", Nitric Oxide: Biology and Chemistry, 22: 290-5. Chung, Kenny K K (2010) "Modulation of pro-survival proteins by S-nitrosylation: Implications for neurodegeneration", Apoptosis., In Press. 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.

Kit Yu FU Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 5740 ; [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

Representative Research Publications: Ip, Pak Kan, Shi, Lei, Fu, Amy K, Ip, Nancy Y Y (2010) "Alpha2-chimaerin regulates neuronal migration in the cerebral cortex", The Gordon Research Conference on Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Hong Kong, June 6-11, 2010. Fang, Weiqun, Ip, Pak Kan, Li, Rui, Ng, Yu Pong, Lin, S, Fu, Amy K, Ip, Nancy Y Y (2010) "Axin directs axon formation through its interaction with GSK-3beta", The Gordon Research Conference on Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Hong Kong, June 6-11, 2010. Fu, Amy K, Hung, Kwok Wang, Fu, Wing Yu, Shen, Chong, Chen, Yu, Xia, Jun, Lai, Kwok On, Ip, Nancy Y Y (2010) "EphA4-dependent degradation of AMPA receptor is important for the homeostatic synaptic plasticity", The Gordon Research Conference on Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Hong Kong, June 6-11, 2010. Shi, Lei, Butt, Busma W Y, Ip, Fanny C F, Dai, Ying, Jiang, L, Yung, W, Greenberg, M, Fu, Amy K, Ip, Nancy Y Y (2010) "Ephexin1 Is Required for Structural Maturation and Neurotransmission at the Neuromuscular Junction", Neuron, 65, 204-216. Wan, Jun, Fu, Amy K, Ip, Fanny C F, Ng, H, Hugon, J, Page, G, Wang, J, Lai, Kwok On, Wu, Zhenguo, Ip, Nancy Y Y (2010) "Tyk2/STAT3 signaling mediates Abeta-induced neuronal cell death: Implications in Alzheimer's disease", J Neurosci., 30, 6873-81. Shi, Lei, Butt, Busma W Y, Ip, Fanny C F, Dai, Ying, Greenberg, M, Fu, Amy K, Ip, Nancy Y Y (2009) "Ephexin1 promotes postsynaptic maturation at the neuromuscular junction", The 39th Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, Oct 17-21, 2009. 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.

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

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Characterization of novel agonists of G protein-coupled melatonin receptors RGC - General Research Fund HK$740,565 01 Dec 2008 Revisiting the mechanism of G protein activation: signaling in the absence of subunit dissociation RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,086,405 01 Dec 2009

Representative Research Publications: Yuen, JW, Poon, See Wing, Chan, Anthony S L, Yu, Frances W Y, Lo, Rico K H, Wong, Yung Hou (2010) "Activation of STAT3 by specific G-alpha subunits and multiple G-betagamma dimers", International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, 42(6):1052-1059. Chan, Anthony S L, Poon, See Wing, Wong, Yung Hou (2010) "Differential activation mechanisms of G protein family members (Invited Speech)", The 28th Hong Kong Society of Neuroscience (HKSN) Annual Meeting. Lau, Winnie W I, Chan, Anthony S L, Wong, Yung Hou (2010) "Functional coupling of Melatonin receptors with G16 leads to independent phosphorylation of Tyr-705 and Ser-727 on STAT3", The 28th Hong Kong Society of Neuroscience (HKSN) Annual Meeting. Zuo, Hao, Chan, Anthony S L, Wong, Yung Hou (2010) "Melatonin MT1 receptor induces Fhit phosphorylation through the pertussis toxin-insensitive G16 protein", The 28th Hong Kong Society of Neuroscience (HKSN) Annual Meeting. Chan, Anthony S L, Lau, Winnie W I, Wong, Yung Hou (2009) "Melatonin MT1 Receptor-mediated PKD Activation", Gordon Research Conferences on Mechanisms of Cell Signalling - Towards Understanding Signalling Networks, Oxford University. 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.

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 Discovery of TCM-based wound-healing promoting agent for chronic wound management Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$1,325,800 01 Nov 2009

Representative Research Publications: 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. Fu, Amy, Cheung, Zelda, Ip, Nancy (2008) "Beta-catenin in reverse action.", Nat Neurosci., 11(3):244-6. 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. Cheung, Zelda, Chin, Wing Hong, Chen, Yu, Ng, Yu Pong, Ip, Nancy (2007) "Cdk5 is involved in BDNF-stimulated dendritic growth in hippocampal neurons.", PLoS Biol., 5(4):e63. Cheung, Zelda, Ip, Nancy (2007) "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

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 establishment", 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: Elucidating the role of Cdk5-dependent Ser478 phosphorylation of TrkB in spine morphogenesis RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,495,000 01 Nov 2009 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., volume 19, pp. 275-83. 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.

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

Current Research Activities: Representative Research Publications: Wan, Jun, Fu, Kit Yu, Ip, Fanny C F, Ng, Ho-Keung, Hugon, Jacques, Page, Guylene, Wang, Jerry H, Lai, Kwok On, Wu, Zhenguo, Ip, Nancy Y Y (2010) "Tyk2/STAT3 signaling mediates beta-amyloid-induced neuronal cell death: implications in Alzheimer's disease", Journal of Neuroscience, 2010 May 19;30(20):6873-81. 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

David K BANFIELD, Professor

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

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: 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 Establishment of safety guidelines for proper usage of toxic traditional Chinese medicines - An integrated approach by chemical and toxicity analysis Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$1,874,119 01 Aug 2010 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 2010 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 Development, validation and accreditation of hair drug testing method UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$240,000 01 Jul 2010

Representative Research Publications: Bi, Wenchuan, Xie, Heidi, Xu, Li, Li, Jun, Cheung, Wing Han, Zhu, Judy, Zheng, Yuzhong, Chen, Ping, Lau, David T W, Choi, Chi Yan, Wang, Tiejie, Dong, Tingxia, Tsim, Karl W K (2010) "Fo Shou San, an Ancient Herbal Decoction Prepared from Rhizoma Chuanxiong and Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Stimulates the Production of Hemoglobin and Erythropoietin in Cultured Cells", Planta Med., (Publised online). Guo, Jiangyang, Xie, Heidi, Choi, Chi Yan, Zheng, Yuzhong, Bi, Wenchuan, Xu, Li, Dong, Tingxia, Tsim, Karl W K (2010) "Galangin, a flavonol derived from Rhizoma Alpiniae Officinarum, inhibits acetylcholinesterase activity in vitro", Chem Biol Interact., (Publised online). Chen, Ping, Xie, Heidi, Chan, Wallace K B, Leung, Ka-Wing, Chan, Kar Lun Gallant, Choi, Chi Yan, Bon, S, Massoulie, Jean, Tsim, Karl W K (2010) "The prima-linked cholinesterase tetramers are assembled from homodimers; hybrid molecules composed of acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase dimers are up-regulated during development of chicken brain", J Biol Chem., (Publised online). Cheung, Jerry, Li, Jun, Cheung, Wing Han, Zhu, Yue, Zheng, Yuzhong, Bi, Wenchuan, Duan, Ran, Choi, Chi Yan, Lau, David T W, Dong, Tingxia, Lau, Bred, Tsim, Karl W K (2009) "Cordysinocan, a polysaccharide isolated from cultured Cordyceps, activates immune responses in cultured T-lymphocytes and macrophages: signaling cascade and induction of cytokines", J Ethnopharmacol., 124 (1): 61-68. Leung, Ka-Wing, Xie, Heidi, Chen, Ping, Mok, Mokka, Chu, Glanice, 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. 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.

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: Li, C.H., Wong, Y.S., Tam, N.F.Y. (2010) "Anaerobic Biodegradation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons with Amendment of Iron (III) in Mangrove Sediment Slurry", Bioresource Technology, 101:8083-8092. Guo, C.L., Dang, Z., Wong, Y.S., Tam, N.F.Y. (2010) "Biodegradation Ability and Dioxygenase Genes of PAH-degrading Sphingomonas and Mycobacterium Strains Isolated from Mangrove Sediments", International Journal of Biodeterioration and Biodegradation, 64:419-426. Chen, J.L., Au, P., Wong, Y.S., Tam, N.F.Y. (2010) "Using Orthogonal Design to Determine Optimal Conditions for Biodegradation of Phenanthrene in Mangrove Sediment Slurry", Journal of Hazardous Materials, 176:666-671. Ke, L., Bao, W.W., Chen, L.L., Wong, Y.S., Tam, N.F.Y. (2009) "Effects of Humic Acid on Solubility and Biodegradation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Liquid Media and Mangrove Sediment Slurries", Chemosphere, 76:1102-1108. Tam, N.F.Y., Wong, A.H.Y., Wong, M.H., Wong, Y.S. (2009) "Mass Balance of Nitrogen in Constructed Mangrove Wetland Receiving Ammonium-rich Wastewater: Effects of Tidal Regime and Carbon Supply", Ecological Engineering, 35:453-462. Tam, N.F.Y., Wong, Y.S., Wong, M.H. (2009) "Novel Technology in Pollutant Removal at Source and Bioremediation", Ocean and Coastal Management, 52:368-373. Zhou, H.W., Wong, A.H.Y., Yu, R.K.M., Park, Y.D., Wong, Y.S., Tam, N.F.Y. (2009) "Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon-induced Structural Shift of Bacterial Communities in Mangrove Sediment", Microbial Ecology, 58:153-160. Li, C.H., Zhou, H.W., Wong, Y.S., Tam, N.F.Y. (2009) "Vertical Distribution and Anaerobic Biodegradation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Mangrove Sediments in Hong Kong, South China", Science of the Total Environment, 407:5772-5779.

David K BANFIELD 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: Characterization of a Novel Longin Domain Containing Protein from Yeast RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,086,405 01 Oct 2009

Representative Research Publications: Tu, Linna, Banfield, David K (2010) "Localization of Golgi-resident glycosyltransferases", Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, Volume 67, pages 29 - 41. 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.

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; functional genomics, chemosensory perception neural circuitry, pheromone, evolution of mating system, synthetic biology

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 The regulation of BMP signaling by antagonizing molecules, CRM-1 and LON-1. RGC - General Research Fund HK$2,028,600 01 Jan 2010 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 (2010) "Preservation of eternal youth, revival of life from a frozen stock", Birth Defects Research Part C: Embryo Today: Reviews, accepted. Wong, Yan Fung, Sheng, Qing, Chung, Wai Lam, Chan, Kai Fung, Chow, King Lau (2010) "mab-31 functions at TGF-beta signal- receiving cells for sensory ray patterning in C. elegans male tail development", BMC Developmental Biology, accepted. Tsang, Wai Hung, Shek, Kim Fung, Lee, Tsz Yan, Chow, King Lau (2009) "An Evolutionarily Conserved Nested Gene Pair - Mab21 and Lrba/Nbea in Metazoan", Genomics, 94:177-187. Tsang, Wai Hung, Chow, King Lau (2009) "Mouse embryo cryopreservation utilizing a novel high-capacity vitrification spatula", Biotechniques, 46:468-472. 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.

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: 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

Representative Research Publications: Li, Ning (2010) "The ethylene-regulated gravitropic response of a model plant Arabidopsis serves as an ideal research model for systems biology", Croucher Advanced Study Institute; Frontiers in Systems Biology: Network, Environment and Human Disease, Hong Kong, China Jan/2010. Li, Ning (2009) "A functional proteomic and phosphoproteomic approach to elucidate novel plant growth regulators and plant cell signaling", The JIPB Plant Biology Symposium 2009, YanTai,China. July/2009. Li, Ning (2009) "Functional phosphoproteomic and genetic analysis of molecular mechanism underlying ethylene-regulated leaf- yellowing", Xiang Shan Symposium on Plant Senescence, Xiang Shan, China. Li, Ning (2009) "Functional phosphoproteomic and genetic analysis of molecular mechanism underlying ethylene-regulated leaf- yellowing", Annual Congress of China Human Proteomics Organization, Taizhou, China.July/2009. 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.

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: An Investigation of the Role of Calcium Signaling in Different Embryonic Domains during Epiboly in Zebrafish Embryos RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,491,759 01 Sep 2009 New developments in optical microscopy: seeing into the future of cell biology Croucher Foundation HK$496,000 11 Jan 2010 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: Mei, Wenyan, Lee, Karen W., Marlow, Florence L., Miller, Andrew L, Mullins, Mary C. (2009) "hnRNP 1 is required to generate the Ca2+ signal that causes egg ectivation in zebrafish", Development, Vol 136, p 3007-3017. 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 (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 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$805,000 01 Nov 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 Antifouling compounds (butenolides and indole alkaloids) derived from marine microbes: study of structure-function relationship and mode-of- action (at both gene and protein level) National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$840,627 01 Jan 2010 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 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs, HKUST HK$600,000 01 Apr 2004 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$700,000 01 Nov 2009

Representative Research Publications: Thiyagarajan, V, Wong, Yue Him, Qian, Pei-Yuan (2009) "2D gel-based proteome and phosphoproteme analysis during larval metamorphosis in two major marine biofuling invertebrates", J Proteome Res, 8：2708-2719. Hung, OS, Lee, On On, Thiyagarajan, V, He, HP, Xu, Ying, Chung, Hong Chun, Qiu, JW, Qian, Pei-Yuan (2009) "Characterization of cues from natural multi-species biofilms to induce larval attachment of the polychaete Hydroides elegans", Aquatic Biol, 4: 253-262. Huang, YL, Ki, JS, Lee, On On, Qian, Pei-Yuan (2009) "Evidence for the dynamics of acyl homoserine lactone based quorum sensing during early subtidal biofilm formation", ISMEJ, 3: 296-304 (Nature group). Lee, On On, Chui, Pui Yi, Wong, Yue Him, Pawlik, JR, Qian, Pei-Yuan (2009) "Evidence for vertical transmission of bacterial symbionts from adult to embryo in the Caribbean sponge Svenzea zeai", Appl Environ Microbiol, 75：6147-6156. Zhou, XJ, Zhang, Z, Xu, Ying, Jin, CL, He, HP, Hao, XJ, Qian, Pei-Yuan (2009) "Flavone and isoflavone derivatives of terrestrial plants as larval settlement inhibitor of the barnacle Balanus amphitrite", Biofouling, 25:69-76. Lee, On On, Wong, Yue Him, Qian, Pei-Yuan (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. Zhang, R, Lau, Stanley C K, Ki, JS, Thiyagarajan, V, Qian, Pei-Yuan (2009) "Response of bacteriaoplankton community structures to hydrological conditions and anthropogenic pollution in contrasting subtropical environments", FEMS Microbial Ecol, 69:449-460. Zhou, Zhijian, Xu, Ying, Jin, CL, Qian, Pei-Yuan (2009) "Reversible anti-settlement activity against (Amphibalanus (=Balanus) amphitrite, Bugula neritina, and Hydroides elegans by a nontoxic pharmaceutical compound, mizolastine", Biofouling, 25:739-747.

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 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$189,750 01 Nov 2009 Mercury contamination in freshwater and marine fish cultivated around the Pearl River Delta, and its health risk assessment RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$400,000 01 Jun 2008 Influences of natural organic matters on the accumulation of persistent organic pollutants in soils National Science Foundation of China HK$84,300 01 Jul 2009 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) Office of the President, HKUST HK$1,000,000 01 Apr 2004 Characterization and Toxicity of Nanomaterials in Aquatic Organisms UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$400,000 01 Jun 2010 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs, HKUST HK$600,000 01 Apr 2004 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$165,000 01 Nov 2009

Representative Research Publications: Dang, F, Wang, WX (2009) "Assessment of tissue-specific accumulation and sublethal effects of cadmium in a marine fish fed contaminated commercially produced diet", Aquatic Toxicology, 95: 248-255. Pan, K, Wang, WX (2009) "Biodynamics to explain the difference of copper body concentrations in five marine bivalve species", Environmental Science and Technology, 49: 2137-2143. Wang, M, Wang, WX (2009) "Cadmium in three marine phytoplankton: Accumulation, subcellular fate and thiol induction", Aquatic Toxicology, 95: 99-107. He, X, Wang, WX (2009) "Calcium balance in Daphnia grown on diets differing in food quantity, phosphorus and calcium", Freshwater Biology, 54: 2200-2211. Tan, QG, Wang, WX (2009) "Calcium influence on phosphorus regulation in Daphnia magna: implication ns for phosphorus cycling", Aquatic Biology, 5: 1-11. Zhong, H, Wang, WX (2009) "Controls of dissolved organic matters and chloride on mercury uptake by a marine diatom", Environmental Science and Technology, 43: 8998-9003. Zhong, H, Wang, WX (2009) "Inorganic mercury binding with different sulfur species in anoxic sediments and their gut juice extractions", Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 28: 1851-1857. Pan, K, Wang, WX (2009) "Inter-individual variations in cadmium and zinc biodynamics in the scallop Chlamys nobilis", Marine Ecology Progress Series, 383: 151-160.

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

Representative Research Publications: Kwok, Chun Man, Wong, Joseph T Y (2010) "Activities of a walled-bound cellulase is coupled to and is required for cell cycle progression in a dinoflagellate", Plant Cell, doi/10.1105/tpc.109.070243. Chow, M.H., Yan, K.T.H., Bennett, M.J., Wong, Joseph T Y (2010) "Liquid Crystalline Chromosomes: Birefringence and DNA Condensation", Eukaryotic Cell, ECTMP-04419-10_1. 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.

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$1,474,340 01 Apr 2009 Development of recombinant vaccine candidates for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$3,264,861 01 Nov 2009

Representative Research Publications: Leung, Thomas Chun-Yiu, Wong, Chung Kai, Xie, Yong (2010) "Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles using biopolymers, carboxymethylated-curdlan and fucoidan", Materials Chemistry and Physics, 121 (3) 402-405. Cheung, Ying Kit, Cheng, Samuel C S, Ke, Yan, Xie, Yong (2010) "Two novel HLA-A*0201 T-cell epitopes in avian H5N1 viral nucleoprotein induced specific immune responses in HHD mice", Vet. Res., 41:24. 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.

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.

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 Probing novel mechanosensitive gating of CFTR and its physiological implication RGC - General Research Fund HK$760,484 01 Nov 2009 Mass spectrometry-based phosphoproteomics of simple epithelial cells in response to mechanical cues UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$300,000 01 Jun 2010 Investigation of the role of soluble AC in the modulation of CFTR University of Cincinnati HK$39,000 01 May 2006

Representative Research Publications: Zhang, Wei, Wang, Dong, Duan, Yuanyuan, Chan, Hsiao Chang, Loy, Michael M T, Huang, Pingbo (2010) "Mechanosensitive gating of CFTR", Nature Cell Biology, 12(5): 507-12. Wang, Dong, Wang, Wen, Duan, Yuanyuan, Sun, Ying, Wang, Yan, Huang, Pingbo (2008) "Functional coupling of Gs and CFTR is independent of their association with lipid rafts in epithelial cells", Pflugers Arch -Eur J. Physiol, 456: 929-938. 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, P., Lazarowski, E. R., Tarran, R., Milgram, S. L., Boucher, R. C., Stutts, M. J. (2001) "Compartmentalized autocrine signaling to CTTR at the apical membrane of airway epithelial cells", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 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.

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 Feeding responses of microzooplankton to the size, nutritional value and cell-surface hydrophobicity of the prey, with special interest in diel variability RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,121,480 01 Jan 2010 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$690,000 01 Nov 2009 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) Office of the Dean of Science, HKUST HK$312,000 01 Nov 2009 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 Phylogenetic diversity of marine picocyanobacteria in the Red Sea UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$254,000 01 Jan 2010 Feeding responses of microzooplankton to the size, nutritional value and cell-surface hydrophobicity of the prey, with special interest in diel ariability The TUYF Charitable Trust HK$493,500 01 Jan 2010 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$600,000 01 Nov 2009

Representative Research Publications: Jing, Hongmei, Liu, Hongbin, Wong, Thomas, Chen, Mianrun (2010) "Impact of mesozooplankton grazing on the microbial community revealed by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE)", Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 383: 39-47. Liu, Hongbin, Chen, Mianrun, Suzuki, Koji, Wong, C.K., Chen, Bingzhang (2010) "Mesozooplankton selective feeding in subtropical coastal waters revealed by HPLC pigment analysis", Marine Ecology Progress Series, 407: 111-123. Chen, Bingzhang, Liu, Hongbin (2010) "Scaling of phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing in surface oceans", Limnology and Oceanography, 55: 965-972. Jing, Hongmei, Liu, Hongbin, Suzuki, Koji (2009) "Phylogenetic diversity of marine Synechococcus in the Sea of Okhotsk. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 56:55-63", Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 56:55-63. 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. 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.

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 post-synaptic membrane: Functional distinction in mediating synaptic localization and receptor properties RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,086,405 01 Sep 2009 Molecular analysis of PRiMA-linked G4AChE in lipid rafts: participation in the formation of filopodia-like processes induced by the transmembrane form of agrin Germany / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$29,988 01 Jan 2010

Representative Research Publications: Choi, Chi Yan, Zhu, Judy, Leung, Ka-Wing, Chu, Glanice, Xie, Heidi, Chen, Ping, Zheng, Yuzhong, Lau, David T W, Dong, Tingxia, Chow, PC, Han, YF, Wang, ZT, Tsim, Karl W K (2010) "A flavonol glycoside, isolated from roots of Panax notoginseng, reduces amyloid-beta-induced neurotoxicity in cultured neurons: signaling transduction and drug development for Alzheimer's disease", J Alzheimers Dis., 19 (3): 795-811. Xie, Heidi, Liang, Dong, Leung, Ka-Wing, Chen, Ping, Zhu, Yue, Chan, Wallace K B, Choi, Chi Yan, Massoulie, Jean, Tsim, Karl W K (2010) "Targeting acetylcholinesterase to membrane rafts: a function mediated by the proline-rich membrane anchor (PRiMA) in neurons", J Biol Chem., 285 (15): 11537-11546. Chen, Ping, Xie, Heidi, Chan, Wallace K B, Leung, Ka-Wing, Chan, Kar Lun Gallant, Choi, Chi Yan, Bon, S, Massoulie, Jean, Tsim, Karl W K (2010) "The prima-linked cholinesterase tetramers are assembled from homodimers; hybrid molecules composed of acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase dimers are up-regulated during development of chicken brain", J Biol Chem., (On-line published). 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.

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:

Representative Research Publications: Choi, Chi Yan, Zhu, JT, Leung, Ka Wing, Chu, GK, Xie, HQ, Chen, Ping, Zheng, Yuzhong, Lau, David T W, Dong, Tingxia, Chow, PC, Han, YF, Wang, ZT, Tsim, Karl W K (2010) "A Flavonol Glycoside, Isolated From Roots of Panax notoginseng, Reduces Amyloid-beta-Induced Neurotoxicity in Cultured Neurons: Signaling Transduction and Drug Development for Alzheimer's Disease", J Alzheimers Dis., Epub ahead of print. Choi, Chi Yan, Zhu, JT, Leung, Ka Wing, Chu, GK, Xie, HQ, Chen, Ping, Zheng, Yuzhong, Lau, David T W, Dong, Tingxia, Chow, PC, Han, YF, Wang, ZT, Tsim, Karl W K (2010) "A flavonol glycoside, isolated from roots of Panax notoginseng, reduces amyloid-beta-induced neurotoxicity in cultured neurons: signaling transduction and drug development for Alzheimer's disease", J Alzheimers Dis., 19(3):795-811. Tsim, Karl W K, Leung, Ka Wing, Mok, KW, Chen, Ping, Zhu, Yue, Zhu, JT, Guo, Jiangyang, Bi, Wenchuan, Zheng, Yuzhong, Lau, David T W, Xie, HQ, Choi, Chi Yan (2010) "Expression and Localization of PRiMA-linked globular form acetylcholinesterase in vertebrate neuromuscular junctions", J Mol Neurosci., 40(1-2):40-6. Bi, Wenchuan, Xie, HQ, Xu, L, Li, J, Cheung, Wing Han, Zhu, JT, Zheng, Yuzhong, Chen, Ping, Lau, David T W, Choi, Chi Yan, Wang, TJ, Dong, Tingxia, Tsim, Karl W K (2010) "Fo Shou San, an Ancient Herbal Decoction Prepared from Rhizoma Chuanxiong and Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Stimulates the Production of Hemoglobin and Erythropoietin in Cultured Cells", Planta Med., Epub ahead of print. Zheng, Yuzhong, Choi, Chi Yan, Li, J, Xie, HQ, Cheung, Wing Han, Duan, Ran, Guo, Jiangyang, Zhu, JT, Chen, Ping, Bi, Wenchuan, Zhu, Yue, Lau, David T W, Dong, Tingxia, Lau, BW, Tsim, Karl W K (2010) "Ligustilide suppresses the biological properties of Danggui Buxue Tang: a Chinese herbal decoction composed of radix astragali and radix angelica sinensis", Planta Med., 76(5):439-43. Cheung, JK, Li, J, Cheung, Wing Han, Zhu, Yue, Zheng, Yuzhong, Bi, Wenchuan, Duan, Ran, Choi, Chi Yan, Lau, David T W, Dong, Tingxia, Lau, BW, Tsim, Karl W K (2009) "Cordysinocan, a polysaccharide isolated from cultured Cordyceps, activates immune responses in cultured T-lymphocytes and macrophages: signaling cascade and induction of cytokines", J Ethnopharmacol., 124 (1): 61-68. Zhu, JT, Choi, Chi Yan, Xie, HQ, Zheng, Yuzhong, Guo, Jiangyang, Bi, Wenchuan, Lau, David T W, Li, J, Dong, Tingxia, Lau, BW, Chen, JJ, Tsim, Karl W K (2009) "Hibifolin, a flavonol glycoside, prevents beta-amyloid-induced neurotoxicity in cultured cortical neurons", Neurosci Lett., 461(2):172-6.

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 15 Aug 2009 Collaboration and exchange programs between UST and PML Croucher Foundation HK$45,000 25 Jul 2009

Representative Research Publications: Liu, Rulong, Chiang, Hei Yin Miranda, Qian, Peiyuan, Lau, Stanley C K (2010) "Host-specific 16S rRNA gene markers of Bacteroidales for source tracking of fecal pollution in the subtropical coastal seawater of Hong Kong", Water Research, in press.

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: Chung, Hong-Chun, Lee, On-On, Hung, Yi-Li, Mok, Siu Yan, Kolter, Robert, Qian, Peiyuan (2010) "Bacterial community succession and chemical profiles of subtidal biofilms in related to larval settlement of the polycheate Hydroides elegans", The ISME Journal. Bao, Wei-Yang, Lee, On-On, Chung, Hong-Chun, Li, Mu, Qian, Peiyuan (2009) "Copper affects biofilm inductiveness to larval settlement of the serpulid polychaete Hydroides elegans (Haswell)", Biofouling. Lee, On-On, Chui, Pui Yi, Wong, Yue Him, Pawlik, Joseph, Qian, Peiyuan (2009) "Evidence for vertical transmission of bacterial symbionts from adult to embryo in the Caribbean sponge Svenzea zeai", Appl Environ Microbiol, 75(19):6147-4156. Hung, OS, Lee, OO, Thiyagarajin, V, He, HP, Xu, Y, Chung, HC, Qiu, JW, 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

Xuhui HUANG, Assistant Professor

Jianwei SUN, Assistant 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 reactions of allenes RGC - General Research Fund HK$343,700 01 Jan 2009 Catalysis involving alcohols RGC - General Research Fund HK$416,300 01 Jan 2010 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: Tse, K. S., Xue, P., Lin, Zhenyang, Jia, Guochen (2010) "H/D Exchange Reactions of Olefins with D2O Mediated by RuHCl(CO)(PPh3)3", Adv. Synth Catal., 352, 1512-1522. Chen, J., He, G., Sung, H. H. Y., Williams, Ian D, Lin, Zhenyang, Jia, Guochen (2010) "Rhenium Carbyne and Metallacyclopropene Complexes from One Pot Reactions of ReH5(PMe2Ph)3 with Terminal Alkynes", Organometallics, 29, 2693-2701. Liu, P., Su, F. H., Wen, T. B., Sung, H. H. Y., Williams, Ian D, Jia, Guochen (2010) "Selective and Efficient Cycloisomerization of Alkynols Catalyzed by a New Ruthenium Complex with a Tetradentate Nitrogen-Phosphorus Mixed Ligand", Chem. Eur. J., 16, 7889- 7897. Poon, K. C., Liu, L., Guo, T., Li, J., Lin, Zhenyang, Jia, Guochen (2010) "Synthesis and Characterization of Rhenabenzenes", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 49, 2759-2762. Shou, W. G., Li, J., Guo, T., Lin, Zhenyang, Jia, Guochen (2009) "Ruthenium-Catalyzed Intramolecular Amination Reactions of Aryl- and Vinylazides", Organometallics, 28, 6847-6854. Tse, K. S., Guo, T., Sung, H. H. Y., Williams, Ian D, Lin, Zhenyang, Jia, Guochen (2009) "Synthesis of Monosubstituted Cyclopentadienyl Ruthenium Complexes from the Reactions of 6-Substituted Fulvenes with RuHCl(PPh3)3", Organometallics, 28, 5529-5535. Bai, Tao, Ma, Shengming, Jia, Guochen (2009) "Insertion Reactions of Allenes with Transition Metal Complexes", Coord. Chem. Rev., 253, 423. 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.

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: 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 Development of New Polymerization Routes to Nitrogen-Rich Functional Polymers RGC - General Research Fund HK$713,000 01 Jan 2010 Institute of Molecular Functional Materials UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$1,817,000 01 Jan 2010 Tang's donation Ben Zhong Tang HK$110,200 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 Ltd. & Industries HK$1,996,300 01 Sep 2009 Development of functional polytriazoles for sensory and adhesive applications Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$995,900 01 Jan 2010 Institute of Molecular Functional Materials UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$624,000 01 Jan 2010

Representative Research Publications: Yuan, Wangzhang, Lu, Ping, Chen, Shuming, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Wang, Zhiming, Liu, Yang, Kwok, Hoi Sing, Ma, Yuguang, Tang, Ben Zhong (2010) "Changing the Behavior of Chromophores from Aggregation-Caused Quenching to Aggregation- Induced Emission: Development of Highly Efficient Light Emitters in the Solid State", Advanced Materials, 2010, 22, 2159-2163. Wu, Wen-Chung, Chen, Ching-Yi, Tian, Yanqing, Jang, Sei-Hum, Hong, Yuning, Liu, Yang, Hu, Rongrong, Tang, Ben Zhong, Lee, Yi Ting, Chen, Chin-Ti, Chen, Wen-Chang, Jen, Alex K.-Y. (2010) "Enhancement of Aggregation-Induced Emission in Dye- Encapsulating Polymeric Micelles for Bioimaging", Advanced Functional Materials, 2010, 20, 1413-1423. Mahtab, Faisal, Hong, Yuning, Liu, Jianzhao, Yu, Yong, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Qin, Anjun, Lu, Ping, Tang, Ben Zhong (2010) "Fabrication of Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles Hybridized with AIE Luminogens and Exploration of Their Applications as Nanobiosensors in Intracellular Imaging", Chemistry-A European Journal, 2010, 16, 4266-4272. Hong, Yuning, Xiong, Hao, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Haussler, Matthias, Liu, Jianzhao, Yu, Yong, Zhong, Yongchun, Sung, Herman Ho Yung, Williams, Ian D, Wong, Kam Sing, Tang, Ben Zhong (2010) "Fluorescent Bioprobes: Structural Matching in the Docking Processes of Aggregation-Induced Emission Fluorogens on DNA Surfaces", Chemistry-A European Journal, 2010, 16, 1232-1245. Liu, Jianzhao, Zhong, Yongchun, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Lu, Ping, Hong, Yuning, Yu, Yong, Yue, Yanan, Mahtab, Faisal, Sung, Herman Ho Yung, Williams, Ian D, Wong, Kam Sing, Tang, Ben Zhong (2010) "Hyperbranched Conjugated Polysiloles: Synthesis, Structure, Aggregation-Enhanced Emission, Multicolor Fluorescent Photopatterning, and Superamplified Detection of Explosives", Macromolecules, 2010, 43, 4921-4936. Jim, Ka Wai, Qin, Anjun, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Mahtab, Faisal, Yu, Yong, Tang, Ben Zhong (2010) "Metal-Free Alkyne Polyhydrothiolation: Synthesis of Functional Poly(vinylenesulfide)s with High Stereoregularity by Regioselective Thioclick Polymerization", Advanced Functional Materials, 2010, 20, 1319-1328. Liu, Jianzhao, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Tang, Ben Zhong (2009) "Acetylenic Polymers: Syntheses, Structures and Functions", Chemical Reviews, 2009, 109, 5799-5867. Hong, Yuning, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Tang, Ben Zhong (2009) "Aggregation-Induced Emission: Phenomenon, Mechanism and Applications", Chemical Communications, 2009, 4332-4353.

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 12 Jul 2009

Representative Research Publications: Wu, Yundong, Han, Wei, Wang, De-Ping, Gao, Yi, Zhao, Yi-Lei (2008) "Theoretical Analysis of Secondary Structures of beta- 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 of Mycolactone E diastereomers RGC - General Research Fund HK$416,300 01 Jan 2010 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$630,000 01 Oct 2007 Institute of Molecular Technology for Drug Discovery and synthesis UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$230,000 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 K, Chan, Wing-Chi, Wong, Ho-Ning, Li, Ka-Yan, Wu, Wai Kung, Fan, Kit-Man, Sung, Herman, Williams, Ian D, Prosperi, Davide, Melato, Sergio, Coghi, Paolo, Monti, Diego (2010) "Facile Oxidation of Leucomethylene Blue and Dihydroflavins by Artemisinins: Relationship with Flavoenzyme Function and Antimalarial Mechanism of Action", ChemMedChem, 2010, 5, 1282-1299. Gravatt, Andrew M, Liu, Wai M., Krishna, Sanjeev, Chan, Wing-Chi, Haynes, Richard K, Wilson, Natalie L., Dalgleish, Angus G. (2010) "In vitro Study of the Anti-Cancer Effects of Artemisone Alone or in Combination with other Chemotherapeutic Agents", Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology, 2010, DOI 10.1007/s00280-010-1355-4; published online 19 May 2010. Dunay, Ildiko R., Haynes, Richard K, Chan, Wing-Chi, Sibley, L. David (2009) "Artemisone and Artemiside Control Acute and Reactivated Toxoplasmosis in the Murine Model", Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2009, 53, 4450-4456. Haynes, Richard K, Che, Chun-Tao (2009) "From Qing Hao, Herb of Antiquity, and the Advent of a Remarkable Class of Pharmaceutical Drugs Based on the Active Priniciple Qing Hao Su (Artemisinin)", The American Society of Pharmacognosy 50 Years of Progress in Natural Product Research 1959-2009, G. M. Cragg, J. A. Butler, W. P. Jones pp211-213. Coghi, Paul, Basilico, Nicoletta, Taramelli, Donatella, Chan, Wing-Chi, Haynes, Richard K, Monti, Diego (2009) "Interaction of Artemisinins with Oxyhemoglobin Hb-Fe(II), Hb-Fe(II), CarboxyHb-Fe(II), Heme-Fe(II) and Carboxyheme Fe(II): Significance for Mode of Action and Implications for Therapy of Cerebral Malaria", ChemMedChem, 2009, 4, 2045-2053. 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. 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 Ruthenium alkyl and siloxide complexes as molecular precursors to single-site supported catalysts RGC - General Research Fund HK$668,417 01 Jan 2009 Study of metal-nitrogen multiple bonds in ruthenium complexes with oxygen ligands RGC - General Research Fund HK$416,300 01 Jan 2010

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-allowed but One-photon forbidden Excited States of Octupolar Chromophores by Resonance Hyper Raman Spectroscopy RGC - General Research Fund HK$713,000 01 Dec 2009

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 Activation of chemically inert molecules UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$85,000 01 May 2010

Representative Research Publications: Lin, Zhenyang (2010) "Interplay between Theory and Experiment: Computational Organometallic and Transition Metal Chemistry", Acc. Chem. Res., 43, 602-611. Xue, Liqin, Lin, Zhenyang (2010) "Theoretical Aspects of Palladium-Catalysed Carbon-Carbon Cross-Coupling Reactions", Chem. Soc. Rev., 39, 1692-1705. Dang, Li, Lin, Zhenyang, Marder, Todd B. (2009) "Boryl Ligands and Their Roles in Metal-Catalysed Borylation Reactions", Chem. Comm., 3987-3995. 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.

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: Nanocrystal cluster technology for development of ultra-sensitive bioassays UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$84,000 01 Jan 2010

Representative Research Publications: Tong, Chao-Yang, Chan, Pui-Yee Cangel, Cheung, Kwan-Yee, Cautherley, George, Glatz, Jan, Renneberg, Reinhard (2010) "A Point- of-Care Immunotest for Bedside Determination of Heart-Type Fatty Acid-Binding Protein", Analytical Letters, 43: 4, 735 - 744. Xie, Pei-Yi, Li, Ya-Ping, Chan, Pui-Yee Cangel, Cheung, Kwan-Yee, Cautherley, George, Renneberg, Reinhard (2010) "A one-step immunotest for rapid detection of heart-type fatty acid-binding protein in patients with acute coronary syndromes", Journal of Immunoassay & Immunochemistry, 31(1):24-32. Renneberg, Reinhard (2009) Bioanalytics for Beginners, Springer. 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.

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: Novel Research using a Dual Wavelength X-ray Diffractometer UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$480,000 01 Jun 2008 Metal-organic Silica Analogues UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$400,000 01 Jun 2010

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: Numerically exact quantum dissipation propagators with applications RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,102,937 01 Nov 2009 Theory, modeling, and simulation of emerging electronics UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$535,900 01 Jul 2010

Representative Research Publications: Xu, Rui-Xue, Tian, Bao-Ling, Xu, Jian, Yan, Yijing (2009) "Hierarchical Quantum Master Equation with Semiclassical Drude Dissipation", J. Chem. Phys., 131 (21), 214111. 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. 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 New Zwitterionic Cycloaddition Chemistry of Endohedral Metallofullerenes RGC - General Research Fund HK$668,417 01 Jan 2009 Synthesis, Characterization and Applications of Branched Semiconductor and Metal Nanostructures RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,399,637 01 Jan 2010 One-dimensional nanomaterials and their arrays: synthesis, characterization, and applications in high performance lithium ion batteries National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$855,600 01 Jan 2010

Representative Research Publications: Qiu, Yongcai, Yang, Shihe, Jin, Limin, Li, Weishan (2010) "A Novel Nanostructured Spinel ZnCo2O4 Electrode Material: Morphology Conserved Transformation from a Hexagonal Shaped Nanodisk Precursor and Application in Lithium Ion Batteries", J. Mater. Chem., 20(21), 4439-4444. Xiao, Junwu, Wang, Zhining, Tang, Yecang, Yang, Shihe (2010) "Biomimetic Mineralization of CaCO3 on a Phospholipid Monolayer: From Amorphous Calcium Carbonate Precursor to Calcite via Vaterites", Langmuir, 26(7), 4977-4983. Qiu, Yongcai, Chen, Wei, Yang, Shihe (2010) "Double-layered Photoanodes from Variable-Size Anatase TiO2 Nanospindles: A Promising Candidate for High-Efficiency Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells", Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 49(21), 3675-3679. Qiu, Yongcai, Chen, Wei, Yang, Shihe (2010) "Facile Hydrothermal Preparation of Hierarchically Assembled, Porous Single- Crystalline ZnO Nanoplates and Their Application in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells", J. Mater. Chem., 20(5), 1001-1006. Liu, Chenmin, Sun, Hui, Yang, Shihe (2010) "From Nanorods to Atomically Thin Wires of Anatase TiO2: Nonhydrolytic Synthesis and Characterizations", Chem. Eur. J., 16(14), 4381-4393. Chen, Wei, Qiu, Yongcai, Zhong, Y. C., Wong, Kam Sing, Yang, Shihe (2010) "High Efficiency Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Based On the Composite Photoanodes of SnO2 Nanoparticles/ZnO anotetrapods", J. Phys. Chem. A, 114(9), 3127-3138. Luo, Jie, Liu, Chenmin, Cao, Yong (2010) "Hybrid solar cells based on blends of poly(3-hexylthiophene) and surface dye-modified, ultrathin linear-and branched-TiO2 nanorods", Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 94(3), 501-508. Wang, Zhining, Yang, Shihe (2009) "Effects of Fullerenes on Phospholipid Membranes: A Langmuir Monolayer Study", ChemPhysChem, 10(13), 2284-2289.

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 Identification of 1,4-dihydroxy-2-naphthoyl-CoA thioesterase and investigation of its probable link to the regulation of menaquinone biosynthesis in Escherichia coli RGC - General Research Fund HK$593,400 01 Jan 2010 Decoding the chemical logics of the biogenesis of the potent antitumor antibiotic Calicheamicin r1I UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$300,000 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Jiang, Ming, Chen, Xiaolei, Wu, Xian-hui, Chen, Minjiao, Wu, Yundong, Guo, Zhihong (2009) "Catalytic mechanism of SHCHC synthase in the menaquinone biosynthesis of Escherichia coli: Identification and mutational analysis of the active site residues", Biochemistry, 48, 6921-6931. 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. 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: 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 Source Apportioning of Primary and Secondary Organic Aerosols in the Pearl River Delta Region Using Primary and Secondary Organic Tracer Data RGC - General Research Fund HK$580,615 01 Dec 2009

Representative Research Publications: Lin, Peng, Huang, Xiao-Feng, He, Ling-Yan, Yu, Jianzhen (2010) "Abundance and size distribution of HULIS in ambient aerosols at a rural site in South China", J. Aerosol Sci., 41, 74-87. Hu, Di, Bian, Qijing, Li, T. W.Y, Lau, Alexis K H, Yu, Jianzhen (2008) "Contributions of isoprene, monoterpenes, beta- 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.

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 Ltd. HK$310,000 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.

Xuhui HUANG Assistant Professor (2358 7363 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~xuhuihuang/)

Ph.D, Columbia University Postdoc, Research Associate, Stanford University

Current Research Activities: The research in my group focuses on computational biophysics and biophysical chemistry. Particular areas of interests include protein folding/misfolding and aggregration, RNA folding, elucidating fundamental mechanism of cellular machineries, and developing theoretical tools for studying conformational dynamics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Elucidating the role of hydrophobic effect in protein folding and aggregation using a world-wide distributed computing environment RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$200,000 01 Mar 2010 Theoretical Modeling of Structural and Dynamics of Biological Macromolecules UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$300,000 17 May 2010

Representative Research Publications: Huang, Xuhui, Yao, Yuan, Bowman, Gregory, Sun, Jian, Guibas, Leo, Carlsson, Gunnar, Pande, Vijay (2010) "Constructing multi- resolution markov state models (msms) to elucidate RNA hairpin folding mechanisms", Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, Hawaii, USA, 228-39. Bowman, Gregory, Huang, Xuhui, Pande, Vijay (2010) "Network models for molecular kinetics and their initial applications to human health", Cell Research, 20:622-630. Wang, Dong, Zhu, Guangyu, Huang, Xuhui, Lippard, Stephen (2010) "X-ray structure and mechanism of RNA polymerase II stalled at an antineoplastic monofunctional platinum-DNA adduct", Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 107, 9584-9589.

Jianwei SUN Assistant Professor (2358 7351 ; [email protected])

University of Chicago

Current Research Activities: Organic Synthesis Hongkai WU Assistant Professor (2358 7246 ; [email protected])

PhD, Harvard

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: General platform for high-throughput single-cell analysis RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,399,637 01 Jan 2010 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 A high-throughput platform for investigation of combination effects of environmental pollutants National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$855,600 01 Jan 2010

Representative Research Publications: Dai, Wei, Zheng, Yizhe, Luo, Kathy Q, Wu, Hongkai (2010) "A Prototypic Microfluidic Platform for Real-Time Study of Cell Apoptosis at the Single-Cell Level", Biomicrofluidics, 4, 024101. Ren, Kangning, Wu, Hongkai (2010) "Chapter 4. Ultrasensitive Detection of Low-Copy-Number Molecules from Single Cells. Invited book chapter", Chemical Cytometry: Ultrasensitive Analysis of Single Cells, Editor: Lu, C, 2010. Ren, Kangning, Zhao, Yihua, Su, Jing, Ryan, Declan, Wu, Hongkai (2010) "Convenient Method for Modifying Poly(dimethylsiloxane) to Be Airtight and Resistive against the Absorption of Small Molecules", Analytical Chemistry, 82, 5965-5971. Ni, Weihai, Chen, Huanjun, Su, Jing, Sun, Zhenhua, Wang, Jianfang, Wu, Hongkai (2010) "Effects of Dyes, Gold Nanocrystals, pH, and Metal Ions on the Plasmonic and Molecular Resonance Coupling", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132, 4806-4814. Zhou, Jianhua, Yan, Hui, Ren, Kangning, Dai, Wei, Wu, Hongkai (2009) "A Convenient Method for Modifying Poly(dimethylsiloxane) with Poly(ethylene glycol) in Microfluidics", Analytical Chemistry, 81, 6627-6632. 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.

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: Shi, Jianbing, Jim, Cathy Ka Wai, Mahtab, Faisal, Liu, Jianzhao, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Sung, Herman Ho Yung, Williams, Ian D, Dong, Yuping, Tang, Ben Zhong (2010) "Ferrocene-Functionalized Hyperbranched Polyphenylenes: Synthesis, Redox Activity, Light Refraction, Transition-Metal Complexation, and Precursors to Magnetic Ceramics", Macromolecules, 2010, 43, 680-690. Zhao, Zujin, Chen, Shuming, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Jim, Cathy Ka Wai, Chan, Carrie Yin Kwan, Wang, Zhiming, Lu, Ping, Deng, Chunmei, Kwok, Hoi Sing, Ma, Yuguang, Tang, Ben Zhong (2010) "Steric Hindrance, Electronic Communication, and Energy Transfer in the Photo- and Electroluminescence Processes of AIE Luminogens", The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2010, 114, 7963-7972. Liu, Jianzhao, Zhong, Yongchun, Lu, Ping, Hong, Yuning, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Mahtab, Faisal, Yu, Yong, Wong, Kam Sing, Tang, Ben Zhong (2010) "Superamplification Effect in the Detection of Explosives by a Fluorescent Hyperbranched Poly(silylenephenylene) with Aggregation-Enhanced Emission Characteristics", Polymer Chemistry, 2010, 1, 426-429. Liu, Jianzhao, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Tang, Ben Zhong (2009) "Aggregation-Induced Emission of Silole Molecules and Polymers: Fundamental and Applications", Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials, 2009, 19, 249-285. Liu, Jianzhao, Zhang, Li, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Jim, Cathy Ka Wai, Yue, Yanan, Deng, Rui, Hong, Yuning, Qin, Anjun, Sung, Herman Ho Yung, Williams, Ian D, Jia, Guocheng, Tang, Ben Zhong (2009) "Exploration of Effective Catalysts for Diyne Polycyclotrimerization, Synthesis of an Ester-Functionalized Hyperbranched Polyphenylene, and Demonstration of Its Utility as a Molecular Container with Implication for Controlled Drug Delivery", Macromolecules, 2009, 42, 7367-7378. Yuan, Wangzhang, Zhao, Hui, Shen, Xiaoyuan, Mahtab, Faisal, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Sun, Jingzhi, Tang, Ben Zhong (2009) "Luminogenic Polyacetylenes and Conjugated Polyelectrolytes: Synthesis, Hybridization with Carbon Nanotubes, Aggregation-Induced Emission, Superamplification in Emission Quenching by Explosive, and Fluorescent Assay for Protein Quantitation", Macromolecules, 2009, 42, 9400-9411. Zhao, Zujin, Wang, Zhiming, Lu, Ping, Chan, Carrie Yin Kwan, Liu, Dandan, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Sung, Herman Ho Yung, Williams, Ian D, Ma, Yuguang, Tang, Ben Zhong (2009) "Structural Modulation of Solid-State Emission of 2,5- Bis(trialkylsilylethynyl)-3,4-diphenylsiloles", Angewandte Chemie, 2009, 121, 7744-7747. Hu, Rongrong, Lager, Erik, Aguilar-Aguilar, Anglica, Liu, Jianzhao, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Sung, Herman Ho Yung, Williams, Ian D, Zhong, Yongchun, Wong, Kam Sing, Pena-Cabrera, Eduardo, Tang, Ben Zhong (2009) "Twisted Intramolecular Charge Transfer and Aggregation-Induced Emission of BODIPY Derivatives", The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2009, 113, 15845-15853. Department of Mathematics

Jian-Shu LI, Professor and Department Head

Shiu-Yuen CHENG, Chair Professor

Allen MOY, Chair Professor

Qi-Man SHAO, 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

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, 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

Xianhua PENG, Assistant Professor

Maosheng XIONG, 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.

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 (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

Qi-Man SHAO Chair 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: Liu, Weidong, Shao, Qiman (2010) "Cramer-type moderate deviation for the maximum of the periodogram with application to simultaneous tests in gene expression time series", Ann. Statist., 38, 1913-1935. 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.

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: Numerical study of Jovian winds - deep versus shallow convection RGC - General Research Fund HK$358,800 01 Aug 2009 A Geographic Information System for Lunar Research UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$300,000 15 May 2010

Representative Research Publications: Chan, Kwing Lam, Tsang, Kang Too, Kong, Bruce, Zheng, Yung-Chun (2010) "Lunar regolith thermal behavior revealed by Chang- E-1 microwave brightness temperature data", Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 295, 287-291. Chan, Kwing Lam, Mayr, Hans G. (2008) "A shallow convective model for Jupiter'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. 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 Global likelihood method for transformation model with local linear smoothing. RGC - General Research Fund HK$678,500 01 Jul 2009

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Kani, Guo, Shaojun, Sun, Liuquan, Wang, Jane-Ling (2010) "Global partial likelihood for nonparametric proportional hazards models", Journal of American Statistical Association, To appear. Chen, Kani, Tong, Xingwei (2010) "Varying coefficient transformation models with censored data", Biometrika, To appear. 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.

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

PhD, University of Cambridge (1990)

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

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 Partial Dirac cohomology and Hamiltonian Cross-section RGC - General Research Fund HK$688,275 01 Oct 2009 Representative Research Publications: Chuah, Meng-Kiat, Huang, Jing-Song (2010) "Double Vogan diagrams and semisimple symmetric spaces", Transactions of American Mathematical Society, Volume 362 (2010), pp1721-1750. Huang, Jing-Song, Kang, Yi-Fang, Pandzic, Pavle (2009) "Dirac cohomology of some Harish-Chandra modules", Transformation Groups, Vol. 14. 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 (2010) "A unified approach to Edgeworth expansions for studentized statistics", Statistic Sinica, Vol. 20, 613-636. Jing, Bing Yi, Pan, Guangming, Shao, Qiman, Zhou, Wang (2010) "Nonparametric estimate of spectral density functions of random matrices", Annals of Statistics, to appear. Jing, Bing Yi, Liu, Zhi, Kong, Xinbing (2010) "Testing the presence of diffusion for discrete sampling semimartingales under high frequency data", Journal of the Korean Statistical Society, to appear. 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.

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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Pricing and hedging of volatility derivatives RGC - General Research Fund HK$314,870 01 Jul 2010

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.

Xiaoping WANG Professor (2358 7438 ; [email protected] ; http://www.math.ust.hk/~mawang)

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 Mathematical and Numerical Study of Current-Induced Magnetic Domain Wall Motion RGC - General Research Fund HK$358,800 01 Jan 2010 East Asian postgraduate workshop on soft matter Croucher Foundation HK$80,000 10 Mar 2009 Experimental and Mathematical Studies of Nanoscale Fluid-Solid Interfacial Phenomena UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$300,000 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: He, Qiaolin, Wang, Xiao Ping (2009) "Numerical study of the effect of Navier slip on the driven cavity flow", Zeitschrift fr Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, Volume 89 Issue 10, Pages 857 - 868. Di, Yana, Wang, Xiao-Ping (2009) "Precursor simulations in spreading using a multi-mesh adaptive finite element method", Journal of Computational Physics, 228, 1380-1390. 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. He, Qiaolin, Wang, Xiao-Ping (2008) "The effect of the boundary slip on the stability of shear Flow", Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, 88, 729-734. 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.

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: Theoretical and Computational Study of Non-equilibrium flows RGC - General Research Fund HK$998,200 01 Jan 2010 A Unified Kinetic Method for Multi-scale Gas Transport Ranging from Molecular to Atmospheric Flows UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$400,000 01 Jun 2010

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. Xu, Kun, Liu, Hongwei (2008) "A Multiple temperature kinetic model and its application to near continuum flows", Communication 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: Automorphic forms of loop groups RGC - General Research Fund HK$478,400 01 Nov 2009

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])

PhD, Carnegie Mellon 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.

Representative Research Publications: Chasnov, Jeffrey R (2010) "A fast algorithm for computing multilocus recombination", Theoretical Population Biology, 77, 270-278. Chasnov, Jeffrey R (2010) "The evolution from females to hermaphrodites results in a sexual conflict over mating in androdioecious nematode worms and clam shrimp", Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 23, 539-556. 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 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: combinatorics, graph theory, topology/geometry.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: On the geometry of Tutte polynomials of regular matroids RGC - General Research Fund HK$598,000 15 Dec 2009 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 (2010) "Orientations, lattice polytopes, and group arrangements. I. Chromatic and tension polynomials of graphs", Annals of Conbinatorics, 13 (2010), no. 4, 425--452. Chen, Beifang, Wang, Jue (2010) "Torsion formulas for signed graphs", Discrete Applied Mathematics, 158 (2010), no. 11, 1148--1157. Chen, Beifang, Chen, Guantao (2008) "Gauss-Bonnet formula, finiteness condition, and characterizations of graphs embedded in surfaces", Graphs and Combinatorics, 24, no.3, 159--183. 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 (2005) "Ehrhart polynomials of lattice polyhedral functions", Contemporary Mathematics, 374, 37-63. Chen, Beifang (2004) "A simplified elementary proof of Hadwiger's volume theorem", Geometriae Dedicata, vol. 105, 107-120. 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: Value distribution theory based on Askey-Wilson operator and Special Functions RGC - General Research Fund HK$358,800 20 Nov 2009

Representative Research Publications: Chiang, Yik Man (2010) "Eigen-solutions of Biconfluent Heun equation with respect to a complex weight", Colloquium on Jordan Theory and Analysis, 8-12 April 2010. National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Cho-Ho Chu, Ngai-Ching Wong. Chiang, Yik Man (2009) "A q-deformation of Nevanlinna Theory", Conference on Value Distribution Theory and Complex Geometry, 27- 30 July, 2009. Organizers: Min Ru (University of Houston), Paul Vojta (U.C. Berkeley), et al. National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Hsinchu, Taiwan. Chiang, Yik Man (2009) "A q-deformation of classical Nevanlinna theory", International Conference on Complex Analysis and Related Topics, 20-23 August 2009, Beijing. Academy of Mathematics and System Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cui, Guizhen, Fan, Aihua, etal. Chiang, Yik Man (2009) "On the growth of logarithmic differences, difference quotients and logarithmic derivatives of meromorphic functions", Transaction of American Mathematical Society, 361, no. 7 (2009) 3767-3791. 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).

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: 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 Formation, endurance and dissipation of the vertically varying western Luzon cyclonic eddy RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,399,637 01 Nov 2009 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$230,000 01 Nov 2009 Ocean dynamics and modeling program Nansha Research Centers HK$3,300,000 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 Coupled circulation-biogeochemistry investigation of pCO2 variation in Pearl River Estuary and Hong Kong waters: Observational and three- dimensional modeling study UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$300,000 30 Jun 2010 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$200,000 01 Nov 2009

Representative Research Publications: Gan, Jianping, Lu, Zhongmin, Dai, Minhan, Cheung, Anson, Liu, Hongbin, Harrison, Paul J (2010) "Biological response to intensified upwelling and to a river plume in the northeastern South China Sea: a modeling study", Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2009JC005569. Lu, Zhongmin, Gan, Jianping, Dai, Minhan, Cheung, Anson (2010) "The influence of coastal upwelling and a river plume on the subsurface chlorophyll maximum over the shelf of the northeastern South China Sea", Journal of Marine Systems, doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2010.03.002. Gan, Jianping, Ho, Ho San (2009) "Identification of spatial variability and eddies in the circulation of the South China Sea", Advances in Geosciences, Vol. 12: Ocean Science, World Scientific Publishing Company, pp. 231-248. Gan, Jianping, Cheung, Anson, Guo, Xiaogang, Li, Li (2009) "Intensified upwelling over a widened shelf in the northeastern South China Sea", Journal Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2007JC004660. 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. 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. 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 Superior step models of sub-Riemannian manifolds RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$40,000 25 Jun 2010

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 A General Goodness-of-fit Test Approach for Time Series Models RGC - General Research Fund HK$935,709 01 Jul 2009

Representative Research Publications: Ling, Shiqing, McAleer, M. (2010) "A general asymptotic theory for time-series models", Statistica Neerlandica, Volume: 64, Issue: 1, Pages: 97-111. 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.

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: Algebraic characterization of unitary highest weight representations of minimal gelfand-kirillov dimension RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$94,000 01 Jan 2010

Representative Research Publications: Meng, Guo Wu (2010) "Generalized MICZ-Kepler Problems and Unitary Highest Weight Modules -- II", J. London Math. Soc., 81(3): 663-678. Meng, Guo Wu (2009) "The Sp(1)-Kepler Problems", J. Math. Phys., 50, 072107. Meng, Guo Wu (2008) "The O(1)-Kepler Problems", J. Math. Phys., 49, 102111. 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.

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, Zhu, Xiaohong (2010) "Decoupled Marching Schemes for a Time-dependent Mixed Stokes/Darcy Model", Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 79, pp. 707-731. Cai, Mingchao, Mu, Mo, Xu, Jinchao (2009) "Decoupled Preconditioning Methods for a Mixed Stokes/Darcy Model", J. Computational and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 233, pp. 346-355. Cai, Mingchao, Mu, Mo, Xu, Jinchao (2009) "Numerical Solution to a Mixed Navier-Stokes/Darcy Model by the Two-grid Approach", SIAM J. Numerical Analysis, Vol. 47, No.5, pp. 3325-3338. 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 A numerical study of the cassie-wenzel wetting transition by the string method RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$40,000 01 Jan 2010

Representative Research Publications: Qian, Tiezheng, Wu, Congmin, Lei, Siu Long, Wang, Xiao Ping, Sheng, Ping (2009) "Modeling and simulations for molecular scale hydrodynamics of the moving contact line in immiscible two-phase flows", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol 21, 464119. 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, 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: Cox, David R., Wong, Man Yu (2010) "A note on the sensitivity to assumptions of a generalized linear mixed model", Biometrika, 97(1), 209-214. 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.

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 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 Continuum models for dislocation arrays and grain boundaries RGC - General Research Fund HK$754,055 01 Jul 2010 Numerical study of dislocation cross-slip using the string method RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$40,000 01 Oct 2009

Representative Research Publications: Zhao, Degang, Huang, Jingfang, Xiang, Yang (2010) "A new version fast multipole method for evaluating the stress field of dislocation ensembles", Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 18(4), 045006. Quek, Siu Sin, Zhang, Yong-Wei, Xiang, Yang, Srolovitz, David J. (2010) "Dislocation cross-slip in heteroepitaxial multilayer films", Acta Materialia, 58(1), 226-234. 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.

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 Homotopy replacement of the fixed points of equivariant manifolds RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$40,000 01 Jan 2010

Representative Research Publications: Yan, Min (2010) Introduction to Topology: Theory and Applications, Higher Education Press. Yan, Min, Cappell, Sylvain, Weinberger, Shmuel (2009) "Replacement of fixed sets for compact group actions: The 2\rho theorem", pure and applied math quarterly, special issue dedicated to Farrell-Jones. Yan, Min, Weinberger, Shmuel, Cappell, Sylvain (2008) "Functoriality in Equivariant Surgery Theory", Transformation Groups in Topology and Geometry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. Weinberger, Shmuel, Yan, Min (2005) "Equivariant periodicity for compact group actions", Adances 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.

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

PhD, Stanford

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Matrix factorization of sheaves on quintic Calabi Yau three-fold RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 01 Oct 2009

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: Geometric representation theory on the De Concini-Procesi compactification and other varieties RGC - General Research Fund HK$991,530 01 Oct 2009 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])

PhD, Univ of California, Los Angeles

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: An efficient numerical method for high frequency asymptotic solutions to wave phenomena with diffraction RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 01 Jul 2009

Representative Research Publications: Leung, Shing Yu, Zhao, Hongkai (2010) "Gaussian Beam Summation for Diffraction in Inhomogeneous Media Based on the Grid Based Particle Method", Commun. Comput. Phys., v8, number 4, pp.758-796. Leung, Shing Yu, Zhao, Hongkai (2009) "A grid based particle method for evolution of open curves and surfaces", Journal of computational physics, v228, pp.7706-7728. Leung, Shing Yu, Liang, Gan, Solna, Knut, Zhao, Hongkai (2009) "Expectation-Maximization Algorithm with Local Adaptivity", SIAM J. Imaging Sciences, v2, number 3, pp.834-857.

Xianhua PENG Assistant Professor (2358 3490 ; [email protected])

PhD, Columbia

Current Research Activities: Risk management, financial engineering, and applied probability, in particular risk management in banking regulation, credit risk, derivatives pricing and hedging, and stochastic modeling in finance.

Maosheng XIONG Assistant Professor (2358 7456 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: 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

Weijia WEN, Professor

Michael K Y WONG, Professor

Zhiyu YANG, Professor

Xixiang ZHANG, Professor

Zhaoqing ZHANG, Professor

Ho Bun CHAN, Associate 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

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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Quantum order in novel materials: superconductivity and topological order RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$10,005,000 01 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Liu, Z.X., Zhou, Y, Ng, T.K. (2010) "Possibility of $S=1$ spin liquids with fermionic spinons on triangular lattices", Physical Review B, Volume 81, 224417. Ko, W.H., Liu, Z.X., Ng, T.K., Lee, P.A. (2010) "Raman signature of the U(1) Dirac spin-liquid state in spin-1/2 kagome system", Physical Review B, Volume 81, 024414. Ng, T.K., Nagaosa, N. (2009) "Broken time-reversal symmetry in Josephson junction involving two-band superconductors", Europhysics letters, Volume 87, 17003. Ng, T.K. (2009) "Ginzburg-Landau theory of dirty two band s_{\pm} superconductors", Physical Review Letters, Volume 103, 236402. Ng, T.K., Avishai, Y. (2009) "In-gap bound states induced by nonmagnetic impurities in two-band s_{\pm} superconductors", Physical Review B, Volume 80, 104504. Law, K.T., Lee, P.A., Ng, T.K. (2009) "Majorana Fermion induced Resant Andreev Reflection", Physical Review Letters, Volumer 103, 237001. 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.

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

Representative Research Publications: Chen, HY, Chan, Che Ting (2010) "Acoustic cloaking and transformation acoustics". Zheng, HH, Xiao, JJ, Lai, Y, Chan, Che Ting (2010) "Exterior optical cloaking and illusions by using active sources: A boundary element perspective". Ng, J, Lin, ZF, Chan, Che Ting (2010) "Theory of Optical Trapping by an Optical Vortex Beam". Chen, HY, Chan, Che Ting, Sheng, Ping (2010) "Transformation optics and metamaterials". Chen, HY, Chan, Che Ting (2009) "Cloaking at a distance' from folded geometries in bipolar coordinates". Ao, XY, Chan, Che Ting (2009) "Complex band structures and effective medium descriptions of periodic acoustic composite systems". Dong, JW, Fung, KH, Chan, Che Ting, Wang, HZ (2009) "Localization characteristics of two-dimensional quasicrystals consisting of metal nanoparticles". Ao, XY, Lin, ZF, Chan, Che Ting (2009) "One-way edge mode in a magneto-optical honeycomb photonic crystal".

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: Zhang, Wei Kevin, Wang, Dong, Duan, Yuanyuan, Loy, Michael M T, Chan, Hsiao Chang, Huang, Pingbo (2010) "Mechanosensitive gating of CFTR", Nature Cell Biology, Vol 12, 509 (2010). Chen, Jiefei, Wang, Shuyuan, Wei, Dong, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2010) "Optical coherent transients in cold atoms: From free-induction decay to optical precursors", Physical Review A, vol 81, 033844 (2010). Chen, Jiefei, Zhang, Shanchao, Yan, Hui, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2010) "Shaping Biphoton TemporalWaveforms with Modulated Classical Fields", Physical Review Letters, Vol 104, 183604 (2010). Chen, Jiefei, Jeong, Heejeong, Feng, Lin, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2010) "Stacked Optical Precursors from Amplitude and Phase Modulations", Physical Review Letters, Vol 104, 223602 (2010). Yao, B., Feng, Lin, Cheng, C, Loy, Michael M T, Wang, Ning (2010) "Tailoring the luminescence emission of ZnO nanostructures by hydrothermal post-treatment in water", Applied Physics Letters, Vol 95, 223105 (2010). Chen, Jiefei, Lu, Weixin, Wang, Shuyuan, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2010) "Two-photon free-induction decay with electromagnetically induced transparency", Optics Letters, Vol 35, 1923 (2010). Wei, Dong, Chen, Jiefei, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2009) "Optical Precursors with Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Cold Atoms", Physical Review Letters, vol 103, 093602 (2009). 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.

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: 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 18 Aug 2008

Representative Research Publications: Yang, Zhi Yu, Dai, H. M., Chan, N. H., Ma, Guancong, Sheng, Ping (2010) "Acoustic Metamaterial Panels for Sound Attenuation in the 50-1000 Hz Regime", Applied Physics Letters, Volume: 96, Article Number: 041906. Sheng, Ping, Wen, Weijia (2010) "Electrorheology: Statics and Dynamics", Solid State Communications, Volume: 150, Page: 1023- 1039. Qian, Tiezheng, Wang, Xiao Ping, Sheng, Ping (2010) "Hydrodynamic Boundary Conditions: An Emergent Behavior of Fluid-Solid Interactions", Solid State Communications, Volume: 150, Page: 976-989. Wang, Zhe, Shi, Wu, Xie, Hang, Zhang, Ting, Wang, Ning, Zhang, Xixiang, Lortz, Rolf Walter, Sheng, Ping (2010) "Superconducting Resistive Transition in Coupled Arrays of 4 Å Carbon Nanotubes", Physical Review B, Volume: 81, Article Number: 174530. Chen, H., Chan, Che Ting, Sheng, Ping (2010) "Transformation Optics and Metamaterials", Nature Materials, Volume: 9, Pages: 387- 396. Xiong, X. M., Guo, Shuo, Xu, Zuli, Sheng, Ping, Tong, Penger (2009) "Development of an Atomic-force-microscope-based Hanging-fiber Rheometer for Interfacial Microrheology", Physical Review E, Volume: 80, Article Number: 061604. Miyamaru, F., Saito, Y., Takeda, M. W., Liu, L., Hou, B., Wen, Weijia, Sheng, Ping (2009) "Emission of Terahertz Radiations from Fractal Antennas", Applied Physics Letters, Volume: 95, Article Number: 221111. Tang, C. J., Wang, Z. L., Zhang, W. Y., Zhu, S. N., Ming, N. B., Sun, G., Sheng, Ping (2009) "Localized and Delocalized Surface- plasmon-mediated Light Tunneling Through Monolayer Hexagonal-close-packed Metallic Nanoshells", Physical Review B, Volume: 80, Article Number: 165401.

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: Sou, Iam Keong, Lok, S K, Wang, G, Wang, Ning, Wong, George K L (2010) "MBE-Grown II-VI and Related Nanostructures", Journal of Electronic Materials, Volume 39, Number 7 p.1-11. Chen, J F, Wang, S., Wei, D, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2010) "Optical coherent transients in cold atoms: From free-induction decay to optical precursors", Physical Review A, Volume A81, p. 033844. Chen, J F, Zhang, Shanchao, Yan, H, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2010) "Shaping biphoton temporal waveforms with modulated classical fields", Physical Review Letters, Volume 104, p.183604. Chen, J F, Jeong, H, Feng, Lin, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2010) "Stacked optical precursors from amplitude and phase modulations", Physical Review Letters, Volume 104, p.223602. Wang, S., Lok, S.K., Wong, George K L, Sou, Iam Keong (2009) "Molecular beam epitaxy-grown Bi4Te3 nanowires", Applied Physics Letters, Volume 95, p. 263102 G. Wang, S. K. Lok, G. K. L. Wong, and I. K. Sou. Wei, D, Chen, J F, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2009) "Optical precursors with electromagnetically induced transparency in cold atoms", Physical Review Letters, Volume 103, p. 093602. 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.

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: Kinetic Processes that Mediate Surface Step Morphological Evolution RGC - General Research Fund HK$833,880 01 Dec 2008 Surface Mass Transport During Non-equilibrium Profile Evolution RGC - General Research Fund HK$713,000 01 Dec 2009

Representative Research Publications: Altman, Michael S (2010) "CO Prefers the Aisle Seat", Science, Volume 327, pp. 789-790. Altman, Michael S (2010) "Trends in Low Energy Electron Microscopy", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Volume 22, no. 8, pp. 084017_1-14. Niu, Yuran, Altman, Michael S (2009) "Superparamagnetic Limit to Spin-polarized Vacuum Tunneling from Fe-coated W(001) Tips", Applied Physics Letters, Volume 95, no. 20, pp. 203113_1-3. 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 (4 pages). 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. 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. 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.

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: Quantum order in novel materials: superconductivity and topological order RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$750,000 01 Jan 2010

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: Quasicrystals as photonic bandgap materials RGC - General Research Fund HK$935,500 01 Jan 2008 Manipulation of light by structural and layered medium UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$200,000 30 Jun 2010

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

Representative Research Publications: Zhu, H., Shan, C. X., Zhang, J. Y., Zhang, Z. Z., Li, B. H., Zhao, D. X., Yao, Bin, Shen, D. Z., Fan, X. W., Tang, Zikang, Hou, X. H., Choy, K. L. (2010) "Low-Threshold Electrically Pumped Random Lasers", Adv. Materials, 22, 1877-1881. Lortz, Rolf Walter, Zhang, Q. C., Shi, W., Ye, J. T., Qiu, C. Y., Wang, Zhe, He, Hongtao, Sheng, Ping, Qian, Tiezheng, Tang, Zikang, Wang, Ning, Zhang, X. X., 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. 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., Feng, F. J., Sheng, Ping (2008) "Resonant Raman Scattering of the 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).

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: 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 Development of an AFM-based passive rheometer for the study of interfacial dynamics RGC - General Research Fund HK$416,300 01 Jan 2010 Experimental study of interfacial dynamics: from supported membranes to micro-menisci of a bubble mattress France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$14,000 01 Jan 2010

Representative Research Publications: Song, Hao, Tong, Penger (2010) "Scaling laws in turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection under different geometry", Europhysics Letters, 90, 44001. He, Xiaozhou, He, Guowei, Tong, Penger (2010) "Small-scale turbulent fluctuations beyond Taylor's frozen-flow hypothesis", Physical Reivew E, 81, 065303(R). Xiong, Xiaomin, Guo, Shuo, Xu, Zuli, Sheng, Ping, Tong, Penger (2009) "Development of an atomic-force-microscope-based hanging-fiber rheometer for interfacial microrheology", Physical Review E, 80, 061604. Tang, Yecang, Wang, Zhining, Xiao, Junwu, Yang, Shihe, Wang, Yong Jian, Tong, Penger (2009) "Studies of Phospholipid Vesicle Deposition/Transformation on a Polymer Surface by Dissipative Quartz Crystal Microbalance and Atomic Force Microscopy", Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 113, 14925. 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 Review 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.

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: Experimental Study of Heterostructured Nanowires RGC - General Research Fund HK$883,200 01 Jan 2009 In-situ electron microscopy investigation of the growth mechanism of semiconductor nanowires from solid catalysts RGC - General Research Fund HK$593,400 01 Jan 2010 Study and engineering of surface-dependent properties and core-shell composite structures of nanomaterials RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$300,000 01 Feb 2009 Ultrathin 1D nanomaterials and their applications in solar cells and Li-ion cell anode materials UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$400,000 15 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Wang, Zhe, Shi, Wu, Xie, Han, Zhang, Ting, Wang, Ning, Tang, Zikang, Zhang, Xixiang, Lortz, Rolf Walter, Sheng, Ping, Sheikin, I, Demuer, A (2010) "Superconducting resistive transition in coupled arrays of 4 angstrom carbon nanotubes", Physical Review B, Volume: 81, Issue: 17, Article Number: 174530. Yao, BD, Feng, Lin, Cheng, C, Loy, Michael M T, Wang, Ning (2010) "Tailoring the luminescence emission of ZnO nanostructures by hydrothermal post-treatment in water", Applied Physics Letters, Volume: 96, Issue: 22, Article Number: 223105. Feng, Lin, Cheng, C, Yao, BD, Wang, Ning (2009) "Photoluminescence study of single ZnO nanostructures: Size effect", Applied Physics Letters, Volume: 95, Issue: 5, Article Number: 053113. 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, 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.

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 Field-like spin-transfer torque, transverse magnetic anisotropy and domain-wall propagation RGC - General Research Fund HK$678,500 01 Jan 2010 Nano-spintronics - quantum control of electron spins in semiconductors RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$450,000 01 Mar 2009 A theoretical study of organic spintronics: magnetic-field effects of organic semiconductors UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$200,000 30 Jun 2010

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.

Weijia WEN 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 Design and fabrication of electrorheological fluid-based microfluidic logic gates RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,259,250 01 Sep 2010 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 Exploration of rapid bio-detection via microfluidic approaches UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$200,000 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Zhang, Mengying, Wu, Jinbo, Wang, Limu, Xiao, Kang, Wen, Weijia (2010) "A simple method for fabricating multi-layer PDMS structures for 3D microfluidic chips", Lab on Chip, 10, 1199. Gong, Xiuqing, Li, Jiaxing, Chen, Shuyu, Wen, Weijia (2009) "Copolymer solution-based "smart window"", Appl. Phys. Lett, 95, 251907. 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, Li, Weihua (2009) "Design and Fabrication of Magnetically Functionalized Core/Shell Microspheres for Smart Drug Delivery", Adv. Funct. Mater., 19, 292-297. 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.

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: 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. Fung, C. C. Alan, Wong, K. Y. Michael, Wu, Si (2008) "Dynamics of Neural Networks with Continuous Attractors", Europhys. Lett., 84, 18002. Wong, K. Y. Michael, Saad, David (2008) "Minimizing Unsatisfaction in Colourful Neighbourhoods", J. Phys. A: Math. Theor., 41, 324023. 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

Representative Research Publications: Yang, Z, Mei, Jun, 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: Elastic metamaterials and some associated novel phenomena RGC - General Research Fund HK$463,688 01 Sep 2008

Representative Research Publications: Wang, J, Chabanov, A A, Lu, D Y, Zhang, Zhaoqing, Genack, A Z (2010) "Dynamics of mesoscopic fluctuations of localized waves", Phys. Rev. B, 81, 241101(R). 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) "Illusion Optics: 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.

Ho Bun CHAN Associate Professor ([email protected])

PhD, Massachusetts Inst of Tech

Current Research Activities: Microelectromechanical systems, Casimir forces, activated switching and critical kinetic phenomena in nonequilibrium systems, micromechanical magnetometers, surface plasmons polaritons, evanescent field coupling in subwavelength metallic structures.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Geometry dependent casimir forces in micromechanical systems RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$200,000 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Chan, H. B., Bao, Y., Zou, J., Cirelli, R. A., Klemens, F., Mansfield, W. M., Pai, C. S. (2010) "Demonstrating the Strong Geometry Dependence of the Casimir Force on a Surface with Deep, Nanoscale Corrugations", International Journal of Modern Physics A, Volume 25, Issue 1, page 2212-2222. 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 (2009) "Atomic Zitterbewegung in Abelian vector gauge potentials", Physical Review A, Vol. 80, Article 045602, pp. 1-4. Song, Jianjun, Foreman, Bradley A (2009) "Persistent currents in cold atoms", Physical Review A, Vol. 80, Article 033602, pp. 1-4. 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. (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.

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 Creating an energy gap at graphene by controlled growth of superlattices on single-layer graphene through supramolecular self-assembly RGC - General Research Fund HK$416,300 01 Jan 2010 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 2010 Studies of fundamental properties of nanosurfaces and selected applications RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$266,000 30 Jun 2009 Patterning of DNA Polyhedrons on Nano-structured Surfaces and Single-Molecule Structural Verification by Scanning Tunneling Microscope UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$400,000 01 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Lin, Nian, Stepanow, S (2010) "Design Low-dimensional Nanostructures at Surfaces by Supramolecular Chemistry", The Oxford Handbook on Nanoscience and Technology: Frontiers and Advances, A.V. Narlikar and Y.Y. Fu , page 278-307. Wang, Weihua, Wang, Shiyong, Li, Xiuyuan, Collin, Jean_paul, Liu, Jun, Liu, Pei Nian, Lin, Nian (2010) "Probing Electronic Superexchange Coupling at Isolated Poly-p-phenylene Molecules", J. Am. Chem. Soc, 132, 8774. Shi, Ziliang, Lin, Nian (2010) "Self-assembly of a two-dimensional bimetallic coordination framework and a dynamic control of reversible conversions to homo-metallic hydrogen-bond arrays", ChemPhysChem, 11, 97. 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: 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, Wong, George K L, Sou, Iam Keong (2009) "Molecular beam epitaxy-grown Bi4Te3 nanowires", Applied Physics Letters, Volume: 95, Issue: 26, Article Number: 263102. Published: DEC 28 2009. 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.

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.

Representative Research Publications: Lau, Hon Wai, Szeto, Kwok Yip (2010) "Asymptotic analysis of first passage time in complex networks", Europhysics Letter, EPL, 90(2010)40005. Wu, Degang, Antony, Mathis Aurelius, Szeto, Kwok Yip (2010) "Evolution of Grim Trigger in Prisoner Dilemma Game with Partial Imitation", Evostar 2010 The main European events on Evolutionary Computation, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey;C. Di Chio et al. (Eds.): EvoApplications 2010, Part I, LNCS 6024, pp. 151-160, 2010. Springer-Verlag 2010. Wang, Zhenggang, Szeto, Kwok Yip (2010) "Structure profile of complex networks by a model of precipitation", Physica A, Physica A 389 (2010) 2318-2324 C. 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. 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. Aste, T., Szeto, K. Y., Tam, W. Y. (1996) "Statistical properties and Shell analysis in random cellular structures", Phys. Rev, E54, 5482-5492. Szeto, K. Y., Villain, J. (1987) "Filling the Three Dimensional Space with Tetrahedra: a Geoometric and Crystallographic problem", Phys. Rev, B36, 4715-4724.

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: Investigation of the physical properties of fluorine ions in the III-nitride material systems RGC - General Research Fund HK$343,700 01 Jan 2009 Theory, modeling, and simulation of emerging electronics UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$287,500 01 Apr 2010 Towards a THz laser based on cyclotron emission France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$30,600 01 Jan 2010 Nano-spintronics - quantum control of electron spins in semiconductors RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$620,000 01 Mar 2009

Representative Research Publications: He, Hongtao, Cao, Xianchun, Zhang, Tao, Wang, Yuqi, Wang, Jiannong (2010) "Systematic study of anisotropic magnetoresistance effect in (311)A GaMnAs films", J. Appl. Phys., Vol.107, p063902. Li, Baikui, Wang, Maojun, Chen, Kevin J, Wang, Jiannong (2009) "Fermi-level depinning and hole injection induced two- dimensional electron related radiative emissions from a forward biased Ni/Au-AlGaN/GaN Schottky diode", Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 95 p232111. 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.

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: 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 Syntheses of light-emitting and magnetic photo-cross-linkable polymers for fabrication of active and functional photonic crystal devices using holographic lithography UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$200,000 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Wong, Tsz Chun, Wong, Kam Sing (2010) "Degenerate two-beam phase conjugation in one-dimensional ZnS/YF3 photonic crystal", IEEE Photonic Technology Lett., 22, 781. Zhong, Yongchun, Zhou, Jianying, Wong, Kam Sing (2010) "Two-photon fabrication of photonic crystals by single beam laser holographic lithography", J. Appl. Phys., 107, 074311. Su, Huimin, Li, Yingshun, Li, Xiaoyuan, Wong, Kam Sing (2009) "Optical and electrical properties of Au nanoparticles in two- dimensional networks: an effective cluster model", Opt. Express, 17, 22223. Tam, Man Chun, Su, Huimin, Wong, Kam Sing, Zhu, Xiuling, Kwok, Hoi Sing (2009) "Surface-plasmon-enhanced photoluminescence from metal-capped Alq3 thin films", Appl. Phys. Lett., 95, 051503. 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.

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

PhD, Chinese Univ of Hong Kong 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: Generation of narrow-band, time-frequency and polarization entangled, identical biphotons and their quantum waveform shaping RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,399,637 01 Dec 2009 Narrow-linewidth tunable diode laser system RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$300,000 10 Aug 2008 Laser cooling and trapping RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$54,000 01 Oct 2009

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Jiefei, Wang, Shuyuan, Wei, Dong, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2010) "Optical coherent transients in cold atoms: From free-induction decay to optical precursors", Physical Review A, Vol. 81, Issue 3, pp. 033844. Chen, Jiefei, Zhang, Shanchao, Yan, Hui, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2010) "Shaping biphoton temporal waveforms with modulated classical fields", Physical Review Letters, Vol. 104, Issue 18, pp. 183604. Chen, Jiefei, Jeong, Heejeong, Feng, Lin, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2010) "Stacked optical precursors from amplitude and phase modulations", Physical Review Letters, Vol. 104, Issue 22, pp. 223602. Chen, Jiefei, Lu, Weixin, Wang, Shuyuan, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2010) "Two-photon free-induction decay with electromagnetically induced transparency", Optics Letters, Vol. 35, Issue 11, pp. 1923-1925. Wei, Dong, Chen, Jiefei, Loy, Michael M T, Wong, George K L, Du, Shengwang (2009) "Optical precursors with electromagnetically induced transparency in cold atoms", Physical Review Letters, Vol. 103, Issue 9, pp. 093602. 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. 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.

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

Representative Research Publications: Peng, Yi, Wang, Ziren, Alsayed, Ahmed, Yodh, Arjun, Han, Yilong (2010) "Melting of Colloidal Crystal Films", Physical Review Letters, 104, 205703. Han, Yilong (2010) "Phase-space networks of the six-vertex model under different boundary conditions", Physical Review E, 81, 041118. Wang, Ziren, Alsayed, Ahmed, Yodh, Arjun, Han, Yilong (2010) "Two-dimensional freezing criteria for crystallizing colloidal monolayers", Journal of Chemical Physics, 132, 154501. Han, Yilong (2009) "Phase-space networks of geometrically frustrated systems", Physical Review E, 80, 051102. 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])

PhD, British Columbia

Current Research Activities:

Rolf Walter LORTZ Assistant Professor (2358 7491 ; [email protected] ; http://physics.ust.hk/lortz/)

PhD, Karlsruhe

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, 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 Thickness-dependent thermodynamic properties of nanometer-thick ferroelectric, terromagnetic and multiferroic films and multilayers RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$200,000 01 Oct 2009

Representative Research Publications: Wang, Zhe, Shi, Wu, Xie, Hang, Zhang, Ting, Wang, Ning, Tang, Zikang, Zhang, Xixiang, Lortz, Rolf, Sheng, Ping, Sheikin, Ilya, Demuer, Albin (2010) "Superconducting resistive transition in coupled arrays of 4 A carbon nanotubes", Physical Review B, 81, 17, 174530. Petrovic, Alexander P., Fasano, Yanina, Lortz, Rolf Walter, Senatore, Carmine, Demuer, Albin, Antunes, A. B., Pare, A., Salloum, D., Gougeon, P., Potel, M., Fischer, Oystein (2009) "Real-Space Vortex Glass Imaging and the Vortex Phase Diagram of SnMo6S8", Physical Review Letters, 103, 25, 257001. 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. Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Gordon MCKAY, Acting Head of Department and 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

Yongli MI, Professor

Ming FANG, Adjunct Professor

Edmond KO, Adjunct Professor

Otto C C LIN, Adjunct Professor

John P BARFORD, Associate Professor

Ping GAO, Associate Professor

Xijun HU, Associate Professor

David Chi-Wai HUI, Associate Professor

John F PORTER, Visiting Associate Professor

King Lun YEUNG, Associate Professor

Ying CHAU, Assistant Professor

Henry H N LAM, Assistant Professor

Arthur P S LAU, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Kathy Q LUO, Adjunct Assistant Professor Gordon MCKAY Acting Head of Department and 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: Surface modification of activated carbons produced from waste and improvement in adsorption capacity of arsenic Consulate General of France in Hong Kong HK$73,600 01 Feb 2010 Surface modification of activated carbons produced from waste and improvement in adsorption capacity of arsenic Ecole des Mines de Nantes HK$73,600 01 Feb 2010 Wastes reuse to produce carbonaceous porous materials for removal of toxic trace elements from water France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$21,600 01 Jan 2010 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 Ltd. HK$146,500 08 May 2007

Representative Research Publications: Ip, A.W.M., Barford, John P, McKay, Gordon (2010) "A comparative study on the kinetics and mechanisms of removal of Reactive Black 5 by adsorption onto activated carbons and bone char", Chemical Engineering Journal, 157 (2-3) p.434-442. Sze, M.F.F., McKay, Gordon (2010) "An adsorption diffusion model for removal of para-chlorophenol by activated carbon derived from bituminous coal", Environmnetal Pollution, 158 (5) p. 1669-1674. Mui, E.L.K., Cheung, W.H., Lee, V.K.C., McKay, Gordon (2010) "Compensation effect during the pyrolysis of tyres and bamboo", Waste Management, 30 (5) p. 821-830. Mui, E.L.K., Cheung, W.H., Valix, M., McKay, Gordon (2010) "Dye Adsorption onto char from bamboo", Journal of Hazardous Materials, 177 (1-3) p. 1001-1005. Mui, E.L.K., Cheung, W.H., Valix, M, McKay, Gordon (2010) "Dye adsorption onto activated carbons from tyre rubber waste using surface coverage analysis", Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 347(2) p. 290-300. Hadi, M., Samarghandi, M.R., McKay, Gordon (2010) "Equilibrium two-parameter isotherms of acid dyes sorption by activated carbons: Study of residual errors", Chemical Engineering Journal, 160(5) p. 408-416. Mui, E.L.K., Cheung, W.H., Valix, M., McKay, Gordon (2010) "Mesoporous activate carbon from waste tyre rubber for dye removal from effluents.", Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 130(1-3) p. 287-294. Gerente, C., Andres, Y., McKay, Gordon, Le Cloirec, P. (2010) "Removal of arsenic (V) onto chitosan: From sorption mechanism explanation to dynamic water treatment process", Chemical Engineering Journal, 158 (3) p. 593-598.

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 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 Ltd. & Industries HK$2,402,350 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Lau, Richard, Weng, Lu-Tao, Ng, Kai Mo, Kempf, Manuel, Alstaedt, Volker, Schultz, Jerold, Chan, Chi Ming (2010) "Induction of molecular organization of oligomers by low-energy electrons", Macromolecular Rapid Comm., 31, 634-639. Lin, Yong, Chen, Haibin, Chan, Chi Ming, Wu, Jingshen (2010) "The Toughening Mechanism of Polypropylene/Calcium Carbonate Nanocomposites”", Polymer, 51, 3277-3284. Lau, Richard, Weng, Lu-Tao, Ng, Kai Mo, Chan, Chi Ming (2010) "ToF-SIMS and Principal Component Analysis: Determination of Structures of Lamellar Surfaces", Anal. Chem., 82, 2661-2667. Lau, Richard, Schultz, Jerold, Weng, Lu-Tao, Ng, Kai Mo, Chan, Chi Ming (2009) "Control of the fold surface conformation of the lamellae of an oligomer", Langmuir, 25, 8263-8267. 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).

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 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 Ltd. HK$500,000 01 Apr 2005 Research on nanotechnology-enabled products UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$3,899 01 Jul 2006 General research and development of salt production Green Salt Group Ltd. HK$112,000 10 Jun 2004 Nanotechnology in Energy INERGI Corporation Ltd. HK$100,000 11 Sep 2006 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 Ltd. 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 Effects of acid-catalyzed reactions on the partitioning of oxygenated biogenic volatile organic compounds and their roles in secondary organic aerosol formation RGC - General Research Fund HK$993,600 01 Jan 2010 Air quality research Civic Exchange HK$700,000 01 Jul 2009 Air quality in Hong Kong: A supersite program for real-time characterization of particulate matter (PM) in Hong Kong's air Environment and Conservation Fund / Woo Wheelock Green Fund HK$6,609,000 02 Jul 2010 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

Representative Research Publications: Li, Yongjie, Cheong, Gema, Lau, Arthur P S, Chan, Chak Keung (2010) "Acid-catalyzed particle-phase reactions of limonene and terpineol and their impacts on gas-to-particle partitioning in the formation of organic aerosols", Environmental Science and Technology, 44, 5483-5489. Yeung, Ming Chee, Ling, Tsz Yan, Chan, Chak Keung (2010) "Effects of the polymorphic transformation of glutaric acid particles on their deliquescence and hygroscopic properties", Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 114, 898-903. Chan, Lap Pong, Lee, Alex, Chan, Chak Keung (2010) "Gas-particle partitioning of alcohol vapors on organic aerosol particles", Environmental Science and Technology, 44, 257-262. Yao, Xiaohong, Choi, Man, Lau, Arthur P S, Chan, Chak Keung, Fang, Ming (2010) "Growth and shrinkage of new particles in the atmosphere in Hong Kong", Aerosol Science and Technology, 44, 639-650. Tong, Henry H Y, Chow, A.S.F., Chan, H.M., Chow, A.H.L., Wan, Y.K.Y., Williams, Ian D, Shek, F.L.Y., Chan, Chak Keung (2010) "Process-induced phase transformation of berberine chloride hydrates", Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 99(4), 1942-1954. Yeung, Ming Chee, Chan, Chak Keung (2010) "Water content and phase transitions in aerosol particles using micro-Raman spectroscopy", Aerosol Science and Technology, 44, 269 - 280. Cheng, J.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, 43, 2781-2787. 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.

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: Electrochemical Tech. Colour Smart Ltd. HK$10,000 01 Apr 2008 Lithium ion EV batteries - development and production Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$4,288,480 01 Apr 2009 Electrochemical Tech. UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$500 01 Jul 2008 Developing and manufacturing nano-structured oral dosage forms of isoflavone and insulin with improved bioavailability Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Ltd. & Industries HK$3,919,294 07 Apr 2009 Production of carbon nanotube and CNT application as catalyst support and advanced material for energy storage Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Ltd. & Industries HK$4,890,880 01 Apr 2009 Development of polyurethane based water-borne coating for construction industries Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$1,000,841 15 Mar 2010 Center for green products and processing technologies Nansha Research Centers HK$4,163,588 01 Aug 2007 Center for green products and processing technologies Nansha Research Centers HK$7,200,000 01 Jul 2009

Representative Research Publications: Comninellis, Christos, Chen, Guohua (2009) Electrochemistry for the Environment, Springer. Zhang, Huajun, Chen, Guohua (2009) "Potent antibacterial activity of Ag/TiO2 nanocomposite powders synthesized by a one-pot sol- Environmental Science & Technology gel method", , 43 (8) 2905-2910. Zhang, Huanjun, Chen, Guohua, Bahnemann, Detelf (2009) "Photoelectrocatalytic Materials for Environmental Applications", Journal of Materials Chemistry, 19, 5089-5121. 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.

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 Center for Polymer Processing and Systems (CPPS) Nansha Research Centers HK$10,000,000 01 Jul 2009 Fault-tolerant control of batch processes with hybrid nature National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$849,183 01 Mar 2010

Representative Research Publications: Zhao, Chunhui, Gao, Furong, Yao, Yuan, Wang, Fuli (2010) "A Robust Calibration Modeling Strategy for Analysis of Interference- subject Spectral Data", AIChE Journal, Volume: 56, Issue: 1, Pages: 196-206. Liu, Tao, Gao, Furong (2010) "IMC-based iterative learning control for batch processes with time delay variation", Journal of Process Control, Volume 20, Issue 2, Pages 173-180, (2010). Yao, Yuan, Gao, Furong (2009) "A Survey on Multistage/Multiphase Statistical Modeling Methods for Batch Processes", Annual Reviews in Control, Vol. 33, pp 712-183, (2009). Yao, Yuan, Gao, Furong (2009) "Multivariate Statistical Monitoring of Multiphase Two-Dimensional Dynamic Batch Processes", Journal of Process Control, Vol. 19, pp 1716-1724, (2009). Lu, Junde, Yao, Ke, Gao, Furong (2009) "Process similarity and developing new process models through migration", AIChE Journal, Vol. 55, No. 9, pp. 2318-2328, (2009). Liu, Tao, Gao, Furong (2009) "A Generalized Approach for Relay Identification of Non-minimum Phase Processes", Automatica, Vol. 45, pp. 1072-1079. Gao, Furong, Yang, Yi (2009) "Injection Molding Control", Injection molding technology and fundamentals, M.R. Kamal, A.I. Isayev, S.J. Liu, page number 0-926, Hanser Publishers, Munich. 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. 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: Immobilization-free Sequence-Specific Detection Platforms for End-Point and Real-Time Electrochemical Monitoring of Oligonucleotides and Amplified DNA Products RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,399,637 01 Jan 2010 Novel DNA-Aptamer based bioanalytical microsystem UGC - High Impact Area HK$550,000 10 Sep 2005 Synthetic-biology based multiplexed protein kinase assay on a microfluidic platform Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$1,363,265 01 Nov 2009 Center for Bioengineering and Biomedical Devices Nansha Research Centers HK$3,329,000 01 Apr 2007 Center for Bioengineering and Biomedical Devices Nansha Research Centers HK$3,000,000 01 Jul 2009 Electrochemical micromachining technology Raymond Industrial Ltd. 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: Zhao, WT, Hsing, I-ming (2010) "Facile and rapid manipulation of DNA surface density on gold nanoparticles using mononucleotide- mediated conjugation", Chemical Communications, Volume: 46, Issue: 8, Pages: 1314-1316. Luo, XT, Xu, JJ, Barford, John P, Hsing, I-ming (2010) "Magnetic particle based electrochemical sensing platform for PCR amplicon detection", Electrochemistry Communication, Volume: 12, Issue: 4, Pages: 531-534. Zhao, WT, Lin, Li, Hsing, I-ming (2010) "Nucleotide-Mediated Size Fractionation of Gold Nanoparticles in Aqueous Solutions", Langmuir, Volume: 26, Issue: 10, Pages: 7405-7409. Luo, XT, Hsing, I-ming (2009) "Electrochemical techniques on sequence-specific PCR amplicon detection for point-of-care applications", ANALYST, Volume: 134, Issue: 10, Pages: 1957-1964. Luo, XT, Hsing, I-ming (2009) "Immobilization-free multiplex electrochemical DNA and SNP detection", Biosensors & Bioelectronics, Volume: 25, Issue: 4, Pages: 803-808. Zhao, WT, 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, Hsing, I-ming (2009) "Real Time Electrochemical Monitoring of DNA/PNA Dissociation by Melting Curve Analysis", Electroanalysis, Volume: 21, Issue: 14, Pages: 1557-1561. Suo, Yange, Hsing, I-ming (2009) "Size-controlled synthesis and impedance-based mechanistic understanding of Pd/C nanoparticles for formic acid oxidation", Electrochimica Acta, Volume: 55, Issue: 1, Pages: 210-217.

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: 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: Li, Zhe, Wei, Bryan, Nangreave, Jeanette, Lin, Chenxiang, Liu, Yan, Mi, Yongli, Yan, Hao (2009) "A Replicable Tetrahedral Nanostructure Self-Assembled from a Single DNA Strand", Journal of the American Chemical Society, Volume: 131 Issue: 36 Pages: 13093- 13098 Published: SEP 16 2009. Zhu, Jinhao, Mi, Yongli (2009) "DNA Nanotechnology and Computer Systems of Nucleic Acids", Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Volume: 6 Issue: 10 Pages: 2075-2087 Published: OCT 2009. 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.

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: Yao, X. H., Xu, X. H., Sabaliauskas, K., Fang, Ming (2009) "Comment on “Atmospheric Particulate Matter Pollution during the 2008 Beijing Olympics”", Environment Science and Technology, 42, 7589. Fang, Ming, Chan, Chak Keung, Yao, X. H. (2009) "Managing air quality in a rapidly developing nation: China", Atmospheric Environment, 43, 79-86. 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.

Edmond KO 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.

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 (2358 7237 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ceng.ust.hk/barford.html)

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, Bioadsorption, Biofiltration

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 Ltd. HK$35,000 04 Feb 2008

Representative Research Publications: Ip, Alvin, Barford, John, McKay, Gordon (2010) "A Comparative Study on the Kinetics and Mechanisms of Removal of reactive Black 5 by Adsorption onto Activated carbons and Bone Char", Chemical Engineering Journal, 157, 434-442. Ip, Alvin, Barford, John, McKay, Gordon (2010) "Biodegradation of Reactive Black 5 and Bioregeneration in Upflow Fixed Bed Bioreactors With Different Adsorbents", Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnolgy, 85, 658-667. Luo, Xiaoteng, Xu, Jingjing, Barford, John, Hsing, I-ming (2010) "Magneic Particle Based Electrochemical Sensing Platform fpr PCR Amplicon Detection", Electrochemistry Communications, 12, 531-534. Wong, Wai, Barford, John (2010) "Metstoich - Teaching Quantitative Metabolism and Energetics in Biochemical Engineering", Chemical Engineering Education, 44(2) 147-156. Wong, Kelvin, Barford, John (2009) "Application of Excel Macro Programming to Core Chemical Engineering Subjects", 8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Montreal, Canada, August 23rd-27th, 2009. Ip, Alvin, Barford, John, McKay, Gordon (2009) "Biologically Enhanced Adsorption for treating Dye Containing Effluents", 8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Montreal, Canada, August 23rd-27th, 2009. Ip, Alvin, Barford, John, McKay, Gordon (2009) "Modification of Bamboo Activated Carbon for Adsorption of DYes", 8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Montreal Canada, August 23rd-27th, 2009. Ip, Alvin, Barford, John, McKay, Gordon (2009) "Reactive Black DYe Adsorption/Desorption onto Different Absorbents: Effect of Salt, Surface Chemistry, Pore Size and Surface Area", Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 337, 32-38.

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 Nano-composites DSM Research, Material Science Centre HK$237,750 01 May 2004 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 Carbon nanotube filled polymer composites NXP Semiconductors Hong Kong Ltd. HK$247,350 01 Feb 2008 Carbon nanotube composites Philips Electronics Hong Kong Ltd. HK$182,164 08 Nov 2006 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: 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 demonstration of key technologies for the green manufacturing of lychee juice products Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology HK$53,266 01 Jul 2009 A nanostructured catalytic system for the removal of Nox from motor vehicle emissions UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$298,000 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Yip, Alex C K, Hu, Xijun (2009) "Catalytic Activity of Clay-based Titanium Silicalite-1 Composite in Cyclohexanone Ammoximation", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 48, 8441-8450. 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.

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 Production of biodiesel from Jatropha Curcas Biofuel Ltd. HK$10,000 01 Jan 2010 Pyrolysis of mixed wastes Global Power & Energy Company Ltd. HK$38,974 01 Jul 2010 Tire liquefaction Global Power & Energy Company Ltd. HK$90,000 01 Dec 2006 Solvent purification Vans's Chemicals Ltd. HK$10,000 05 Nov 2009

Representative Research Publications: Lai, Sau Man, Hui, Chi Wai (2010) "Integration of Tri-generation system and thermal storage under demand uncertainties", Applied Energy, Volume 87, Issue 9, Pages 2868-2880. Lee, King-Lung, Cheung, Kwok-Yuen, Lam, Ka-Leung, Hui, Chi Wai (2010) "Optimization of Multi-Stage Waste Tyre Pyrolysis Process", ESCAPE 20 - The 20th European Symposium of Computer Aided Process Engineering, Ischia, Italy, June 6-9 2010, Computer Aided Chemical Engineering Vol. 28. Lai, Sau Man, Hui, Chi Wai (2009) "Feasibility and Flexibility for a Trigeneration System", Energy, 34, 1693-1704. He, Yaohua, Hui, Chi Wai (2009) Meta-Heuristics for Large-Scale Process Scheduling, VDM Verlag, Saarbrücken, Germany. He, Yaohuo, Hui, Chi Wai (2008) "A Rule-Based Genetic Algorithm for the Scheduling of Single-Stage Multi-Product Batch Plants with Parallel Units", Computers & Chemical Engineering, 32, 3067-3083. 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 (2008) "A Rule-Based Genetic Algorithm for the Scheduling of Single-Stage Multi-Product Batch Plants with Parallel Units", Computers & Chemical Engineering, Available online 4 May 2008. Li, Wenkai, Hui, Chi-Wai (2007) "Apply Marginal Value Analysis in Refinery Planning", Chemical Engineering Communications, Volume 194, Number 7, July 2007 , pp. 962-974(13).

John F PORTER Visiting Associate Professor (2358 7121 ; [email protected]) PhD, University of Bath (1994)

Current Research Activities: Modelling transport phenomena in environmental treatment processes; novel environmental treatment processes; process simulation and computational fluid dynamics applications in Chemical Engineering.

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: Synthesis of nanoscale mesoporous silica in microfluidic reactor RGC - General Research Fund HK$416,300 01 Sep 2009 A multi-level antimicrobial surface coating for a healthier environment Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$1,353,656 01 Oct 2009 Advanced ozone membrane technology for treatment of endocrine disrupting compounds in water Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$1,990,772 01 Oct 2009 Joint laboratory in nano science & technology William Mong Institute of Nano Science & Technology HK$100,000 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Yeung, King Lun, Leung, Wai Kin, Yao, Nan, Cao, Shengli (2009) "Reactivity and antimicrobial properties of nanostructured titanium dioxide", Catalysis Today, 143, 3-4, 218-224. Chen, Xinqing, Lam, Koon Fung, Zhang, Qingjian, Pan, Bingcai, Arruebo, Manuel, Yeung, King Lun (2009) "Synthesis of Highly Selective Magnetic Mesoporous Adsorbent", Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 113, 22, 9804-9813. Kwan, Siu Ming, Yeung, King Lun (2008) "Zeolite micro fuel cell", Chemical Communications, 31, 3631-3633. 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. 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 Development of innovative approaches for non-invasive intraocular delivery of therapeutics Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$1,266,865 15 Oct 2009

Representative Research Publications: Li, Qianqian, Chau, Ying (2010) "Neural differentiation directed by self-assembling peptide scaffolds presenting laminin-derived epitopes", Journal of Biomaterial Research Part A. Wang, Weiping, Chau, Ying (2009) "Self-assembled peptide nanorods as building blocks of fractal patterns", Soft Matter, 5(24): 4893- 4898. 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: Development, refinement and validation of spectral library searching methods in proteomics data processing RGC - General Research Fund HK$416,300 01 Jan 2010 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$220,560 01 Sep 2008 A Technological Platform for the Quality Control of Traditional Chinese Medicine by Two-dimensional Fingerprinting UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$545,160 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Lam, Henry H N, Deutsch, E, Aebersold, R (2010) "Artificial decoy spectral libraries for false discovery rate estimation in spectral library searching in proteomics", Journal of Proteome Research, 9, 605-610. Sherwood, C, Eastham, A, Lee, L, Peterson, A, Eng, J, Shteynberg, D, Mendoza, L, Deutsch, E, Risler, J, Tasman, N, Aebersold, R, Lam, Henry H N, Martin, D (2009) "MaRiMba: A software application for spectral library-based MRM transition list assembly", Journal of Proteome Research, 8, 4396-4405. 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.

Arthur P S LAU Adjunct Assistant Professor (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: Chemical characterization of volatile organic compounds from ambient fungi, a potential to preliminary assess their precursor potential of secondary organic aerosols RGC - General Research Fund HK$593,400 01 Jan 2010 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 Surveillance platform for coastal/aquatic environment (SCAN) Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$1,899,443 01 Nov 2009 Explore and research the atmospheric environment (EXPLORE) Quality Education Fund HK$1,082,000 01 Jan 2010

Representative Research Publications: Li, Yan, Leung, Wai Kin, Yeung, King Lun, Lau, Arthur P S, Kwan, Joseph K C (2009) "A multilevel antimicrobial coating based on polymer-encapsulated ClO2", Langmuir, vol 25, iss 23, 13472-13480. Li, Y.J., Cheong, G.Y.L., Lee, A.K.Y., Lau, Arthur P S, Chan, Chak Keung (2009) "Acid-catalyzed reactions of limonene and terpineol and their implication in secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation", European Aerosol Conference, European Aerosol Assembly, Karlsruhe, Germany, Sept 6-11, 2009, T028A03. Lau, Arthur P S, Cheng, Jessica Y.W. (2009) "Endotoxins loading in atmospheric aerosols in the Pearl River Delta cities", European Aerosol Conference 2009, European Aerosol Assembly, Karlsruhe, Germany, Sept 6-11, 2009, T058A15. 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. 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.

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

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

Chii SHANG, Associate Professor

Yu-Hsing WANG, Associate Professor

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

Jack C P CHENG, Assistant Professor

Wei Chung HU, Visiting Assistant Professor

Gustaaf A KIKKERT, Assistant Professor

Gang WANG, Assistant Professor

Jui-pin 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

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 (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 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: 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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Development of an integrated vision-inertial sensor system for dynamic displacement measurement of civil engineering structures RGC - General Research Fund HK$663,483 01 Sep 2009

Representative Research Publications: Chang, Chih-chen, Shi, Yuanfeng (2010) "Identification of time-varying hysteretic structures using wavelet multiresolution analysis", International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp 21-34. Chang, Chih-chen, Poon, C.W. (2010) "Nonlinear identification of lumped-mass buildings using empirical mode decomposition and incomplete measurement", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 136. No. 3, pp 273-281. Yan, Dong, Chang, Chih-chen (2009) "Vulnerability assessment of cable-stayed bridges in probabilistic domain", Journal of Bridge Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp 270-278. 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.

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: New OSA technology for minimizing municipal sewage biotreatment sludge Guangdong Provincial Government - Ministry of Education HK$112,140 01 Jul 2009 Granulation of Human Urine Nitrifying Biomass to Realize Sustainable Urban Sewage Management UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$384,000 01 Jun 2010 Carbon source for denitrification study in low carbon/hign nitrogen city sewage treatment Shenzhen Science, Industry, Trade and Information Technology Commission HK$81,768 01 Jan 2010

Representative Research Publications: Bai, Peng, Chen, X, Hang, Y, Wang, J., Chen, Guanghao (2010) "An innovative membrane bioreactor for saline sewage treatment", Desalination and Water Treatment, 18, pp.297-301. Chen, Guanghao, D, Brdjanovic, Ekama, G. A., Van Loosdrecht, MCM (2010) "Seawater as alternative water resource", 7th IWA Leading-edge Technology on Water and Wastewater conference (LET2010), June 2-4, 2010, Arizona, USA (plenary keynote presentation). Ekama, A G, Wilsenach, J. A., Chen, Guanghao (2010) "Some opportunities and challenges for urban wastewater treatment", 7th IWA LET conference, Arizona, USA, June 2-4, 2010 (keynote presentation). Mackey, Hamish Robert, Chen, Y, Chen, Guanghao, Van Loosdrecht, MCM (2009-2010) "Nitrification of Source Separated Urine in A sequencing batch reactor", Water Infrastructure for Sustainable Communities- China and The World, X.D. Hao, V. Novotny and V. Nelson, IWA Publisher (ISBN: 9781843393283). Wang, J., Lu, Hui, Tsang, W. L, Chen, Guanghao, Van Loosdrecht, MCM (2009) "A novel sulfate reduction-autotrophic denitrification-nitrification integrated (SANI) process for saline wastewater treatment", Water Research, 43, pp. 2363-2372. 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.

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

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 Advanced thermal insulation coating material Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Ltd. & Industries HK$2,968,472 01 Jul 2010 Basic study of environmentally friendly contemporary concrete Ministry of Science and Technology HK$2,803,500 01 Jul 2009 Fundamental study on properties of contemporary concrete structure during construction period National Science Foundation of China HK$747,600 01 Jan 2009 Cement-based piezoelectric composites and transducers for concrete structure health monitoring National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$855,600 01 Jan 2010

Representative Research Publications: Zhang, Jie, Li, Zongjin (2009) "Application of GEM equation in microstructure characterization of cement-based materials", Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 21(11): 648-656. Li, Zongjin, Qin, Lei, Huang, Shifeng (2009) "Embedded piezo-transducer in concrete for property diagnosis", J. of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 21(11): 643-647. Xiao, Lianzhen, Li, Zongjin (2009) "New Understanding of Cement Hydration Mechanism through Electrical Resistivity Measurement and Microstructure Investigations", J. of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 21(8): 368-373. Zhou, Xiangming, Li, Zongjin (2009) "Numerical simulation of ram extrusion in short-fiber-reinforced fresh cementitious composites", J. of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, 4(10):1755-1769. Li, Zongjin, Leung, Christopher K Y, Xi, Yunping (2009) Structural Renovation in Concrete, 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.

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: Management Strategies for Dynamic Networks with Travel Behavior under Uncertainty RGC - General Research Fund HK$850,479 31 Dec 2009

Representative Research Publications: Wang, D Z W, Lo, H (2010) "Global Optimum of the Linearized Network Design Problem with Equilibrium Flows", Transportation Research Part B, 44, 482-492. Tang, S, Lo, H (2010) "On the Financial Viability of Mass Transit Development: The Case of Hong Kong", Transportation, 37, 299-316. Bie, J, Lo, H (2010) "Stability and attraction domains of traffic equilibria in a day-to-day dynamical system formulation", Transportation Research Part B, 44, 90-107. Lin, W, Lo, H (2009) "Investigating Braess' Paradox with Time-Dependent Queues", Transportation Science, 43(1), 117-126. Lo, H, Szeto, W Y (2009) "Time-Dependent Transport Network Design under Cost-Recovery", Transportation Research Part B, 43, 142- 158. 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.

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 Ex-situ and In-situ Remediation of Subsurface Cr(VI) Contamination Using Mesoporous Fe2O3: Effectiveness, Kinetics, and Adsorbent Recovery RGC - General Research Fund HK$970,418 31 Dec 2009 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: Mak, M. C. H., Rao, P., Lo, Irene M C (2010) "Effects of hardness and alkalinity on the removal of arsenic(V) from humic acid- deficient and humic acid-rich groundwater by zero-valent iron", Water Research, 43, 4296-4304. Liu, T., Mak, M. C. H., Rao, P., Peng, W., Lo, Irene M C (2010) "Removal of Co-present Chromate and Arsenate by Zero-valent Iron in Groundwater with Humic Acid and Bicarbonate", Water Research, 43, 2540-2548. Peng, W., Lo, Irene M C (2010) "Synthesis of Mesoporous Magnetic Fe2O3 And Its Application to Cr(VI) Removal From Contaminated Water", Water Research, 43(15):3727-34. Yip, T.C.M, Tsang, D.C.W, Lo, Irene M C (2009) "Kinetic interactions of EDDS with Soils: 1. Metal re-sorption and competition under EDDS deficiency", Environ. Sci. Technol, 43 (3), 831-836. Tsang, D.C.W, Yip, T.C.M., Lo, Irene M C (2009) "Kinetic interactions of EDDS with Soils: 2. Metal-EDDS complexes in uncontaminated and metal-contaminated soils", Environ. Sci. Technol, 43 (3), 837-842. 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., 43(3), 837-842. Tsang, D. C. W., Lo, Irene M. C. (2007) "Competitive Cu and Cd Sorption and Transport in Soils: A Combined Batch Kinetics, Column and Sequential Extraction Study", Environ. Sci. Technol., 40, 6655-6661. Lo, I. M. C., Surampalli, R., Lai, K. C. K. (2006-2007) Zero-valent Iron Reactive Materials for Hazardous Waste and Inorganics Removal, ASCE book publication, ISBN #0784408815, 340 pp.

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 Tunneling-induced ground movement effects on pipelines RGC - General Research Fund HK$300,000 01 Jul 2009 Joint study on mechanics of unsaturated expansive soils Changsha University of Science and Technology HK$158,316 01 Jul 2010 Instrumentation on Deep Foundation Chun Wo Construction & Engineering Co. Ltd. HK$200,000 10 Jul 2006 Geotechnical centrifuge modelling Geotech Engineering Ltd. HK$150,000 01 Sep 2005 Geotechnical centrifuge modelling UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$11,250 01 Sep 2005 Green slope engineering for Hong Kong RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$6,670,000 30 Jun 2010 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 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: Zhou, G G D, Ng, Charles W W (2010) "Dimensional analysis of natural debris flows", Canadian Geotechnical Journal. Leung, A K, Sun, H W, Millis, S, Pappin, J, Ng, Charles W W, Wong, H N (2010) "Field Monitoring of an Unsaturated Saprolitic Hillslope", Canadian Geotechnical Journal. Zhang, M, Ng, Charles W W (2010) "Ground water control technique in centrifuge tests", Journal of Rock and Soil Mechanics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Vol. 31, No 2, page 355-360. Ng, Charles W W, Li, Qing, Liu, G B (2010) "The characteristics of one-dimentsional compressibility of Shanghai Clay", The Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering. Ng, Charles W W, Xu, J (2009-2010) "Saturated and Unsaturated Engineering properties of Saprolites in Hong Kong", A Handbook of Tropical Residual Soil Engineering. Hu, P, Cai, Qipeng, Luo, G Y, Ding, Y H, Dong, M, Hu, L M, Hou, Y J, Ng, Charles W W (2009) "Centrifuge modeling of failure patterns in mixed soil layers induced by normal faults", the 17th ICSMGC, Alexandria, Egypt, 5-9 Oct, 2010, vol. 1, page 594-597. Zheng, G, Diao, Y, Ng, Charles W W (2009) "Finite element analysis on mechanism of effect of extra-deep excavation on vertical load transfer and settlement of single pile", Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, vol. 31, No 6, page 837-845. So, A K O, Ng, Charles W W (2009) "Impact compression behaviors of high capacity long piles", Canadian Geotechnical Journal.

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 Water Resources and Water Related Hazards under Climate Change UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$480,000 30 Jun 2010

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: Pareto Efficient Contracts, Regulations and Auctions for Road Franchising RGC - General Research Fund HK$972,900 01 Jan 2010 Multi-objective design, optimization and implementation of network congestion pricing schemes National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$564,696 01 Jan 2010

Representative Research Publications: Yang, Hai, Xu, W, Heydecker, B (2010) "Bounding the efficiency of road pricing", Transportation Research, 46E, No.1, 90-108. Yang, Hai, Fung, CS, Wong, KI, Wong, SC (2010) "Nonlinear pricing of taxi services", Transportation Research, 44A, No.5, 337-348. Tian, Q, Yang, Hai, Huang, HJ (2010) "Novel travel cost functions based on morning peak commuting equilibrium", Operations Research Letters, 38 (3), 195-200. Tan, Zhijia, Yang, Hai, Guo, XL (2010) "Properties of Pareto efficient contracts and regulations for road franchising", Transportation Research, 44B, No.4, 415-433. Yang, Hai, Xu, W, He, BS, Meng, Q (2010) "Road pricing for congestion control with unknown demand and cost functions", Transportation Research, 18C, No.2, 157-175. 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.

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.

Representative Research Publications: Chan, Chun Man, Huang, M.F., Kwok, K.C.S. (2010) "Integrated Wind Load Prediction and Stiffness Design Optimization of Tall Buildings with 3D Modes", Journal of Engineering Structures, Vol. 32, Issue 5, 2010, 1252-1261. Huang, M.F., Chan, Chun Man, Kwok, K.C.S., Hitchcock, Peter A (2009) "Cross Correlations of Modal Responses of Tall Buildings in Wind-Induced Lateral-Torsional Motion", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 135, No. 8, 2009, 802-812. Chan, Chun Man, Huang, M.F., Kwok, K.C.S. (2009) "Stiffness Optimization for Wind-Induced Dynamic Serviceability Design of Tall Buildings", Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 135, No. 8, 2009, 985-997. 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, Zhang, Li Min, Ng, Jenny T.M. (2009) "Optimization of Pile Group Using Hybrid Genetic Algorthms", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 135, No. 4, 497-505. 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.

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 Development of a single, integrated UV/self-generated ozone advanced oxidation reactor for water treatment Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$1,412,343 01 Aug 2010

Representative Research Publications: Ding, Chunli, Shang, Chii (2010) "Mechanisms controlling adsorption of natural organic matter on surfactant-modified iron oxide- coated sand", Water Research, 44(12), 3651-3658. Yang, Xin, Fan, Chihhao, Shang, Chii, Zhao, Quan (2010) "Nitrogenous disinfection byproducts formation and nitrogen origin exploration during chloramination of nitrogenous organic compounds", Water Research, 44(9), 2691-2702. Shang, Chii, Cheung, Lo-Man, Ho, Chiu-Man, Zeng, Minzhen (2009) "Repression of photoreactivation and dark repair of coliform bacteria by TiO2-modified UV-C inactivation", Applied Catalysis B-Environmental, 89(3-4), 536-542. 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. 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. 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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Examining the initiation mechanisms of rainfall induced flow-like landslides using well-instrumented laboratory flume tests and fully-coupled numerical simulations RGC - General Research Fund HK$792,690 01 Sep 2009

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: Investigation of failure of embankment dams and levees - from initiation to breach RGC - General Research Fund HK$770,986 01 Dec 2007 Rapid Identification of Hazardous Loose Coarse Landslide Soil Deposits on Steep Terrain RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,189,457 01 Sep 2010 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

Representative Research Publications: Xu, Y., Zhang, Li Min (2009) "Breaching parameters of earth and rockfill dams", J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Engrg., ASCE, 135(12), 1957- 1970. Li, J.H, Zhang, Li Min, Wang, Y., Fredlund, D.G. (2009) "Permeability tensor and REV of saturated cracked soil", Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 46(8), 928-942. Li, X., Zhang, Li Min, Fredlund, D.G. (2009) "Wetting front advancing column test for measuring unsaturated hydraulic conductivity", Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 46(12), 1431-1445. 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., 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, Limin, Ng, A. M. Y. (2005) "Probabilistic limiting tolerable displacements for serviceability limit state design of foundations", Geotechnique, 55(2), 151-161.

Jack C P CHENG Assistant Professor (2358 8186 ; [email protected])

PhD, Stanford University

Current Research Activities: Construction information technology and knowledge management; construction supply chain management; service computing in construction; building information modeling; construction data mining.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A distributed service computing framework for supply chain monitoring and collaboration in the construction industry RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$200,000 01 Mar 2010

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.

Gustaaf A KIKKERT Assistant Professor (2358 8190 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Canterbury

Current Research Activities: Experimental fluid mechanics; flow visualization techniques; buoyant jets; turbulent fluid processes; gravity-driven flows; hydrodynamics of waves in the swash zone; sediment transport in the swash zone.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Cross-sectional behaviour of an advected jet discharged at an oblique angle to a cross-flow RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$200,000 01 Jun 2010

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$253,400 01 Jun 2009 The Li Foundation heritage prize The Li Foundation, Inc. HK$187,200 01 Dec 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: Wang, Gang (2010) "A Ground Motion Selection and Modification Method Preserving Characteristics and Alteatory Variablity of Scenario Earthquakes", 9th US National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Toronto, July 24-29. Wang, Gang (2010) "Design Ground Motion Library and Its Application in Performance-based Earthquake Design of Civil Infrastructure", 4th Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Seminars on Earthquake Science and Technology, January 7-8, Hong Kong. Zhao, Jidong, Wang, Gang (2010) "Unloading and reverse yielding of a finite cavity in a bounded cohesive-frictional medium", Computers & Geotechnics, vol. 37, pp. 239-245. Li, Shaofan, Wang, Gang (2008) Introduction to Micromechanics and Nanomechanics, World Scientific Publishing, 500 pages.

Jui-pin WANG Assistant Professor (2358 8482 ; [email protected])

PhD, Columbia University

Current Research Activities: Uncertainty and reliability analysis in geotechnical engineering and geoscience; geotechnical centrifuge modeling; geotechnical earthquake engineering; risk and probability analysis in natural hazard.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Centrifuge modeling on the stability of ecosystem-based retaining structures RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$200,000 01 Jun 2010

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: 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 Formation of Polar Iodinated DBPs and Control Strategies for Iodinated/Brominated DBPs during Chlorination of Saline Sewage Effluents RGC - General Research Fund HK$919,106 31 Dec 2009 Detection of iodinated disinfection byproducts in drinking water RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$167,160 15 Dec 2006

Representative Research Publications: Ding, Guoyu, Zhang, Xiangru (2009) "A picture of polar iodinated disinfection byproducts in drinking water by (UPLC/)ESI-tqMS", Environmental Science and Technology, 43(24): 9287-9293. Echigo, S., Zhang, Xiangru, Lei, H.X., Smith, M.E., Minear, R.A. (2009) "Evaluation of control strategies for disinfection by-products for small water supplies using ozone as an alternative disinfection process", Water Science and Technology: Water Supply, 9(4): 431-437. 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.

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: Zhang, Xueqing (2009) "Best value concessionaire selection through a fuzzy logic system", Expert Systems with Applications, 36(4), 7519-7527. So, Kin Lam, Cheung, Mo Shing, Zhang, Xueqing (2009) "Life-cycle cost management of concrete bridges", Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Bridge Engineering, Vol. 162, No. 3, 103-117. 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.

Jidong ZHAO Assistant Professor (2358 8481 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~jzhao)

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: Micro-macro computational modeling of collapse problems in geomaterials RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,108,600 01 Jan 2010 Experimental and numerical shakedown analysis of asphalt pavements in Hong Kong RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$253,400 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: Zhao, Jidong, Wang, Gang (2010) "Unloading and reverse yielding of a finite cavity in a bounded cohesive-frictional medium", Computers and Geotechnics, 37, 239-245. 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

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

Chang XU, Research 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 Wireless Networking for Vehicular Environments UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$298,000 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Hamdi, Mounir, Xia, Q (2009) "Open-loop Link Adaptation for Next-Generation IEEE 802.11n Wireless Networks", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 57, No. 7, pp. 3713-3725. 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.

Roland T CHIN Chair Professor (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 6999 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cse.ust.hk/~ni)

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 CardioSentinal: A 24-hour heart care and monitoring system Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$1,049,120 01 Oct 2009 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 Reconfigurable Router Platform Ministry of Science and Technology HK$710,220 01 Jul 2009 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$10,000,000 01 Jul 2008 Digital Life Research Center Nansha Research Centers HK$ 01 Jul 2010 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: Liu, Yunhuai, Zhang, Qian, Ni, Lionel M S (2010) "Opportunity-based Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 405-416. 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, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 71-82. 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. Yin, Jie, Yang, Qiang, Ni, Lionel M S (2008) "Learning Adaptive Temporal Radio Maps for Signal-Strength-Based Location Estimation", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 7, No. 7, pp. 869-883. 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.

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

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: Reconstructing Manifolds of Arbitrary Topology RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,317,900 01 Sep 2009

Representative Research Publications: Cheng, Siu Wing, Dey, Tamal, Ramos, Edgar (2010) "Delaunay Refinement for Piecewise Smooth Complexes", Discrete and Computational Geometry, volume 43, pages 121-166. Cheng, Siu Wing, Na, Hyeon-Suk, Vigneron, Antoine, Yajun, Wang (2010) "Querying Approximate Shortest Paths in Anisotropic Regions", SIAM Journal on Computing, volume 39, pages 1888-1918. 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, 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, 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, Fuji-Hara, R, Fujiwara, M, Jimbo, M, Mishima, M (2009) "Sets of frequency hopping sequences: bounds and optimal constructions", IEEE Trans. Information Theory, Vol. 55, No. 7, pp. 3297--3304. 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.

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.

Representative Research Publications: Bein, Wolfgang, Golin, Mordecai J, Larmore, Lawrence, Zhang, Yan (2009) "The Knuth-Yao quadrangle-inequality speedup is a consequence of total monotonicity", ACM Transactions on Algorithms, Volume 6, Number 1, December 2009. Golin, Mordecai, Li, Jian (2008) "More Efficient Algorithms and Analyses for Unequal Letter Cost Prefix-Free Coding", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 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.

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. Frojd, 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.

Representative Research Publications: Leung, Kenneth Wai Ting, Lee, Dik Lun (2010) "Dynamic Agglomerative-Divisive Clustering of Clickthrough Data for Collaborative Web Search", 15th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 10), Tsukuba, Japan, Apr. 2010, 635-642. Leung, Kenneth Wai Ting, Lee, Dik Lun, Lee, Wang Chien (2010) "Personalized Web Search with Location Preferences", 26th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 10), Long Beach, California, USA, Mar. 2010, 701-712. Li, Huajing, Li, Zhisheng, Lee, Wang Chien, Lee, Dik Lun (2009) "A Probabilistic Topic-Based Ranking Framework for Location- Sensitive Domain Information Retrieval", 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2009), Boston, MA, July 2009, 331-338. Lee, Dik Lun (2009) "User Profiling and Personalized Information Delivery on the Static and Mobile Web", 11th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM), Hong Kong, Nov, 2009, 1-2. 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 Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 20(11): 1505-1518.

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 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

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 Deducing consequences of a logic program using loop formulas RGC - General Research Fund HK$986,700 01 Jan 2010

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 H (2010) "Record matching over query results from multiple web databases", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 22, 4, 578-589. 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, 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

Representative Research Publications: Markowetz, A, Yang, Y, Papadias, Dimitrios (2009) "Keyword Search over Relational Tables and Streams", ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 34(3), 50 pages. 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.

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 Very Large-scale Semi-dense 3D Reconstruction from Images RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,317,900 01 Jan 2010 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$85,460 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.

Representative Research Publications: Hong, Dan, Shen, Vincent Y S (2009) "'No Place to Hide'-Privacy Breach through Structure Analysis of Multiple Social Networks", WWW/Internet 2009, Rome, Italy; 19-21 November; 109-116. Hong, Dan, Shen, Vincent Y S (2009) "Online User Activities Discovery based on Time Dependent Data", IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, Vancouver, Canada; 29-31 August; 106-113. Hong, Dan, Shen, Vincent Y S (2009) "Setting Access Permission through Transitive Relationship in Web-based Social Networks", Weaving Services and People on the World Wide Web, Irwin King and Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Eds); 229-253. Vosecky, Jan, Hong, Dan, Shen, Vincent Y S (2009) "User Profile Comparison Cross Domain", International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies, Ostrava, Czech Republic; 29-31 July; 373-378. 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 A Spatio-Temporal Markov Random Field Approach to Video Denoising RGC - General Research Fund HK$569,167 01 Nov 2009

Representative Research Publications: Wu, Tai Pang, Fu, Chi Wing, Yeung, Sai Kit, Jia, Jiaya, Tang, Chi Keung (2010) "Modeling and Rendering of Impossible Figures", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 29, No. 2, Article 13. Wu, Tai Pang, Tang, Chi Keung (2010) "Photometric Stereo via Expectation Maximization", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 546-560. Wu, Tai Pang, Yeung, Sai Kit, Jia, Jiaya, Tang, Chi Keung (2010) "Quasi-Dense Reconstruction using Tensor-Based Multiview Stereo", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Francisco, June 13-18. Chen, Jia, Tang, Chi Keung, Wang, Jue (2009) "NoiseBrush: Interactive High Quality Image-Noise Separation", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 29, No. 5, Article 146. 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.

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: mCARE: Mobile cloud for activity recognition for the ehealth Microsoft Research Asia HK$154,000 01 May 2010 Heterogeneous transfer learning with applications to web data mining National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$732,607 01 Jan 2010

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). 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: Towards a Unifying Framework for Learning with Auxiliary Data Sources RGC - General Research Fund HK$732,720 01 Jan 2010

Representative Research Publications: Li, Wu-Jun, Yeung, Dit-Yan (2010) "MILD: Multiple-instance learning via disambiguation", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 22(1):76-89, January 2010. 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, Mount, David, Xia, Jian (2010) "Tight lower bounds for halfspace range searching", Proceedings of the 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG), 29-37. Arya, Sunil, Malamatos, Theocharis, Mount, David (2009) "Space-time tradeoffs for approximate nearest neighbor searching", Journal of the ACM, Volume 57, Issue 1, Article No. 1. 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.

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: Robust Low-Delay Peer-to-Peer Streaming: Modeling, Optimization and Algorithms RGC - General Research Fund HK$493,387 01 Jan 2010 Mobile peer-to-peer streaming Google Information Technology (China) Co., Ltd. HK$43,446 01 Mar 2010 LAviNet: A lean wireless infrastructure network for aviation MRO industry Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$7,561,560 01 Oct 2009

Representative Research Publications: Ren, Dongni Tony, Li, Yue Tung, Chan, Shueng-Han Gary (2009) "Fast-Mesh: A Low-Delay High-Bandwidth Mesh for Peer-to- Peer Live Streaming", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 1446-1456, Dec. 2009. 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. 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 RGC - General Research Fund HK$548,777 01 Jan 2009 Managing the Impact of Context Reduction on Pervasive Applications RGC - General Research Fund HK$842,301 01 Jan 2010 International conference on e-business engineering The University of Hong Kong HK$23,400 10 Aug 2009 RFID benchmarking methodology, report and tool support Hong Kong R&D Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management Enabling Technologies Ltd. & Industries HK$10,462,437 01 Oct 2008 Peformance Testing of RFID Embedded Systems UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$400,000 16 Jun 2008 RFID intelligent dock gate system: αGATE PORTAL Sino Software Research Institute HK$2,656,000 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Lai, Zhifeng, Cheung, Shing Chi, Chan, W.K. (2010) "Detecting Atomic-Set Serializability Violations in Multi-threaded Programs Through Active Randomized Testing", 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010), Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 235-244, May 2-8, 2010. Xu, Chang, Cheung, Shing Chi, Chan, W.K., Ye, Chunyang (2010) "Partial Constraint Checking for Context Consistency in Pervasive Computing", ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 19 (3), pp. 1-61. 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.

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: He, Zhenyu, Chung, Albert C S (2010) "3-D B-spline Wavelet-based Local Standard Deviation (BWLSD): Its Application to Edge Detection and Vascular Segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Angiography", International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 87, Number 3, pages 235 - 265, May 2010. Liao, Shu, Chung, Albert C S (2010) "A Novel Markov Random Field Based Deformable Model for Face Recognition", IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 13 - 18, 2010, published electronically (8 pages). Liao, Shu, Chung, Albert C S (2010) "Feature based Non-rigid Brain MR Image Registration with Symmetric Alpha Stable Filters", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Volume 29, No. 1, pages 106 - 119, January 2010. Wu, Jue, Cai, Wenchao, Chung, Albert C S (2010) "POSIT: Part-based Object Segmentation without Intensive Training", Pattern Recognition, Vol. 43, Issue 3, pages 676 - 684, March 2010. Wu, Jue, Chung, Albert C S (2009) "A Novel Framework for Segmentation of Deep Brain Structures Based on Markov Dependence Tree", NeuroImage, Vol. 46, No. 4, pages 1027 - 1036. 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.

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 Adaptation and learning from multiple information sources RGC - General Research Fund HK$664,028 01 Dec 2009 Learning in one-class support vector machines RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$82,000 01 Jan 2004

Representative Research Publications: Zhang, Kai, Kwok, James T Y (2010) "Simplifying mixture models through function approximation", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 21(4): 644-658. 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.

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 and efficient distributed systems Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. HK$300,000 10 Dec 2007 Trust solution for RFID enabled interoperable e-logistics Hong Kong R&D Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management Enabling Technologies Ltd. & Industries HK$5,675,787 01 Apr 2010 Trustworthy distributed computing Microsoft Research Asia HK$470,000 01 Jul 2005 Uncertain data processing over senor networks National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$656,900 01 Dec 2008 Security studies in distributed environments University of Electronic Science and Technology of China HK$46,800 30 Oct 2007

Representative Research Publications: Yang, Zheng, Liu, Yunhao (2010) "Quality of Trilateration: Confidence based Iterative Localization", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 21, No. 5, Pages 631-640, May 2010. Li, Mo, Liu, Yunhao (2009) "Underground Coal Mine Monitoring with Wireless Sensor Networks", ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Volume 5, Issue 2. Lian, Jie, Liu, Yunhao, Naik, K, Chen, Lei (2009) "Virtual Surrounding Face Geocasting with Guaranteed Message Delivery for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 200-211. Liu, Yunhao (2008) "A Two-hop Solution to Solving Topology Mismatch", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Volume 19, Issue 11, Pages 1591-1600. Han, Jinsong, Liu, Yunhao (2008) "Mutual Anonymity for Mobile Peer-to-Peer Systems", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Volume 19, Issue 8, Pages 1009-1019. Liu, Yunhao, Xiao, Li, Ni, Lionel (2007) "Building a Scalable Bipartite P2P Overlay Network", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol . 18, No. 9, September 2007, Pages 1296-1306. Liu, Yunhao, Xiao, Li, Liu, Xiaomei, Ni, Lionel M, Zhang, Xiaodong (2005) "Location Awareness in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 16, No. 2, Pages 163-174, February 2005. Ni, Lionel M, Liu, Yunhao, Lau, Yiu Cho, Patil, Abhishek (2004) "LANDMARC: Indoor Location Sensing Using Active RFID", ACM Wireless Networks, Volume 10, Issue 6, November 2004, Pages 701-710.

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 Parallel Data Mining on Graphics Processors RGC - General Research Fund HK$776,335 01 Jun 2010 Interactive data cube computation on graphics processors Microsoft Research Asia HK$147,000 01 Mar 2009 Supporting e-science applications on heterogeneous clusters Microsoft Research Asia HK$154,000 01 Sep 2010

Representative Research Publications: Wu, Hejun, Luo, Qiong (2010) "Adaptive holistic scheduling for query processing in sensor networks", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 70, Issue 6, Pages 625-706 (June 2010). He, Bingsheng, Lu, Mian, Yang, Ke, Fang, Rui, Govindaraju, Naga K., Luo, Qiong, Sander, Pedro V. (2009) "Relational query ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) coprocessing on graphics processors", , Volume 34, Number 4, December 2009, 21:1- 21:39. 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. 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.

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 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, Ko, Tom (2009) "Automatic Estimation of Decoding Parameters Using Large-Margin Iterative Linear Programming", Interspeech 2009, Brighton, U.K. Ye, Guoli, Mak, Brian, Mak, Man Wai (2009) "Fast GMM Computation for Speaker Verification Using Scalar Quantization and Discrete Densities", Interspeech 2009, Brighton, U.K.. Mak, Brian, Lai, T. C., Tsang, I. W., Kwok, James T Y (2009) "Maximum Penalized likelihood Kernel Regression for Fast Adaptation", IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, volume 17, number 7, pages 1372-1381, Sept. 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. 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: Xia, Lei, Muppala, K R Jogesh (2010) "A Survey of BitTorrent Performance", IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorial, Vol. 12, No. 2, Second Quarter 2010, pp. 140 - 158. Lin, Dong, Hamdi, Mounir, Muppala, K R Jogesh (2010) "Designing Packet Buffers in High-Bandwidth Switches and Routers", Proc. 11th Int. Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2010), Dallas, TX, USA, Jun. 2010. Muppala, K R Jogesh, McMinn, Sean, Rossiter, David P, Lam, Gibson (2010) "Using Podcasting and Digital Audio in Higher Education", Handbook of Research on Hybrid Learning Models: Advanced Tools, Technologies and Applications, F. L. Wang, J. Fong and R. C. Kwan (eds.), Information Science Reference (an imprint of IGI Global), Hershey, PA, USA, 2010, pp. 134-153. Chang, Xiaolin, Xing, Bin, Liu, Jiaqiang, Muppala, K R Jogesh (2009) "LWRM: A Lightweight Response Mechanism for TCG TOCTOU Attack", Proc. 28th Int. Performance, Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2009), Phoenix, AZ, USA, Dec. 2009, pp. 200 - 207. 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. 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. Muppala, Jogesh K. (2007) "Bringing Embedded Software Closer to Computer Science Students", ACM SIGBED Review Special Issue on the Second Workshop on Embedded Systems Education (WESE 2006), Vol. 4, No. 1, Jan. 2007, pp. 11-16. 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.

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 A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Managing Collective User Preferences and Discovering User-Preferred Object Relationships RGC - General Research Fund HK$759,000 31 Dec 2009 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 Multi-touch interfaces for 3D modeling and animation applications Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$922,300 01 Nov 2009

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 RGC - General Research Fund HK$331,389 01 Jan 2009 Cooperative Relay for Cognitive Radio Networks RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,386,900 01 Jan 2010 RF-based technologies for asset/personnel tracking Hong Kong R&D Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management Enabling Technologies Ltd. & Industries HK$6,490,850 15 Sep 2008 Collaborative and cognitive networking Microsoft Research Asia HK$240,000 01 May 2006 Multi-dimensional diversities in wireless opportunistic networks National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$533,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Dawei, Yin, S., Zhang, Qian, Liu, Minyan, Li, S. (2009) "Mining Spectrum Usage Data: a Large-scale Spectrum Measurement Study", ACM Mobicom 2009. 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. 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. Liu, Yunhuai, Zhang, Qian, Ni, Lionel (2008) "Opportunity-based Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE ICDCS, 2008. Zhang, Meng, Zhang, Qian, Sun, Lifeng, Yang, Shiqiang (2007) "Understanding the power of pull-based streaming protocol: Can we do better?", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications, Vol. 25, No. 9, December 2007.

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 Privacy-preserving data networks publishing National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$558,279 01 Jan 2010 Development of Foundation Models for Internet of Things (IoT) UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$298,000 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Lian, Xiang, Chen, Lei, Song, Shaoxu (2010) "Consistent query answers in inconsistent probabilistic databases", ACM Conference on Management of Data. Rao, Weixiong, Chen, Lei, Fu, Ada Wai-Chee, Wang, Guoren (2010) "Optimal Resource Placement in Structured Peer-to-Peer", IEEE Transactions on Parallel Distributed Systems, 21, 7, 1011-1026. Lian, Xiang, Chen, Lei (2010) "Ranked Query Processing in Uncertain Databases", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 22, 3, 420-436. Lian, Xiang, Chen, Lei (2010) "Reverse skyline search in uncertain databases", ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 35, 1. Jin, Cheqing, Yi, Ke, Chen, Lei, Yu, Jeffrey Xu, Lin, Xueming (2010) "Sliding-window top-k queries on uncertain streams", Very Large Database Journal, 19, 3, 411-435. Zou, Lei, Chen, Lei, Ozsu, Tamer (2009) "DistanceJoin: Pattern Match Query In a Large Graph Database", Very Large Database Conference, Lyon, France. Lian, Xiang, Chen, Lei (2009) "Efficient Similarity Join over Multiple Stream Time Series", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 21,11,1544-1558. Bu, Yingyi, Chen, Lei, Fu, Ada Wai-Chee, Liu, Dawei (2009) "Efficient anomaly monitoring over moving object trajectory streams", ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Paris, France.

Lin GU Assistant Professor ([email protected])

PhD, Virginia

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$253,400 01 Feb 2009 Distributed virtualizing operating system UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$117,000 02 Feb 2009

Representative Research Publications: Dong, Wei, Liu, Yunhao, Wu, Xiaofan, Gu, Lin, Chen, Chun (2010) "Elon: Enabling Efficient and Long-Term Reprogramming in Wireless Sensor Networks", The ACM SIGMETRICS 2010, ACM, New York, NY, USA, June 14-18, 2010. Xu, Xunteng, Gu, Lin, Wang, Jianping, Xing, Guoliang (2010) "Negotiate Power and Performance in the Reality of RFID Systems", The 8th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'10), IEEE, Mannheim, Germany. Chu, Rui, Gu, Lin, Liu, Yunhao, Li, Mo (2010) "Versatile stack management for multitasking sensor networks", The 30th Intl. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'10), Genoa, Italy, June 21-25, 2010. Gu, Lin, Cheung, Shing Chi (2009) "Constructing and testing privacy-aware services in a cloud computing environment - challenges and opportunties", The 1st Asia-Pacific Symp. on Internetware (Internetware'09), Beijing, China, October 17-18, 2009.

Sunghun KIM Assistant Professor (2358 6992 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz

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$220,560 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 Text glyph, text bicycle, and text splash: A visual analysis system for text documents International Business Machines Corporation HK$124,800 01 Aug 2009 Representative Research Publications: Chan, Wing-Yi, Qu, Huamin, Mak, Wai-Ho (2010) "Visualizing the Semantic Structure in Classical Music Works", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 16 (1), 161-173. Qu, Huamin, Wang, Haomian, Cui, Weiwei, Wu, Yingcai, Chan, Ming-Yuen (2009) "Focus+Context Route Zooming and Information Overlay in 3D Urban Environments", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 15 (6), 1547 - 1554. Wu, Yingcai, Chung, Ka Kei, Qu, Huamin, Yuan, Xiaoru, Cheung, Shing Chi (2009) "Interactive Visual Optimization and Analysis for RFID Benchmarking", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 15 (6), 1335-1342. Chan, Ming-Yuen, Wu, Yingcai, Mak, Wai-Ho, Chen, Wei, Qu, Huamin (2009) "Perception-Based Transparency Optimization for Direct Volume Rendering", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 15 (6), 1283-1290. 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.

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 Framebuffer Techniques for Fast, Approximate Pixel Shading RGC - General Research Fund HK$660,757 01 Jul 2009 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: Yang, Lei, Nehab, Diego, Sander, Pedro, Sitthi-amorn, Pitchaya, Lawrence, Jason, Hoppe, Hugues (2009) "Amortized Supersampling", ACM Transactions on Graphics, SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 issue. Article No. 135. He, Bingsheng, Yang, Ke, Fang, Rui, Lu, Mian, Novindaraju, Naga, Luo, Qiong, Sander, Pedro (2009) "Relational Query Co- Processing on Graphics Processors", ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Volume 34, Issue 4, December 2009. 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).. 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.

Raymond C W WONG Assistant Professor (2358 6982 ; [email protected])

PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong

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: Starting a New Service to Attract Customers in Spatial Databases RGC - General Research Fund HK$833,034 01 Jan 2010 Anonymization based attack in privacy preserving data publishing RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$220,560 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])

PhD, Duke

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: Pagh, Rasmus, Wei, Zhewei, Yi, Ke, Zhang, Qin (2010) "Cache-Oblivious Hashing", ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), June 2010. Yi, Ke, Zhang, Qin (2010) "On the Cell Probe Complexity of Dynamic Membership", ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), January 2010. Yi, Ke, Li, Feifei, Cormode, Graham, Hadjieleftheriou, Marious, Kollios, George, Srivastava, Divesh (2009) "Small Synopses for Group-By Query Verification on Outsourced Data Streams", ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 34(3), article 15, August 2009. 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. 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.

Charles C ZHANG Assistant Professor (2358 6997 ; [email protected])

PhD, Toronto

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 modular reasoning of concurrency in Java server systems RGC - General Research Fund HK$493,387 01 Jan 2010 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: Li, Wei, Zhang, Charles, Hu, Songlin (2010) "G-Finder: Routing programming questions closer to experts", OOPSLA 2010: the ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, Reno, USA, October 2010. Huang, Shaoming, Liu, Peng, Zhang, Charles C (2010) "LEAP: Lightweight deterministic multiprocessor replay for concurrent Java programs", FSE 2010: 18th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Santa Fe, USA, November 2010. 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.

Chang XU Research Assistant Professor (2358 6986 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Representative Research Publications: Lu, An, Fang, Wenbin, Xu, Chang, Cheung, Shing Chi, Liu, Yu (2010) "A Data-driven Testing Methodology on RFID Systems", Frontier of Computer Science in China, Vol. 4, No. 3, forthcoming. Xu, Chang, Cheung, Shing Chi, Chan, W.K., Ye, Chunyang (2010) "Partial Constraint Checking for Context Consistency in Pervasive Computing", ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Vol. 19, No. 3, Article 9. Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering

Ross D MURCH, Head of Department and Chair Professor

Khaled BEN LETAIEF, Chair Professor; Director, HK Telecom Institute of IT and Center for Wireless IT

Xiren CAO, Chair Professor

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; Associate Dean (Undergraduate Studies & Students Affairs)

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

Zhiyong FAN, Assistant Professor

Volkan KURSUN, Assistant Professor and Director - Nanoelectronic Circuits and Gigascale Systems Laboratory Emma MACPHERSON, Visiting Assistant Professor

Matthew R MCKAY, Assistant Professor

Daniel PALOMAR, Assistant Professor

Ling SHI, Assistant Professor

Kam Tim WOO, Visiting Assistant Professor

Jiang XU, Assistant Professor

Levent YOBAS, Assistant Professor

Weichuan YU, Assistant Professor

Jie (George) YUAN, Assistant Professor

Pengcheng SHI, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Peng CHEN, Research Assistant Professor Ross D MURCH Head of Department and Chair 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 Novel Duplexing Methods for Wireless Communication RGC - General Research Fund HK$719,345 01 Jan 2010 Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna design for meeting the needs of modern wireless communication systems Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$991,156 01 Dec 2009

Representative Research Publications: Peng, Li, Murch, Ross D (2010) "Multiple Output Selection-LAS Algorithm in Large MIMO Systems", IEEE Communications Letters, Vol 14, No 5, pp399-401, May 2010. 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, pp767-670, Vol 8, December 2009. 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. 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. Weng, Lingfan, Murch, Ross D. (2008) "Achievable Diversity-Multiplexing-Delay Tradeoff for ARQ Cooperative Broadcast Channels", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, (Special Issue on Cooperative Communications), Vol 7, No 5, Part 2, pp. 1828-1832.

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: Location Aware Dynamic Spectrum Sharing for Cognitive Wireless Networks RGC - General Research Fund HK$719,345 01 Jan 2010 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 Set-up fund for theme-based research UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$1,101,000 17 May 2010 Electronics, wireless and information technology UGC - Strategic Initiatives HK$8,100,000 05 May 2008

Representative Research Publications: 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. Zhang, Jingyao, Ben Letaief, Khaled, Fan, Pingyi (2008) "A distributed product coding approach for robust network coding", in Proc. IEEE ICC, Beijing, China, May 19-23, 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: Event-Based Optimization for Continuous-Time Markov Systems RGC - General Research Fund HK$358,660 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Zhang, Junyu, Cao, Xiren (2010) "Continuous-Time Markov Decision Processes with nth-Bias Optimality Criteria", Automatica, Vol. 45, 1628-1638, 2009. Cao, Xiren, Li, Yanjie (2010) "On-Line Policy Gradient Estimation with Multi-Step Sampling", Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, to appear. Xu, Yan-Kai, Cao, Xiren (2010) "Optimal Control with Lebesgue Sampling and Time Aggregation", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, to appear. Xia, Li, Chen, Xi, Cao, Xiren (2010) "Policy Iteration of Customer-Average Performance in Queueing Systems", Automatica, Vol. 45, 1639-1648, 2009. Cao, Xiren (2010) "Stochastic Learning and Optimization - A Sensitivity-Based Approach", (IFAC) Annual Review in Control, invited review , Vol. 33, 11-24, 2009. Cao, Xiren (2009) "A New Model of Continuous-Time Markov Processes and Singular Stochastic Control", the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, submitted, 2009. Cao, Xiren (2009) "Stochastic Control of Continuous-Time and Continuous-State Systems via Direct Comparison", the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, submitted, 2009. Zhang, Junyu, Cao, Xi-Ren (2009) "Continuous-Time Markov Decision Processes with nth-Bias Optimality Criteria", Automatica.

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

Representative Research Publications: Zhao, S., Meng, Z., Kwok, Hoi Sing (2010) "Metal Induced Continuous Zonal Domain Polycrystalline Thin Film Transistors and Its Application on Field Sequential Color Liquid Crystal Display", IEEE Journal of Display Technology, vol 6, pp 135-120, 2010. Chen, Shuming, Zhao, Zujin, Tang, Benzhong, Kwok, Hoi Sing (2010) "Non-doped white organic light-emitting diodes based on aggregation-induced emission", J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., Vol 43 pp 095101, 2010. Du, Tao, Yao, Lishuang, Chigrinov, Vladimir, Kwok, Hoi Sing (2010) "Single-cell-gap transflective liquid-crystal display and the use of photoalignment Technology", Journal of Society for Information Display, vol 18, pp. 391-396, 2010. Li, Y.W., Kwok, Hoi Sing (2009) "Bistable twisted-bend and twisted-nematic liquid crystal display", Applied Physics Letters, vol 95, 181107, 2009. Li, Y.W., Lee, C.Y., Kwok, Hoi Sing (2009) "Liquid crystal dynamic flow control by bidirectional alignment surface", Applied Physics Letters, vol 94, pp 061111, 2009. Hegde, G., Kozenkov, V.M., Chigrinov, Vladimir, Kwok, Hoi Sing (2009) "Photoisomerization in Photoaligned Azo Dyes Exhibiting Photostability", Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol. 507, pp. 41-50, 2009. Yaroshchuk, O., Kyrychenko, V., Du, Tao, Chigrinov, Vladimir, Kwok, Hoi Sing, Hasebe, H., Takatsu, H. (2009) "Stabilization of liquid crystal photoaligning layers by reactive mesogens", Applied Physics Letters, vol 95, 021902, 2009. Tam, M.C., Su, H.M., Wong, K.S., Zhu, X.L., Kwok, Hoi Sing (2009) "Surface-plasmon-enhanced photoluminescence from metal- capped Alq3 thin Films", Applied Physics Letters, vol 95, 051503, 2009.

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 High Performance III-V FETs on Si Substrates by MOCVD for III-V-IV Integration RGC - General Research Fund HK$2,159,700 01 Jan 2010 Integrated III-nitride transistors and microsensors RGC - Collaborative Research Fund HK$4,900,000 30 Jun 2008 High-speed III-V transistors on a silicon platform Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Ltd. & Industries HK$14,885,970 23 Nov 2009

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. 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 Theory, modeling, and simulation of emerging electronics UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$828,000 01 Jan 2010 Design and applications of high precision AD converter IC - High precision intelligent lithium battery power management integrated circuit design and development Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$373,750 03 Feb 2010 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; Associate Dean (Undergraduate Studies & Students Affairs) (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; Cooperative Communication; Multiuser MIMO OFDM systems; Resource Allocation; information theory and coding; digital VLSI implementation of communication algorithm.

Representative Research Publications: Zhang, Yuxian, Cheng, Roger S K, Yang, Yin (2010) "Optimal Relay Selection and Beamforming Strategy in Cooperative Systems with Limited Feedback and Asymptotically Large Number of Relays", IEEE International Conference on Communications, Cape Town, South Africa, 23-27 May 2010. Yang, Liancheng, Cheng, Roger S K, Yang, Yin (2010) "Power Optimization Based on ACK/NAK Feedback in Two-Phase Cooperative Relay Networks", IEEE International Conference on Communications, Cape Town, South Africa, 23-27 May 2010. Ho, Z. Ka Ming, Lau, Vincent K N, Cheng, Roger S K (2009) "Cross-Layer design of FDD-OFDM systems based on ACK/NAK feedbacks", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, pp. 4568 - 4584, Oct 2009. 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 noise 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.

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: Novel Photoaligned Fast Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Display and Photonics Devices RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,163,800 01 Sep 2010 Novel Photoaligned Optically Rewritable Liquid Crystal Displays and Photonics Devices RGC - General Research Fund HK$802,700 01 Sep 2009

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", 22nd Intern. 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 Silicon Photonic Network-on-Chip (NoC) Architectures RGC - General Research Fund HK$800,400 01 Jan 2010

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 Geometric Synthesis and Dynamic Design of Quotient Kinematics Machines (QKMs) RGC - General Research Fund HK$829,150 01 Oct 2009

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 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland experiments", , 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 of 60-GHz CMOS Wide-Tuning-Range Oscillator and Wide-Locking-Range Frequency Divider RGC - General Research Fund HK$779,700 01 Jan 2010 CMOS transmitter front-end for software-defined radios Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$1,408,314 01 Jan 2010

Representative Research Publications: Yin, Jun, Yi, Jun, Law, Man Kay, Ling, Yunxiao, Lee, Patrick, Ng, Kwok Ping, Gao, Bo, Luong, Howard C, Bermak, Amine, Chan, Mansun, Ki, Wing Hung, Tsui, Chi Ying, Yuen, Matthew M F (2010) "A System-on-Chip EPC Gen-2 Passive UHF RFID Tag with Embedded Temperature Sensor", IEEE International Solid-State Circuit Conference, San Francisco, USA, February 2010. 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. 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. 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. 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. Ng, Alan, Luong, Howard (2007) "A 1V 17GHz 5mW Quardrature CMOS VCO Using Transformer Coupling", IEEE Journal of Solid- State Circuits (JSSC), September 2007. Zheng, Hui, Ng, Wing Lun, Luong, Howard (2007) "A 1.5V 9-Band CMOS Synthesizer for MB-OFDM UWB Transceivers", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC). Ng, Alan, Leung, Gerry, Kwok, Ka-Chun, Leung, Lincoln, Luong, Howard (2006) "A 1-V 24-GHz 17.5-mW Phase-Locked Loop in a 0.18-um CMOS Process", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC).

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 A sensitivity-based approach to stochastic and singular stochastic control RGC - General Research Fund HK$759,000 01 Jul 2009 Measures of Instability RGC - General Research Fund HK$491,820 01 Jan 2009 Multivariable networked control RGC - General Research Fund HK$569,167 01 Jan 2010

Representative Research Publications: Ding, F., Qiu, Li, Chen, T. (2009) "Reconstruction of continuous-time systems from their non-uniformly sampled discrete-time systems", Automatica, vol. 45, pp.324-332. Gan, W.C., Qiu, Li (2008) "An adaptive sinusoidal disturbance rejection controller for single-input-single-output systems", 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea. Chen, J., Hara, Shinji, Qiu, Li, Middleton, R. (2008) "Best achievable tracking performance in sampled-data systems via LTI controllers", IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol. 53, pp. 2467-2479. Gu, G., Qiu, Li (2008) "Networked stabilization of multi-input systems with channel resource allocation", 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea. Gu, G., Qiu, Li (2008) "Stabilization of networked multi-input systems with channel resource allocation", 10th Int'l conference on Control, Automation, Robotics, and Vision, Hanoi, Vietnam. Su, Weizhou, Petersen, I.R., Qiu, Li (2008) "Tracking performance limitations in a linear feedback system with remote sensors", 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea. 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.

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 Nonlinear Optical Imaging of Super-resolution for Future Discovery in Neuroscience UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$660,000 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Wu, Tao, Cheung, Tak-Hong, Yim, So-Fan, Qu, Jianan (2010) "Clinical study of quantitative diagnosis of early cervical cancer based on the classification of acetowhitening kinetics", Journal of Biomedical Optics, V.15, 026001. Zheng, Wei, Li, Dong, Qu, Jianan (2010) "Monitoring changes of cellular metabolism and micro-viscosity in vitro based on time- resolved endogenous fluorescence and its anisotropy decay dynamics", Journal of Biomedical Optics, V.15, 037013. Li, Dong, Zheng, Wei, Qu, Jianan (2009) "Imaging of epithelial tissue in vivo based on excitation of multiple endogenous nonlinear optical signals", Optics Letters, V.34, 2853-2855. 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.

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: Robust face detection using multiple cues Germany / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$29,600 01 Jan 2010

Representative Research Publications: Wang, Y.W., Shi, Bertram E (2010) "Autonomous Development of Vergence Control Driven by Disparity Energy Neuron Populations", Neural Computation, vol. 22, pp. 730-751, 2010. Wang, X.X., Shi, Bertram E (2010) "GPU Implementation of Fast Gabor Filters", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Paris, France, May 2010 (winner of Best Paper Award for Neural Systems and Applications track). Peng, Qiuyan, Shi, Bertram E (2010) "The Changing Disparity Energy Model", Vision Research, vol. 50, no., 2, pp. 181-192, 25 Jan. 2010. Tsang, E.K.C., Shi, Bertram E (2009) "Disparity Estimation by Pooling Evidence from Energy Neurons", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 20, no. 11, Nov. 2009. Meng, Y., Shi, Bertram E (2009) "Extending Phase Mechanism to Differential Motion Opponency for Motion Pop-out", Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Dec. 2009. Wang, Y., Wu, T., Orchard, G., Dudek, P., Rucci, M., Shi, Bertram E (2009) "Hebbian Learning of Visually Directed Reaching by a Robot Arm", IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Beijing, China, Nov. 2009. Gao, M.Q., Shi, Bertram E (2009) "Learning Mobile Robot Control for Obstacle Avoidance Based on Motion Energy Neurons", Asian Control Conference, Hong Kong, Aug. 2009. Jiang, Feijun, Shi, Bertram E (2009) "The Memristive Grid Outperforms the Resistive Grid for Edge Preserving Smoothing", European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, Antalya, Turkey, Aug. 2009.

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 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

Representative Research Publications: Ng, Jacky C.W., Sin, J.K.O., Sumida, H., Toyoda, Y., Ohi, A., Tanaka, H., Nishimura, T., Ueno, K. (2010) "A Novel Low-Voltage Trench Power MOSFET with Improved Avalanche Capability", Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices & ICs, Hiroshima, Japan, pp. 201-204, June 2010. Ng, Jacky C.W., Sin, J.K.O. (2009) "A Low Voltage Planar Power MOSFET with a Segmented JFET Region", IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, Vol. 56, No. 8, pp. 1761-1766, Aug. 2009. Sun, Jingmeng, Jiang, Frank X.C., Guan, Lingpeng, Xiong, Zhibin, Yan, Guizhen, Sin, J.K.O. (2009) "A New Isolation Technology for Automotive Power Integrated Circuit Applications", IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, Vol. 56, No. 9, pp. 2144-2149, Sept. 2009. Hu, D., Sin, J.K.O., Wu, Y., Kang, B.W., Jia, Y. (2009) "Modeling of Internal Transparent Collector IGBTs and the Extraction of Electron Lifetime in Nano-voids Layers", The 2009 IEEE Engergy Conversion Congress and Exposition, Session S10-6b: Power Semiconductors and ICs, San Jose, USA, Sept. 2009. 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.

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.

Representative Research Publications: Zhao, Q. L., Tsang, Danny H K, Sakurai, T. (2010) "A Novel CAC Scheme for Homogeneous 802.11 Networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Luan, T. H., Shen, X., Tsang, Danny H K (2010) "BitTorrent under a Microscope: Towards Static QoS Provision in Dynamic Peer-to- Peer Networks", IWQoS 2010, Beijing, June 2010. Ma, M., Tsang, Danny H K (2010) "Cross-Layer Throughput Optimization in Cognitive Radio Networks with SINR Constraints", International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, Special issue on Spectrum Sharing and Sensing for Future Broadband Networks: The Cognitive Radio Technology. Wu, Y., Tsang, Danny H K (2010) "Joint Bandwidth and Power Allocations for Cognitive Radio Networks with Imperfect Spectrum Sensing", Springer Wireless Personal Communications. Li, Z., Tsang, Danny H K, Lee, W. C. (2010) "Understanding Sub-stream Scheduling in P2P Hybrid Live Streaming Systems", IEEE INFOCOM Mini Conference, San Diego, USA, March 2010. Zhao, Q. L., Tsang, Danny H K, Sakurai, T. (2009) "A Simple and Approximate Model for Nonsaturated IEEE 802.11 DCF", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 8, No. 11, pp.1539-1553. Kong, L., Wong, G.K W., Tsang, Danny H K (2009) "Performance Study and System Optimization on Sleep Mode Operation in IEEE 802.16e", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 8, No. 9, pp. 4518-4528. Wong, G.K W., Zhang, Qian, Tsang, Danny H K (2009) "Switching Cost Minimization in the IEEE 802.16e Mobile WiMAX Sleep Mode Operation", Special issue of Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC) Journal.

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: The physics and technology of micro-fabricated acoustic transducers Consulate General of France in Hong Kong HK$147,200 01 Sep 2010

Representative Research Publications: Ye, Zhi, Chow, Thomas, Zhang, Dongli, Wong, Man (2010) "A Simple Technology for Realizing Self-Aligned Zinc Oxide Thin-Film Transistors", Society for Information Display International Symposium, Seattle, Washington, USA. May/23-28/2010. pp.1139-1142. Chow, Thomas, Wong, Man (2009) "An Analytical Expression for the Transfer Characteristics of a Polycrystalline Silicon Thin-Film Transistor with an Undoped Channel", The IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 56(7), pp.1493-1498. Chow, Thomas, Wong, Man (2009) "An Analytical Model for the Transfer Characteristics of a Polycrystalline Silicon Thin-Film Transistor with a Double Exponential Grain-Boundary Trap-State Energy Dispersion", The IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 30(10), pp.1072-1074. 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. 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$7,238,280 01 Apr 2009

Representative Research Publications: Yu, Zhiding, Au, Oscar C L, Zou, Ruobing, Yu, Weiyu, Tian, Jing (2010) "An Adaptive Unsupervised Scheme for Pixel Clustering and Color Image Pre-Segmentation", Elsevier Journal of Pattern Recognition, Vol 43, No. 5, May 2010. Guo, Liwei, Au, Oscar C L, Ma, Mengyao, Wong, Peter H.W. (2010) "Integration of Recursive Temporal LMMSE Denoising Filtering for Video Codec", IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 20, No. 2, Feb. 2010. Fang, Lu, Au, Oscar C L, Wen, Xing, Yang, Yi (2010) "Subpixel-based Image Down-sampling with Min-Max Directional Error for Stripe Display", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, accepted in Jun 2010. Fan, Xiaopeng, Au, Oscar C L, Cheung, Ngai Man, Chen, Yan, Zhou, Jiantao (2010) "Successive Refinement based Wyner- Ziv Video Compression", Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 25, No. 1, Jan 2010. Fan, Xiaopeng, Au, Oscar C L, Cheung, Ngai Man, Zhou, Jiantao, Hou, Ling (2010) "Transform-domain Adaptive Correlation Estimation (TRACE) for General Wyner-Ziv Video Coding", IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, accepted in May 2010. Cheung, Ngai Man, Fan, Xiaopeng, Au, Oscar C L, Kung, M. C. (2010) "Video Coding and Transcoding on Multi-Core Graphics Processors", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special issue on Signal Processing on Platforms with Multiple Cores: Part 2 -- Design and Applications, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 77-87, Mar. 2010. Ma, Mengyao, Au, Oscar C L, Chan, Gary S H, Sun, Ming Ting (2009) "Edge-Directed Error Concealment", IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, accepted in Aug. 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 Technology, Vol. 19, No. 10, Oct. 2009.

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: Compressive-acquisition CMOS Image Sensors RGC - General Research Fund HK$831,606 01 Jul 2009 A high-end polarimetric image sensor for next generation imaging systems RGC - General Research Fund HK$755,982 01 Oct 2008 Information-based vision sensor network with energy harvesting capabilities National Engineering & Scientific Commission HK$368,362 01 Sep 2010 An Integrated Biologically-inspired Electronic Nose Microsystem UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$431,400 30 Jun 2010 Representative Research Publications: Yun, J., Yi, J., Law, Man Kay, Ling, Yunxiao, Lee, Ming Chak, Ng, K. P., Luong, Howard C, Bermak, Amine (2010) "A System-on-Chip EPC Gen-2 Passive UHF RFID Tag with Embedded Temperature Sensor", IEEE Solid State Circuit Conference ISSCC 2010, San Francisco, pp.308-309, February 2010. Zhang, Milin, Bermak, Amine (2010) "Compressive Acquisition CMOS Image Sensor --From Algorithmic Solution to Hardware Implementation", IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, Vol. 18, Issue 3, pp.490-500, March 2010. Law, Man Kay, Bermak, Amine (2009) "A 405nW CMOS Temperature Sensor based on Linear MOS Operation", IEEE Transactions Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II), pp. 891 - 895, Dec. 2009. Shi, C., Law, Man Kay, Bermak, Amine (2009) "A CMOS image sensor with reconfigurable resolution for energy harvesting applications", IEEE Sensor Conference, pp. 197-200, Oct. 2009. Zhao, Xiaojin, Bermak, Amine, Boussaid, F., Yao, Lishuang, Chigrinov, Vladimir (2009) "A High-Resolution Micro-Circular- Polarization-Analyzer Array for Real-Time Active Circular Polarization Imaging", IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Beijing, 2009. Li, X., Zhang, Milin, Wang, Z., Bermak, Amine (2009) "A Smart Image Sensor Integrating Low Complexity Image Processing for Wireless Endoscope Capsule", Tsinghua Science and Technology Journal, Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 586-592, October 2009. Zhao, Xiaojin, Bermak, Amine, Boussaid, F., Du, Tao, Chigrinov, Vladimir (2009) "High-resolution photo-aligned liquid-crystal micropolarizer array for polarization imaging in visible spectrum", Optics Letters, vol. 34, issue 23, pp. 3619-3621, Dec. 2009. Zhao, Xiaojin, Bermak, Amine, Boussaid, F., Chigrinov, Vladimir (2009) "Thin PhotoPatterned Micropolarizer Array for CMOS Image Sensors", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 21, no. 12, pp. 805-807, 2009.

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 Development of High-Efficiency Compact Switch-Mode AC/DC and DC/DC Power Converters Using GaN-on-Si Technologies RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,750,070 01 Jan 2010 GaN smart power IC technologies for high-efficiency power and energy management Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$2,804,750 01 Dec 2009

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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: 3G Automobile infotainment system with voice interface Automotive Parts and Accessory Systems R&D Centre Ltd. & Industries HK$3,940,600 01 Nov 2009 Smart meetings: Automatic meeting transcription & summarization Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$1,199,450 01 Oct 2009 Center for Joint Research & Education Coorporation UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$450,000 01 Feb 2010

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: Wong, C H, Huang, Ho-chi, Ho, Y Y (2009) "A 0.38-in. LCoS Backplane for Color-Sequential and Color-Filter Projector Applications", 2009 SID Int'l Symposium, Digest of Technical Papers, San Antonio, May 2009. Huang, Ho-chi, Jong, M, Lam, C K (2009) "Power Considerations of Color-Filter LCOS, Embedded Pico-Projector, Electronic Architectures for Mobile Phones", 2009 SID Int'l Symposium, Digest of Technical Papers, San Antonio, May 2009. Huang, Ho-chi, Wong, C H, Ho, Y Y, Lai, J (2008) "Color-filter LCOS microdisplay with space dithering for virtual resolution improvement", 2008 International Display Workshop (IDW 08),Digest of Technical Paper, Niigata, Japan, December 2008, pp. 199-202. 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: Lam, Yat-Hei, Ki, Wing-Hung (2010) "CMOS bandgap references with self-biased symmetrically matched current-voltage mirror and extension of sub-1V design", IEEE Trans. on VLSI Syst., Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 857-865, June 2010. Zhan, Chenchang, Ki, Wing-Hung (2010) "Output-capacitor-free adaptively biased low-dropout regulator for system-on-chips", IEEE Trans. on Circ. and Syst., Part I, Vol. 57, No. 5, pp. 1017-1028, May 2010. 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. 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. 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. Ma, Dongsheng, Ki, Wing-Hung, Tsui, Chi-Ying (2003) "A pseudo-CCM/DCM SIMO switching converter with freewheel switching", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 1007-1014.

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 Distributive Resource Allocation for Delay-Sensitive Cooperative Relay Network RGC - General Research Fund HK$998,200 01 Jan 2010 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 Design and implementation of cooperative MIMO and interference alignment for 4G IMT-advanced wireless systems Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$5,271,300 01 May 2010 Ultra-wideband wireless communications for multimedia applications UGC - High Impact Area HK$1,550,000 16 Sep 2004 Cross-layer optimization for next-generation WiFi systems Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$1,040,150 01 Oct 2009 Power management for WiMAX systems Shenzhen Science, Industry, Trade and Information Technology Commission HK$28,035 01 Jul 2009

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 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: Ho, Ngai Yeung, Mok, Philip K T (2010) "A Capacitor-less CMOS Active Feedback Low Dropout Regulator with Slew-Rate Enhancement for Portable On-Chip Application", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - II, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 80-84, Feb 2010. Wu, Ying, Mok, Philip K T (2010) "A Two-Phase Switching Hybrid Supply Modulator for Polar Transmitters with 9 0.000000E+00fficiency Improvement", IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA, pp. 196-197, Feb 2010. 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. 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. Leung, Ka Nang, Lo, Chun Hong, Mok, Philip K.T., Mai, Yuan, Leung, Wing Yan, Chan, Mansun (2007) "Temperature- compensated CMOS ring oscillator for power-management circuits", Electronics Letters, Vol. 43, Issue 15, pp. 787-789, 19 July 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: Institute of network coding UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$458,850 01 Aug 2010 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: Gan, Ying Hung, Ling, Cong, Mow, Wai Ho (2009) "Complex Lattice Reduction Algorithm for Low-Complexity MIMO Detection", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol.57, No.7, July 2009, pp.2701-2710. Ling, Cong, Mow, Wai Ho, Gan, Lu (2009) "Dual-Basis Ordering and Partial Lattice Reduction for MIMO Detection", IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol.3, No.6, December 2009, pp. 975-985. 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. 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: Coupled-microresonator array sensors using inter-state transition-based pixelized spatial detection RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,271,854 01 Jul 2010 Optical manipulation of microparticles using integrated microphotonic devices on a silicon chip RGC - General Research Fund HK$489,749 16 Sep 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: Shao, Hui, Tsui, Chi Ying, Ki, Wing Hung (2009) "The Design of a Micro Power Management System for Applications using Photovoltaic Cells with the Maximum Output Power Control", IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Vol. 17 No. 8, August 2009, pp. 1138- 1142. 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. 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 VLSI Circuit Symposium, Kyoto, Japan, June 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. 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.

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: GPS and wireless positioning research Crown Fortune (Hong Kong) Ltd. HK$110,000 08 Mar 2010 Representative Research Publications: Jiang, Hai, Zhai, Haibin, Wong, Albert K S, Li, Jun, Sun, Yi, Li, Zhongcheng (2010) "Application-layer Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for Service Differentiation in Hybrid Content Distribution Network", IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Riccione, Italy, June 22-25. Zhang, Victoria Ying, Wong, Albert K S (2010) "Closed-form Solution for Joint Localization and Time Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Cape Town, South Africa, May 24-27. Jiang, Hai, Wong, Albert K S, Luk, Vincent W.H., Duan, Xiyu, Li, Jun, Ma, Cheguang (2010) "Enhanced Floor Control Protocol for PoC Application in Data Packet Voice Communication", IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Riccione, Italy, June 22-25. Ouyang, Wentao, Wong, Albert K S, Woo, Kam Tim (2010) "GPS Localization Accuracy Improvement by Fusing Terrestrial TOA Measurements", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Cape Town, South Africa, May 24-27. Zhang, Victoria Ying, Wong, Albert K S, Woo, Kam Tim (2010) "Hybrid TOA/AOA-based Mobile Localization With and Without Tracking in CDMA Cellular Networks", IEEE Wireless Networks and Communications Conference (WCNC), Sydney, Australia, April 18-21, 2010. Huang, Caishi, Lea, Chin-Tau, Wong, Albert K S (2010) "Rate matching: a new approach to hidden terminal problem in ad hoc networks", Wireless Networks, 1 April 2010. Ouyang, Wentao, Wong, Albert K S, Lea, Chin-Tau (2010) "Received Signal Strength-Based Wireless Localization via Semidefinite Programming", IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 59, No. 3. (March 2010), pp. 1307-1318. Zhang, Victoria Ying, Wong, Albert K S (2010) "Simultaneous Localization and Time Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks via Semidefinite Programming", IEEE Wireless Networks and Communications Conference (WCNC), Sydney, Australia, April 18-21, 2010.

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: Au Yeung, Siu Kei, Zhu, Shuyuan, Zeng, Bing (2009) "Partial video encryption based on alternating transforms", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 16, no. 10, pp. 893-896. Zhu, Shuyuan, Au Yeung, Siu Kei, Zeng, Bing (2009) "R-D performance upper bound of transform coding for 2-D directional sources", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 16, no. 10, pp. 861-864. 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.

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.

Zhiyong FAN Assistant Professor (2358 8027 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Irvine

Current Research Activities: Nanomaterial and device innovation for electronics, sensing and energy harvesting.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Nanostructure enhanced low cost photovoltaics RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$200,000 30 Jun 2010

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$253,400 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. 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.

Emma MACPHERSON Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 5034 ; [email protected])

PhD, Cambridge

Current Research Activities: Terahertz Imaging and Spectroscopy of biomedical materials such as skin, breast cancer, water and teeth. Finite Difference Time Domain modeling (FDTD) to simulate interactions of terahertz light with biological materials.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Development of a new hand held terahetz probe for medical applications RGC - General Research Fund HK$336,499 01 Jan 2010 Terahertz imaging probe design RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$195,800 02 Jan 2010 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 MIMO Relaying for Enhanced Wireless Communications RGC - General Research Fund HK$600,300 01 Jan 2010 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 Cognitive Radio Wireless Systems: From Conservative To Flexible Designs via Variational Inequalities RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,065,418 01 Jan 2010 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

Representative Research Publications: Scutari, Gesualdo, Palomar, Daniel, Facchinei, Francisco, Pang, Jong-Shi (2010) "Convex Optimization, Game Theory, and Variational Inequality Theory", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 35-49, May 2010. Pang, Jong-Shi, Scutari, Gesualdo, Palomar, Daniel, Facchinei, Francisco (2010) "Design of Cognitive Radio Systems Under Temperature-Interference Constraints: A Variational Inequality Approach", IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 58, no. 6, pp. 3251-3271, June 2010. Payaro, Miquel, Palomar, Daniel (2009) "Hessian and Concavity of Mutual Information, Differential Entropy, and Entropy Power in Linear Vector Gaussian Channels", IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, vol. 55, no. 8, pp. 3613-3628, Aug. 2009. 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) "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. Palomar, Daniel, Jiang, Yi (2007) MIMO Transceiver Design via Majorization Theory, Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory, Now Publishers, 2006.

Ling SHI Assistant Professor (2358 7055 ; [email protected])

PhD, California Institute of Technology

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$220,560 01 Jan 2009 Networked control system laboratory UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$117,000 02 Feb 2009

Representative Research Publications: Shi, Ling, Epstein, Michael, Murray, Richard (2010) "Kalman Filtering Over A Packet-dropping Network: A Probabilistic Perspective", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 55, Number 9, Pages 594-604. Shi, Ling, Capponi, Agostino, Johansson, Karl, Murray, Richard (2010) "Resource Optimization in a Wireless Sensor Network with Guaranteed Estimator Performance", IET Control Theory and Applications, Volume 4, Issue 5, Pages 710-723. Shi, Ling, Yuan, Ye, Chen, Z. Q. Michael (2010) "State Estimation Over a Communication Network: Measurement or Estimate Communication", Journal of Control Theory and Applications, Volume 8, Number 1, Pages 20-26. Yuan, Ye, Stan, Guy-Bart, Shi, Ling, Gonçlve, Jorge (2009) "Decentralized final value theorem for discrete-time LTI systems with application to minimal time distributed consensus", 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and 28th Chinese Control Conference, Dec 2009, China. Shi, Ling, Xie, Lihua, Murray, Richard (2009) "Kalman Filtering Over A Packet-delaying Network: A Probabilistic Approach", Automatica, Volume 45, Issue 9, Pages 2134-2140. Shi, Ling (2009) "Kalman Filtering over Graphs: Theory and Applications", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 54, Number 9, Pages 2230-2234. Mo, Yilin, Shi, Ling, Ambrosino, Roberto, Sinopoli, Bruno (2009) "Network Lifetime Maximization via Sensor Selection", 7th Asian Control Conference, Aug 2009, Hong Kong. Shi, Ling, Qiu, Li (2009) "State Estimation Over a Network: Packet-dropping Analysis and Design", 7th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Dec 2009, Christchurch, New Zealand.

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: 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: Mo, Kun Wang, Ye, Yaoyao, Wu, Xiaowen, Zhang, Wei, Liu, Weichen, Xu, Jiang (2010) "A Hierarchical Hybrid Optical- Electronic Network-on-Chip", IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI. Xie, Yiyuan, Nikdast, Mahdi, Xu, Jiang, Zhang, Wei, Li, Qi, Wu, Xiaowen, Ye, Yaoyao, Liu, Weichen, Wang, Xuan (2010) "Crosstalk Noise and Bit Error Rate Analysis for Optical Network-on-Chip", Design Automation Conference. Wu, Xiaowen, Ye, Yaoyao, Zhang, Wei, Liu, Weichen, Nikdast, Mahdi, Wang, Xuan, Xu, Jiang (2010) "UNION: A Unified Inter/Intra-Chip Optical Network for Chip Multiprocessors", IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures. Wang, Yu, Xu, Jiang, Huang, Shengxi, Liu, Weichen, Yang, Huazhong (2009) "A Case Study of On-Chip Sensor Network in Multiprocessor System-on-Chip", International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems. Gu, Huaxi, Xu, Jiang, Zhang, Wei (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. Xu, Jiang, Wolf, Wayne, Zhang, Wei (2009) "Double-Data-Rate, Wave-Pipelined Interconnect for Asynchronous NoCs", IEEE Micro. Liu, Weichen, Gu, Zonghua, Xu, Jiang (2009) "Efficient Software Synthesis for Dynamic Single Appearance Scheduling of Synchronous Dataflow Graphs", IEEE Embedded Systems Letters. 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.

Levent YOBAS Assistant Professor (2358 7068 ; [email protected])

PhD, Case Western Reserve University

Current Research Activities: BioMEMS, Bioelectronics, Bio-Micro(nano)fluidics, Biosensors, Biomedical Microdevices, Lab on a Chip, Silicon-Neuron Interfaces, Neuroprosthetics

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Single-cell microsystem for drug discovery RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$186,800 30 Jun 2010

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 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 Temporal Proteomic Profiling and Cancer Biomarker Discovery UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$298,000 30 Jun 2010

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 (George) YUAN Assistant Professor (2358 8029 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ece.ust.hk/~eeyuan)

PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Current Research Activities: mixed-signal/analog IC, CMOS imaging sensors, analog-to-digital converters, bio-medical analog front-end, IC 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 2010 High-performance CMOS imaging sensor design for 2D micro-CT detector Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$936,382 01 Sep 2009 Single-chip analog front-end integrated circuit development for the next-generation hand-held medical ultrasound device with SD beamforming Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$1,099,350 01 Mar 2010 Ultra-low Power Intra-Body Data Transceiver for Implantable Bio-Medical Micro-systems UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$450,000 30 Jun 2008 A Highly-Sensitive High-Speed Optical and Electro-chemical Platform for Dopamine-mediated Synaptic Plasticity Study UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$298,000 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Yuan, Jie, Chan, Ho Yeung (2010) "Power analysis and design of wide dynamic range CMOS imaging sensors", Microelectronics Journal, accepted. Yuan, Jie, Tsang, Kaleong (2010) "The Design and Optimization Methodology of A Low-Distortion sub-uW Sample-and-Hold Stage for Weak Bio-Currents", Microelectronics Journal, Vol. 41, pp. 121-128. Yuan, Jie, Chan, Ho Yeung, Fung, Sheung Wai, Liu, Bing (2009) "An Activity-Triggered 95.3dB DR -75.6dB THD CMOS Imaging Sensor with Digital Calibration", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 44, pp. 2834-2843. 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.

Peng CHEN Research Assistant Professor (2358 5033 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, San Diego

Current Research Activities: Microelectronic and Nanoelectronic materials, devices, and fabrications; Integrations of heterogeneous semiconductor materials through wafer bonding and layer transfer technologies; Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI); Si photonics. Representative Research Publications: Chen, Peng, Chen, Winnie V., Yu, Paul K.L., Tang, Chak Wah, Lau, Kei May, Mawst, Luke, Paulson, Charles, 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", Applied Physics Letters, 94, 012101. Dept of Industrial Engg & Logistics Management

Fugee Tsung, 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

Jiheng ZHANG, Assistant Professor Fugee Tsung 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 Adaptive statistical process control schemes for dynamic process monitoring RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$70,125 01 Jan 2006 Towards Quality Healthcare Operations Management Systems From Effective Surveillance to Emergency Response UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$298,000 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Li, Yanting, Tsung, Fugee (2009) "False Discovery Rate-Adjusted Charting Schemes For Multistage Process Fault Diagnosis and Isolation", Technometrics, 51, 186-205, 2009. Zou, Changliang, Tsung, Fugee, Wang, Z. (2009) "Monitoring Profiles Based on Nonparametric Regression Methods", Technometrics, 50, 512-526, 2009. Wang, H., Tsung, Fugee (2009) "Tolerance Intervals with Improved Confidence Levels for Binomial and Poisson Variables", Technometrics, 51, 25-33, 2009. 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. Representative Research Publications: Ou, J. X., Lee, Chung-Yee, Qi, Xiangtong (2010) "Inbound Logistics Scheduling for Milk Runs with Limited Unloading Capacity", Journal of Scheduling, Vol. 13, pp. 213-26. Xiao, Y., Chen, J., Lee, Chung-Yee (2010) "Optimal Decisions for Assemble-to-Order Systems with Uncertain Assembly Capacity", International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 123, pp.155-165. Xiao, Y., Chen, J., Lee, Chung-Yee (2010) "Single-Period Two-Product Assemble-to-Order Systems with a Common Component and Uncertain Demand Patterns", Production and Operations Management, Vol. 19, pp.216-232. Zhang, J.-L., Lee, Chung-Yee, Chen, J. (2009) "Inventory control problem with freight cost and stochastic demand", Operations Research Letters, Vol. 37, pp. 443-446. Lee, Chung-Yee, Qi, Xiangtong (2009) "Vehicle Scheduling with Combinable Delivery and Pickup Operations", Operations Research Letters, Vol. 37, pp. 399-404. 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.

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 An investigation of recommendation approach for custom product specification RGC - General Research Fund HK$611,691 01 Jan 2010

Representative Research Publications: Tseng, Mitchell, Wang, Chenjie, Jiaob, R. J. (2010) "Design for Mass Personalization", CIRP Annals-Manufacturing Technology, Volume 59/1, pp. 175-178. Wang, Wenyuan, Tseng, Mitchell (2010) "Economic Analysis of Product End-of-life Strategies to Achieve Design for Sustainable Manufacturing", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Responsive Manufacturing - Green Manufacturing ICRM2010, Ningbo, China, pp. 268-272, 11-13 January 2010. Piller, Frank T., Tseng, Mitchell (2010) Handbook of Research in Mass Customization and Personalization: Application and Cases, World Scientific Publishing Company, Vol. 2, 531 pages, ISBN 978-9814280273. Piller, Frank T., Tseng, Mitchell (2010) Handbook of Research in Mass Customization and Personalization: Strategies and Concepts, World Scientific Publishing Company, Vol. 1, 589 pages, ISBN 978-9814280266. Radke, Andreas Martin, Tseng, Mitchell (2010) "Inventory Allocation with Consideration of Component Commonality and Risk Management", 43rd CIRP International Conference on Manufacturing Systems, The International Academy for Production Engineering, Vienna, Austria, 26-28 May 2010. Chen, Songlin, Tseng, Mitchell (2009-2010) "Chapter 4.5: Procurement Mechanisms for Customized Products", Handbook of Research in Mass Customization and Personalization: Strategies and Concepts, edited by Frank T. Piller and Mitchell M. Tseng, Vol. 1, 589 pages. Radke, Andreas Martin, Tseng, Mitchell (2009) "An Automated Approach for Identification and Resolution of Spatial Clashes in Building Design", 2009 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Hong Kong, 8-11 December 2009. Wang, Yue, Tseng, Mitchell (2009) "Attribute Selection for Configurator Design Based on Shapley Value", ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences &Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2009), American Society Of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), DETC 2009-86904, San Diego, 30 Aug - 2 Sept, 2009.

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: Culture-friendly product design, Human performance modeling; human-computer interaction.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Foot arch modeling and characterization RGC - General Research Fund HK$380,235 30 Dec 2008 Differentiating cultural and cognitive effects on human performance in process control RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$92,000 01 Jan 2004 Representative Research Publications: Xiong, Shuping, Goonetilleke, Ravindra, Witana, Channa, Weerasinghe, Thilina W., Au, Emily (2010) "Foot-arch Characterization: A Review, a New Metric and a Comparison", Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association, Vol 100(1), 14-24. Luximon, Yan, Goonetilleke, Ravindra (2010) "The relationship between monochronicity, polychronicity and individual characteristics", Behaviour & Information Technology, 29(2), 187-198. Goonetilleke, Ravindra, Hoffmann, Errol (2009) "Hand-Skin Temperature and Tracking Performance", International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 39(4), 577-648. Witana, Channa, Goonetilleke, Ravindra (2009) "Think high-heels are uncomfortable?", International Ergonomics Association (IEA), 9-14 August 2009, Beijing, China. 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.

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: The Impacts of Environmental Policies on Global Supply Chains UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$298,000 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Xu, Jie, Nelson, Barry, Hong, Jeff L (2010) "Industrial Strength COMPASS: A comprehensive algorithm and software for optimization via simulation", ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, vol.20, article 3, 1-29. Liu, Guangwu, Hong, Jeff L (2010) "Pathwise estimation of probability sensitivities through terminating and steady-state simulations", Operations Research, vol.58, p357-370. Fu, Michael, Hong, Jeff L, Hu, Jianqiang (2009) "Conditional Monte Carlo estimation of quantile sensitivities", Management Science, vol.55, p2019-2027. 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) "Selecting the best system when systems are revealed sequentially", IIE Transactions, Volume 39, 723-734. 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])

PhD, Hong Kong Univ of Sc & Tech

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

Representative Research Publications: Au, Tom, Duan, Rong, Hesar, S. G., Jiang, Wei (2010) "A Framework of Irregularity Enlightenment for Data Pre-processing in Time Series Data Mining", Annals of Operations Research, 174(1), 47-66. Wang, Shuchun, Tsui, Kwok-Leung, Jiang, Wei (2010) "Adjusted Support Vector Machines Based on a New Loss Function", Annals of Operations Research, 174(1), 83-101. Wu, Zhang, Khoo, M. B. C., Shu, Lianjie, Jiang, Wei (2010) "An np control chart for monitoring the mean of a variable based on an attribute inspection", International Journal of Production Economics, 121, 141-147. Brice, Pierre, Jiang, Wei (2009) "A Context Tree Method for Multistage Fault Detection and Isolation with Applications to Commercial Video Broadcasting Systems", IIE Transactions, 41(9), 776-789. Zhu, Yongzhong, Jiang, Wei (2009) "An Adaptive T2 Chart for Multivariate Process Monitoring and Diagnosis", IIE Transactions, 41, 1007-1018. Wang, Kaibo, Jiang, Wei (2009) "High-Dimensional Process Monitoring Fault Diagnosis via Variable Selection", Journal of Quality Technology, 41(3), 247-258. Zhu, Yongzhong, Jiang, Wei (2009) "Online Process Mean Estimation in the Presence of Outliers", Navel Research Logistics, 56, 439- 449. He, Fangyi, Wang, Kaibo, Jiang, Wei (2009) "A General Harmonic Rule Controller for Run-to-Run Process Control", IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, 22(2), 232-244.

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: Regularized meshing of surfaces with a design-for-manufacturing application in architecture. RGC - General Research Fund HK$760,197 01 Jan 2010 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: Yao, Zhiyang, Joneja, Ajay (2010) "Computing Cutter Engagement Values in Milling Tessellated Free Form Surfaces", ASME, JCISE. Xu, Ying, Joneja, Ajay, Tang, Kai (2009) "Surface Deformation under Area Constraints", Computer-Aided Design and Applications, v 6 n 1-4. 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, Chow, Jacky, Chan, Albert (2009) "Design of Precision Measurement System for Metallic Hole", Int. J. of Adv Manuf. Technol, (2009) 44, 539-547. Dai, James, Lee, Neville, Cheung, Ada (2009) "Performance Analysis of Flexible Material Handling Systems for the Apparel Industry", Int. J. of Adv Manuf. Technol, (2009) 44:1219-1229. 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. 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: 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: Wan, Guohua, Qi, Xiangtong (2010) "Scheduling with variable time slot costs", Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 57, P. 159-171. Lee, Chung-Yee, Qi, Xiangtong (2009) "Vehicle scheduling with combinable delivery and pickup operations", Operations Research Letters, Vol. 37, P. 399-404. 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. Yang, Jian, Qi, Xiangtong, Yu, Gang (2005) "Disruption management in production planning", Naval Research Logistics, V.52, 420-442. 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: Motion sickness, postural disturbance, and self-motion perception when exposed to low frequency (0.04Hz to 0.8Hz) conflicting physical and visual linear motion in the fore-and-aft axis RGC - General Research Fund HK$720,452 01 Jan 2010

Representative Research Publications: So, Richard H Y, Ngan, Brian, Horner, Andrew B, Braasch, Jonas, Blauert, Jens, Leung, K.L. (2010) "Toward orthogonal non- individualized head-related transfer functions for forward and backward directional sound: cluster analysis and an experimental study", Ergonomics, Vol. 53, No. 6, June 2010, 767-781. Ji, Jennifer, So, Richard H Y, Cheung, Raymond (2009) "Isolating the effects of vection and optokinetic nystagmus on visually induced motion sickness during exposure to optokinetic stimuli.", Human Factors, 51(5), pp.739-751. 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, 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.

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: Should Purchasing Activities be Outsourced along with Production? RGC - General Research Fund HK$331,389 01 Jan 2009

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Rachel, Li, Cuihong, Zhang, Rachel Q (2009) "Group Buying Mechanisms under Quantity Discounts", INFORMS annual meeting, INFORMS society, San Diego, October 2009. Chen, Lucy, Roundy, Robin, Zhang, Rachel Q, Robinson, Larry (2009) "Inventory Control under Uncertain International Financial Environment", INFORMS annual meeting, INFORMS society, San, Diego, October 2009. Zhang, Jie, Hong, Jeff, Zhang, Rachel Q (2009) "The Impact of Counterfeiting on Brand Name Companies", INFORMS annual meeting, INFORMS society, San Diego, October 2009. 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

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: Path-dependent Option Pricing under a Flexible Jump Diffusion Model RGC - General Research Fund HK$696,900 01 Jan 2010 Probabilistic properties of first passage times of a flexible jump diffusion process RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$220,560 01 Jan 2009 Financial Engineering Problems Relating to Jump Diffusion Processes UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$117,000 02 Feb 2009

Representative Research Publications: Cai, Ning, Chen, Nan, Wan, Xiangwei (2010) "Occupation Times of Jump-Diffusion Processes with Double Exponential Jumps and the Pricing of Options", Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 412-437. Cai, Ning (2009) "Numerical Pricing of Quantile Options with Jump Risk", The First POMS-HK International Conference, The Production and Operations Management Society (Hong Kong Chapter) and Logistics Research Center in the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 30 Dec 2009, pp. 9-16.

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, Zheng, Song (2010) "Price and Quality Competition in a Duopoly with Reference-dependent Preferences", 7th international conference on service systems and service management (ICSSSM 10); Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, June 28-30, 2010. 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])

PhD, Univ of California, Berkeley (2009)

Current Research Activities: Supply chaiIntegrated supply chain design and management; logistics and transport operatons; facility location and inventory control; applied optimization and metaheuristics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Supply chain design with risk mitigation and contingency considerations RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$200,000 01 May 2010

Jiheng ZHANG Assistant Professor (2358 8627 ; [email protected])

PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology (2009)

Current Research Activities: Service operations management; health care management; stochastic processing networks; applied probability; stochastic optimization.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Staffing service outsourcing with rework RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$200,000 01 May 2010 Department of Mechanical Engineering

Christopher Yu Hang CHAO, Acting Head of Department and Professor

Tongxi YU, Chair Professor; Director, Institute of Integrated Microsystems

Tongyi ZHANG, Chair Professor

Lilong CAI, Professor

Chin Tsau HSU, Professor and Director, Center for Energy and Thermal Systems

Jang Kyo KIM, Professor; Associate Dean of Engineering

Shi-Wei Ricky LEE, Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Director of Center for Advanced Microsystems Packaging

Yang LENG, Professor

Qingping SUN, Professor

Jingshen WU, Professor

Matthew M F YUEN, Professor; President & CEO HKUST RandD Corp; Acting VP-RD

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 Christopher Yu Hang CHAO Acting Head of Department and 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 Modeling Infectious Disease Transmission Risk via Airborne, Droplet and Indirect Contact Modes using Expiratory Aerosol Transport Data in Indoor Environments RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,476,388 01 Jan 2010 Building Energy Reserch Center (BERC) Nansha Research Centers HK$4,300,000 01 Jul 2010

Representative Research Publications: Kwong, C.W., Chao, Christopher Y H (2010) "Fly Ash Products from Biomass Co-combustion for VOC Control", Bioresource Technology, 101, pp. 1075-1081. Sze To, Gin Nam, Chao, Christopher Y H (2010) "Review and Comparison between the Wells-Riley and Dose-response Approaches to Risk Assessment of Infectious Respiratory Diseases", Indoor Air, 20, pp. 2-16. Pantelic, J., Sze To, Gin Nam, Tham, K.W., Chao, Christopher Y H, Khoo, Y.C.M. (2009) "Personalized Ventilation as a Control Measure for Airborne Transmissible Disease Spread", Journal of Royal Society Interface, 6, pp. 715-726. 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.

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

Representative Research Publications: Zhou, C.Y., Yu, T.X. (2009) "Analytical models for shock isolation of typical component s in portable electronics", Int. J. Impact Engng., 36(12), 1377-1384. Qiu, X.M., Zhang, J, Yu, T.X. (2009) "Collapse strength of periodic planar lattices under uniaxial compression, Part I: Quasi-static strength predicted by limit analysis", Int. J. Impact Engng., 36(10-11), 1223-1230. 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. 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. Lu, G., Yu, Tongxi (2003) Energy Absorption of Structures and Materials, Woodhead Publishing Limited, Cambridge, UK, (in English). Ruan, Shilun, Gao, Ping, Yang, X.G., Yu, Tongxi (2003) "Toughening high performance ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene using multiwalled carbon nanotubes", Polymer, 44, 5643-5654. Yu, Tongxi, Stronge, W.J. (2002) Dynamic Models for Structural Plasticity, (in Chinese), Peking University Press.

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 Ltd. HK$325,000 01 Aug 2004 Mechanical and/or electrical characterization of nano materials Eastland Ltd. 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 Size-dependent Properties in Nanometer-thick Ferroelectric, Ferromagnetic and Magnetoelectric Films UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$400,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Zhang, Tong-Yi, Wang, Zhi-Jia, Chan, Wing-Kin (2010) "Eigenstress model for surface stress of solids", Physical Review B, Vol. 81, article 195427. Yan, Dong-Jun, Huang, Hai-You, Cheung, Chi-Wai, Zhang, Tong-Yi (2010) "Fracture criterion for conductive cracks in soda- lime glass under combined mechanical and electrical loading", International Journal of Fracture, Vol. 164, pp. 185-199. Chan, Wing-Kin, Zhang, Tong-Yi (2010) "Mechanics analysis and atomistic simulations of nanobridge tests", Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 107, article 023526. Li, Yong-Sheng, Li, Shu-Xiao, Zhang, Tong-Yi (2009) "Effect of Dislocations on Spinodal Decomposition in Fe-Cr Alloys", Nuclear Materials, Vol. 395, pp. 120-130. Gu, Changdong, Cheng, Chun, Huang, Hai-You, Wong, Tailun, Wang, Ning, Zhang, Tong-Yi (2009) "Growth and Photocatalytic Activity of Dendrite-like ZnO@Ag Heterostructure Nanocrystals", Crystal Growth & Design, Vol. 9, pp. 3278-3285. Gu, Changdong, Ren, Hang, Tu, Jiangping, Zhang, Tong-Yi (2009) "Micro/nano-binary structure of silver films on copper alloys with stable water-repellent property under dynamic conditions", Langmuir, Vol. 25 (20), pp. 12299-12307. Huang, Hai-You, Li, Zhi-Ying, Lu, Jun-Yong, Wang, Zhi-Jia, Wang, Chong-Shun, Lau, Kei May, Chen, Kevin J, Zhang, Tong-Yi (2009) "Microbridge tests on gallium nitride thin films", Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 19, article 095019. 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.

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 moulds for plastic intake manifold in automobile engines Shenzhen Science, Industry, Trade and Information Technology Commission HK$46,725 01 Oct 2007

Representative Research Publications: Zuo, Wei, Cai, Lilong (2010) "A New Iterative Learning Controller Using Variable Structure Fourier Neural Network", IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B-Cybernetics, Volume: 40, Issue: 2, Pages: 458-468. Ren, Zhiguo, Liao, Jiarui, Cai, Lilong (2010) "Three-dimensional measurement of small mechanical parts under a complicated background based on stereo vision", Applied Optics, Volume: 49, Issue: 10, Pages: 1789-1801. Ren, Zhiguo, Cai, Lilong (2009) "Three-dimensional structure measurement of diamond crowns based on stereo vision", Applied Optics, Volume: 48, Issue: 31, Pages: 5917-5932. 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. 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.

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$3,406,722 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: Development and characterization of carbon fibre-polymer matrix composites containing carbon nanotubes National Engineering & Scientific Commission HK$354,000 01 Feb 2009

Representative Research Publications: Wang, Shu Jun, Geng, Yan, Zheng, Qing Bin, Kim, Jang Kyo (2010) "Fabrication of highly conducting and transparent graphene films", Carbon, Vol. 48, 1815-1823. Liu, Xian Ming, Huang, Zhendong, Oh, Sei Woon, Ma, Peng Cheng, Chan, Philip C.H., Vedam, G.K., Kang, Kiseok, Kim, Jang Kyo (2010) "Sol-gel synthesis of multiwalled carbon nanotube-LiMn2O4 nanocomposites as cathode materials of Li-ion batteries", Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 195, 4290-4296. Sham, M.L, Li, J, Ma, P.C, Kim, J.K (2009) "Cleaning and Functionalizaton of Polymer Surfaces and Nanoscale Carbon fillers by UV/ozone Treatment: A review", J. Compos. Mater., 43 (2009) 1537-1564. 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.

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: 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 3D Packaging with Silicon Chip Carriers and Through Silicon Vias for System-in-Package UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$499,000 01 Jun 2010 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$949,800 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

Representative Research Publications: Ren, Fuzeng, Leng, Yang, Xin, Renlong, Ge, Xiang (2010) "Synthesis, characterization and ab initio simulation of magnesium- substituted hydroxyapatite", Acta Biomaterialia, 6 (7): 2787-2796. Ren, Fuzeng, Xin, Renlong, Ge, Xiang, Leng, Yang (2009) "Characterization and structural analysis of zinc-substituted hydroxyapatites", Acta Biomaterialia, 5 (8): 3141-3149 2009. 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.

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 Jul 2009 Joint laboratory on microsystems between Institute of Mechanics (CAS) and HKUST UGC - Collaboration with Mainland Institutions HK$400,000 01 Dec 2003 Application of photoncrystal in high-tech ceramics Shenzhen Science, Industry, Trade and Information Technology Commission HK$113,083 01 Jul 2009

Representative Research Publications: He, Yongjun, Yin, Hao, Zhou, Runhua, Sun, Qingping (2010) "Ambient effect on damping peak of NiYi shape memory alloy", Materials Letters, 64 (2010) 1483-1486. He, Yongjun, Sun, Qingping (2009) "Scaling relationship on macroscopic helical domains in NiTi tubes", Int. J. of Solids and Structures, 46 (2009) 4242-4251. 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. 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. Sun, Qing-Ping (2001-2002) Advances in Solid Mechanics - Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Mechanics of Martensitic Phase Transformations in Solids, Kluwer Academic Publisher.

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: Processing optimization and characterization of PBGA packages ASAT Ltd. 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 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$25,800 01 Jul 2006 Center for Engineering Materials and Reliability Nansha Research Centers HK$ 01 Jul 2010

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 JEDEC/IPC Global Conferences on Lead Free Reliability and Reliability element simulation on solder ball shear under high speed impact", 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.

Matthew M F YUEN 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: Electrical conductivity in Iodine Treated Silver ECAs RGC - General Research Fund HK$646,300 01 Sep 2010 3D garment research Barrivel Group (HK) Co. Ltd. HK$500,000 01 Aug 2008 3D garment research UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$25,000 01 Aug 2008 Self-assembled adhesion promoter for epoxy/copper interface Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$1,140,510 01 Feb 2010 CAD/CAM research Private Donor HK$75,000 15 Jan 2009 Research Travel Grant UGC - Research Travel Grant HK$6,000,000 01 Jul 2008

Representative Research Publications: Liu, Chong, Fan, Haibo, Zhang, Kai, Yuen, Matthew M F (2010) "A multi-scale approach for investigation of interfacial delamination in electronic packages", Journal of Chemical Physics, 132 (9), art. no. 094703. Liu, Yongjin, Lai, Kam Lung Danny, Dai, Gang, Yuen, Matthew M F (2010) "A semantic feature model in concurrent engineering", IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 132 (9), art. no. 094703. Yang, Cheng, Tang, Y.H., Zhao, C.B., Lam, W.M., Lu, Y.Y., Gao, P., Yuen, Matthew M F (2010) "Moisture-cured elastomeric transparent UV and X-ray shielding organic-inorganic hybrids", Journal of Materials Science, 45 (13), pp. 3588-3594. Fan, Haibo, Zhang, Kai, Yuen, Matthew M F (2009) "The interfacial thermal conductance between a vertical single-wall carbon nanotube and a silicon substrate", Journal of Applied Physics, 106 (3), art. no. 034307. 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.

Tianshou ZHAO Professor; Director, Center for Sustainable Energy Technology (2358 8647 ; [email protected] ; http://www.me.ust.hk/~mezhao)

PhD, University of Hawaii (1995)

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: 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 Microscopic Probing and Modeling of Water Transport and Distribution in Direct Methanol Fuel Cells RGC - General Research Fund HK$991,300 01 Jan 2010 Transport phenomena in passively-operated micro direct methanol fuel cells RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$70,125 01 Jan 2006 A Multidisciplinary Study of Next-Generation Direct Ethanol Fuel Cells for Sustainable Energy Production UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$660,000 30 Jun 2010 Direct ethanol fuel cell Sumitomo Corporation HK$200,000 01 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications: Yang, Weiwei, Zhao, Tianshou (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. Wu, Qixing, Zhao, Tianshou, Xu, Chao, Chen, Rong, Yang, Weiwei (2009) "Effects of anode micro porous layers made of carbon powder and nanotubes on water transport in direct methanol fuel cells", J. Power Sources, 191 (2009) 304-311. Zhao, Tianshou, Xu, Chao, Yang, Weiwei (2009) "Mass transport phenomena in direct methanol fuel cells", Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 35 (2009) 275-292. 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. An, Liang, Zhao, Tianshou, Wu, Qixing, Chen, Rong, Shen, Shuiyun (2009) "Performance of a direct ethylene glycol fuel cell with an anion-exchange membrane", Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 35 (2010) 4329-4335. Zhao, Tianshou, Chen, Rong, Yang, Weiwei, Xu, Chao (2009) "Small direct methanol fuel cells with passive supply of reactants", J. Power Sources, 191 (2009) 185-202. 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.

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 Development of breathable non-invasive contact lens sensor for glaucoma diagnosis and biofeedback treatment Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$1,221,900 02 Jan 2010

Representative Research Publications: Wang, Jun, Lam, David C C (2010) "Nanostiffening in Polymeric Nanocomposites", Computers, Materials and Continua, Accepted. Wei, W, Lam, David C C (2010) "Size-dependent behavior of Macromolecular solids II: Molecular origin of the size effect", Computer Modeling in Engineering Sciences, Accepted. 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.

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: Nanofluidics chips for biomedical applications Defond Electrical Industries Ltd. HK$100,000 01 Sep 2008 Nanofluidics chips for biomedical applications UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$5,000 01 Sep 2008

Representative Research Publications: Jiang, Xuesong, Ling, Yun-Yang, Liu, Chenmin, Yang, Shihe, Lee, Yi-Kuen (2010) "Electrorheological Characterization of Ultrathin Titanium Dioxide Nanorod Solutions Using Microfluidics", 5th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (IEEE NEMS'10), pp.362-365, Xiamen, China, Jan 20-23, 2010. Chen, Longquan, Lee, Yi-Kuen (2010) "New Dimensionless Number for Superhydrophobicity Study of Micron/Submicron Patterned Surfaces", 23rd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (IEEE MEMS 2010), pp.1051-1054, Hong Kong, Jan 24-28, 2010. 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.

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 Transport dynamics and coalescence of spreading microdroplets on a heterogeneous surface RGC - General Research Fund HK$711,360 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications: Qu, Xiaopeng, Qiu, Huihe (2009) "Bubble dynamics under a horizontal micro heater array", J. of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 19, 095008 (10pp). 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.

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: 5-axis tool path generation from the perspective of minimizing the dynamic loading on the machine's rotary axes and local gouging RGC - General Research Fund HK$732,720 01 Jan 2010

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Ming, Tang, Kai (2010) "A Fully Geometric Approach for Developable Cloth Deformation", Visual computer, Vol. 26, No. 6-8, pp. 853-863. Tang, Kai, Chen, Ming (2009) "Quasi-developable mesh surface interpolation via mesh deformation", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 518-528. 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.

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 A Molecular Understanding of Gas-Nanotube/ Nanowire Interactions: Toward Ultrasensitive Nanosensors UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$298,000 30 Jun 2010 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: Liu, Chong, Fan, Hai-Bo, Zhang, Kai, Yuen, Matthew, Li, Zhigang (2010) "Flow dependence of interfacial thermal resistance in nanochannels", The Journal of Chemical Physics, 132, 094703. Liu, Chong, Li, Zhigang (2010) "Surface effects on nanoscale Poiseuille flows under large driving force", The Journal of Chemical Physics, 132, 024507. Li, Zhigang (2009) "Critical particle size where the Stokes-Einstein relation breaks down", Physcial Review E, 80, 061204. Liu, Chong, Li, Zhigang (2009) "Flow regimes and parameter dependence in nanochannel flows", Physcial Review E, 80, 036302. 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])

PhD, University of Illinois, Chicago

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$253,400 01 Dec 2008 Dynamic assessment of the self-assembly of peptide nanostructures using a microfluidic device UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$654,720 30 Jun 2010 Biomimic energy harvesting system UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$120,000 02 Feb 2009

Representative Research Publications: Lin, Yuan, Yao, Shuhuai, Xu, Qiang (2010) "Dynamic Adhesion Energy Between Surfaces Connected by Molecular Bonds and its Application to Peel Test", Journal Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. Jiang, Liguo, Yao, Shuhuai (2010) "Numerical Simulation of Molecular Diffusion and Interactionin a Cross Micromixer", The 8th Asian Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Hong Kong, 10-14 January, 2010. 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: Hong, Gang, Ye, Wenjing (2010) "A Macro Model for Squeeze-film Air Damping in the Free-Molecule Regime", Physics of Fluids, Vol. 22, pp. 012001. Hong, Gang, Ye, Wenjing (2010) "Effect of Oscillation Mode on the Free-molecule Squeeze-film Damping", 5th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, Xiamen, China, Jan. 20-23. Yan, Zaiyou, Zhang, Jun, Ye, Wenjing, Yu, Tongxi (2010) "Fast BEM Analysis of Porous Solids", 2nd International Symposium on Computational Mechanics, Hong Kong and Macau, Nov. 30 - Dec. 2, Paper no. 437. Yan, Zaiyou, Zhang, Jun, Ye, Wenjing, Yu, Tongxi (2010) "Numerical Characterization of Porous Solids and Performance Evaluation of Theoretical Models via the Precorrected-FFT Accelerated BEM", CMES: Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 33 - 60. Hong, Gang, Ye, Wenjing (2009) "A Macro Model of Squeeze-film Air Damping in the Free-Molecule Regime", 2nd International Symposium on Computational Mechanics, Hong Kong and Macau, Nov. 30 - Dec. 2, paper no. 68. Zhu, Taishan, Ye, Wenjing (2009) "Gas-Phase Heat Transfer from a Heated Microcantilever inside a Vacuum Enclosure", ASME 2009 2nd Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference, Shanghai, Dec. 18-21, MNHMT2009-18469. 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. 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. 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

Haifeng YOU, 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: 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, 15, 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 Analyst following and equity valuation UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$30,000 20 Jun 2010 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.

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: 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 Exchange-traded Options and CEO Compensation UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$100,000 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Chih-Ying, Chen, Peter (2009) "NASD Rule 2711 and Changes in Analysts' Independence in Making Stock Recommendations", The Accoutning Review, Vol 84, 4, PP.1041-1071. 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.

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.

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 Labor relationship and cost behavior in Family Firms UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$140,000 30 Jun 2010 CEO perquisites in family firms UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$55,000 01 Jan 2009 Internal control weakness and investors’ perception of earnings informativeness UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$60,000 30 Jun 2010

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])

PhD, Duke University (2007)

Current Research Activities: Earnings management, financial anslysts, corporate governance, and executive compensation.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Shorts sellers and earnings information RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 01 Jan 2010 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: How do investors respond to fraudulent earnings news? RGC - General Research Fund HK$436,632 01 Jan 2010 Management forecast strategy and CEO disclosure credibility RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$72,920 01 Nov 2004 Are CEOs rewarded for disclosure quality? Evidence from executive compensation UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$58,686 30 Jun 2010

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

Representative Research Publications: Newman, Paul, Novoselov, Kirill (2009) "Delegation to Encourage Communication of Problems", Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 47 No. 4 September 2009 pp. 911-942.

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.

Haifeng YOU Assistant Professor (2358 7576 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (2007)

Current Research Activities: Analyst behavior, fundamental analysis, security valuation and market efficiency.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Buyers beware: analyst rounding and the implication on forecast bias and equity valuation RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 01 Jul 2009 Product market competition, income smoothing and executive compensation RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$42,019 30 Jun 2010 Product market competition, income smoothing and executive compensation SBM's Development Fund HK$17,981 30 Jun 2010

Amy Y ZANG Assistant Professor (2358 7561 ; [email protected])

PhD, Duke University (2006)

Current Research Activities: Earnings management, financial analysts, managerial compensation.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Informativeness of analyst opinions in written reports RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 01 Jan 2010 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 Confidential Treatment and Institutional Informed Trading UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$140,000 15 Jun 2010 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 Fair value accounting and CEO compensation: Evidence from purchase price allocation UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$120,000 01 Jun 2010

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

Francis T LUI, Head of Department and Professor; Director, Center for Economic Development

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

Danyang XIE, Professor

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

Sujata VISARIA, Assistant Professor

Peng WANG, Assistant Professor

Pengfei WANG, Assistant Professor

Yong WANG, Assistant Professor

Juanyi XU, Assistant Professor Francis T LUI Head of Department and Professor; 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: Demographic Transition, Economic Growth, and the Paradox of Childless Families in China RGC - General Research Fund HK$650,992 01 Jan 2010

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.

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: Cheng, Leonard K H, Nahm, Jae (2010) "Asymmetric Complementary Goods Pricing under Sequential Moves", B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 10 (Issue 1, 2010), (Topics), Article 46. Cheng, Leonard K H, Ma, Zihui (2010) "China's Outward Foreign Direct Investment", China's Growing Role in World Trade, Feenstra, Robert and Shangjin Wei, eds., University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2010, Chapter 14, 545-578. 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.

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 Source preference and the home market bias puzzle UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$55,000 01 Apr 2010

Edwin L C LAI Professor (2358 7611 ; [email protected])

PhD, Stanford University

Current Research Activities: International trade, industrial organization, economics growth and development.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Innovation, incentives and globalization RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 02 Jul 2009

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.

Danyang XIE 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: Benefit and cost of an undervalued RMB UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$120,850 01 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Xie, Danyang (2010) "Subscription of Shares", International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 28, Issue 3, May 2010, pages 271-277. 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.

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.

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])

PhD, The Pennsylvania State University (2002)

Current Research Activities: Macroeconomics, monetary economics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A model of noncash payment methods RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 02 Jul 2009 Whither the linked exchange rate system UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$100,000 30 Jun 2010

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.

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

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])

PhD, Pennsylvania (2009)

Current Research Activities: Game theory, microeconomic theory, public economics, industry organization.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Honesty vs. white lies RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 02 Jul 2009

Migiwa TANAKA Assistant Professor (2358 7619 ; [email protected])

PhD, Johns Hopkins University (2008)

Current Research Activities: Empirical industrial organization, applied microeconometrics, computational economics.

Sujata VISARIA Assistant Professor (2358 7608 ; [email protected])

PhD, Columbia University (2005)

Current Research Activities: Development economics, applied microeconomics, institutional economics, financial economics, welfare and poverty.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The general equilibrium effects of debt contract enforcement: an empirical study of Indian firms RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 01 Sep 2009 Effects of Lay Theories, Segregation, and Incentive Mechanisms on Human Capital Formation UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$140,000 01 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Lilienfeld-Toal, Ulf Von, Mookherjee, Dilip, Visaria, Sujata (2010) "The Distributive Impact of Reforms in Credit Enforcement: Evidence from Indian Debt Recovery Tribunals", American Financial Association meetings, Atlanta, USA. Lilienfeld-Toal, Ulf Von, Mookherjee, Dilip, Visaria, Sujata (2010) "The Distributive Impact of Reforms in Credit Enforcement: Evidence from Indian Debt Recovery Tribunals", Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) conference, Montreal, Canada. Peng WANG Assistant Professor (2358 7630 ; [email protected])

PhD, New York University (2009)

Current Research Activities: Econometrics, macroeconomics, international economics, empirical finance.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Inferential theory of high dimensional factor models with linear restrictions RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 15 Sep 2009

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 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])

PhD, University of Chicago (2009)

Current Research Activities: Political economy, macro and development, economic theory, international economics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: International trade, foreign direct investment and institutions RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 01 Aug 2009 Representative Research Publications: Ju, Jiandong, Lin, Justin Yifu, Wang, Yong (2010) "Endowment Structure, Industrial Dynamics and Economic Growth", Econometric Society World Congress; Society of Economic Dynamics, Shanghai;Montreal. Ju, Jiandong, Lin, Justin Yifu, Wang, Yong (2009) "Endowment Structure, Industrial Dynamics and Economic Growth", World Bank Policy Research Paper #5055. Ju, Jiandong, Lin, Justin Yifu, Wang, Yong (2009) "Endowment Structure, Industrial Dynamics and Economic Growth", World Bank Workshop on Economic Structures and Development, Washington, DC, US. Wang, Yong (2009) "Institutional Barrier, Learning Externality and Catching Up", Far East Econometric Society Meeting, Tokyo.

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

Representative Research Publications: Xu, Juanyi (2010) "Noise Traders, Exchange Rate Disconnect Puzzle, and the Tobin Tax", Journal of International Money, and Finance, vol. 29(2), Pg. 336-357. Devereux, Michael B., Shi, Kang, Xu, Juanyi (2010) "Oil Currency and the Dollar Standard", Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, vol. 42(4), Pg. 521-550. Shi, Kang, Xu, Juanyi (2010) "Twin Dollarization and Exchange Rate Policy", Journal of International Economics, vol. 81(1), Pg. 109- 121. 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

Michael L LEMMON, 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$336,000 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 Private signals, information processing and the no trade theorem - An experimental investigation RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 30 Jun 2007 The Relationship between Risk and Savings-to-Cash Flows Sensitivity RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$158,654 16 Apr 2008

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 The Role of Anchoring Bias in the Equity Market UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$140,000 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Chui, Andy C.W., Titman, Sheridan, Wei, K.C. John (2010) "Individualism and momentum around the world", Journal of Finance, Volume 65, No. 1, 361-392. 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 Value Added by a New CEO : The First 100 days RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$176,282 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications: Goyal, Vidhan K, Wei, Wang (2010) "Debt Maturity and Asymmetric Information: Evidence from Default Risk Changes", FIRS Conference on Banking, Insurance, and Intermediation, Florence, Italy, June 2010. Goyal, Vidhan K (2009) "Corporate Board Structures", QFinance: The Ultimate Resource, Bloomsbury, pp. 137-140. Goyal, Vidhan K, Bae, Kee-Hong (2009) "Corporate Governance and Stock Market Liberalization", Journal of Corporate Finance 2009 Special Conference on Emerging Markets, Beijing, August 2009. 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. 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. Frank, Murray, Goyal, Vidhan K. (2003) "Testing the pecking order theory of capital structure", Journal of Financial Economics, 67, 217- 248.

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 Arbitrage, Liquidity and Price Discovery in Stock Index Cash and Futures Markets UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$140,000 01 Jun 2010 Building a Viable Bond Market to Support Hong Kong's role as an International Finance Centre UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$100,000 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Batten, Jonathan A, Ciner, Cetin, Lucey, Brian (2010) "Macroeconomic Determinants of Volatility in Precious Metals Markets", Resources Policy, Volume 35(2): 65-71. Batten, Jonathan A, Chan, Wai-Sum, Chung, Hon-Lung (2010) "Modelling the US Swap Spread", Research in Finance, Volume 26: 161-188. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, USA. Batten, Jonathan A, Chuan, Liao, Jacoby, Gady (2009) "Testing for the Elasticity of Corporate Yield Spreads", Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Volume 44: 641-656. Batten, Jonathan A, Hamada, Mahmoud (2009) "The Compass Rose Pattern in Electricity Prices", Chaos, 19, 043106: DOI: 10.1063/1.3243920. 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, 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, Szilagyi, Peter (2007) "Domestic Bond Market Development: The Arirang Bond Experience in Korea", World Bank Research Observer, 22: 165-195. 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])

PhD, Hong Kong Univ of Sc & Tech

Current Research Activities: Entrepreneurship; family businesses; corporate governance.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: 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

Michael L LEMMON Adjunct Professor (2358 7668 ; [email protected]) PhD, Utah

Current Research Activities: Corporate finance; managerial compensation; capital structure; mergers and acquisitions.

Representative Research Publications: Lemmon, Michael, Whitby, Ryan, Bizjak, John (2008) "Backdating and Board Interlocks", Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming.

Bruno H SOLNIK Adjunct Professor (2358 7670 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities: International finance; investments; valuation.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Relative domestic optimism in financial markets FINA's Development Fund HK$23,285 25 Jun 2010 Relative domestic optimism in financial markets UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$76,715 25 Jun 2010

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

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.

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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The hedging footprint: A simple way to measure corporate risk management activity RGC - General Research Fund HK$341,964 01 Jul 2009 Corporate Governance and Risk Management in the Finance Industry UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$100,000 30 Jun 2010

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

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 are the returns on China's treasury bonds so predictable? RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$38,000 30 Jun 2009 On the Relationship between Expected Returns and Expected Idiosyncratic Volatilities UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 30 Jun 2007 An appraisal of modern portfolio theory UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$55,000 01 Jun 2010

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

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, Lemmon, Michael, Tserlukevich, Yuri (2010) "Employee Stock Options and Investment", Journal of Finance, forthcoming article, accepted in 2010. Babenko, Ilona, Tserlukevich, Yuri (2009) "Analyzing the Tax Benefits of Employee Stock Options", Journal of Finance, August 2009, 64, 1797-1825. 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])

PhD, Yale University (2009)

Current Research Activities: Empirical asset pricing; market microstructure; behavioral finance.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Omitted markets, idiosyncratic risk, and the cross-section of stork returns RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 02 Jul 2009

Representative Research Publications: Choi, Darwin, Getmansky, Mila, Henderson, Brian, Tookes, Heather (2010) "Convertible Bond Arbitrageurs as Suppliers of Capital", Review of Financial Studies, Volume 23, Number 6, Pp. 2492-2522.

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

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 Investor activism and its effect on financing decisions UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$55,000 01 Dec 2008

Representative Research Publications: Liu, Xiaolei, Lemmon, Michael L, Mao, Qinghao (2010) "The use of asset-backed securitization and capital structure in industrial firms: An empirical investigation", 2010 Financial Management Association European Conference, Hamburg, Germany, June 9 - 11, 2010. Liu, Xiaolei, Lemmon, Michael L, Mao, Qinghao (2010) "The use of asset-backed securitization and capital structure in industrial firms: An empirical investigation;", 2010 European Financial Management Asia Finance Symposium, Beijing, China, 2010, April 22-24, 2010. Liu, Xiaolei, Lemmon, Michael L, Mao, Qinghao (2010) "The use of asset-backed securitization and capital structure in industrial firms: An empirical investigation;", 2010 Financial Intermediation Research Society Conference, Florence, Italy, 2010, June 7-9, 2010. Liu, Xiaolei (2009) "Historical market-to-book in a partial-adjustment model of leverage", Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 15/5, 602- 612. Liu, Xiaolei, Whited, Toni, Zhang, Lu (2009) "Investment-based expected stock returns", Journal of Political Economy, 117 (6), 1105- 01139. Liu, Xiaolei, Lemmon, Michael L, Mao, Qinghao (2009) "The use of asset-backed securitization and capital structure in industrial firms: An empirical investigation", The 22nd Australasian Finance&Banking Conference, Syndey, 2009, 16-18 Dec, 2009. 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. 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: Stock Returns, Option Trading and the Disposition Effect RGC - General Research Fund HK$433,874 31 Dec 2009 Sentiment and Option Smile RGC - General Research Fund HK$596,612 31 Dec 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])

PhD, New York University (2009)

Current Research Activities: Corporate finance; executive compensation; corporate governance; behavioral corporate finance; derivatives.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Measuring executive optimism using personal portfolio decisions RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$156,800 02 Jul 2009 Measuring executive optimism using personal portfolio decisions SBM's Development Fund HK$50,000 02 Jul 2009

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.

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

Anthony T K CHAN, Visiting Assistant Professor

Garvin Percy DIAS, Visiting Assistant Professor

Jeevan JAISINGH, Visiting Assistant Professor

Prasanna P KARHADE, Assistant Professor

Yingying LI, Assistant Professor

Stephen W H SHUM, Assistant Professor

Raymond G SIN, Assistant Professor

Xuhu WAN, Assistant Professor

Sean X XU, Assistant Professor

Man YU, Assistant Professor

Seunghee YU, Assistant Professor

Michael X ZHANG, Assistant Professor

Rong ZHENG, 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 Contracting and information sharing in a supply chain with competing retailers RGC - General Research Fund HK$569,167 01 Jul 2009 Information Sharing in Supply Chains UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$100,000 28 Jun 2010

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 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$9,800,000 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: Efficient variance reduction method for estimating value at risk with heavy-tailed risk factors RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$80,000 30 Jun 2009 Importance sampling in Markov switching autoregressive models with applications to statistical inference for econometric time series UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$33,259 30 Jun 2010

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.

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: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Test of Agile Methodologies Acceptance RGC - General Research Fund HK$608,304 01 Dec 2009 Determinants of service quality for online services RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$61,831 01 Jan 2009 A review of the agile methodologies literature UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$55,000 01 Dec 2008 Mandatory adoption of an e-government technology UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$49,971 01 Feb 2010

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: Dynamic pricing and inventory control in A supply chain UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$55,000 16 Jun 2010

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 Knowledge Contribution in Online Communities RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$55,000 01 May 2010 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, James S H, Lai, Anthony C.T., Yeung, Jason C.K. (2009) "A Study of Online Service and Information Exposure of Public Companies", ACM SIGKDD Workshop on CyberSecurity and Intelligence Informatics (CSI-KDD), Paris, France, pp. 85-90. 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.

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: 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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Timing and sequencing order fulfillment of capital goods UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$33,259 30 Jun 2010

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.

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 Seasonal quantile regression with applications to value at risk estimation UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$55,000 01 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: So, Mike K P, Tse, Alex S L (2009) "Dynamic Modeling of Tail Risk: Applications to China, Hong Kong and Other Asian Markets", Asia- Pacific Financial Markets, 16, 183-210. 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. 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] ; http://www.bm.ust.hk/~ismt/staff/xuyan.html)

PhD, Strathclyde University (1997)

Current Research Activities: Technology and Innovation management; Telecommunications regulations and policy; operational management of telecommunications; management information system.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Web 2.0 adoption in the post-materialism era RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$55,000 01 Feb 2010 The Development of New Concept Innovation and Technology Industry in Hong Kong: Policy and Management Issues UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$100,000 30 Jun 2010 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, Xavier, Patrick (2010) "Access to In-building Wiring as a Barrier to Local Fixed Network Competition: The Case of Hong Kong", Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 34, No.1-2, 2010, pp. 45-53. Xu, Yan, Yu, Calvin (2009) Innovated by Hong Kong, HKUST Business School &. Infowide Publishing House. 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. 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 Visiting 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.

Prasanna P KARHADE Assistant Professor (2358 7643 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2009)

Current Research Activities: Design of formal contracts for IT outsourcing, IT Portfolio Management, Decision Making.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Evolution of routines: Evidence from information technology portfolio management RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 22 Jan 2010

Representative Research Publications: Susarla, Anjana, Subramanyam, Ramnath, Karhade, Prasanna P (2010) "Contractual Provisions to Mitigate Holdup: Evidence from Information Technology Outsourcing", Information Systems Research, Volume 21, Issue 1, pp 37-55. Karhade, Prasanna P, Shaw, Michael, Subramanyam, Ramnath (2010) "Patterns in Information Technology Portfolio Decision Making: An Inductive Approach", Academy of Management, Montreal, Canada.

Yingying LI Assistant Professor (2358 7744 ; [email protected])

PhD, The University of Chicago (2008)

Current Research Activities: Financial econometrics, financial risk management, high-frequency data, volatility estimation and market microstructure, statistical inference for stochastic processes, asymptotic statistics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Statistical Analysis of High-frequency Financial Data in the Presence of Random Transaction Times and Market Microstructure Errors RGC - General Research Fund HK$754,055 01 Jul 2010 Statistical inference on leverage effects based on high-frequency financial data RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 01 Feb 2010 Volatility estimation based on rounded financial data UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$33,259 01 Jan 2010

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

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 information systems; personalization and privacy; intermediated electronic markets; game theory; industrial organization.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Reversible Preferences? A Study of How Privacy May Bias Consumer Choice RGC - General Research Fund HK$444,360 01 Aug 2009 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, Chellappa, R. K., Sambamurthy, V. (2010) "An Empirical Investigation of Multimarket Contact and Asymmetric Pricing Strategies in the U.S. Domestic Airline Industry", The 6th Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR 2010), Austin, June 5-6, 2010. Sin, Raymond G, Chellappa, R. K., Siddarth, S. (2009) "Competition and Price-format Adoption in the U.S. Airline Industry: A Study of EDLP Implementation on the Internet", Conference on Information Systems & Technology (CIST), San Diego, October 10-11, 2009. Sin, Raymond G, Jia, Jia (2009) "Resolving Personalization-Privacy Dilemma: A Privacy-Preserving Contract for Online Personalization", INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, October 11 - 14, 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., 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. 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. Sin, Raymond G., Chellappa, Ramnath K., Siddarth, Srinivasan (2006) "Image Pricing: Airline Competition on the Internet", Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2006), Milwaukee, WI, December 10-13, 2006. 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

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.

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.

Man YU Assistant Professor (2358 7728 ; [email protected])

PhD, Michigan Current Research Activities: Pricing and revenue management, OM/marketing interface, Assemble-to-Order systems.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Shaping demand and overselling products to match supply and demand for assemble-to-order firms RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 01 Feb 2010 Advance selling under asymmetric quality information RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$32,035 25 Jun 2010

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, Anandasivam, Mukhopadhyay, Tridas (2009) "IT Infusion and its Performance Impacts: An Empirical Investigation of E-Procurement in the Service Industry", the 30th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2009, Phoenix, Arizona, December 15-18, 2009. 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: Information transparency and voluntary management disclosure RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$55,000 01 Sep 2009 Harnessing the power of the crowd through social dynamics RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$35,751 01 Feb 2010 The Wrong Tail - Does Endless Choice Create Unlimited Demand? UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$140,000 01 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Zhu, Feng, Zhang, Michael X (2010) "Impact of Online Consumer Reviews on Sales: The Moderating Role of Product and Consumer Characteristics", Journal of Marketing, 74 (2) 133-148. Wang, Alex, Zhang, Michael X (2009) "Sampling of Information Goods", Decision Support Systems, 48, 1, 14-22. 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.

Rong ZHENG Assistant Professor (2358 7642 ; [email protected])

PhD, New York University (2009)

Current Research Activities: Business intelligence modeling; data mining and text mining; online social network system and word-of-mouth.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: An empirical study on online collaborative filtering network and online social network RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 01 Nov 2009

Xinghua ZHENG Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 7750 ; [email protected])

PhD, The University of Chicago (2008)

Current Research Activities: Stochastic interacting particle systems, random walks, statistical inference for financial models, random matrices.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Critical Behavior of Stochastic Spatial Models RGC - General Research Fund HK$643,418 01 Jul 2010 Estimating covariation matrix and its spectral distribution for high dimensional diffusion process using high frequency data RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 01 Feb 2010

Representative Research Publications: Barlow, Martin, Zheng, Xinghua (2010) "The random conductance model with Cauchy tails", The Annals of Applied Probability, Volume 20, Number 3, 869-889.

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

Prithviraj CHATTOPADHYAY, Professor

Elizabeth GEORGE, Professor

Steve DEKREY, Adjunct Professor and Associate Dean of Business and Management; Director, MBA/EMBA/MSC Programs

John HULPKE, Adjunct 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

Melody Manchi 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

Wouter STAM, Assistant Professor

Bilian NI SULLIVAN, Assistant Professor

Jing ZHU, 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: CEO hubris, managerial discretion, and firm risk-taking in China RGC - General Research Fund HK$693,680 01 Jan 2010 Centralized RA support for 2007 RPC projects of MGTO Dept UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$200,000 01 Jun 2007 Entrepreneurship as an Engine for Sustaining Growth: Hong Kong as an Entrepreneurship Centre within its Region UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$100,000 30 Jun 2010 Center for innovation & strategy UGC - Strategic Initiatives HK$2,500,000 05 May 2008

Representative Research Publications: Li, Jiatao, Tang, Yi (2010) "CEO Hubris and Firm Risk Taking in China: The Moderating Role of Managerial Discretion", Academy of Management Journal, 53 (1): 45-68. Li, Jiatao (2010) "Global R&D Alliances in China: Collaborations with Universities and Research Institutes", IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 57: 78-87. Tang, Yi, Li, Jiatao (2010) "How CEO hubris affects firm innovation", IACMR, Shanghai, China, June 16-20, 2010. Li, Jiatao, Yao, Fiona Kun (2010) "The Role of Reference Groups in International Investment Decisions by Firms from Emerging Economies", Journal of International Management, 16: 143-153. Li, Jiatao, Kozhikode, Rajiv Krishnan (2009) "Developing New Innovation Models: Shifts in the Innovation Landscapes in Emerging Economies and Implications for Global R&D Management", Journal of International Management, 15 (3): 328-339. Li, Jiatao, Xie, Zhenzhen (2009) "Managing uncertainty in international mergers and acquisitions: Ownership strategies of Chinese firms", Strategic Management Society, Washington DC, October, 2009. Li, Jiatao, Yao, Fiona Kun (2009) "Sub-national Policy Uncertainty and Foreign Investment Location Strategies in an Emerging Economy", Academy of Management, Chicago, August 9-11, 2009. Li, Jiatao, Liu, Weiping (2009) "Temporary Competitive Advantage in Transition Economies: Evidence from China's Domestic Firms", Academy of Management, Chicago, August 7-11, 2009.

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: Chen, Chao, Farh, Larry J L (2010) "Developments in understanding Chinese leadership: Paternalism and its elaborations, moderations, and alternatives", Oxford Handbook of Chinese Psychology, Michael Bond, Chapter 35 (599-622). Gong, Yaping, Huang, Jia-Chi, Farh, Larry J L (2009) "Employee learning orientation, transformational leadership, and employee creativity: The mediating role of employee creative self-efficacy", Academy of Management Journal, 52 (4): 765-778. Kirkman, Bradley, Chen, Gilad, Farh, Larry J L, Chen, Zhen Xiong, Lowe, Kevin (2009) "Individual power distance orientation and follower reactions to transformational leaders: A cross-level, cross-cultural examination", Academy of Management Journal, 52 (4): 744-764. 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.

Prithviraj CHATTOPADHYAY 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 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: Working with and as nonstandard workers: Understanding the implications of status hierarchies RGC - General Research Fund HK$387,608 01 Jan 2010 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.

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.

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, Huang, Jia-Chi, Farh, Larry J L (2009) "Employee learning orientation, transformational leadership, and employee creativity: The mediating role of employee creative self-efficacy", Academy of Management Journal, 52, 765-778. 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.

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: New perspectives on organizational citizenship behaviors RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$17,886 30 Jun 2010 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

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, 30:895-907. 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: De-biasing and exaggerating escalation bias by option partitioning RGC - General Research Fund HK$450,363 01 Jan 2010 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: Wang, X. M., Wong, Ellick K F, Kwong, J. Y. Y. (2010) "The roles of rater goals and ratee performance levels in the distortion of performance rating", Journal of Applied Psychology, 95, 546-561. 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, 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])

PhD, University of Southern California

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$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.

Melody Manchi CHAO Assistant Professor (2358 7739 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Current Research Activities: Multicultural psychology; globalization organizational behavior; normative judgments;ocial identification; social categorization.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Cultural distance: Its implication to cognitive processes and sojourner adjustment outcomes RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$193,800 01 Mar 2010 China-US relations: From a subjective-intersubjective perspective UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$9,000 01 Mar 2010

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: The strategic consequences of CEO-chairperson interactions RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$18,000 01 Dec 2009

Representative Research Publications: 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, 30: 1265-1285. 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

Representative Research Publications: Marquis, Christopher, Huang, Zhi (2009) "The contingent nature of public policy and the growth of U.S. commercial banking", Academy of Management Journal, vol. 52:1222-1246.

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.

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])

PhD, University of Chicago

Current Research Activities: Organizational behavior; managerial learning in different cultural settings; managerial judgment and decision making.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Betting against yourself: background risk and reversal of risk preferences RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 15 May 2010 (Mis) Managing gift-exchange: My firm may fail to capitalize on employee reciprocity UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$16,000 05 Oct 2009

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

Wouter STAM Assistant Professor (2358 6172 ; [email protected])

PhD, VU University Amsterdam

Current Research Activities: The antecedents and consequences of intra- and interorganizational networks, (institutional) entrepreneurship, organizational learning, knowledge creation and transfer.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Separating social selection from social influence: A study of network dynamics and innovation in the clean technology industry RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 01 Jun 2010 Corporate entrepreneurship in multinational corporations: A multilevel study UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$9,000 01 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Stam, Wouter (2010) "Industry Event Participation and Network Brokerage among Entrepreneurial Ventures", Journal of Management Studies, Volume 47, Issue 4, Pages 625 - 653. Stam, Wouter (2009) "When does community participation enhance the financial and innovative performance of open source companies?", Research Policy, 38, 1288-1299.

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

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.

Jing ZHU Assistant Professor (2358 7745 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Minnesota

Current Research Activities: Team processes and effectiveness; team attitudes and composition; expatriate adjustment and cross-cultural human resource & organizational behavior; dynamic job search behaviors and processes; longitudinal and multilevel theory and research.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Utilizing expertise in work teams: When and how dose it happen? RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 10 Mar 2010 He mechanism and contingent factors of the effects of conflict asymmetry on team outcomes UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$16,000 15 Mar 2010

Representative Research Publications: Shaw, Jason, Zhu, Jing, Duffy, Michelle, Scott, Kristin, Shih, Hsi-An, Susanto, Ely (2010) "A contingency model of conflict and team effectiveness", Journal of Applied Psychology, Forthcoming. Wanberg, Connie, Zhu, Jing, Van Hooft, Edwin (2010) "The job search grind: Perceived progress, self-reactions, and self-regulation of search effort", Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 53. Department of Marketing

Jaideep SENGUPTA, Head of Department and Professor

A V MUTHUKRISHNAN, Professor

Jeongwen CHIANG, Adjunct Professor

Amnon RAPOPORT, Adjunct Professor

Robert S WYER, Adjunct Professor

Rashmi ADAVAL, Associate Professor

Liang GUO, Associate Professor

Kristiaan HELSEN, Associate Professor

Anirban MUKHOPADHYAY, Associate Professor

Inseong SONG, Associate Professor

Ying ZHAO, 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

Jiewen HONG, Assistant Professor

Yi XIANG, Assistant Professor

Oliver Yue ZHAO, Adjunct Assistant Professor Jaideep SENGUPTA Head of Department and 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 How Social Identity Threat Can Help (Not Just Hurt): An Interdisciplinary Investigation UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$140,000 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Chan, Elaine, Sengupta, Jaideep (2010) "Insincere Flattery Actually Works: A Dual Attitudes Perspective", Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 47 (February), 122-133. Dahl, Darren, Sengupta, Jaideep, Vohs, Kathleen (2009) "Sex in Advertising: Gender Differences and the Role of Relationship Commitment", Journal of Consumer Research, Vol 36 (2), 215-231. 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.

A V MUTHUKRISHNAN 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 Source Dependent Preference in Insurance Decision UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$140,000 07 Jun 2010 Ambiguity aversion and preference for the established brand UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$55,000 01 Dec 2008 Representative Research Publications: Muthukrishnan, Anaimalai V, Wathieu, Luc, Xu, Jing (2009) "Ambiguity Aversion and Preference for the Established Brands", Management Science, 55 (December), 1933-41. 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.

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.

Liang GUO Associate Professor (2358 7717 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~mkguo)

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (2004)

Current Research Activities: Marketing Strategy; Applied Economics; Information and Contract; Empirical Modeling of Consumer and Firm Behavior

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

Representative Research Publications: Guo, Liang, Iyer, Ganesh (2010) "Information Acquisition and Sharing in a Vertical Relationship", Marketing Science, 29 (3), 483-506. Guo, Liang (2009) "Quality Disclosure Formats in a Distribution Channel", Management Science, 55 (9), 1513-1526. Guo, Liang (2009) "Service Cancellation and Competitive Refund Policy", Marketing Science, 28 (5), 901-917. 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.

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. Anirban MUKHOPADHYAY Associate Professor (2358 7708 ; [email protected] ; http://www.bm.ust.hk/mark/staff/mkmukhop.html)

PhD, Columbia University (2004)

Current Research Activities: Consumer decision processes and their marketing implications; self-control and intertemporal behavior; agents, recommendations, and preferences; lay theories, emotions.

Representative Research Publications: Mukhopadhyay, Anirban, Yeung, Catherine (2010) "Building Character: Effects of Lay Theories of Self-Control on the Selection of Products for Children", Journal of Marketing Research, 47, 2 (April), 240-250. Chan, Elaine Y L, Mukhopadhyay, Anirban (2010) "When Choosing Makes a Good Thing Better: Temporal Variations in the Valuation of Hedonic Consumption", Journal of Marketing Research, 47, 3 (June), 497-507. Labroo, Aparna, Mukhopadhyay, Anirban (2009) "Lay Theories of Emotion Transience and the Search for Happiness: A Fresh Perspective on Affect Regulation", Journal of Consumer Research, 36, 2 (August), 242-254. 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. 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.

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.

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. Ying ZHAO Associate 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: Firms' Re-Entry Strategy after a Product Recall due to Product-Harm Crisis RGC - General Research Fund HK$480,240 01 Aug 2009

Representative Research Publications: Guo, Liang, Zhao, Ying (2009) "Voluntary Quality Disclosure and Market Interaction", Marketing Science, Volume 28, Number 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.

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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: When prevention-oriented investors take greater risks UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 15 Dec 2009

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] ; http://www.bm.ust.hk/~mark/staff/mkamy.html)

PhD, Duke University

Current Research Activities: Consumer psychology, nonconscious influences, goals, identity and self-esteem.

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 Nonconscious consumer correction processes: the role of perceived persuasion intent RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$55,000 20 Oct 2009 Implementation intentions and multiple goal pursuit RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$13,000 20 Nov 2009 When and why do marketing attempts to influence consumers automatically backfire? UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$160,000 07 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Dalton, Amy N, Chartrand, Tanya, Finkel, Eli (2010) "The schema-driven chameleon: How mimicry affects executive and self-regulatory resources", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98 (4), 605-617. Chartrand, Tanya, Dalton, Amy N (2009) "Mimicry: Its ubiquity, importance, and functionality", Oxford Handbook of Human Action, E. Morsella, J. A. Bargh, & P. M. Gollwitzer (Eds.), p 458 - 483.

Rodolphe T G DUCLOS Assistant Professor (2358 7692 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of North Carolina

Current Research Activities: Consumer psychology; preference formation and evolution; decision making; impulsivity and self-regulation; charitable behavior.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The Psychology of Donation Behavior: Why Do Consumers Engage in Prosocial Behavior? RGC - General Research Fund HK$521,640 01 Oct 2009 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

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: The Multiple Influences of Mixed Emotions on Consumer Judgment and Decision Making RGC - General Research Fund HK$575,874 01 Jan 2010 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.

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 Consumer processing and the design of news RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$55,700 01 Jan 2010 Deceptive advertising and consumer investigation RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$12,500 01 Mar 2010 Modeling Deceptive Persuasion and Consumer Search UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$100,000 30 Jun 2010

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. 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

Joshua DERMAN, Visiting 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 (2010) "Disposition or Imposition? - Remarks on Fingarette's Lunyu", Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 37, no. 2 (June 2010), pp. 294-310. Fung, Yiu-ming (2010) "On the Very Idea of Correlative Thinking", Philosophy Compass (Blackwell), April 2010, pp. 1-14. Fung, Yiu-ming (2009) "Buddhist Truth, Dhyana-paramita, and Logic (佛理、禪悟與邏輯)", The Record of Search (香港中文大學哲學系 六十週年系慶論文集《求索之跡．校友卷》), edited by Lau Kwok-ying and Cheung Chang-fai, Chinese University Press, 2009. Fung, Yiu-ming (2009) "On the Very Idea of Naturalism in Ancient China: A Review of Joseph Needham's View (論所謂中國古代的自然 主義：評李約瑟的觀點)", Tsing-hua Journal of Chinese Studies (Taiwan: National Tsing-hua University), vol. 39, no. 4 (December 2009), pp. 505-528. Fung, Yiu-ming (2009) "Philosophy in the Han Dynasty", History of Chinese Philosophy, ed. by Bo Mou, Routledge, 2009, pp. 269-302. Fung, Yiu-ming (2009) "School of Names", History of Chinese Philosophy, ed. by Bo Mou, Routledge, 2009, pp. 164-188. 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.

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 (2010) "The Anti-Unity Sect Campaign and Mass Mobilization in the Early People's Republic of China", The China Quarterly, 202. Hung, Chang-tai (2010) "The Anti-Unity Sect Campaign and Mass Mobilization in the Early People's Republic of China", The China Quarterly, no. 202, pp. 400-420. 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.

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 (2010) "Zhuangzi and Hui Shi on Qing 情", Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, 40:1, pages 21-45. Chong, Kim-chong (2009) "Classical Confucianism (II): Meng Zi and Xun Zi", The Routledge History of Chinese Philosophy, Bo Mou, pp.189-207. Publisher: Routledge. Chong, Kim-chong (2008) "Xunzi on Capacity, Ability and Constitutive Rules", Searle's Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy-- Constructive Engagement, Bo Mou, pp.295-310. Publisher: Brill. 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.

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, Charles W H (2010) "“變動時代經學家對〈中庸〉義理的探索與發揮──前期劉師培的〈中庸〉說” (On the Interpretation of the Chung-yung that Liu Shih-pui held in His Early Years)", 「民國經學第七次會議──變動時代的經學與經學家(1912-1949)」(The Seventh Conference on Classical Studies in the Republican Era), organized by the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, The Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taipei, June 10-11, 2010. 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.

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: From the glance to the gaze: visual modernities and cultural politics in China from the 17th to 20th Century RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$50,000 15 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Jianhua (2009) "The North Expedition and Revolution Plus Love Fiction", Chinese Revolution and Chinese Literature, Tao Dongfeng, Yang Xiaobin, Rosemary Roberts, and Yang Ling, eds., London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 163-178. 陳, 建華 (2009) 《從革命到共和--清末至民國時期文學、電影和文化的轉型》 From Revolution to the Republic: The Transformation of Literature, Film, and Culture in Late Qing and Republican Period, 桂林：廣西師範大學出版社, 417頁. 陳, 建華 (2009) "〈1920年代「新」、「舊」文學之爭愈文學公共空間的轉型--以文學雜誌「通信」 與「談話會」欄目為例〉 The Debates between the Old and New Literary Groups and the Transformation of Public Space in the 1920s: Focusing on the Columns of 'Correspondenc'", 《現代中文學刊》 Journal of Modern Chinese Studies, 第1期，頁32-49。轉載於中國人民大學書報資料中心編:《中國現 代、當代文學研究》, 2009年第12期，頁27-41。. 陳, 建華 (2009) "〈殷明珠與20世紀20年代初好萊塢明星文化〉 Yin Mingzhu and Hollywood Star Culture in Early 1920s Shanghai", 《電影 藝術》 Film Art, 第329期，頁120 -126. 陳, 建華 (2009) "〈欲的凝視：《金瓶梅詞話》的述方法、視覺與性別〉", 《經典轉化與明清事文學》, 王璦玲、胡曉真編，臺北：聯經， 頁97-118. 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. 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.

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—白先勇的饑餓敘事〉(From Rice Noodle to Souffle: 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.

Representative Research Publications: Cheung, Siu Woo, Li, Tinggui (2010) 《梁聚五文集：民族．民主．政論》(The Anthology of Liang Juwu: Nation, Democracy, and Political Commentaries), South China Research Center, Division of Humanities, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2 volumes, 1,052pages. Cheung, Siu Woo (2010) "〈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", 《梁聚五文集：民族． 民主．政論》(The Anthology of Liang Juwu: Nation, Democracy, and Political Commentaries), Siu-woo Cheung and Li Tinggui, eds., Vol 2, pp. 425-461. Cheung, Siu Woo (2010) "〈楊漢先關於黔西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〉(Yang Hanxian's Writings on Miao Identity in Western Guizhou: A Case Study of Marginal Ethnic Groups' Self-Repr", 《西南民族大學學報》(Journal of Southwest University for Nationalities), 2010(3): 1-11. 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 Modern China", 《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.

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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Pictorial representations of Buddhist sacred sites during the Yuan: Wang Meng picture of Mount Taibo and Li Zixiao picture of Mount Yandang UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$48,000 01 Jun 2010

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: War Clouds Over the Southern Sky: Society and Culture in Wartime Canton and the Pearl River Delta, 1937-1945 RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,187,260 01 Jan 2010 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 K Y (2009) "Images of Houses, Houses of Images: Some Preliminary Thought on a Socio-cultural History of Urban Dwellings in Pre-1940s Canton", “Visual, Representation, Materiality and Narratives” Organized by Institut D'Asie Orientale, Universite Lumiere Lyon 2, Santa Lucia di Talla, Corsica, France, October 7-9, 2009. 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 The historical anthropology of Chinese society UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$608,350 01 Jan 2010 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 International conference on intangible cultural heritage and local communities in East Asia Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Leisure and Cultural Services Department HK$200,000 04 Dec 2009 Pan-Pearl River Delta Research Station, South China Research Center, HKUST Nansha Research Centers HK$1,800,000 01 Jul 2008 Pan-Pearl River Delta Research Station, South China Research Center, HKUST Nansha Research Centers HK$ 01 Jul 2010

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 Debuccalization in modern Chinese dialects: a study of morpho-phonological interaction UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$45,000 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Sun, Jingtao (2008) "<說“營窟”--兼釋“宮”“營”二字> An Interpretation of yingku 營窟 - 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: 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 (2010) "Contemporary Chinese Studies of the Philosophy of Liu Zongzhou", Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Vol. 9 (2010), pp. 225-232. Wong, Simon Man Ho (2010) "Mou Zongsan's Interpretation of Liu Jishan's Concept of 'Wu is zhi, not the object of zhi' (in Chinese)", Journal for Contemporary Studies of Confucianism, Vol. 8 (2010), pp. 101-118. Wong, Simon Man Ho (2010) "Tang Junyi's Interpretation of the Philosophy of Wang Chuanshan (in Chinese)", The Journal of Chinese Philosophy and Culture, Vol. 7 (2010), pp. 83-122. 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.

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: Chinese Tones: Their Phonetic Properties, Typological Universals and Trajectories of Evolution RGC - General Research Fund HK$917,056 10 Aug 2009 A typological study of tone patterns in non-Cantonese Chinese dialects of Guangdong RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$40,000 30 Jun 2009 Representative Research Publications: Zhu, Xiaonong (2010) 《語音學》. Phonetics: Basic concepts, 北京: 商務印書館. Beijing: Commercial Press. Zhu, Xiaonong (2010) "全濁弛聲論:兼論全濁清化(消弛)低送高不送. Sclak voice: the phonetic nature of Quanzhuo", Studies in Language and Linguistics 《語言研究》2010.3:1-19, 3: 1-19. Zhu, Xiaonong, Xu, Yue (2009) "弛化：探索吳江次清分調的原因. Slack voice as the cause of tone split in Wujiang: An experimental phonetic study", 《中國語文》Zhongguo Yuwen, 3: 324-332. Zhu, Xiaonong (2009) "重塑語音學 Reshaping phonetics", Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, 4.1: 1-22. Zhu, Xiaonong (2009) "發聲態的語言學功能. Linguistic functions of phonation modes", 《語言研究》Studies in Language and Linguistics, 3:1-19. Zhu, Xiaonong (2009) "聲調起源於發聲——兼論漢語四聲的發明. Phonation as the phonetic cause of tonogenesis: With special reference to the origin of Chinese tones", 復旦大學《語言研究集刊》 Bulletin of Language Studies. Fudan University, 6: 1-29. 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.

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

Representative Research Publications: Chan, Kit Yee (2010) "〈論鍾曉陽〈喚真真〉的成長故事與香港集體記憶的關係〉 A discussion on the relationship between initiation story of Zhong Xiaoyang's Whispering 'Zhen Zhen' and the collective memories of Hong Kong", 《淡江中文學報》 TamKang Journal of Chinese literature, No. 22(June 2010):155-186. 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 (2005) Reality and Symbols: Identity Quest for 'Self','Female' and 'Writer' in Xiao Hong's Work (in Chinese), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2005, 197 pages. Joshua DERMAN Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 5869 ; [email protected])

PhD, Princeton University (2008)

Current Research Activities: Modern European history; global intellectual history; history of social and political thought.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: From Charisma to Canonization: Max Weber in Germany and the United States RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 01 Sep 2009

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 3 National Science Foundation HK$60,450 01 Oct 2009

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])

PhD, Harvard University (2000)

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: A 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

Representative Research Publications: Ng, Kenny K K (2009) "Temporality and Polyphony in Li Jieren's The Great Wave", Chinese Revolution and Chinese Literature, Tao Dongfeng (ed.), Middlesex, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 197-224. Ng, Kenny K K (2009) "語言、地域、地緣政治：試論五、六十年代國泰/電懋的都市喜劇", 電影欣賞學刊, no.140 (July-Sep 2009): 96- 112. 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 Screenwriter as Cultural Broker: Travels of Zhang Ailing's Comedy of Love", Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, 20.2 (Fall): 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 (2007) "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，305-322.

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 (2009) Rays of the Searching Sun: The Transcultural Poetics of Yang Mu, (No. 23 in New Comparative Poetics Series) Brussels: P. I. E. Peter Lang, 2009, 300 pages. Wong, Lai-ming Lisa (2009) "Taiwan, China, and Yang Mu's Alternative to National Narratives", Cultural Discourse in Taiwan, Eds. Chin-Chuan Cheng, I-Chun Wang, and Steven Totosy de Zepetnek (Kaohsiung: College of Liberal Arts, National Sun Yat-sen University, 2009), pp. 87-107. 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.

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 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: Yiu, Carine Y M (2010) "〈再談早期粵語中的變調現象〉 Revisit the Use of Change Tones in Early Cantonese", 《方言》 Dialect, Issue 1, pp.18-29. 姚, 玉敏 (2009) "〈香港粵語上聲變化初探：語音實驗研究〉", 語言暨語言學, 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, Dean and 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

Yi ZHU, 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: Occupational segregation, anti-discrimination policies, & gender inequality in Hong Kong CPU - Public Policy Research HK$313,950 30 Sep 2009 Social Stratification and Mobility in East Asia: A Comparative Study of China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan RGC - General Research Fund HK$1,027,180 01 Dec 2009 Gender segregation and work inequality in East Asia RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 May 2009 Hong Kong Study of Undergraduate Learning (HK SOUL): A Panel Study UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$360,000 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Wong, Raymond Sin-Kwok (2010) Association Models, Sage Publications, QASS Series No. 164. 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 Dean and 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.

Representative Research Publications: Tsuya, Noriko O., Feng, Wang, Alter, George, Lee, James (2010) Prudence and Pressure - Reproduction and Human Agency in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900, The MIT Press, 380 pages.

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 New labor law and the making of the working class in the Peal River Delta UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$48,000 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: So, Alvin (2010) "Globalization and China: From Neo-liberalism to state developmentalism", Globalization in the Twenty-first century: Labor capital, and the state on a world scale, edited by Berch Berberoglu, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp.133-154. So, Alvin (2010) "Hong Kong Immigrants", Encyclopedia of American Immigration, edited by Carl Bankston, Los Angeles: Salem Press, pp.498-501. So, Alvin (2010) "Rethinking the Chinese Developmental Miracle", China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism in the 21st century, edited by Ho-fung Hung, Johns Hopkins University Press. Chu, Yin-wah, So, Alvin (2010) "State Neoliberalism: The Chinese Road to Capitalism", Chinese Capitalism: Historical Emergence and Political Implications, edited by Yin-wah Chu,New York: Palgrave Macmillan. So, Alvin (2009) "Globalization and the State Power in China", Power and Sustainability of the Chinese State, edited by Keun Lee, Joon- Han Kim and Wing T Woo. Armonk: M.E.Sharpe, Pp. 168-185. So, Alvin (2009) "Research on East Asian middle classes: Contentious Issues, Recent Transformations, and future directions", Formation of Middle class in Comparative Perspective (in Chinese), edited by Li Chunling, Beijing: Social Science Academic Press. 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.

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: Resource diplomacy under Hegemony RGC - General Research Fund HK$623,392 01 Sep 2010 Center on China's Transnational Relations UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$170,000 19 Sep 2008 Representative Research Publications: Zweig, David Stephen, Herberg, Mikkal (2010) "'Resource Diplomacy' Under Hegemony: Foreign Policy 'Triangularism' and Sino- American Energy Competition in the 21st Century", China's Energy Rise: The U.S., and the New Geopolitics of Energy (Los Angeles: Pacific Council on International Policy), April 2010, pp. 35-74. Zweig, David Stephen (2010) "China's Political Economy", in William A. Joseph, ed., Politics in China: An Introduction, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 192-221. Zweig, David Stephen, Han, Donglin (2010) "Images of the World: Studying Abroad and Chinese Attitudes towards International Affairs", The China Quarterly, No. 202 (June 2010): 290-306. Zweig, David Stephen (2010) "The Rise of a New 'Trading Nation'", in Lowell Dittmer and George Yu, eds., China, the Developing World and the New Global Dynamic: (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2010), pp. 37-60. Zweig, David Stephen (2010) "To the Courts or to the barricades: can new political institutions manage rural conflict?", in Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden, eds., Chinese Society: Change, conflict and resistance, 3nd Edition (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2010), pp. 123-147. 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.

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: Supporting the EU access to Chinese research & innovation programmes European Commission HK$270,627 01 Jan 2010

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.

Representative Research Publications: Ding, Xueliang (2009-2010) "The Illicit Asset Stripping in Chinese Firms", re-published, originally the lead article in The China Journal no.43 (January 2000), pp. 1-28. The Politics of Modern China: Critical Concepts, a 4-volume set London: Routledge, 2009, Lynn Whyte III et al. 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.

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

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

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 Chinese statistics RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$25,000 29 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Holz, Carsten (2009) "No Razor's Edge: Reexamining Alwyn Young's Evidence for Increasing Inter-Provincial Trade Barriers in China", The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 91, issue 3 (Aug. 2009), pp. 599-616. Holz, Carsten A. (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) "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; urban issues; 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 (2010) "Making Heritage in Hong Kong: A Case Study of the Central Police Station Compound", The China Quarterly, Vol. 202, pp.381-399. 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, 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: Regional competition and the dearth of migrant workers in China RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$40,000 30 Jun 2010 Center for Demography and Sustainable Development (CDSD) Nansha Research Centers HK$2,100,000 01 Jul 2008

Representative Research Publications: Ma, John Z, Wang, Jiangping (2010) "Regional Competition: The Size and Volume of the Floating Population in China in 2005", Population Research, 34(3): pp 3-16. 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 politics of localization of Chinese enterprises in Africa RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$35,000 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Sautman, Barry (2010) "Vegetarian Between Meals: the Dalai Lama, War and Violence", Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, 18: 1: 89-143. Sautman, Barry, Yan, Hairong (2009) "African Perspectives on China-Africa Links", China Quarterly, no. 199: 729-760. Sautman, Barry (2009) All that Glitters is Not Gold: Tibet as a Pseudo-State, Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies (Baltimore: University of Maryland School of Law no. 197). 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.

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 Presidentialism & democratic governance: challenges in Asia (1946-2003) UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 May 2010

Representative Research Publications: Sing, Ming, Cummings, Lucy (2010) Constitutional Reform for Good Governance in Hong Kong, Center for Comparative and Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, 124 pages. Sing, Ming (2010) "Explaining Democratic Survival Globally", The Journal of Politics, (2010), 72 : 438-455. Sing, Ming (2010) "Explaining Mass Support for Democracy in Hong Kong", Democratization, Volume 17, Issue 1 February 2010 , pages 175 - 205. Sing, Ming (2009) "Hong Kong's Democrats Hold Their Own", Journal of Democracy, Volume 20, (1), 98-112. Sing, Ming (2009) "Hong Kong: Perception of Governance, Social Capital, and Quality of Life", Human Beliefs and Values in East and Southeast Asia in Transition, ed. by T. Inoguchi, Tokyo: Akashi Shoten, pp. 71-86. Sing, Ming (2009) "The quality of life in Hong Kong", Social Indicators Research, Volume 92, Number 2 , pp. 293-335, June, 2009.

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: The Study of the Long-term Relationship between Mortality, Climatic Conditions and Air Pollution UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$360,000 01 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Tu, Jow Ching, Hou, MiaoMiao (2010) Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues (Chinese version), Cengage Publisher (Sibgapore). 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 Hong Kong panel study of social dynamics (HK-PSSD) CPU - Strategic Public Policy Research HK$3,960,000 30 Jun 2009 Hong Kong Adolescents and Youth Life Survey : A Pilot Panel Study UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$380,000 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Wu, Xiaogang (2010) "Economic Transition, School Expansion and Educational Inequality in China, 1990-2000", Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 28:91-108. Wu, Xiaogang (2009) "Income Inequality and Distributive Justice: A Comparative Analysis of Mainland China and Hong Kong", The China Quarterly, 200 (December): 1033-1052. Wu, Xiaogang (2009) "Voluntary and Involuntary Job Mobility and Earnings Inequality in Urban China, 1993-2000", Social Science Research, 39: 382-395. Xie, Yu, Wu, Xiaogang (2008) "Danwei Profitability and Earnings Inequality in Urban China", the China Quarterly, 195(September): 558- 81. 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. Wu, Xiaogang, Yu, Xie (2005) "Market Premium, Social Process, and Statisticism", American Sociological Review, 70: 865-70. Wu, Xiaogang, Treiman, Donald (2004) "The Household Registration System and Social Stratification in China, 1955-1996", Demography, 41(2): 363-384.

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 On defining "feeling good" UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 30 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Yik, Michelle (2010) "How unique is Chinese emotion?", The Oxford handbook of Chinese psychology, M. H. Bond, 2nd ed., pp. 205- 220. Yik, Michelle (2009) "Studying affect among the Chinese: The circular way", Journal of Personality Assessment, 91, 416-428. 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. 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.

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 The production-innovation networks of cultural & creative industries in Hong Kong: project-based production, collective innovation and labor processes RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$32,000 15 Jun 2010

Representative Research Publications: Chen, Yun Chung (2010) "Reinvention or hollowing-out? The dilemma of production restructuring of the Hong Kong film industry through cross-border co-production with China film companies", Annual Conference of Association of American Geographer, Las Vegas, Washington D.C., U.S.A., 14-18 April 2010. Chen, Shin-Horng, Chen, Yun Chung, Wen, Pei-Chang (2009) "MNCs' Offshore R&D Mandates and Host Countries' Locational Advantages: A Comparison 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) "The Upgrading of Multinational’s Regional Innovation Networks in China", Asia Pacific Business Review, 13(3): 373-403. Chen, Yun-Chung (2006) "Why Do Multinational Corporations Locate Their Advanced R&D Centres in Beijing", Journal of Development Studies, forthcoming.

Hye Jee CHO Assistant Professor (2358 7830 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (2008)

Current Research Activities: Political economy of international finance and investment, globalization and development, comparative political economy, international organizations, statistical methods.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Do IMF programs discipline budget deficits? The effects of IMF programs on government budget balance, expenditure, and revenue RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 26 Aug 2009

Li HAN Assistant Professor (2358 7838 ; [email protected])

PhD, Harvard (2008)

Current Research Activities: Development economics, labor economics, public economics and Chinese economy.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Stock market and economic development: causal evidence from local OTC markets in China RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 01 Sep 2009 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.

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.

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: Tracking knowledge-transfer from universities to society in Hong Kong innovation system RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$32,000 30 Jun 2010 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: Sharif, Nau Bahar (2010) "Rhetoric of Innovation Policymaking in Hong Kong Using the Innovation Systems Conceptual Approach", Science, Technology and Human Values, Vol. 35, no. 3: 408-434. 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, Issue 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 (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 Individual and household risk and time preferences: linking experimental and household survey data from Hong Kong UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$45,000 01 May 2010

Representative Research Publications: Shimokawa, Satoru (2010) "Asymmetric Intra-household Allocation of Calories in China", American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 92(3): 873-888. 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, Pak, S. Tess, Hui, C. Harry, Kwan, Siu-on, Goh, Mario Kheng Hsiang (2010) "Implicit Person Theories and Change in Teacher Evaluation: A Longitudinal Field Study", Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Vol 40, 273-286. Tam, Kevin K P, Lee, Sau-lai (2010) "What values do parents want to socialize in their children: The role of perceived normative values", Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol 41, 175-181. Zou, Xi, Tam, Kevin K P, Morris, Michael W., Lee, Sau-lai, Lau, Ivy Yee-Man, Chiu, Chi-yue (2009) "Culture as common sense: Perceived consensus versus personal beliefs as mechanisms of cultural influence", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 97, 579-597. 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.

Yi ZHU Assistant Professor (2358 7837 ; [email protected])

PhD, Michigan State (2009)

Current Research Activities: Development economics, labor and demographic economics, Chinese economy.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Child care and the labor supply of women in China RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$106,800 01 Apr 2010 Division of Environment

Paul James HARRISON, Associate Head

William F BARRON, Visiting Associate Professor

Alexis Kai-Hon LAU, Associate Professor, ENVR and CIVL; Director, Environmental Central Facility; Associate Director, Institute for the Environment

Paul W FORSTER, Adjunct Associate Professor Paul James HARRISON Associate Head (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.

Representative Research Publications: Harris, Shannon L., Varela, Diana E., Whitney, Frank W., Harrison, Paul J. (2009) "Nutrient and phytoplankton dynamics off the west coast of Vancouver Island during the 1997/98 ENSO event", Deep-Sea Research II: Tropical Studies in Oceanography, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2009.02.009. He, Lei, Yin, Kedong, Yuan, Xiangcheng, Li, Dongmei, Zhang, Derong, Harrison, Paul J. (2009) "Spatial distribution of viruses, bacteria and chlorophyll in the northern South China Sea", Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Vol. 54: 153-162, 2009. Wong, Ken T.M., Lee, Joseph H.W., Harrison, Paul J. (2008) "Forecasting of environmental risk maps of coastal algal blooms", Harmful Algae, doi:10.1016/j.hal.2008.09.001. Xu, Jie, Yin, Kedong, He, Lei, Yuan, Xiangcheng, Ho, Y.T. Alvin, Harrison, Paul J. (2008) "Phosphorus limitation in the northern South China Sea during late summer: Influence of the Pearl River", Deep-Sea Research I, 55 (2008) 1330-1342. 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.

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

PhD, Johns Hopkins

Current Research Activities: Application of principles of economics to environmental assessment and decision making, especially for transport and air pollution; Perceptions of risk with respect to exceeding planetary boundaries.

Alexis Kai-Hon LAU Associate Professor, ENVR and CIVL; Director, Environmental Central Facility; Associate Director, Institute for the Environment (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: Marine vessels smoke emission research Civic Exchange HK$725,000 01 Jun 2010 Air quality improvement for the 16th Asian Games and beyond Fu Tak Iam Foundation Ltd. HK$3,000,000 01 Jan 2009 Atmospheric research center Nansha Research Centers HK$6,224,000 01 Jul 2006 Atmospheric research center Nansha Research Centers HK$11,300,000 01 Jul 2008 Atmospheric research center Nansha Research Centers HK$ 01 Jul 2010

Representative Research Publications: Lau, Alexis K H, Yuan, Zibing, Yu, Jianzhen, Louie, Peter K K (2010) "Source apportionment of ambient volatile organic compounds in Hong Kong", Science of The Total Environment, 408, 19, 4138-4149. Yuan, Zibing, Lau, Alexis K.H., Shao, M., Louie, Peter K.K., Liu, S.C., Zhu, T. (2009) "Source analysis of volatile organic compounds by positive matrix factorization in urban and rural environments in Beijing", Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, D00G15, doi:10.1029/2008JD011190. 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.

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. 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 (2010) "Devising and implementing a business proposal module: constraints and compromises", English for Specific Purposes, 29 (2): 108-120. Flowerdew, Lynne (2009-2010) "Using corpora for writing instruction", Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics, M. McCarthy & A. O'Keeffe (eds) pp. 444-457. Flowerdew, Lynne J (2009) "Applying corpus linguistics to pedagogy: a critical evaluation", International journal of corpus linguistics, 14 (3): 393-417. Flowerdew, Lynne (2008) Corpus-based analyses of the Problem-Solution pattern: a phraseological approach, 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) "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.

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 (2009) "Elite students' independent learning experiences: any lessons for the mainstream?", 56th TEFLIN International Conference on Responding to Global Challenges through Quality English Language Teaching, State Islamic University of Maulana Malik Ibrahim, Malang, Indonesia, 8-10 December 2009. 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.