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

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

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

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

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

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THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

REPORT ON RESEARCH ACTIVITIES, 2006-07 to RESEARCH GRANTS COUNCIL

RGC REPORT 1: OVERVIEW

1. YEAR IN REVIEW

HKUST has matured as a research-intensive university. One way of justifying and illustrating this statement is by reference to the following global rankings of universities in the international media.

WORLD RANKINGS FOR HKUST

2005 2006 Source *

University 43 58 THES - 60 NW Technology 23 17 THES Science 68 69 THES Bioscience - 61 THES Social Science 58 52 THES Arts & Humanities 89 - THES MBA 44 47 FT 82 37 EIU EMBA 2 3 FT

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

In the past two years, HKUST has been ranked in the top 100 universities in the world in all its fields of intellectual endeavor, i.e., in science, bioscience, engineering (or technology), business and management, and humanities and social science. Most notably, in 2006, HKUST was ranked:

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- # 3 EMBA program in the world - #17 in the world for technology R&D reputation

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

RESEARCH ASSESSMENT EXERCISE, 1999 & 2006

(%) 100

86.95 87.12 85.47

75.66 75.24 76.35 75 62.62

1999 50 2006

30.49

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0 CityU HKBU LU CUHK HKIEd PolyU HKUST HKU

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

Our strategy is to attract the best faculty and students, to expect and reward their best performance in research, to assist in economic and social development through service, technology diffusion/transfer to regional industry, and to stimulate entrepreneurship.

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

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

Basic/ Fundamental Research & Scholarship

HKUST researchers continue to make substantial contributions at the forefront of their disciplines, resulting in a host of publications in leading disciplinary jounals.

• Prof Nancy Ip's research team has recently unraveled the essential role of cyclin- dependent kinase 5 in the regulation of synapse development through modulating receptor tyrosine kinase signaling and functions. These findings have important implications in understanding the precise mechanisms by which synapses, connections between neurons, are fine tuned to facilitate learning and memory.

• Prof Hannah H. Xue’s research group has achieved another breakthrough in discovering that variations in the schizophrenia-related gene are related to positive selection, and that people with a relatively less mutated form of the related gene may be more susceptible to schizophrenia. This latest discovery also represents the first-ever discovery that positive selection is associated with genes related to mental disorders.

• Profs D. C. Chang and K. Q. Luo have developed a new class of molecular biosensors that can detect enzyme (caspase) activation in a single living cell based on the FRET (fluorescence resonance energy transfer) method. These sensors not only enable one to study the molecular mechanisms of programmed cell death in vivo, they also provide a powerful tool for rapid screening of new drugs.

• Prof B. F. Chen has obtained the classification of irreducible integral flows and irreducible integral tensions for signed graphs. He has also found an interpretation for the Tutte polynomials at positive integers.

• Profs Peter Chen and Guochang Zhang developed a model to explain why firms with multiple business segments may have incentives to shift earnings from one segment to another to influence market valuation. The shifting of earnings, however, causes information asymmetry about segmental performance and leads to market misvaluation. Thus divestment restores valuation accuracy. This prediction is supported by their empirical finding that the stock market reacts positively to divestment announcements, after controlling for increased expectations about future operating performance.

• Faculty members in Humanities have published the following texts:

- Leonard K K Chan, Ming Neo-Classicist on Tang Poetry (Beijing: Peking University Press, 2007) - Leonard K K Chan, Obsession with China (Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House, 2007) - Kim-chong Chong, Early Confucian Ethics (Chicago: Open Court 2007) - Zhongli Lu, ed., Gu Yanwu 顧炎武 《日知錄集釋》 (全校本) Ri zhi lu jishi (quanjiao). A thoroughly collated, amended, and punctuated edition by Luan

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Baoqun 欒保群 and Lu Zongli 呂宗力. (Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 2006). (3 volumes, 2022 pp.) - Xiaonong Zhu, A Grammar of Shanghai Wu (Muenchen, Germany: Lincom Europa, 2006) - Xiaonong Zhu, Studies in Chinese Phonology (Beijing: Commercial Press, 2006)

Applied Research

Examples of successful applied research are evident across most disciplines of the University:

• Led by Prof J Fung, a new Atmospheric Research Center has recently been set up in Nansha to conduct a sampling campaign and modeling studies to quantify various aspects of air quality over the Pearl River Delta.

• A concerted effort in microfluidics with soft lithographic techniques has led to a number of advances. In particular, it has become possible to embed electrical functionalities in microfluidic chips, leading to the design and implementation of (i) a hybrid approach to microfluidic mixing, (ii) electrorheological valves for microfluidic actuation, and (iii) paper-like thermochromic displays.

• Prof. Guang-Hao Chen has invented a new treatment technology for Hong Kong saline sewage, which produces less excess sludge and requires lower operation cost than conventional technologies. The Drainage Services Department of the HKSAR Government has awarded Prof. Chen $1.3 million to conduct a pilot trial at the Tung Chung Pumping Station.

• With support from the Hong Kong Housing Society, Prof. Christopher Leung, Prof. Zongjin Li and Dr. Stephen Lee are developing new technologies for the renewal of concrete buildings. Specifically, they are working on (i) a high ductility cementitious plaster to prevent the falling of spalled concrete from building surfaces, (ii) a rapid hardening and low-shrinkage cement for the effective patching of damaged concrete members, and (iii) the use of carbon fiber sheets for the strengthening of degraded components. Laboratory studies show very promising results, and field trials in a Housing Estate will be performed in the coming year.

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

• Mr Zhou Xu, PhD candidate in IELM, has successfully translated the algorithmic results of his dissertation into a strategic procurement and bid optimization system, which received the recognition for Innovation Applications of Artificial Intelligence in 2006 from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

• Prof Tianshou Zhao’s research involves the development of clean and high-efficiency energy technologies. His research on fuel cell science and technology has made significant impacts in the international academic community over the last few years, as

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indicated by numerous plenary/keynote lectures at important international conferences and being elected as Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Fuel Cells.

• Prof Gilles Hilary developed a model to show that, when facing organized labor, management has an incentive to preserve the information asymmetry with outsiders by reducing information disclosed to the public. He has provided empirical evidence that strong organized labor is associated with indications of low disclosure, such as a higher bid-ask spreads, lower trading volume and lower analyst coverage.

• In a collaborative study, Prof Clive Lennox showed evidence that companies appoint their financial officers’ former audit firms more often than they appoint alternative firms. However, companies are less likely to appoint officers’ former firms if audit committees are more independent. This suggests that independent audit committees strengthen audit quality by deterring affiliation between audit firms and officers.

• Profs Qing Li and Shaohui Zheng have developed a dynamic control model to determine the joint optimal replenishment and pricing strategy for systems with uncertain production yield and demand. They have further conducted a study on the operational effect of yield uncertainty, which has led to important managerial insights for these systems.

• Profs Riki Takeuchi and J. T. Li have developed a model on decision autonomy and expatriate managers’ cross-cultural adjustment. They examined the effect of decision autonomy afforded to expatriate managers on their own adjustment as well as the moderating effect of global integration pressure. They further investigated the mitigating effect of the parent company’s operational experience with the particular foreign subsidiary on this relationship.

• Prof J T Li and colleagues have conceptualized different foreign entry modes as distinct organizational forms and examined how wholly-owned foreign subsidiaries (WFSs) gain legitimacy in a host country. Drawing on the institutional and ecological perspectives, this study builds a coherent theoretical framework for considering the legitimation of an organizational form with identity, community, and audience as common threads.

Events

A number of prestigious research events were held in 2006-07.

• Co-organized with the Biochemisty Department and the Molecular Neuroscience Center, BRI hosted the Gordon Research Conference on “Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology” at HKUST from 11-16 June 2006. A total of 172 leading scientists, postdoctoral fellows and students from Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region participated in this GRC. A number of the world’s leading scientists and visionaries shared their insights on molecular neuroscience, including Prof Linda Buck, the 2004 Nobel Laureate from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Prof H. Robert Horvitz, the 2002 Nobel Laureate from MIT.

• Co-organized with the Molecular Neuroscience Center, BRI organized a two-day international symposium on “The Role of Cdk5 in Neuronal Plasticity” from 9-10

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January 2007 at HKUST. Twenty leading scientists from the US, Canada, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, South Korea and Japan came, including Prof Ashok Kulkarni, Prof Li-huei Tsai and Prof Laurent Meijer, reflecting the excellence of this symposium.

• A Croucher Foundation Advanced Study Institute on "Leading-edge strategies and technologies for sustainable urban water management was organized at HKUST by Profs. Guang-Hao Chen and Y. K. Tung on 15-20 September 2006. Ten world renowned experts delivered intensive lectures. The event attracted participation of more than 50 active young researchers from the region.

• CSE hosted the annual Tsinghua-HKUST Programming Contest in 2007, a Greater China collegiate team competition. Undergraduates and faculty members from Tsinghua University (Beijing) and National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu) were invited to join this event on the HKUST campus.

• The International Workshop on Wireless Technologies and Systems (IWTS 2007) was held at HKUST. The one-day workshop brought together an international group of world renowned researchers and leaders to provide their view of the state-of-the-art technologies, and identify the main challenges and research directions for the next generation wireless communications systems.

• ECE was the co-organizer of the globally renowned IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2007 held in Hong Kong from 11-15 March 2007. WCNC is the world’s leading international event for engineers and researchers at the forefront of development and deployment of wireless technologies and wireless communications industry professionals interested in the latest research. It was the first time the WCNC conference has been held outside North America.

• The 5th Asian-Australasian Conference on Composite Materials (ACCM-5) was held at Harbour Plaza Hotel, Hong Kong, on 27-30 November 2006. It was organized by MECH, and Prof Jang-Kyo KIM was the General Chair.

• The 8th International Conference on Electronic Materials and Packaging (EMAP2006) was held at HKUST on 11-14 December 2006. This conference was co-organised by HKUST and IEEE CPMT Society. Prof Ricky Lee of MECH served as the General Chair.

• The Center on China’s Transnational Relations (CCTR) hosted an international workshop on “China-Africa Links” during 11-12 November 2006, which brought together scholars from China, Africa and Europe to present research papers on aid, educational exchanges, trade investment and legal links in the China-Africa relationship. In addition, CCTR hosted a series of research workshops, including the “Fulbright China Research Forum” on 5-8 February 2007 and the “New Era Global Scenario Workshop” co-organized with University of California, Berkeley on 9 January 2007.

• The summer of 2007 saw the first running of the Hong Kong “Joint Universities Summer Teaching Laboratory” or JUSTL Program at the internationally acclaimed Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, MA, USA. This program was founded by Prof Andrew Miller of BIOL and is jointly funded by the Croucher Foundation and the HKSAR Government. The program involves taking 6 top PG students from Hong Kong’s research universities to the MBL for 2 months during the MBL summer season.

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JUSTL students attend lectures, as well as to undertake experiments and advanced training in the JUSTL laboratory under the supervision of MBL summer scientist mentors. In 2007, three students from HKUST and one student each from HKU, CUHK and CityU were selected to participate in the Program.

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 1,374 Masters and 133 doctoral graduates from HKUST in 2006 moved into the private and public sectors, taking with them in-depth knowledge of their discipline, know- how and an ability to be creative and innovative. These graduates, and indeed those at the bachelors level, are a force for change and can 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 $425 million in ITF funding over the eight-year period 1999- 2007 (i.e., since the beginning of the ITF program) - - substantially more than any other institution in Hong Kong

¾ Over this same period, HKUST has received $317 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:

• Gene-vinate Limited (GVN), founded by Bio-Click Technologies Ltd (established by Prof Wan Keung Wong in BICH) and China Nansha Technology Enterprises Ltd. is a biotechnology company engaged in the research & development, production, and commercialization of biotechnological products and systems. With operations at both HKUST and the Nansha IT Park, GVN is committed to providing advanced skin and health care technologies and products.

• Perception Digital, a technology company founded by professors and graduates of EEE (now ECE) in 1999 and launched under the HKUST Entrepreneurship Program, has received three honors in the 2006 Hong Kong Awards for Industries. The founder, Prof Jack Lau, completed his PhD degree in 1994 and became the first PhD to graduate from HKUST.

• Prof Ricky Lee's group has been working on the packaging and assembly of LED arrays for general solid state lighting. Their prototype modules were adopted by Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation and installed in one car of a train in October 2006 for public

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transportation service. Compared with the original fluorescent light tubes, the LED modules provide up to 20-30% of energy saving for saloon lighting.

In 2006-07 alone:

¾ TTC evaluated 35 invention disclosures from HKUST researchers

¾ TTC arranged for the filing of 118 patent applications, including full and provisional applications with the US Patent Office, CIP, international filings, etc.

¾ HKUST received notification of the granting of 17 patents

¾ RDC signed 146 R&D contracts with industrial clients, worth more than $45 million

¾ RDC licensed 24 patents that were assigned to HKUST (over the period 2005-07)

¾ RDC continued to incubate 17 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 awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Sciences, by her alma mater - Simmons College, in recognition of her significant accomplishments in the field of biotechnology.

• Prof Mingjie Zhang was conferred a 2006 National Natural Science Award in recognition of his contributions to elucidating the molecular mechanisms for a series of protein complexes that play signaling roles in neurons. The National Natural Science Award is China's most prestigious award for basic research in natural science.

• Dr James KWOK received IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Award from The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

• Prof Qian ZHANG has received the Overseas Outstanding Young Scholar Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

• CSE co-founded the Global RF Lab Alliance (GRFLA) with the University of Arkansas' RFID Research Center in the United States, the RFID Lab at Italy's University of Parma and the University of Bremen's LogDynamics Lab in Germany.

• Profs Philip Chan and Li Qiu, ECE, have been elected Fellows of the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). This brings the total number of IEEE Fellows in the department to 11.

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• Prof Khaled Ben Letaief was recognized for his Dynamic and Imaginative Service as founding editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 2002-2006 at the IEEE Communications Society Conference ICC 2007.

• ECE PhD candidate Wu Wen has become the first student in Hong Kong to be awarded a prestigious IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Graduate Student Fellowship. The accolade recognizes Wu Wen’s outstanding contributions to semiconductor research.

• PhD student Yuet-Wing Li, Electronic and Computer Engineering received the Outstanding Student Paper Award at the Society for Information Display (SID) Symposium 2007 in Long Beach, California.

• Ernest Sze-Yuen Lo, a PhD candidate in ECE, won the Best Paper Award at the prestigious 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications, held in Glasgow, Scotland. The award winning paper titled "Cooperative Concatenated Coding for Wireless Systems" was co-authored by Prof Khaled Ben Letaief.

• The Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) has recently appointed Prof Chung-Yee Lee of IELM as the Regional Vice President Australasia.

• Prof Neville Lee of IELM was awarded the First Class of 2007 China Higher Education of National Natural Science Award. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding research in natural science. Prof. Lee is honored for his contributions to modeling, fabrication and characterizing of poly crystal silicon thermal flexure actuator.

• Prof Fugee Tsung of IELM became as an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). The Institute is one of the oldest scientific associations in the world and members are globally recognized as leaders in the field.

• Miss Qi Fu, PhD candidate in IELM, won First Prize Dissertation Proposal Award of the 2006 SCALE (Supply Chain and Logistics Engineering) sponsored by SCALE Center at the University of Florida.

• Prof Tongxi Yu was awarded guest professor title from two universities in China, namely Beijing University of Technology and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

• Prof Ricky Lee was elected Distinguished Speaker of IEEE Components, Packaging & Manufacturing Society.

• Dr Faliang Chen (PhD 2000), currently a senior researcher in the Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, China, received his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2000 under the supervision of Prof Tongxi Yu. In Oct 2006, Dr Chen was awarded "Sichuan's Distinguished Overseas Returnee" by the local government of Sichuan Province, China.

• Mr MA Peng Cheng, a current MECH PhD student jointly supervised by Prof J.K. Kim of MECH and Prof B.Z. Tang of CHEM, received the Golden Award of the Best Student Paper Competition in the 5th Asian Australasian Conference on Composite Materials

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(ACCM-5), which was held in Hong Kong, for his paper entitled “Functionalization of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes using Silane."

• Miss LIU Lilin, a current PhD student supervised by Prof TY Zhang of MECH, won the first prize of student paper contest at the 8th International Conference on Electronic Materials and Packaging (EMAP2006) in Hong Kong.

• Prof Inchi Hu has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of sequential analysis; for the construction of innovative solutions to the multi-armed bandit problem with precedence relation; and for important contributions to the theories of adaptive control and importance sampling.

• Prof J. T. Li won the 2006 Best Paper Award at the Australia and New Zealand International Business Academy in Wellington. The title of this paper is “Failure- Induced Learning, Causal Ambiguity, and Foreign Market Entry”.

• William Tay’s book Film Genres and Genre Films was judged in 2006 to be among the “Ten Best of 2005”. This is an award (judged by 100 adjudicators) by the United Daily News of Taipei, Taiwan.

• William Tay, serves as President of INK: A Literary Monthly. This journal won the “30th Golden Tripod Award” in Taipei, for being the “Best Journal of the Year 2005 (Arts and Humanities Category)”.

• Miss Cheung Yin-ki, a Humanities Division PhD student specialising in Modern Chinese History, was awarded the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fund Council Fellowship for 2006/07.

• Prof Pun Ngai has received the C. Wright Mills book award from Society for the Study of Social Problems, for her 2005 book “Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace”. This is the first time this prestigious award has been given to an Asian scholar since its establishment in 1964.

• Prof Yongshun Cai has been awarded the prestigious Gordon White Award for the best article “Disaggregating the State: Networks and Collective Resistance in Shanghai” in 2006 in The China Quarterly (together with his co-author Fayong Shi).

• Prof Xiaogang Wu has been awarded the Asia and Asian America (AAA) Early Career Award by the American Sociological Association. This award recognizes a scholar in the early stage of his/her career, who is conducting exemplary research on the sociology of Asia or Asian American communities.

Research Funding

It is particularly notable that:

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• A cross-institutional research project led by Prof Nancy Y. Ip was awarded $27.5 million sustained funding support from the UGC, reaffirming the project’s world-class excellence. The funding was granted under the “Areas of Excellence” (AoE) scheme, which was established in 1998 to support UGC-funded institutions to develop their existing strengths into internationally recognized areas of excellence.

• A collaborative project entitled "Systematic study of essential protein kinases involved in cell growth and differentiation" was awarded a HK$6 million Central Allocation Grant by the RGC. Profs Zhenguo Wu, Randy Poon, Nancy Y. Ip, and Yung Hou Wong in Biochemistry are the principal investigators, and Co-investigators include faculty members from HKUST, CUHK and HKU.

• Prof Maria Lung has received a $5.2 million Central Allocation group research grant together with researchers at HKUST, HKU, HKPU and CUHK to establish an Esophageal Carcinoma Research Center to focus on the genomics, diagnostics, and therapeutics of this important and deadly cancer.

In the RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grants program announced in June 2007, HKUST researchers were awarded $96.5 million - - 19.8% of the total awarded to Hong Kong’s tertiary institutions. In this annual internationally peer-reviewed competition, HKUST can claim:

¾ the highest success rate, yet again by a substantial margin (55.8%)

¾ the highest funding per eligible faculty ($227 k)

¾ the highest participation rate (36.5% of eligible faculty were funded)

¾ the highest grant awarded by RGC’s Biology & Medicine panel ($2.07 million, to Nancy Ip, which was also the highest grant awarded by all of RGC’s panels in this year’s CERG competition)

¾ the highest grant awarded by RGC’s Engineering panel ($1.54 million, to Hoi Sing Kwok)

¾ the three highest grants awarded by RGC’s Physical Sciences panel ($935.5 k each to Ping Sheng, Wing Yim Tam and Bing Xu)

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 gifts. Proposals for such funding are reviewed

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and adjudicated by the Senate Research Committee for institution-wide funds, or by the Research Committees of the Schools for funds earmarked for such units.

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

5. CRITERIA FOR DETERMINING PRIORITIES

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

6. USAGE OF DIRECT ALLOCATION GRANT

In 2006-07, HKUST received a Direct Allocation Grant from RGC of $7.76 million. $4 million was used to support new faculty and $3.76 million was used as partial support for an internal Research Project Competition. The Research Project Competition is a new initiative of the University to support meritorious projects which could be exploratory in nature and which are expected to mature into proposals for significant external funding within two years. The Competition also encouraged collaborative interdisciplinary research. In total, 48 projects were supported by the Direct Allocation Grant.

In addition, UGC funding in the amount of $1.50 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.

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8. OPPORTUNITIES AND DIFFICULTIES IN INTER-INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATION

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

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

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

9. ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

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

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

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

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ATMOSPHERIC, MARINE & COASTAL ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM Department of Biochemistry

Nancy Yuk-Yu IP, Professor and Department Head; Associate Dean of Science; Director, BRI and Co-Director, Molecular Neuroscience Center

Robert K M KO, Professor

Randy Yat Choi POON, Professor

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

Mingjie ZHANG, Professor

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

Jeffrey Tze-Fei WONG, Professor Emeritus

Chun LIANG, Associate Professor

Robert Zhong QI, Associate Professor

Zilong WEN, Associate Professor

Wan-Keung R WONG, Associate Professor

Zhenguo WU, Associate Professor

Jun XIA, Associate Professor

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

Guang ZHU, Associate Professor

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

Kenny K K CHUNG, Assistant Professor

Kit Yu FU, Visiting Assistant Professor

Anthony S L CHAN, Research Assistant Professor

Zelda H Y CHEUNG, Research Assistant Professor

Wei FENG, Research Assistant Professor Christina J MORRIS, Research Assistant Professor

Jun WAN, Research Assistant Professor Nancy Yuk-Yu IP Professor and Department Head; Associate Dean of Science; 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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research HK$2,071,486 01 Dec 2007 Grant) Molecular neuroscience: basic research and drug discovery UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$8,000,000 01 Sep 2007 Control of pandemic and inter-pandemic influenza - characterization of H5N1 infection in neuronal cells UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$270,000 01 Jan 2008 Croucher forum on molecular neuroscience Croucher Foundation HK$190,000 01 Jun 2005 Molecular neuroscience: Basic research and drug discovery Office of the Dean of Science, HKUST HK$2,250,000 12 Jul 2005 Modernization of Chinese medicine: from clinical efficacy to drug production - two innovative formulae for comprehensive research (GHP/037/05) Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$991,070 01 May 2006 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 HK$3,000,000 01 Sep 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Fu, Amy K. Y., Cheung, Zelda H. Y., Ip, Nancy Y. (2008) "Beta-catenin in reverse action", Nature Neuroscience, 11(3):244-246.

Lin, Shuyong, Wang, Jifeng, Ye, Zhiyun, Ip, Nancy Y., Lin, Sheng Cai (2008) "Cdk5 activator p35 downregulates E- cadherin precursor independently of Cdk5", FEBS Lett., 582:1197-1202.

Cheung, Zelda H. Y., Gong, Ke, Ip, Nancy Y. (2008) "Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 supports neuronal survival through phosphorylation of Bcl-2", J. Neurosci., 28(19):4872-4877.

Pang, Tracy H. H., Ip, Fanny C. F., Ip, Nancy Y. (2008) "Recent development in the search for effective antidepressants using traditional Chinese medicine", Central Nervous System Agents in Medicinal Chemistry, 8:64- 71.

Shi, Lei, Fu, Ada W. Y., Hung, Nelson K. W., Porchetta, Cassandra, Hall, Christine, Fu, Amy K. Y., Ip, Nancy Y. (2007) "Alpha2-chimaerin interacts with EphA4 and regulates EphA4-dependent growth cone collapse", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104:16347-16352.

Fu, Amy K. Y., Ip, Nancy Y. (2007) "Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 links extracellular cues to actin cytoskeleton during dendritic spine development", Cell Adhesion & Migration, 1:2, 110-112.

Lok, Ka Chun, Fu, Amy K. Y., Ip, Fanny C. F., Wong, Yung Hou, Ip, Nancy Y. (2007) "NRG induces membrane targeting of GAlphaz in muscle: implication in myogenesis", NeuroReport, 18:1433-1436.

Cheung, Zelda H. Y., Ip, Nancy Y. (2007) "The roles of cyclin-dependent kinase 5 in dendrite and synapse development", Biotechnology Journal, 2:949-957.

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: Cellular signaling triggered by schisandrin B in the protection against oxidant injury RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$655,496 01 Sep 2007 Chinese medicine research and drug development UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$166,500 01 Apr 2008

Representative Research Publications:

CHIU, P.Y., LEUNG, H.Y., Siu, A.H.Y., Poon, M.K.T., Dong, T.T.X., Tsim, K.W.K., Ko, K.M. (2007) "Dang-Gui Buxue Tang protects against oxidant injury by enhancing cellular glutathione in H9c2 cells: Role of glutathione synthesis and regeneration", Planta Med., 73: 134-141.

Ko, K.M., LEUNG, H.Y. (2007) "Enhancement of ATP generation capacity, antioxidant activity and immunomodulatory activities of Chinese Yang and Yin tonifying herbs", Chinese Medicine, 2:3 doi:10.1186/1749-8546-2-3.

CHIU, P.Y., LEUNG, H.Y., Siu, A.H.Y., Poon, M.K.T., Ko, K.M. (2007) "Schisandrin B decreases the sensitivity of mitochondria to calcium ion-induced permeability transition and protects against carbon tetrachloride toxicity in mouse livers",

Biol. Pharm. Bull., 30: 1108-1112.

Ko, K.M., LEON, T.Y.Y., Mak, D.H.F, CHIU, P.Y., DU, Y., Poon, M.K.T. (2006) "A characteristic pharmacological action of 'Yang-invigorating' Chinese tonifying herbs: Enhancement of myocardial ATP generation capacity",

Phytomedicine, 13:636-642.

CHIU, P.Y., LEUNG, H.Y., Poon, M.K.T., Ko, K.M. (2006) "Chronic schisandrin B treatment improves mitochondrial antioxidant status and tissue heat shock protein production in various tissues of young adult and middle-aged rats", Biogerontology, 7: 199-210.

DU, Y., Ko, K.M. (2006) "Effects of pharmacological preconditioning by emodin/oleanolic acid treatment and/or ischemic preconditioning on mitochondrial antioxidant components as well as the susceptibility to ischemia-reperfusion injury in rat hearts", Mol. Cell. Biochem., 288: 135-142.

CHIU, P.Y., LEUNG, H.Y., Poon, M.K.T., Mak, D.H.F., Ko, K.M. (2006) "Schisandrin B is more potent than its enantiomer in enhancing cellular glutathione and heat shock protein production as well as protecting against oxidant injury in

H9c2 cardiomyocytes", Mol. Cell. Biochem., 289: 185-191.

CHIU, P.Y., Ko, K.M. (2006) "Schisandrin B-induced increase in cellular glutathione level and protection against oxidant injury are mediated by the enhancement of glutathione synthesis and regeneration in AML12 and H9c2 cells", Biofactors, 26:221-230.

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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research HK$1,779,784 01 Nov 2007 Grant) The molecular basis of immortalization and transformation of serum-free mouse embryonic fibroblasts RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research HK$1,858,014 01 Sep 2005 Grant) The molecular basis of mitotic catastrophe and adaptation associated with the G2DNA damage checkpoint and the spindle- assembly checkpoint RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research HK$998,500 01 Sep 2006 Grant)

Yung Hou WONG Professor and Associate 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: Identification of key signalling molecules as drug targets for the treatment of brain tumors RGC - Collaborative Research Fund - Seed Funding HK$200,000 02 May 2008 Deciphering the role of Gaz in cell differentiation RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,928,100 01 Nov 2005 Elucidating the role of Gα interacting protein (RGS-GAIP/RGS19) in cell growth and proliferation RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,936,500 01 Dec 2006 Biological sciences and biotechnology UGC - Strategic Initiatives HK$8,400,000 05 May 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Kwan, D.H.T., Kam, A.Y.F., Wong, Y.H. (2008) "Activation of the human FPRL-1 receptor promotes Ca2+ mobilization in U87 astrocytoma cells", Neruochem. Res., 33: 125-133.

Tian, Y.J., Lee, M.M.K., Yung, L.Y., Allen, R.A., Slocombe, P.M., Twomey, B.M., Wong, Y.H. (2008) "Differential involvement of Galpha16 in CC chemokine-induced stimulation of phospholipase CBeta, ERK, and chemotaxis.", Cell. Signal., 20: 1179-1189.

Kam, A.Y.F., Liu, A.M.F., Wong, Y.H. (2007) "FPRL-1 receptor requires lipid raft, c-Src, PI3K/Akt and ERK to activate IkappaB kinase in human U87 astrocytoma cells", J. Neurochem., 103: 1553-1566.

Kam, A.Y.F., Tse, T.T.M., Kwan, D.H.T., Wong, Y.H. (2007) "Formyl peptide receptor-like 1 differentially requires mitogen-activated protein kinases for the induction of glial fibrillary acidic protein and interleukin-1 in human U87 astrocytoma cells", Cell. Signal., 19: 2106-2117.

New, D.C., Wu, K.K.H., Kwok, A.W.S., Wong, Y.H. (2007) "G protein-coupled receptor-induced Akt activity in cellular proliferation and apoptosis", FEBS J., 274: 6025-6036.

Mody, S.M., Hu, Y., Ho, M.K.C., Wong, Y.H. (2007) "In search of novel and therapeutically significant melatoninergic ligands", Recent Patents CNS Drug Dis., 2: 241-245.

Lok, K.C., Fu, A.K.Y., Ip, F.C.F., Wong, Y.H., Ip, N.Y. (2007) "NRG induces membrane targeting of GalphaZ in muscle: implication in myogenesis", NeuroReport, 18: 1433-1436.

Liu, A.M.F., Lo, R.K.H., Wong, C.S.S., Morris, C., Wise, H., Wong, Y.H. (2006) "Activation of STAT3 by Galphas distinctively requires protein kinase A, JNK, and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase", J. Biol. Chem., 281: 35812-35825.

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

PhD, University of Calgary (1993)

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Structure and functions of ZU5 domains: Novel protein-protein interaction modules implicated in cell polarity and neuronal migration RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,614,641 01 Oct 2007 Protein-phosphoinositides interactions in neuronal signaling RGC - Collaborative Research Fund (formerly known as Central Allocation) HK$6,000,000 01 May 2008 CAS-HKUST Life Science and Biotechnology Joint Laboratory UGC - Collaboration with Mainland Institutions HK$320,000 19 Nov 2003 Solution structure and biological functions of the novel N-terminal multimerization domain of Par-3 RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,915,514 01 Nov 2005 Structural basis of split PH domain assembly and biochemical functions of split PH domains RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,960,500 01 Sep 2006 Systematic analysis of lipid and PDZ interactions UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$600,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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.

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 apical membrane localization", EMBO J., 26,2786-2796.

Long, Jia-fu, Feng, Wei, Wang, Rui, Chan, Ling-Nga, Ip, Fanny, Xia, Jun, Ip, Nancy, Zhang, Mingjie (2005) "Autoinhibition of X11s/Mints Scaffold Proteins Revealed by the Closed Conformation of the PDZ Tandem", Nat. Struct. & Mol. Biol., 12, 722-728.

Yan, Jing, Wen, Wenyu, Xu, Weiguang, Long, Jia-fu, Adams, Marvin E, Froehner, Stanely C, Zhang, Mingjie (2005) "Structure of the Split PH domain and Distinct Lipid Binding Properties of the PH-PDZ Supramodule of alpha- Syntrophin", EMBO J., 24, 3985-3995.

Feng, Wei, Long, Jiafu, Zhang, Mingjie (2005) "A unified assembly mode revealed by the structures of tetrameric L27 domain complexes formed by mLin-2/mLin-7 and Patj/Pals1 scaffold proteins", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 102, 6861- 6866.

Feng, Wei, Long, Jiafu, Fan, Jing-Song, Tetsuya, Suetake, Zhang, Mingjie (2004) "Hetero-tetrameric L27 (Lin-2, Lin-7) domain complexes as organization platforms for supra-molecular assemblies", Nat. Struct. & Mol. Biol., 11, 475-480.

Feng, Wei, Shi, Yawei, Li, Ming, Zhang, Mingjie (2003) "Tandem PDZ repeats in glutamate receptor interacting proteins have a novel mode of PDZ domain-mediated target binding", Nat. Struct. Biol., 10, 972-978.

Tochio, H, Tsui, Marco M. K., Banfiel, David K., Zhang, Mingjie (2001) "An Auto-Inhibitory Mechanism for Non-Syntaxin SNARE Proteins Revealed by the Structure of Ykt6p", Science, 293, 698-702.

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: Characterization of a novel class of proteins involved in both ribosome biogenesis and initiation of DNA replication RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research HK$1,489,500 01 Sep 2006 Grant) Novel anticancer agents targeted to DNA replication-initiation proteins against al types of cancer cells and with low toxicity to normal cells UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$500,000 14 Apr 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Liang, Chun (2007) "DNA Replication-Initiation Proteins and Their Potential Application as Anticancer Targets", Croucher Foundation Advanced Study Institute on Molecular Genetics and Cell Signaling in Cancer and

Cancer Metatasis, Hong Kong, 1.2007.

Liang, Chun (2007) "Study on DNA replication initiation proteins and their applications in cancer", Shenzhen-Hong Kong Joint Symposium on Biomedical Research, Shenzhen, China, 6.2007.

Liang, Chun (2006) "DNA replication-initiation proteins: identification, characterization and potential application as anticancer targets (Invited talk)", Croucher Foundation Advanced Study Institute on Signaling in Cell Growth and Differentiation, 1.2006.

Huo, Lin, Yu, Zhiling, Chan, Tsz Choi, Lu, Yongjun, Zhang, Yuan, Wong, Bonnie, Labib, Karim, Liang, Chun (2006) "Ipi3p is an essential DNA replication-initiation protein required for and directly involved in pre-replication complex assembly and maintenance (Talk)", The Cell Cycle Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, N.Y., USA, 9.2006.

Liang, Chun (2005) "DNA replication-initiation proteins and their potential applications in cancer. (Invited talk)", The 1st eIMBL (electronic International Molecular Biology Lab) Workshop, eIMBL, Seoul, Korea, 7.2005.

Liang, Chun (2005) "DNA replication-initiation proteins as novel anticancer targets. (Invited talk)", Hong Kong University Symposium on Frontiers in Biomedical Research, 12.2005.

Liang, Chun (2005) "Identification of effective anticancer drug candidates with low toxicity from Chinese medicinal herbs targeted to DNA replication-initiation proteins. (Invited talk)", Hong Kong Baptist University Conference on Traditional Chinese Medicine., 11.2005.

Zhai, Yuanliang, Chan, Tsz Choi, Feng, Daorong, Fu, Xinrong, Lo, Alice, Chen, Yanhong, Ma, Lijuan, Lu, Yongjun, Liang, Chun (2005) "Identification of novel initiation proteins for yeast DNA replication by using the IDR (Initiation of DNA Replication) screen", Eukaryotic DNA Replication Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, N.Y., USA, 9.2005.

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: Proteomics and proteomic technology; understanding cytoskeletal organization and regulation during cell proliferation, migration, and differentiation.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Functional proteomics to decipher protein complexes of the cell regulatory machinery in model systems UGC - High Impact Area HK$400,000 16 Sep 2004 Investigation of the role of a novel centrosomal protein, CDK5RAP2, in the microtubule organizing function of the centrosome RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$932,500 01 Dec 2006

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Qi, Robert Z., Ching, Y.P., Kung, H.F., Wang, J.H. (2003-2004) "Alpha-Chimaerin exists in a functional complex with the Cdk5 kinase in brain", FEBS Lett., 561, 177-180.

Lim, A.C.B., Tiu, S.Y., Li, Q., Qi, Robert Z. (2003-2004) "Direct regulation of microtubule dynamics by protein kinase CK2", J. Biol. Chem., 279, 4433-4439.

Lim, A.C.B., Qu, D., Qi, Robert Z. (2003-2004) "Protein-protein interactions in Cdk5 regulation and function", Neurosignals, 12, 230-238.

Song, Y., Kesuma, D., Wang, J., Deng, Y., Duan, J., Wang, J.H., Qi, Robert Z. (2003-2004) "Specific inhibition of cyclin-dependent kinases and cell proliferation by harmine", Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 317, 128-132.

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: Genetic Screen for Hematopoietic Stem Cell-Deficient Mutants in Zebrafish UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$500,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

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:

Chan, Kwun Nam A., Wong, Wan Keung R. (2008) "Cloning and characterization of the first GHF1 gene, cba3, encoding a commercially valuable cellobiase from Cellulomonas biazotea", The 9th AEARU Workshop on Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, HKUST, Hong Kong, PPG7, p. 66, March 25-26.

Ng, Ka-Lun, Lam, Chui-Chi, Wong, Wan-Keung R. (2008) "Cloning and characterization of the yjeA gene encoding a novel deoxyribonuclease from Bacillus subtilis", The 9th AEARU Workshop on Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, HKUST, Hong Kong, PPG6, p. 65, March 25-26.

Wong, Wan Keung (2008) "Commercialization of biotechnological research results", High-Technology & Industrialization, January, 108-109.

Wang, Yule Yue, Wong, Wan Keung R. (2008) "Enhancement of translocation of heterologous proteins in Escherichia coli", The 9th AEARU Workshop on Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, HKUST, Hong Kong, PPGS23, p. 57, March 25-26, 2008.

Wong, Wan Keung (2008) "Production, applications and commercialization of recombinant epidermal growth factor", BioX@Science Park, Hong Kong Science Park, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, April.

Ng, Ka-Lun, Lam, Chui-Chi, Fu, Zhibiao, Han, Yi-Fan, Tsim, Karl Wah Keung, Wong, Wan Keung R. (2007) "Cloning and Characterization of the yjeA gene, encoding a novel deoxyribonuclease, from Bacillus subtilis", J. Biochem., 142, 647-654.

Wong, Wan Keung R. (2007) "Commercialization of skincare products using hEGF as an active ingredient: An invited presentation delivered to CENG 109 students", Department of Chemical Engineering, HKUST, October.

Wong, W.K.R. (2007) "An E. coli excretion system for efficient production of extracellular recombinant proteins", Macau Institute for Applied Research in Medicine and Health, Macau China, May.

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

PhD, University of Western Ontario (1995)

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Investigation of the roles of the JAK/STAT pathways in myogenic differentiation RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,252,140 01 Sep 2007 Systematic Study of Essential Protein Kinases Involved in Cell Growth and Differentiation RGC - Collaborative Research Fund - Seed Funding HK$250,000 01 Sep 2006 Systematic study of essential protein kinases involved in cell growth and differentiation RGC - Collaborative Research Fund (formerly known as Central Allocation) HK$6,000,000 01 Jun 2007 Identification and characterization of specific MAP3Ks critically involved in skeletal muscle differentiation RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$932,500 01 Sep 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Zhang, Wei, Chan, Homan, Gao, Yan, Poon, Randy, Wu, Zhenguo (2007) "BS69 is involved in cellular senescence through the p53-p21Cip1 pathway.", EMBO Rep, 8: 952-8.

Sun, Luguo, Ma, Kewei, Wang, Haixia, Xiao, Fang, Gao, Yan, Zhang, Wei, Wang, Kepeng, Gao, Xiang, Ip, Nancy, Wu, Zhenguo (2007) "JAK1–STAT1–STAT3, a key pathway promoting proliferation and preventing premature differentiation of myoblasts.", J Cell Biol., 179: 129-38.

Wan, Jun, Zhang, Wei, Wu, Liming, Bai, Ting, Zhang, Mingjie, Lo, Kwok-wai, Chui, Yiu-loon, Cui, Yan, Yamamoto, Masahiro, Akira, Shizuo, Wu, Zhenguo (2006) "BS69, a specific adaptor in the latent membrane protein 1- mediated cJun N-terminal kinase pathway.", Mol. Cell. Biol., 26: 448-456.

Wu, Liming, Nakano, Hiroyasu, Wu, Zhenguo (2006) "The C-terminal Activating Region 2 of the Epstein-Barr Virus- encoded Latent Membrane Protein 1 Activates NF- B through TRAF6 and TAK1.", J. Biol. Chem., 281: 2162-2169.

Ma, Kewei, Chan, Jonathan, KL, Zhu, Guang, Wu, Zhenguo (2005) "Myocyte enhancer factor 2 acetylation by p300 enhances its DNA binding activity, transcriptional activity and myogenic differentiation.", Mol. Cell. Biol., 25: 3575-82.

Cheung, Po-yan, Zhang, Yi, Long, Jiafu, Lin, Shengcai, Zhang, Mingjie, Jiang, Yong, Wu, Zhenguo (2004) "p150Glued, dynein and microtubules are specifically required for activation of MKK3/6 and p38 MAPKs", J. Biol. Chem., 279: 45308-45311.

Sun, Luguo, Liu, Lanying, Yang, Xiang-Jiao, Wu, Zhenguo (2004) "Akt binds Prohibitin 2 and relieves its repression on MyoD and muscle differentiation", J. Cell. Sci., 117: 3021-3029.

Wan, Jun, Sun, Luguo, Mendoza, Jennifier W., Chui, Yiu Loon, Huang, Dolly P, Chen, Zhijian J, Suzuki, Nobutaka, Suzuki, Shinobu, Yeh, Wen-Chen, Akira, Shizuo, Matsumoto, Kunihiro, Liu, Zheng-Gang, Wu, Zhenguo (2004) "Elucidation of the JNK pathway mediated by Epstein-Barr virus encoded latent membrane protein 1", Mol. Cell Biol., 24: 192-199.

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

PhD, The Johns Hopkins University (2001)

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Lipids at synapses: a systematic investigation of the distribution profile, dynamic regulation and function of phosphoinositides at synapses RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,085,729 01 Oct 2007 Protein trafficking: mechanism and disease RGC - Collaborative Research Fund - Seed Funding HK$200,000 02 May 2008 Role of AMPA receptor associated proteins in neurexin-neuroligin mediated synaptogenesis RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$932,500 01 Oct 2006 An investigation of the role of the PICK-ICA69 complex in AMPA receptor trafficking and synaptic plasticity National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research HK$799,000 01 Jan 2008 Scheme 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 Developing a simple transgenic mice strategy at HKUST UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$125,000 01 Jan 2008

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: Evolution of tryptophanyl tRNA synthetase - tRNATrp interactions RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$850,500 01 Sep 2006 Development of key technologies and platform for pharmacological evaluations of Northeastern Chinese medicinal herbs Ministry of Science and Technology HK$93,450 01 Oct 2006 Applied Genomics Center Nansha Research Centers HK$4,800,000 01 Apr 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Mak, W.K., Xue, H., Wong, J.T.F. (2008) "The genomics of LUCA", Frontiers in Bioscience, 13: 5605-5613. Xue, H., Wong, J.T.F. (2007) "A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs", The International HapMap Consortium (2007). Nature, 449: 851-861.

Xue, H., Wong, J.T.F. (2007) "Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations", The International HapMap Consortium (2007). Nature, 449: 913-919.

Xue, H. (2007) "Association with schizophrenia of alternatively spliced variants of GABAA receptor Beta2 subunit", Beyond Genome, San Francisco, USA, June 20-22, 2007. Abstract.

Lo, W.S., Harano, M., Gawlik, M., Yu, Z., Chen, J., Pun, F.W., Tong, K.L., Zhao, C., Ng, S.K., Tsang, S.Y., Uchimura, N., Stoeber, G., Xue, H. (2007) "GABRB2 associated with schizophrenia: commonalities and differences between ethnic groups and clinical subtypes", Biological Psychiatry, 61: 653-660.

Lo, W.S., Xu, Z., Yu, Z., Pun, F.W., Ng, S.K., Chen, J., Tong, K.L., Zhao, C., Xu, X., Tsang, S.Y., Harano, M., Stoeber, G., Nimgaonkar, V.L., Xue, H. (2007) "Positive selection within the schizophrenia-associated GABAA receptor Beta2 gene", PLoS ONE, 2(5): e462.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000462.

Tsang, S.Y., Ng, S.K., Xu, Z., Xue, H. (2007) "The evolution of GABAA receptor-like genes", Molecular Biology and Evolution, 24: 599-610.

Ng, S.K., Xue, H. (2006) "Alu-enhanced sequence diversity in the human genome", The 4th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference. Aspen/Snowmass, Colorado, Silvertree Hotel., December 1-3, 2006. Abstract.

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

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

Current Research Activities: Structure and function study of biomacromolecules by multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy; development and improvement of multidimensional NMR experimental techniques and data processing procedures.

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

Representative Research Publications:

Zhouo, Bo, Chen, Lihong, Wu, Xing, Wang, Jing, Yin, Yinliang, Zhu, Guang (2008) "MH1 Domain of SMAD4 Binds N-terminal Residues of the Homeodomain of Hoxc9", Biochim Biophys Acta., 2008 May;1784(5):747-52.

Yin, yinliang, Yu, vivian, Zhu, Guang, Chang, Donald (2008) "SET8 plays a role in controlling G1/S transition by blocking lysine acetylation in histone through binding to H4 N-terminus tail", Cell Cycle, 7:10, 1-10, May 15.

Zhu, Guang, Yao, Xuejun (2008) "TROSY-based NMR experiments for large biomolecules", Prog. in NMR Spectroscopy., 52 49-68 (2008).

Yin, yinliang, Liu, changdong, Tsai, SauNa, Zhou, Bo, Ngai, Saiming, Zhu, Guang (2005) "SET8 recognizes the sequence RHRK20VLRDN within the N terminus of histone H4 and mono-methylates lysine 20.", Journal of Biological chemistry, 280(34), 30025-31, 2005.

Ma, Kewei, Chan, Jonathan, zhu, guang, Wu, Zhenguo (2005) "Myocyte Enhancer Factor 2 Acetylation by p300 Enhances Its DNA Binding Activity, Transcription Activity, and Myogenic Differentiation", Mol. And Cell. Biol, (2005) 3575- 3582.

yin, yinliang, Liu, changdong, TSAI, Helen, Zhou, Bo, NGAI, Sai Ming, ZHU, Guang (2005) "SET8 Recognizes the Sequence RHRK20VLRD within the N-terminus of Histone H4 and Mono-methylates Lysine 20", J. Biol Chem, 280, 30025-31.

Xia, youlin, ZHU, guang, Gao, Xiaolian (2004) "(3,2)D GFT-NMR Experiments for Fast Collection of Protein Data", J. Biomol. NMR,, 29 (4): 467-476.

ZHU, Guang, Xia, Youlin, Lin, Donghai, Gao, Xiaolian (2004) "TROSY-based NMR experiments for the study of macromolecular dynamics and hydrogen bonding,", chapter 11, Methods in Molecular Biology/Molecular Medicine, Humana Press, 161-184.

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

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

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

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

PhD, University of Cambridge (1999)

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The role of ubiquitin linkages on proteasomal function: Insights into the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,132,500 01 Oct 2006

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

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The functional roles of Cdk5 in chromatin modification during neural development RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$932,500 01 Nov 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Fu, Amy K. Y., Cheung, Zelda H. Y., Ip, Nancy Y. (2008) "Beta-catenin in reverse action", Nature Neuroscience, 11(3):244-246.

Shi, Lei, Fu, Ada W. Y., Hung, Nelson K. W., Porchetta, Cassandra, Hall, Christine, Fu, Amy K. Y., Ip, Nancy Y. (2007) "Alpha2-chimaerin interacts with EphA4 and regulates EphA4-dependent growth cone collapse", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104:16347-16352.

Fu, Amy K. Y., Ip, Nancy Y. (2007) "Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 links extracellular cues to actin cytoskeleton during dendritic spine development", Cell Adhesion & Migration, 1:2, 110-112.

Lok, Ka Chun, Fu, Amy K. Y., Ip, Fanny C. F., Wong, Yung Hou, Ip, Nancy Y. (2007) "NRG induces membrane targeting of GAlphaz in muscle: implication in myogenesis", NeuroReport, 18:1433-1436.

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

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Molecular basis of G-betagamma signaling: dimer formation and interaction with effectors and G-alpha subunits RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$689,996 01 Dec 2007 Activation of STAT3 by G protein subunits: A mechanistic study RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,229,500 01 Dec 2006

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

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Characterization of the functional roles of Cdk5 in TrkB-mediated signaling RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,229,500 01 Sep 2006

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

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Structural basis governing the dimerization of an unconventional myosin family protein myosin VI RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

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., online publication (DOI:10.1074/jbc. M802482200).

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.

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

Current Research Activities:

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

Representative Research Publications:

Morris, Christina J., Wong, Yung Hou (2008) "AGS3 Modulation of ERK Phosphorylation by the κ-Opioid Receptor", The 9th Association of East Asian Research Universities (AEARU) Workshop on Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. HKUST, Hong Kong, China., March 25-26.

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

Current Research Activities:

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

Department of Biology

Karl W K TSIM, Head of Department and Professor

Maria LI LUNG, Chair Professor; Director of Cooperative Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Research Center; Director of Center for Cancer Research

H Benjamin PENG, Chair Professor

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

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

Yong XIE, Professor

Shain Dow KUNG, Adjunct Professor and Professor Emeritus

David K BANFIELD, Associate Professor

King L CHOW, Associate Professor

Kevin A W LEE, Associate Professor

Joseph T Y WONG, Associate Professor

Pingbo HUANG, Assistant Professor

Hongbin LIU, Assistant Professor

Chi Yan CHOI, Research Assistant Professor

Sarah E HO, Research Assistant Professor

Siu Chun HUNG, Research Assistant Professor

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

PhD, University of Cambridge (1987)

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Assembly of different forms of AChE in muscles: Probing the functional role of nerve-derived trophic factors and muscular activity RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as HK$1,421,087 01 Sep 2007 Competitive Earmarked Research Grant)

Regulation of PRiMA, an anchor of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), in brain and muscle France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$29,000 01 Jan 2008 PRiMa, a membrane-anchoring protein of globular form acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in brain and muscle: Probing the signaling mechanisms of regulation and restricted localization at synapses RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as HK$1,447,914 01 Sep 2005 Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) Proteomic approach in probing the action mechanism of Danggui Buxue Tang (A Chinese Angelica Decoction): A sample trial in traditional Chinese medicine standardization RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as HK$1,256,380 01 Sep 2006 Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) Platform development in establishing biological responsive bio-markers for traditional Chinese Medicines (TCMs): an illustration by using qi-stimulating herbs RGC - Collaborative Research Fund - Seed Funding HK$200,000 02 May 2008 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 HK$533,000 01 Jan 2008 Grants Council Joint Research Scheme Novel dimeric AChE inhibitors: Signaling mechanisms of neuroprotections against excitotoxins associated with Alzheimer's disease RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as HK$121,000 01 Nov 2007 Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) Novel dimeric AChE inhibitors: Cellular and molecular characterization of one-compound-multi-targets at soluble amyloid cascade associated with Alzheimer's Disease RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as HK$470,000 01 Nov 2007 Competitive Earmarked Research Grant)

Representative Research Publications:

Gao, Q.T., Li, J., Chu, G.K.Y., Duan, R., Cheung, A.W.H., Cheung, J.K.H., Zhao, K.J., Dong, T.T.X., Tsim, K.W.K. (2007) "A Chinese herbal decoction-Danggui Buxue Tang activates the phosphorylations of estrogen receptor and extracellular signal-regulated kinase in cultured MCF-7 cells", FEBS Lett., 581:233-240.

Chiu, P.Y., Leung, H.Y., Siu, A.H.Y., Poon, M.K.T., Dong, T.T.X., Tsim, K.W.K., Ko, K.M. (2007) "Danggui Buxue Tang protects against oxidant injury by enhancing cellular glutathione in H9c2 cells: Role of glutathione synthesis and regeneration", Planta Medica, 73:134-141.

Zhu, J.T., Choi, R.C.Y., Chu, G.K.Y., Cheung, A.W.H., Gao, Q.T., Li, J., Jiang, Z.Y., Dong, T.T.X., Tsim, K.W.K. (2007) "Flavonoids possess neuroprotective effects on cultured pheochromocytoma PC12 cells: a comparison of different flavonoids in activating estrogenic effect and in preventing beta-amyloid-induced cell death", J. Agric. Food Chem., 55:2438-2445.

Chou, G.X., Gao, Q.T., Li, J., Duan, R., Cheung, A.W.H., Chu, G.K.Y., Jiang, Z.Y., Dong, T.T.X., Tsim, K.W.K. (2007) "Identification and quality control of Radix Codonopsis by chemical fingerprint: evaluation of lobetyolin from different cultivated regions in China", Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental Medicine, 6:293-299.

Dong, X.B., Li, J., Zheng, Y., Dong, T.T.X., Tsim, K.W.K. (2007) "Preparation of Tenuifolin from Radix Polygalae for Reference Substance", Traditional Chinese Drug Research & Clinical Pharmacology, 18:53-54.

Xie, H.Q., Choi, R.C.Y., Leung, K.W., Siow, N.L., Kong, L.W., Lau, F.T.C., Peng, H.B., Tsim, K.W.K. (2007) "Regulation of a transcript-encoding the proline rich membrane anchor (PRiMA) of globular muscle acetylcholinesterase: the suppressive roles of myogenesis and innervating nerves", J. Biol. Chem., 282:11765-11775.

Li, W.M., Xue, J., Niu, C.Y., Fu, H.J., Lam, C.S.C., Luo, J., Chan, H.N., Xue, H.G., Kan, K.K.W., Lee, N. T.K., Li, C.Y., Pang, Y.P., Li, M.T., Tsim, K.W.K., Jiang, H.L., Chen, K.X., Li, X.Y., Han, Y.F. (2007) "Synergistic neuroprotection by bis-(7)-tacrine via concurrent blockade of N-methyl-D-asparatate receptors and neuronal nitric oxide synthase", Mol. Pharmacol., 71:1258-1267.

Gao, Q.T., Cheung, J.K.H., Li, J., Chu, G.K.Y., Duan, R., Cheung, A.W.H., Zhao, K.J., Dong, T.T.X., Tsim, K.W.K. (2006) "A Chinese herbal decoction, Danggui Buxe Tang, prepared from Radix Astragali and Radix Angelicae Sinensis stimulates the immune responses", Planta Medica, 72:1227-1231.

Maria LI LUNG Chair Professor; Director of Cooperative Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Research Center; Director of Center for Cancer Research (2358 7307 ; [email protected])

PhD, Stanford University (1978) Lecturer, University of Hong Kong (1980-91)

Current Research Activities: Molecular oncology; cancer genomics; epidemiology of cancer.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Molecular and functional studies of the role of chromosome 14q candidate genes, CRIP2 and MIPOL1, in nasopharyngeal and esophageal carcinomas RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive HK$1,726,995 01 Sep 2007 Earmarked Research Grant) Center for nasopharyngeal carcinoma research UGC - Targets of Opportunity and Others HK$2,500,000 12 May 2007 Esophageal carcinoma research center RGC - Collaborative Research Fund (formerly known as Central HK$5,200,000 01 Apr 2007 Allocation) Molecular and functional investigation of two thrombospondin type 1 repeat candidate tumor suppressor genes mapping to critical regions involved in esophageal carcinoma RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive HK$932,500 01 Aug 2006 Earmarked Research Grant) Investigation of the DEC1 candidate tumor suppressor gene (TSG) and other candidate TSGs associated with critical loss of 9q33-q34 in esophageal carcinoma RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive HK$1,084,957 01 Sep 2005 Earmarked Research Grant) Allocation of funding to Center for Cancer Research (CCR) UGC - Strategic Initiatives HK$1,000,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Leung, Alfred Chi Chung, Wong, Victor Chun Lam, Yang, Li Chun, Chan, Pui Ling, Daigo, Yataro, Nakamura, Yusuke, Qi, Robert Z., Miller, Lance David, Liu, Edison Tak-Bun, Wang, Li Dong, Li, Ji-Lin, Law, Simon, Tsao, Sai Wah, Lung, Maria Li (2008) "Frequent decreased expression of candidate tumor suppressor gene, DEC1, and its anchorage-independent growth properties and impact on global gene expression in esophageal carcinoma", Int J Cancer, 122 (3): 587-94.

Ko, Josephine M.Y., Chan, Pui Ling, Yau, Wing Lung, Chan, Ho Kin, Chan, King Chi, Yu, Zhuo You, Kwong, Fung Mei, Miller, Lance D., Liu, Edison T., Yang, Li Chun, Lo, Paulisally H.Y., Stanbridge, Eric J., Tang, Johnny C.O., Srivastava, Gopesh, Tsao, Sai Wah, Law, Simon, Lung, Maria L. (2008) "Monochromosome transfer and microarray analysis identify a critical tumor-suppressive region mapping to chromosome 13q14 and THSD1 in esophageal carcinoma", Mol Cancer Res., 6(4): 592-603.

Lo, Paulisally, Cheung, Arthur, Kwok, Charlotte, Cheung, Winnie, Ko, Josephine, Yang, Li Chun, Law, Simon, Wang, Li Dong, Li, J, Stanbridge, Eric, Srivastava, Gopesh, Tang, Johnny, Tsao, George, Lung, Maria (2007) "Identification of a tumor suppressive critical region mapping to 3p14.2 in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and studies of a candidate tumor suppressor gene, ADAMTS9", Oncogene, 26: 148-15O.

Yau, Simon, Lung, Hong Lok, Zabarovsky, E, Lerman, Michael, Sham, Jonathan, Chua, Daniel, Tsao, George, Stanbridge, Eric, Lung, Maria (2006) "Functional studies of the chromosome 3p21.3 candidate tumor suppressor gene, BLU/ ZMYND10, in nasopharyngeal carcinoma", Int J Cancer, 119: 2821-6.

Lung, Hong Lok, Cheung, Arthur, Xie, Dan, Cheng, Yue, Kwong, Villus, Murakami, Yoshinori, Guan, Xin Yuan, Sham, Jonathan, Chua, Daniel, Protopopov, Alexei, Zabarovsky, Eugene, Tsao, George, Lung, Maria (2006) "TSLC1 is a tumor suppressor gene associated with metastasis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma", Cancer Research, 66: 9385-9392.

Lung, Hong Lok, Bangarusamy, Dhinoth Kumar, Xie, Dan, Cheung, Arthur Kwok Leung, Cheng, Yue, Kumaran, Mande Kuppusamy, Miller, Lance, Liu, Edison Tak-Bun, Guan, Xin-Yuan, Sham, Jonathan Shuntong, Fang, Yan, Li,

Liqiong, Wang, Nancy, Protopopov, Alexey I., Zabarovsky, Eugene R., Tsao, Sai Wah, Stanbridge, Eric J., Lung, Maria Li (2005) "THY1 is a candidate tumour suppressor gene with decreased expression in metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma",

Oncogene, 24: 6525-32.

Yang, Lichun, Leung, Alfred CC, Ko, Josephine MY, Lo, Paulisally HY, Tang, Johnny CO, Srivastava, Gopesh, Oshimura, Mitsuo, Stanbridge, Eric J, Daigo, Yataro, Nakamura, Yusuke, Tang, Cecilia MC, Lau, Kwok W, Law,

Simon, Lung, Maria Li (2005) "Tumor suppressive role of a 2.4 Mb 9q33-q34 critical region and DEC1 in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma", Oncogene, 24: 697-705.

Cheng, Y., Poulos, N., Lung, M. L., Hampton, G., Ou, B., Lerman, M., Stanbridge, Ej. (1998) "Functional evidence for a nasopharyngeal carcinoma tumor suppressor gene that maps at chromosome 3p21.3", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, 95: 3042- 3047.

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: The cytoskeletal scaffold of the developing postsynaptic apparatus RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,343,914 01 Dec 2005 Signal-induced surface trafficking of receptors RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,723,500 01 Jan 2007 Dynamics of proteins and lipids in biological membranes studies with nano-probes and atomic force microscopy RGC - Direct Allocation Grant and Others HK$550,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Xie, H.Q., Choi, R.C.Y., Leung, K.W., Siow, Nina, Kong, L.W., Lau, F.T.C., Peng, H.B., Tsim, K.W.K. (2007) "Regulation of a transcript-encoding the proline-rich membrane anchor (PRiMA) of globular muscle acetylcholinesterase:

The suppressive roles of myogenesis and innervating nerves. .", J. Biol. Chem., 282:11765-11775.

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.

Lee, Chi Wai, Peng, H. Benjamin (2005) "Mitochondrial clustering at the vertebrate neuromuscular junction during presynaptic differentiation.", J. Neurobiol., 66:522-536.

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

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

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

Representative Research Publications:

Tam, N.F.Y., Wong, Y.S. (2008) "Effectiveness of Bacterial Inoculum and Mangrove Plants on Remediation of Sediment Contaminated with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons", Marine Pollution Bulletin, 57: 716-726.

Chen, J.L., Wong, M.H., Wong, Y.S., Tam, N.F.Y. (2008) "Multi-factors on Biodegradation Kinetics of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) by Sphingomonas sp., a Bacterial Strain Isolated from Mangrove Sediment", Marine Pollution Bulletin, 57: 695-702.

Han, X., Wong, Y.S., Wong, M.H., Tam, N.F.Y. (2007) "Biosorption and Bioreduction of Cr(VI) by a Microalgal Isolate, Chlorella miniata", Journal of Hazardous Materials, 146: 65-72.

Zhang, C.G., Leung, K.K., Wong, Y.S., Tam, N.F.Y. (2007) "Germination, Growth and Physiological Responses of Mangrove Plant (Bruguiera gymnorrhiza) to Lubricating Oil Pollution", Environmental and Experimental Botany, 60: 127- 136.

Lei, A.P., Hu, Z.L., Wong, Y.S., Tam, N.F.Y. (2007) "Removal of Fluoranthene and Pyrene by Different Microalgal Species", Bioresource Technology, 98: 273-280.

Luan, T.G., Jin, J., Chan, S.N.N., Wong, Y.S., Tam, N.F.Y. (2006) "Biosorption and Biodegradation of Tributyltin (TBT) by Alginate Immobilized Chlorella vulgaris Beads in Several Treatment Cycles.", Process Biochemistry, 41: 1560-1565.

Zhou, H.W., Guo, C.L., Wong, Y.S., Tam, N.F.Y. (2006) "Genetic Diversity of Dioxygenase Genes in Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon-degrading Bacteria Isolated from Mangrove Sediments.", FEMS Microbiology Letters, 262: 148-157.

Han, X., Wong, Y.S., Tam, N.F.Y. (2006) "Surface Complexation Mechanism and Modeling in Cr (III) Biosorption by a Microalgal Isolate, Chlorella miniata.", Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 303: 365-371.

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: Plant hormone signal transduction; plant functional proteomics; epigenetics;genetic engineering.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A multi-disciplinary interactome approach to the study of post-translational regulation of ACC synthase gene expression in the model plant arabidopsis RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked HK$1,276,493 20 Aug 2007 Research Grant) Investigation of the roles of EGY1 in the regulated proteolysis in arabidopsis growth RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked HK$694,500 20 Aug 2006 Research Grant) Investigation of upstream ethylene signaling components via novel approaches National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council HK$672,300 01 Dec 2006 Joint Research Scheme Development of Genetically Engineered Jatropha Curcas and State-of-the-art Chemical Engineering Technology for Production of the Renewable High-Quality Biodiesel RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$170,000 19 May 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Gao, N, Tong, JF, Xia, B, LI, N (2006) "Development of Recombinant DNA Transfer Technology for Cannabis sativa L.", The 11th International Congress for Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology (IAPTC&B), August , 2006.

Li, Ning (2006) "Ethylene's dual and opposing roles in regulation of shoot gravitropism", The 7th symposium of Agricultural Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, August, 2006.

Chen, Gu, Bi, Yurong, Li, Ning (2005) "EGY1 encodes a membrane-associated and ATP-independent metalloprotease that is required for chloroplast development.", The Plant Journal, 41, 363-375.

Li, Jianfeng, Qi, Robert Z., Li, Ning (2005) "Multiple cleavages at the carboxyl-terminus of the tomato ACC synthase isomer, LeACS2, by a 64-kDa tomato metalloprotease produce a truncated but active enzyme.", Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 47, 1352-1363.

Wong, Waishing, Guo, Di, Wang, Xiaoli, Yin, Zhiqi, Li, Ning (2005) "Study of cis-cinnamic acid in Arabidopsis thaliana.", Plant Physiology & Biochemistry, 43, 929-937.

Li, Jianfeng, Li, Ning (2005) "Tyr152 plays a central role in catalysis of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase.", Journal of Experimental Botany, 56, 2203-2210.

Mehta, R.A., Cassol, T., Li, Ning, Ali, N., Handa, A.K., Mattoo, A.K. (2002) "Engineered polyamine accumulation in tomato enhances phytonutrient content, juice quality and vine life", Nature Biotechnology, 20, 613-618.

Huai, Q., Xia, Y.H., Chen, Y.Q., Callahan, B., Li, Ning, Ke, H.M. (2001) "Crystal structures of ACC synthase in complex with AVG and PLP provide new insight into catalytic mechanism", J. Biol. Chem., 276, 38210-38216.

Andrew L MILLER Professor (2358 8631 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Dundee (1986) Principal Investigator, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole (1992-95) Current Research Activities: Calcium signaling during early development; calcium imaging techniques; transgenic model systems for imaging calcium ions in living organisms.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Investigating the role of calcium signaling during the blastula period of zebrafish development RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked HK$1,322,154 01 Aug 2007 Research Grant) Hong Kong Joint Universities Summer Teaching Laboratory (JUSTL) Croucher Foundation HK$1,106,118 01 Aug 2006 Use of an integrated biological system to investigate the calcium-regulated genes that are involved in determination and differentiation during development France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$28,000 01 Jan 2008 Hong Kong Joint Universities Summer Teaching Laboratory (JUSTL) UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$1,106,118 01 Aug 2006 A further exploration of the roles of Ca2+ signaling during cytokinesis in zebrafish embryos: Extending to a comparison with other fish species RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked HK$1,422,260 01 Sep 2006 Research Grant)

Representative Research Publications:

Webb, Sarah, Li, Wai Ming, Miller, Andrew (2008) "Calcium signalling during the cleavage period of zebrafish development", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 363, 1363-1369.

Li, Wai Ming, Webb, Sarah, Chan, Ching Man, Miller, Andrew (2008) "Multiple roles of the furrow deepening Ca2+ transient during cytokinesis in zebrafish embryos.", Developmental Biology, 315, 228-248.

Webb, Sarah, Miller, Andrew (2007) "Ca2+ signaling during embryonic cytokinesis in animal systems", New Comprehensive Biochemistry. Calcium: A matter of life or death, Vol 41, Ch. 17, pp 445-470.

Webb, Sarah, Miller, Andrew (2007) "Ca2+ signaling and early embryonic patterning during zebrafish development", Proceedings of the Australian Physiological Society, 38: 43-51.

Webb, Sarah, Miller, Andrew (2006) "Ca2+ signaling and early embryonic patterning during the Blastula and Gastrula Periods of zebrafish and Xenopus development", Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1763:1192-1208.

Cheung, Chris, Webb, Sarah, Meng, Anming, Miller, Andrew (2006) "Transient expression of apoaequorin in zebrafish embryos: extending the ability to image calcium transients during later stages of development", International Journal of Developmental Biology, 50(6), 561-569.

Ho, Sarah, Moreau, Marc, Leclerc, Catherine, Miller, Andrew (2005) "Calcium transients and neural induction in vertebrates", Cell Calcium, 37: 375-385.

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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$984,259 01 Jan 2008 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$3,408,400 01 Apr 2004 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 Effects of the culture conditions of marine microbes on the production and antifouling bioactivity of microbial metabolites RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,397,914 01 Jan 2006 Genes involved in larval attachment and metamorphosis of a major biofouling worm Hydroides elegans RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,229,500 01 Jan 2007 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) Office of the President, HKUST HK$900,000 01 Apr 2004 Large scale fermentation of marine antifouling microorganisms and efficient extraction of their active antifouling ingredients Shenzhen Bureau of Science Technology & Information HK$163,537 17 May 2008 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs, HKUST HK$600,000 01 Apr 2004

Representative Research Publications:

Dobretsov, SV, Dahms, HU, Harder, T, Qian, Pei-Yuan (2006) "Allelochemical defense against epibiosis in the macroalga Caulerpa racemosa var. tubinata.", Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 316:165-175.

Qian, Pei-Yuan, Dobretsov, S, Dahms, HU, PAWLIK, J (2006) "Antifouling activities and mircobial diversity of two congeneric sponges Callyspongia spp. from Hong Kong and the Bahamas", Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 324:151-165.

Lee, OO, Lau, SCK, Qian, Pei-Yuan (2006) "Consistent bacterial community structure associated with the Surface of the Sponge Mycale adhaerens Bowerbank", Microbial Ecology, 52, 693-707.

Thiyagarajan, V, Lau, SCK, Cheung, SCK, Qian, Pei-Yuan (2006) "Cypris habitat selection facilitated by microbial biofilms influences the vertical distribution of subtidal barnacle Balanus trigonus", Microbial. Ecology, 51:431-440.

Thiyagarajan, V, Soo, L, SHIN, PKS, Qian, PY (2006) "Spatio-temporal variation in sediment biochemistry alters larval habitat selection and juvenile performance in the polychaete Capitella sp.", Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 327:207-222.

Jin, T, Qian, Pei-Yuan (2005) "Amino acid exposure modulates the bioactivity of biofilms for larval settlement of Hydroides elegans by altering bacterial community components.", Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 297:169-179.

Dobretsov, SV, Dahms, HU, Tsoi, MMY, Qian, Pei-Yuan (2005) "Chemical control of epibiosis by Hong Kong sponges: the effect of sponge extracts on micro- and macrofouling communities.", Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 279:119-129.

Hung, OS, Thiyagarajan, V, Wu, RSS, Qian, Pei-Yuan (2005) "Effects of ultraviolet radiation on films and subsequent settlement of Hydroides elegans.", Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 304:155-166.

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: Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$890,000 01 Apr 2004 Center for metals in the marine environment (CMME) RGC - Collaborative Research Fund - Seed Funding HK$250,000 29 May 2007 Understanding toxic metal concentrations in important marine shellfish in Hong Kong RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,229,500 01 Jul 2006 Metals in the marine environment: bioaccumulation, toxicity, and risk assessment RGC - Collaborative Research Fund - Seed Funding HK$200,000 02 May 2008 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) Office of the President, HKUST HK$900,000 01 Apr 2004 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs, HKUST HK$600,000 01 Apr 2004

Representative Research Publications:

Tsui, Martin, Wang, Wenxiong (2007) "Biokinetics and tolerance development of toxic metals in Daphnia magna.", Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 26: 1023-1032.

Miao, Aijun, Wang, Wenxiong (2007) "Copper accumulation, toxicity and low molecular weight thiols synthesis in different nutrient-conditioned diatoms.", Environmental Science and Technology, 41: 1777-1782.

Zhang, Li, Wang, Wenxiong (2007) "Gastrointestinal uptake of cadmium and zinc by a marine teleost Acanthopagrus schlegili.", Aquatic Toxicology, 85: 143-153.

Ng, Tania, Wang, Wenxiong (2007) "Interaction of Ag, Cd and Cu accumulation in the green mussel Perna viridis by metal co-exposure. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry", Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 26: 1764- 1769.

Ng, Tania, Rainbow, PS, Amiard, C, Amiard, JC, Wang, Wenxiong (2007) "Metallothionein turnover, cytosolic distribution and the uptake of Cd by the green mussels. Aquatic Toxicology", Aquatic Toxicology, 84: 153-161.

Zhang, Li, Wang, Wenxiong (2007) "Size dependence of potential metal biomagnification in a marine fish.", Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 26: 787-794.

Zhang, Li, Wang, Wenxiong (2007) "Waterborne cadmium and zinc uptake in the euryhaline teleost acclimated at different salinities.", Aquatic Toxicology, 84: 171-181.

Tsui, M, Wang, WX (2006) "Acute toxicity of mercury to Daphnia magna under different conditions", Environmental Science and Technology, 40: 4025-4030.

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

PhD, Cornell University (1998)

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Study of human immunogenic T cell epitopes in nucleoprotein (NP) of human influenza A (H5N1) virus Research Fund for the Control of Infectious Diseases HK$800,000 01 Aug 2006 Mechanism of CD4+ T-cells activation by the oligomeric forms of NY-ESO-1 RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$964,500 01 Nov 2006 Development of new structures and formulations of foot-and-mouth disease vaccine IVS Development Limited HK$922,000 01 Sep 2007 Study of the T-cell epitopes in porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$100,000 01 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Qin, Yan, Cheung, Ying Kit, Cheng, Samuel Chak-Sum, Wang, Xian Hua, Shi, Ming, Hu, Meihao, Xie, Yong (2007) "A DNA vaccine constructed with human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) E7 and E6 genes induced specific immune responses", Gynecologic Oncology, 104 (1):199-206.

Zhong, XF, Yang, HG, Guo, ZF, Sin, WY, Chen, W, Xu, JJ, Fu, L, Wu, J, Mak, CK, Cheng, CS, Yang, YZ, Cao, SY, Wong, TY, Lai, ST, XIE, Y, Guo, ZH (2005) "B cell responses in patients who have recovered from severe acute respiratory syndrome target a dominant site in the S2 domain of the surface spike glycoprotein", Journal of Virology, 79,3401-3408.

QIN, Y, WANG, XH, CUI, HL, CHEUNG, YK, HU, MH, ZHU, SG, XIE, Y (2005) "Human papillomavirus (HPV) type16 E7 peptide38-61 linked with an immunoglobulin G fragment provides protective immunity in mice", Gynecologic Oncology, 96: 475-483.

CHAN, Ray C-F, XIE, Yong (2004) "CD80 transfected human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells activate cytotoxic T lymphocytes to target HCC cells with shared tumor antigens.", Oncology Reports, 12(2): 435-442.

CHEUNG, YK, CHENG, CS, SIN, WY, XIE, Y (2004) "Plasmid encoding papillomavirus Type 16 (HPV16) DNA constructed with codon optimization improved the immunogenicity against HPV infection.", Vaccine, 23 (5);629-638.

Wang, Yue-Dan, Sin, Wan-Yee Fion, Xu, Guo-Bing, Yang, Huang-Hua, Wong, Tin-Yau, Pang, Xue-Wen, He, Xiao-Yan, Zhang, Hua-Gang, Ng, Joice Na Lee, Cheng, Chak-Sum Samuel, Ju, Jing, Meng, Li, Yang, Rui- Feng, Lai, Sik-To, Guo, Zhi-Hong, Yong, Xie, Chen, Wei-Feng (2004) "T-Cell Epitopes in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Coronavirus Spike Protein Elicit a Specific T-Cell Immune Response in Patients Who Recover from SARS",

Journal of Virology, p. 5612-5618.

Chan, Chun Fai, Ray, Pang, Xue Wen, Wang, Yue Dan, Chen, Wei Feng, Xie, Yong (2004) "Transduction of dendritic cells with recombinant adenovirus encoding HCA 661 avtivates antologous cytotoxic T lymphocytes to target hepatoma cells", British Journal of Cancer, 90:1636-1643.

Chan, Ray, Xie, Hong, Zhao, Guo Ping, Xie, Yong (2002) "Dendritomas formed by fusion of mature dendritic cells with allogenic human hepatocellular carcinoma cells active autologous cytotoxic T lymphocytes", Immunology Letter, 83(2), pp. 101-109.

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

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

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

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

PhD, University of British Columbia (1991)

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Vps74p-dependent mechanisms of membrane protein retention in the yeast golgi apparatus RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked HK$1,301,353 01 Aug 2007 Research Grant) Studies on the structure and function of SNARE longin domains RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked HK$991,600 01 Sep 2005 Research Grant) Discovering modes of action for therapeutic traditional Chinese medicines using a genome-wide screen of yeast heterozygote and haploid gene deletion libraries UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$84,500 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Wen, Wenyu, Lu, Chen, Wu, Hao, Sun, Xin, Zhang, Mingjie, Banfield, David (2006) "Identification of the yeast R-SNARE Nyv1p as a novel longin domain containing protein.", Molecular Biology of the Cell, Volume 17, pages 4282 – 4299.

Rossi, Valeria, Banfield, David K., Vacca, Marcella, Dietrich, Lars, Ungermann, Christian, D'Esposito, Maurizio, Galli, Thierry, Filippini, Francesco (2004-2005) "Longins and their longin domains: regulated SNAREs and multifunctional SNARE regulators.", Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Volume 29, pages 682 - 688.

Tai, William, Banfield, David Karl (2002) "Genes that allow cells to grow in the absence of the Golgi SNARE Sft1p: Identification of new components of the vesicle budding machinery.", European Science Foundation meeting 'EXOCYTOSIS: Membrane structure and dynamics.'.

Banfield, David Karl, Tochio, Hidehito, Tsui, Marco, Zhang, Mingjie (2001) "An Auto-Inhibitory Mechanism for Non-Syntaxin SNARE Proteins Revealed by the Structure of Ykt6p.", the Cold Spring Harbor Yeast Cell Biology Meeting.

Tochio, Hidehito, Tsui, Marco Man Kin, Banfield, David Karl, Zhang, Mingjie (2001) "An Auto-Inhibitory Mechanism for Nonsyntaxin SNARE Proteins Revealed by the Structure of Ykt6p", Science, 293, 698-702.

Tai, William, Banfield, David Karl (2001) "AtBS14a and AtBS14b two Bet1 / Sft1-like SNAREs from Arabidopsis thaliana that Complement Mutations in the Yeast SFT1 Gene", FEBS Letters, 500, 177-182.

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

PhD, Baylor College of Medicine (1990) Research Associate, Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Current Research Activities: Pattern formation and differentiation of sensory organ; tissue remodeling and morphogenesis; unfolded protein response; functional genomics, chemosensory perception circuitry, pheromone, evolution of mating system.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: In vivo analysis of Mab21 function in retinal development and its regulatory interaction with conserved genetic components RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,085,729 20 Dec 2007 Developmental genomics & skeletal research UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$3,106,550 21 Apr 2004 Genomic approaches to uncover functionally relevant signalling pathways in craniofacial development RGC - Collaborative Research Fund (formerly known as Central Allocation) HK$235,000 01 Jul 2006 Molecular genetic analysis of C. elegans mab-22(tbx-2) gene and its role in the ray structural cell for sensory ray organogenesis RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,360,957 15 Dec 2005 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:

Lin, LW, Chow, KL, Leng, Y (2008) "Study of hydroxyapatite osteoinductivity with an osteogenic differentiation assay using mesenchymal stem cells.", J Biomaterial Res., On line publication, actual volume not known yet.

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.

Chu, Ka Wah, Chan, Ka Wai, Chow, King Lau (2005) "Improvement of heavy metal stress and toxicity assays by coupling a transgenic reporter in a mutant nematode strain.", Aquatic Toxicology, In press.

Ko, F.C.F., Chow, K.L. (2003) "A mutation at the start codon defines the differential requirement of dpy-11 in C. elegans body hypodermis and male tail", Biochem. Biophy. Res. Comm., 309:201-208.

Wong, Yau Ming, Chow, King L. (2002) "Expression of Mab21 genes marks the differentiating eye, midbrain and neural tube in developing Danio rerio", Mechanism of Development, 113: 149-152.

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

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

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

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

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Lung, R., Lee, K. A. W. (2000) "The cellular Oncogene EWS/ATF1 does not activate adenovirus borne promoters: Implications for cytotoxic pro-drug therapy of MMSP", Cancer Gene Therapy, 7: 396-406.

Joseph T Y WONG Associate 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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,085,729 15 Oct 2007 Nanobioscience of cellulosic thecal plates in dinoflagellate alga France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$28,000 01 Jan 2008 Condensins in liquid crystal genomes RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,229,500 16 Dec 2006 Nanobiology of natural polymers UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$600,000 10 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Kwok, A.C. M., Mak, C.K.M., Wong, F.T.W., Wong, J.T.Y. (2007) "A novel method for the preparation of protoplasts from cells with internal cellulosic thecal plates", Eukaryotic Cell, 6:563-567.

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.

Lau, R.K.L., Kwok, Alvin C.M., Chan, W.K., Zhang, T.Y., Wong, J.T.Y. (2007) "Mechanical characterization of cellulosic thecal plates in dinoflagellates by nanoindentation.", Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 7: 451- 457.

Yeung, Patrick K.K., Lam, Connie M.C., Ma, Zhi Yi, Wong, Yung Hou, Wong, Joseph Tin Yum (2006) "Involvement of calcium mobilization from caffeine-sensitive stores in mechanically-induced cell cycle arrest in the dinoflagellate Crypthecodinium cohnii.", Cell Calcium, 39:259-274.

Wong, Joseph Tin Yum, Kwok, A.C.M. (2005) "Proliferation of Dinoflagellates: Blooming or Bleaching.", BioEssays, 27: 730-740.

Mak, Carmen Ka Man, Hung, Victor K.L., Wong, Joseph Tin Yum (2005) "Type II Topoisomerase activities in both G1 and G2/M phases of the dinoflagellate cell cycle.", Chromosoma, 114:420-431.

Alvin, Kwok, Joseph, Wong (2003) "Cellulose Synthesis is Coupled to Cell Cycle Progression at G1 in the Dinoflagellate Crypthecodinium cohnii", Plant Physiology, 131:1681-1691.

Wong, Joseph, New, David, Wong, Johnny, Hung, Victor (2003) "Histone-Like Proteins of the Dinoflagellate Crypthecodinium cohnii Have Homologies to Bacterial DNA-Binding Proteins", Eukaryotic Cell, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 646-650.

Pingbo HUANG Assistant 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: Side-directed delivery of small peptides into polarized epithelial cells using fluorescent magnetic nanoparticles UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$100,000 01 Dec 2007 Investigation of the role of soluble AC in the modulation of CFTR University of Cincinnati HK$39,000 01 May 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Sun, Ying, Wu, Fan, Sun, Fengqiang, Huang, Pingbo (2008) "Adenosine promotes IL-6 release in airway epithelia", Journal of Immunology, 180, 4173-4181,.

Wang, Dong, Sun, Ying, Zhang, Wei, Huang, Pingbo (2008) "Apical adenosine regulates basolateral Ca++- activated potassium channels in human airway Calu-3 epithelial cells", American Journal of Physiology (Cell Physiology) 294,, C1443-C1453,.

Wang, Dong, Wang, Wen, Duang, 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, In press (Epub ahead of print).

Barnes, A. P., Livera, G., Huang, P., Sun, C., O'Neal, W. K., Conti, M., Stutts, M. J., Milgram, S. L. (2005) "Phosphodiesterase 4D Forms a cAMP diffusion barrier at the apical membrane of the airway epithelium", J Biol Chem, 280, 7997-8003, 2005.

Huang, Pingbo, Gilmore, Elaine, Kultgen, Patricia, Barnes, Paul, Milgram, Sharon, Stutts, M. Jackson (2004) "Local Regulation of Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Regulator and Epithelial Sodium Channel in Airway Epithelium", Proceeding of American Thoracic Society, Volume 1, page 33-37.

Huang, P., Lazarowski, E. R., Tarran, R., Milgram, S. L., Boucher, R. C., Stutts, M. J. (2001) "Compartmentalized autocrine 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.

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 (formerly known as Competitive HK$654,482 01 Oct 2007 Earmarked Research Grant) Effects of increasing CO2 concentration and seawater temperature on the biodiversity, interaction, functioning and productivity of pelagic food webs in subtropical coastal waters France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$29,000 01 Jan 2008 Picoplankton community dynamics in sub-tropical coastal and estuarine waters of Hong Kong RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive HK$1,100,500 01 Jul 2006 Earmarked Research Grant) Making the Air-Seawater Connection: The Link between Air Pollution and Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition and the Occurrence of Harmful Algal Bloom in Hong Kong Waters UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$494,000 01 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Liu, Hongbin, Dagg, M. J., Napp, J. M., Sato, Riki (2008) "Grazing impact of Neocalanus spp. compared to other mesozooplankton in the coastal and shelf water of the Gulf of Alaska", ICES Journal of Marine Science, 65:351-360.

Liu, Hongbin, Chang, Jeng, Tseng, C.M., Wen, Liang-S., Liu, Kon-Kee (2007) "Seasonal variability of picoplankton in the northern South China Sea at the SEATS station", Deep-Sea Research II, 54:1602-1616.

Dagg, Michael, Liu, Hongbin, Thomas, A. C. (2006) "Effects of mesoscale phytoplankton variability on the copepods Neocalanus flemingeri and N. plumchrus in the coastal Gulf of Alaska", Deep-Sea Research I, 53, 321-332.

Liu, Hongbin, Dagg, Michael, Strom, Suzanne (2005) "Grazing by the calanoid copepod Neocalanus cristatus on the microbial foodweb in the coastal Gulf of Alaska", Journal of Plankton Research, 27, 647-662.

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

Current Research Activities:

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

Current Research Activities:

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Siu Chun HUNG Research Assistant Professor (2358 7303 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Identification of Epstein-Barr virus antigens that react strongly and specifically with salivary immunoglobulin A of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients Research Fund for the Control of Infectious Diseases HK$80,000 01 Sep 2007

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: Using the genetic markers of arcobacter (bacteria) as pollution indicators for Hong Kong seawaters RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$97,000 14 May 2008

Department of Chemistry

Guocheng JIA, Head of Department and 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

Ben Zhong TANG, Professor

Ian D WILLIAMS, Professor

Bing XU, Professor

Yijing YAN, Professor

Shihe YANG, Professor

Zhihong GUO, Associate Professor

Jianzhen YU, Associate Professor

Lam Lung YEUNG, Adjunct Associate Professor

Hongkai WU, Assistant Professor

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

PhD, Ohio State University (1989)

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Synthesis and reactivity of osmabenzynes and other metallabenzynes RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$923,000 01 Sep 2007 Transition Metal Mediated Cycloaddition Reactions of Alkynes with Azides RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$538,460 01 Jan 2007 Carbon-carbon Bond Formation Reactions Involving C-H Bond Activation RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$321,000 01 Jan 2006 Chemistry and catalysis involving nitrous oxide UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$600,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Zhang, Li, Dang, Li, Wen, Ting Bin, Sung, H. H. Y., Williams, Ian D., Lin, Zhenyang, Jia, Guochen (2007) "Cyclometallation of 2-Vinylpyridine with MCl2(PPh3)3 and MHCl(PPh3)3 (M = Ru, Os)", Organometallics, 26, 2849- 2860.

Zhu, Jun, Jia, Guochen, Lin, Zhenyang (2007) "Understanding Nonplanarity in Metallabenzene Complexes", Organometallics, 26, 1986-1995.

Hung, Wai Yiu, Zhu, Jun, Wen, Ting Bin, Sung, H. H. Y., Williams, Ian D., Lin, Zhenyang, Jia, Guochen (2006) "Osmabenzenes from the Reactions of a Dicationic Osmabenzyne Complex", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 13742-13752.

Wen, Ting Bin, Zhou, Zhongyuan, Jia, Guochen (2006) "Osmium-Mediated Hexamerization of Phenylacetylene", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 45, 5842-5846.

Xue, Peng, Zhu, Jun, Liu, Shenghua, Huang, Xin, Ng, Weng Sang, Sung, Herman H. Y., Wiliams, Ian D., Lin, Zhenyang, Jia, Guochen (2006) "Reactions of Cp*Ru(H2O)(NBD) + with Dihydrogen, Silanes, Olefins, Alkynes, and Allenes", Organometallics, 25, 2344-2354.

Zhang, H., Xia, H., He, G., Wen, Ting Bin, Gong, L., Jia, Guochen (2006) "Synthesis and Characterization of Stable Ruthenabenzenes", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 45, 2920-2923. Zhu, Jun, Jia, Guochen, Lin, Zhenyang (2006) "Theoretical Investigation of Alkyne Metathesis Catalyzed by W/Mo Alkylidyne Complexes", Organometallics, 25, 1812-1819.

Yousufuddin, M., Wen, Ting Bin, Mason, S. A., McIntyre, G. J., Jia, Guochen, Bau, R. (2005) "Neutron Diffraction Study of OsH3Cl(PPh3)3, a Complex Containing a Highly “Stretched” Dihydrogen Ligand: The Reaction Profile of Oxidative

Addition to an H-H Bond", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 44, 7227-7230.

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: Peptidomimetics: design, synthesis and biomedical applications RGC - Collaborative Research Fund (formerly known as Central Allocation) HK$200,000 01 Mar 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Chung, Lun Wa, Wu, Yun-Dong, Trost, Barry M., Ball, Zachary T. (2003) "A Theoretical Study on the Regio- and Stereo-selectivities of Hydrosilylation Catalyzed by Cationic Ruthenium Complexes", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 11578-11582. Yang, D., Li, W., Qu, J., Luo, S.W., Wu, Yun-Dong (2003) "A new strategy to induce gamma-turns: Peptides composed of alternating alpha-aminoxy acids and alpha-amino acids", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 13018-13019.

Yang, D., Qu, J., Li, W., Wang, D.P., Ren, Y., Wu, Yun-Dong (2003) "A reverse turn structure induced by a D,L- alpha-aminoxy acid dimer", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 14452-14457.

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: Preparation of functionalized monodentate chiral ligands RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$57,000 01 Dec 2005

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: Peroxides and Trioxanes - A search for the chemical basis of biological activity RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$456,000 01 Sep 2007 Institute of Molecular Technology for Drug Discovery and synthesis UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$200,000 01 Oct 2007 Artemisinin (Qinghaosu): Towards rationally designed new peroxidic drugs RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$754,500 14 Aug 2006 Institute of Molecular Technology for Drug Discovery and synthesis UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$200,000 01 Oct 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Vivas, Livia, Rattray, Lauren, Stewart, Lindsay, Robinson, Brian, Fugmann, Burkhard, Haynes, Richard, Peters, Wallace, Croft, Simon (2007) "Antimalarial Efficacy and Drug Interactions of the Novel Semi-synthetic Endoperoxide Artemisone in vitro and in vivo", Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 59, 658 - 665, 2007.

Mishina, Yuliya, Krishna, Sanjeev, Haynes, Richard, Meade, John (2007) "Artemisinins Inhibit Trypanosoma Cruzi and Trypanosoma Brucei Rhodesiense in vitro Growth", Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 51, 1852-1854, 2007.

Haynes, Richard, Lung, Chung Man, Lee, Kin-Wo, Wong, Ho-Ning, Rattray, Lauren, Stuart, Lindsay (2007) "Thermal Instability of Artemisinins: Problems with Current Derivatives and Possible Solutions", Medicinal Chemistry in Parasitology: new avenues in drug discovery, Expert Meeting COST B22: 'Drug Discovery and

Development for Parasitic Diseases', 19-20 February 2007, Modena, Italy, abstract booklet p. 27.

Haynes, Richard (2007) "Towards New Artemisinin Antimalarials: Factors in Selecting a New Development Candidate Artemisone", The Second International Artemisinin Compounds Workshop on the Evaluation of Clinical Studies, January 2007, Guangzhou, China, conference booklet p 12.

Haynes, Richard K., Fugmann, Burkhard, Stetter, Joerg, Rieckmann, Karl, Heilmann, Hans-Dietrich, Chan, Ho-Wai, Cheung, Man-Ki, Lam, Wai-Lun, Wong, Ho Ning, Croft, Simon L, Vivas, Livia, Rattray, Lauren, Stewart, Lindsay, Peters, Wallace, Robinson, Brian L., Edstein, Michael, Kotecka, Barbara, Kyle, Dennis E., Beckermann, Bernard, Gerisch, Michael, Radtke, Michael, Steinke, Wolfram, Wollborn, Ute, Schmeer, Karl, Roemer, Axel (2006) "Artemisone - A Highly Active

Antimalarial Drug of the Artemisinin Class.", Angewandte Chemie International Edition ., Vol. 45, 2006, pp. 2082-2088.

Haynes, Richard K. (2006) "From Artemisinin to New Artemisinin Antimalarials: Biosynthesis, Extraction, Old and New Derivatives, Stereochemistry and Medicinal Chemistry Requirements", Current Medicinal Chemistry, Vol. 13, 2006, pp. 509-537. Uhlemann, Anne-Catrin, Cameron, Angus, Eskstein-Ludwig, Ursula, Fischbarg, Jorge, Iserovich, Pavel, Zuniga, Felipe, East,

Malcolm, Lee, Anthony, Brady, Leo, Haynes, Richard, Krishna, Sanjeev (2005) "A Single Amino Acid Residue Determines Sensitivity of SERCAS To Artemisinins", Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, 2005, 12, 628-629.

Schmuck, Gabriel, Temerowski, Michael, Haynes, Richard, Fugmann, Burkhard (2003) "Identification of Non-neurotoxic Artemisinin Derivatives in vivo and in vitro", In: Research Advances in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Vol. 3, pp. 35-47.

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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$923,000 01 Jan 2008 Synthesis, reactivity, and non-linear optical properties of heterometallic clusters derived from selenometalates RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$300,000 01 Jan 2007 Organometallic compounds of iridium with bipyridine ligands RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$321,000 01 Jan 2006 Meta complexes in sulfur-rich coordination environments: functional models of metal sulfur containing enzymes RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$283,000 01 Jan 2005

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Yi, Xiao Yi, Zhang, Qian Feng, Lam, T. C. H., Chan, E. Y. Y., Williams, Ian D., Leung, Wa Hung (2006) "Phosphato, chromato and perrhenato complexes of titanium(IV) and zirconium(IV) containing Klaui’s tripodal ligand",

Inorganic Chemistry, 45, pp. 328-225.

Zhang, Qian Feng, Lam, Tony C. H., Yi, Xiao Yi, Chan, Eddie Y. Y., Wong, Wai Yeung, Sung, Herman H. Y., Williams, Ian D., Leung, Wa Hung (2005) "Titanium(IV) and zirconium(IV) sulfato complexes containing the Klaui tripodal ligand: Molecular models of sulfated metal oxide surfaces", Chemistry A European Journal, 11, pp 101-111.

Zhang, Qian Feng, Lam, Tony C. H., Chan, Eddie Y. Y., Lo, Samuel M. F., Williams, Ian D., Leung, Wa Hung (2004) "A water-soluble tetranuclear Zr-IV compound supported by the Klaui tripodal ligand: A model of Zr-IV in aqueous media", Angewandte Chemie, International Edition, 43, pp 1715-1718.

Chan, Eddie Y. Y., Zhang, Qian Feng, Sau, Yiu Keung, Lo, Samuel M. F., Sung, Herman H. Y., Williams, Ian D., Haynes, Richard K., Leung, Wa Hung (2004) "Chiral bisphosphinite metalloligands derived from a P-chiral secondary phosphine oxide", Inorganic Chemistry, 43, pp 4921-4926.

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.

Lam, Tony, Mak, Wing-Leung, Wong, Wing-Leung, Kwong, Hoi-Lun, Sung, Herman Hy, Lo, Samuel Mf, Williams, Ian D, Leung, Wa-Hung (2004) "Synthesis and crystal structure of a chiral C3-symmetric oxygen tripod ligand and its applications to asymmetric catalysis", Organometallics, 23, 1247-1252.

Lai, Chui-Ying, Chan, Eddie Y. Y., Mak, Wing-Leung, Sau, Yiu-Keung, Zhang, Qian-Feng, Lo, Samuel M F, Williams, Ian, Leung, Wa-Hung (2003) "Ruthenium complexes with chiral tetradentate imino-sulfoxide ligands", Inorganic Chemistry, 42, 5863-5870.

Xiaoyuan LI Professor (2358 7356 ; [email protected])

PhD, Princeton University (1988) Research Associate, National Research Council of Canada (1989-91)

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The study of two-photon fluorescent dyes by surface-enhanced resonance hyper raman spectroscopy RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant)HK$538,460 01 Jan 2007 Molecule-specific Detection of Biomarkers by Nanoparticle-bioconjugate-guided Surface-enhanced Resonance Raman Microspectroscopy RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant)HK$613,600 01 Jan 2006 Nano-structures plasmonic noble metal materials for chemo-sensors and bio-sensors UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$600,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Zhang, H., Cai, J.W., Feng, X-L., Liu, J.Z., Li, X-Y., Ji, L-N. (2001-2002) "Assembly of Tris(2-aminoethyl)amines and Its Unusual Conversion by Silver(I)-Ions", Inorg. Chem. Commun., 4(5), 241-244.

Yang, W.J., Li, X-Y., Yu, N-T. (2001-2002) "Bifunctional Electrocatalytic Films with Gold Nanoparticles and Metalloporphyrin: Preparation and Characterization", Mat. Res. Soc. Proc. 'Synthesis, Functional Properties, and Applications of Nanostructures', 676, Y3.26.1 - Y3.26.6.

Chen, J.X., Wang, S.H., Li, X-Y., Yan, Y-J., Yang, S.H., Yang, S.L., Wang, J.N., Ge, W. (2001-2002) "Fast Interfacial Charge Separation I Chemically Hybridized CdS-PVK Nanocomposites Studied by Photoluminescence and

Photoconductivity Measurements", Chem. Phys. Lett., 333, 375-380.

Guo, L., Huang, Q., Li, X-Y, Yang, S-H (2001-2002) "Iron Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Applications in Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering and Electrocatalysis", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 3(9), 1661-1665.

Li, X-Y, Yao, G. (2001-2002) "Layer-by-layer Assembled Molecular Films - II: Monolayers of Metal Nanoclusters from Photochemical and sonochemical Conversion of Multilayered Ionic Films", Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 371, 99-102.

Li, X-Y., Pei, J-H. (2001-2002) "Layer-by-layer Assembled Molecular Films - III: Electrochemical Assembly and Electropolymerization of Noble Metal Complexes", Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 371, 103-106.

Chao, H., Li, R-H, Jiang, C-W, Li, H., Ji, L-N, Li, X-Y (2001-2002) "Mono-. di- and tetra-nuclear ruthenium(II) complexes containing1,4 bis( 1,10 phenanthroline- 5,6-d imidazol-2-yl)benzene: synthesis, characterization and third-order nonlinear optical properties", J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans, 1920-1926.

Chao, H., Yang, G., Xue, G.Q., Li, H., Williams, I. D., Ji, L.N., Chen, X-M., Li, X-Y (2001-2002) "Ruthenium(II) Complexes Containing Novel Asymmetric Tridentate Ligands: Synthesis, Structure, Electrochemical and Spectroscopic

Properties", J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans, (8), 1326-1332.

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

PhD, Oxford University (1989) Senior Research Associate, Texas A&M University (1990-93) Current Research Activities: Theoretical inorganic chemistry; structure, bonding and computer modeling studies in inorganic, organometallic and solid state compounds.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Theoretical studies of transition metal catalyzed diboration reactions of unsaturated organic compounds RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$445,000 01 Oct 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Zhu, Jun, Lin, Zhenyang (2008) "Theoretical aspects of metal vinylidene and allenylidene complexes", Metal Vinylidenes and Allenylidenes in Catalysis. From Reactivity to Applications in Synthesis, edited by Pierre

H. Dixneuf and Christian Bruneau, Wiley-VCH, Chapter 4, p129-158.

Zheng, Wenxu, Ariafard, Alireza, Lin, Zhenyang (2008) "Understanding the Highly Regioselective Cyanothiolation of 1-Alkynes Catalyzed by Palladium Phosphine Complexes", Organometallics, 27, 246-253.

Lin, Zhenyang (2007) "Current understanding of the sigma-bond metathesis reactions of LnMR + R'-H --> LnMR' + R-H", Coord. Chem. Rev., 251, 2280-2291.

He, Guomei, Zhu, Jun, Hung, Wai Yiu, Wen, Tingbin, Sung, Herman Ho-Yung, Williams, Ian D., Lin, Zhenyang, Jia, Guochen (2007) "Metallanaphthalyne complexes from zinc reduction of vinylcarbyne complexes", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 46, 9065-9068.

Dang, Li, Zhao, Haitao, Lin, Zhenyang, Marder, Todd B. (2007) "DFT Studies of Alkene Insertions into Cu-B Bonds in Copper(I) Boryl Complexes", Organometallics, 26, 2824-2832.

Ariafard, Alireza, Lin, Zhenyang (2006) "DFT Studies on the Mechanism of Allylative Dearomatization Catalyzed by Palladium", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 13010-13016.

Zhao, Haitao, Lin, Zhenyang, Marder, Todd B. (2006) "DFT Studies on the Mechanism of the Reduction of CO2 to CO Catalyzed by Copper(I) Boryl Complexes", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 15637-15643.

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

PhD, Central Institute of Molecular Biology, Berlin (1979) Head, Department of Immunosensors, Fraunhofer Institute of Chemical and Biosensors, Munster University, Germany (1991-95) Reader in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (1995-98), HKUST

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Development of novel nanoparticle- and nanowire-based bio sensors, tests and chips UGC - Strategic Initiatives HK$1,400,000 01 Mar 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Renneberg, Reinhard, Lisdat, Fred (2008) Biosensing for the 21st Century, Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg Vol. 109, 504 pages.

Rennneberg, Reinhard, Pfeiffer, Dorothea, Lisdat, Fred, Wilson, George, Wollenberger, Ulla, Ligler, Frances, Turner, Anthony (2008) "Frieder Scheller and the short history of biosensors", Advances in Biochemical Engineering- Biotechnology, 109:1-18.

Leung, Wing Man, Chan, Cangel Pui Yee, Rainer, Timothy, Ip, Margaret, Cautherley, George, Renneberg, Reinhard (2008) "InfectCheck CRP barcode-style lateral flow assay for semi-quantitative detection of C-reactive protein in distinguishing between bacterial and viral infections", Journal of Immunological Methods, 336(1):30-6, Jul.

Chan, Cangel Pui Yee, Cheung, Yiu Chi, Renneberg, Reinhard, Seydack, Matthias (2008) "New trends in immunoassays", Advances in Biochemical Engineering-Biotechnology, 109:123-54.

Renneberg, Reinhard (2007) Biotechnology for Beginners, Biotechnology for Beginners, 360 pages. Renneberg, Reinhard (2007) Katzenklon, Katzenklon: Und Andere Biotechnologie-Geschichten, Katzenklon, Katzenklon: Und Andere Biotechnologie-Geschichten, 251 pages.

Ip, Margaret, Rainer, Timothy, Lee, Nelson, Chan, Cangel Pui Yee, Chau, Shirley, Leung, Wing Man, Leung, Man Fai, Tam, Tze Kin, Antonio, Gregory, Lui, Grace, Lau, Tze Kin, Hui, David, Fuchs, Dietmar, Renneberg, Reinhard, Chan, Paul (2007) "Value of serum procalcitonin, neopterin, and C-reactive protein in differentiating bacterial from viral etiologies in patients presenting with lower respiratory tract infections", Diagnostic Microbiology & Infectious Disease, 59(2):131-6, Oct.

Renneberg, Reinhard (2007) 複製一個我──從啤酒、番茄到桃麗羊，所有你該知道的生物科技, 複製一 個我──從啤酒、番茄到桃麗羊，所有你該知道的生物科技, 304 pages.

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

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

Current Research Activities: Polymer chemistry; materials science; liquid crystals; chiral polymers; optical materials; light-emitting polymers; biomimetic materials; nanotechnology; hyperbranched polymers.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Synthesis and mechanistic study of AIE-active molecules and exploration of their electronic, photonic, and biotechnological applications RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$300,000 31 Dec 2006 Click Polymerization: Development of Functional Polytriazoles with linear and hyperbranched structures RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$317,000 31 Dec 2007 Tang's donation Ben Zhong Tang HK$69,662 22 Nov 2005 Carbon-rich metal-containing molecular and nano-scale functional materials RGC - Collaborative Research Fund (formerly known as Central Allocation) HK$680,000 01 Mar 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Zeng, Qi, Cai, Ping, Li, Zhen, Qin, Jingui, Tang, Ben Zhong (2008) "An Imidazole-Functionalized Polyacetylene: Convenient Synthesis and Selective Chemosensor for Metal Ions and Cyanide", Chemical Communications, 2008, 1094- 1096.

Yuan, Wang Zhang, Mao, Yu, Zhao, Hui, Sun, Jing Zhi, Xu, Hai Peng, Jin, Jia Ke, Zheng, Qiang, Tang, Ben Zhong (2008) "Electronic Interactions and Polymer Effect in the Functionalization and Solvation of Carbon Nanotubes by Pyrene- and

Ferrocene-Containing Poly(1-alkyne)s", Macromolecules, 2008, 41, 701-707.

Qin, Anjun, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Jim, Cathy Ka Wai, Zhang, Li, Yan, Jingjing, Häussler, Matthias, Liu, Jianzhao, Dong, Yongqiang, Liang, Dehai, Chen, Erqiang, Jia, Guochen, Tang, Ben Zhong (2008) "Hyperbranched Polytriazoles: Click Polymerization, Regioisomeric Structure, Light Emission, and Fluorescent Patterning",

Macromolecules, 2008, 41, 3808-3822. Xu, Haipeng, Jin, Jia Ke, Mao, Yu, Sun, Jing Zhi, Yang, Feng, Yuan, Wang Zhang, Dong, Yong Qiang, Wang, Mang, Tang, Ben Zhong (2008) "Synthesis of Sulfur-Containing Polyacetylenes and Fabrication of Their Hybrids with ZnO Nanoparticles", Macromolecules, 2008, 41, 3874-3883.

Dong, Yongqiang, Lam, Jacky WingYip, Qin, Anjun, Li, Zhen, Liu, Jianzhao, Sun, Jingzhi, Dong, Yuping, Tang, Ben Zhong (2007) "Endowing Hexaphenylsilole with Chemical Sensory and Biological Probing Properties by Attaching Amino Pendants to the Silolyl Core", Chemical Physics Letters, 2007, 446, 124-127.

Shi, Jianbing, Tong, Bin, Li, Zhen, Shen, Jinbo, Zhao, Wei, Fu, Huanhuan, Zhi, Junge, Dong, Yuping, Häussler, Matthias, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Tang, Ben Zhong (2007) "Hyperbranched Poly(ferrocenylphenylenes): Synthesis, Characterization, Redox Activity, Metal Complexation, Pyrolytic Ceramization and Soft Ferromagnetism", Macromolecules, 2007, 40, 8195-8204.

Liu, Jianzhao, Zheng, Ronghua, Tang, Youhong, Häussler, Matthias, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Qin, Anjun, Ye, Mingxin, Hong, Yuning, Gao, Ping, Tang, Ben Zhong (2007) "Hyperbranched Poly (silylenephenylenes) from Polycyclotrimerization of A2-Type Diyne Monomers: Synthesis, Characterization, Structural Modeling,

Thermal Stability, and Fluorescent Patterning", Macromolecules, 2007, 40, 7473-7486.

Tong, Hui, Hong, Yuning, Dong, Yongqiang, Häussler, Matthias, Li, Zhen, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Dong, Yuping, Sung, Herman Ho Yung, Williams, Ian D., Tang, Ben Zhong (2007) "Protein Detection and Quantitation by Tetraphenylethene-Based Fluorescent Probes with Aggregation Induced-Emission Characteristics", The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2007, 111, 11817-11823.

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: Crystal engineering of lanthanide coordination polymers RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$300,000 01 Jul 2006 Development of chiral metal-organic framework materials RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$329,500 01 Jul 2007 Novel Research using a Dual Wavelength X-ray Diffractometer UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$480,000 01 Jun 2008

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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Design and Synthesis of Magnetorheological Supramolecular Hydrogels RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$538,460 01 Dec 2006 Development of molecular hydrogels to immobilize enzymes for biotransformations in organic media RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$935,500 01 Aug 2007 Study Enzymatic Reaction Trigged Hydrogelation of Small Molecules RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$613,600 01 Nov 2005 Carbon-rich metal-containing molecular and nano-scale functional materials RGC - Collaborative Research Fund (formerly known as Central Allocation) HK$500,000 01 Mar 2006 Peptidomimetics: design, synthesis and biomedical applications RGC - Collaborative Research Fund (formerly known as Central Allocation) HK$200,000 01 Mar 2007

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: Quantum dissipation; charge transfer/transport in DNA and molecular wires; molecular nonlinear spectroscopy in condensed phases; computational methods in chemical physics of complex systems.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Nonperturbative quantum dissipation theory and its related electron transfer rates RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$375,640 01 Dec 2006 Theory of correlated dissipation in quantum open systems RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$392,000 01 Sep 2007 Electron correlation, inelastic scattering, and transient behavior in molecular electronics RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$231,000 01 Sep 2005

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Cheng, Jing, Jing, Hui, Yan, YiJing (2008) "Spin-mixing dynamics in a spin-1 atomic condensate coupled with a molecular condensate", Phys. Rev. A, 77, 061604(R).

Luo, JunYan, Li, XinQi, Yan, YiJing (2007) "Calculation of the current noise spectrum in mesoscopic transport: A quantum master equation approach", Phys. Rev. B, 76, 085325.

Wei, JianHua, Xie, ShiJie, Mei, LiangMo, Berakdar, J., Yan, YiJing (2007) "Conductance switching, hysteresis, and magnetoresistance in organic semiconductors", Organic Electronics, 8, 487-497.

Xu, RuiXue, Chen, Ying, Cui, Ping, Ke, HongWei, Yan, YiJing (2007) "The quantum solvation, adiabatic versus nonadiabatic, and Markovian versus non-Markovian nature of electron transfer rate processes", J. Phys. Chem. A, 111, 9618--9626.

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.

Li, Xin-Qi, Yan, YiJing (2007) "Quantum master equation scheme of time-dependent density functional theory to time- dependent transport in nanoelectronic devices", Phys. Rev. B, 75: 075114.

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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$317,000 01 Jan 2008 Interfaces between fullerenes and semiconductor nanowires: nanofabrication and photoinduced charge separation RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$300,000 01 Jan 2007 Self-organization of nanoparticles and nanowires generated by confinement within surfactant bilayer films France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$31,000 01 Jan 2008 Vertically-aligned semiconductor nanowires arrays grown in-situ: A novel platform for efficient bulk heterojunction solar cells UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$600,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Deng, Hong, Yang, Shihe, Xiao, Shi, Gong, Hong-Mei, Wang, Qu-Quan (2008) "Controlled Synthesis and Upconverted Avalanche Luminescence of Cerium(III) and Neodymium(III) Orthovanadate Nanocrystals with High Uniformity of Size and

Shape", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130(6), 2032-2040.

Qiu, Yongfu, Yang, Shihe (2008) "Kirkendall Approach to the Fabrication of Ultra-thin ZnO Nanotubes with High Resistive Sensitivity to Humidity", Nanotechnology, 19(26), 265606-7.

Liu, Dongfang, Yang, Shihe, Lee, Shuit-Tong (2008) "Preparation of Novel Cuprous Oxide-Fullerene 60 Core-Shell Nanowires and Nanoparticles via a Copper(I)-Assisted Fullerene-Polymerization Reaction", J. Phys. Chem. C, 112(18), 7110-7118.

Liu, Dongfang, Wu, Wei, Qiu, Yongfu, Yang, Shihe, Xiao, Si, Wang, Qu-Quan, Ding, Lu, Wang, Jiannong (2008) "Surface Functionalization of ZnO Nanotetrapods with Photoactive and Electroactive Organic Monolayers", Langmuir, 24(9), 5052-5059.

Wu, Wei, Zhu, Huarui, Fan, Louzhen, Yang, Shihe (2008) "Synthesis and Characterization of a Grapevine Nanostructure Consisting of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Covalently Attached 60 Fullerene Balls", Chem. Eur. J., 14 (19), 5981-5987.

Liu, Dongfang, Wu, Wei, Qiu, Yongfu, Lu, Jun, Yang, Shihe (2007) "Chemical Conjugation of Fullerene C60 to CdSe Nanocrystals via Dithiocarbamate Ligands", J. Phys. Chem. C, 111(48), 17713-17719.

Liu, Guangming, Wu, Dan, Ma, Chengcheng, Zhang, Guangzhao, Wang, Hongfei, Yang, Shihe (2007) "Insight into the Origin of Thermosensitivity of Poly 2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate", ChemPhysChem, 8(15), 2254-2259.

Liu, Guangming, Chen, Yijian, Zhang, Guangzhao, Yang, Shihe (2007) "Protein Resistance of (Ethylene Oxide)n Monolayers at the Air/Water Interface: Effects of Packing Density and Chain Length", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 9(46), 6073-6082.

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: Mechanistic studies on 2-Succinyl-5-Enolpyruvyl-6-Hydroxy-3-Cyclohexene-1-Carboxylate (SEPHCHC) synthase using 2- Oxoglutarate Angalogues France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$31,250 01 Jan 2008 The 3a protein of SARS coronavirus: Probing its subcellular localization and its interaction with human host proteins RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked HK$1,467,914 01 Sep 2005 Research Grant) Effects of Macromolecular Crowding on Feedback Regulation of the Phenylalanine Biosynthesis RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$400,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Jiang, Ming, Chen, Xiaolei, Guo, Zu-Feng, Cao, Yang, Chen, Minjiao, Guo, Zhihong (2008) "Identification and characterization of (1R, 6R)-2-succinyl-6-hydroxy-2, 4-cyclohexadiene-1-carboxylate synthase in the menaquinone biosynthesis of Escherichia coli.", Biochemistry, 47, 3426-3434.

Guo, Zu-Feng, Jiang, Ming, Zheng, Suilan, Guo, Zhihong (2008) "Suppression of linear side products by macromolecular crowding in nonribosomal enterobactin biosynthesis.", Org. Lett., 10, 649-652.

Jiang, Ming, Chen, Minjiao, Cao, Yang, Yang, Yinhua, Sze, Kong Hung, Chen, Xiaolei, Guo, Zhihong (2007) "Determination of the stereochemistry of 2-succinyl-5-enolpyruvyl-6-hydroxy-3-cyclohexene-1-carboxylic acid, a key intermediate in menaquinone biosynthesis", Org. Lett., 9, 4765-4767.

Jiang, Ming, Cao, Yang, Guo, Zu-Feng, Chen, Minjiao, Guo, Zhihong (2007) "Menaquinone biosynthesis in Escherichia coli: Identification of 2-succinyl-5-enolpyruvyl-6-hydroxy-3-cyclohexene-1-carboxylate (SEPHCHC) as a novel intermediate and re-evaluation of MenD activity", Biochemistry, 46, 10979-10989.

Jiang, Ming, Guo, Zhihong (2007) "Effects of macromolecular crowding on the intrinsic catalytic efficiency and structure of enterobactin-specific isochorismate synthase", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 730-731.

Zhong, Xiaofen, Guo, Zu-Feng, Yang, Huanghao, Peng, Lisheng, Xie, Yong, Wong, Tin-Yau, Lai, Sik-To, Guo, Zhihong (2006) "Amino terminus of the SARS coronavirus protein 3a elicited strong, potentially protective humoral responses in infected patients", Journal of General Virology, 87: 369–373.

Zhong, Xiaofen, Yang, Huanghao, Zufeng, Guo, Sin, Wan-Yee Fion, Chen, Wei, Xu, Junjie, Fu, Ling, Wu, Jie, Mak, Chun-Kit Gannon, Cheng, Chak-Sum Samuel, Yang, Yanzhen, Cao, Shuyong, Wong, Tin-Yau, Lai, Sik-To, Xie, Yong, Guo, Zhihong (2005) "B cell responses in patients who have recovered from severe acute respiratory syndrome target a dominant site in the S2 domain of the surface spike glycoprotein", J. Virol., 79, 3401–3408.

Qin, Chuanguang, Bu, Xianzhang, Wu, Xiaoming, Guo, Zhihong (2003-2004) "A chemical approach to generate molecular diversity based on the scaffold of cyclic decapeptide antibiotic tyrocidine A", Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry, 5, 353-355.

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: Ambient Measurement of Particle Size Distributions of Elemental Carbon and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant)HK$538,836 01 Sep 2005 Chemical characterization of aerosol particles emitted from crop residue burning in the Pearl River Delta region RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant)HK$743,261 01 Sep 2007 Gas-particle partitioning of glyoxal in the atmosphere RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant)HK$552,565 01 Jan 2007 Chemical analysis of cooking fumes in Hong Kong Civic Exchange HK$200,000 08 Jan 2004 Improving Presentation of Secondary Aerosol Formation Chemistry in Air Quality Models for Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta Region UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$162,200 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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, Hu, Min (2006) "Size Distribution Characteristics of Elemental Carbon Emitted from Chinese Vehicles: Results of a Tunnel Study and Atmospheric Implications", Environ. Sci. Technol., 40, pp 5355-5360.

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.

Yuan, Zibing, Yu, Jian Zhen, Lau, Alexis K. H., Louie, Peter K. K., Fung, Jimmy C. H. (2006) "Application of Positive Matrix Factorization in Estimating Aerosol Secondary Organic Carbon in Hong Kong and Its Relationship with

Secondary Sulfate", Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics, v6, 25-34.

Wan, Eric C. H., Yu, Jian Zhen (2006) "Determination of Sugar Compounds in Atmospheric Aerosols by Liquid Chromatography Combined with Positive Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry", Journal of Chromatography A, v1107,175-181.

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:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Development of environmental catalysis using zeolites RHT Limited HK$110,000 15 Oct 2006 Total solution for the fulfillment of EU regulation on registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction of chemicals (REACH) SME Development Fund HK$320,000 01 Jul 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Au-yeung, Tin Lok, Chan, Ka Yee, Haynes, Richard K, Williams, Ian D., Yeung, Lam Lung (2001-2002) "Completely stereoselective P-C bond formation via base-induced 1,3 - and 1,2 -intramolecular rearrangements of aryl phosphinates, phosphinoamidates and related compounds", Tetrahedron Letter, 42, 457.

Au-yeung, Tin Lok, Chan, Ka Yee, Haynes, Richard K, Williams, Ian D., Yeung, Lam Lung (2001- 2002) "Reactions of (RP)- and (SP)-tert-butylphenylphosphinobromidates and tert-butylphenylthionophosphinochloridates with heteroatom nucleophiles; preparation of P-chiral binol phosphinates and related compounds", Tetrahedron Letter, 42, 453.

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

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Microfluidic chips for early disease diagnosis RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Sep 2007 Development of integrated portable microdevices for biofluid analysis E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company HK$195,000 01 Aug 2007 Enyme-linked nanoparticles for DNA detections with extremely high selectivity and sensitivity UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$75,000 01 Nov 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Yan, Hui, Zhang, Boyang, Wu, Hongkai (2008) "Chemical Cytometry on Microfluidic Chip", Electrophoresis, 29, 1775-1786 (2008).

Yan, Hui, Wu, Hongkai (2008) "Magnetophoresis", Encyclopedia of Micro- and Nanofluidics, (Springer), Ed. D. Li, 1st ed. (2008).

Yan, Hui, Zhao, Yongtao, Qiu, Chong, Wu, Hongkai (2008) "Micropatterning of Inorganic Precipitations in Hydrogels with Soft Lithography", Sensors Actuators B: Chemical, B132, 20-25 (2008).

Yan, Hui, Wu, Hongkai (2008) "Pyroelectric Flow sensors", Encyclopedia of Micro- and Nanofluidics (Springer), Ed. D. Li, 1 ed. (2008).

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

Current Research Activities:

Representative Research Publications:

Qin, Anjun, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Jim, Cathy Ka Wai, Zhang, Li, Yan, Jingjing, Häussler, Matthias, Liu, Jianzhao, Dong, Yongqiang, Liang, Dehai, Chen, Erqiang, Jia, Guochen, Tang, Ben Zhong (2008) "Hyperbranched Polytriazoles: Click Polymerization, Regioisomeric Structure, Light Emission, and Fluorescent Patterning",

Macromolecules, 2008, 41, 3808-3822.

Dong, Hongchen, Qin, Anjun, Jim, Cathy Ka Wai, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Häuβler, Matthias, Tang, Ben Zhong (2008) "Synthesis and Characterization of Ferrocene-Containing Hyperbranched Poly(aroylarylene)s", Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials, 2008, 18, 201-205.

Xing, Changmin, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Zhao, Keqing, Tang, Ben Zhong (2008) "Synthesis and Liquid Crystalline Properties of Poly(1-alkyne)s Carrying Triphenylene Discogens", Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 2008, 46, 2960-2974.

Hua, Jianli, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Yu, Xiaoming, Wu, Lijun, Kwok, Hoi Sing, Wong, Kam Sing, Tang, Ben Zhong (2008) "Synthesis, Light Emission, and Photovoltaic Properties of Perylene-Containing Polyacetylenes", Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 2008, 46, 2025-2037.

Dong, Yongqiang, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Qin, Anjun, Li, Zhen, Liu, Jianzhao, Sun, Jingzhi, Dong, Yuping, Tang, Ben Zhong (2007) "Endowing Hexaphenylsilole with Chemical Sensory and Biological Probing Properties by Attaching Amino Pendants to the Silolyl Core", Chemical Physics Letters, 2007, 446, 124-127.

Shi, Jianbing, Tong, Bin, Li, Zhen, Shen, Jinbo, Zhao, Wei, Fu, Huanhuan, Zhi, Junge, Dong, Yuping, Häussler, Matthias, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Tang, Ben Zhong (2007) "Hyperbranched Poly(ferrocenylphenylenes): Synthesis, Characterization, Redox Activity, Metal Complexation, Pyrolytic Ceramization and Soft Ferromagnetism", Macromolecules, 2007, 40, 8195-8204.

Liu, Jianzhao, Zheng, Ronghua, Tang, Youhong, Häussler, Matthias, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Qin, Anjun, Ye, Mingxin, Hong, Yuning, Gao, Ping, Tang, Ben Zhong (2007) "Hyperbranched Poly (silylenephenylenes) from Polycyclotrimerization of A2-Type Diyne Monomers: Synthesis, Characterization, Structural Modeling,

Thermal Stability, and Fluorescent Patterning", Macromolecules, 2007, 40, 7473-7486.

Tong, Hui, Hong, Yuning, Dong, Yongqiang, Häussler, Matthias, Li, Zhen, Lam, Jacky Wing Yip, Dong, Yuping, Sung, Herman Ho Yung, Williams, Ian D., Tang, Ben Zhong (2007) "Protein Detection and Quantitation by Tetraphenylethene-Based Fluorescent Probes with Aggregation Induced-Emission Characteristics", The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2007, 111, 11817-11823.

Department of Mathematics

Jian-Shu LI, Professor and Department Head

Shiu-Yuen CHENG, Chair Professor; Dean of Science

Allen MOY, Chair Professor

Kwing Lam CHAN, Professor

Kani CHEN, Professor

Jimmy C H FUNG, Professor

Jing-Song HUANG, Professor

Bing Yi JING, Professor

Yue Kuen KWOK, Professor

Weiping LI, Professor

Qiman SHAO, Professor

Xiaoping WANG, Professor

Kun XU, Professor

Chung-Chun YANG, Professor

Yongchang ZHU, Professor

Kung Ching CHANG, Adjunct Professor

William K M LAU, Adjunct Professor

Jeffrey R CHASNOV, Associate Professor

Beifang CHEN, Associate Professor

Yik Man CHIANG, 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

Lixin WU, Associate Professor

Min YAN, Associate Professor

Jianping GAN, Assistant Professor

Yang XIANG, Assistant Professor Jian-Shu LI Professor and Department Head (2358 7412 ; [email protected])

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

Associate Professor, University of Maryland, 1992-1996

Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, 1989-1992.

Moore Instructor, MIT, 1987-1989.

Current Research Activities: Representation theory; automorphic forms.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Period integrals on Shimura varieties RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$557,690 01 Jul 2006 Theta correspondence over dyadic fields RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$463,600 01 Jul 2005

Representative Research Publications:

Jiang, Dihua, Li, Jian-shu, Zhang, Shouwu (2006) "Periods and distribution of cycles on Hilbert modular varieties", Pure and Applied Mathematics Quaterly, Vol. 2, No. 1, 219-277.

Li, Jianshu, Schwermer, Joachim (2003-2004) "On the Eisenstein Cohomology of Arithmetic Groups", Duke Math. Journal, Vol 123, No. 1, 141-169.

Li, Jian-Shu, Paul, A., Tan, E C, Zhu, C B (2003) "The Explicit Duality Correspondence of $(Sp(p,q),O^*(2n))$", Journal of Functional Analysis, Vol. 200, pp. 71-100.

Li, Jian-Shu, Schwermer, Joachim (2001-2002) "Automorphic Representations and Cohomology of Arithmetic Groups", Challenges for the 21st Century, proceedings of the International Conference on Fundamental Sciences,

Singapore, 102-137.

Li, Jian-Shu (2001-2002) "On the first eigenvalue of Laplacian for locally symmetric manifolds", Proceedings of First ICCMAMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics, 20, 271-278.

Li, Jian-Shu, Tan, Eng Chye, Zhu, Chengbo (2001-2002) "Tensor Product of Degenerate Principal Series and Local Theta Correspondence", Journal of Functional Analysis, 186: 381-431.

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

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1974) Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles (1981-98) Professor of Mathematics, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1992-95)

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

Representative Research Publications:

Cheng, Shiu-Yuen (2006) "Conference papers", Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid, August 22-30, 2006, European Mathematical Society, Volume III, pp. 1688-1690.

Allen MOY Chair Professor (2358 7422 ; [email protected])

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

Current Research Activities: Representation theory; Lie theory.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Investigations of the Bernstein Center of a Reductive Group RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$463,600 01 Jul 2005

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 stellar core overshooting and mixing RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$250,000 01 Jul 2006 Modeling of Lunar Helium - 3 Distribution with Remote Sensing Data from Chang'E-1 RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$170,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Tian, Chun Lin, Xu, Kun, Chan, Kwing Lam, Deng, Licai (2007) "A multidimensional gas-kinetic scheme for the Navier- Stokes equations under gravitational fields", Juounal of Computational Physics, 226, 2003-2027.

Chan, Kwing Lam (2007) "Rotating convection in f-boxes: Faster rotation", Astronomische Narhrichten, 328: 1059- 1061.

Deng, Licai, Xiong, DR, Chan, Kwing (2006) "An anisotropic nonlocal convection theory", Astrophysical Journal, 643 (1): 426-437.

Brandenburg, Axel, Chan, Kwing, Nordlund, Ake, Stein, Robert (2005) "Effect of the radiative background flux in convection", Astronomische Nachrichten, 326 (8): 681-692.

Mayr, Hans, Mengel, John, Talaat, ER, Porter, Hayden, Chan, Kwing (2005) "Mesopherica non-migrating tides waves: II. Influence of planetary and gravity waves", Journal of atmospheric and solar-terrestrial physics, 67 (11): 981-991.

Robinson, Francis, Demarque, Piere, Guenther, David, Kim, Yong, Chan, Kwing (2005) "Simulating the outer layers of Procyon A: a comparison with the Sun", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 362: 1031-1037.

Chan, JCL, Liu, YM, Chow, KC, Ding, YH, Lau, WKM, Chan, KL (2004-2005) "Design of a regional climate model for the simulation of South China summer monsoon rainfall", Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 82: 1645-1665.

Chow, Kim, Chan, Kwing (2003-2004) "Angular momentum transport by moving spiral waves", J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 2004- 2009.

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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$570,000 01 Nov 2007 Transformation models for nested case-control sampling RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$388,460 07 Aug 2006

Representative Research Publications:

chen, Kani, jin, Zhezhen (2005) "Local polynomial regression analysis of clustered data.", Biometrika, 95, 59-74. Chen, Kani (2004) "Statistical estimation in the proportional hazards model with risk set sampling.", Annals of Statistics, To appear.

Chen, Kani (2003) "Linear minimax efficiency for local polynomial regression smoothers", Journal of nonparametric statistics, 15(3), 343-353.

Chen, Kani (2001-2002) "Parametric and semiparametric models for recapture and removal studies: a likelihood approach.", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 63(3), 607-619.

Chen, Kani (2001) "Generalized case-cohort sampling", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 63(4), 791-809.

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

PhD, University of Cambridge (1990)

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

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

Representative Research Publications:

Lam, J.S.L., Lau, A.K.H., Fung, J.C.H. (2006) "Application of refined land-use categories for high resolution mesoscale atmospheric modelling", Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 119 (2) 263-288.

Huang, Jianping, Fung, Jimmy Chi Hung, Lau, Alexis Kai Hon, Qin, Yu (2005) "Numerical simulation and process analysis of typhoon-related ozone episode in Hong Kong", Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 110 (D5): Art. No. D05301.

Fung, Jimmy Chi Hung, Lau, Alexis Kai Hon, Lam, Job Sai-Lai, Yuan, Zibing (2005) "Observational and modeling analysis of a severe air pollution episode in western Hong Kong", Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 110 (D9): Art. No. D09105.

Fung, Jimmy Chi Hung, Vassilicos, John Christos (2003) "Inertial particle segregation by turbulence", Phys. Rev E, 68(4), 046309-1-6.

Lau, Alexis K.H., Fung, J.C.H., Li, C.C., Wu, W.M. (2003) "Aerosol, visibility, and sustainable development over China".

Fung, J.C.H., Hunt, J.C.R., Perkins, R.J. (2003) "Diffusivities and velocity spectra of small inertial particles in turbulent-like flows", Proceedings A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences of the Royal Society, Vol. 459, No. 2030, Issue 8, pp. 445-493.

Huang, Jason P.L., Fung, Jimmy C.H., Lau, Alexis K.H. (2002) "Study of microscale urban air dispersion by ADMS - Urban", Proceeding of Better Air Quality in Asian and Pacific Rim Cities (BAQ 2002), PS-44-1 - PS-44- 6.

Sobnack, Binoy M., Matthias, John R., Fung, Jimmy C.H., Williams, Charles, D.H., Inkson, John C. (2002) "Roton backflow and quasiparticle scattering at 4He surfaces", Physical Review B, 65(184521), 1-9.

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

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

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Dirac cohomology and branching laws RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$445,000 01 Oct 2007 Cubic Dirac operator, u-cohomology and characters of Harish-Chandra modules RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$308,000 01 Oct 2005

Representative Research Publications:

Huang, Jing-Song (2006) Dirac Operators in Representation Theory, published by Birkhauser, Boston, in the book series Mathematics: Theory and Applications.

Huang, Jing-Song (2006) "Dirac operators and Lie algebra cohomology", Representation Theory, volume 10, pages 299-313.

Huang, Jing-Song, Pandzic, Pavle (2005) "Dirac operators in representation theory", Representations of Real and p-adic Groups, Lecture Notes Series, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, Vol. 2, World Scientific, 2004, 163-219.

Huang, Jing-Song (2001-2002) "Admissible square quadruplets and semisimple symmetric spaces", Advances in Mathematics, 165, 101-123.

Huang, Jing-Song, Pandzic, Pavle (2001-2002) "Dirac cohomology, unitary representations and a proof of a conjecture on Vogan", Journal of AMS, 15, 185-202.

Huang, Jing-Song (2001-2002) "Invariant differential operators and eigenspace representations on an affine symmetric space", Annals of Mathematics, 154, 703-737.

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

PhD, University of Syndey (1993)

Current Research Activities: Resampling methods; asymptotic expansions.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Statistical inference for jump-diffusion processes based on high frequency data in finance RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$445,000 01 Aug 2007 Asymptotic theory of studentized statistics RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$557,690 01 Jul 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Jing, Bing-Yi (2003) "Adjusted empirical likelihood method for quantiles", Zhou, Wang; Jing, Bing-Yi Ann. Inst. Statist. Math., Vol. 55, pp689--703.

Zhou, Wang, Jing, Bing-Yi (2003) "Adjusted empirical likelihood method for quantiles", Ann. Inst. Statist. Math., Vol. 55, pp689--703.

Qin, Gengsheng, Jing, Bing-Yi (2001) "Censored partial linear models and empirical likelihood", Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 78, 37-61.

Wang, Qi-Hua, Jing, Bing-Yi (2001) "Empirical likelihood for a class of functionals of survival distribution with censored data", Ann. Inst. Statist. Math., 53, 517-527.

Qin, Gengsheng, Jing, Bing-Yi (2001) "Empirical likelihood for censored linear regression", Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 28, 661-673.

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

PhD, Brown University (1985) Assistant Professor, West Virginia University (1985-87) Assistant Professor, San Jose State University (1987-90) Current Research Activities: Financial mathematics.

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Dai, Min, Kwok, Yue Kuen, Wu, Lixin (2003) "Options with multiple reset rights", International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, vol. 6(6), p.637-653.

Wong, Hoi Ying, Kwok, Yue Kuen (2003) "Sub-replication and replenishing premium: efficient pricing of multi-state lookbacks", Review of Derivatives Research, vol 6, p.83-106.

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

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

Current Research Activities: Algebraic geometry.

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.

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

PhD, University of Science and Technology of China (1989) Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor of Mathematics, University of Oregon (1996- 2005) Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, National University of Singapore (2002-04)

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Large deviations of Gaussian random fields France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$24,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

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.

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

PhD, New York University (1990)

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Numerical simulations of the morphology and dynamics of liquid drops on chemically patterned surfaces RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$445,000 01 Jan 2008 Multiscale phenomena at fluid-solid interfaces: from mathematical analysis to software engineering, microfluidics and lubrication UGC - Targets of Opportunity and Others HK$2,500,000 12 May 2007 Multi-phase fluid flow: Theory, simulation and experiments RGC - Collaborative Research Fund (formerly known as Central Allocation) HK$3,400,000 01 Feb 2006 Multi-phase fluid flow: Theory, simulation and experiments Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs, HKUST HK$600,000 07 Mar 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Wang, Xiao-Ping, Qian, Tiezheng, Sheng, Ping (2008) "Moving contact line on chemically patterned surfaces", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol 605, pp 59-78.

Fibich, Gadi, Gavish, Nir, Wang, Xiao-Ping (2007) "Singular ring solutions of critical and supercritical nonlinear Schr \'odinger equations", Physica D, 231, pp55-86.

Garcia-Cervera, Carlos, Wang, Xiaoping (2007) "Spin-Polarized Transport: Existence of Weak Solutions;", Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (B) ,, 7, (2007) 87-100.

Qian, Tiezheng, Wang, Xiaoping, Sheng, Ping (2006) "A variational approach to the moving contact line hydrodynamics;", Journal of Fluid Mechanics;, 564, (2006) 333-360.

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.

Wang, Xiaoping, Wang, Ke, E, Weinan (2006) "Simulations of 3-d domain wall structures in thin films", Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems B, 6, (2006):373-390.

Wang, Xiao-Ping, Zhao, Sufeng, Han, Xiufeng (2006) "Micro-magnetic simulations of demagnetization curves for single phase nanocrystalline PrFeB magnet", Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 190, (2006) 142-150.

Qian, Tie-Zheng, Wang, Xiao-Ping, Sheng, Ping (2006) "Molecular hydrodynamics of the moving contact line in two phase immiscible flows;", Communications in Computational Physics, 1, (2006):1-52.

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: Development and evaluation of kinetic models for translational-rotational-vibrational thermal nonequilibrium flows RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$538,836 01 Oct 2005 A gas-kinetic scheme on a moving and adaptive mesh for viscous flow computation RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$356,000 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Xu, Kun (2008) "A generalized Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook model for nonequilibrium flows", Physics of Fluids, vol. 20, 026101.

Liu, Hongwei, Xu, Kun (2007) "A Runge-Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Viscous Flow Equations", J. Comput. Phys., vol. 224, pp. 1223-1242.

Jin, Changqiu, Xu, Kun (2007) "A unified moving grid gas-kinetic method in Eulerian space for viscous flow computation", J. Comput. Phys., vol. 222, pp. 155-175.

Xu, Kun, Liu, Hongwei, Jiang, Jianzheng (2007) "Multiple temperature kinetic model for continuum and near continuum flows", Physics of Fluids, vol. 19, 016101.

Xu, Kun, Liu, Hongwei (2007) "Multiscale gas-kinetic simulation for continuum and near continuum flows", Physical Review E, E75, 016306.

Jin, Changqiu, Xu, Kun (2006) "An adaptive grid method for two dimensional viscous flows", Journal of computational physics, Vol. 218, pp. 68-81.

Torrilhon, Manuel, Xu, Kun (2006) "Stability and consistency of kinetic upwinding for advection-diffusion equations", IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, vol. 26, pp.686-722.

Xu, Kun, Josyula, Eswar (2006) "Continuum formulation for non-equilibrium shock structure calculation", Communications in Computational Physics, 1, pp. 425-450.

Chung-Chun YANG Professor (2358 7414 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1969) Research Mathematician, Naval Research Laboratory (1970-90) Visiting Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (1983-84)

Current Research Activities: Real and complex analysis; value distribution theory and its applications.

Representative Research Publications:

Laine, Ilpo, Yang, Chung-Chun (2007) "Clunie theorems for difference and q-difference polynomials", Lournal of London Math. Soc., (2) 76.

Wang, Xiao-Ling, Yang, Chung-Chun (2006) "Factorization of entire solutions of some algebraic differential equations", J. Math. Anal. Appl., 324, 373-380.

Li, Ping, Yang, Chung-Chun (2006) "Meromorphic solutions of functional equations with nonconstant coefficients", Proc. Japan Academy Ser. A Math. Sci., 82, no. 10, 183-186.

Hu, Pei-Chu, Yang, Chung-Chun (2006) "Unique range sets for meromorphic functions on C^m", Complex Var. Elliptic Equ., 51 no 8-11 , 871-911.

Hu, Pei-Chu, Yang, Chung-Chun (2004) "Nevanlinna theory and Diophantine approximations", Finite and infinite dimensional complex analysis , Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1-20.

Ha, Huy-Khaoi, Yang, Chung-Chun (2004) "On the functional equation P(f)=Q(g)", Value distribution theory and related topics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 201-208.

Li, Ping, Yang, Chung-Chun (2004) "Some further results on the functional equation P(f)=Q(g)", Value distribution theory and related topics, KLuwer Academic Publishers, 219-232.

Barsegian, Grigor, Laine, Ilpo, Yang, Chung-Chun (2004) Value distribution theory and related topics, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

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

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

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Weil representations and automorphic forms of loop groups RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$186,000 14 Jul 2007

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

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

Current Research Activities: Partial differential equations.

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

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

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

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

PhD, Columbia University (1990) Research Fellow, NASA Ames/Stanford Center for Turbulence Research (1991-93) Current Research Activities: Turbulence simulation and theory; evolutionary genetics; scientific computation.

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

Representative Research Publications:

Chasnov, Jeffrey R, So, Wai Kar, Chan, Chung Man, Chow, King L (2007) "The species, sex, and stage specificity of a Caenorhabditis sex pheromone", PNAS, 104, 6730-6735.

Chasnov, Jeffrey R., Chow, King L. (2002) "Why are there males in the hermaphroditic species Caenorhabditis elegans?", Genetics, 160, 983-994.

Beifang CHEN Associate Professor (2358 7449 ; [email protected])

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

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Finite and infinite dimensional subspace arrangements RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$250,000 01 Sep 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Chen, Beifang (2004) "A simplified elementary proof of Hadwiger's volume theorem", Geometriae Dedicata, vol. 105, 107-120.

Chen, Beifang, Lau, Mankwong (2003) "On semi-Eulerian partially ordered sets with boundary", European Journal of Combinatorics, vol 24, 955-968.

Chen, Beifang (2003) "The Pick theorem and the proof of the reciprocity law for Dedekind sums", Annals of Combinatorics, Vol 7, 425-439.

Chen, Beifang, Lau, Mankwong (2003) "On the semi-Eulerian partially ordered sets with boundary", European journals of combinatorics, to appear.

Chen, Beifang (2001-2002) "Lattice points, Dedekind sums, and Ehrhart polynomials of lattice polyhedra", Discrete and Computational Geometry, 28, 175-199.

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

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

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

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

Representative Research Publications:

Chiang, Yik-Man (2008) "Malmquist-type theorems for second-order ODEs", International Conference on Nonlinear Waves: Theory and Applications, Beijing, China, organised by M. Ablowitz, D-Y. Hsieh and J.

Yang, 9-12 June 2008.

Chiang, Yik-Man, Feng, Shaoji (2008) "On the growth of $f(z+\eta)$ and difference equations in the complex plane", The Ramanujan Journal, 16 (2008) 105-129.

Chiang, Yik-Man (2007) "On the Nevanlinna Order of Lommel, Struve Functions and Complex Differential Equations", 1st Joint Meeting of American and the Newzealand Mathematical Societies, Special session on Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials, Victoria Univ. of Wellington, organized by D. Dominici, O.

Warnaar, S. Cooper, 12-15 December 2007 (25 minutes invited talk).

Chiang, Yik-Man, Ruijsenaars, Simon N. M. (2006) "On the Nevanlinna Order of Meromorphic Solutions to Linear Analytic Difference Equations", Studies in Applied Mathematics, Vol. 116 Issue 3, Page 257-287.

Chiang, Yik-Man, Feng, S. J. (2005) "On the growth of entire solutions to some difference equations", Computational Methods and Function Theory 2005, University of Joensuu, Finland, organized by St. Ruscheweyh, E. B.

Saff, O. Martio and I. Laine., 13--17th June 2005,.

Chiang, Yik-Man, Feng, S. J. (2005) "Some Nevanlinna-type estimates related to discrete equations", International Conference on Nonlinear Waves, Integrable Systems, and their Applications, in honor of Mark Ablowitz's sixtieth birthday, University of Colorado Spring, , organized by M. Kruskal, T. Fokas, S. Chakravarty and

R. Cascaval, 4--8th June 2005.

Chiang, Yik-Man, Hayman, W. K. (2004) "Estimates on the growth of entire and meromorphic solutions of linear differential equations", Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici, 79, pp. 451-470.

Chiang, Yik-Man, Ismail, Mourad E M (2004) "On The Location of Complex Zeros of Bessel Functions and Complex Oscillation Theory", American Mathematics Society, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Phoenix, AZ. Special Session in 'Value Distribution Theory in Classical and p-adic Function Theory', organized by A. Escassut,

I. Laine and C. C. Yang., January 7-10.

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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$445,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

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

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

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1989)

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

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

PhD, University of Hong Kong (1997)

Current Research Activities: Large sample theory; empirical processes; nonstationary time series; nonlinear time series; long memory time series; econometrics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: On a first-order multiple threshold double autoregressive model: Structure and estimation RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$570,000 01 Jan 2008 Testing change of structural forms of dynamic systems in time series RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$545,446 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Ling, Shiqing, Li, D. (2008) "Asymptotic inference for a nonstationary double AR(1) model", BIOMETRIKA, Volume: 95, Issue: 1, Pages: 257-263.

Ling, Shiqing (2007) "Self-weighted and local quasi-maximum likelihood estimators for ARMA-GARCH/IGARCH models", JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS, Volume: 140, Issue: 2, Pages: 849-873.

Ling, Shiqing (2007) "Testing for change-points in time series models and limiting theorems for NED sequences.", Annals of Statistics, 35, 1213-1237.

Ling, Shiqing (2007) "A double AR(p) model: structure and estimation", Statistica Sinica, 17, 161-175. Ling, Shiqing, Tong, Howell, Li, Dong (2007) "Ergodicity and invertibility of threshold moving-average models", Bernoulli, 13 , no. 1, 161--168.

Koul, H., Ling, Shiqing (2006) "Fitting an error distribution in some heteroscedastic time series models.", Annals of Statistics, 34, 994-1012.

Ling, Shiqing (2005) "Self-weighted LAD estimation for infinite variance autoregressive models.", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B., 67, Part 3, pp. 381–393.

Ling, Shiqing, Tong, H. (2005) "Testing a linear MA model against threshold MA models.", Annals of Statistics, 33, 2529-2552 .

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

PhD, Brown University (1993)

Current Research Activities: Physics-inspired Geometry

Representative Research Publications:

Meng, Guowu (2007) "The MICZ-Kepler Problems in All Dimensions", J. Math. Phys., 48, 032105 (2007). Meng, Guowu (2006) "Legendre Transform, Hessian Conjecture and Tree Formula", Appl. Math. Lett., 19 (2006), 503- 510.

Meng, Guowu (2003) "A path integral derivation of chi-y-genus", J. Phys. A: Math. Gen., 36(4), 1083-1086. Meng, Guowu (2003) "Geometric construction of the quantum Hall effect in all even dimensions", J. Phys. A: Math. Gen., 36, 9415-9423.

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

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

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

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

Representative Research Publications:

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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$545,000 01 Jan 2008 Multi-phase fluid flow: Theory, simulation and experiments RGC - Collaborative Research Fund (formerly known as Central Allocation) HK$800,000 01 Feb 2006 Molecular dynamics simulations and continuum hydrodynamic calculations of cavity flow: The slip boundary condition RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$105,600 01 Nov 2003

Representative Research Publications:

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, Ren, Weiqing, Sheng, Ping (2005) "Current dissipation in thin superconducting wires: A numerical evaluation using the string method", Physical Review B, Vol 72, 014512.

Qian, Tiezheng, Wang, Xiao-Ping, Sheng, Ping (2005) "Hydrodynamic slip boundary condition at chemically patterned surfaces: A continuum deduction from molecular dynamics", Physical Review E, Vol 72, 022501.

Qian, Tiezheng, Wang, Xiao-Ping (2005) "Driven cavity flow: from molecular dynamics to continuum hydrodynamics", Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 749-763.

Qian, Tiezheng, Wang, Xiao-Ping, Sheng, Ping (2004) "Power-law slip profile of the moving contact line in two- phase immiscible flows", Physical Review Letters, volume 93, number 9, 094501.

Qian, Tiezheng, Wang, Xiao-Ping, Sheng, Ping (2003) "Molecular scale contact line hydrodynamics of immiscible flows", Physical Review E, Vol 68, 016306.

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

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

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Statistical methods in genetic association studies for complex diseases RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$250,000 01 Sep 2006 Power and sample size calculations for generation studies RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$52,000 01 Jun 2006

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Ekelund, U., Brage, S., Franks, P.W., Emms, S., Hennings, S., Wong, Man Yu, Wareham, N.J. (2005) "Physical activity energy expenditure predicts changes in body composition in middle-aged healthy Caucasians but these associations are modified by age", The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 81, .page 964-969.

Day, N.E., Wong, Man Yu, Bingham, S., Khaw, K.T., Luben, R., Michels, K.B., Welch, A., Wareham, N.J. (2004) "Correlated measurement error - implication in nutritional epidemiology", International Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 33, pp1-9.

Cox, D.R., Wong, Man Yu (2004) "A simple procedure for the selection of significant effects", Journal of the Royal Statistical Soceity, Series B, 66, 395-400.

Wong, M.Y., Day, N.E., Luan, J.A., Wareham, N.J. (2004) "Estimation of magnitude in gene-environment interactions in the presence of measurement error", Statistics in Medicine, Vol. 23, p. 987 - p. 998.

Wong, M.Y., Day, N.E., Luan, J.A., Chan, K.P., Wareham, N.J. (2003) "The detection of gene-environment interaction for continuous traits: should we deal with measurement error by bigger studies or better measurement?", International Journal of Epidemiology, 32, pp.51-57.

Zhang, S., Wong, M.Y. (2003) "Wavelet threshold estimation for additive regression model", Annals of Statistics, 31, pp.152-173.

Zhang, Shuanglin, Wong, Man Yu (2002) "Wavelet threshold estimation of regression function with random design", Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 80, 256-284.

Lixin WU Associate 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, 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.

Yu, Hong, Kwok, Yue-Kuen, Wu, Lixin (2001) "Early exercise policies of American floating and fixed strike lookback options", Nonlinear Analysis, 47, 4951-4602.

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: Functoriality in Isovariant Surgery RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$231,000 31 Dec 2005

Representative Research Publications:

Weinberger, Shmuel, Yan, Min (2005) "Equivariant periodicity for compact group actions", Adances in Geometry. Yan, Min, Weinberger, Shmuel (2003-2004) "Equivariant Periodicity for Compact Group Actions", Advances in Geometry.

Yan, Min, Hu, Ji-Shan (2002) "An Elementary and Direct Proof of the Painleve Property for the Painleve Equations P1, P2 and P4", Journal d'Analyse, to appear.

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

Yan, Min, Weinberger, Shmuel (2001) "Equivariant Periodicity for Abelian Group Actions", Advances in Geometry, 1, 49-70.

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

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

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: On the separation of upwelling coastal jet off Vietnam and its impacts on the South China Sea Circulation in the summer RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked HK$463,460 01 Jan 2007 Research Grant) Investigation of coupled estuary-shelf circulation in the Pearl River Estuary and around Hong Kong waters during the upwelling season RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked HK$428,000 01 Oct 2005 Research Grant) Dynamics of coupled coastal downwelling-estuarine circulation around Hong Kong waters and its effects on the sea water intrusion into the Pearl River during the dry season RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked HK$484,000 01 Jan 2008 Research Grant) 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 HK$559,000 01 Jan 2008 Joint Research Scheme Shifting of Warming/Cooling Regime in the South China Sea and its Implication in the Regional Climate Variability RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$170,000 01 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Gan, Jianping, Qu, Tangdong (2008) "Coastal jet separation and associated flow variability in the southwest South China Sea", Deep-Sea Research Part 1, V. 55, pp1-19, doi:10.1016/j.dsr. 2007.09.008.

Zu, Tingting, Gan, Jianping, Erofeeva, S. Y. (2008) "Numerical study of the tide and tidal dynamics in the South China Sea", Deep-Sea Research Part 1, V. 55, pp 137-154,10.1016/j.dsr.2007.10.007.

Qu, Tangdong, Du, Yuan, Gan, Jianping, Wang, D. (2007) "Mean seasonal cycle of isothermal depth in the South China Sea,", Journal of Geophysical Research, American Geophysical Union, 112, C02020, doi:10.1029/2006JC003583.

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.

Spitz, Yvette, Allen, John, Gan, Jianping (2005) "Modeling of ecosystem processes on the Oregon shelf during the 2001 summer upwelling.", Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, doi:101029/2005JC002870.

Gan, Jianping, Allen, John (2005) "Modeling upwelling circulation off the Oregon coast", Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 110, C10S07, doi:10.1029/2004JC002692.

Gan, Jianping (2004-2005) "Variability of circulation induced by the separation of Gaspe Current in Baie des Chaleurs", Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf, 61, 393-402.

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

PhD, New York University (2001) Research Associate, Princeton University (2001-2003) Current Research Activities: Mathematical Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science, Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, Image Processing

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A generalized Peierls-Nabarro model for curved dislocations RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$250,000 01 Jan 2007 A fast multipole method for the long-range elastic interactions in dislocation dynamics RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$267,000 01 Jan 2008 Adaptive Numerical Methods for Dislocation Dynamics Simulations RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$250,000 01 May 2008

Representative Research Publications:

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.

We, He, Xiang, Yang, Ming, Pingbing (2008) "A generalized Peierls-Nabarro model for curved dislocations using discrete Fourier transform", Communications in Computational Physics, 4(2), 275-293.

Quek, Siu Sin, Wu, Zhaoxuan, Zhang, Yong-Wei, Xiang, Yang, Srolovitz, David J. (2007) "Dislocation junctions as barriers to threading dislocation migration", Applied Physics Letters, 90, 011905.

Xiang, Yang, Chung, Albert C.S., Ye, Jian (2006) "An active contour model for image segmentation based on elastic interaction", Journal of Computational Physics, 219(1), 455-476.

Huang, Jingfang, Lai, Ming-Chih, Xiang, Yang (2006) "An integral equation method for epitaxial step-flow growth simulations", Journal of Computational Physics, 216(2), 724-743.

Xiang, Yang, Srolovitz, David J. (2006) "Dislocation climb effects on particle bypass mechanisms", Philosophical Magazine, 86, 3937-3957.

Quek, Siu Sin, Xiang, Yang, Zhang, Yong Wei, Srolovitz, David J., Lu, Chun (2006) "Level set simulation of dislocation dynamics in thin films", Acta Materialia, 54(9), pp.2371-2381.

Xiang, Yang (2006) "Modeling dislocations at different scales", Communications in Computational Physics, 1(3), pp.383-424.

Department of Physics

Ping SHENG, Professor and Department Head; Director, Institute of Nano Science and Technology

Che Ting CHAN, Chair Professor

Paul C W CHU, Professor and President of the University

Michael M T LOY, Chair Professor

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

Michael S ALTMAN, Professor

Pak Wo LEUNG, Professor

Tai Kai NG, Professor; Associate Dean of Science

Wing Yim TAM, Professor

Zi Kang TANG, Professor

Penger TONG, Professor

Ning WANG, Professor

Michael K Y WONG, Professor

Zhiyu YANG, Professor

Xixiang ZHANG, Professor

Zhaoqing ZHANG, Professor

Bradley A FOREMAN, Associate Professor

Kwok Kwong FUNG, Senior Lecturer

Nian LIN, Associate Professor

Iam Keong SOU, Associate Professor

Kwok Yip SZETO, Associate Professor

Jiannong WANG, Associate Professor

Xiangrong WANG, Associate Professor Weijia WEN, Associate Professor

Kam Sing WONG, Associate Professor

Tian Wen CHEN, Visiting Assistant Professor

Yilong HAN, Assistant Professor

Chi Wai LAI, Visiting Assistant Professor Ping SHENG Professor and Department Head; Director, Institute of Nano Science and Technology (2358 7506 ; [email protected] ; http://physics.ust.hk/department/staff.html)

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

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Microscopic study on the mechanism of the giant electrorheological effect RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$935,500 01 Sep 2007 Realization of Mott semiconductor by using metallic nanospheres UGC - Strategic Initiatives HK$400,000 01 Mar 2008 Carbon nanotube/AFI zeolite composite: superconductivity and Li storage application RGC - Collaborative Research Fund (formerly known as Central Allocation) HK$3,480,000 01 Mar 2005 Multi-phase fluid flow: Theory, simulation and experiments RGC - Collaborative Research Fund (formerly known as Central Allocation) HK$200,000 01 Feb 2006 Field-tunable Colloidal Crystals Based on Mono-dispersed Magnetic Particles UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$500,000 30 Jun 2008 Carbon nanotube/AFI zeolite composite: superconductivity and Li storage application Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs, HKUST HK$900,000 16 Mar 2005

Representative Research Publications:

Sheng, Ping, Mei, Jun, Liu, Zhengyou, Wen, Weijia (2007) "Dynamic Mass Density and Acoustic Metamaterials", Wuli, 36, 1-6.

Fang, Angbo, Chi, Xuguang, Sheng, Ping (2007) "Ground and Excited States of Three-Electron Quantum Dots", Solid State Communications, 142, 551-555.

Qiu, Chunyin, Qian, Tiezheng, Sheng, Ping (2007) "Meissner Effect in a System of Coupled One-Dimensional Superconducting Wires: Monte Carlo Simulations", Physical Review B, 75, 024504.

Liu, Liyu, Peng, Suili, Wen, Weijia, Sheng, Ping (2007) "Paperlike Thermochromic Display", Applied Physics Letters, 90, 213508-213510.

Qian, Tiezheng, Wang, Xiao Ping, Sheng, Ping (2006) "A Variational Approach to Moving Contact Line Hydrodynamics", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 564, 333-360.

Liu, Liyu, Chen, Xiaoqing, Niu, Xize, Wen, Weijia, Sheng, Ping (2006) "Electrorheological Fluid-Actuated Microfluidic Pump", Applied Physics Letters, 89, 083505-083507.

Niu, Xize, Liu, Liyu, Wen, Weijia, Sheng, Ping (2006) "Hybrid Approach to High-Frequency Microfluidic Mixing", Physical Review Letters, 97, 044501-044504.

Sheng, Ping (2006) "Waves on the Horizon", Science, 313, 1399-1400.

Che Ting CHAN Chair Professor (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: "Negative" acoustic wave media RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$463,600 01 Sep 2005 Discovery and functionalization of nano-materials for sensing, bio-medical, nano-fluidic and opto-electronic applications UGC - Targets of Opportunity and Others HK$2,500,000 12 May 2007 Electromagnetic resonant structures and plasmonic structures RGC - Collaborative Research Fund (formerly known as Central Allocation) HK$4,470,000 01 Mar 2007 Optics and plasmonics at the nano-scale UGC - High Impact Area HK$700,000 10 Sep 2005 The transport properties of carbon nano-materials in complex environments UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$600,000 26 Jun 2007 Nano-science and nano-technology UGC - Strategic Initiatives HK$7,200,000 05 May 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Chan, Che Ting (2007) "Bandgap engineering - Quasicrystals enter third dimension", Nature Photonics, 1 (2), 91-92. Fung, Kin Hung, Chan, Che Ting (2007) "Plasmonic modes in periodic metal nanoparticle chains: a direct dynamic eigenmode analysis", Optics Letters, 32 (8), 973-975.

Fan, Xie Bin, Wang, Guo Ping, Lee, Chi Wai Jeffrey, Chan, Che Ting (2006) "All-angle broadband negative refraction of metal waveguide arrays in the visible range: Theoretical analysis and numerical demonstration", Physical Review Letters, 97 (7), 073901.

Wu, Ying, Li, Tsan Hang Jensen, Zhang, Zhao Qing, Chan, Che Ting (2006) "Effective medium theory for magnetodielectric composites: Beyond the long-wavelength limit", Physical Review B, 74 (8), 085111.

Li, Bin, Leung, Tsan Chuen, Chan, Che Ting (2006) "Highly spin-polarized field emissions induced by quantum size effects in ultrathin films of Fe on W(001)", Physical Review Letters, 97 (8), 087201.

Ng, Tsz Fai Jack, Chan, Che Ting (2006) "Localized vibrational modes in optically bound structures", Optics Letters, 31 (17), 2583-2585.

Hou, Bo, Hang, Zhi Hong, Wen, Weijia, Chan, Che Ting, Sheng, Ping (2006) "Microwave transmission through metallic hole arrays: Surface electric field measurements", Applied Physics Letters, 89 (13), 131917.

Wan, Tsz Kai Jones, Chan, Che Ting (2006) "Thermal emission by metallic photonic crystal slabs", Applied Physics Letters, 89 (4), 041915.

Paul C W CHU Professor and President of the University (2358 6101 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, San Diego (1968) TLL Temple Chair of Science (1987- ) Director, Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston (1987-2001)

Current Research Activities: Experimental solid state physics: superconductivity, magnetism and dielectrics.

Representative Research Publications:

Heilman, A.K., Xue, Y.Y., Lorenz, B., Campbell, B.J., Cmaidalka, J., Meng, R.L., Wang, Y.S., Chu, C.W. (2002) "Distinct insulating state below the Curie point in Pr0.7Ba0.3MnO3", Physics Review B, 65, 214423.

Lorenz, B., Xue, Y.Y., Meng, R.L., Chu, C.W. (2002) "Field dependence of the intragrain superconductive transition in RuSr2EuCu2O8", Physics Review B, 65, 174503.

Lorenz, B., Xue, Y.Y., Meng, R.L., Chu, C.W. (2001-2002) "Superconductivity in Pure and Electron-Doped MgB2: Transport Properties and Pressure Effects", NATO Science Series II, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, 67, 213.

Xue, Y.Y., Lorenz, B., Baikalov, A., Cao, D.H., Li, Z.G., Chu, C.W. (2001-2002) "Superconductivity, intragrain penetration depth, and Meissner effect of RuSr2(Gd,Ce)2Cu2O10+d", Physics Review B, 66, 014503.

Chen, X.H., Wang, Y.S., Xue, Y.Y., Meng, R.L., Wang, Y.Q., Chu, C.W. (2001) "Correlation between the residual resistance ratio and magnetoresistance in MgB2", Physics Review B, 65, 024502.

Xue, Y.Y., Cao, D.H., Lorenz, B., Chu, C.W. (2001) "Evidence for possible phase separations in RuSr2(Gd,Ce)2Cu2O10- d", Physics Review B, 65, 020511.

Michael M T LOY Chair Professor (2358 7267 ; [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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Optical properties of single semiconducting nanowires RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$613,600 01 Jan 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Zhao, Aidi, Zhang, Xiequi, Chen, Gang, Loy, M.M.T., Xiao, Xudong (2006) "Initial stages of the adsorption of Ge atoms on the Si(111) – (7x7) surface", Physical Review B74, 125301 (2006)., B74, 125301 (2006).

Zheng, C. Z., Yeung, C. K., Loy, M.M.T., Xiao, Xudong (2006) "Quantum Diffusion of H on Pt(111): Step Effect", Physical Review Letters, 97, 166101 (2006).

Zhang, Chun, Chen, Gang, Wang, Kedong, Yang, Hongwei, Su, Tao, Chan, C.T., Loy, M.M.T., Xiao, Xudong (2005) "Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Single Cu, Ag, and Au Atoms Adsorbed on Si(111)-(7x7)", Physical Review Letters, 94, 176104 (2005).

Wang, Kedong, Zhang, Chun, Loy, M.M.T., Xiao, Xudong (2005) "Time-Dependent Tunneling Spectroscopy for Studying Surface Diffusion Confined in Nanostructures", Physical Review Letters, 94, 036103 (2005).

Zheng, C.Z., Yeung, C.K., Loy, M.M.T., Xiao, Xudong (2004) "Step effects and coverage dependence of hydrogen atom diffusion on Pt(111) surfaces", Physical Review B, B 70, 205402 (2004).

Wang, X.P., Loy, M.M.T., Xiao, Xudong (2002) "Bundle Structure Formation on a Polymer Film at Various Temperature and AFM Scanning Velocity", Nanotechnology, 13(4), 478-483.

Cai, Lei, Xiao, Xudong, Loy, Michael (2001) "Desorption of polyatomic molecules from the Pt(111) surface by femtosecond laser radiation", Journal of Chemical Physics, 115, 9490-9495.

Cai, Lei, Xiao, Xudong, Loy, Michael (2001) "Femtosecond desorption of CO from metal surfaces: the role of the 2pi*-derived states", Surface Science, 492, L688-692.

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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$317,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Jiang, F.Y., Lu, Weixin, Zhai, J.P., Ye, J.T., Wong, George K.L., Han, J.R., Tang, Zikang (2006) "Assembly of disperse red 1 molecules in the channels of AlPO4-5 single crystals for second-harmonic generation",

JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, B 110, 8924-8927, 2006.

Mak, L.S., Chan, Siu Kong, Wong, George K.L., Sou, Philip I.K. (2006) "Detectivity studies of SMD- packaged ZnSSe and ZnMgSUV detectors", JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS, 35, 1322-1326, 2006.

Chan, Siu Kong, Liu, Na, Cai, Y, Wang, Ning, Wong, George K.L., Sou, Philip I.K. (2006) "Molecular beam epitaxy-grown ZnSe nanowires", JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS, 35 (6): 1246-1250 2006.

yang, hui, xie, ping, chan, siu kong, Lu, weixin, zhang, zhao qing, sou, philip i.k., wong, george k. l., wong, kam sing (2006) "Simultaneous enhancement of the second- and third-harmonic generations in one-dimensional semiconductor photonic crystals", IEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS, 42, 447-452, 2006.

Yang, Hui, Xie, Ping, Chan, Siu Kong, Zhang, Zhao Qing, Sou, Philip I.K., Wong, George K.L., Wong, Kam Sing (2005) "Efficient second harmonic generation from large band gap II-VI semiconductor photonic crystal", Appl. Phys. Lett., 87, 131106-131109 (2005).

liao, hongbo, Lu, weixin, yu, s.w., wen, weijia, wong, george k.l. (2005) "Optical characteristics of gold nanoparticle-doped multilayer thin film", JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS, 22, 1923-1926, 2005.

YU, S W, LIAO, HongBo, WEN, Weijia, WONG, George KeLun (2005) "'Au/TiO2/SiO2 sandwich multilayer composite films with large nonlinear optical susceptibility'", Optical Materials, VOL 27, pp.1433-1437, (2005).

Xia, Haiping, Wen, Ting Bin, Hu, Quan Yuan, Wang, Xin, Chen, Xingguo, Shek, Lai Yung, Williams, Ian D, Wong, Kam Sing, Wong, George K L, Jia, Guochen (2005) "'Synthesis and Characterization of Trimetallic Ruthenium and Bimetallic Osmium Complexes with Metal-vinyl Linkages.'", Organometallics, Vol 24, pp.562- 569 (2005).

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

PhD, Brown University (1988) Research Fellow, Technical University of Clausthal (1988-1990) Visiting Scientist, IBM Almaden Research Center (1990-91) Current Research Activities: Surface physics; diffusion and growth; surface step dynamics; structure, magnetism and quantum electronic properties of ultrathin films; electron spin physics; low energy electron microscopy and diffraction; field emission microscopy and spectroscopy.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Detailed structure of adsorbed fullerenes: A joint LEED, LEEM and total-energy study RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$100,000 01 Jan 2008 Spin Resolved Energy Distributions in Vacuum Tunneling from Magnetic Thin Films RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$428,000 01 Nov 2005 Quantum well resonances and quantum size effects in ultrathin metal films RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$538,460 01 Dec 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Pang, Angbo, Man, Ka Lun, Altman, Michael, Stasevich, Timothy, Szalma, Ferenc, Einstein, Theodore (2008) "Step Line Tension and Step Morphological Evolution on the Si(111) (1x1) Surface", Physical Review B, Volume 77, pp. 115424, 1 - 12.

Man, Ka Lun, Altman, Michael (2006) "Formation Kinetics of the Mo(100)-Ag c(2x2) Surface Alloy", Physical Review B, Volume 74, pp. 085420, 1-11.

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.

Bryl, Robert, Altman, Michael (2003) "Spin Polarized Vacuum Tunnelling from Co-Coated W(111) Tips", Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 94, pp. 4670-4675.

Man, Ka Lun, Zdyb, R., Huang, S.F., Leung, T.C., Chan, Che Ting, Bauer, E., Altman, Michael S. (2003) "Growth Morphology, Structure and Magnetism of Ultrathin Co Films on W(111)", Physical Review B, Vol. 67, pp. 184402_1- 11.

Chung, W.F., Feng, Yongjia, Poon, H.C., Chan, Che Ting, Tong, S.Y., Altman, Michael S. (2003) "Layer Spacings in Coherently Strained Epitaxial Metal Films", Physical Review Letters, Vol. 90, pp. 216105_1-4.

Chung, W.F., Altman, Michael S. (2002) "Kinetic Length, Step Permeability and Kinetic Coefficient Asymmetry on the Si(111) (7x7) Surface", Physical Review B, Vol. 66, pp. 075338_1-5.

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

PhD, Cornell University (1990)

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

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

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Leung, Pak Wo (2004) "Absence of hole pairing in a simple t-J model on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice", Physical Review B, vol.69, pp.180403-1-4.

Leung, Pak Wo (2003) "Asymmetry in the hole-doped and electron-doped t-J model", International Journal of Modern Physics B, vol.17, pp.3367-9.

Tai Kai NG Professor; Associate Dean of Science (2358 7477 ; [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: Exploring novel electronics states in condensed matter RGC - Collaborative Research Fund (formerly known as Central Allocation) HK$300,000 01 Mar 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Wang, Shenshen, Ng, Tai-Kai (2008) "On the (circular) polarization-independence of microwave-induced resistance oscillations and zero resistance state", Physical Review B, Volume 77, p.165324.

Leridon, Brigette, Ng, Tai-Kai, varma, Chandra M. (2007) "Josephson Effect for Superconductors lacking Time-Reversal and Inversion symmetries", Physical Review Letters, Volume 99, p.027002.

Ng, Tai-Kai, Lee, Patrick A. (2007) "Power-law Conductivity inside the Mott gap: application to K-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu2(CN)3", Physical Review Letter, Volume 99, p.156402.

Ng, Tai Kai, Tse, Wai Tak (2007) "Ginzburg-Landau equation and vortex liquid phase of Fermi liquid superconductors", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Volume 19, P125210.

Chan, Ching Kit, Ng, Tai Kai (2006) "Fermi liquid behavior and spin-charge separation in underdoped cuprates", Physical Review B74, 74, 172503.

Ng, Tai-Kai, Dai, Lixin (2005) "Transport equation for 2D electron liquid under microwave radiation plus magnetic field and the Zero Resistance State", Physical Review B, Volume 72,p. 235333.

Ng, Tai-Kai (2005) "Spinon-Holon binding in t-J model", Physical Review B, Volume 71, Page 172509. Ng, Tai-Kai, Varma, Chandra (2004) "Experimental signatures for Time-reversal Violating superconductors", Physical Review B, Volumer 70, page 054514.

Wing Yim TAM Professor (2358 7490 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara (1985) Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson (1988-93)

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

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

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Wang, Xia, Xu, Jun, Pang, Yee Kwong, Tam, Wing Yim, Chan, Che Ting, Sheng, Ping (2006) "Realization of optical periodic quasicrystals using holographic lithography", Appl. Phys. Lett., 88, 051901 (2006).

Shi, Lihong, Tam, Wing Yim, Huang, XianXiang, Sheng, Ping (2006) "Static Shear-Modulus of Electrorheological Fluids", Phys. Rev. E, 73, 051501 (2006).

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 (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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$545,000 20 Dec 2007 Study of iodine molecular chains and molecular ribbons generated in the channels of zeolite AFI and AEL single crystals RGC - Direct Allocation Grant and Others HK$550,000 30 Jun 2007 Study of electron transport in microbial fuel cells UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$75,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Zhai, J. P., Lee, H. F., Li, I. L., Ruan, S. C., Tang, Z. K. (2008) "Controlling the alignment of neutral iodine molecules in the elliptical channels of AlPO4-11 crystals", Appl. Phys. Letters, 92, 43117 (2008).

Li, I. L., Zhai, J. P., Launois, P., Ruan, S. C., Tang, Z. K. (2005) "Geometry, phase stability and electronic property of isolated Se chains incorporated in nanoporous matrix", J. Ame. Chem. Soci, 127, 16111 (2005).

Yang, C. L., Hou, B., Li, I. L., Li, Z. M., Tang, Z. K., Wang, J. N., Liu, H. J., Ge, W. K. (2005) "Photoreflectance of 0.4 nm single-walled carbon nanotubes", Phys. Rev. B, 71, 233404 (2005).

Ye, J. T., Tang, Z. K. (2005) "Raman spectra and thermal stability analysis of 0.4 nm freestanding single-walled carbon nanotubes", Phys. Rev. B, 72, 045414 (2005).

Guo, J. D., Yang, C. L., Li, Z. M., Bai, M., Liu, H. J., Li, G. D., Wang, E. G., Chan, C. T., Tang, Zi Kang, Ge, W. K., Xiao, X. D. (2004) "Efficient Visible Photoluminescence from Carbon Nanotubes in Zeolite Templates", Phys. Rev. Lett., 93, 017402-04 (2004).

Li, Zhao Ming, Tang, Zi Kang, Siu, G. G., Bozovic, I (2004) "Raman characterization of 0.4 nm single-wall carbon nanotubes using the full-symmetry line group", Appl. Phys. Lett., 84, 4101-4103.

Ye, J.T., Li, Z.M., Tang, Z.K., Saito, R. (2003) "Raman Spectra of Lithium Doped Single-Walled 0.4 nm Carbon Nanotubes", Physical Review B, Vol. 67(11), pp. 113404. Li, Z.M., Tang, Z.K., Liu, H.J., Wang, N., Chan, C.T., Saito, R., Okada, S., Li, G.D., Chen, J.S. (2001) "Polarized Absorption Spectra of Single-Walled 0.4nm Carbon Nanotubes Aligned in Channels of AlPO4-5 Single Crystal",

Phys. Rev. Lett., 87, 127401.

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

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

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Interactions, structures, and dynamics of colloidal particles at soft interfaces RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$300,000 15 Sep 2006 Experimental studies of convective turbulence RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$317,000 15 Oct 2007 Development of dual-beam dynamic light scattering for two-particle microrheology of soft materials RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$428,000 01 Oct 2005 Multi-phase fluid flow: Theory, simulation and experiments RGC - Collaborative Research Fund (formerly known as Central Allocation) HK$1,200,000 01 Feb 2006 Experimental study of soft/biological interfaces: from assembly to dynamics and function Germany / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$30,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Matson, W. R., Ackerson, B. J., Tong, Penger (2008) "Measured scaling properties of the transition boundaries in a rotating suspension of non-Brownian settling particles", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 597, 233.

Andreatta, Gaelle, Wang, Yong Jian, Lee, Fuk Kay, Polidori, Ange, Tong, Penger, Pucci, Bernard, Benattar, Jean- Jacques (2008) "Molecular Transfer of Surfactant Bilayers: Widening the Range of Substrates", Langmuir, 24, 6072.

Shang, Xiao-Dong, Tong, Penger, Xia, Ke-Qing (2008) "Scaling of the Local Convective Heat Flux in Turbulent Rayleigh- Benard Convection", Physical Review Letters, 100, 244503.

Benes, Kiley, Tong, Penger, Ackerson, Bruce J. (2007) "Sedimentation, Peclet number, and hydrodynamic screening", Physical Review E, 76, 056302.

He, Xiaozhou, Tong, Penger, Xia, Ke-Qing (2007) "Measured Thermal Dissipation Field in Turbulent Rayleigh-Benard Convection", Physical Review Letters, 98, 144501.

Matson, W.R., Ackerson, B.J., Tong, Penger (2006) "Dynamics of rotating suspensions", Solid State Communications, 139, 605-616.

Chen, Wei, Tan, Susheng, Huang, Zhoushen, Ng, Tai-Kai, Ford, Warren T., Tong, Penger (2006) "Measured long-ranged attractive interaction between charged polystyrene latex spheres at a water-air interface", Physical Review E, 74, 021406.

Chen, Wei, Tan, Susheng, Ng, Tai-Kai, Ford, Warren T., Tong, Penger (2005) "Long-ranged attraction between charged polystyrene spheres at aqueous interfaces", Physical Review Letters, 95, 218301.

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

PhD, The University of Science and Technology, Beijing (1990) Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong (1997-2000) Current Research Activities: One-dimensional nanomaterials synthesis and characterization; high-resolution electron microscopy; materials physics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Synthesis and characterization of functional nano-materials using porous alumina templates RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research HK$300,000 01 Dec 2006 Grant) Fabrication and study of membrane electroosmotic micropumps based on porous alumina films RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research HK$321,000 01 Nov 2005 Grant) Study of atomic structures at defects and interfaces in one-dimensional nanostructures by ultra high resolution transmission electron microscopy Germany / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$24,800 01 Jan 2008 Demonstration line for the production of low-cost humidity sensor Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited & Industries HK$583,332 16 Jul 2007 One-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures and their application in nanoscale devices National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research HK$485,900 01 Jan 2007 Scheme

Representative Research Publications:

Wang, Ning, Cai, Yuan, Zhang, Rui qin (2008) "Growth of Nanowire", MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING R-REPORTS, Volume: 60, Issue: 1-6, Pages: 1-51.

Chan, S.K., Cai, Y, Wang, N, Sou, S.K (2007) "Growth temperature dependence of MBE-grown ZnSe nanowires", Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol.301, pp866-870.

Cai, Y, Chan, S.K., Sou, I.K., Chan, Y.F., Su, D.S., Wang, N (2007) "Temperature-dependent growth direction of ultrathin ZnSe nanowires", Small, Vol.3, pp111-115.

Wang, N, Fung, K.K. (2006) "Fabrication and Structural Characterization of Ultrathin Nanoscale Wires and Particles", (Chapter 4 in 'Nanocrystalline Materials”, Ed. S.C. Tjong, Elsevier Science, Netherlands, pp93-129.

Cai, Y, Chan, SK, Sou, IK, Chan, YF, Su, DS, Wang, N (2006) "The size-dependent growth direction of ZnSe nanowires", Adv. Mater., 18, 109-114.

Zhang, XY, Cai, Y, Miao, JY, Ng, KY, Chan, YF, Zhang, XX, Wang, N (2005) "Formation and phase transformation of selenium nanowire arrays in anodic porous alumina templates", Journal of Crystal Growth, 276, 674-679.

Jin, Kewang, Yao, Baodian, Wang, Ning (2005) "Structural characterization of mesoporous silica nanowire arrays grown in porous alumina templates", Chemical physics letter, 409, 172-176.

Chan, SK, Cai, Y, Sou, IK, Wang, N (2004-2005) "MBE-grown Au-island-catalyzed ZnSe nanowires", Journal of Crystal Growth, 278, 146-150.

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: Statistical mechanics of optimization on networks and applications to resource allocation RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$250,000 16 Aug 2006 A statistical physics approach to optimization of multiclass and labelled traffic on networks RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$361,000 01 Sep 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Wong, K. Y. Michael, Saad, David (2006) "Equilibration through Local Information Exchange in Networks", Physical Review E, 74, 010104(R) (4 pages).

Yeung, Chi Ho, Wong, K. Y. Michael (2006) "Temporal Effects of Agent Aggregation in the Dynamics of Multiagent Systems", Europhysics Letters, 75, 357-363.

Chau, Tat Chung, Wong, K. Y. Michael, Li, Bo (2006) "Optimal Call Admission Control with QoS Guarantee in a Voice/Data Integrated Cellular Network", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Volume 5, 1133-1141.

Wong, Kwok Yee Michael, Lim, Sze Wah, Gao, Zhuo (2005) "Effects of Diversity on Multiagent Systems: Minority Games", Physical Review E, 71, 066103 (18 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).

Bodoff, David, Wu, Bin, Wong, K Wok Yee Michael (2003) "Relevance Data for Language Models Using Maximum Likelihood", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 54, 1050-1061.

Luo, Peixun, Wong, Kwok Yee Michael (2003) "Dynamical and Stationary Properties of On-line Learning from Finite Training Sets", Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 67, 011906_1-13.

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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$545,000 01 Sep 2007 Electric field induced intrinsic spin polarization in HgCdTe alloys and HgTe/CdTe superlattices RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$538,460 01 Jul 2006 Tunable zone plate for sub-KHz sound RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$321,000 01 Jul 2005 Coherent Ultrasonic Sources from Phononic Crystals UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$400,000 01 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Ho, Kin Ming, Cheng, Chun Kwong, Yang, Z., Zhang, X. X., Sheng, Ping (2003) "Broadband locally resonant sonic shields", App. Phys. Lett., 83 (26), 5566.

Wen, Weijia, Yang, Z., Ge, Xu, Chen, Yonghai, Zhou, Lei, Ge, Weikun, Chan, C. T., Sheng, Ping (2003) "Infrared passbands from fractal slit patterns on a metal plate", Appl. Phys. Lett., 83 (11), 2106.

Yao, D., Chan, Y.F., Zhang, X.Y., Zhang, W.F., Yang, Zhiyu, Wang, Ning (2003) "Formation mechanism of TiO2 nanotubes", Applied Physics Letters, 82, 281-283.

Yang, Z. (2002) "The Applications of Reflectance Difference Spectroscopy in Semiconductors", Internation Conference on Electronic Materials, Xi'an.

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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: An experimental investigation of the mechanism of the anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnetic materials RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$317,000 01 Sep 2007 Low temperature dynamics of interacting magnetic nanoparticles RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$321,000 15 Nov 2005

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Zhang, Xixiang (2005) "Magnetic Relaxation and Quantum Tunneling of Magneization", Handbook of Advanced Magnetic Materials, Vol. 1 Advanced Magnetic materials: Nanostructural Effects. Editors: David J. sellmyer, Yi Liu and D. Shindo. Tsinghua University Press and Springer (July 2005), Vol. 1 Advanced Magnetic materials: Nanostructural Effects, page 147-177.

Zheng, Rongkun, Gu, Hongwei, Xu, Bing, Zhang, Xixiang (2005) "Memory effects in a nanoparticle system: Low-field magnetization and ac susceptibility measurements", PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 72 (1): 14416.

Liu, Hui, Zheng, Rongkun, Zhang, Xixiang (2005) "Observation of large Hall sensitivity in thin Fe-Ge amorphous composite films", JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, 98 (8): Art. No. 086105.

Du, Jun, Li, Zhiqing, Lin, J.J., Liu, Huijun, Zheng, Rongkun, Chen, Peng, Rosenbaum, R., Zhang, Xixiang (2005) "Electronic transport studies on Sb1-x(SiO2)x films", Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter, 17 (17): 2553-2562.

Zheng, Rongkun, Gu, Hongwei, Zhang, Xixiang (2004) "Comment on “Memory Effects in an Interacting Magnetic Nanoparticle System"", Phys. Rev. Lett., 93, 139702.

Zhaoqing ZHANG Professor (2358 7482 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Pennsylvania (1974) Research Professor, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica (1986-89)

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Transport of localized waves in the weakly localized regime RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$250,000 01 Oct 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Wu, Ying, Lai, Yun, Wan, Y, Zhang, Zhao-Qing (2008) "Wave propagation in strongly scattered random elastic media: Energy equilibration and crossover from ballistic to diffusive behavior", Phys. Rev. B, 77, 125125.

Wu, Ying, Lai, Yun, Zhang, Zhao-Qing (2007) "Effective medium theory for elastic metamaterials in two dimensions", Phys. Rev. B, 76, 205313.

Wu, Ying, Li, J., Zhang, Zhao-Qing, Chan, Che-Ting (2006) "A dynamical effective medium theory for magnetodielectric composite: Beyond the long-wavelengthlimit", Phys. Rev. B, 74, 085111.

Cheung, Sai-Kit, Zhang, Zhao-Qing (2005) "The scaling behavior of classical wave transport in mesoscopic media at the localization transition", Phys. Rev. B, 72, 235102.

Xie, Ping, Zhang, Zhao-Qing (2005) "Large enhancement of third-harmonic generation induced by coupled gap solitons in Chi(3) nonlinear photonic crystals", Phys. Rev., E 71, 026610.

Cheung, Sai-Kit, Zhang, Xiangdong, Zhang, Zhao-Qing, Chabanov, Andrey A, Genack, Azriel (2004) "Impact of weak localization in the time domain", Physical Review Letters, 92, 173902.

Xie, Ping, Zhang, Zhao-Qing (2003) "Multifrequency gap solitons in nonlinear photonic crystals", Physical Review Letters, 91, 213904.

Chabanov, Andrey A, Zhang, Zhao-Qing, Geneck, Azriel Z (2003) "Breakdown of diffusion in dynamics of extended waves in mesoscopic media", Physical Review Letters, 90, 203903.

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: First-principles study of the Rashba effect in semiconductor nanostructures RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$231,000 01 Jan 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Foreman, Bradley A. (2007) "Choosing a basis that eliminates spurious solutions in k.p theory", Physical Review B, Vol. 75, Article No. 235331, pp. 1-14.

Foreman, Bradley A. (2006) "First-principles effective-mass Hamiltonian for semiconductor nanostructures in a magnetic field", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Volume 18, pages 1335-1345.

Foreman, Bradley A. (2005) "First-principles envelope-function theory for lattice-matched semiconductor heterostructures", Physical Review B, Volume 72, article 165345, pages 1-23.

Foreman, Bradley A. (2005) "Quadratic response theory for spin-orbit coupling in semiconductor heterostructures", Physical Review B, Volume 72, article 165344, pages 1-19.

Foreman, Bradley Alan (2002) "Consequences of local gauge symmetry in empirical tight-binding theory", Physical Review B, Vol. 66, article 165212, pp. 1-22.

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

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

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

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 coordination nanoporous structures RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Oct 2007 Investigation of σ*-π* Conjugation and Monolayer Growth Mechanism of Siloles Molecules RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$170,000 30 Jun 2008 Excitation and characterization of single chemical bonds by means of low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$125,000 01 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Lin, Nian, Stepanow, Sebastian, Barth, Johannes (2008) "Modular assembly of low-dimensional coordination architectures on metal surfaces", JOURNAL OF PHYSICS: CONDENSED MATTER, Vol. 20, page 184002-184016.

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

PhD, University of Illinois, Chicago (1990)

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Ordered semiconductor nanowires on a dislocation network RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$545,000 01 Sep 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Yang, Hui, Xie, Ping, Chan, Siu Keung, Lu, Weixin, Zhang, Zhao-Qing, Sou, I. K., Wong, G. K. L., Wong, K. S. (2006) "Simultaneous enhancement of the second- and third-harmonic generations in one-dimensional semiconductor photonic crystals", IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol.42, 447-52.

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.

Yang, H., Xie, P., Chan, S. K., Zhang, Z. Q., Sou, I. K., Wong, G. K. L., Wong, K. S. (2005) "Efficient second harmonic generation from large band gap II-VI semiconductor photonic crystal", Applied Physics Letters, vol.87, 131106-1-3.

Chan, S.K., Liu, H.J., Chan, C.T., Zhang, Z.Q., Ge, W.K., Sou, I.K. (2005) "Te antisite incorporation in ZnSTe thin films", Physical Review B - Condensed Matter., vol 71, pp 195421, 1-5.

Chan, Y.F., Duan, X.F., Chan, S.K., Sou, I.K., Zhang, X.X., Wang, N. (2003) "ZnSe nanowires epitaxially grown on GaP(111) substrates by molecular-beam epitaxy", Applied Physics Letters, vol.83, no.13, pp.2665-7.

Sou, I.K., Wu, Marcus C. W., Wong, K. S., Wong, G. K. L. (2001) "Molecular beam epitaxy grown ZnMgS ultraviolet photodetectors", Appl. Phys. Lett, 78, 1811-13.

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

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1985) Assistant Professor of Physics, York University (1987-91) Current Research Activities: Network; Evolutionary Computation; Pattern formation in complex systems; bioinformatics; quasi-crystal growth; frustrated spin systems; genetic algorithms; nonlinear forecasting; artificial life; point patterns and two-dimensional pattern evolution.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Interdisciplinary research on the discovery of community structures in networks RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as HK$375,640 30 Dec 2006 Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) Interdisciplinary research on the energy landscape of complex systems using networks RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as HK$279,500 01 Jan 2008 Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) Interdisciplinary studies on mathematical epidemiology: A multi-agent simulation for the interplay between the dynamics of infectious diseases and control measures using a statistical mechanics approach Research Fund for the Control of Infectious Diseases HK$200,240 11 Feb 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Szeto, Kwok Yip, Zhang, Jian (2006) "Adaptive Genetic Algorithm and Quasi-Parallel Genetic Algorithm: Application to low-dimensional Physics", I. Lirkov, S. Margenov, and J. Wasniewski (Eds.): LSSC 2005, June 2005, LNCS3743, pp.189-196, 2006. Springer-Verlag.

Ma, Chun Wai, Szeto, Kwok Yip (2006) "Linear relation on the correlation in complex networks", Physical Review E, 73,047101(2006).

Szeto, Kwok Yip (2002) "Adaptive Portfolio Managers in Stock Markets", Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming in Computational Finance, ed. By Shu-Heng Chen. Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 397-421.

Szeto, Kwok Yip, Fu, Xiiujun, Tam, Wing Yim (2002) "Universal Topological Properties of Two-dimensional Cellular Patterns", Phys.Rev. Lett., 138302-1 -138302-3.

Tam, W. Y., Zeitek, R., Szeto, K. Y., Stavans, J. (1997) "First-Passage Exponent in Two-Dimensions: Soap Froth vs. the Potts Model", Phys. Rev. Letters, 78, 1588-1591.

Shi, Q. W., Szeto, K. Y. (1997) "Series of Magnetoresistance Oscillation in a Two-dimensional Electron Gas under a Periodic Magnetic Modulation", Phys. Rev, B55, 4558-4562.

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: Low-temperature transport properties of metallic ferromagnetic GaMnAs RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$707,690 01 Jan 2007 A novel approach in spintronics using organic semiconductors and ferromagnetic half-metallic oxide hybrid structures National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$499,400 01 Jan 2006 The influences of fluorine ions on the transport properties of AlGaN/GaN heterostructures UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$75,000 01 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Li, Baikui, Ge, Weikun, Wang, Jiannong, Chen, Kevin J. (2008) "Persistent photoconductivity and carrier transport in AlGaN/GaN heterostructures treated by fluorine plasma", Appl. Phys. Lett., 92, 082105.

He, Hongtao, Wang, Yuqi, Ge, Weikun, Wang, Jiannong (2008) "Phase-dependent bistable transitions in a weakly- coupled GaAs/AlAs superlattice", New Journal of Physics, 10, 033019.

Li, Baikui, Wang, Chao, Sou, Iam Keong, Ge, Weikun, Wang, Jiannong (2007) "Anomalous photocurrent observed in a Fe-ZnS:Fe Schottky diode", Appl. Phys. Lett., 91, 172104.

Zhao, Lijuan, Zhang, Bei, Pang, Qi, Yang, Shihe, Zhang, Xixiang, Ge, Weikun, Wang, Jiannong (2006) "Chemical synthesis and magnetic properties of dilute magnetic ZnTe:Cr crystals", Appl. Phys. Lett., 89, 092111.

Yang, Chunlei, He, Hongtao, Ding, Lu, Cui, L.J., Zeng, Y.P., Wang, Jiannong, Ge, Weikun (2006) "Spectral dependence of spin photocurrent and current-induced spin polarization in an InGaAs/InAlAs two-dimensional electron gas", Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 96 186605.

Pang, Qi, Zhao, Lijuan, Cai, Yuan, Nguyen, Duc Phuong, Regnault, N., Wang, Ning, Yang, Shihe, Ge, Weikun, Ferreira, Robson, Bastard, Gerald, Wang, Jiannong (2005) "CdSe nano-tetrapods: controllable synthesis, structure analysis, and electronic and optical properties", Chemistry Materials, 17, pp5263-5267.

He, Hongtao, Yang, Chunlei, Ge, Weikun, Wang, Jiannong, Dai, Xi, Wang, Yuqi (2005) "Resistivity minima and Kondo effect in ferromagnetic GaMnAs films", Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 87, 162506. Sun, Baoquan, Wang, Jiannong, Jiang, Desheng (2005) "Transverse magnetic field effect on the current hysteresis of doped GaAs/AlAs superlattice", Semicond. Sci. Technol., vol. 20 pp947–951.

Xiangrong WANG Associate 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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$570,000 01 Jan 2008 Magnetization reversal of Stoner particles RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$250,000 01 Sep 2006 Spin-dependent Chemical Potential Split UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$400,000 15 Jun 2008 Theoretical investigations of spin pumping UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$75,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Wang, X.R., Sun, Z.Z. (2007) "Theoretical limit in the magnetization reversal of Stoner particles", Phys. Rev. Lett., 98, 077201.

Sun, Z.Z., Wang, X.R. (2006) "Magnetization reversal through synchronization with a microwave", Phy. Rev. B., 74, 132401.

Sun, Z.Z., Wang, X.R. (2006) "Theoretical limit of the minimal magnetization switching field and the optimal field pulse for Stoner particles", Phys. Rev. Lett., 97, 077205.

Wang, X. R., Zheng, Y. S., Yin, S. (2005) "Spin relaxation and decoherence of two-level systems", Phys. Rev. B., 32, R121303.

Weijia WEN Associate Professor (2358 7979 ; [email protected])

PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1995)

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Characterizing enhanced EM wave transmission of functional materials RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$317,000 01 Jan 2008 The influence of the wetting ability of the liquid phase on electrorheological effect RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$428,000 30 Dec 2005 Electrorheologically controlled microfluidic chip RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$391,000 01 Jan 2007 Wave functional materials National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$799,000 01 Jan 2008 Flow Behaviour Investigations of Microfluid UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$76,100 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Mei, Jun, Hou, Bo, Ke, MZ, Peng, SS, Jia, H, Liu, ZY, Shi, Jing, Wen, Weijia, Sheng, Ping (2008) "Acoustic wave transmission through a bull's eye structure", APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS.

Wen, Weijia, Huang, XX, Sheng, Ping (2008) "Electrorheological fluids: structures and mechanisms", SOFT MATTER, Vol. 4, p 200-210.

Gong, XQ, Wu, JB, Huang, XX, Wen, Weijia, Sheng, Ping (2008) "Influence of liquid phase on nanoparticle- based giant electrorheological fluid", NANOTECHNOLOGY, Vol. 19, p165602.

Peng, SL, Zhang, MY, Niu, XZ, Wen, WJ, Sheng, P, Liu, ZY, Shi, Jing (2008) "Magnetically responsive elastic microspheres", APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, Vol. 92, p012108.

Miyamaru, F, Saito, Y, Takeda, M.W, Hou, Bo, Wen, WJ, Sheng, P (2008) "Terahertz electric response of fractal metamaterial structures", PHYSICAL REVIEW B, Vol. 77, p045124.

Hou, Bo, Xie, Hang, Wen, Weijia, Sheng, Ping (2008) "Three-dimensional metallic fractals and their photonic crystal characteristics", PHYSICAL REVIEW B, Vol. 77, p125113.

Niu, XZ, Peng, SL, Liu, LY, Wen, Weijia, Sheng, Ping (2007) "Characterizing and patterning of PDMS-based conducting composites", ADVANCED MATERIALS, Vol. 19, p 2682.

Liu, Liyu, Peng, Suili, Wen, Weijia, Sheng, Ping (2007) "Micro thermoindicators and optical-electronic temperature control for microfluidic applications", APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, Vol. 91, p 093513.

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: Time-resolved study of enhanced spontaneous emission rate in semiconductors by surface plasmon coupling RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$475,640 01 Sep 2006 Ultrafast optical switching and tri-stability in one- and two-dimensional photonic crystals RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$317,000 01 Sep 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Tong, Hui, Hong, Yuning, Dong, Yongqiang, Ren, Yan, Haussler, Matthias, Lam, Jacky W. L., Wong, Kam Sing, Tang, Ben Zhong (2007) "Color-tunable aggregation-induced emission of a butterfly-shaped molecule comprising a pyran skeleton and two cholesteryl wings", J. Phys. Chem. B, 111, 2000-2007.

Zhong, Yongchun, Wu, Lijun, Su, Humin, Wong, Kam Sing, Wang, Hezhou (2006) "Fabrication of photonic crystals with tunable surface orientation by holographic lithography", Optics Express, 14 6837-6842.

Wu, Lijun, Tong, Woody Y. Y., Zhong, Yongchun, Wong, Kam Sing, Hua, Jianli, Haubler, Matthias, Lam, Jacky W. L., Tang, Ben Zhong (2006) "Photo-cross-linkable light-emitting polymers for holographic patterning", Appl. Phys. Lett., 89, 191109-1-3.

Zhong, Yongchun, Wong, Kam Sing, Zhang, Weili, Look, D.C. (2006) "Radiative recombination and ultra-long exciton photoluminescence lifetime in GaN freestanding film via two-photon excitation", Appl. Phys. Lett., 89, 022108-1-3.

Lu, Weixin, Xie, Ping, Zhang, Zhao-Qing, Wong, George K. L., Wong, Kam Sing (2006) "Simultaneous perfect phase matching for second and third harmonic generation in ZnS/YF3 photonic crystals for visible emissions", Optics Express, 14, 12353-12358.

Wu, Lijun, Zhong, Yongchun, Wong, Kam Sing, Wang, Guo, Yuan, Liang (2006) "Fabrication of hetero-binary and honeycomb photonic crystals by one-step holographic lithography", Appl. Phys. Lett., 88, 091115-1-3.

Yang, Hui, Xie, Ping, Chan, S.K., Lu, Weixin, Zhang, Zhao-Qing, Sou, I.K., Wong, George K.L., Wong, K.S. (2006) "Simultaneous enhancement of the second and third harmonic generations in one-dimensional semiconductor photonic crystals", IEEE J. Quantum Electronics, 42, 447-452.

Yang, H., Xie, P., Chan, S.K., Zhang, Z.Q., Sou, I.K., Wong, G.K.L., Wong, K.S. (2005) "Efficient second harmonic generation from large band gap II-VI semiconductor photonic crystal", Appl. Phys. Lett., 87, 131106-1-3.

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

Current Research Activities:

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: Phase behaviors and geometrical frustration in colloids RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Oct 2007 Experimental Study of Motions of Nano- and Micro-particles: from Ellipsoids in One Dimensional Channels to Spheres in Low Temperature Quantum Fluids UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$500,000 30 Jun 2008

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

Current Research Activities:

Atmospheric, Marine & Coastal Environment Program

Paul James HARRISON, Professor and Director of AMCE Program

William F BARRON, Visiting Professor

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

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

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$3,426,100 01 Apr 2004 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) Office of the Dean of Science, HKUST HK$1,200,000 01 Apr 2004 Dynamics of dissolved oxygen (potential hypoxia) and benthic release of nutrients in the bottom layer: Effects of light penetration and tidal shoaling in shallow vs deep areas in Hong Kong waters RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as HK$1,077,914 01 Jul 2005 Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) Bacterial consumption of dissolved oxygen and nutrient remineralization of phytoplankton organic matter of different N:P ratios RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as HK$837,300 01 Jul 2006 Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) Office of the President, HKUST HK$900,000 01 Apr 2004 Centre for marine environmental research and innovative technology (MERIT) Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs, HKUST HK$800,000 01 Apr 2004

Representative Research Publications:

Harrison, Paul. J. (2008) "A comparative overview of weathering intensity and HCO3 flux in the world's major reivers with emphasis on the Changjiang, Huanghe, Zhujiang (Pearl) and Mississippi Rivers", Cont. Shelf Res, 28: 1538-1549.

Harrison, Paul. J. (2008) "Comparison of hypoxia among four river-coastal systems, the Changjinag (Yangtze), Mississippi, Pearl and Rhone rivers", Cont. Shelf Res, 28: 1521-1537.

Harrison, Paul. J. (2008) "Coupled changes in the cell morphology and the elemental (C, N, and Si) composition of the pennate diatom Pseudo-nitzschia due to iron deficiency", Limnol. Oceanogr, 52: 2270-2284.

Harrison, Paul. J. (2008) "Identification and assessment of domoic acid production in oceanic Pseudo-nitzschia (Bacillariophyceae) from iron-limited waters in the northeast subarctic Pacific", J. Phycol, 44: 650-661.

Harrison, Paul. J. (2008) "Influence of the Pearl River estuary and vertical mixing in Victoria Harbor on water quality in relation to eutrophication impacts in Hong Kong waters", Marine Pollution Bulletin, 54: 646-656.

Harrison, Paul. J. (2008) "Nitrogen over enrichment in sub-tropical Pearl River estuarine coastal waters: Possible causes and consequences", Cont. Shelf Res., 28: 1435-1442.

Harrison, Paul. J. (2008) "Ocean urea fertilization for carbon credits poses high ecological risks", Mar. Poll. Bull, 56: 1049-1056.

Harrison, Paul. J. (2008) "Physical-biological coupling in the Pearl River Estuary", Cont. Shelf Res, 28: 1405-1415.

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

Current Research Activities:

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

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

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Quantification of bacterial loading in ambient air by structural markers RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$50,000 01 Mar 2004 'Environment and I' school symposium and MAP outreach program 2008 Environment and Conservation Fund / Woo Wheelock Green Fund HK$122,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Lau, Arthur P.S. (2008) "Bioaerosols - Significance, Assessment and Impact in the Atmosphere", Conference on Climate and Environment in the Pearl River Delta City Cluster, Guangzhou,PRC, January 7-9, 2008.

Cheng, Jessica Y.W., Lau, Arhtur P.S., Fang, Ming (2007) "Fungal contribution to the ambient organic carbon", European Aerosol Conference 2007, Salzburg, September 9-14, 2007.

Leung, Wai Kin, Lau, Arhtur P.S., Yeung, King Lun (2007) "Smart hygienic coating for a healthier living environment", 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007.

Lee, Alex K.Y., Lau, Arhtur P.S., Cheng, Jessica Y.W., Fang, Ming, Chan, Chak K. (2007) "Source identification analyais for the airborne bacteria and fungi", Atmospheric Environment, 41:2831-2843.

Fang, Ming, Chan, Chak K., Yao, Xiaohong, Lau, Ngai Ting, Lau, Pui Sang (2007) "The Mobile real-time Air monitoring Platform (MAP)", 10th International Conference on Atmospheric Sciences and Applications to Air Quality, Hong Kong.

Lau, Arthur P.S., Fang, Ming, Cheng, Jessica Y.W. (2006) "Ergosterol - conversion factor for estimating fungal concentration in ambient aerosols", 7th International Aerosol Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.

Yao, Xiaohong, Lau, Ngai Ting, Lau, Pui Sang, Fang, Ming, Chan, Chak K. (2006) "Possible Sampling artifact for on-road nano-particle measurements", 7th International Aerosol Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.

Yao, Xiaohong, Chan, Chak K., Lau, Ngai Ting, Lau, Pui Sang, Fang, Ming (2006) "Possible sampling artifact in real time particle size distributions related to sampling rate", Aerosol Science and Technology, 40:1080-1089. Home [CBME] [CIVL] [CSE] [ECE] [IELM] [MECH] Search by - name - expertise

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Yongli MI, 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

Ming FANG, Adjunct Professor

Edmond KO, Adjunct Professor

Otto C C LIN, Adjunct Professor

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

Ping GAO, Associate Professor

Xijun HU, Associate Professor

David Chi-Wai HUI, Associate Professor

Gordon MCKAY, Associate Professor

King Lun YEUNG, Associate Professor

Ying CHAU, Assistant Professor

Kathy Q LUO, Visiting Assistant Professor

Henry H Y TONG, Adjunct Assistant Professor Yongli MI Acting Head of Department and 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: The Preparation of Nano-Magnetic Supermatrix Templated by DNA Self-Assembly RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$321,000 29 Dec 2005 Construction of DNA 3-D superstructures by DNA self-assembly RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$538,460 30 Dec 2006 Development of the self-cleaning polymer surfaces RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$756,000 31 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Wei, Bryan, Cheng, Jie, Luo, Kathy Q, Mi, Yongli (2008) "Capture and release of protein by a reversible DNA- induced sol-gel transition system", ANGEW CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, Volume: 47, Issue: 2, Pages: 331- 333, 2008.

Lu, Xiaolin, Cheng, Immensee, Mi, Yongli (2007) "Discovery of the bi-layered structure in spin-coated polyacrylamide films on the gold surface", Polymer, Vol: 48, 682-686, Jan 26 2007.

Wei, Bryan, Wang, Zhengyu, Mi, Yongli (2007) "Uniquimer: Software of de novo DNA sequence generation for DNA self-assembly - An introduction and the related applications in DNA self-assembly", Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, vol: 4, 133-141, JAN 2007.

Wei, Diming, Mi, Yongli (2005) "A new triple crossover triangle (TXT) motif for DNA self-assembly", BIOMACROMOLECULES, volume 6, page 2528-2532.

Wei, Diming, Mi, Yongli (2005) "A New Triple Crossover Triangle (TXT) Motif for DNA Self-Assembly", The 11th International Meeting on DNA Computing London, Ontario, Canada, June 6-9, 2005.

Lu, Xiaolin, Mi, Yongli (2005) "Characterization of the interfacial interaction between polyacrylamide and silicon substrate by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy", Macromolecules, 38 (3): 839-843.

Chan, Yannie, Mi, Yongli (2004) "A study of the versatile micropatterns of diblock copolymer micelles: the effect of copolymer concentration, substrate, film thickness and micelles morphology", Polymer, POLYMER 45 (10): 3473-3480 May 11. Chan, Yannie, Lu, Xiaolin, Chen, Er-Qiang, Mi, Yongli (2004) "Micropatterning from drying micelle solution of diblock copolymers: strap-structure, quadrate farmland-structure and biomimetic structure", Polymer, POLYMER 45 (10): 3465- 3471 May 11.

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: Crystallization processes and surface properties of poly(bisphenol A-co-octane) Oligomers and copolymers with various sequence lengths RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as HK$321,000 01 Jan 2006 Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) The effects of particle size, coating coverage and interfacial strength on the thermal and mechanical properties of calcium carbonate powder filled polypropylene and low-density polyethylene RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as HK$669,000 01 Jan 2007 Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) Surface modification of halloysite nanotubes and its effects on the mechanical and thermal properties of the nanocomposites RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as HK$400,400 01 Jan 2008 Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) High performance polymer composites containing micro and nano fillers UGC - High Impact Area HK$800,000 16 Oct 2003

Representative Research Publications:

Wang, Yong, Chan, Chi Ming, Ng, Kai Mo, Li, Lin (2007) "What Controls the Lamellar Orientation at the Surface of Polymer Films during Crystallization", Macromolecules, 41, 2548-2553 (2008).

Wang, Yong, Chan, Chi-Ming, Jiang, Yong, Li, Lin, Ng, Kai-Mo (2007) "AFM Studies of the Molecular-weight Dependence of Lamellar Growth Kinetics of Polymers near the Glass transition Temperature", Macromolecules, 40, 4002- 4008 (2007).

Wang, Yong, Chan, Chi-Ming, Li, Lin, Ng, Kai-Mo (2006) "Concentric-Ringed Structures in Polymer Thin Films", Langmuir, 22, 7384-7390 (2006).

Cheung, Zhuo-Lin (2005) "Morphology-Driven Surface Segregation in a Blend of Poly(e-caprolactone) and Poly(vinyl chloride)", Langmuir, 21, 7968-7970.

Wang, Yong, Chan, Chi-Ming, Yong, Jiang, Li, Lin, Ng, Kai Mo (2004) "Real-time Observation of the Lamellar Branching Induced by an AFM Tip and the Stability of Induced Nuclei", Langmuir, 20, 8220-8223.

Liu, Shiyong, Chan, Chi-Ming, Weng, Lu-Tao, Li, Lin, Jiang, Ming (2002) "Surface Characterization of Poly (styrene-co-p-hexafluorohydroisopropyl-a-methyl styrene)/Poly(4-vinyl-pyridine) Blends Spanning the Immisciblity-Miscibility-

Complexation Transition by XPS, ToF-SIMS, and AFM", Macromolecules, 35, 5623-5629.

Lei, Yu-Gao, Chan, Chi-Ming, Li, Jianxiong, Ng, Kai Mo, Jiang, Yong, Li, Lin (2002) "The Birth of an Embryo and Development of the Founding Lamella of Spherulites as Observed by Atomic Force Microscopy", Macromolecules, 35, 6751-6753.

Chan, Chi-Ming, Wu, Jingshen, Li, Jina-Xiong, Cheung, Ying-Kit (2002) "Polypropylene/calcium carbonate nanocomposites", Polymer, 43, 2981-2992.

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

PhD, University of Houston (1980) Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1980-2000) Visiting Scientist, MIT (1989) Visiting Research Engineer, DuPont Central R&D (1995-96) Current Research Activities: Development of processes with multiphase reactions, separation and purification using extraction and crystallization, solids processing; applications in manufacture of pharmaceuticals and specialty chemicals.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Development of crystallization processes for systems involving solid solutions RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$481,000 01 Aug 2006 An integrated approach for chiral resolution by crystallization RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$484,000 01 Aug 2007 Chinese medicine research and drug development UGC - Areas of Excellence HK$166,500 01 Apr 2008 Research on nanotechnology-enabled products CHEVRON HK$156,000 01 Jan 2006 Crystallization of inorganic systems ClearWaterBay Technology, Inc. HK$78,000 01 Sep 2002 Processing of nanomaterials, advanced materials and pharmaceuticals research ClearWaterBay Technology, Inc. HK$78,000 01 Feb 2005 Nano and advanced materials for dyes, pigments, and related processes and applications Fong's National Engineering Company Limited HK$500,000 01 Apr 2005 Research on nanotechnology-enabled products UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$3,899 01 Jul 2006 Product and process development of salt and salt-based products Green Salt Group Limited HK$70,000 15 Feb 2003 General research and development of salt production Green Salt Group Limited HK$112,000 10 Jun 2004 Nanotechnology in Energy INERGI Corporation Limited HK$100,000 11 Sep 2006 Fundamental Research on Crystallization Synthesis Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation HK$741,000 01 Aug 2001 Development of fundamental technologies for solids formation and handling Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation HK$408,000 01 Apr 2002 Workflow in designed chemicals Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation HK$68,000 01 Aug 2002 Solid products and processes Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation HK$788,120 01 Nov 2002 Manufacturing technologies for nanomaterials Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation HK$38,040 15 Mar 2003 Crystallization and solids processing, including integrated manufacturing technologies for nanomaterials Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation HK$408,000 01 Apr 2004 Research on crystallization and solids processing, including integrated manufacturing technologies for nanomaterials Mitsubishi Chemical Research Corporation HK$306,000 01 Apr 2006 Chemical drug manufacturing PharmaOne Limited HK$78,000 01 Aug 2002 Research on air remediation and related issues STL Electronics Limited HK$80,000 01 Dec 2003

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: Phase Transitions of Atmospheric Organic Aerosols RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,103,640 31 Dec 2005 Ultrafine particles and their respiratory health impacts on upper primary school children in HK RGC - Collaborative Research Fund - Seed Funding HK$200,000 02 May 2008 Development of an Integrated Platform for Size Segregation and Mechanistic Study of the Toxicity of Ultrafine Particles RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$300,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Chan, Chak, Yao, Xiao (2008) "Air Pollution in Mega Cities in China - a Review", Atmospheric Environment, 42, 1- 42.

Lee, Alex, Ling, Tsz, Chan, Chak (2008) "Understanding hygroscopic growth and phase transformation of aerosols using single particle Raman spectroscopy in an electrodynamic balance", Faraday Discussions, 137, 245 - 263.

Wu, Hong, Chan, Man, Chan, Chak (2007) "FTIR characterization of polymorphic transformation of ammonium nitrate", Aerosol Science and Technology, 41, 581-588.

Ling, Tsz, Chan, Chak (2007) "Formation and transformation of metastable double salts from the crystallization of mixed ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulfate particles", Environmental Science and Technology, 41, 8077-8083.

Lee, Alex, Chan, Chak (2007) "Heterogeneous reactions of linoleic acid and linolenic acid particles with ozone: Reaction pathways and changes in particle mass, hygroscopicity and morphology", J. Physical Chemistry A, 111, 6285 - 6295.

Chan, Man, Chan, Chak (2007) "Mass Transfer Effects on the Hygroscopic Growth of Ammonium Sulfate Particles with a Water-Insoluble Coating", Atmospheric Environment, 41, 4423-4433.

Lee, Alex, Chan, Chak (2007) "Single particle Raman spectroscopy for investigating atmospheric heterogeneous reactions of organic aerosols", Atmospheric Environment, 41, 4611-4621.

Yao, Xiao, Ling, Tsz Yan, Fang, Ming, Chan, Chak (2007) "Size dependence of in-situ pH in submicron atmospheric particles in Hong Kong", Atmospheric Environment, 41, 382-393.

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

PhD, McGill University (1994)

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Fundamental study of -FeOOH coated maghemite nanoparticles for fast adsorption and recovery of Cr(VI) RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$538,460 01 Jan 2007 Combined Electrochemical process and Membrane Biological Reactor (MBR) for Treatment and Reuse of Restaurant Wastewater RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$684,906 01 Jan 2006 Electrophotooxidation of organic pollutants in wastewater RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$70,125 30 Jun 2006 Nanoparticle materials fabrication UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$12,000 05 Aug 2006 Center for green products and processing technologies Nansha Research Centers HK$4,163,588 01 Aug 2007 Science and technologies for a sustainable supply of renewable energy from biomass UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$620,000 29 Jun 2007 Nanoparticle materials fabrication Topin Battery (China) Ltd. HK$120,000 05 Aug 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Hu, Jing, Lo, Min Chi, Chen, Guohua (2007) "Comparative study of various magnetic nanoparticles for Cr(VI) removal", Separation and Purification Technology, 56, 249-256.

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.

Chen, Guohua, Wang, Wei (2007) "Role of Freeze Drying in Nanotechnology", Drying Technology - An International Journal, 25(1)29-35.

Tian, Yuan, Chen, Xueming, Shang, Chii, Chen, Guohua (2006) "Active and Stable Ti/Si/BDD Anode for Electro- oxidation", Journal of Electrochemical Society, 153 (7): J80-J85.

Chen, Guohua (2006) Chemical Engineering, Vision of the World, Chinese Translation, Chemical Industry Press, China, 2006.

Chen, Xueming, Chen, Guohua (2006) "Anodic oxidation of Orange II on Ti/BDD electrode: variable effects”,", Separation and Purification Technology, 48(1) 45-49.

Hu, Jing, Lo, Irene, Chen, Guohua (2005) "Fast Removal and Recovery of Cr (VI) using surface-modified Jacobsite (MnFe2O4) Nanoparticles", Langmuir, 21(24) 11173-11179.

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: On-line quality prediction and control methods for batch processes RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$496,000 01 Jan 2007 Development of an injection molding sensor for through cycle monitoring and control RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,103,700 01 Jan 2008 Polymer processing control and monitoring Jiangsu Shanhu Cable Co., Ltd. HK$360,000 25 Apr 2006 Center of Polymer Processing Nansha Research Centers HK$6,104,000 01 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Liu, Tao, Gao, Furong, Wang, Youqing (2008) "A systematic approach for on-line identification of second-order process model from relay feedback test", AIChE Journal, Vol. 54, pp. 1560-1578.

Lu, Junde, Gao, Furong (2008) "Batch Process Modeling Based on Process Similarity", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol. 47, pp. 1967-1974.

Wong, Ho Yin, Fung, Ka Tsai, Gao, Furong (2008) "Development of a Transducer for In-line and through Cycle Monitoring of Key Process and Quality Variables in Injection Molding", Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Vol. 141, pp 712-722.

Wang, Youqing, Zhou, Donghua, Gao, Furong (2008) "Iterative Learning Model Predictive Control for Multi-Phase Batch Processes", Journal of Process Control, Vol. 18, pp. 543-557.

Yao, Yuan, Gao, Furong (2008) "Subspace Identification for Two-Dimensional Dynamic Batch Process Statistical Monitoring", Chemical Engineering Science, Vol. 63, pp 341-3418.

Shi, Jia, Gao, Furong, Wu, Tie-jun (2007) "Single-cycle and Multi-cycle Generalized 2D Model Predictive Iterative Learning Control (2D-GPILC) Schemes for Batch processes", Journal of Process Control, Volume: 17, Pp 715-727.

Shi, Jia, Gao, Furong, Wu, Tie-jun (2006) "A Robust Iterative Learning Control Design for Batch Processes with Uncertain Perturbations and Initialization", AIChE Journal, Vol. 52, pp 2171-2187.

Lu, Ningyun, Yao, Yuan, Gao, Furong, Wang, Fuli (2005) "Two-dimensional dynamic PCA for batch process monitoring", AICHE JOURNAL, 51 (12): 3300-3304.

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

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1997)

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Electrochemistry based real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technique and its implementation on a microchip platform RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$538,460 01 Jan 2007 Feasibility study of fuel cell technology in Hong Kong CLP Research Institute Limited HK$75,000 01 Nov 2003 Electrochemical micromachining technology UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$3,750 01 Sep 2005 Novel DNA-Aptamer based bioanalytical microsystem UGC - High Impact Area HK$550,000 10 Sep 2005 Center for Bioengineering and Biomedical Devices Nansha Research Centers HK$3,329,000 01 Apr 2007 Electrochemical micromachining technology Raymond Industrial Limited HK$150,000 01 Sep 2005 Mission-Specific Cell Microchips: A Platform Technology for Disease Diagnostics UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$450,000 15 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Yeung, SSW, Lee, T M H, Hsing, I-Ming (2008) "Electrochemistry-based real-time PCR on a microchip", Analytical Chemistry, Volume 80, Issue 2, Pages 363-368.

Zhao, W, Lee, T M H, Hsing, I-M (2007) "Tunable Stabilization of Gold Nanoparticles in Aqueous Solutions by Mononucleotides", Langmuir, 23 (13) : 7143 - 7147 Jun 19 2007.

Yeung, S W, Lee, T M H, Cai, H, Hsing, I-M (2006) "A DNA biochip for on-the-spot multiplexed pathogen identification", Nucleic Acids Research, 34 (18) e118 Oct 2006.

Yeung, S S W, Lee, T M H, Hsing, I-M (2006) "Electrochemical Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128 (41), 13374-13375, 18 Oct 2006.

Cai, Hong, Lee, Ming Hung Thomas, Hsing, I-Ming (2006) "Label-free protein recognition using an aptamer- based impedance measurement assay", Sensors and Actuators B, 114-433-437.

Lee, Thomas, Carles, Maria, Hsing, I-Ming (2003) "Microfabricated PCR-Electrochemical Device for Simultaneous DNA Amplification and Detection", Lab on a Chip, 3, 100-105.

Shao, Zigang, Wang, Xin, Hsing, I-Ming (2002) "Composite Nafion/Polyvinyl Alcohol Membranes for the Direct Methanol Fuel Cells", Journal of Membrane Science, 210, 143-149.

Lao, Alex, Trau, Dieter, Hsing, I-Ming (2002) "Miniaturized Flow Fractionation Device Assisted by a Pulsed Electrical-Field for Nanoparticle Separation", Analytical Chemistry, 74, 5364-5369.

Ming FANG Adjunct Professor (2358 6916 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Illinois (1970)

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

Representative Research Publications:

Fang, Ming, Feng, J.L., Guo, Zhigang, Chan, Chak K. (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.

Chan, Chak K., Yao, Xiaohong, Ling, T.Y., Fang, Ming (2006) "Comparison of thermodynamic predictions for in- situ pH in PM2.5", Atm. Env., 40, 2835-2844.

Fang, Ming, Yao, Xiaohong, Lau, N.T., Chan, Chak K. (2006) "On the time-averaging of ultrafine particle number size spectra in vehicular plumes", Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 4801-07.

Fang, Ming, Yao, Xiaohong, Chan, Chak K., Lau, P.S., Lau, N.T. (2006) "Possible Sampling Artifact in Real Time Particle Size Distributions Related to Sampling Rate", Aerosol Science & Technology, 40, 1080-89.

Fang, Ming, Yao, Xiaohong, Chan, Chak K., Lau, N.T. (2006) "Use of stationary and mobile measurements to study power plant emissions", J. Air & Waste Manage. Assoc., 56, 144-151.

Fang, Ming, Chan, Chak K., Feng, J.L., Hu, Min, He, Y.L., Tang, X.Y. (2006) "A comparative study of the organic matter in PM2.5 from three Chinese megacities in three different climatic zones", Atmospheric Environment, 40, 3983– 3994.

Lau, A.P.S., Lee, A.K.Y., Chan, Chak K., Fang, Ming (2006) "Ergosterol as biomarker for quantification of fungal biomass in atmospheric aerosols", Atm. Env., 40, 249-259.

Fang, Ming, Chan, Chak, Feng, J.L., Hu, Min, Tang, X.Y., He, Y.L. (2006) "The impact of meteorology and energy- structure on the SEOC characteristics of PM2.5 in Beijing", Chemosphere, 61, 632-32, 2005(71) Feng, J.L, Fang, Ming and Chan, Chak K., et al.,, 61, 632-32, 2005.

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 and Director, Bioengineering Graduate Program (2358 7237 ; [email protected])

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

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Rapid detection of pathogenic airborne viruses and microorganisms in air RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$414,000 01 Sep 2006 Desulfurication of pyrolysis oil Global Power & Energy Company Limited HK$35,000 04 Feb 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Yue, Cui, Barford, John, Renneberg, Reinhard (2007) "Amperometric Determination of Tyrosinase Catecholase Activity with a Screen-printed Electrode", Chemia Analityczna (Chemical Analysis Warsaw), (2007) 52: 5-14.

Yue, Cui, Barford, John, Renneberg, Reinhard (2007) "Development of a glucose-6-phosphate biosensor based on coimmobilized p-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase", Biosensors & Bioelectronics, (2007) 22: 2754-2758.

Yue, Cui, Barford, John, Renneberg, Reinhard (2007) "Development of a glucose-6-phosphate biosensor based on coimmobilized p-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase", Biosensors &

Bioelectronics, (2007) 22: 2754-2758.

Yue, Cui, Barford, John, Renneberg, Reinhard (2007) "Development of an L-glutamate biosensor using the coimmobilization of L-glutamate dehydrogenase and p-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase on a Clark-type electrode", Sensors and Actuators B-Chemicals, (2007) 121,2,696-700.

Yue, Cui, Barford, John, Renneberg, Reinhard (2007) "Development of an interference-free biosensor for L- glutamate using a bienzyme salicylate hydroxylase/L-glutamate dehydrogenase system", Enzyme and Microbial Technology, (2007) 41,6-7,689-693.

Yue, Cui, Barford, John, Renneberg, Reinhard (2007) "Development of an interference-free biosensor for glucose-6-phosphate using a bienzyme-based Clark-type electrode,", Sensors and Actuators B-Chemicals, (2007) 123: 696-700.

Wong, Ka Wah, Barford, John (2007) "Teaching Excel VBA in Chemical Engineering Core Subjects", Proceedings of the Second Teaching & Learning Symposium, HKUST,Hong Kong.

Cui, Yue, Barford, John, Renneberg, Reinhard (2007) "Development of a glucose-6-phosphate biosensor based on coimmobilized p-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase", Biosensors & Bioelectronics, (2007) 22: 2754-2758.

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 proton conducting self-humidfying nanocomposite polymer electrolyte membranes RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$614,576 31 Dec 2005 Development of ternary nanocomposites of carbon nanotube and nano-silver filled epoxy resin for lead-free electronic packaging RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$804,000 01 Jan 2008 Carbon nanotube composites UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$9,108 08 Nov 2006 Carbon nanotube filled polymer composites UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$12,368 01 Feb 2008 High performance polymer nanocomposite fibers for electronic applications Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited & Industries HK$5,427,150 01 Mar 2008 Carbon nanotube filled polymer composites NXP Semiconductors Hong Kong Limited HK$247,350 01 Feb 2008 Carbon nanotube composites Philips Electronics Hong Kong Limited HK$182,164 08 Nov 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Fang, Liming, Gao, Ping, Leng, Yang (2007) "High strength and bioactive hydroxyapatite nano-particles reinforced ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene", Composites Part B: Engineering,, 38 (3) 345-351.

Fang, Liming, Gao, Ping, Leng, Yang (2006) "Processing and Mechanical Properties of HA/UHMWPE Nanocomposites", Biomaterials, 27 (20): 3701-3707.

Gao, Ping (2006) "Processing: Strong fibers for bullet-proof vests", Advanced Composite Bulletin, Page 8. Ruan, Shilun, Gao, Ping, Yu, Tongxi (2006) "Ultra-Strong Gel-Spun UHMWPE Fibers Reinforced Using Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes", Polymer, 47(5): 1604-1611.

Fang, Liming, Leng, Yang, Gao, Ping (2006) "Processing and Mechanical Properties of HA/UHMWPE Nanocomposites", Biomaterials, 27 (20): 3701-3707.

Fang, Liming, Leng, Yang, Gao, Ping (2005) "Processing of Hydroxyapatite Reinforced Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene for Biomedical Applications", Biomaterials, 26, 3471-3478.

Gao, Ping, Shen, Feng, Chen, Xueming, Chen, Guohua (2005) "Removal of Chromium (VI) From Wastewater by Combined Electrocoagulation and Electrofloatation", Separation and Purification Science and Technology, 43, pp. 117-123.

Yang, Zhimou, Gu, Hongwei, Fu, Degang, Gao, Ping, Jing, Kwok Lam, Xu, Bing (2004) "Enzymatic Formation of Supramolecular Hydrogels", Advanced Materials, 16, 1440-1444.

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

PhD, University of Queensland (1993) Research Officer, University of Queensland (1993-94) Engineer, Guangzhou R&D Base of Biotechnology (1985-88) Current Research Activities: Development of heterogeneous nano-porous catalyst by chemical vapour deposition (CVD) and its application in wastewater treatment by catalytic wet oxidation, photo-oxidation; Nanocomposite particles of Fe/clay as catalyst for photo-Fenton reaction; Continuous wastewater treatment by catalytic wet oxidation using a trickle bed reactor; Modified MCM-41 materials for efficient storage and rapid release of hydrogen; Multicomponent adsorption equilibrium and kinetics in heterogeneous porous media; Characterization of microporous solids; fabrication of Meso-Structured Crystals for Electrical and Optical Applications.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A combined adsorptive and catalytic system for the removal of pollutants emitted from motor vehicles and diesel power generators Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$1,999,975 20 Mar 2006 Synthesis of nanostructured materials for optical electronic and biosensor applications RGC - Collaborative Research Fund - Seed Funding HK$200,000 02 May 2008 Preparation of catalytic architecture composed of titanium silicate and carbon nanofiber National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$547,900 01 Jan 2006

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Zhai, Jian Pang, Tang, Zikang, Lam, Frank L Y, Hu, Xijun (2006) "Thermal Decomposition of Carbon Precursors in Decorated AFI Zeolite Crystals", Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110, 19285-19290.

Zhai, J.P., Li, Z.M., Liu, H.J., Li, I.L., Sheng, P., Hu, X.J., Tang, Z.K. (2006) "Catalytic effect of metal cations on the formation of carbon nanotubes inside the channels of AlPO4-5 crystal", Carbon, 44, 1151-1157.

Wang, Huan, Lam, Frank L.Y., Hu, Xijun, Ng, Ka Ming (2006) "Ordered Mesoporous Carbon as an Efficient and Reversible Adsorbent for the Adsorption of Fullerenes", Langmuir, 22, 4583-4588.

Yip, Alex Chi-Kin, Lam, Frank Leung-Yuk, Hu, Xijun (2005) "A novel heterogeneous acid-activated clay supported copper catalyst for the photobleaching and degradation of textile organic pollutant using Photo-Fenton-like reaction",

Chemical Communications, 3218 - 3220.

Feng, Jiyun, Hu, Xijun, Yue, Po Lock (2004) "Novel Bentonite Clay-Based Fe-Nanocomposite as a Heterogeneous Catalyst for Photo-Fenton Discoloration and Mineralization of Orange II", Environmental Science & Technology, 38, 269- 275.

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: Flexibility Study for Process Industry RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$512,868 01 Jan 2006 Solving large-scale chemical process synthesis problems via parallel evolutionary approaches RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$418,000 01 Jan 2008 Design of a wastewater treatment unit for soil water Allied (International) Process Engineering Ltd. HK$50,000 01 Jun 2002 Tire liquefaction UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$2,250 01 Dec 2006 Tire liquefaction Global Power & Energy Company Limited HK$90,000 01 Dec 2006

Representative Research Publications:

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, Karimi, I. A., Srinivasanb, R. (2007) "A Novel CDU Model for Refinery Planning", Asia- Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, Volume 2, Issue 4, Pages 282-293, July/August 2007.

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).

He, Yaohua, Hui, Chi-Wai (2007) "Automatic Rule Combination Approach for Sequential Process Scheduling Problems", AIChE Journal, Volume 53, Issue 8, Date: August 2007, Pages: 2026-2047.

Hirata, Kentaro, Chan, Pang, Cheung, Kwok-Yuen, Sakamoto, Haruo, Ide, Kenichi, Hui, Chi-Wai (2007) "Site- Model Utility System Optimisation - Industrial Case Study of KKEPC", Applied Thermal Engineering,, Volume 27, Issue 16, November 2007, Pages 2687-2692.

Chan, Pang, Hui, Chi-Wai, Li, Wenkai, Sakamoto, H, Hirata, K, LI, Pu (2006) "Long-Term Electricity Contract Optimization with Demand Uncertainties", Energy, 31, 13 , Pages 2133-2149.

He, Yaohua, Hui, Chi-Wai (2006) "Rule-Evolutionary Approach for Single-Stage Multi-Product Scheduling with Parallel Units", Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 45, 13, p4679-4692, June 2006.

LI, Wenkai, Hui, Chi-Wai, Li, Anxue (2005) "Integrating CDU, FCC and product blending models into refinery planning", Computers and Chemical Engineering, Volume 29, Issue 9, Pages 1867-2048.

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

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

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Integrated co-combustion pilot plant Green Island Cement Co. Ltd. HK$600,000 01 Mar 2004 Activated carbon production using char produced by waste tyre pyrolysis in Hong Kong Global Power & Energy Company Limited HK$104,800 08 May 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Lee, Vinci, Cheung, Wai Hong, McKay, Gordon (2008) "PCDD/PCDF reduction by the cocombustion process", Chemosphere, 70, pp. 682-688.

Gerente, Claire, Lee, Vinci, Le Cloirec, Pierre, McKay, Gordon (2007) "Application of chitosan for the removal of the metals from wastewaters by adsorption - Mechanisms and model review", Critical Reviews in Envirommental Science and Technology, 37 ( 1 ), pp. 41 - 127.

Lam, Koon Fung, Yeung, King Lun, McKay, Gordon (2007) "Efficient approach for Cd2+ and Ni2+ removal and recovery using mesoporous adsorbent with tunable selectivity", Environmental Science and Technology, 41, pp.3329- 3334.

Cheung, Wai Hong, Lee, Vinci, McKay, Gordon (2007) "Minimizing dioxin emissions from integrated MSW thermal treatment", Environmental Science and Technology, 41, pp.2001-2007.

Lam, Koon Fung, Fong, C M, Yeung, King Lun, McKay, Gordon (2007) "Recovery of high purity gold and silver using mesoporous adsorbents", Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis, 170, pp.1969-1974.

Cheung, Wai Hung, Lee, Vinci Kwok Choi, McKay, Gordon (2007) "Minimizing Dioxin Emissions from Integrated MSW Thermal Treatment", Environmental Science and Technology, 41, 2001-2007.

Lam, Koon Fung, Yeung, King Lun, McKay, Gordon (2007) "Selective Mesoporous Adsorbents for Cr2O72- and Cu2+ Separation", Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 100, 191-201.

Lam, Koon Fung, Yeung, King Lun, McKay, Gordon (2006) "A rational approach in the design of selective mesoporous adsorbents", Langmuir, 22, 9632-9641.

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

PhD, University of Notre Dame (1993)

Current Research Activities: Synthesis of advanced materials for thin film coating, membranes and sensors; membrane and catalyst technology for waste minimization and pollution control; advanced reactor design and analysis.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Base catalysis in membrane and catalytic membrane microreactors for fine chemical syntheses RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive HK$300,000 01 Aug 2006 Earmarked Research Grant) Mesoporous MCM-41 membrane for separation and recovery of dissolved precious metals Consulate General of France in Hong Kong HK$110,399 01 Sep 2007 IAS distinguish lecture series Consulate General of Spain in Hong Kong HK$7,300 01 Aug 2007 Mesoporous MCM-41 membrane for separation and recovery of dissolved precious metals France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$18,000 01 Jan 2008 Chalcone synthesis in a microchannel membrane microreactor Germany / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$18,200 01 Jan 2008 A mechanistic study of the formation of nanoscale features by symmetry break-up of polymer films under microwave irradiation and their applications in health and bioscience UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$620,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Wan, Yu Shan Susanna, Chau, Joseph Lik Hang, Gavriilidis, Asterios, Yeung, King Lun (2004-2005) "1- pentene epoxidation in catalytic microfabricated reactors", Journal of Catalysis, 223, 241-249.

Heng, Samuel, Lau, Pui Sze, Yeung, King Lun, Djafer, Malik, Schrotter, Jean-Christophe (2004-2005) "Low- temperature ozone treatment for organic template removal from zeolite membrane", Journal of Membrane Science, 243, 69-78.

Leung, Adrian Yat Lai, Yeung, King Lun (2004) "Microfabricated ZSM-5 zeolite micromembranes", Chemical Engineering Science, 59, 4809-4817.

Lam, Koon Fung, Ho, Ka Yee, Yeung, King Lun, McKay, Gordon (2004) "Selective adsorbents from chemically modified ordered mesoporous silica", Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis, 154, 2981-2986.

Zhang, Xiongfu, Lai, Sau Man, Martin-aranda, Rosa, Yeung, King Lun (2004) "An investigation of Knoevenagel condensation reaction in microreactors using new zeolite catalysts", Applied Catalysis A, 261, 109-118.

Wan, Yu Shan, Chau, J. Lik Hang, Gavriilidis, Asterios, Yeung, King Lun (2004) "Titanium silicalite-1 microreactors for 1-pentene epoxidation", Journal of Catalysis, 223, 241-249.

Ho, Ka Yee, Mckay, Gordon, Yeung, King Lun (2003-2004) "Selective adsorbents from ordered mesoporous silica", Langmuir, 19, 3019-3024.

Chau, J. Lik Hang, Leung, A. Yat Lai, Yeung, King Lun (2003-2004) "Zeolite Micromembranes", Lab-on-a- Chip, 3, 53-55.

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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$317,000 01 Jan 2008 Novel matrix-metalloproteinase-activated polymer-peptide conjugates for targeted anticancer treatment RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,232,500 01 Jan 2007 Nanomedicine and drug delivery for the eye UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$550,000 30 Jun 2007

Kathy Q LUO Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 8434 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of British Columbia (1995) Research Associate, Department of Biology, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1998-2003) Current Research Activities: Using novel biosensor to screen anti-cancer drugs from traditional Chinese Medicine; study the mechanisms of drug action; purification and development of natural compounds into health care products.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Purification and application of isoflavones from soybeans as a substitute for treating women with post menopausal symptoms RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$77,000 01 Jun 2005 Bioassay-guided systematic fractionation of TCM for rapid discovery of new anti-cancer compounds UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$450,000 02 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Harjo, Benny, Wibowo, Chris, Zhang, Elizabeth Jingnan, Luo, Kathy Qian, Ng, Ka Ming (2007) "Development of process alternatives for separation and purification of isoflavones", Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 46:181-189.

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.

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, 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.

Chang, D.C., Xu, N.H., Luo, K.Q. (2003) "Degradation of cyclin B is required for the onset of anaphase in mammalian cells", J. Bio. Chem., 278:37865-37873.

Luo, K.Q., Elsasser, S., Chang, D.C., Campbell, J.L. (2003) "Regulation of the localization and stability of Cdc6 in living yeast cells.", Biochem. & Biophys. Res. Commun., 306:851-859.

Henry H Y TONG Adjunct Assistant Professor (2358 7130 ; [email protected])

PhD (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Associate Professor & Programme Coordinator in Biomedical Science, School of Health Sciences, Macao Polytechnic Institute (2003 - Now); Consultant Pharmacist, Seaview Consultation Company (2000 - Now); Pharmacist, Tuen Mun Hospital (1998 - 1999)

Current Research Activities: Enhancement of dissolution rate and bioavailability in oleanolic acid and other traditional Chinese medicine active ingredients by spray freeze drying technology. Principal Investigator. Sponsored by Macao Science & Technology Development Fund. (MOP $1,000,000; 08/2007; Approved); Re-formulation of Madame Pearls cough mixture. Principal Investigator. Sponsored by Luxembourg Medicine Company Limited. (HKD$35,000; 02/2007; Under progress); Investigation of polymorphism in traditional Chinese medicine's active components. Principal Investigator. Sponsored by Macao Polytechnic Institute Research Fund, Macao. (MOP$80,000; 12/2006; Under Progress)

Representative Research Publications:

Chow, AHL, Tong, HHY, Zheng, Y (2007) "Chapter 4.3: Stability assessment and formulation characterization", Handbook of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, John Wiley & Sons, USA, pp.371-416.

Chow, AHL, Tong, HHY, Chattopadhyay, P, Shekunov, BY (2007) "Particle engineering for pulmonary delivery", Pharmaceutical Research, 24 (3): 411-437.

Shekunov, BY, Chattopadhyay, P, Tong, HHY, Chow, AHL (2007) "Particle size analysis in pharmaceutics: Principles, methods and applications", Pharmaceutical Research, 24 (2): 203-227.

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Moe M S CHEUNG, Professor and Department Head; Co-Director, Institute for the Environment

Tony R EASTHAM, Professor; Acting Vice President for Research & Development; President/ CEO, HKUST R and D Corporation Ltd

Wilson H TANG, Chair Professor

Chihchen CHANG, Professor

Mohamed S GHIDAOUI, Professor

Howard Ju-Chang HUANG, Professor

Kenny Chung Sau KWOK, Professor; Director, CLP Power Wind/Wave Tunnel Facility

Christopher K Y LEUNG, Professor; Director, Advanced Engineering Materials Facility

Xiangsong LI, 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

Chun Man CHAN, Associate Professor

Guanghao CHEN, Associate Professor

Lambros KATAFYGIOTIS, Associate Professor

Jun Shang KUANG, Associate Professor

Alexis Kai-Hon LAU, Manager, Environmental Central Facility, Institute for the Environment; Adjunct Associate Professor, MATH/AMCE Chii SHANG, Associate Professor

Yu-Hsing WANG, Associate Professor

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

Wei Chung HU, Visiting Assistant Professor

Xiangru ZHANG, Assistant Professor

Xueqing ZHANG, Assistant Professor Moe M S CHEUNG Professor and Department Head; Co-Director, Institute for the Environment (2358 7152 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~mscheung/index.html)

Ph.D., 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: Finite strip analysis of spatial vibration of multi-support, long span bridges RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$381,000 01 Jan 2007 Operational requirements for long span bridges under strong wind conditions RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$836,000 01 Jan 2008 Enhancing environmental sustainability and awareness in Hong Kong and the region UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$200,000 15 Oct 2006 Asian-Pacific symposium on structural reliability and its applications (APSSRA) UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$50,000 15 May 2007 Environment and sustainable development UGC - Strategic Initiatives HK$7,500,000 05 May 2008 Finite Strip Analysis and Probability - based Assessment of Highway Bridges NSERC Research Grant - Can $25,000 per year

Representative Research Publications:

Cheung, Mo Shing, Gong, Lei (2008) "Dynamic Interactions between Vehicle and Long Span Cable Stayed bridges", 2nd Canadian Conference on Effective Design of Structures, Hamilton, Canada, pp367-377 , May 20-23, 2008.

Cheung, Mo Shing, Yang, Chengyu (2008) "Experiment Based Performance Prediction of Long Span Bridges subjected to Non-uniform Excitation", 1st International Symposium on Life-cycle Civil Engineering, Varenna, Lake Como,Italy, June 10-14, 2008.

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.

Cui, Yihua, Lee, Stephen, Noruziaan, Bahman, Cheung, Mo Shing, Tao, Jie (2007) "Fabrication and Properties of Absolutely Recycled Plastic Wood Composites", Journal of Key Engineering Materials - Advances in Composite Materials and Structures, Vols. 334-335, March 2007 (pp5-8).

Cheung, M S, Chang, C C (2004) Proceedings of the International Workshop on Integrated Life-Cycle Management of Infrastructures, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 9-11 December 2004 (403 pages).

Cheung, M S, Zhang, L M, Shang, Chii (2004) Proceedings of the Symposium on Natural Disasters Reduction, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 5-6 November 2004 (112 pages).

Naumoski, Nove, Cheung, Mo Shing, Foo, Simon (2004) "Dynamic Performance of the Confederation Bridge due to Traffic and Wind", Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Volume 31, Number 3, pp487-498.

Cheung, Mo Shing, Li, Wenchang (2003) "Probabilistic Fatigue and Fracture Analysis of Steel Bridges", Journal of Structural Safety, Volume. 25, Issue 3, pp225-238.

Tony R EASTHAM Professor; Acting Vice President for Research & Development; President/CEO, HKUST R and D Corporation Ltd (2358 6177 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Surrey, UK (1969) Visiting Professor, The University of Tokyo, Japan (1995) Special Advisor, University Research Policy Directorate, Government of Canada, Ottawa (1996) Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (1984-96); Director of Research Services and Director of International Programs (1985-95); Associate Dean, Graduate Studies & Research (1990- 95), Queen's University, Canada

Current Research Activities: Advanced ground transportation; research and development policy issues.

Representative Research Publications:

Eastham, Tony R (2007) "University Rankings: Some Observations from HKUST", 3rd Meeting of the International Rankings Expert Group (IREG-3), Shanghai, China, 27-31 October 2007.

Eastham, Tony R, Yuen, Matthew MF, Xu, Claudia J, Law, Rocky CS, Woo, Shirley SW (2007) "From Start-ups to Joint Ventures", 6th Triple Helix Conference, Singapore, 16-18 May 2007, Paper No. C6-3 (on CD).

Eastham, Anthony R (2005) "The Evolving Role of Universities in National Innovation Systems", Conference on 'Innovation Systems in Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland', The Hong Kong University of Science &

Technology, 7-8 January 2005.

He, Shiwei, Song, Rui, Eastham, Tony (2004) "Train Headway Models and Carrying Capacity of Super-Speed Maglev System", JSME Int Journal, Series C, Vol.47, No.2, pp.518-522.

Eastham, Tony R. (2003) "Entrepreneurship in Hong Kong: Universities as agents for technology transfer and societal transition", Asia Pacific Tech Monitor, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 36-41.

Patchell, Gerald R., Eastham, Tony R. (2003) "Governance for University-Industry Collaboration in Hong Kong", In: Economic Geography of Higher Education: Knowledge, Infrastructure and Learning Regions,

Routledge, Chapt. 3, pp. 42-68, ISBN 0-415-26772-2.

Eastham, Tony R. (2003) "Running off the Rails", IEEE Spectrum, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 66-69. Masada, E., Eastham, Tony, Mizuma, T. (2002) "Comparison between Short-stator and Long-stator Linear Drives of Maglev Systems for Regional Transport", Proc. 17th Int. Conf. on Maglev Systems and Linear Drives, Lausanne, 3-5 September, Paper No. 03107 (on CD).

Wilson H TANG Chair Professor (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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Probabilistic evaluation of slope performance model error using field and reduced-scale tests RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$428,000 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Li, Dianqing, Zhang, Limin, Tang, W H (2006) "Cost-benefit analysis of routine quality assurance for bored piles", Geotechnical Special Publication No 153, page 90-97.

Li, Dianqing, Tang, W H, Zhang, Limin (2006) "Determination of number of files for integrity test", International Conference on Structural Safey and Reliability, Italy, June 2006.

Zhang, Limin, Li, Dianqing, Tang, W H (2006) "Impact of routine quality assurance on reliability of bored piles", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol 132, No 5, page 622-630.

Zhang, Limin, Li, Dianqing, Tang, W H (2006) "Reliability of bored pile foundations considering bias in failure criteria", Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol 42, No 4, page 1086-1093.

Xu, Y, Zhang, Limin, Tang, W H (2006) "Sensitivity analysis of settlement of single piles", Geotechnical Special Publication No 153, Foundation Analysis and Design - Innovative Methods, ASCE, pag 35-41.

Ho, K M Y, Ng, Charles W W, Tang, W H (2006) "State-dependent Soil-water Characteristics Curve of Weathered Soils", Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Phoenix, Arizon, USA, April 2006, Vol 2, page 1302-1313.

Ang, A H-S, Tang, W H (2005-2006) Probability Concepts in Engineering: Emphasis on Application Environmental Engineering, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2nd Edition.

Li, D, Zhang, Limin, Tang, W H (2005) "Evaluation of Reliability of Cross-hole Sonic Logging for bored Piles", Journal Geotech Geoenviron Engineering, ASCE, Vol 131, No 9, page 1130-1138.

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

PhD, Purdue University (1993)

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

Representative Research Publications:

Ji, Yufong, Chang, Chih Chen (2008) "Non-target image-based technique for bridge cable vibration measurement", Journal of Bridge Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 13, No. 1, 34-42.

Ji, Yufong, Chang, Chih Chen (2008) "Non-target stereo vision technique for spatiotemporal response measurement of line-like structures", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 134, No. 6, 466-474.

Poon, Chun-Wing, Chang, Chih Chen (2007) "Identification of nonlinear elastic structures using empirical mode decomposition and nonlinear normal modes", Smart Structures and Systems, Vol. 3, No. 4, 423-437.

Sun, Zhi, Chang, Chih Chen (2007) "Vibration based structural health monitoring: wavelet packet transform based solution", Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 4, 313-323.

Ji, Y.F., Chang, C.C. (2007) "A flexible videogrammetric technique for three-dimensional structural vibration measurement", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 133, No. 6, 656-664.

Sun, Z., Chang, C.C. (2006) "Covariance-driven wavelet technique for structural damage assessment", Smart Structures and Systems, Vol. 2, No. 2, April 2006, 127-140.

Chang, Chih Chen, Sun, Zhi (2005) "Structural damage localization using spatial wavelet packet signature", Smart Structures and System, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 29-46.

Sun, Zhi, Chang, Chih Chen (2004) "A statistical wavelet-based method for structural health monitoring", Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 130, No. 7, pp. , 1055-1062.

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 wind-driven Langmuir circulations in coastal water RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$867,105 01 Jul 2006 Transient growth analysis of free shear instabilities in surface water RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$356,400 01 Jul 2007 Investigation of island wake hydraulics RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$686,715 01 Jan 2005

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.

Howard Ju-Chang HUANG Professor (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

Current Research Activities: Innovative and space-saving wastewater treatment, including enhanced primary treatment with sludge recycling, nucleated precipitation for heavy metal removal, intensified biological systems for high rate organic removal, aerated biological filter and hybrid biological reactor for rapid and effective removal of C & N.

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

Representative Research Publications:

Huang, Ju-Chang, Khanal, S.K. (2005) "Continuous Sulfide Oxidation in Recirculating Biogas During Anaerobic Treatment of High Sulfate Organic Wastewater", Proceedings of the International Conference on Anaerobic Digestion of solid Wastes, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 397-402 (Sept 30-Oct 3, 2005).

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) "Effect of High Influent Sulfate on Anaerobic Wastewater", Journal of Water Environmental Research, Vol 77, No. 4 (July/August 2005).

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.

Kenny Chung Sau KWOK Professor; Director, CLP Power Wind/Wave Tunnel Facility (2358 7152 ; [email protected])

PhD, Monash University (1978) Associate Dean and Director of Graduate School of Engineering (1997-98), Professor of Wind Engineering (1999-2002), University of Sydney

Current Research Activities: Wind effects on building and structures; wind tunnel modeling; structural dynamics; vibration control; environmental fluid mechanics.

Representative Research Publications:

Tse, K T, Kwok, K C S, Hitchcock, P A, Samali, B, Huang, M F (2007) "Vibration Control of a Wind-excited Benchmark Tall Building with Complex Lateral-torsional Modes of Vibration", Advances in Structural Engineering – An International Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3, June 2007, pp. 283-304.

Hui, D K K, Kwok, K C S, Hitchcock, P A, Fok, C H (2006) "A Comparison between Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) Analysis and Wind Tunnel Observations on Flow Above a Complex Terrain", 4th International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering, Yokohama, 16-19 July 2006, pp. 365-368.

Campbell, S, Kwok, K C S, Leung, H Y, Ding, X L (2006) "Full-scale Monitoring of a High-rise Residential Building Using GPS under Typhoon Conditions", 4th World Conference on Structural Control and Monitoring, San Diego, 11-13 July 2006. (Full paper on CD-ROM).

Kwok, K C S, Burton, M D, Hitchcock, P A (2006) "Human Perception of Wind-induced Tall Building Motions", 7th United Kingdom Conference on Wind Engineering, Glasgow, UK, September 2006, pp. 11-18.

Burton, M D, Kwok, K C S, Hitchcock, P A (2006) "Wind Climate and Duration of a Wind Event: Effects on Occupant Comfort", 7th UK Conference on Wind Engineering, Glasgow, UK, September 2006, pp. 25-28.

Burton, Melissa, Kwok, Kenny, Hitchcock, Peter, Denoon, Roy (2006) "Frequency Dependence of Human Response to Wind-induced Building Motion", Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 132, No. 2, 2006, pp. 296-303.

Campbell, Shawn, Kwok, Kenny C. S., Hitchcock, Peter A. (2005) "Dynamic Characteristics and Wind- induced Response of Two High-rise Residential Buildings during Typhoons", Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 93, pp. 461-482.

Tang, Timothy, Kwok, Kenny (2004) "Interference excitation mechanisms on a 3-DOF Aeroelastic CAARC Building Model", Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 92, 2004, pp. 1299-1314.

Christopher K Y LEUNG Professor; Director, Advanced Engineering Materials Facility (2358 8183 ; [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: Transport properties of pseudoductile cementitious composites RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$763,200 01 Jan 2008 Development and applications of shrinkage-compensating high peformance fiber reinforced cementitious composites RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$658,500 01 Jan 2007 An Optical Fiber Sensor for Steel Corrosion in Concrete Structures RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$613,494 01 Nov 2005 Advanced Composite Materials Technology Research Center Nansha Research Centers HK$4,634,000 01 Apr 2007 Improving the performance of glass fiber reinforced plastics (GFRP) concrete reinforcements through nanotechnologies UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$550,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Pan, Jinlong, Leung, Christopher Kin Ying (2007) "Debonding along the FRP/Concrete Interface under Combined Pulling/Peeling Effects", Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol.74, No.1/2, pp. 132-150.

Leung, Christopher Kin Ying, Cheung, Yin Nee, Zhang, Jun (2007) "Fatigue Enhancement of Concrete Beam with ECC Layer", Cement and Concrete Research, Vol.37, No. 5, pp. 743-750.

Leung, Christopher, Yang, Yong (2006) "An Energy-based Model for Debonding of FRP Plate from Concrete Substrate", ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Vol.132, No.6, pp. 583-593.

Leung, Christopher, Klenke, Marcus, Tung, W.K., Luk, Herman (2006) "Determination of Nonlinear Softening Behavior for the FRP Composite/Concrete Interface", ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Vol.132, No.5, pp.498- 508.

Xu, Ying, Leung, Christopher, Tong, Pin, Jiang, Yi, Lee, Stephen (2005) "Interfacial debonding detection in bonded repair with a fiber optical interferometric sensor", Composite Science and Technology, Volume 65, Issue 9, Pages 1428-1435.

Leung, Christopher, Olson, Noah, Wan, K.T., Meng, Aidong (2005) "Theoretical Modelling of Signal Loss vs Crack Opening for a Novel Crack Sensor", ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Vol.131, No.8, pp.777-790.

Leung, C.K.Y. (2001) "Delamination Failure in Concrete Beams Retrofitted with a Bonded Plate", ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Vol.13, No.2 pp.106-113.

Leung, C.K.Y. (2001) "Modeling of Concrete Cracking induced by Steel Corrosion", ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Vol.13, No.3, pp.169-175.

Xiangsong LI Professor (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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Thermodynamics-based constitutive model for unsaturated soil RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$570,000 01 Jul 2006

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Yang, Zhongxuan, Li, X.S., Yang, Jun (2007) "Undrained Anisotropy and Rotational Shear in Granular Soil", Geotechnique, 57(4):371-384.

Li, Xiang Song (2006) "A continuum framework for three-phase soils including micro-structural effects", Geomechanics and Geoengineering, 1(2), 105-118.

Li, X.S. (2004-2005) "Modelling of Hysteresis Response for Arbitrary Wetting/Drying Paths", Computers and Geotechnics, 32(2):133-137.

Ming, H.Y., Li, X.S. (2004-2005) "Numerical Investigation of Seepage Effects on De-formation of Earth Dam", Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 24(12):979-992.

Dafalias, Y.F., Paradimitriou, A.G., Li, X.S. (2004-2005) "Sand Plasticity Model Accounting for Inherent Fabric Anisotropy", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, 130(11):1319-1333.

Li, Xiang Song, Dafalias, Yannis F. (2004) "A Constitutive Framework for Anisotropic Sand Including Noncoaxial Deformation", Géotechnique, 54(1):41-55.

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: A cement-based thermal insulation product via extrusion RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$410,500 01 Oct 2006 Ductile Concrete with High Tensile Strength UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$400,000 01 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Li, Zongjin, Xiao, Lianzhen, Wei, Xiaosheng (2007) "Detaermination of concrete setting time using electrical resistivity measurement", Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 19 (5): 423-427.

Li, Zongjin, Liu, Sifeng (2007) "Influence of slag as additive on compressive strength of fly ash-based geopolymer", Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 19 (6): 470-474.

Xiao, Lianzhen, Li, Zongjin (2006) "Hydration monitoring of cementitious materials by using electrical resistivity measurement", Proceedings of Advanced Testing of Fresh Cementtitious Materials, Edited by H. W. Reinhardt, Aug. 3-4, 2006, Stuttgart, Germany, 167-176.

Zhang, Jie, Li, Zongjin (2006) "Hydration process of cements with superplasticizer monitored by non-contact resistivity measurement", Proceedings of Advanced Testing of Fresh Cementtitious Materials, Edited by H. W. Reinhardt, Aug. 3-4, 2006, Stuttgart, Germany, 177-186.

Chan, James, Li, Zongjin (2006) "Influence of fly ash on the properties of magnesium oxychloride cement", Proceedings of International Symposium, Measuring, Monitoring and Modeling Concrete Properties, Edited by Maria S. Konsta-Gdoutos. 3-7 July 2006. Alexandraupolis, Greece. Published by Springer, The

Netherlands., 347-352.

Li, Zongjin, Chen, Huisu (2006) "The development trend of advanced building materials", Emerging Structural Materials and Systems, Chapter 5, China Architecture & Building Press, Beijing, 120-207.

Li, Zongjin, Zhang, Yunsheng, Zhou, Xiangming (2005) "Short fiber reinforced geopolymer composites manufactured by extrusion", Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 17(6):624-631.

Li, Zongjin, Chau, CK, Zhou, Xiangming (2005) "Accelerated Assessment and Fuzzy Evaluation of Concrete Durability", Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 17(3): 257-263.

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

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

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

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

Representative Research Publications:

Loo, Becky, Wong, S C, Hung, W T, Lo, H (2007) "A Review of the Road Safety Strategy in Hong Kong", Journal of Advanced Transportation, 41(1), 3-37.

Chow, A H F, Lo, H (2007) "Sensitivity Analysis of Signal Control with Physical Queuing: Delay Derivatives and An Application", Transportation Research Part B, 41, 462-477.

Lo, H (2006) "A Reliability Framework for Traffic Signal Control", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 7(2), 250-260.

Lo, H, Luo, X W, Siu, B (2006) "Degradable Transport Network: Travel Time Budget of Travelers with Heterogeneous Risk Aversion", Transportation Research Part B, 40, 792-806.

Szeto, W Y, Lo, H (2006) "Dynamic Traffic Assignment: Properties and Extensions", Transportmetrica, 2, 31-52. Szeto, W Y, Lo, H (2006) "Transportation Network Improvement and Tolling Strategies: The Issue of Intergeneration Equity", Transportation Research Part A, 40, 227-243.

Lo, H (2006) "A Reliability Framework for Traffic Signal Control", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 7(2), 250-260.

Lo, H, Luo, X W, Siu, B (2006) "Degradable Transport Network: Travel Time Budget of Travelers with Heterogeneous Risk Aversion", Transportation Research B, 40, 792-806.

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: Removal of TCE and Cr(VI) from NOM-rich groundwater by zero-valent iron: performance and mechanistic study RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked HK$577,800 31 Dec 2006 Research Grant) Zero valent iron for water treatment Concentric Construction Limited and Others HK$8,993 01 Jun 2004 Non-equilibrium solute transport and its influence on site remediation RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$70,000 01 Jun 2004 Innovative technologies for conversion of MSW and C&D waste into various forms of valuable products UGC - High Impact Area HK$1,700,000 16 Sep 2004 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:

Liu, T., Tsang, D. C. W., Lo, Irene M. C. (2008) "Cr(VI) Reduction kinetics by zero-valent iron in moderately hard water with humic acid: Humic acid adsorption and iron dissolution", Environ. Sci. Technol., 42(6), 2092-2098.

Lai, K. C. K., Lo, Irene M. C. (2008) "Removal of Chromium (VI) by Acid-washed Zero-valent Iron under Various Groundwater Geochemistry Conditions", Environ. Sci. Technol., 42(4), 1238-1244.

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.

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. Tsang, D. C. W., Lo, Irene M. C., Chan, K. L. (2007) "Modeling the transport of metals with rate-limited EDTA- promoted extraction and dissolution during EDTA-flushing of copper-contaminated soils", Environ. Sci. Technol., 41, 3660- 3667.

Tsang, D. C. W., Lo, I. M. C. (2007) "Competitive Cu and Cd Sorption and Transport in Soils: A Combined Batch Kinetics, Column and Sequential Extraction Study", Environmental Science & Technology, 40, 6655-6661.

Tsang, D. C. W., Lo, I. M. C., Chan, K. L. (2007) "Modeling the transport of metals with rate-limited EDTA-promoted extraction and dissolution during EDTA-flushing of copper-contaminated soils", Environ. Sci. Technol., 41.

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: Mechanisms and predictions of deformation due to deep excavation RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$687,750 31 Dec 2006 Instrumentation on Deep Foundation Chun Wo Construction & Engineering Co. Ltd. HK$500,000 10 Jul 2006 Geotechnical centrifuge modelling Geotech Engineering Limited HK$150,000 01 Sep 2005 Centrifuge modelling tests of soil-nailed fill slopes Geotechnical Engineering Office HK$760,000 01 Oct 2002 Geotechnical Centrifuge Modelling UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$21,800 11 Jul 2003 Geotechnical centrifuge modelling UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$11,250 01 Sep 2005 Study of rainfall infiltration mechanisms and stability of slopes in HK UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$7,000 20 Dec 2006 Green slope engineering for Hong Kong RGC - Collaborative Research Fund - Seed Funding HK$200,000 02 May 2008 Research and development of preservation technology for cultural relics at Dunhuang and the Silk Road Ministry of Science and Technology HK$100,000 10 Nov 2007 Three-dimensional centrifuge and numerical modelling of tunneling effects on dykes National Science Foundation of China HK$373,800 01 Jan 2007 Study of rainfall infiltration mechanisms and stability of slopes in HK Ove Arup & Partners HK$140,000 20 Dec 2006 Geotechnical centrifuge facility PVL Technologies, Inc. HK$195,000 01 Apr 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Ng, Charles W W, Zhan, L T (2007) "Comparative Study of Rainfall Infiltration into a Bare and a Grassed Unsaturated Expansive Soil Slope", Soils and Foundations, Volume 47, No 2, page 207-217.

Ng, Charles W W, Leung, E H Y (2007) "Determination of Shear Wave Velocities and Shear Moduli of Completely Decomposed Tuff", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Volume 133, no 6, page 630-640.

Leung, E H Y, Ng, Charles W W (2007) "Wall and Ground Movements Associated with Deep Excavations supported by Cast-in-situ Wall in Mixed Ground Conditions", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Volume 133, No 2, page 129-143.

Ng, Charles W W, Zhang, Limin, Wang, Y H (2006) Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics, The 6 the International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics, Volume 1, & 2.

Zhang, L M, Ng, C W W, Chan, F, Pang, H W (2006) "Termination Criteria for jacked Pille Construction in Weathered Soils.", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol 132, No 7, page 819-829.

Liu, G B, Ng, C W W Ng, Wang, Z W (2005) "Observed Performance of a Deep Multi-strutted Excavation in Shanghai Soft Clays", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 131, No 8, page 1004-1013.

Ng, C W W, Lee, G T K (2005) "Three Dimensional Ground Settlements and Stress Transfer Mechanisms due to Open Face Tunnelling", Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 42, No 4, page 1015-1029.

Tung, Y. K., Kwok, Y. F., Ng, C. W. W., Zhang, H. (2004-2005) "A Preliminary Study of Rainfall Infiltration on Slope Using a New Conjunctive Surface and Subsurface Flow Model", Quarterly Journal of Rock and Soil Mechanics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Vol.25, No.9, 1347-1352, 2004.

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: Investigating Rainstorm Characteristics Relationships of Varying Time-Scales in Hong Kong Region RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$613,612 31 Dec 2005 Probabilistic analysis of water hammer modeling and applications RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$584,000 31 Dec 2006

Representative Research Publications:

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, Yeou, Yen, Ben-Chie (2005) Hydrosystems Engineering Uncertainty Analysis, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 2005. 273pp.

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.

Tung, Yeou-Koung (2004) "Methodologies for reliability analysis", In: Water Supply System Security, edited by L.W. Mays. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Chapter 7.

Tung, Yeou-Koung, Chen, Xingyuan (2004) "Third-order polynomial normal transform applied to water resource engineering uncertainty & reliability analysis", 6th Int. Conf. on Hydroscience and Engineering, Brisbane, Australia, Vol. VI, May 30-June 3 (on CD).

Hai YANG Professor (2358 7178 ; [email protected])

PhD, Kyoto University (1992)

Current Research Activities: Transportation economics; bi-level mathematical programming and applications; traffic control; road pricing; intelligent transportation systems.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Modeling bilateral searching and meeting behaviors of taxi drivers and customers RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$380,600 01 Jan 2008 Designing, implementing and evaluating network congestion pricing schemes RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$356,000 01 Jan 2007 Trial-and-error implementation of congestion pricing with unknown demand functions RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$69,000 30 Jun 2005

Representative Research Publications:

Xiao, F, Yang, H (2008) "Efficiency loss of private road with continuously distributed value-of-time", Transportmetrica, Vol.4, No.1, 19-32.

Yang, H, Zhang, X (2008) "Existence of anonymous link tolls for system optimum on networks with multiple equilibrium behaviors", Transportation Research, Vol.42B, No.2.

Huang, HJ, Liu, TL, Yang, H (2008) "Modeling the evolutions of day-to-day route choice and year-to-year ATIS adoption with stochastic user equilibrium", Journal of Advanced Transportation, Vol.42, No.2, 111-127.

Zhang, X, Yang, H, Huang, HJ (2008) "Multiclass multicriteria mixed equilibrium on networks and uniform link tolls for system optimum", European Journal of Operational Research, Vol.189, No.1, 146-158. Tian, Q, Huang, HJ, Yang, H (2007) "Equilibrium properties of the morning rush-hour commuting in a many-to-one mass transit system", Transportation Research, Vol.41B, No.6, 616-631.

Huang, HJ, Tian, Q, Yang, H, Gao, ZY (2007) "Modal split and commuting pattern on a bottleneck-constrained highway", Transportation Research, Vol.43E, No.5, 578-590.

Yang, H, Zhang, X, Meng, Q (2007) "Stackelberg game and multiple equilibrium behaviors on networks", Transportation Research, Vol.41B, No.8, 841-861.

Wichiensin, M, Bell, M G H, Yang, Hai (2007) "Impact of congestion charging on the transit market: an inter-modal equilibrium model", Transportation Research, 41A, No.7, 703-713.

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.

Chun Man CHAN Associate Professor (2358 7173 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Waterloo (1993) Structural Engineer (1985-87) and Director of Computer Operations (1987-89), Office of Irwin G Cantor Assoicate(2001-02), Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Limited Current Research Activities: Structural optimization of tall buildings; computer aided engineering; wind effects on buildings; seismic performance-based design, design of steel and composite structures.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Numerical wind load prediction and aerodynamic shape optimization of tall buildings RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$609,000 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Chan, Chun Man, Huang, Mingfeng (2007) "Integrated Wind Load Analysis and Lateral Stiffness Design Optimization of Tall Steel Buildings", 7th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Seoul, Korea, May 21 - 25, 2007.

Wong, Kin-Ming, Chan, Chun-Man (2007) "Topological Layout Optimization of Tall Residential Buildings Using a Hybrid Evolutionary Method", 7th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Seoul, Korea., May 21-25, 2007.

CHAN, Chun-Man, WANG, Qian (2006) "Nonlinear Stiffness Design Optimization of Tall Reinforced Concrete Buildings under Service Loads", Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 132, No. 6, 978-990.

CHAN, Chun-Man, CHUI, J.K.L. (2006) "Wind-induced Response and Serviceability Design Optimization of Tall Steel Buildings", Journal of Engineering Structures, Vol. 28, No. 4, 503-513.

ZOU, Xiao-Kang, CHAN, Chun-Man (2005) "An Optimal Resizing Technique for Seismic Drift Design of Concrete Buildings Subjected to Response Spectrum and Time History Loadings”, Computers and Structures", Computers and Structures, Vol. 83, Nos. 19-20, 1689-1704.

ZOU, Xiao-Kang, CHAN, Chun-Man (2005) "Optimal Seismic Performance-Based Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings Using Nonlinear Pushover Analysis", Journal of Engineering Structures, Vol. 27, No. 8, 1289-1302.

Chan, Chun-Man (2004) "Advances in Structural Optimization of Tall Buildings in Hong Kong", Third China-Japan- Korea Joint Symposium on Optimization of Structural and Mechanical Systems, Kanazawa, Japan, Oct. 30 – Nov. 2, 2004, 49-57 (Invited keynote paper).

Chan, Chun-Man, Zou, Xiao-Kang (2004) "Elastic and Inelastic Drift Performance Optimization for Reinforced Concrete Buildings under Earthquake Loads", Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Vol. 33, 929-950.

Guanghao CHEN Associate Professor (2358 8752 ; [email protected])

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

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Towards development of a sustainable sewage management system for Hong Kong-a study on denitrification of nitrified urine in sewer RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$716,000 01 Aug 2006 Towards sustainable sewage treatment in Hong Kong-A novel onsite urine nitrification bioreactor for the new high-rise buildings RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,102,500 01 Sep 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Chen, Guanghao (2007) "Sewer biofilm model development and verification", International Workshop on Monitoring and Sensor for water Pollution Control, June 13-14, 2007, Beijing..

Tam, Hnery LS, Tang, Daniel TW, Sharma, K. R., Chen, Guanghao (2006) "A pilot study for sewage reclamation and reuse with MBR/RO and MF/RO systems. Desalination", Desalination, 202 (1-3), 106-113.

Chen, Guanghao, Pang, KS (2006) "Development of a low-cost dynamic filter immersed in activated sludge system", Water Science and Technology: Water Supply, 6(6), pp.111-117.

Guan, Xiaohong, Chen, Guanghao, Shang, Chii (2006) "Role of carboxylic and phenolic groups in NOM adsorption on minerals: a review.", Water Science and Technology: Water Supply., 6(6), pp.155-164.

Guang, Xiao-hong, Chen, Guang-Hao, Shang, Chii (2006) "Competitive Adsorption of organic matter with phosphate on aluminum hydroxide.", Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 296(1), pp.51-58.

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.

Tam, H. L. S., Tang, D. T. W., Sharma, K.R., Chen, Guang-Hao (2006) "Pilot study of a membrane bio-reactor in treating fresh water sewage and saline sewage in Hong Kong.", Separation Science and Technology, 41, pp.1-12.

Guan, Xiao-hong, Chen, Guang-Hao, Shang, Chii, Zhu, Jun (2005) "ATR-FTIR Investigation on the Complexation of Myo-inositol Hexaphosphate with Aluminum Hydroxide.", Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 293 (2), pp. 296-302.

Lambros KATAFYGIOTIS Associate 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 standardized wireless system for health monitoring of typical pedestrian, highway, and railway bridges RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) 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 Associate 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.

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.

Alexis Kai-Hon LAU Manager, Environmental Central Facility, Institute for the Environment; Adjunct Associate Professor, MATH/AMCE (2358 6944 ; [email protected] ; http://envf.ust.hk)

PhD, Princeton University (1991) Research Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle (1993-94)

Current Research Activities: Air Quality and Environmental studies; Atmospheric science; geophysical data analysis; numerical weather prediction.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Development of an observation-based model to study impact of secondary inorganic aerosols on visibility impairment in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked HK$1,359,650 01 Jan 2007 Research Grant) Source Analyses of Fine Particulate Matter over Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked HK$663,266 01 Sep 2005 Research Grant) Air Quality study for Hong Kong and Beijing Civic Exchange HK$700,000 01 Aug 2006 Regional air quality data compilation Civic Exchange HK$100,000 01 Dec 2007 Air quality study for Hong Kong and Beijing Civic Exchange HK$110,000 01 Dec 2007 Air quality study for Pearl River Delta and Beijing Civic Exchange HK$500,000 01 Jan 2008 Air Quality study for Hong Kong and Beijing UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$700,000 01 Aug 2006 Air quality study for Pearl River Delta and Beijing UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$125,000 01 Jan 2008 Atmospheric research center Nansha Research Centers HK$6,224,000 01 Jul 2006 Development of a fine mesh air quality forecasting system for megacities around the Pearl River Delta National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint HK$800,000 01 Jan 2006 Research Scheme

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 - Atmospheres, 112, D05106, doi:10.1029/2006JD007752, 2007.

Wang, Lei, Lau, Alexis Kai Hon, Fung, Jimmy Chi Hung, Gan, Jian Ping (2007) "The relative vorticity of ocean surface winds from the QuikSCAT satellite and its effects on the geneses of tropical cyclones in the South China Sea",

Tellus A, Online Early Articles., doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2007.00249.x.

Lo, Jeff C F, Lau, Alexis K H, Chen, Fei, Fung, Jimmy C H, Leung, Kenneth K M (2007) "Urban Modification in a Mesoscale Model and the Effects on the Local Circulation in the Pearl River Delta Region", Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 46, 457-474.

Huang, Jian-Ping, Fung, Jimmy C H, Lau, Alexis K H (2006) "Integrated processes analysis and systematic meteorological classification of ozone episodes in Hong Kong", Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 111, D20309, doi:10.1029/2005JD007012.

Lo, Jeff C F, Lau, Alexis K H, Fung, Jimmy C H, Chen, Fei (2006) "Investigation of enhanced cross-city transport and trapping of air pollutants by coastal and urban land-sea breeze circulations", Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 111, D14104, doi:10.1029/2005JD006837.

Lam, Job Sai Lap, Lau, Alexis Kai Hon, Fung, Jimmy Chi Hung (2006) "Application of refined land-use categories for high resolution mesoscale atmospheric modeling", Boudnary-Layer Meteorology, 119 (2), 263-288.

Yuan, Zibing, Lau, Alexis Kai Hon, Zhang, Hongyi, Yu, Jianzhen, Louie, Peter Kwok Keung, Fung, Jimmy Chi Hung (2006) "Identification and spatiotemporal variation of dominant PM 10 sources over Hong Kong", Atmospheric Environment, 40, 1805-1815.

Li, Chengcai, Lau, Alexis Kai Hon, Mao, Jietai, Chu, Allen D (2005) "Retrieval, validation, and application of the 1- km aerosol optical depth from MODIS measurements over Hong Kong", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 43, 2650-2658.

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: Organic Cation-Modified Iron Oxide-Coated Sand for Natural Organic Matter and Anionic Pollutant Adsorption RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research HK$722,776 01 Nov 2005 Grant) The TiO2-modified UV-C disinfection process for inhibition of post-irradiation bacteria recovery: Mechanism assessment and process development RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research HK$441,091 01 Nov 2007 Grant) The fate, transport, transformation and toxicity of manufactured carbon nanomaterials in wastewater UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$445,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Yang, Xin, Shang, Chii, Lee, Wontae, Westerhoff, Paul, Fan, Chihhao (2008) "Correlations between organic matter properties and DBP formation during chloramination", Water Research, 42(8-9), 2329-2339.

Yang, Xin, Shang, Chii, Westerhoff, Paul (2007) "Factors affecting formation of haloacetonitriles, haloketones, chloropicrin and cyanogen halides during chloramination", Water Research, 41(6), 1193-1200.

Fang, Qian, Shang, Chii, Chen, Guohua (2006) "MS2 inactivation by chloride-assisted electrochemical disinfection", Journal of Environmental Engineering, 132(1), 13-22.

Liu, Wei, Cheung, Lo-Man, Yang, Xin, Shang, Chii (2006) "THM, HAA and CNCl formation from UV irradiation and chlor(am)ination of selected organic waters", Water Research, 40, 2033-2043.

Shang, Chii, Wong, Hiu Man, Chen, Guang-Hao (2005) "Bacteriophage MS-2 removal by submerged membrane bioreactor", Water Research, 39(17), 4211-4219.

Yang, Xin, Shang, Chii (2004-2005) "Chlorination byproduct formation in the presence of humic acid, model nitrogenous organic compounds, ammonia and bromide", Environmental Science & Technology, 38(19), 4995-5001.

Xie, Li, Shang, Chii (2004-2005) "Role of humic acid and quinone model compounds in bromate reduction by zero valent iron", Environmental Science & Technology, 39(4), 1092-1100.

Yu-Hsing WANG Associate Professor (2358 8757 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~ceyhwang/)

PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology (2001) Engineer, Taiwan Area National Expressway Engineering Bureau, Taiwan (1996-97)

Current Research Activities: Stochastic resonance and friction; damping mechanisms in particulate media; wave-based characterizations; physico-chemical soil behavior.

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Wang, Yu-Hsing, Dong, Xiaobo (2008) "Characterizing the spatial variability in soils by the EM-wave-based technique", Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 102-116.

Wang, Yu-Hsing, Dong, Xiaobo (2008) "Complementary wave-based characterizations of sedimentation processes", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE,, Vol. 134, No. 1, pp. 47-56.

Wang, Yu-Hsing, Santamarina, Carlos (2007) "Attenuation in sand - an exploratory study on the small-strain behavior and the influence of moisture condensation", Granular Matter, Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 365-376.

Wang, Yu-Hsing, Xu, Dapeng (2007) "Dual porosity and secondary consolidation", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE., Vol. 133, No. 7, pp. 793-801.

Wang, Yu-Hsing, Lo, Kai-Fung, Yan, Wai-Man, Dong, Xiaobo (2007) "Measurement biases in the bender element test", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE., Vol. 133, No. 5. pp. 564-574.

Wang, Yu-Hsing, Siu, Wai-Kwan (2006) "Structure characteristics and mechanical properties of kaolinite soils I. surface charges and structural characterizations", Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 43, No. 6, pp. 587-600.

Wang, Yu-Hsing, Siu, Wai-Kwan (2006) "Structure characteristics and mechanical properties of kaolinite soils II. effects of structure on mechanical properties", Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 43, No. 6, pp. 601-617.

Limin ZHANG Associate Professor; Associate Director, Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility (2358 8720 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~cezhangl)

PhD, Sichuan University (1989) Visiting Scientist, Karlsruhe University (1995) Post-doc Associate, University of Florida (1996-1998)

Current Research Activities: Pile foundations; embankments and slopes; multi-phase flow; centrifuge modeling; geotechnical risk and reliability-based design.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Water infiltration through cracked soils for landslides study RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$962,880 01 Dec 2006 Investigation of failure of embankment dams and levees - from initiation to breach RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$770,986 01 Dec 2007 An explicit risk-based approach for large-dam safety decisions UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$620,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Zhang, L.M., Chen, Qun (2006) "Analysis of seepage failure of the Gouhou rockfill dam during reservoir water infiltration", Soils and Foundations, 46(5), 557-568.

Zhang, L.M., Ng, C.W.W., Chan, Fai, Pang, H.W (2006) "Termination criteria for jacked pile construction in weathered soils", J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Engrg., ASCE, 132(7), 819-829.

Zhang, Limin, Li, D.Q., Tang, W.H. (2006) "Impact of routine quality assurance on reliability of bored piles", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 132(5), 622-630.

Chen, Q., Zhang, Limin (2006) "Three-dimensional analysis of water infiltration into the Gouhou rockfill dam using saturated-unsaturated seepage theories", Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 43(5), 449-461.

Zhang, Limin, Ng, A. M. Y. (2005) "Probabilistic limiting tolerable displacements for serviceability limit state design of foundations", Geotechnique, 55(2), 151-161.

Zhang, Limin (2004) "Reliability verification using proof pile load tests", J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Engrg., ASCE, 130(11), 1203-1213.

Zhang, Limin (2004) "Risk management in foundation engineering in the framework of reliability based design. Keynote Lecture Paper", Uncertainty and Reliability in Geotechnical Engineering, Korean Geotechnical Society, Seoul, 129-177.

Zhang, Limin, Tang, Wilson H, Zhang, Lulu, Zheng, J.G. (2004) "Reducing uncertainty of prediction from empirical correlations", J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Engrg., ASCE, 130(5), 526-534.

Wei Chung HU Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 7179 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Efficient methods for least squares estimation in engineering surveying RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Jan 2007

Xiangru ZHANG Assistant Professor (2358 8479 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Fast selective detection and occurrence assessment of highly polar halogenated disinfection byproducts in drinking water RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$607,136 01 Oct 2007 Detection of iodinated disinfection byproducts in drinking water RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 15 Dec 2006

Representative Research Publications:

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, G.Y., Birdsell, D. (2008) "Fast selective detection of polar brominated disinfection byproducts in drinking water using precursor ion scans", Environmental Science and Technology, 42(19): articles ASAP.

Liu, Guojing, Zhang, Xiangru, McWilliams, L., Talley, J.W., Neal, C.R. (2008) "Influence of ionic strength, electrolyte type, and NOM on As(V) adsorption onto TiO2", Journal of Environmental Science and Health - Part A, 43(4), 430-436.

Liu, Guojing, Zhang, Xiangru, Talley, J.W. (2007) "Effect of copper(II) on natural organic matter removal during drinking water coagulation using aluminum-based coagulants", Water Environmental Research, 79(6): 593–599.

Zhang, Xiangru, Minear, R.A. (2006) "Control of high molecular weight disinfection byproducts in drinking water by coagulation", Water Science and Technology: Water Supply, 6(6): 137–146.

Liu, Guojing, Zhang, Xiangru, Jain, J., Talley, J.W., Neal, C.R. (2006) "Stability of inorganic arsenic species in simulated raw waters with the presence of NOM", Water Science and Technology: Water Supply, 6(6): 175–182.

Xueqing ZHANG Assistant Professor (2358 8480 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Performance of rubber dams RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Dec 2006 A global and cross-industry perspective on EVM practice and future tread Project Management Institute HK$62,400 01 Jul 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Mao, Xiaoming, Zhang, Xueqing, AbourRizk, Simaan, M. (2008) "Construction process reengineering by integrating lean principles and computer simulation techniques", Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 134 (5), 371-381.

Zhang, Xueqing (2007) "Financial engineering in infrastructure development through public private partnerships", keynote speech, International Conference on Concession Public/Infrastructure Projects, Dalian, China, 38- 50, August 24-26.

Mao, Xiaoming, Zhang, Xueqing, AbouRizk, Simaan, M. (2007) "Integrating theory of inventive problem solving into the value engineering process", Innovations in Structure Engineering and Construction, Taylor & Francis Group, Volume 2, 1453-1458.

Zhang, Xueqing (2007) "Flexible structures", International Water Power & Dam Construction, 59(2), 32-37. Zhang, Xueqing (2006) "Factor analysis of public clients' best value objective in public-privately partnered infrastructure projects", Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 132(9), 956-965.

Zhang, Xueqing (2006) "Markov-based optimization model for building facilities management", Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 132(11), 1203-1211.

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Mounir HAMDI, Head of Department and Professor

Roland T CHIN, Chair Professor and Vice-President for Academic Affairs

Lionel M NI, Chair Professor

Ting Chuen PONG, Professor and Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs

Cunsheng DING, Professor

Mordecai J GOLIN, Professor

Andrew B HORNER, Professor

Dik Lun LEE, 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

Qiang YANG, Professor

Dit-Yan YEUNG, Professor

Heung Yeung SHUM, Adjunct Professor

Sunil ARYA, Associate Professor

Brahim BENSAOU, Associate Professor

Gary Shueng-Han CHAN, Associate Professor

Siu Wing CHENG, Associate Professor; Associate Head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Director of Sino Software Research Institute.

Shing Chi CHEUNG, Associate Professor; Associate Director of Cyberspace Center

Albert Chi-Shing CHUNG, Associate Professor

James Tin-Yau KWOK, Associate Professor Bo LI, Associate Professor

Brian Kan-Wing MAK, Associate Professor

Jogesh K MUPPALA, Associate Professor

Helen C SHEN, Associate Professor

Chiew-Lan TAI, Associate Professor

Chi-Keung TANG, Associate Professor

Dekai WU, Associate Professor

Lianwen (Nevin) ZHANG, Associate Professor

Qian ZHANG, Associate Professor

Lei CHEN, Assistant Professor

Chi Wing FU, Visiting Assistant Professor

Lin GU, Assistant Professor

Zonghua GU, Assistant Professor

Xin LI, Visiting Assistant Professor

Yunhao LIU, Assistant Professor

Qiong LUO, Assistant Professor

Wilfred Siu Hung NG, Assistant Professor

Huamin QU, Assistant Professor

David ROSSITER, Visiting Assistant Professor

Pedro V SANDER, Assistant Professor

Ke YI, Assistant Professor

Charles C ZHANG, Assistant Professor

Zhen ZHOU, Visiting Assistant Professor Mounir HAMDI Head of Department and Professor (2358 6984 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Pittsburgh (1991)

Current Research Activities: High-speed networking; ATM packet switching; wireless communications; parallel computing; high-performance computer architectures.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Multi-stage architectures for high-capacity Internet routers RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$50,000 01 Jan 2006 QoS-Capable Internet Switches and Routers with Wireless Support UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$400,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Xia, Qiuyan, Hamdi, Mounir (2008) "Active Queue Management with Dual Virtual PI Queues for TCP Uplink/Downlink Fairness in Infrastructure WLANs", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, June 2008, pp. 2261 - 2271.

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. Frei, Chris, Falting, Boi, Hamdi, Mounir (2005) "Resource Allocation in Communication Networks Using Abstraction and Constraint Satisfaction", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 23, pp. 304-320.

Li, Xin, Hamdi, Mounir (2003) "On Scheduling Optical Switches with Reconfiguration Delay", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 21, No. 7, pp. 1156-1165, Sept.

Chan, Lawrence, Hamdi, Mounir (2003) "An Active Queue Management Scheme Based on a Capture-Recapture Model", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 21, Issue 4, pp. 572-283.

Roland T CHIN Chair Professor and Vice-President for Academic Affairs (2358 6161 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Missouri-Columbia (1979) Analyst, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (1979-81) Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1981-95)

Current Research Activities: Computer vision; image processing; pattern recognition; digital signal processing.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited (NAMI) Innovation and Technology Commission HK$61,400,000 20 Apr 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Ngai, E.C.H., Lyu, Michael, Chin, Roland (2004) "An authentication service against dishonest users in mobile ad hoc networks", IEEE Aerospace Conference, March.

Wong, P.H.W., Hung, R.T.W., Lee, J.Y.B., Liew, S.C., Kim, C.S., Chin, Roland (2003-2004) "Rate estimation for H.264/ AVC spatial resolution reduction", International Conference on Image Processing.

Cheung, K. W., Yeung, D. Y., Chin, R. T. (2002) "Bidirectional deformable matching with application to handwritten character extraction", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, PAMI-24, no. 8.

Cheung, K. W., Yeung, D. Y., Chin, R. T. (2002) "On deformable models for visual pattern recognition", Pattern Recognition, Vol 35, no. 7.

Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C., Chin, R.T. (2001) "Exploiting image indexing techniques in DCT domains", Pattern Recognition, 34(9).

Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C., Zhang, H.J., Chin, R.T. (2001) "On clustering and retrieval of video shots", ACM Multimedia Modeling, Ottawa, Canada.

Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C., Chin, R.T. (2001) "Video partitioning through temporal slice coherency", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 11(8).

Lionel M NI Chair Professor (2358 7009 ; [email protected])

PhD, Purdue University (1980) Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University (1981-2002) Director of Microelectronic Systems Architecture Program, US National Science Foundation (1995-96)

Current Research Activities: Pervasive computing; computer architecture; computer networking; Internet technologies; interconnection networks; distributed systems; operating systems; wireless communications.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Self-organized node identification in wireless sensor networks RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$396,000 01 Oct 2006 A research center for ubiquitous computing RGC - Collaborative Research Fund (formerly known as Central Allocation) HK$800,000 01 Jul 2007 On-chip network design and scheduling parallel programs Intel Corporation HK$234,000 01 Jun 2007 Operating system courseware using Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Research Asia HK$195,000 01 Dec 2004 Special project of MSRA 10th anniversary for joint labs Microsoft Research Asia HK$120,000 01 Aug 2007 Fundamental theory and key technologies of wireless sensor network Ministry of Science and Technology HK$841,050 01 Sep 2006 Fundamental theory and critical technologies for wireless sensor networks UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$1,000,000 01 Sep 2007 Digital Life Research Center Nansha Research Centers HK$8,384,000 01 Jul 2006 Trustworthy computing for large-scale peer-to-peer systems National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$799,000 01 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Zhu, Hongzi, Zhu, Yanmin, Li, Minglu, Ni, Lionel (2008) "HERO: Online Real-time Vehicle Tracking in Shanghai", Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2008.

Liu, Yunhuai, Zhang, Qian, Ni, Lionel (2008) "Opportunity-based Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks", the 28th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems.

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.

Zhu, Feng, Zhu, Wei, Mutka, Matt, Ni, Lionel (2007) "Private and Secure Service Discovery via Progressive and Probabilistic Exposure", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, pp. 1565-1577, Vol. 18, No. 11.

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.

Wu, Hejun, Luo, Qiong, Zheng, Pei, Ni, Lionel (2007) "VMNet: Realistic Emulation of Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 277-288.

Zhu, Feng, Mutka, Matt, Ni, Lionel Ming-Shuan (2005) "Service Discovery in Pervasive Computing Environments", IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 81-90.

Ni, Lionel, Liu, Yunhao, Lau, Yiu-C, Patil, Abshiek (2004) "LANDMARC: Indoor Location Sensing Using Active RFID", ACM Wireless Network, Vol. 10, pp. 701-710.

Ting Chuen PONG Professor and Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs (2358 6974 ; [email protected])

PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1984) Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Minnesota (1990-95) Current Research Activities: Computer vision; artificial intelligence; pattern recognition; robotics; image analysis.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Motion characterization and segmentation in video processing RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$80,000 15 Dec 2001 Interactive multimedia virtual campus Education and Manpower Bureau, Government of HKSAR HK$180,000 01 Jan 2007 Biometrics-based user interface and authentication UGC - High Impact Area HK$770,000 10 Sep 2001 Hong Kong virtual university campus Restructuring and Collaboration Fund HK$7,000,000 01 Mar 2005 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program UGC - Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program HK$2,800,000 30 Aug 2005

Representative Research Publications:

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., Zhang, H.J. (2001) "On Clustering and Retrieval of Video Shots", ACM Multimedia, Vol. 1. Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C., Zhang, H.J. (2001) "Recent Advances in Content-based Video Analysis", International Journal of Image and Graphics, 1.

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.

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, Feng, Tao (2007) "A generic construction of complex codebooks meeting the Welch bound", IEEE Trans. Information Theory, Vol. 53, No. 11, pp. 4245--4250.

Ding, Cunsheng, Mioso, Marko, Yuan, Jin (2007) "Algebraic constructions of optimal frequency hopping sequences", IEEE Trans. Information Theory, Vol. 53, No. 7, pp. 2606--2610.

Ding, Cunsheng, Wang, Zeying, Xiang, Qing (2007) "Skew Hadamard difference sets from the Ree-Tifts slice sympletic spreads in PG(3, 3^{2h+1})", J. Combinatorial Theory A, Vol. 114, No. 5, pp. 867--887,.

Ding, Cunsheng, Helleseth, Tor, Klove, Torleiv, Wang, Xuesong (2007) "A general construction of authentication codes", IEEE Trans. Information Theory, Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 2229--2235.

Ding, Cunsheng, Yuan, Jin (2006) "A family of skew Hadamard difference sets", Journal of Combinatorial Theory A, Vol. 113, No. 7, pp. 1526--1535.

Ding, Cunsheng (2006) "Complex codebooks from combinatorial designs", IEEE Trans. Information Theory, Vol. 52, No. 9, pp. 4229--4235.

Carlet, Claude, Ding, Cunsheng, Yuan, Jin (2005) "Linear codes from highly nonlinear functions and their secret sharing schemes", IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 2089- 2102.

Lai, William, Ding, Cunsheng (2004) "Several generalizations of Shamir's secret sharing scheme", International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 445--458.

Mordecai J GOLIN Professor (2358 6993 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cs.ust.hk/~golin/)

PhD, Princeton University (1990) Researcher, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (1990-92) Current Research Activities: Design and analysis of algorithms; computational geometry; combinatorics; information theory.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: On the existence and construction of restricted prefix-free codes RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$396,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Golin, Mordecai, Zhang, Yan (2007) "The Two-Median Problem on Manhattan Meshes", Networks, 49(3) 226-233 (May 2007).

Fleischer, Rudolf, Golin, Mordecai, Zhang, Yan (2006) "Online Maintenance of k-Medians and k-Covers on a Line", Algorithmica, 45(4), August 2006, pp 549-567.

Cheng, Siu-WIng, Funke, Stefan, Golin, Mordecai, Kumar, Piyush, Poon, Sheung-Hung, Ramos, Edgar (2005) "Curve reconstruction from noisy samples", Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, Volume 31, pp 63-100.

Biedl, Therese, Chan, Timothy, Demaine, Erik, Fleischer, Rudolf, Golin, Mordecai, King, James, Munro, Erik (2004) "Fun-Sort--or the Chaos of Unordered Binary Search", Discrete Applied Mathematics, 144, pp. 231-236.

Ahn, H-K, Cheng, Siu-Wing, Choeng, Otfried, Golin, Mordecai, Oostrum, R. Van (2003-2004) "Competitive facility location: the Voronoi game", Theoretical Computer Science, (310) 1-3 457-467.

Ding, Cunsheng, Golin, Mordecai, Klove, Torliev (2003-2004) "Meeting the Welch and Karystinos-Pados Bounds on DS-CDMA Binary Signature Sets", Designs, Codes and Cryptography, (30) 73-84.

Golin, Mordecai, Naa, Hyeonsuk (2003) "On the Average Complexity of 3D-Voronoi Diagrams of Random Points On Convex Polytopes", Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, Vol. 25, pp. 197-231.

Andrew B HORNER Professor (2358 6998 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cs.ust.hk/~horner)

PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1993)

Current Research Activities: Computer music; audio engineering; psychoacoustics; musical acoustics; genetic algorithms.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Identification of salient timbral attributes in musical instrument tones with normalized spectral centroids and attack times RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$356,000 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Lui, Simon, Horner, Andrew, Ayers, Lydia (2006) "An Intelligent SP-MIDI Polyphonic Reduction Algorithm", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 13(2), 52-59.

Wun, Simon, Horner, Andrew (2005) "Evaluation of Iterative Methods for Wavetable Matching", Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 53(9), 826-835.

Horner, Andrew, Wun, Simon (2005) "Low Peak Amplitudes for Group Additive Synthesis", Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 53(6), 475-484.

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.

So, Clifford, Horner, Andrew (2004) "Wavetable Matching of Pitched Inharmonic Instrument Tones", Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 52(5), pp. 516-529.

Horner, Andrew (2003) "Auto-Programmable FM and Wavetable Synthesizers", Contemporary Music Review, vol. 22(3), pp. 21-29.

Horner, Andrew, Ayers, Lydia (2002) Cooking with Csound Part 1: Woodwind and Brass Recipes, Madison Wisconsin: A-R Editions (Computer Music and Digital Audio Series).

Dik Lun LEE Professor (2358 7017 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cse.ust.hk/~dlee/)

PhD, University of Toronto (1985) Associate Professor, Ohio State University (1991-94) Current Research Activities: Database systems; information retrieval; mobile computing.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Architectures, indexing and scheduling in an open data broadcast system RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$413,618 16 Dec 2007 Semantic location modeling, distance browsing and query processing for mobile indoor applications RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$688,000 01 Dec 2006 Proactive Caching in Mobile Environments RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$692,480 01 Aug 2005

Representative Research Publications:

Li, Dandan, Lee, Dik Lun (2008) "A Lattice-based Semantic Location Model for Indoor Navigation", 9th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'08), Beijing, China, Apr, 2008.

Dang, E.K.F., Luk, Robert, Ho, Kei Shiu Edward, Chan, Stephen Chi Fai, Lee, Dik Lun (2008) "A New Measure of Clustering Effectiveness: Algorithms and Experimental Studies", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Vol. 59, No. 3, Feb 2008, 390-406.

Lee, Dik Lun (2008) "Location Modeling and Location Sensing for Structured Spaces", International Workshop on Sensor Network Technologies for Information Explosion Era (SeNTIE 2008)}, Beijing, China, Apr 27, 2008.

Wong, Wingo Sai Keung, Luk, Robert, Leong, Hong Va, HO, Kei Shiu Edward, Lee, Dik Lun (2008) "Re-examining the Effects of Adding Relevance Information in a Relevance Feedback Environment", Information Processing and Management, Vol. 44, No. 3, May 2008, 1086-1116.

Ng, Wilfred, Deng, Lin, Lee, Dik Lun (2007) "Mining User Preference Using Spy Voting for Search Engine Personalization", ACM Transactions on Information Technology (TOIT), Vol. 7, No. 4, Article 19, October 2007, 19- 17.

Zheng, Baihua, Lee, Wang Chien, Lee, Dik Lun (2007) "On Searching Continuous Nearest Neighbors in Wireless Data Broadcast Systems", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 6, No. 7, July 2007, 748-761.

Lee, Dik Lun, Chen, Qiuxia (2007) "A Model-Based Wi-Fi Localization Method", The Second International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (Infoscale 2007), Suzhou, China, June 6-8, 2007.

Zhao, Dyce Jing, Lee, Dik Lun, Luo, Qiong (2006) "A Distributed Pattern Tree Index for Partial-Match Queries", Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2006),

Munich, Germany, Mar 2006, 515-532.

Fangzhen LIN Professor (2358 6975 ; [email protected])

PhD, Stanford University (1991)

Current Research Activities: Artificial intelligence; knowledge representations; robotics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Discovering theorems in game theory RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$391,591 01 Sep 2007 First-order loop formulas RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$534,000 01 Nov 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Lin, Fangzhen, Chen, Yin (2007) "Discovering Classes of Strongly Equivalent Logic Programs", Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 28: 431-451.

Lin, Fangzhen, Zhou, Yi (2007) "From Answer Set Logic Programming to Circumscription via Logic of GK", International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'07), 441-446, January 2007.

Zhou, Yi, Lin, Fangzhen, Zhang, Yan (2007) "General Default Logic", International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR'07), 241-253, May 2007.

Nayak, Abhaya, Chen, Yin, Lin, Fangzhen (2006) "Forgetting and Knowledge Update", Australian Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2006, 131-140, December 2006.

LIN, Fangzhen, CHEN, Yin (2005) "Discovering classes of strongly equivalent logic programs", Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, 30 JULY - 5 AUGUST 2005.

Joohyung, Lee, Fangzhen, Lin (2004) " Loop formulas for circumscription", National Conference of American Association for Artificial Intelligence, San Jose, CA, pp. 281-286, July 2004.

Fangzhen, Lin, Zhao, Yuting (2004) "ASSAT: Computing answer sets of a logic program by SAT solvers.", Artificial Intelligence, 157(1-2): 115-137.

Fangzhen, Lin, Xishun, Zhao (2004) "On odd and even cycles in normal logic programs.", National Conference of American Association for Artificial Intelligence, San Jose, CA, July 2004, pp 80-85.

Frederick H LOCHOVSKY Professor (2358 6996 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cse.ust.hk/~fred)

PhD, University of Toronto (1978) Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto (1988-94) Visiting Scientist, IBM San Jose Research Center (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 (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.

Liu, Kaiyang, Lochovsky, Frederick (2004) "AC-Tree: an adaptive structural join index", Proc. 5th Intl. Conf. on Web Information Systems Engineering, 325-336.

Wang, Gang, Lochovsky, Frederick, Yang, Qiang (2004) "Feature selection with conditional mutual information maximin in text categorization", Proc. 13th ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management, 342-349.

Wang, Jiying, Wen, Ji-Rong, Lochovsky, Frederick, Ma, Wei-Ying (2004) "Instance-based schema matching for web databases by domain-specific query probing", Proc. 30th Intl. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases, 408-419.

Pun, Joshua, Lochovsky, Frederick (2004) "Ranking search results by web quality dimensions", Journal of Web Engineering, 3(3&4), 216-235.

Liu, Kaiyang, Lochovsky, Frederick (2003) "Efficient computation of aggregate structural joins", Proc. 4th Intl. Conf. on Web Information Systems Engineering, Rome, Italy (10-12 December, 2003), 21-30.

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: Continuous Monitoring of Spatial Queries RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$788,778 01 Sep 2005 k-Medoid and related queries in very large spatial databases RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$534,000 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Vu, Quang Hieu, Ooi, Beng Chin, Papadias, Dimitris, Tung, Anthony (2008) "A Graph Method for Keyword-based Selection of the top-K Databases", Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), Vancouver, Canada, pp. 915-926, June 9-12.

Markowetz, Alexander, Yang, Yin, Papadias, Dimitris (2007) "Keyword Search on Relational Data Streams", ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), Beijing, China, pp. 605-616, June 14-17, 2007.

Mouratidis, Kyriakos, Bakiras, Spiridon, Papadias, Dimitris (2006) "Continuous Monitoring of Top-k Queries over Sliding Windows", Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), Chicago, IL, June 26-29.

Mouratidis, Kyriakos, Hadjieleftheriou, Marios, Papadias, Dimitris (2005) "Conceptual Partitioning: An Efficient Method for Continuous Nearest Neighbor Monitoring", Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), Baltimore, MD, pp. 634-645, June 13-16, 2005.

Tao, Yufei, Yiu, Manlung, Papadias, Dimitris, Hadjieleftheriou, Marios, Mamoulis, Nikos (2005) "RPJ: Producing Fast Join Results on Streams through Rate-based Optimization", Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), Baltimore, MD, pp. 371-382, June 13-16, 2005.

Tao, Yufei, Faloutsos, Christos, Papadias, Dimitris, Liu, Bin (2004) "Prediction and Indexing of Moving Objects with Unknown Motion Patterns", Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), Paris, June 13-18, ACM Press, to appear. Papadias, Dimitris, Tao, Yufei, Fu, Greg, Seeger, Bernhard (2003) "An Optimal and Progressive Algorithm for Skyline Queries", Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), San Diego, CA, June 9-12, pp. 443-454.

Zhang, Jun, Zhu, Manli, Papadias, Dimitris, Tao, Yufei, Lee, Dik Lun (2003) "Location-based Spatial Queries", Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), San Diego, CA, June 9-12, pp. 467-478.

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: Fine-Scale Geometry Reconstruction from Multiple Images RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$486,000 01 Oct 2005 Dynamic 3D reconstruction from multiple cameras RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$356,000 01 Jul 2006 Joint segmentation for image-based modeling RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$391,591 01 Sep 2007 Dynamic fine-scale geometry modeling from multiple views Microsoft Research Asia HK$80,000 01 Jul 2005 Image-based modeling and rendering of trees Microsoft Research Asia HK$120,000 01 Aug 2007 A collaborative research proposal with MSRA on image deblurring from single and multiple images Microsoft Research Asia HK$80,000 01 Jul 2008 Machine learning and information fusion approach to face recognition National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$500,600 01 Jan 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Paris, Sylvain, Sillion, Francois, Quan, Long (2006) "A Surface Reconstruction Method Using Global Graph Cut Optimization", International Journal of Computer Vision, volume 66, number 2, pages 141-162.

Wei, Yichen, Ofek, Eyal, Quan, Long, Shum, Harry (2005) "Modeling Hair from Multiple Views", ACM Transactions on Graphics, volume 24, number 3, pages 816-820.

Lhuillier, Maxime, Quan, Long (2005) "A quasi-dense approach to surface reconstruction from uncalibrated images", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, volume 27, number 3, pages 418-433.

Wei, Yichen, Quan, Long (2005) "Asymmetrical occlusion handling using graph cut for multi-view stereo", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, volume 2, pages 902-909, June 2005.

Zeng, Gang, Matsushita, Yasuyuki, Quan, Long, Shum, Heung-Yeung (2005) "Interactive shape from shading", IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, volume 1, pages 343-350, June 2005.

Jiang, Guang, Wei, Yichen, Quan, Long, Tsui, Hung-tat, Shum, Heung-Yeung (2005) "Outward-looking circular motion analysis of large image sequences", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, volume 27, number 2, pages 271-277.

Jiang, Guang, Quan, Long, Tsui, Hung-Tat (2004) "Circular Motion Geometry Using Minimal Data", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, volume 26, number 6.

Wei, Yichen, Quan, Long (2004) "Region-Based Progressive Stereo Matching", Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, volume 1, pages 106-113.

Vincent Y SHEN Professor of Computer Science; Manager of W3C Office in Hong Kong (2358 7010 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cs.ust.hk/~shen)

PhD, Princeton University (1969) Assistant & Associate Professor of Computer Sciences, Purdue University (1969-85) Manager & Program Director, Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corp (1985-90) Science Advisor, Innovation & Technology Commission, The Government of Hong Kong SAR (2000-03)

Current Research Activities: Software productivity and quality; Internet computing; computer-aided instruction.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A privacy framework with transitive relationships in pervasive computing RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$396,000 01 Sep 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Chen, Benfeng, Shen, Vincent Y. (2006) "Transforming Web Pages to Become Standard-Compliant through Reverse Engineering", Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility, WWW2006, Edinburgh, 14-22, May 2006.

Hong, Dan, Yuan, Mingxuan, Shen, Vincent (2005) "Dynamic Privacy Management: a Plug-in Service for the Middleware in Pervasive Computing", Proceedings of MobileHCI’05, September 2005, Salzburg, Austria, pp. 1- 8., pp.1-8, September 2005.

Chen, Shan, Hong, Dan, Shen, Vincent Y. (2005) "An Experimental Study on Validation Problems with Existing HTML Webpages", Proceedings of The 2005 International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'05: June 27-30, 2005, Las Vegas, USA), Volume and page numbers not yet available. The conference period is June 27-30.

Liu, Alan, Shen, Vincent, Muppala, Jogesh (2002) "Security issues on server-side credit-based electronic payment systems", Third International Symposium on Electronic Commerce (ISEC02), Research Triangle Park, NC, USA, 18-19 October, pp. 47-57.

Qiang YANG Professor (2358 8768 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Maryland (1989)

Current Research Activities: Web mining and data mining; artificial intelligence; case-based reasoning, planning and machine learning.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Web query classification by learning probabilistic graphical models RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$835,200 01 Sep 2007 Learning complex action models from plan examples for AI planning RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$356,000 01 Jan 2007 Center for computational system biology RGC - Collaborative Research Fund - Seed Funding HK$200,000 02 May 2008 PQC: A personalized web query classification system Microsoft Research Asia HK$120,000 01 May 2008 Research for new generation web search and mobile computing NEC Labs China HK$1,000,000 01 Dec 2005 Discovery of SNP patterns in multi-gene disorders UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$620,000 15 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Yang, Qiang, Huang, J., Ng, M. (2003) "A Data Cube Model for Prediction-Based Web Prefetching", Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 20(1): 11-30.

Yang, Qiang, Cheng, Hong (2003) "Case Mining from Large Data Bases", Proceedings of the International Conference on Case-based Reasoning. Trondheim, Norway, June, LNCS, Springer.

Shen, Y., Yang, Qiang, Zhang, Z., Lu, H.J. (2003) "Mining the Customer's Up-to-Moment Preferences for E-commerce Recommendation", Proceedings of Pacific Asia Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference (PAKDD 2003), South Korea, May, 2003.

Yang, Qiang, Cheng, Hong (2003) "Planning for Marketing Campaigns", Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, Trento, Italy, June.

Yang, Qiang, Zhang, H. (2003) "Web-Log Mining for Predictive Web Caching", IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 15, Issue 4, 1050-1053.

Yang, Qiang, Li, T.Y., Wang, K. (2002) "Building Association Rule Based Sequential Classifiers for Web Document Prediction", Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.

Yang, Qiang, Cheng, Hong (2002) "Case Mining for Action Recommendations", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM02) Conference. Japan, December.

Shen, Y., Zhang, Z., Yang, Qiang (2002) "Objective-Oriented Data Mining", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM02) Conference. Japan, December.

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: Models, algorithms and applications of machine learning and pattern recognition

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Semi-supervised kernel extensions of fisher discriminant analysis RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$744,000 01 Jan 2008 An integrated framework for kernel learning and graph-based regularization RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$356,000 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Chang, Hong, Yeung, Dit-Yan (2006) "Locally linear metric adaptation with application to semi-supervised clustering and image retrieval", Pattern Recognition, 39(7):1253-1264, July 2006.

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.

Yeung, Dit-Yan, Ding, Yuxin (2003) "Host-based intrusion detection using dynamic and static behavioral models", Pattern Recognition, 36(1):229-243.

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.

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: The complexity of approximate range searching RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$522,000 01 Nov 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Arya, Sunil, Malamatos, Theocharis, Mount, David (2007) "A simple entropy-based algorithm for planar point location", ACM Transactions on Algorithms, 3(2), Article No. 17.

Arya, Sunil, Malamatos, Theocharis, Mount, David (2007) "Optimal expected-case planar point location", SIAM Journal on Computing, 37(2), 584-610.

Arya, Sunil, Malamatos, Theocharis, Mount, David (2006) "On the importance of idempotence", 38th Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), Seattle, WA, USA., 564-573.

Arya, Sunil, Malamatos, Theocharis, Mount, David (2006) "The effect of corners on the complexity of approximate range searching", 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG), Sedona, Arizona, USA., 11-20.

Arya, Sunil, Mount, David (2005) "Computational geometry: proximity and location", Handbook of data structures and applications, Chapter 63.

Arya, Sunil, Malamatos, Theocharis, Mount, David (2005) "Space-time tradeoffs for approximate spherical range counting", 16th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrte Algorithms (SODA), Vancouver, 535-544.

Arya, Sunil, Fu, Ho-Yam Addy (2002-2003) "Expected-case complexity of approximate nearest neighbor searching", SIAM Journal on Computing, 32(3):793-815.

Arya, Sunil (2002) "Binary space partitions for axis-parallel line segments: size-height tradeoffs", Information Processing Letters, 84(4): 201-206.

Brahim BENSAOU Associate Professor (2358 7014 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cs.ust.hk/~csbb)

PhD, University of Paris VI, France (1993) Senior Member of Technical Staff, Center for Wireless Communications, Singapore (1997-2000)

Current Research Activities: Computer Networks; Wireless Networks; Mobile ad-hoc networks; Sensor networks

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Joint congestion control, MAC scheduling and power control in wireless mesh networks RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$356,000 01 Sep 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Chen, Shan, Bensaou, Brahim (2007) "Can High-Speed Networks Survive with DropTail Queues Management?", Computer Networks, Vol 51, No 7, pp 1763-1776.

Zhu, Junhua, Chen, Shan, Bensaou, Brahim, Hung, Ka Lok (2007) "Tradeoff between Lifetime and Rate Allocation in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Cross Layer Approach", IEEE INFOCOM 2007, May 2007, pp 267-275, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

Zhu, Junhua, Hung, Ka Lok, Bensaou, Brahim, Nait-Abdesselam, Farid (2006) "Tradeoff Between Network Lifetime and Fair Rate Allocation in Wireless Sensor Networks with Multi-path Routing", ACM/IEEE International International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (ACM/

IEEE MSWIM), 2006, October 2006, pp 301-308, Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain.

Hei, X. J., Bensaou, B., Tsang, H. K. (2005) "Model-based End-to-End Available Bandwidth Inference using Queueing Analysis", Computer Networks available Online November 2005, Vol. 50, Issue 12, pp. 1916-1937.

Kong, Peng Yong, Chua, Kee Cahing, Bensaou, Brahim (2003-2004) "A novel scheduling scheme to share dropping ratio while guaranteeing a delay bound in a MultiCode-CDMA network", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol 11, Issue 6, PP:994-1006.

Fang, Zuyuan, Bensaou, Brahim (2003-2004) "Fair Bandwidth Sharing Algorithms based on Game Theory Frameworks for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", The 23th Conference of the IEEE Communications Society (INFOCOM).

Bensaou, Brahim, Tsang, Danny H.K., Chan, King Tung (2001-2002) "Credit-based fair queueing (CBFQ): a simple service-scheduling algorithm for packet-switched networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), 9 (5), 591 - 604.

Huang, Xiaolong, Bensaou, Brahim (2001-2002) "On max-min Fairness and Scheduling in Wireless ad-hoc networks: Analytical framework and Implementation", Proceedings of the 2001 ACM International Symposium on Mobile ad hoc Networking & Computing, Long Beach, CA, USA, 221 - 231.

Gary Shueng-Han CHAN Associate Professor (2358 6990 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cse.ust.hk/~gchan)

PhD, Stanford University (1999) Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis (1998-99)

Current Research Activities: Internet technologies; multimedia networking; video and wireless communication networks; peer-to-peer networks

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: An efficient peer-to-peer interactive movie network RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$396,000 01 Jan 2008 A unified approach for multi-hop wireless LAN RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$70,125 30 Jun 2006 SmartMesh: An intelligent wireless mesh network for a Wi-Fi city Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$1,045,300 01 Sep 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Yiu, Ken, Jin, Xing, Chan, Shueng-Han Gary (2007) "VMesh: Distributed Segment Storage for Peer-to-Peer Interactive Video Streaming", EEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) Special Issue on Advances in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems, Vol. 25, No. 9, pp. 1717-31, December 2007.

Jin, Xing, Yiu, Wai-Pun Ken, Chan, Shueng-Han Gary, Wang, Yajun (2006) "Network Topology Inference Based on End-to-End Measurements", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications special issue on Sampling the Internet, pp. 2182-2195, Vol. 24, No. 12, December 2006.

Yiu, Wai-Pun, Wong, Kin-Fung, Chan, Shueng-Han Gary, Wong, Wan-Ching, Zhang, Qian, Zhu, Wen- Wu, Zhang, Ya-Qin (2006) "Lateral Error Recovery for Media Streaming in Application-Level Multicast", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, pp. 219-232, Vol. 8, No. 2, April 2006.

Chen, Jiancong, Chan, S.-H. Gary, Li, Victor (2004) "Multipath Routing for Video Delivery over Bandwidth-Limited Networks", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications special issue on Design, Implementation and Analysis of Communication Protocols, pp. 1920-1932, Vol. 22, No. 10, December 2004.

Chen, Jiancong, Chan, S. H. Gary, Li, O. K. Victor (2003-2004) "Multipath Routing for Video Delivery over Bandwidth-Limited Networks", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications special issue on Design, Implementation and Analysis of Communication Protocols.

Chen, Jiancong, Chan, S.-H. Gary, Zhang, Qian, Zhu, Wenwu, Chen, Jin (2003) "PASA: Power Adaptation for Starvation Avoidance to Deliver Wireless Multimedia", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications special issue on Wireless Multimedia, Vol. 21, No. 10, pp. 1663-1673, December.

Lee, Tak Wan, Chan, Shueng-Han Gary, Zhang, Qian, Zhu, Wen-Wu, Zhang, Ya Qin (2002) "Allocation of Layer Bandwidths and FECs for Video Multicast over Wired and Wireless Networks", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 12, No. 12, pp. 1059-1070.

Chan, Kin Ching, Chan, Shueng-Han Gary (2002) "Distributed Servers Approach for Large-Scale Secure Multicast", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications special issue on Network Support for Multicast Communications, Vol. 20, No. 8, pp. 1500-1510.

Siu Wing CHENG Associate Professor; Associate Head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Director of Sino Software Research Institute. (2358 6973 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cs.ust.hk/faculty/scheng)

PhD, University of Minnesota (1992)

Current Research Activities: Computational geometry, mesh generation, manifold reconstruction, data structures, design and analysis of algorithms.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Deforming surface triangulations RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$396,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Cheng, Siu-Wing, Na, Hyeon-Suk, Vigneron, Antoine, Wang, Yajun (2008) "Approximate Shortest Paths in Anisotropic Regions", SIAM Journal on Computing, volume 38, 802-824.

Cheng, Siu-Wing, Dey, Tamal (2008) "Maintaining Deforming Surface Meshes", Proceedings of the 19th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 112-121.

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, Dey, Tamal K., Ramos, Edgar A. (2007) "Delaunay Refinemnt for Piecewise Smooth Complexes", Proceedings of the 18th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, Jan 7-9, 1096-1105.

Cheng, Siu-Wing, Na, Hyeon-Suk, Vigneron, Antoine, Wang, Yajun (2007) "Querying Approximate Shortest Paths in Anisotropic Regions", Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry, June 6-8, 84- 91.

Cheng, Siu-Wing, Poon, Sheung-Hung (2006) "Three-Dimensional Delaunay Mesh Generation", Discrete & Computational Geometry, 36, 419-456.

Cheng, Siu-Wing, Dey, Tamal K., Ramos, Edgar A. (2005) "Manifold Reconstruction from Point Samples", Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2005, 1018-1027.

Cheng, Siu-Wing, Dey, Tamal K., Edelsbrunner, Herbert, Facello, Michael A., Teng, Shang-Hua (2000) "Sliver Exudation", Journal of Association of Computer Machinery, 47, 883-904.

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: Context management support for ubiquitous computing RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$400,694 01 Jan 2007 RFID benchmarking: Methodology and practice Hong Kong R&D Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management Enabling Technologies Limited HK$2,218,46501 Jul 2007 & Industries Peformance Testing of RFID Embedded Systems UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$400,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Ye, Chunyang, Cheung, S.C., Chan, W.K., Xu, Chang (2007) "Detection and Resolution of Atomicity Violation in Service Composition", 6th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the 14th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2007), Dubrovnik,

Croatia, September 3-7, 2007, pp. 235-244.

Ng, T.H., Cheung, S.C., Chan, W.K., Yu, Y.T. (2007) "Do maintainers utilize deployed design patterns effectively?", 29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2007), Minneapolis, May 20-26, 2007, pp. 168- 177.

Ye, Chunyang, Cheung, S.C., Chan, W.K., Xu, Chang (2006) "Local Analysis of Atomicity Sphere for B2B Collaboration", 14th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2006), Portland, Oregon, USA, November 5-11, 2006, pp. 186-196.

Ng, T.H., Cheung, S.C., Chan, W.K., Yu, Y.T. (2006) "Work Experience versus Refactoring to Design Patterns: A Controlled Experiment", 14th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2006), Portland, Oregon, USA, November 5-11, 2006, pp. 186-196.

Xu, Chang, Cheung, S.C., Chan, W.K. (2006) "Incremental Consistency Checking for Pervasive Context", 28th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2006), Shanghai, China, May 20-28, 2006, pp. 292-301.

Ye, Chunyang, Cheung, S.C., Chan, W.K. (2006) "Publishing and Composition of Atomicity-equivalent Services for B2B Collaboration", 28th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2006), Shanghai, China, May 20-28, 2006,pp. 351-360.

Xu, Chang, Cheung, S.C. (2005) "Inconsistency Detection and Resolution for Context-Aware Middleware Support", Joint 10th European Software Engineering Conference and 13th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the

Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2005), Lisbon, Portugal, September 5-9, 2005, pp. 336-345. Cheung, S.C., Chanson, Samuel, Xu, Zhendong (2004) "Applying Generic Timing Tests for Distributed Multimedia Software Systems", IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol. 5, no.3-4, pp. 329-341.

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: 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:

Wu, Jue, Chung, Albert C. S. (2007) "A Segmentation Model Using Compound Markov Random Fields Based on a Boundary Model", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 16, No. 1, pages 241 – 252, January, 2007.

Xiang, Yang, Chung, Albert C. S., Ye, Jian (2006) "An Active Contour Model for Image Segmentation Based on Elastic Interaction", Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 219, No. 1, pages 455 – 476, November, 2006.

Yu, Simon C. H., Wong, Wilbur C. K., Chung, Albert C. S., Lee, Kwok-Tung, Wong, George K. C., Poon, Wai S. (2006) "Does Endoluminal Coil Embolization Cause Distension of Intracranial Aneurysms?", Neuroradiology, Vol. 48, No. 9, pages 653 – 660, September, 2006.

Wong, Wilbur C. K., Chung, Albert C. S. (2006) "Augmented Vessels for Quantitative Analysis of Vascular Abnormalities and Endovascular Treatment Planning", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 665- 684, 2006.

Wong, Wilbur C. K., Chung, Albert C. S. (2005) "Bayesian Image Segmentation Using Local Iso-intensity Structural Orientation", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 14, No. 10, October, 2005, pp.1512-1523.

Gan, Rui, Wong, Wilbur C. K., Chung, Albert C. S. (2005) "Statistical Cerebrovascular Segmentation in Three- Dimensional Rotational Angiography Based on Maximum Intensity Projections", Medical Physics, Vol. 32, No. 9, September, 2005, pp.3017-3028. Chung, Albert C. S., Noble, J. Alison, Summers, Paul (2004-2005) "Vascular Segmentation of Phase Contrast Magnetic Resonance Angiograms Based on Statistical Mixture Modeling and Local Phase Coherence", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 23, No. 12, pp. 1490 – 1507, December, 2004.

Chung, Albert C.S., Noble, J. Alison, Sumers, Paul (2001-2002) "Fusing Speed and Phase Information for Vascular Segmentation of Phase Contrast MR Angiograms", Medical Image Analysis, 6, 109-128.

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: Kernel-based multiple instance learning from ambiguous examples RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$396,000 01 Jan 2008 Learning in one-class support vector machines RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$82,000 01 Jan 2004

Representative Research Publications:

Tsang, Ivor, Kwok, James, Zurada, Jacek (2006) "Generalized core vector machines", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 17(5):1126-1140.

Cheung, Pak-Ming, Kwok, James (2006) "A regularization framework for multiple-instance learning", International Conference on Machine Learning. Pittsburgh, USA, 193-200. June.

Tsang, Ivor, Kwok, James (2006) "Efficient hyperkernel learning using second-order cone programming", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 17(1):48-58.

Zhang, Zhihua, Kwok, James, Yeung, Dit-Yan (2006) "Model-based transductive learning of the kernel matrix", Machine Learning, 63(1):69-101.

Mak, Brian, Kwok, James, Ho, Simon (2005) "Kernel eigenvoice speaker adaptation", IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 13(5):984-992.

Tsang, Ivor, Kwok, James, Cheung, Pak-Ming (2005) "Core vector machines: Fast SVM training on very large data sets", Journal of Machine Learning Research, 6:363-392. Kwok, James, Tsang, Ivor (2004) "The pre-image problem in kernel methods", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 15(6):1517-1525.

Li, Shutao, Kwok, James, Zhu, Hailong, Wang, Yaonan (2003-2004) "Texture classification using support vector machines", Pattern Recognition, 36(12):2883-2893.

Bo LI Associate 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: Mobile communications; video multicasting; optical lightwave networks; system performance evaluation; web caching; peer-to- peer communications.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Non-cooperative behavior and control in wireless ad hoc networks RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$696,000 01 Nov 2007 The cross-layer optimization in multihop wireless networks: rate adaptation, power control, and link scheduling RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$356,000 01 Sep 2006 Resource management in multi-services wireless cellular networks Microsoft (China) Co., Ltd. HK$300,000 01 Sep 2002 Large Scale Peer-to-Peer based Live Video Streaming over the Internet: Theory and Practice National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$791,000 15 Dec 2007 Inside the coolstreaming: design options and measurements UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$620,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Li, Bo, Xie, Susu, Qu, Yang, Keung, Yi, Liu, Jiangchuan, Lin, Chuang, Zhang, Xinyan (2008) "Inside the New Coolstreaming: Principles, Measurements and Performance Implications,”", IEEE Infocom, Phoenix, AZ, April 13-17, 2008., 1031-1039.

Liu, Jiangchuan, Rao, Sanjay, Li, Bo, Zhang, Hui (2008) "Opportunities and Challenges of Peer-to-Peer Internet Video Broadcast", Proceedings of the IEEE, 96(1):11-24, January 2008.

Long, Chengnian, Li, Bo, Zhang, Qian, Zhao, Bin, Yang, Bo, Guan, Xinping (2008) "The End-to-End Rate Control in Multiple-Hop Wireless Networks: Cross-Layer Formulation and Optimal Allocation", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Control and Communications,, 26(4):719-731, May 2008.

Li, Bo, Xie, Susu, Keung, Yi, Liu, Jiangchuan, Stocai, Ion, Zhang, Hui, Zhang, Xinyan (2007) "Inside the New Coolstreaming: Principles and Measurements", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 25(9):1-13, December 2007.

Long, Chengnian, Zhang, Qian, Li, Bo, Yang, Huilong, Guan, Xinping (2007) "Non-Cooperative Power Control for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Repeated Games", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 25(6):1101- 1112, August 2007.

Zhang, Xinyan, Liu, Jiangchuan, Li, Bo, Yum, Peter (2005) "DONet: A Data-Driven Overlay Network For Efficient Live Media Streaming", IEEE Infocom’2005, Miami, Florida, March 13-17.

Liu, Jiangchuan, Li, Bo, Zhang, Ya-Qin (2004) "An End-to-End Adaptation Protocol for Layered Video Multicast Using Optimal Rate Allocation", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, (6)7: 87-102, February.

Wu, Si, Wong, Michael, Li, Bo (2002) "A dynamic call admission control policy with precision QoS guarantee using stochastic control for mobile wireless networks", IEEE /ACM Transactions on Networking, 10, 257-271.

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: High density discrete hidden Markov modeling RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked HK$356,000 01 Sep 2006 Research Grant) A study on using kernel methods to improve speaker and noise adaptation for robust speech recognition RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked HK$355,992 01 Jan 2008 Research Grant) Kernel eigenvoice for fast speaker adaptation in automatic speech recognition RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$89,066 01 Jan 2005 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, Ng, Benny (2008) "Discriminative Training by Iterative Linear Programming Optimization", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pages 4061-4064, April, 2008, Las Vegas, USA.

Mak, Brian Kan-Wing, Hsiao, Roger Wend-Huu (2007) "Kernel Eigenspace-based MLLR Adaptation", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, volume 15, number 3, pages 784-795, March.

Mak, Brian Kan-Wing, Hsiao, Roger Wend-Huu, Ho, Simon Ka-Lung, Kwok, James T. (2006) "Embedded Kernel Eigenvoice Speaker Adaptation and its Implication to Reference Speaker Weighting", IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, volume 14, number 4, pages 1267-1280, July.

Mak, Brian, Au Yeung, S. K., Lai, Y. P., Siu, Manhung (2005) "High-density Discrete HMM with the Use of Scalar Quantization Indexing", Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology 2005, Sept, 2005, Lisbon, Portugal.

Mak, Brian, Chan, Kin Wah (2005) "Pruning Hidden Markov Models with Optimal Brain Surgeon", IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, volume 13, number 5, pages 993-1003, September, 2005.

Mak, Brian, Tam, Yik-Cheung, Li, Qi (2003-2004) "Discriminative Auditory-based Features for Robust Speech Recognition", IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, volume 12, number 1, pages 27--36.

Hsiao, Roger, Mak, Brian (2003-2004) "Discriminative Feature Transformation By Guided Discriminative Training", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, volume I, pages 897--900, May 17-21. Bocchieri, E., Mak, B. (2001) "Subspace Distribution Clustering Hidden Markov Model", IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 264-275.

Jogesh K MUPPALA Associate Professor (2358 6978 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cse.ust.hk/~muppala/)

PhD, Duke University (1991) Technical Staff, Software Productivity Consortium (1991-92)

Current Research Activities: Embedded Systems Software; High-speed networking; Performance evaluation; Stochastic Petri nets; Internet in education.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Exploiting proximity in unstructured peer-to-peer networks RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$384,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Chang, X, Muppala, J. K., Han, Z, Liu, J. (2008) "Analysis of Interrupt Coalescing Schemes for Receive-Livelock Problem in Gigabit Ethernet Network Hosts", Proc. 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications, (ICC '08), Beijing, China,, 19-23 May 2008, pp. 1835-1839.

Chang, X., Muppala, J. K., Zou, P., Li, X. (2007) "A Robust Device Hybrid Scheme to Improve System Performance in Gigabit Ethernet Networks", The 32nd Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2007), Dublin, Ireland, Oct. 2007, pp. 444-454.

Tu, W., Muppala, J. K., Zhuge, H. (2007) "Distributed End Host Multicast Algorithms for The Knowledge Grid", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 19, No. 15, Oct. 2007, pp. 2013-2029.

Muppala, J. K., Chan, K. K. (2007) "Podcasting and Its Use in Enhancing Course Content", IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2007), Beijing, China, Oct. 2007, pp. 492-495.

Chang, Xiaolin, Muppala, Jogesh K. (2006) "A Stable Queue-based Adaptive Controller for Improving AQM Performance", Computer Networks, Vol 50, No. 13, 2006, pp 2204-2224.

Chang, Xiaolin, Muppala, Jogesh K. (2006) "The Effects of AQM on the Performance of Assured Forwarding Service", Computer Communications, Vol. 29, No. 12, 2006, pp 2294-2307.

Zhang, Lei, Muppala, Jogesh K., Chanson, Samuel T. (2006) "Integrated Location Management and Location- Aided Routing System for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 66, No. 3, 2006, pp 367-378.

Chang, Xiaolin, Muppala, Jogesh K. (2005) "On Improving Bandwidth Assurance in AF-based DiffServ Networks Using a Control Theoretic Approach", Computer Networks, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 816-839.

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.

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.cs.ust.hk/~taicl/)

PhD, University of Tokyo (1997)

Current Research Activities: Geometric modeling; computer graphics; interpretation of architectural drawings.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Fast algorithms for differential mesh editing RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$411,950 01 Sep 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Liu, Ligang, Tai, Chiew-Lan, Ji, Zhongping, Wang, Guojin (2007) "Non-iterative linear approach for global mesh optimization", Computer-Aided Design, 39(9), 772-782, 2007.

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.

Lu, Tong, Tai, Chiew-Lan, Su, Feng, Cai, Shijie (2005) "A new recognition model for electronic architectural drawings", Computer Aided Design, 37(10): 1053-1069.

Chu, Nelson Siu Hang, Tai, Chiew-Lan (2004) " Real-time painting with an expressive virtual Chinese brush", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 24(5):76-85.

Au, Oscar Kin-Chung, Tai, Chiew-Lan (2004) "Sampling-sensitive multiresolution hierarchy for irregular meshes", Visual Computer, 20(7): 479-493,.

Chi-Keung TANG Associate 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: Dense photometric stereo: research and application RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$356,000 01 Nov 2006 Shadow extraction: Research and applications RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$560,000 31 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Jia, Jiaya, Tang, Chi-Keung (2008) "Image Stitching Using Structure Deformation", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), vol. 29, no. 4, April 2008.

Wu, Tai-Pang, Tang, Chi-Keung, Brown, Michael, Shum, Heung-Yeung (2007) "ShapePalettes: Interactive Normal Transfer via Sketching", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), vol. 26, no. 3, article 44.

Wu, Tai-Pang, Tang, Chi-Keung, Brown, Michael S., Shum, Heung-Yeung (2007) "Natural Shadow Matting", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), vol 26, no. 2, article 8.

Wu, Tai-Pang, Tang, Kam-Lun, Tang, Chi-Keung, Wong, Tien-Tsin (2006) "Dense Photometric Stereo: a Markov Random Field Approach", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI),, vol. 28, no. 11, pp1830 - 1846.

Jia, Jiaya, Sun, Jian, Tang, Chi-Keung, Shum, Heung-Yeung (2006) "Drag-and-Drop Pasting", ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol 25, no.3, pp 631 - 637.

Li, Yin, Sun, Jian, Tang, Chi-Keung, Shum, Heung-Yeung (2004) "Lazy Snapping", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) special issue: Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, vol. 23, no. 3, July 2004, pages 303-308.

Sun, Jian, Jia, Jiaya, Tang, Chi-Keung, Shum, Heung-Yeung (2004) "Poisson Matting", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) special issue: Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, vol. 23, no. 3, pages 315-321, July 2004.

Jia, Jiaya, Tang, Chi Keung (2003-2004) "Inference of Segmented Color and Texture Information by Tensor Voting", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 26. no. 6, June 2004, pp. 771-786.

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.

Representative Research Publications:

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, Carpuat, Marine, Shen, Yihai (2006) "Inversion Transduction Grammar Coverage of Arabic-English Word Alignment for Tree-Structured Statistical Machine Translation", IEEE/ACL 2006 Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2006), Aruba, Dec 2006.

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.

Wu, Dekai, Ngai, Grace, Carpuat, Marine (2004-2005) "Why Nitpicking Works: Evidence for Occam's Razor in Error Correctors", 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2004). Geneva, Aug 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.

Lianwen (Nevin) ZHANG Associate 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: Scaling up the induction of hierarchical latent class models RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$418,000 01 Jul 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Zhang, Nevin L., Kocka, Tomas (2004) "Effective Dimensions of Hierarchical Latent Class Models", Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 21, pages 1-17.

Poole, David, Zhang, Nevin L. (2003) "Exploiting Contextual Independence In Probabilistic Inference", Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, v. 18, pp 263-313.

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: Network-coding assisted cooperative wireless networking RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$396,000 01 Sep 2007 Critical technologies for seamless smart digital homes Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$2,705,80001 Apr 2007 Collaborative and cognitive networking Microsoft Research Asia HK$240,000 01 May 2006 Resource management for cognitive collaborative network-based self-organized wireless network Ministry of Science and Technology HK$934,500 01 Dec 2006 Computer network and distributed computing system National Science Foundation of China HK$373,800 01 Jan 2007 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 Cognitive networking for spectrum management in open spectrum UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$620,000 20 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Qian, Zhang, Qing, Chen, Fan, Yang, Zhisheng, Niu (2007) "Cooperative and Opportunistic Transmission for IEEE 802.11- based Ad Hoc Networks", IEEE Networks, Jan./Feb. 2007.

Huicheng, Chi, Qian, Zhang, Juncheng, Jia, Xuemin, Shen (2007) "Efficient Search and Scheduling in P2P-based Media-on-demand Streaming Service", IEEE Journal of Selective Areas on Communications, Jan. 2007.

Cong, Peng, Qian, Zhang, M., Zhao, Y., Yao (2007) "On the Performance Analysis of Network-Coded Cooperation in Wireless Networks", IEEE Infocom, 2007.

Haitao, Wu, Yunxin, Liu, Qian, Zhang, Zhi-Li, Zhang (2007) "SoftMAC: Layer 2.5 Collaborative MAC for Multimedia support in Multi-hop Wireless Networks", IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, Vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 12-25, Jan. 2007.

Haitao, Wu, Fan, Yang, Kun, Tan, Jie, Chen, Qian, Zhang, Zhensheng, Zhang (2006) "Distributed Channel Assignment and Routing in Multi-radio Multi-channel Multi-hop Wireless Networks", IEEE Journal of Selective Area on Communications, Volume: 24, Issue: 11, page(s): 1972-1983, Nov. 2006.

Wu, Qi, Xiong, Yongqiang, Zhang, Qian, Guo, Zihua, Xia, Xiang-Gen, Li, Zhongcheng (2006) "Joint routing and topology formation in multihop UWB networks", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Volume 24, Issue 4, Part 1, April 2006 Page(s):843 - 849.

Guo, Chuanxiong, Wu, Haitao, Tan, Kun, Zhang, Qian, Song, Jingmin, Zhou, Junfeng, Huitema, Christian, Zhu, Wenwu (2005) "End-system-based mobility support in IPv6", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Volume 23, Issue 11, Nov. 2005 Page(s):2104 - 2117.

Tian, Ruixiong, Zhang, Qian, Xiang, Zhe, Xiong, Yongqiang, Li, Xing, Zhu, Wenwu (2005) "Robust and efficient path diversity in application-layer multicast for video streaming", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Volume 15, Issue 8, Aug. 2005 Page(s):961 - 972.

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: Monitoring stream time series data RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$396,000 01 Sep 2007 NDWIRS: A near-duplicate web image retrieval system Microsoft Research Asia HK$120,000 01 May 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Lian, Xiang, Chen, Lei (2007) "A General Cost Model for Dimensionality Reduction in High Dimensional Spaces", 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'07), 2007., Istanbul, Turkey, April 15-20, 2007.

Zhuang, Yongzhen, Chen, Lei, Wang, Sean, Lian, Jie (2007) "A Weighted Moving Average-based Approach for Cleaning Sensor Data", 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'07), 2007, Toronto, Canada, June 25-29,2007.

Li, Mo, Liu, Yunhao, Chen, Lei (2007) "Non-Threshold based Event Detection for 3D Environment Monitoring in Sensor Networks", 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'07), 2007., Toronto, Canada, June 25-29, 2007.

Lian, Xiang, Chen, Lei, Yu, Jeffrey Xu, Wang, Guoren, Yu, Ge (2007) "Similarity Match Over High Speed Time-Series Streams", 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'07), 2007., Istanbul, Turkey, April 15-20, 2007.

Lian, Jie, Chen, Lei, Naik, Kshirasagar, Ozsu, Tamer, Agnew, Gordon (2006) "BBS: An Energy-efficient Localized Routing Scheme for Query Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks", International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2, (1), 23--54.

Xue, Wenwei, Luo, Qiong, Chen, Lei, Liu, Yunhao (2006) "Contour Map Matching For Event Detection in Sensor Networks", ACM International Conference on Management of Data, 2006.

Lian, Xiang, Chen, Lei (2006) "Similarity Search in Future Stream Time Series", International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, 2006.

Chi Wing FU Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 6991 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cs.ust.hk/~cwfu)

PhD, Indiana University

Current Research Activities: Texture synthesis, Tile-based modeling and rendering, Image-based relighting, Large-scale astronomical visualization

Representative Research Publications:

Leung, Man-Kang, Fu, Chi-Wing (2008) "A User Interface Design for Acquiring Statistics from Video", International Journal of Image and Graphics (IJIG), to appear.

Lo, Kui-Yip, Li, Hongwei, Fu, Chi-Wing, Wong, Tien-Tsin (2007) "Interactive Reaction-Diffusion on Surface Tiles", Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2007, Maul, Hawaii, pp. 65-74, Nov. 2007.

Kopf, Johannes, Fu, Chi-Wing, Cohen-Or, Daniel, Deussen, Oliver, Lischinski, Dani, Wong, Tien-Tsin (2007) "Solid Texture Synthesis from 2D Exemplars", ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2007) (TOG), Vol. 26, No. 3, Article No. 2.

Leung, Man-Kang, Pang, Wai-Man, Fu, Chi-Wing, Wong, Tien-Tsin, Heng, Pheng-Ann (2007) "Tileable BTF", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 953-955.

Li, Hongwei, Fu, Chi-Wing, Li, Yinggang, Hanson, Andrew (2007) "Visualizing Large-Scale Uncertainty in Astrophysical Data", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 1640-1647.

Fu, Chi Wing, Hanson, Andrew (2007) "A Transparently Scalable Visualization Architecture for Exploring the Universe", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 1, January/February 2007, pp. 108-121.

Li, YingGang, Fu, Chi Wing, Hanson, Andrew (2006) "Scalable WIM: Effective Exploration in Large-scale Astrophysical Environments", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2006), Volume 12, No 5, pp. 1005-1011.

Fu, Chi-Wing, Leung, Man-Kang (2005) "Texture Tiling on Arbitrary Topological Surfaces using Wang Tiles", Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2005, June 29 - July 1, 2005, pp. 99-104.

Lin GU Assistant Professor ([email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Zonghua GU Assistant Professor ([email protected])

Current Research Activities: Real-time embedded systems

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: An integrated framework for design, implementation synthesis and runtime adaptation of component-based real-time embedded software RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$356,000 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Gu, Zonghua, Shin, Kang (2005) "Synthesis of Real-Time Implementations from Component-Based Software Models", IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2005), pp. 167 – 176.

Xin LI Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 6972 ; [email protected])

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

Current Research Activities: Router design; switch scheduling; routing; traffic management; quality of service guarantees; VLSI/circuit design; optical networks.

Yunhao LIU Assistant Professor (2358 7019 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cse.ust.hk/~liu/)

PhD, Michigan State University (2004)

Current Research Activities: Pervasive Computing; Sensor Networks; Peer-to-Peer Computing; Security

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Defending against flooding-based overlay DDoS in unstructured peer-to-peer systems RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$256,000 01 Sep 2006 Effective and efficient environment monitoring in wireless sensor networks RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$489,445 01 Sep 2007 Trustworthy RFID technologies: Methodology and practice Hong Kong R&D Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management Enabling Technologies HK$4,456,52501 Apr 2008 Limited & Industries Trustworthy and efficient distributed systems Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. HK$300,000 10 Dec 2007 Trustworthy distributed computing Microsoft Research Asia HK$470,000 01 Jul 2005 Security studies in distributed environments University of Electronic Science and Technology of China HK$46,800 30 Oct 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Dong, Dezun, Liu, Yunhao, Liao, Xiangke (2008) "Self-Monitoring for Sensor Networks'", ACM MobiHoc (2008), Hong Kong, May 27-30, 2008.

Oleszkiewicz, John, Xiao, Li, Liu, Yunhao (2006) "Effectively Utilizing Global Cluster Memory for Large Data-Intensive Parallel Programs", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 17, No. 1, January 2006, Pages 66- 77.

Xiao, Li, Zhuang, Zhenyun, Liu, Yunhao (2005) "Dynamic Layer Management in Super-peer Architectures", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 16, No. 11, November 2005, Pages 1078-1091.

Xiao, Li, Liu, Yunhao, Ni, Lionel M (2005) "Improving Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems by Adaptive Connection Establishment", IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 54, No. 9, September 2005, Pages 1091-1103.

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.

Qiong LUO Assistant 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: Cache-oblivious relational query processing RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$356,000 01 Sep 2006 Scheduling and routing for query processing in sensor networks RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$696,000 01 Jan 2008 WinyDB: An embedded query processor for sensor networks Microsoft (China) Co., Ltd. HK$156,000 01 May 2004

Representative Research Publications:

He, Bingsheng, Luo, Qiong (2008) "Cache-Oblivious Databases: Limitations and Opportunities", ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2008.

Luo, Qiong, Naughton, Jeffrey F., Xue, Wenwei (2008) "Form-Based Proxy Caching for Database-Backed Web Sites: Keywords and Functions", The VLDB Journal, Volume 17, Number 3, May, 2008: pp 489-513.

He, Bingsheng, Yang, Ke, Fang, Rui, Lu, Mian, Govindaraju, Naga K., Luo, Qiong, Sander, Pedro V. (2008) "Relational Joins on Graphics Processors", ACM SIGMOD Conference, Vancouver, Canada, Jun 9-12, 2008: pp. 511-524.

He, Bingsheng, Govindaraju, Naga K., Luo, Qiong, Smith, Burton (2007) "Efficient Gather and Scatter on Graphics Processors", ACM/IEEE 20th International Conference on High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC), Reno, Nevada, USA, Nov 10-16, 2007.

Wu, Hejun, Luo, Qiong, Zheng, Pei, Ni, Lionel M. (2007) "VMNet: Realistic Emulation of Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Volume 18, Number 2: 277-288, Feb 2007.

He, Bingsheng, Luo, Qiong, Choi, Byron (2006) "Cache-Conscious Automata for XML Filtering", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Vol. 18, No. 12, pp. 1629-1644, December 2006.

Xue, Wenwei, Luo, Qiong, Chen, Lei, Liu, Yunhao (2006) "Contour Map Matching for Event Detection in Sensor Networks", ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'06), Chicago, Illinois, USA,, June 26-29, 2006.

Wu, Hejun, Luo, Qiong, Xue, Wenwei (2006) "Distributed Cross-Layer Scheduling for In-Network Sensor Query Processing", the 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PERCOM'06), Pisa, Italy, March 13-17, 2006, pp 180-189.

Wilfred Siu Hung NG Assistant Professor (2358 6979 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cse.ust.hk/~wilfred)

PhD, University of London (1997)

Current Research Activities: Semantic Data Modeling; Data Warehousing; Web Data Mining; Web Searching; Temporal databases; XML Databases; XML Data Compression.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Query processing on compressed XML data RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$89,066 01 Jan 2005

Representative Research Publications:

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 (2007) "Effective Elimination of Redundant Association Rules", An International Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.

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.

Yiping, Ke, Lin, Deng, Ng, Wilfred, Lee, Dik-Lun (2005) "Web Dynamics and their Ramifications for the Development of Web Search Engines.", Computer Networks Journal, Vol 50, pp. 1430-1447.

Ng, Wilfred (2001-2002) "An Extension of the Relational Data Model to Incorporate Ordered Domains", ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 26(3), 344-383.

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: Sample-Based Pervasive Visualization RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$486,000 01 Sep 2005 Scalable visual metaphors for network visualization RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$356,000 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Wu, Yingcai, Xu, Anbang, Chan, Ming-Yuen, Qu, Huamin, Guo, Ping (2007) "Palette-Style Volume Visualization", IEEE/EG International Symposium on Volume Graphics, pp. 33 - 40.

Chan, Ming-Yuen, Wu, Yingcai, Qu, Huamin (2007) "Quality Enhancement of Direct Volume Rendered Images", IEEE/EG International Symposium on Volume Graphics, pp. 25 - 32.

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, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 1408 – 1415.

Qu, Huamin, Zhou, Hong, Wu, Yingcai (2006) "Controllable and Progressive Edge Clustering for Large Networks", 14th International Symposium on Graph Drawing 2006, Karlsruhe, Germany, pages 399 - 404.

Wu, Yingcai, Qu, Huamin, Zhou, Hong, Chan, Ming-Yuen (2006) "Focus + Context Visualization with Animation", First Pacific Rim Symposium on Video and Technology, PSIVT 2006, Hsingchu, Taiwan, page 1293-1302.

Wu, Yingcai, Qu, Huamin, Zhou, Hong, Chan, Ming-Yuen (2006) "Fusing Features in Direct Volume Rendered Images", International Symposium on Visual Computing, Lake Tahoe, NV, USA, pages 272-282.

Tang, Ying, Qu, Huamin, Wu, Yingcai, Zhou, Hong (2006) "Natural Textures for Weather Data Visualization", 10th International Conference on Information Visualisation, London, UK, pages 741-750.

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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Adaptation of the eToken system for moodle The University of Hong Kong HK$65,000 01 Jul 2007 Enhancing learning through online audio communication Teaching Development Grants and Others HK$767,000 01 Aug 2002

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.

Rossiter, David, Lam, Gibson (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:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Reprojection caching: A general framework for improving real-time rendering efficiency RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$558,000 01 Jul 2007 Interactive triangle order optimization RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Jan 2007 Harnessing the power of graphics processing unit UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$351,500 30 Jun 2007

Ke YI Assistant Professor (2358 8770 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Top-k queries in uncertain databases RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 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:

Cormode, Graham, Muthukrishnan, S., Yi, Ke (2008) "Algorithms for Distributed Functional Monitoring", ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), pages 1076-1085, January 2008.

Zhang, Qin, Li, Feifei, Yi, Ke (2008) "Finding Frequent Items in Probabilistic Data", ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pages 819-832, June 2008.

Yi, Ke, Li, Feifei, Hadjieleftheriou, Marios, Kollios, George, Srivastava, Divesh (2008) "Randomized Synopses for Query Assurance on Data Streams", International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pages 416-425, Cancun, Mexico, April 2008.

Arge, Lars, de Berg, Mark, Haverkort, Herman, Yi, Ke (2008) "The Priority R-Tree: A Practically Efficient and Worst-Case Optimal R-Tree", ACM Transactions on Algorithms, 4(1), March 2008.

Streppel, Micha, Yi, Ke (2007) "Approximate Range Searching in External Memory", International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC), pages 536-548, Sendai, Japan, December 2007.

Chen, Jiang, Yi, Ke (2007) "Dynamic Structures for Top-k Queries on Uncertain Data", International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC), pages 427-438, December 2007.

Li, Feifei, Yi, Ke, Hadjieleftheriou, Marios, Kollios, George (2007) "Proof-Infused Streams: Enabling Authentication of Sliding Window Queries on Streams", International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), pages 147-158, Vienna, Austria, September 2007.

Danner, Andrew, Moelhave, Thomas, Yi, Ke, Agarwal, Pankaj, Arge, Lars, Mitasova, Helena (2007) "TerraStream: From Elevation Data to Watershed Hierarchies", ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS), November 2007.

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

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The architectural adaptation of large infrastructure software systems to usage contexts RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Feb 2008 Empirical software engineering techniques in infrastructural software and embedded systems UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$351,500 02 Jan 2008

Zhen ZHOU Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 6992 ; [email protected])

PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2007)

Current Research Activities:

Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering

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

Xiren CAO, Chair Professor

Philip C H CHAN, Chair Professor and Dean of Engineering; Director, Microelectronics Fabrication Facility

Hoi Sing KWOK, Chair Professor and Director, Center for Display Research

Kei May LAU, Chair Professor and Director, Photonics Technology Center

Man Sun CHAN, Professor; Director of EEE Department Undergraduate Study Program; Deputy Director of Micro-Fabrication Facility

Vladimir G CHIGRINOV, Professor

Ping Keung KO, Professor

Chin Tau LEA, Professor

Zexiang LI, Professor

Howard C LUONG, Professor

Ross D MURCH, Professor

Li QIU, 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

Jianquan YAO, Adjunct Professor

Oscar C L AU, Associate Professor; Director, Computer Engineer; Director, Multimedia Technology Research Center

Amine BERMAK, Associate Professor Kevin J CHEN, Associate Professor

Roger S K CHENG, 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

Andrew Wing On POON, Associate Professor

Jianan QU, Associate Professor

Chi Ying TSUI, Associate Professor

Albert Kai Sun WONG, Visiting Associate Professor

Bing ZENG, Associate Professor

Jack LAU, Adjunct Associate Professor

Matthew R MCKAY, Assistant Professor

Daniel PEREZ PALOMAR, Assistant Professor

Kam Tim WOO, Visiting Assistant Professor

Jiang XU, Assistant Professor

Weichuan YU, Assistant Professor

Jie YUAN, Assistant Professor

Pengcheng SHI, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Man Hung SIU, Adjunct Assistant Professor Khaled BEN LETAIEF Professor and Department Head; Director, HK Telecom Institute of IT and Center for Wireless IT (2358 7064 ; [email protected])

PhD, Purdue University (1990) Assistant Professor, University of Melbourne (1990-93)

Current Research Activities: Mobile communications; OFDM; space-time processing; broadband wireless networks; multiuser detection; wireless multimedia; CDMA systems.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Traffic scheduling and rate adaptation for IEEE 802.11n MIMO wireless networks RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked HK$369,600 01 Jan 2008 Research Grant) Cooperative diversity for ad-hoc wireless networks RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked HK$960,048 01 Jan 2007 Research Grant) Making Hong Kong a high-technology leader in wireless communications product innovations and services through world-class fundamental and applied research UGC - Targets of Opportunity and Others HK$2,500,000 12 May 2007 Wireless IC System Design Center Nansha Research Centers HK$8,876,000 01 Jul 2006 Cooperation and cross-layer design in cognitive radio systems National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint HK$500,500 30 Apr 2007 Research Scheme

Representative Research Publications:

Zhang, Jingyao, Cai, Kai, Letaief, Khaled Ben, Fan, Pingyi (2007) "A network coding unicast strategy for wireless multi-hop networks", in Proc. IEEE International Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2007), Hong Kong, Mar. 11-15, 2007.

Zhang, Wei, Letaief, Khaled Ben (2007) "A systematic design of multiuser space-frequency codes for MIMO-OFDM systems", Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2007), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, June 24-28, 2007.

Lo, Ernest S., Chan, Peter W. C., Lau, Vincent K. N., Cheng, Roger S., Letaief, Khaled Ben, Murch, Ross D., Mow, Wai Ho (2007) "Adaptive resource allocation and capacity comparison of downlink multiuser MIMO-MC-CDMA and MIMO-OFDMA", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 1083- 1093, March 2007.

Zhang, Wei, Letaief, Khaled Ben, Xia, Xiang-Gen, Wu, May, Zhu, Wenwu (2007) "Advances in space-time/frequency coding for next generation broadband wireless communications", Proc. IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS 2007), Long Beach, CA, USA,, Jan. 9-11, 2007.

Sun, Chunhua, Zhang, Wei, Letaief, Khaled Ben (2007) "Cluster-based cooperative spectrum sensing for cognitive radio systems", Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2007), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, June 24-28, 2007.

Lo, Ernest S., Letaief, Khaled Ben (2007) "Cooperative concatenated coding for wireless systems", Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2007), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, June 24-28, 2007.

Sun, Chunhua, Zhang, Wei, Letaief, Khaled Ben (2007) "Cooperative spectrum sensing for cognitive radios under bandwidth constraints", in Proc. IEEE International Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2007), Hong Kong, Mar. 11-15, 2007.

Huang, Weilan, Letaief, Khaled Ben (2007) "Cross-layer scheduling and power control combined with adaptive modulation for wireless ad-hoc networks", IEEE Transaction on Communications, vol. 55, no. 4, Apr. 2007.

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: Optimal Control of Stochstic Dynamic Systems with performance Potentials RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$538,836 01 Jan 2006 Policy iteration and aggregation method in optimization of queueing systems RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$418,000 01 Jan 2008 Stochastic control with Lebesgue sampling RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$534,000 31 Dec 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Cao, Xi-Ren (2008) "Event-Based Optimization of Markov Systems", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Cao, Xi-Ren (2008) "Policy Iteration Based Feedback Control", Automatica, Vol. 44, 1055-1061. Cao, Xi-Ren (2008) "The nth-Order Bias Optimality for Multi-chain Markov Decision Processes", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 53, 496-508.

Cao, Xi-Ren (2007) Stochastic Learning and Optimization - A Sensitivity-Based Approach, Springer, New York.

Cao, Xi-Ren (2007) "Time Aggregation Based Optimal Control and Lebesgue Sampling", Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, USA, 5904-5909, Dec. 12-14, 2007.

Cao, Xi-Ren, Guo, Xianping (2007) "Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes with Reward Information: Basic Ideas and Models", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 52, 677-681, 2007.

Li, Xia, Cao, Xi-Ren (2006) "Aggregation of Perturbation Realization Factors and Service Rate-Based Policy Iteration for Queueing Systems", the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Proceedings, 1063-1068, December 13- 15, 2006.

Cao, Fang, Cao, Xi-Ren (2006) "Constructing Performance Sensitivities with Sample Paths in Continuous-Time Markov Systems", the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Proceedings, 1069-1074, December 13-15, 2006.

Philip C H CHAN Chair Professor and Dean of Engineering; Director, Microelectronics Fabrication Facility (2358 6952 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1978) Program Manager, Technology Development (1981-90) and Principal Engineer, Design Technology (1990-91), Intel Corporation

Current Research Activities: VLSI devices, circuits and systems; microelectronics; electronic packaging; integrated sensors.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The investigation of carbon nanotube as the filling material for integrated circuit contacts and vias RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$603,756 01 Jan 2006 Carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNFET) with parallel aligned carbon nanotube channels RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$789,782 01 Jan 2008 Investigation of carbon nanotube as the filling material for integrated circuit contacts and vias CAS-Croucher Funding Scheme for Joint Laboratories HK$560,000 01 Sep 2006 Investigation of carbon nanotube as the filling material for integrated circuit contacts and vias HKUST Matching Funds HK$140,000 01 Sep 2006 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 Start up fund for new faculty in engineering UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$1,056,000 29 Jun 2007 Electronics, wireless and information technology UGC - Strategic Initiatives HK$8,100,000 05 May 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Chan, Philip C.H., Chan, Mansun, Gong, Jingfeng (2008) "An Explicit Surface-Potential-Based Model for Undoped Double-Gate MOSFETs", Solid-State Electronics, Vol 52, pp. 282-288.

Chan, Philip C.H., Yuen, Matthew M.F., Zhang, Kai, Chai, Yang, Xiao, G.W. (2008) "Carbon Nanotube Thermal Interface Material for High-Brightness Light-Emitting-Diode Cooling", Nanotechnology, Vol 19, pp. 1-8, 2008.

Chan, Philip C.H., Bermak, Amine, Guo, Bin, YAN, Guizhen (2008) "Characterization of Integrated Tin Oxide Gas Sensors with Metal Additives and Ion Implantations", IEEE Sensors Journal, 2008.

Chan, Philip C.H., Chai, Yang, FU, Yunyi, ZHUANG, Zhuoqun, LIU, Chengyi (2008) "Copper/Carbon Nanotube Composite Interconnects for Enhanced Electromigration Resistance", 58th ECTC, Orlando, USA, pp. 412-420, June 2008.

Chan, Philip C.H., Gong, Jingfeng (2008) "Linearity Study of Multiple Independent Gate Field Effect Transistor (MIGFET) under Symmetric and Asymmetric Operations", Solid-State Electronics, Vol 52, pp. 259-263, February 2008.

Chan, Philip C.H., Hsing, I-Ming, Xiao, Zhiyong, Feng, Chunhua (2008) "Monolithically Integrated Planar Micro Fuel Cell Arrays", Sensors and Actuators B, Vol 132, pp. 576-586, 2008.

Chan, Philip C.H., Guo, Bin, Bermak, Amine (2007) "An Integrated Surface Micromacined Convex Microplate Structure for Tin Oxide Gas Sensor Array", IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol 7, No. 12, pp. 1720-1726, December 2007.

Chan, Philip C.H., Yuen, Matthew M.F., Chai, Yang, Gong, Jingfeng, Zhang, Kai (2007) "Flexible Transfer of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Films for Integration at Lower Temperature", Nanotechnology, vol 18, pp. 35-39, 7 August 2007.

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: Liquid crystal display without color filters RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,541,800 01 Sep 2007 Carbon-rich metal-containing molecular and nano-scale functional materials RGC - Collaborative Research Fund (formerly known as Central Allocation) HK$430,000 01 Mar 2006 Next generation display technology Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited & Industries HK$8,474,500 23 Apr 2008 Active matrix organic light emitting diode displays Ministry of Science and Technology HK$1,066,337 01 Mar 2003

Representative Research Publications:

Zhang, B, Meng, Z G, Zhao, S Y, Wong, Man, Kwok, H S (2007) "Polysilicon Thin-Film Transistors With Uniform and Reliable Performance Using Solution-Based Metal-Induced Crystallization", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol 54, pp 1244-1248, 2007.

Tang, S T, Kwok, H S (2006) "Characteristics of Liquid Crystal Cells and Their Measurements", IEEE Journal of Display Technology, vol 2, pp 26-31, 2006.

Peng, H J, Zhu, X L, Sun, J X, Yu, X M, Wong, M, Kwok, H S (2006) "Efficiency improvement of phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes using semitransparent Ag as anode", Applied Physics Letters, pp.033509, 2006.

Yu, X J, Kwok, H S (2006) "Fast response film-compensated liquid crystal on silicon display", Applied Physics Letters, vol 89, pp 031104-6, 2006.

Yeung, F S Y, Kwok, H S (2006) "Fast-response no-bias-bend liquid crystal displays using nanostructured surfaces", Applied Physics Letters, vol. 88, pp. 063505, 2006.

Yeung, F S Y, LI, Y W, Kwok, H S (2006) "Pi-cell liquid crystal displays at arbitrary pretilt angles", Applied Physics Letters, vol. 88, pp. 041108, 2006.

Meng, Z G, Zhou, S Y, Wu, C Y, Zhang, B, Wong, Man, Kwok, H S (2006) "Polycrystalline silicon films and thin film transistors using solution based metal induced crystallization", IEEE Journal of Display Technology, vol 2, pp 265-273, 2006.

Yeung, F S Y, HO, J Y L, LI, Y W (2006) "Variable liquid crystal pretilt angles by nanostructured surfaces", Applied Physics Letters, vol. 88, pp. 051910, 2006.

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: GaAs-based transistors grown on si substrates by MOCVD for III-V-IV integration RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$356,400 01 Aug 2007 Metamorphic InP-based devices on gaas substrates by MOCVD RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$816,750 01 Oct 2006 III-Nitride LEDs Grown on Si Substrates by MOCVD RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,341,680 01 Jan 2006 Integrated III-nitride transistors and microsensors RGC - Collaborative Research Fund - Seed Funding HK$250,000 21 Jun 2007 Integrated III-nitride transistors and microsensors RGC - Collaborative Research Fund (formerly known as Central Allocation) HK$4,900,000 30 Jun 2008 Investigation of growth methods of GaN based LED Wafers Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$2,184,600 01 May 2008 LED arrays on silicon substrates by flip-chip technology Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited & Industries HK$4,005,100 01 Jul 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Chong, Wing Cheung, Lau, Kei May (2007) "Comparison of NiAu, ITO, and ATO-based current spreading layers for near-ultraviolet light-emitting diodes", Phys. Sta. Sol., (c)4, pp. 2646 -2649, 2007.

Zhang, Bao Shun, Liang, Hu, Wang, Y, Feng, Zhi Hong, Ng, Kar Wei, Lau, Kei May (2007) "High- performance III-nitride blue LEDs grown and fabricated on patterned Si substrates", Journal of Crystal Growth, vol. 298, pp. 725-730, 2007.

Zhou, W, Tang, Chak Wah, Zhu, Jia, Lau, Kei May, Zeng, Y, Liu, H G, Tao, N G, Bolognesi, C R (2007) "Metamorphic Heterostructure InP/GaAsSb/InP HBTs on GaAs Substrates by MOCVD", IEEE Electron Device Lett, Vol. 28, No. 7, pp. 539-542.

Cai, Y, Zhou, Y G, Lau, Kei May, Chen, Kevin Jing (2006) "Control of Threshold Voltage of A1GaN/GaN HEMTs by Fluoride-based Plasma Treatment: From Depletion mode to Enhancement Mode", IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, Vol. 53, pp. 2207-2215, Sept 2006.

Feng, ZhiHong, Lau, Kei May (2006) "Enhanced Performance of AlGaN-GaN HEMTs Grown on Grooved Sapphire Substrates", IEEE Electron Device Lett, vol. 26, pp.870-872, Dec. 2005.

Feng, ZhiHong, Cai, Shujin, Chen, Kevin Jing, Lau, Kei May (2006) "Isoelectronic indium-surfactant-doped Al0.3Ga0.7N/GaN high electron mobility transistors", Appl. Phys. Lett, vol. 88, 122113, 2006.

Cai, Yong, Zhou, Yu Gang, Chen, Kevin Jing, Lau, Kei May (2005) "High-Performance Enhancement-Mode AlGaN/GaN HEMTs Using Fluoride-based Plasma Treatment", IEEE Electron Device Lett, vol. 26, pp.435-437, 2005.

Qi, YuDong, Liang, Hu, Tang, Wilson C W, Lu, Z Dong, Lau, Kei May (2005) "Dual wavelength emission InGaN/ GaN multi-quantum well LEDs grown by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy", J. of Crystal Growth, 2004, vol. 272/1-4 pp. 333-340.

Man Sun CHAN Professor; Director of EEE Department Undergraduate Study Program; Deputy Director of Micro- Fabrication Facility (2358 8519 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ece.ust.hk/~mchan)

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1995)

Current Research Activities: Nanometric device physics; SOI technology for high-speed circuits; compact device modeling (BSIM); automated device characterization systems; biosensors; RF circuits; multimedia applications.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Micro-Electro-Array Technology for Cell Level Biological Signal Processing RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive HK$1,021,841 01 Dec 2005 Earmarked Research Grant) Silicon nanowire transistor fabrication and modeling RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive HK$996,300 01 Sep 2007 Earmarked Research Grant) 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$4,374 01 Jul 2006 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$652,800 01 Oct 2005

Representative Research Publications:

Wu, Wen, Chan, Mansun (2007) "Analysis of Geometry-dependent Parasitics in Multi-Fin Double-Gate FinFETs", IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, Vol. 54, No. 4, pp. 692-698.

Lin, Xinnan, Zhang, Shengdong, Wu, Xusheng, Chan, Mansun (2006) "Local Clustering 3-D Stacked CMOS Technology for Interconnect Loading Reduction", IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 1405-1410, June 2006.

Lin, Xinnan, Chan, Mansun (2005) "A Highly Scalable Opposite Side Floating-Gate Flash Memory Cell", IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, Vol. 52, No. 9, pp. 2042-2045, September 2005.

Wu, Wen, Lam, Sang, Chan, Mansun (2005) "Effects of Layout Methods of RF CMOS on Noise Performance", IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, Vol. 52, No. 12, pp. 2753-2759, December 2005.

Xu, Chen, Shen, Cao, Wu, Wen, Chan, Mansun (2005) "Backside-Illuminated Lateral PIN Photodiode for CMOS Image Sensor on SOS Substrate", IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, Vol. 52, No. 6, pp. 1110 - 1115.

Cheng, Chun Fai, Jagar, Singh, Poon, M C, Kok, C W, Chan, Mansun (2004) "A Statistical Model to Predict the Performance Variation of Polysilicon TFTs Formed by Grain-Enhancement Technology", IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, Vol. 51, No. 12, pp. 2061 - 2068.

Zhang, Zhikuan, Zhang, Shengdong, Feng, Chuguang, Chan, Mansun (2004) "Analysis and Optimization of SDOI Structure to Maximize the Intrinsic Performance of Extremely Scaled MOSFETs", IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, Vol. 51, No. 7, pp. 1095-1100.

Chan, Alain Chun Keung, Man, Tsz Yin, He, Jin, Yuen, Kam Hung, Lee, Wai-Kit, Chan, Mansun (2004) "SOI Flash Memory Scaling Limit and Design Consideration Based on 2-D Analytical Modeling", IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, Vol. 51, No. 12, pp. 2054 - 2060.

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: New liquid crystal displays based on photo-aligned polarizers and phase retarders RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$810,500 01 Dec 2006 Non-contact methods for liquid crystal alignment and anchoring strength control and their practical application France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$30,600 01 Jan 2008 New Optically Rewritable Electronic Paper Liquid Crystal Displays UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$400,000 01 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Pasechnik, Sergey, Dubtsov, A, Shmeliova, D, Tsvetkov, V, Chigrinov, Vladimir (2008) "Effect of combined action of electric field and light on gliding of the easy axis in nematic liquid crystals", Liq. Cryst., Vol. 35, No.5, pp. 569-579.

Pozhidaev, Eugene, Chigrinov, Vladimir, Hegde, Gurumurthy, 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.

Chigrinov, Vladimir, Kozenkov, Vladimir, Kwok, Hoi Sing (2008) Photoalignment of Liquid Crystalline Materials: Physics and Applications, Wiley, 248 pp.

Mak, Hin Yu, Chigrinov, Vladimir, Kwok, Hoi Sing (2007) "Transflective twisted-nematic liquid-crystal display with double twisted-nematic cell and twisted liquid-crystal retarder", J. SID, 15/7, pp. 527-531.

Kiselev, Alexei, Chigrinov, Vladimir, Pozhidaev, Eugene (2007) "Switching dynamics of surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal cells: Effects of anchoring energy asymmetry", Phys. Rev. E, 75, 061706.

Chigrinov, Vladimir (2006) "Liquid Crystal Devices for Fiber Optics", Photonics’06 Conference, Abstracts, Photonics’06 Conference, Hyderabad, India, December, 2006.

Presnyakov, Vladimir, Asatryan, Karen, Galstian, Tigran, Chigrinov, Vladimir (2006) "Optical polarization grating induced liquid crystal micro-structure using azo-dye command layer", Optics Express, Vol. 14, No. 22, pp. 10558-10564.

Xu, Peizhi, Li, Xihua, Chigrinov, Vladimir (2006) "Double Cells Achromatic Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Displays Using Photoalignment Technology", Jpn. J. Appl. Phys, 45, No.1A, pp. 200-202 (2006).

Ping Keung KO Professor (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.

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.

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: Tolerance-based motion control system design and implementation RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$881,000 01 Dec 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Xiong, Z.H., Li, Z.X. (2003) "On the Discrete Symmetric Localization Problem", International Journal of Machine Tools & Manufacture, 43(9):863-870.

Xiong, Z.F., Li, Z.X. (2003) "Probe radius compensation of workpiece localization", ASME Trans. on Manufact. Science and Technology, 125(1):100-104.

Liu, G.F., Xu, J.J., Li, Z.X. (2002) "Automatic real-time grasping force determination for multifingered manipulation: Theory and experiments", IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, pp. 1675-1680.

Yiu, Yiu Kuen, Li, Zexiang (2002) "Control of parallel mechanisms - A geometric approach", American Control Conference, Anchorage, USA, 4720-4725.

Liu, Guanfeng, Li, Jie, Li, Zexiang (2002) "Coordinated manipulation of objects by multifingered robotic hand in contact space and active joint space", IEEE Int'l conference on Robotics and Automation, Washington, USA, 3743-3748.

Liu, Guanfeng, Yiu, Yiu Kuen, Li, Zexiang (2002) "Inertia equivalence principle and adaptive control of parallel manipulators with redundant actuation", American Control Conference, Anchorage, USA, 3196-3201.

Liu, Guanfeng, Wu, X.Z., Li, Zexiang (2002) "Inertia equivalence principle and adaptive control of redundant parallel manipulators", IEEE Int'l conference on Robotics and Automation, Washington, USA, 835-840.

Xiong, Zhenhua, Li, Zexiang (2002) "On the discrete synmetric localization problem", IEEE Int'l Conference on Robotics and Automation, Washington, USA, 4161-4166.

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: Design and integration of IC modules for software-defined radio receivers RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$418,000 01 Sep 2007 Integrated passive UHF RFID tags and readers Hong Kong R&D Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management Enabling Technologies HK$7,530,50001 Aug 2007 Limited & Industries

Representative Research Publications:

Wu, Tianyu, Cheung, Sin Luen, Luong, Howard (2007) "A 1-V 100MS/s 8-bit CMPS Switched-Opamp Pipelined ADC Using Loading-Free Architecture", IEEE Journal on Solid-State Circuits (JSSC).

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).

Leung, Lai Kan, Zheng, Hui, Lou, Shuzuo, Ng, Wing Lun, Lau, D, Wang, R, Wu, P, Cheung, V, Wong, G, Luong, Howard (2006) "A 1 V Low-Power Single-Chip CMOS WLAN IEEE 802.11a Transceiver", 2006 European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Switzerland, Sept 2006.

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).

Ng, Alan, Luong, Howard (2006) "A 1V 17GHz 5mW Quadrature CMOS VCO Using Transformer Coupling", IEEE International Solid-State Circuit Conference 2006 (ISSCC), San Francisco, USA, February 2006.

Luong, Howard, Leung, Gerry (2004) Low-Voltage RF CMOS Frequency Synthesizers, Cambridge University Press, August 2004. Kwok, Ka-Chun, Luong, Howard (2004) "Ultra-Low-Voltage High-Performance VCO Using Transformer Feedback", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, March 2005, Vol. 40, pp. 652-660.

Cheung, Sin Luen Vincent, Luong, Howard (2004) Design of Low-Voltage CMOS Switched-Opamp Switched-Capacitor Systems, Design of Low-Voltage CMOS Switched-Opamp Swithed-Capacitor Systems, 192.

Ross D MURCH 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: Reconfigurable MIMO Multi-system Antennas for Wireless Communications RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$575,354 01 Jan 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Chiu, Chi Yuk, Murch, Ross D. (2008) "24-Port and 36-Port Antenna Cubes suitable for MIMO Wireless Communications", IEEE Transactions Antennas and Propagation Vol 56, No 4, pp1170-1176, Vol 56, No 4, pp1170-1176.

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, pp1828-1832.

Chiu, Chi Yuk, Murch, Ross D. (2008) "Compact 4-port Antenna suitable for Portable MIMO Devices", IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.

Chiu, Chi Yuk, Yan, Jie-Bang, Murch, Ross D. (2007) "Compact 3-Port Orthogonally Polarized MIMO Antenna", IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol 6, pp619-622.

Yan, Jie-Bang, Murch, Ross D. (2007) "Fabrication of a Wideband Antenna on a Low Resistivity Silicon Substrate Using a Novel Micromachining Technique", IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol 6, pp476-479.

Cheng, Wang, Murch, Ross D. (2007) "MU-MISO Transmission with limited Feedback", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol 6, No 11 , pp3907-3913.

Chu, Xiaoli, Murch, Ross D., Liu, Junsheng, Ghavami, M. (2007) "Pilot-Channel-Assisted Log-Likelihood-Ratio Selective Rake Combining for Low-Rate Ultra-Wideband Communications", IEEE Transactions on Communications.

Mak, Angus C K, Rowell, Corbett R, Murch, Ross D., Mak, C. L. (2007) "Reconfigurable Multi-Band Antenna Designs for Wireless Communication Devices", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol 55, No 7, pp1919-1928.

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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$267,000 31 Dec 2007 Mixed H_2/H_infinity optimization with order constraint RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$527,988 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Su, Weizhou, Qiu, Li, Chen, Jie (2007) "Fundamental limit of discrete-time systems in tracking multi-tone sinusoidal signals", Automatica, 43, 15-30.

Qiu, Li, Zhang, Y., Li, C.K. (2005) "Unitarily invariant metrics on the Grassmann space", SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, vol. 27, pp. 507-531.

Gan, W.C., Qiu, Li (2004) "Torque and velocity ripple elimiation of AC permanent magnet motor control systems using the internal model principle", IEEE / ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, Vol.9, pp. 436-447.

Su, W, Qiu, Li, Chen, J (2003) "Fundamental performance limitations in tracking sinusoidal signals", IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, pp. 1371-1380.

Ding, Z., Qiu, L. (2003) "Blind MIMO channel identification from second order statistics using rank deficient channel convolution matrix", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 51, Issue 2, pp. 535-544.

Qiu, L., Chen, T. (1999) "Multirate sampled-data systems: all H∞ suboptimal controllers and the minimum entropy controller", IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, 44, pp. 537-550, 1999.

Qiu, L., Bernhardsson, B., Rantzer, A., Davison, E.J., Young, P.M., Doyle, J.C. (1995) "A formular for computation of the real stability radius", Automatica, 31, pp. 879-890, 1995.

Qiu, L., Davison, E.J. (1993) "Perfomance limitations of non-minimum phase systems in the servomechanism problem", Automatica, 29, pp. 337-349, 1993.

Bertram Emil SHI Professor (2358 7079 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ee.ust.hk/~eebert)

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1994)

Current Research Activities: Analog VLSI neural networks; cellular neural networks; neuromorphic and biologically inspired engineering; computer vision; image, speech and signal processing; nonlinear dynamics; nonlinear circuit theory.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Hierarchical Hebbian learning in neuromorphic networks RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,095,750 01 Jan 2007 Binary coding in neuromorphic sensory systems RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$391,591 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Meng, Yicong, Shi, Bertram (2008) "Adaptive gain control for spike-based map communication in a neuromorphic vision system", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 1010-1021, Jun. 2008.

Lam, Stanley, Shi, Bertram (2007) "Recursive Anisotropic 2D Gaussian Filtering Based on a Triple-Axis Decomposition", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 1925-1930, Jul. 2007.

Merolla, Paul, Arthur, John, Shi, Bertram, Boahen, Kwabena (2007) "Expandable Networks for Neuromorphic Chips", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 301-311, Feb. 2007.

Choi, Thomas, Merolla, Paul, Arthur, John, Boahen, Kwabena, Shi, Bertram (2005) "Neuromorphic implementation of orientation hypercolumns", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems -I: Regular Papers, Jun. 2005, Vol. 52, No. 6, pp. 1049-1060.

Tsang, Eric, Shi, Bertram (2004) "A preference for phase-based disparity in a neuromorphic implementation of the binocular energy model", Neural Computation, Aug. 2004, vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 1579-1600.

Choi, Thomas, Shi, Bertram, Boahen, Kwabena (2004) "An ON–OFF orientation selective address event representation image transceiver chip", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 342-353, Feb.

Shi, Bertram (2004) "Oriented spatial pattern formation in a four layer CMOS cellular neural network", International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 1209-1221, Apr.

Shi, Bertram, Luo, Tao (2004) "Spatial Pattern Formation via Reaction-Diffusion Dynamics in 32 x 32 x 4 CNN Chip", IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems—I: Regular Papers, 51, no. 5, pp. 939-947, May.

Johnny K O SIN Professor; Director, Microelectronics Fabrication Facility; Director, Semiconductor Product Analysis and Design Enhancement Center (2358 7052 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Toronto (1988) Senior Member of Research Staff, Philips Laboratories, New York (1988-91)

Current Research Activities: Power semiconductor devices and ICs; thin film transistors; RF SOI devices; integrated sensor and MEMS devices; semiconductor failure analysis.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Metal Gate Power MOSFETs for Fast Switching Applications RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$774,983 01 Sep 2005 A novel isolation structure for excellent electrical isolation and thermal dissipation RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$721,488 01 Sep 2006

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Ng, J., Sin, J.K.O., Guan, L. (2008) "A Novel Sub-Low Power MOSFET with Improved on-Resistance and Threshold Variation", IEEE International Symposium on Power Semiconductors & ICs, pp. 91-94, Orlando, Florida, USA.

Wu, Y., Tian, B., Huang, H., Hu, D., Sin, J.K.O, Kang, B. (2008) "Evaluation of Trench-Gate Bipolar-Mode JFETs Used as High-Side Transistors in Low-Voltage Buck Converters", IEEE International Symposium on Power Semiconductors & ICs, pp. 127-130, Orlando, Florida, USA.

Onishi, Y., Wang, H., Xu, H.P.E., Ng, W.T., Wu, R., Sin, J.K.O (2008) "SJ-FINFET: A New Low Voltage Lateral Superjunction MOSFET", IEEE International Symposium on Power Semiconductors & ICs, pp. 111-114, Orlando, Florida, USA. Guan, L., Sin, J.K.O. (2007) "Transient Characterization of the Planar DMOS With a Metal/Poly-Si Replacement Gate", IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, Vol. 54, No. 7, pp. 1789-1792.

Wu, Y., Cheng, X., Sin, J.K.O., Kang, B. (2007) "A Power Bipolar Integrated Device with Schottky Extension of Anode", The 38th IEEE Power Electronics Specialist Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA, June 17-21, 2007.

Hu, D., Sin, J.K.O., Kang, B., Cheng, X., Wu, Y., Xie, S. (2007) "Lifetime Control of Power Fast Recovery Diode with Low Emitter Efficiency Anode", The 38th IEEE Power Electronics Specialist Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA, June 17- 21, 2007.

Guan, L., Sin, J.K.O. (2006) "A 30V Self-aligned Metal/pdy-Si Replacement Gate Planar DMOS for DC/DC Converters", IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 27, No. 11, pp. 920-2, Nov. 2006.

Danny H K TSANG Professor (2358 7045 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ee.ust.hk/~eetsang)

PhD, University of Pennsylvania (1989)

Principal Architect, Sycamore Networks, U.S.A. (2000-2001) Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Statistics & Computing Science, Dalhousie University (1989-92)

Current Research Activities: Video streaming over Internet, IPTV, VoIP, CDN, and P2P networks; congestion controls; quality of services guarantee in Internet; IP multicast; multimedia networking; wireless networks.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Analysis and design of P2P networks RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$356,000 01 Dec 2006 Analysis and design of dynamic power saving schemes in IEEE 802.16e RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$365,191 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Kwong, K.W., Tsang, D.H.K. (2007) "Application-aware Topology Formation Algorithm for Peer-to-Peer Networks", IEEE ICC 2007, Glasgow, June 2007.

Lei, K., Tsang, D.H.K (2007) "Optimal Selection of Power Saving Classes in IEEE 802.16e", IEEE WCNC 2007, Hong Kong, March 2007.

Ni, J, Tsang, D.H.K., Tatikonda, S., Bensaou, B. (2007) "Optimal and Structured Call Admission Control Policies for Resource-Sharing Systems", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol 55, No. 1, pp.158-170, Jan 2007.

Luan, H., Tsang, D.H.K., Kwong, K.W. (2006) "Media Overlay Construction via a Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method", ACM SIGMETRICS Performannce Evaluation Review, Vol. 34, Issue 3, pp.9-11, Dec 2006.

Hei, X.J., Bensaou, B., Tsang, D.H.K. (2006) "Model-based end-to-end available bandwidth inference using queueing analysis", Elsevier Computer Networks Journal, Vol. 50, pp.1916-1937, Aug 2006.

Lei, K., Tsang, D.H.K. (2006) "Performance Study of Power Saving Classes of Type I and II in IEEE 802.16e", IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Tampa, November 2006.

Luan, H., Tsang, D. H. K. (2006) "A Simulation Study of Block Management in BitTorrent", International Workshop on Peer to Peer Information Management, Hong Kong.

Kwong, K. W., Tsang, D. H. K. (2006) "A congestion-aware search protocol for heterogeneous peer-to-peer networks", Journal of Supercomputing, Vol. 36, Issue 3 , pp. 265-282.

Man WONG Professor (2358 7057 ; [email protected])

PhD, Stanford University (1988) Technical Staff, Semiconductor Process and Design Center, Texas Instruments (1989-92)

Current Research Activities: Advanced device fabrication technology; thin film transistors and general device physics; micro-electromechanical systems; organic light-emitting diodes.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Fabrication and characterization of transparent thin-film transistors RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$435,600 01 Jan 2008 Metal-replaced silicon junction technology for enhanced performance thin-film transistors RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$368,500 01 Sep 2006 Development of a high-frequency MEMS sensor for aero-acoustical measurements France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$30,600 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Peng, Huajun, Zhu, X. L., Sun, J. X., Yu, X., Wong, Man, Kwok, Hoi Sing (2006) "Improvement of Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Using Semitransparent Ag as Anode.", Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 88(3), Jan/2006. 033509:3 pages.

Qiu, Cheng Feng, Xie, Zhi Liang, Chen, Hai Ying, Tang, Ben Zhong, Wong, Man, Kwok, Hoi Sing (2004) "Electrophosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diode Using Aluminum Bis(2-Methyl-8-Quinolinato) 4-Phenylphenolate as an

Electron-Transport Layer", The IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 10(1), Jan, Feb, pp.101-106.

Wong, Man, Meng, Zhi Guo, Kwok, Hoi Sing (2004) "Metal-Induced Laterally Crystallized Polycrystalline Silicon: Technology, Devices and Systems", Proceedings of the 8th Asian Symposium on Information Display (ASID'04). Nanjing, China, Feb 15-17, pp. 20-25.

Li, Gang, Zohar, Yitshak, Wong, Man (2004) "Piezoresistive Microphone with Integrated Amplifier Realized Using Metal-Induced Laterally Crystallized Polycrystalline Silicon", The 17th IEEE Conference on Micro-Electro- Mechanical Systems. Maastricht, the Netherlands, Jan 25-29, pp. 548-551.

Wong, Man, Meng, Zhi Guo, Shi, Xue Jie (2003) "Characteristics and Stability of Improved Re-Crystallized Metal- Induced Laterally Crystallized Polycrystalline-Silicon Thin-Film Transistors for Display Applications", The Journal of the Society for Information Display, Vol. 11(4), pp. 633-637.

Shi, Xue Jie, Henttinen, K, Suni, T, Suni, L, Lau, S.S., Wong, Man (2003) "Characterization of Low-Temperature Processed Single-Crystalline Silicon Thin-Film Transistor on Glass", The IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 24(9), Sept, pp. 574-576.

Ma, Wei, Zohar, Yitshak, Wong, Man (2003) "Design and Characterization of Inertia Activated Electrical Micro- Switches Fabricated and Packaged Using Low Temperature Photo-Resist Molded Metal-Electroplating Technology", Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, the Institute of Physics, Vol. 13(6), Nov, pp. 892-899.

Chan, Yick Chuen, Carles, Maria, Sucher, Nikolaus J., Wong, Man, Zohar, Yitshak (2003) "Design and Fabrication of an Integrated Microsystem for Microcapillary Electrophoresis", Design and Fabrication of an Integrated Microsystem for Microcapillary Electrophoresis, Vol. 13(6), Nov, pp. 914-921.

Jianquan YAO Adjunct Professor (2358 7042 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Oscar C L AU Associate Professor; Director, Computer Engineer; Director, Multimedia Technology Research Center (2358 7053 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ee.ust.hk/~eeau/)

PhD, Princeton University (1991) Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University; Consultant, ASTRI/Hutchison/HKBN/ICAC/HK Police

Current Research Activities: Video/image compression (MPEG-1/2/4, H.261/3/L/4, JPEG, JPEG-2000, animated GIF), fast motion estimation, mode selection, rate control, transcoding, de-noising, de-blocking, error concealment, watermarking. Inverse halftoning. Variable speed speech/audio playback.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Next generation motion compensated hybrid video coding beyond H.264 RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$69,000 01 Jan 2005 Real-time video quality enhancement system for advanced mobile communications Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$4,921,312 01 May 2006 The Next Generation Mobile Multimedia IC Initiative RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$300,000 01 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Zhou, Jiantao, Liang, Zhiqin, Chen, Yan, Au, Oscar (2007) "Security Analysis of Multimedia Encryption Schemes based on Multiple Huffman Table", IEEE Signal Processing Letter, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 201-204, Mar 2007.

Guo, Liwei, Au, Oscar, Ma, Mengyao, Liang, Zhiqin (2007) "Temporal Video Denoising Based on Multihypothesis Motion", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, accepted in May 2007.

Chen, Yan, Yang, Hu, Oscar, Au, Houqiang, LI, Chang Wen, Chen (2007) "Video Error Concealment using Spatio- Temporal Boundary Matching and Partial Differential Equation", accepted by IEEE Trans. On Multimedia in July 2007..

Yeung, Y.M., Au, O.C. (2005) "Efficient Rate Control for JPEG2000 Image coding", IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 335-344, Mar 2005.

Wong, Peter H.W., Au, Oscar C. (2003) "A Capacity Estimation Technique for Jpeg-to-Jpeg Image Watermarking", IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 13, No. 8, pp. 746-752, Aug.

Wong, Peter H.W., Au, Oscar C., Yeung, Yick Ming (2003) "Fast SOLA-based Time Scale Modification using Envelope Matching", J. of VLSI Signal Processing, Vol. 35, No. 1, Aug.

Tourapis, Alexis, Au, Oscar C., Liou, Ming (2002) "Highly Efficient Predictive Zonal Algorithms for Fast Block- Matching Motion Estimation", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 12, No. 10, pp. 934- 947.

Fu, Ming Sun, Au, Oscar C. (2002) "Data Hiding Watermarking for Halftone Images", IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 11, 477-484.

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: A computationally Extensive Biomimetic Address Inter-Event Representation CMOS Image Sensor RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$685,815 01 Nov 2005 Self-powered CMOS image sensor for ultra-low power portable imaging systems RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$615,076 31 Dec 2007 VLSI neural chip for olfactory coding National Center for Scientific Research HK$138,000 15 Dec 2007 Integrated smart biometrics systems UGC - High Impact Area HK$450,000 10 Sep 2005

Representative Research Publications:

Chen, Shoushun, Bermak, Amine, Boussaid, Farid (2006) "A Compact Reconfigurable Counter Memory for Spiking Pixels", IEEE Electron Device Letter, Vol. 27, Issue 4, pp. 255-257, April 2006.

Bermak, Amine, Yung, YatFung (2006) "A DPS Array with programmable Resolution and reconfigurable Conversion Time", IEEE Transaction on Very Large Scale Integration (TVLSI), Vol. 14, Issue 1, pp. 15-22 Jan. 2006.

Bermak, Amine, Brahim-belhouari, Sofiane (2006) "Bayesian Learning using Gaussian Process for Gas Identification", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, Volume 55, Issue 3, pp. 787-792, June 2006.

Kitchen, Alistair, Bermak, Amine, Bouzerdoum, Abdessellam (2005) "A Digital Pixel Sensor Array with Programmable Dynamic Range", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Volume 52, Issue 12, pp. 2591-2601, Dec. 2005.

Brahim-Belhouari, Sofiane, Bermak, Amine, Shi, Minghua, Chan, Philip (2005) "Fast and Robust Gas Identification System Using an Integrated Gas Sensor Technology and Gaussian Mixture Models", IEEE Sensors Journal, Volume 5, Issue 6, pp. 1433-1444, Dec. 2005.

Bermak, Amine, Brahim-Belhouari, Sofiane, Shi, Minghua, Martinez, Dominique (2005) "Pattern Recognition Techniques for Odor Discrimination in Gas Sensor Array", The Encyclopedia of Sensors, Craig A. Grimes , Elizabeth C. Dickey , Michael V. Pishko (editors),, SBN : 1-58883-056-X, American Scientific Publishers, 2005.

Chen, Shoushun, Bermak, Amine (2004-2005) "A low power CMOS imager based on time-to-first-spike encoding and Fair arbitration", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS2005, Kobe, Japan, May 2005, pp. 5306-5309.

Brahim-Belhouari, Sofiane, Bermak, Amine (2004-2005) "Gas identification using density models", Pattern Recognition Letters, May 2005, 26 (6): 699-706.

Kevin J CHEN Associate Professor (2358 8969 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Maryland (1993) Research Engineer, NTT LSI Laboratories, Japan (1994-96) Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong (1996-98) Member of Technical Staff, Agilent Technologies, Inc. (1998-2000)

Current Research Activities: RF/microwave devices and circuits: design, fabrication and characterization; GaN-based microwave power transistors; RF/ microwave power amplifiers; RF micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS).

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Enhancement-mode AlGaN/GaN HEMTs and their circuit applications RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,282,000 01 Sep 2006 High-Linearity III-Nitride Composite-Channel High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMT) for RF/Microwave Applications RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$852,887 01 Nov 2005 Drain profile engineering for high-performance gan-based power transistors RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$521,950 01 Jan 2008 Device technologies for GaN-based high performance power electronics Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$997,050 01 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Cheng, Zhiqun, Cai, Yong, Liu, Jie, Zhou, Yugang, Lau, Kei May, Chen, Kevin J. (2007) "A Low Phase- Noise X-Band MMIC VCO Using High-Linearity and Low-Noise Composite-Channel Al0.3Ga0.7N/Al0.05Ga0.95N/GaN HEMTs",

IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 23-29, Jan 2007.

Zhang, Hualiang, Chen, Kevin J. (2007) "A Stub Tapped Branch-Line Coupler for Dual-Band Operations", IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Lett., vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 106-108, Feb. 2007.

Liu, Jie, Zhou, Yugang, Zhu, Jia, Cai, Yong, Lau, Kei May, Chen, Kevin J. (2007) "DC and RF Characteristics of AlGaN/GaN/InGaN/GaN Double-Heterojunction HEMTs", IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 2-10, Jan. 2007.

Leung, Lydia L. W., Zhang, J. W., Hon, W. C., Chen, Kevin J. (2006) "Characterization and Attenuation Mechanisms of CMOS Compatible Micromachined Edge-suspended Coplanar Waveguides on Low-resistivity Silicon Substrate", IEEE Trans. Advanced Packaging,, vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 496-503, Aug. 2006.

Cai, Yong, Zhou, Yugang, Lau, Kei May, Chen, Kevin J. (2006) "Control of Threshold Voltage of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs by Fluoride-based Plasma Treatment: From Depletion Mode to Enhancemend Mode", IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol.. 53, No. 9, pp. 2207-2215, Sep. 2006.

Wang, Ruonan, Cai, Yong, Tang, Chi-Wai, Lau, Kei May, Chen, Kevin J. (2006) "Enhancement-Mode Si3N4/AlGaN/GaN MISHFETs", IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 27, No. 10, pp. 793-795, Oct. 2006.

Cai, Yong, Cheng, Zhiqun, Tang, Chi-Wai, Lau, Kei May, Chen, Kevin J. (2006) "Monolithically Integrated Enhancement/Depletion-Mode AlGaN/GaN HEMT Inverters and Ring Oscillators Using CF4 Plasma Treatment", IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol.. 53, No. 9, pp. 2223-2230, Sep. 2006.

Wang, Ruonan, Cai, Yong, Tang, Chi-Wai, Lau, Kei May, Chen, Kevin J. (2006) "Planar Integration of E/D- Mode AlGaN/GaN HEMTs Using Fluoride-Based Plasma Treatment", IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 27, No. 8, pp. 633-635, 2006.

Roger S K CHENG Associate Professor (2358 7072 ; [email protected])

PhD, Princeton University (1991) Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder (1991-95)

Current Research Activities: Wireless communications; Multiuser MIMO OFDM systems; Resource Allocation; information theory and coding; digital VLSI implementation of communication algorithm.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Multiuser diversity gain in MIMO-OFDM systems RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$356,000 01 Sep 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Lo, Ernest S., Chan, Peter W.C., Lau, Vincent K N, Cheng, Roger, Ben Letaief, Khaled, Murch, Ross, Mow, Wai Ho (2007) "Adaptive Resource Allocation and Capacity Comparision of Downlink Multiuser MIMO-MC- CDMA and MIMI-OFDMA", IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications, pp.1083-93, March.

Chan, Peter W.C., Cheng, Roger (2007) "Capacity Maximization for Zero-forcing MIMO-OFDMA Downlink System with Multisuer Diversity", IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communication, pp.1880-1889, May.

Chan, Peter W. C., Lo, Ernest. S., Lau, Vincent K. N., Cheng, Roger S., Letaief, K. B., Murch, Ross D., Mow, W. H. (2007) "Performance Comparison of Downlink Multiuser MIMO-OFDMA and MC-CDMA with Transmit Side Information --- Multi-Cell Analysis", IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications, pp. 2193 - 2203, June 2007.

So, K.C., Cheng, Roger (2006) "Achievable Diversity Order by Space-Time Trellis Coding Combined with MLED and OFDM over Frequency Selective Fading Channels", IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications, vol. 5, pp. 1217- 22.

So, K.C., Cheng, Roger (2006) "Layered maximum likelihood detection for MIMO systems in frequency selective fading channels", IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications, vol. 5, pp. 752-62.

Tao, M., Cheng, Roger (2004) "Generalized Layered Space-Time Codes For High Data Rate Wireless Communications", IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, vol. 3, pp. 1067-75.

So, K.C, Cheng, Roger (2004) "Iterative EM Receiver for Space Time Coded Systems in MIMO Frequency Selective Fading Channels with Channel Gain and Order Estimation", IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications, Vol. 3, pp.1928-35.

Tao, M., Cheng, Roger (2004) "Diagonal Block Space-Time Code Design for Diversity and Coding Advantage over Flat Fading Channels", IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol.52, pp. 1012-20.

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: Can semantic information help translation disambiguation? RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$396,000 01 Sep 2006

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Development of color filter liquid-crystal-on-silicon microdisplays for near-to-eye and projection display applications RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$431,000 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Zhang, Baolong, Li, KuenKuen, CHIGRINOV, Vladimir, Kwok, Hoi-Sing, Huang, Ho-Chi (2005) "Application of Photoalignment Technology to Liquid-Crystal-on-Silicon Microdisplays", Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 44, No. 6A, pp. 39833991.

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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Integrated power management for energy-limited applications RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$478,000 01 Sep 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Lam, Yat-Hei, Ki, Wing-Hung (2008) "A 0.9V 0.35um adaptively biased CMOS LDO with fast transient response", IEEE Int'l Solid-State Circ. Conf., San Francisco, pp.442-443+626, Feb. 2008.

Su, Feng, Ki, Wing-Hung, Tsui, Chi-Ying (2008) "Ultra fast fixed frequency hysteretic buck converter with maximum charging current control and adaptive delay compensation for DVS applications", IEEE J. of Solid-State Circ., vol.43, no.4, pp.815-822, April 2008.

Yi, Jun, Ki, Wing-Hung, Tsui, Chi-Ying (2007) "Analysis and design strategy of UHF micro-power CMOS rectifiers for micro-sensor and RFID applications", IEEE Trans. on Ckts. & Sys., Part I, Vol.54, No.1, pp.153–166, Jan 2007.

Su, Feng, Ki, Wing-Hung (2007) "Design strategy for step-up charge pumps with variable integer conversion ratios", IEEE Trans. on Ckts. & Sys., Part II, Vol.54, No.5, pp.417–421, May 2007.

Lam, Yat-Hei, Ki, Wing-Hung, Tsui, Chi-Ying (2006) "Integrated low-loss CMOS active rectifier for wirelessly powered devices", IEEE Trans. on Ckts. & Sys., Part II, Vol.53, No.12, pp.1378–1382, Dec 2006.

Lam, Yat Hei, Ki, Wing Hung, Tsui, Chi Ying (2006) "Adaptively-Biased Capacitor-Less CMOS Low Dropout Regulator with Direct-Current Feedback", Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference, LSI University Design Contest, pp.104–105, Jan. 2006. (Special Feature Award).

Chui, Martin Y. K., Ki, Wing-Hung, Tsui, Chi-Ying (2004) "A programmable integrated digital controller for switching converters with dual-band switching and complex pole-zero compensation", IEEE J. of Solid–State Ckts., Vol.40, No.3, pp.772–780, March, 2005.

Au, Edward K. S., Ki, Wing-Hung, Mow, Wai-Ho, Hung, Silias T., Wong, Catherine Y. (2004) "A switched-current sensing architecture for a 4-state per cell magnetic tunnel junction MRAM", IEEE Trans. on Ckts. & Sys. I, Vol.51, No.11, pp.2113–2122, Nov., 2004.

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: Optimal OFDM/MIMO Communications with N-bit Partial CSI Feedback for Single User and Multi-user Systems RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$359,224 01 Jan 2006 Delay-sensitive multi-user resource allocation for wireless systems with outdated channel state knowledge RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,332,000 01 Jan 2008 Robust closed loop cross layer designs for multi-user MIMO/OFDM wireless systems RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,032,000 01 Jan 2007 On the design of OFDM/MIMO partial CSI feedback for point-to-point wireless link RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Jun 2005 Ultra-wideband wireless communications for multimedia applications UGC - High Impact Area HK$1,550,000 16 Sep 2004 Dynamic interference characterization and mitigation for next-generation WiFi public infrastructure systems Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$1,079,110 01 Oct 2007 Cognitive communications for next generation wireless systems UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$550,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Lau, Kin, Kwok, Ricky (2006) Channel Adaptive Technologies and Cross Layer Designs for Wireless Systems with Multiple Antennas, John Wiley and Sons (NY).

Lau, Vincent (2005) "On the Performance of Multi-cell Wireless Systems with Multiuser Detection and Multiple Antennas - Uplink Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol 4, issue 4, pp 1388 - 1393.

Lau, Vincent (2005) "Optimal Downlink Space-Time Scheduling Design with Convex Utility Functions - Multiple Antenna Systems with Orthogonal Beamforming", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol 54, issue 4, pp 1322 - 1333.

Lau, Vincent (2005) "Proportional Fair Space Time Scheduling for Wireless System with partial feedback", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Volume 53, Issue 8, Page(s):1353 – 1360, Aug 2005.

Lau, Kin Nang (2004) "A theoretical framework of uplink macroscopic optimization for multicell systems with multiuser detection", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Volume: 53, Issue: 6, pp.1769-1779.

Lau, Kin Nang (2004) "An analytical comparison of partial power-feedback designs for MIMO block fading channels", IEEE Transactions on Communication, vol.52, no.5, pp 691-693.

Lau, Kin Nang (2004) "Analytical Framework for multiuser uplink MIMO Uplink Space-Time Scheduling Design with Convex Utility Functions", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications,, vol. 3, no.5, pp.1832-1843. Lau, Kin Nang, Liu, YouJian, Chen, TaiAnn (2004) "Capacity of Memoryless Channels and Block-Fading Channels with Designable Cardinality-Constrained Channel State Feedback", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol.50, no.9, pp.2038-2049.

Philip K T MOK Associate Professor (2358 8517 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ee.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 linearization IC for WLAN power amplifier applications RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$841,190 01 Sep 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Man, Tsz Yin, Mok, Philip K.T., Chan, Mansun (2008) "An Auto-Selectable Frequency Pulse-Width Modulator for Buck Converters with Improved Light-Load Efficiency", IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA, pp. 440-441, Feb 2008.

Man, Tsz Yin, Leung, Ka Nang, Leung, Chi Yat, Mok, Philip K.T., Chan, Mansun (2008) "Development of Single-Transistor-Control LDO Based on Flipped Voltage Follower for SoC", IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems - I, Vol. 55, No. 5, pp. 1392-1401, Jun 2008.

Man, Tsz Yin, Mok, Philip K.T., Chan, Mansun (2007) "A High Slew-Rate Push-Pull Output Amplifier for Low- Quiescent Current Low-Dropout Regulators with Transient-Response Improvement", IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems - II, Vol. 54, No. 9, pp. 755-759, Sept 2007.

Wu, Patrick Y., Mok, Philip K.T. (2007) "A Monolithic Buck Converter with Near-Optimum Reference Tracking Response Using Adaptive-Output-Feedback", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 42, No. 11, pp. 2441-2450, Nov 2007.

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 Letter, Vol. 43, Issue 15, pp. 787-789, 19 July 2007. Lau, Sai Kit, Mok, Philip K.T., Leung, Ka Nang (2007) "A Low-Dropout Regulator for SoC with Q-Reduction", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 658-664, Mar 2007.

Lee, Hoi, Mok, Philip K.T. (2007) "A SC Voltage Doubler with Pseudo-Continuous Output Regulation Using a Three- Stage Switchable Opamp", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 1216-1229, Jun 2007.

Siu, Man, Mok, Philip K.T., Leung, Ka Nang, Lam, Yat-Hei, Ki, Wing-Hung (2006) "A Voltage-Mode PWM Buck Regulator with End-Point Prediction", IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems - II, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 294-298, April 2006.

Wai Ho MOW Associate Professor (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: Coding and detection for wireless communications; sequence design for radars and CDMA systems; communications, coding and information theory.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Low-PAPR preamble design and effective multi-user detection for MIMO-OFDMA with inter-cell interference RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$356,000 31 Dec 2006 A novel data detection method for single-carrier systems with impulsive noise and multi-carrier systems with narrowband interference RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$391,591 01 Dec 2007 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:

Tang, Xiaohu, Mow, Wai Ho (2006) "Design of Spreading Codes for Quasi-Synchronous CDMA with Inter-Cell Interference", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 24, No. 1, Jan. 2006, pp. 84-93.

Li, Tao, Mow, Wai Ho, Ben Letaief, Khaled (2006) "Low-Complexity Iterative Decoding for Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation", IEEE Transcations on Wireless Communications.

Ho, Ka Ming, Mow, Wai Ho (2006) "Searching for the Best Biphase and Quadriphase Quasi-Barker Sequences", IEICE Transcations on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences.

Ling, Cong, Mow, Wai Ho, Kwok, H. Li, Kot, Alex C. (2005) "Multiple-Antenna Differential Lattice Decoding", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 23, No. 9, Sept. 2005, pp. 1821-1829.

Ma, Zheng, Mow, Wai Ho, Fan, Pingzhi (2005) "On the Complexity Reduction of Turbo Decoding for Wideband CDMA", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications,, Vol.4, No. 2.

Fan, Jacky Ho-Yin, Murch, Ross D., Mow, Wai Ho (2004) "Near Maximum Likelihood Detection Schemes for Wireless MIMO Systems", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol.3, No.5, pp.1247-1430.

Fan, Pingzhi, Mow, Wai Ho (2004) "On Optimal Training Sequence Design for Multiple-Antenna Systems Over Dispersive Fading Channels and Its Extensions", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Sept. 2004, Vol.53, No.5, pp.1623- 1626.

Mow, Wai Ho (2003) "Universal Lattice Decoding: Principle and Recent Advances", Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Vol.3, Issue 5, August, pp. 553-569.

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: Silicon-on-insulator optical waveguides: Nonlinearities and functional elements RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$40,000 15 Sep 2005 Silicon-based spiral optical microdisk resonator devices RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$464,901 01 Jul 2006 Silicon microresonator-based photonic integrated circuits for high-data-rate signal processing applications RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$752,357 01 Jul 2007 Silicon photronics for WDM optical access networks CUHK - Research Committee Group Research Grant HK$30,000 01 Apr 2008

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Li, Chao, Zheng, Shengmei, Poon, Wing On (2006) "Silicon polygonal microdisk resonators", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 12, pp. 1438-1449, Nov./Dec. 2006.

Jianan QU Associate 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: Imaging tissue pathology with the combination of diffuse reflectance and autofluorescence RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$92,000 01 Jan 2004 New endogenous fluorescence biomarker for non-invasive diagnosis of early cancer UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$620,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Wu, T. Tao, Qu, Jianan (2007) "Assessment of the relative contribution of cellular components to the acetowhitening effect in cell cultures and suspensions using elastic light-scattering spectroscopy", Applied Optics, V.46, 4834-4842.

Wu, T. Tao, Qu, Jianan (2007) "Optical imaging for medical diagnosis based on active stereo vision and motion tracking", Optics Express, V.15, 10421-10426.

Wu, T. Tao, Qu, Jianan, Xu, Min (2007) "Unified Mie and fractal scattering by biological cells and subcellular structures", Optics Letters, Vol. 32, 2324-2326.

Wu, Yicong, Qu, Jianan (2006) "Autofluorescence spectroscopy of epithelial tissues", Journal of Biomedical Optics, 11, 054023.

Wu, Yicong, Zheng, Wei, Qu, Jianan (2006) "Sensing cell metabolism by time-resolved autofluorescence", Optics Letters, 31, 3122.

Wu, Yicong, Qu, Jianan (2006) "Combined depth- and time-resolved autofluorescence spectroscopy of epithelial tissue", Optics Letters, 31, 1833-1835.

Wu, Yicong, Qu, Jianan (2005) "Two-photon autofluorescence spectroscopy and second-harmonic generation of epithelial tissue", Optics Letters, 30, 3045-3047.

Wu, Yicong, Xi, Peng, Cheung, TH, Yu, May-yung, Qu, Jianan (2005) "Depth-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy of normal and dysplastic cervical tissue", Optics Express, V.13, 382-388.

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.

Representative Research Publications:

Lu, Chao, Tsui, Chi Ying, Ki, Wing Hung (2007) "A Batteryless Vibration-Based Energy Harvesting System for Ultra Low Power Ubiquitous Applications", IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems, 2007, New Orleans, pp. 1349-1352 May 2007.

Chan, Hin Tat, Wang, Wen ting, Lok, Chi Fung, Lau, K. N. Vincent, Tsui, Chi Ying, Luong, C. Howard (2007) "A Mixed-Signal Architecture of Channel Select Filtering with Oversampled ADC for Multi-Standard RFID Reader Receiver", IEEE International Conference on RFID, 2007, Grapevine, Texas, pp 108-114, March 2007.

He, Wei feng, Zhao, M.L., Tsui, Chi Ying, Mao, Zhi Gan (2007) "A Scalable Frame-Level Pipelined Architecture for FSBM Motion Estimation", IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design,Bangalore, India, Jan. 2007,pp. 830-835.

Shao, Hui, Tsui, Chi Ying, Ki, Wing Hung (2007) "An Inductor-Less Micro Solar Power Management System Design for Energy Harvesting Applications", IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems, 2007, New Orleans, pp. 1353-1356, May 2007.

Su, Feng, Ki, Wing Hung, Tsui, Chi Ying (2007) "An Ultra Fast Fixed Frequency Buck Converter with Maximum Charging Current Control and Adaptive Delay Compensation for DVS Application", IEEE International Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Hawaii, 2007, June 2007.

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 Transactions on Circuit and System I, volume 54, issue 1, pp. 153-166.

Man, Siu Wan, Tsui, Chi Ying, Lau, Ka Vincent (2007) "Design and Implementation of a Low-Power Baseband- System for RFID Tag", IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems, 2007, New Orleans, pp. 1349- 1352 May 2007.

Leung, Lap Fai, Tsui, Chi Ying (2007) "Energy-Aware Synthesis of Networks-on-Chip Implemented with Voltage Islands", IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, 2007,San Diego, June 2007.

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

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.

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Yu, Andy, Zeng, Bing, Au, Oscar (2002) "A novel motion estimation algorithm for arbitrarily shaped video coding", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME-2002), Lausanne, Switzerland, August, Vol. 1, pp. 649-652.

Cai, Hua, Shen, Guobin, Wu, Feng, Li, Shipeng, Zeng, Bing (2002) "Error concealment for fine granularity scalable video transmission", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME-2002), Lausanne, Switzerland, August.

Cai, Hua, Shen, Guobin, Li, Shipeng, Zeng, Bing (2002) "Optimal rate allocation for macroblock-based progressive fine granularity scalable video coding", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-2002), Rochester, New York, USA, September.

Cai, Hua, Shen, Guobin, Xiong, Zixiang, Li, Shipeng, Zeng, Bing (2002) "An Optimal Packetization Scheme for Fine Granularity Scalable Bitstream", IEEE Int. Symposium on Circuits and Systems.

Zeng, Bing (2002) "Digital Image and Video Compression and Processing", Readings in Multimedia Computing and Networking, Edited by Kevin Jeffay and Hong-Jiang Zhang, published by Morgan Kaufmann.

Jack LAU Adjunct Associate Professor (2358 7043 ; [email protected])

PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1994)

Current Research Activities: Consumer electronics; high frequency analog integrated circuits for wireless applications.

Representative Research Publications:

Tsui, Hau-Yiu, Lau, Jack (2003) "A 5GHz 56dB Voltage Gain 0.18um CMOS LNA with Built-in Tunable Channel Filter for Direct Conversion 802.11a Wireless LAN Receiver", IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium.

Tsui, Hau-Yiu, Lau, Jack (2003) "Experimental Results and Die Area Efficient Self-Shielded On-Chip Vertical Solenoid Inductors for Multi-GHz CMOS RFIC", IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium.

Liu, Yu, Lau, Jack (2002) "A Power-Based Source Routing for Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Communications", Fourth IEEE Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks.

Liu, Yu, Lau, Jack (2002) "A novel link state routing protocol and TCP performance investigation in ad hoc networks", IEEE International Conference on networks.

Zhang, Zhaofeng, Lau, Jack (2001) "A flicker-noise-free DC-offset-free harmonic mixer in a CMOS process", 2001 IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference, 113 -116.

Matthew R MCKAY Assistant Professor (2358 5035 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: 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, Wai Ho, Mow (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 PEREZ PALOMAR Assistant Professor (2358 7060 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Analytical performance characterization of low-complexity linearly precoded MIMO systems RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Dec 2006 Waveform design for MIMO radar: an emerging and promising technology RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$300,000 01 May 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Palomar, Daniel, Jiang, Yi (2007) MIMO Transceiver Design via Majorization Theory, Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory, Now Publishers, 2006.

Palomar, Daniel, Verdu, Sergio (2007) "Representation of Mutual Information via Input Estimates", IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 453-470.

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.

Representative Research Publications:

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])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A domain-specific HW/SW reconfigurable MPSoC architecture family and its design methodology RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 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

Weichuan YU Assistant Professor (2358 7054 ; [email protected] ; http://www.ece.ust.hk/~eeyu)

University Kiel, Germany

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Developing robust algorithms for mass spectrometry data analysis and their applications in cancer biomarker discovery RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$435,600 01 Oct 2007 Integrated Proteomics Data Analysis with Applications to Complex Disease Diagnosis and Drug Target Discovery RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$300,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

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, Liu, Junfeng, Colangelo, Chris, Gulcicek, Erol, Zhao, Hongyu (2007) "A New Protocol of Analyzing Isotope Coded Affinity Tag Data from High Resolution LC-MS Spectrometry", Computational Biology and Chemistry, Vol. 31, pp. 215-221.

Yu, Weichuan, Wu, Baolin, Huang, Tao, Li, Xiaoye, Williams, Kenneth, Zhao, Hongyu (2006-2007) "Statistical Methods In Proteomics", Springer Handbook of Engineering Statistics, Chapter 34, pp.623-638, Publisher Springer London, 2006.

Yu, Weichuan, Li, Xiaoye, Liu, Junfeng, Wu, Baolin, Williams, Kenneth, Zhao, Hongyu (2006) "Multiple Peak Alignment in Sequential Data Analysis: A Scale-Space-Based Approach", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Vol. 3, pp. 208-219.

Jie YUAN Assistant Professor (2358 8029 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Low-power imaging sensor for capsule-endoscopy RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Jan 2007 Ultra-low Power Intra-Body Data Transceiver for Implantable Bio-Medical Micro-systems UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$450,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Chan, Hoyeung, Yuan, Jie (2008) "A Low-Distortion and Wide Dynamic Range CMOS Imager for Wireless Capsule Endoscopy", IEEE Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seattle, USA, pp. 2945-2948, May, 2008.

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.

Tsang, Kaleong, Yuan, Jie (2008) "The Design and Optimization of a 25kS/s 10bit Micropower Current S/H Cell for Weak Current Bio-medical Applications", 4th IEEE International Symposium on Electronic Design, Test & Applications, Jan. 23-25, 2008.

Tsang, Kaleong, Yuan, Jie (2007) "A 50KS/s 10bit Micropower Current S/H Cell for Weak Current Bio-medical Applications", 2007 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Montreal, Canada, Nov. 27-30, 2007.

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.

Chan, Hoyeung, Yuan, Jie (2007) "Current-Mode Temporal Difference CMOS Imager for Capsule Endoscopy", IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Montreal, Canada, Nov. 27-30, 2007.

Yuan, Jie, Song, Ning, Farhat, Nabil, Van der Spiegel, Jan (2007) "Cort-X II: low power element design of a large-scale spatio-temporal pattern clustering system", 2007 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, New Orleans, USA, pp. 1017-1020, May 27-30, 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.

Man Hung SIU Adjunct Assistant Professor (2358 8027 ; [email protected])

PhD, Boston University (1998)

Current Research Activities: Pattern recognition; digital speech processing, speech and speaker recognition; spoken language systems; information extraction; neural networks.

Representative Research Publications:

Ka-Yee, Leung, Mak, Man-wai, Siu, Manhung, Kung, S-Y. (2006) "Adaptive Articulatory Feature-based Conditional Pronunciation Model for Speaker Verification", Speech Communication, vol. 48, issue 1, pages 71-84.

Zhai, Lu-Feng, Siu, Manhung, Yang, Xi, Gish, Herbert (2006) "Discriminatively trained Language Models Using Support Vector Machines for Language Identification", IEEE Odyssey 2006:The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, 28-30 June 2006, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Au-yeung, Siu-Kai, Siu, Manhung (2006) "Reference Speaker Weighting Adaptation for Sub-phonetic Polynomial Segment Models", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE, France, May 14-19.

Siu, Manhung, Au-Yeung, Siu-Kai (2006) "Robust Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition using Polynomial Segment Model with Unsupervised Adaptation", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE, France, May 14-19.

Ng, Tim, Siu, Manhung, Ostendorf, Mari (2005) "A Quantitative Assessment of the Importance of Tone in Mandarin Speech Recognition", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 12, no. 12, pages 867-870,.

Chan, Arthur, Siu, Manhung (2005) "Efficient Computation of the Frame-based Extended Union Model and its Application in Speech Recognition against Partial Temporal Corruptions", Computer, Speech and Language, vol. 19, issue 3, pages 301-319, July 2005.

Au Yeung, Siu-Kei, Li, Chak-Fai, Siu, Manhung (2004-2005) "Sub-phonetic Polynomial Segment Model for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, March 18-23, 2005, volume 1, pages 193-196.

Au Yeung, Siu-Kei, Siu, Manhung (2004) "Improved Performance of Aurora 4 Using HTK and Unsupervised MLLR Adaptation", International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Oct. 2004, pages 161-164.

Dept of Industrial Engg & Logistics Management

Chung-Yee LEE, Chair Professor and Department Head; Director, Logistics and Supply Chain Management Institute

Mitchell M TSENG, Chair Professor and Director, Advanced Manufacturing Institute

Raymond K M CHEUNG, Professor

Fugee Tsung, Professor; Director of the Quality lab; IELM Undergraduate Program Chair

Hau L LEE, Adjunct Professor

Ravindra S GOONETILLEKE, Associate Professor

Ajay JONEJA, Associate Professor

Neville K S LEE, Associate Professor and Associate Department Head

Andrew LIM, Associate Professor

Richard H Y SO, Associate Professor

Rachel Q ZHANG, Associate Professor

Kaijie ZHU, Associate Professor

Jeff L HONG, Assistant Professor

Qian LIU, Assistant Professor

Xiangtong QI, Assistant Professor

Xiang ZHU, Visiting Assistant Professor Chung-Yee LEE Chair Professor and Department Head; Director, Logistics and Supply Chain Management Institute (2358 7092 ; [email protected])

PhD, Yale University (1984) Rockwell Professor, Texas A&M University (1996-2001)

Current Research Activities: Logistics management; production scheduling; production and operations management.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Procurement risk management using options RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$382,800 01 Sep 2007 In-bound logistics scheduling National Natural Science Foundation of China / Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme HK$730,700 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Jaruphongsa, W., Lee, C.-Y. (2008) "Dynamic Lot-Sizing Problem with Demand Time Windows and Container-Based Transportation Cost", Optimization Letters, Vol. 2, pp. 39-51.

Chen, B., Lee, C.-Y. (2008) "Logistics Scheduling with Batching and Transportation ", European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 189, pp. 871-876.

Lee, C.-Y., Yu, G (2008) "Parallel-Machine Scheduling under Potential Disruption", Optimization Letters, Vol. 2, pp. 27- 37.

Leung, J. Y-T., Lee, C.-Y., Ng, C. W., Young, G. H. (2008) "Preemptive Multiprocessor Order Scheduling to Minimize Total Weighted Flowtime", European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 190, pp. 40-51.

Hsu, V., Lee, C.-Y., So, R.C. (2007) "Managing Components for Assemble-To-Order Products with Leadtime-Dependent Pricing: The Full-Shipment Model", Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 54, (2007), pp. 510-523.

Xiao, Y., Chen, J., Lee, C.-Y. (2007) "Single-Period Multi-Product Assemble-to-Order Systems with Common Components and Uncertain Demand Patterns", Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Annual Conference, 2007, Beijing, PRC.

Lee, H., Lee, Chung-Yee (2007) Building Supply Chain Excellence in Emerging Economies, Springer Publisher, New York, USA.

Lee, Chung-Yee, Yu, G. (2007) "Single Machine Scheduling under Potential Disruption", Operations Research Letters, Vol. 35, pp. 541-548.

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: Staged commitment of order specifications for custom products RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$356,400 01 Jul 2007 Product platform development for Astec power supply ASTEC Custom Power (HK) Ltd. HK$360,000 01 Mar 2004

Representative Research Publications:

Gupta, Avaneesh, Loedding, Hermann, Tseng, Mitchell M. (2006) "An Approach of Capability Representation for Improving Capacity Planning", International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 44, No. 17, pp. 3419-3431, 2006.

Piller, Frank T., Reichwald, Ralf, Tseng, Mitchell M. (2006) "Competitive Advantage Through Customer Centric Enterprises", International Journal of Mass Customization, Volume 1, Issue 2/3, pp. 157-174, 2006.

Kurniawan, Sri Hartati, So, Richard H.Y., Tseng, Mitchell M. (2006) "Consumer Decision Quality in Mass Customization", International Journal of Mass Customization and Personalization, Volume 1, Issue 2/3, pp.176- 194, 2006.

Du, Leding, Tseng, Mitchell M. (2006) "Design of Micro Direct Methanol Fuel Cell By Axiomatic Design", Proceedings of ICAD 2006, The Fourth International Conference on Axiomatic Design, Firenze,, 13-16 June 2006.

Chen, Zhaoxun, Wang, Liya, Tseng, Mitchell M. (2005) "A Framework for Generic Activity-Based Costing to Support Variety Cost Calculation in Mass Customization", Proceedings of the 2005 World Congress on Mass Customization and Personalization, Hong Kong, Sept 18-21, 2005.

Zhang, Mei, Chen, Yongjiang, Tseng, Mitchell M. (2005) "Distributed Knowledge Management for Product and Process Variety in Mass Customization", IJCAT-International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, Vol 23, Issue 1; p.13-30, 2005.

Zeng, Qinglong, Tseng, Mitchell M. (2005) "Product Family Architecture Based Production Planning for Mass Customization", Proceedings of the 2005 World Congress on Mass Customization and Personalization, Hong Kong, Sept 18-21, 2005.

Jiao, Jianxin, Tseng, Mitchell M. (2005) "Product Family Driven Configure-to-Order Platforms for Global Manufacturing Supply Chain Management", Proceedings of the 2005 World Congress on Mass Customization and Personalization, Hong Kong, Sept 18-21, 2005.

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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Efficiency gains by policy relaxation for logistics operations RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$356,000 01 Sep 2006

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.

Fugee Tsung Professor; Director of the Quality lab; IELM Undergraduate Program Chair (2358 7106 ; [email protected] ; http://qlab.ieem.ust.hk)

Ph.D, 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: Dynamic-based statistical process control methodologies for multivariate and time-varying environments RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$356,000 01 Jan 2007 Fraud detection in a dynamic environment using statistical process control techniques RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$558,000 01 Jan 2008 A unified methodology for quality improvement in the service industry RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$64,300 30 Jun 2003 Adaptive statistical process control schemes for dynamic process monitoring RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$70,125 01 Jan 2006 Statistical quality techniques for nano manufacturing RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$320,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Tsung, Fugee, Zhou, Zhihong, Jiang, Wei (2007) "Applying Manufacturing Batch Techniques to Fraud Detection with Incomplete Customer Information", IIE Transactions, 39, 671-680.

Han, Dong, Tsung, Fugee (2006) "A Reference-Free Cuscore Chart for Dynamic Mean Change Detection and a Unified Framework for Charting Performance Comparison", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 101, 368- 386.

Tsung, Fugee, Zhao, Yi, Xiang, Liming, Jiang, Wei (2006) "Improved Design of Proportional Integral Derivative Charts", Journal of Quality Technology, 38, 31-44.

Shu, Lianjie, Tsung, Fugee, Tsui, K.L. (2004) "Run-Length Performance of Regression Control Charts with Estimated Parameters", Journal of Quality Technology, 36, 280-292.

Han, Dong, Tsung, Fugee (2004) "A Generalized EWMA Control Chart and Its Comparison with the Optimal EWMA, CUSUM and GLR Schemes", The Annals of Statistics, 32, 316-339.

Tsung, Fugee (2003) "Associate Editor", International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantage. Jiang, Wei, Wu, Huaiqing, Tsung, Fugee, Nair, Vijay, Tsui, Kwok-Leung (2002) "PID Charts for Process Monitoring", Technometrics, 44, 205-214.

Tsung, Fugee, Apley, Daniel (2002) "The Dynamic T-squared Chart for Monitoring Feedback-Controlled Processes", IIE Transactions, 34, 1043-1054.

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.

Ravindra S GOONETILLEKE Associate Professor (2358 7109 ; [email protected] ; http://www-ieem.ust.hk/dfaculty/ravi)

PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo (1990) Senior Ergonomist, Biomechanics Corporation of America ) Human Factors Manager/Researcher, NIKE Sports Research Lab )

Current Research Activities: Human performance modeling; human-computer interaction; product development.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: An experimental investigation into the design of tissue compliant footwear RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$376,000 30 Dec 2006 Investigating the effects of footbed design parameters on plantar pressure, posture and comfort RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$431,004 01 Dec 2007 Differentiating cultural and cognitive effects on human performance in process control RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$92,000 01 Jan 2004

Representative Research Publications:

Zhao, Jianhui, Xiong, Shuping, Bu, Yuebin, Goonetilleke, Ravindra S. (2008) "Computerized girth determination for custom footwear manufacture", Computers and Industrial Engineering, 54(3). April, 359-373.

Au, Emily, Yim Lee, Goonetilleke, Ravindra S. (2007) "A qualitative study on the comfort and fit of ladies' dress shoes.", Applied Ergonomics, 38(6), 687-696.

Xiong, Shuping, Witana, Channa P., Goonetilleke, Ravindra S. (2007) "The Use of a Foot Dorsal Height Model for the Design of Wellington Boots", Proceedings of Agriculture Ergonomics Development Conference, 26- 29 November 2007, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., 65-70.

Witana, Channa, Xiong, Shuping, Zhao, Jianhui, Goonetilleke, Ravindra (2006) "Foot measurements from three-dimensional scans: A comparison and evaluation of different methods", International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, Vol. 36(9), pp. 789-807.

Zhang, Yan, Goonetilleke, Ravindra Stephen, Plocher, Thomas, Liang, Sheau-Farn Max (2005) "Time-related behaviour in multitasking situations", International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 62, pp. 425-455.

Goonetilleke, Ravindra S. (2003) "Designing footwear: back to basics in an effort to design for people", 7th Southeast Asian Ergonomics Society (SEAES) and 4th Malaysian Ergonomics Conference (SEAMEC).

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kuching, Malaysia. 19-22 May, pp. 25-31.

Lau, Wing Chung, Goonetilleke, Ravindra S., Shih, Heloisa M. (2002) "Visual search strategies and eye movements when searching Chinese character screens", International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Vol. 57 (6), pp. 447-468.

Goonetilleke, Ravindra Stephen (2001) "The Comfort-Discomfort Phase Change", International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors (ed. Karwowski W.), Taylor and Francis, 399-402.

Ajay JONEJA Associate Professor (2358 7119 ; [email protected])

PhD, Purdue University (1993) Research Assistant, NSF Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Purdue University (1988-93)

Current Research Activities: CAD/CAM integration for manufacturing processes; computer-aided process planning; mass customization; rapid prototyping.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Quasi-static bio-mechanical modeling of human foot for computer-aided design of customized footwear RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$564,776 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

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, v 39, n 9, 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.

Joneja, Ajay, Yuen, Wei-Feng, Lee, Yuan-Shin (2003) "Greedy Tool Heuristic Approach to Milling Planning of Complex Shaped Pockets", IIE Transactions, v. 35, no. 10, p 953-964. Pang, King Wah, Murty, Katta G., Joneja, Ajay, Leung, Chi Chiu (2002) "Tool Path Optimization in Layered Manufacturing", IIE Transactions, 34(4): 335-347.

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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Generalized error pattern estimation and compensation for CNC machining processes RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$336,500 01 Sep 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Lee, Neville K.S., Lau, Leo P.F. (2006) "Capacitive Sensor Systems for Industrial Applications", Encyclopedia of Sensors by American Scientific Publishers, Volume 1, pp 463-485.

Lee, Neville K., An, Yingfei, Tsung, Fugee (2005) "Studying Effects of Screw-Fastening Process On Assembly Accuracy", Int. J. of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol 25, pp.491-499, (2005).

Lee, Neville K.S., Li, Z.Q. (2004) "Effect of Securing Processes on Precision Assembly", ASPE 2004 Annual Conference in Orlando, Flordia, ASPE 2004 Annual Conference Proceeding.

Lee, Neville K.S., Li, Z.Q. (2004) "Pushing the Precision Level of Mechanical Alignment System into the Nano Meter Region", ASPE 2004 Annual Conference in Orlando, Flordia, ASPE 2004 Annual Conference Proceeding.

Lee, Neville K. S., Yu, Grace, Chen, J. J., Joneja, Ajay (2003) "Effect of Mechanical Alignment System on Assembly Accuracy", ASME Journal of Mfg. Science and Engineering, Vol 125 , pp. 595-608.

Lee, Neville (2002) "An Ultra-precision Alignment System for Micro Machining", IEEE Conference on Industrial Engineering, Bangkok, Thailand.

Yu, Grace, Lee, Neville, Ceglarek, Derek (2002) "Budding Assembly Accuracy in The Presence of Workpiece Surface Roughness and Dimensional Error", 7th Annual Design for Manufacture Conference, ASME International DETC, Montreal, Canada.

Lee, Neville K., Yu, Grace (2002) "Design Considerations of High Precision Mechanical Alignment System-with Performance Moving into the nm Region", 2002 CIRP Design Seminar, Hong Kong.

Andrew LIM Associate Professor (2358 7116 ; [email protected] ; http://andrew.computational-logistics.com)

PhD, University of Minnesota (1992) Officer, National Service (1992-1994) Singapore Armed Forces, Singapore; Member of Technical Staff (1994-1997), National Computer Board (Singapore); Senior Lecturer (1997-2000) and Associate Professor (2000-02), National University of Singapore

Current Research Activities: Combinatorial optimization; decision support in supply chains; artificial intelligence; software architecture; design patterns.

Representative Research Publications:

Lim, Andrew, Rodrigues, Brian, Xu, Zhou (2007) "A m-Parallel Crane Scheduling Problem With A Non-Crossing Constraint", Naval Research Logistics, Volume 54, Issue 2, Pages 115-235 (March 2007).

Wang, Fan, Lim, Andrew, Xu, Zhou (2006) "The One-Commodity Pickup and Delivery Travelling Salesman Problem on a Path or a Tree", Networks, Networks, Volume 48, Issue 1 (August 2006) 24-35.

Lim, A., Rodrigues, B. (2005) "A Note on the Optimal EOQ for Announced Price Increases in Infinite Horizon", Operations Research, Vol. 53, No. 4, July-August 2005, 731-732.

Li, Yanzhi, Lim, Andrew, Rodrigues, Brian (2004-2005) "Manpower Allocation with Time Windows and Job Teaming Constraints", Naval Research Logistics, Volume 52 (4), June 2005, 302-311.

Lim, Andrew, Rodrigues, Brian, Thangarajoo, Ramesh, Xiao, Fei (2004) "A Hybrid Framework for Over-Constrained Generalized Resource Project Scheduling Problems", Artificial Intelligence Review, Volume 22, Issue 3, 211-243.

Chen, Ping, Fu, Zhaohui, Lim, Andrew, Rodrigues, Brian (2004) "Port Yard Optimization Problem", IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Volume 1, No 1, 26-37.

Lim, Andrew, Rodrigues, Brian, Xiao, Fei, Zhu, Yi (2004) "Crane Scheduling with Spatial Constraints", Naval Research Logistics, Volume 51, Issue 3, April, 386-406.

Lim, Andrew, Rodrigues, Brian, Zhang, Xingwen (2004) "Meta-Heuristics with Local Search Techniques for Retail Shelf Space Optimization", Management Science, Vol 50, No. 1, January, pp. 117-131.

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: An experimental study to quantify the main and interacting effects of type of vection, field-OKN, object-OKN, smooth-pursuit and saccadic eye-movement, and involuntary head sway on visually induced motion sickness RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as HK$356,000 01 Jan 2007 Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) Towards a biologically-inspired and individually-adjustable computational model for visually induced motion sickness (contract extension of HKUST6154/04E) RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as HK$360,000 30 Dec 2007 Competitive Earmarked Research Grant)

Representative Research Publications:

Rossiter, David, Tsang, Raymond, So, Richard (2007) "Beat Deviation for Tempo Estimation Algorithms.", Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 55, pp.967-980.

So, Richard, Leung, N.M., Braasch, Jonas, Leung, K.L. (2007) "A low cost, non-individualized surround sound system based upon head related transfer functions: An Ergonomics study and prototype development", Applied Ergonomics, 37, pp.695-707.

Horner, Andrew, Beauchamp, Jim, So, Richard (2006) "A Search for Best Error Metrics to Predict Discrimination of Original and Spectrally Altered Musical Instruments Sounds", Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Vol. 54, pp.140- 156.

Kurniawan, S.H., So, R.H.Y., Tseng, M.M. (2006) "Consumer Decision Quality in Mass Customisation.", International J. Mass Customisation, 1, pp.176-194.

Ng, T.Y., Tsung, Fugee, So, Richard, Li, T.S., Lam, K.Y. (2005) "Six sigma approach to reducing fall hazards among cargo handlers working on top of cargo containers: a case study.", International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantages, Vol.1, no.2., pp.188-209.

Horner, Andrew, Beauchamp, James, So, Richard (2004-2005) "Discrimination of Sustained Musical Instrument Sounds Resynthesized with Random Spectrum Alteration", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116, pp.1800- 1810.

Ji, Tin Tin, Lor, Felix, So, Richard (2004) "Integrating a computational model of optical flow into the cybersickness dose value prediction model.", Proceedings of the 48th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, New Orleans, LA, USA, 20-24 September.

So, Richard (2004) "Predicting levels of cybersickness as a function of scene complexity, navigation velocity, and exposure duration.", Proceedings of the ISO International Workshop on Image Safety, Tokyo, Japan, 6-9 December 2004.

Rachel Q ZHANG Associate Professor (2358 7113 ; [email protected] ; http://www1.ieem.ust.hk/aboutus/profile.html?id=26)

PhD, Northwestern University (1994) Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan (1994- 2000) Assistant Professor, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University (2000-2004)

Current Research Activities: Inventory and supply chain management; joint operational and financial decisions.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The impact of counterfeiting RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$534,000 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$546,000 01 Sep 2007 Improving the supply of apparel assortment under quick response RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Mar 2003

Jeff L HONG Assistant 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: Dynamic Grid Search: A locally-convergent and Gradient-free Framework for Continuous Optimization via Simulation RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$538,836 01 Jan 2006 Continuous optimization via simulation using line search algorithms RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$534,000 01 Sep 2006 Sensitivity analysis for risk measures and its applications RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$391,591 01 Jan 2008 A game of five: Challenges and opportunities to Hong Kong international airport and Hong Kong's logistics industry UGC - High Impact Area HK$600,000 10 Sep 2005

Representative Research Publications:

Hong, L. Jeff (2006) "Fully sequential indifference-zone selection procedures with variance-dependent sampling", Naval Research Logistics, 53:464-476.

Hong, L. Jeff, Nelson, Barry (2006) "Discrete optimization via simulation using COMPASS.", Operations Research, 54:115-129.

Hong, L. Jeff, Nelson, Barry (2005) "The tradeoff between sampling and switching: New sequential procedures for indifference-zone selection.", IIE Transactions, 37:623-634.

Qian LIU Assistant Professor (2358 7118 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Optimal pricing of services with switching costs RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$640,786 01 Jul 2007 Capacity rationing with strategic customers RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Jan 2007

Xiangtong QI Assistant Professor (2358 8231 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~ieemqi)

PhD, University of Texas at Austin (Management Science) (2003); Nankai University

Current Research Activities: Production scheduling, inventory control, supply chain management, manpower planning

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Integrated logistics scheduling models RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$534,000 01 Jan 2007 Production scheduling with order quotation RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$561,600 01 Jan 2008 Production planning with given raw material arrivals and the option of outsourcing RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$50,000 01 Feb 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Qi, Xiangtong (2008) "Coordinated logistics scheduling for in-house production and outsourcing", IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, V.5, 188-192.

Qi, Xiangtong (2006) "A logistics scheduling model: Scheduling and transshipment for two processing centers", IIE Transactions, V.38, 609-618.

Xu, Minghui, Qi, Xiangtong, Yu, Gang, Zhang, Hanqin (2006) "Coordinating dyadic supply chains when production costs are disrupted", IIE Transactions, V.38, 765-775.

Yang, Jian, Qi, Xiangtong, Yu, Gang (2005) "Disruption management in production planning", Naval Research Logistics, V.52, 420-442.

Qi, Xiangtong (2005) "A logistics scheduling model: Inventory cost reduction by batching", Naval Research Logistics, V.52, 312-320, 2005.

Yang, Jian, Qi, Xiangtong, Xia, Yusen (2005) "A production-inventory system with Markovian capacity and outsourcing option", Operations Research, V.53, 328-349.

Yu, Gang, Qi, Xiangtong (2004) Disruption Management: Framework, Models and Applications. Qi, Xiangtong, Bard, Jonathan, Yu, Gang (2004) "Class scheduling for pilot training", Operations Research, V.52, 148-162.

Xiang ZHU Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 8240 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Optimal replenishment policy for a capacitated production system with uncertain yield and outsourcing RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 15 Dec 2007

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Matthew M F YUEN, Head of Department and Professor; VP, HKUST RandD Corp; Director, Entrepreneurship Center

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

Lilong CAI, Professor

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

Jang Kyo KIM, Professor; Associate Dean of Engineering

Yang LENG, Professor

Qingping SUN, Professor

Tongyi ZHANG, Professor

Tianshou ZHAO, Professor; Associate Director, Center for Sustainable Energy Technology

Christopher Yu Hang CHAO, Associate Professor

Yongsheng GAO, Associate Professor

See Chun KOT, Senior Lecturer

David Chuen Chun LAM, Associate Professor

Ricky Shi-Wei LEE, Associate Professor and Associate Director, Center for Advanced Electronics System Packaging

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

Jingshen WU, Associate Professor

Zhigang LI, Assistant Professor

Wenjing YE, Assistant Professor Matthew M F YUEN Head of Department and Professor; VP, HKUST RandD Corp; Director, Entrepreneurship Center (2358 7189 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Bristol (1977) Senior Research Technologist, GEC Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (1975-77) Senior Design Engineer, Babcock & Wilcox (1977-79) Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, University of Hong Kong (1979-91)

Current Research Activities: Geometric modeling; CAD/CAM; electronic packaging; polymer processing.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: MD design and AFM evaluation of SAM structures as adhesion promoter for electronic packages RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$457,591 01 Sep 2007 Flip-chip bonder for conductive polymer interconnects Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$3,578,250 17 Jul 2006 The encapsulation material and manufacture technology of high-power LED Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$4,390,020 15 Apr 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Zhang, Kai, Yuen, Matthew Ming Fai, Gao, Jinhao, Xu, Bing (2007) "Fabrication of High Thermal Conductivity Carbon Nanotube Arrays by Self Assembled Fe3O4 particles", CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 56 (1), pp. 245-248.

Fan, Haibo, Yuen, Matthew Ming Fai (2007) "Material properties of the cross-linked epoxy resin compound predicted by molecular dynamics simulation", Polymer, 48 (7), pp. 2174-2178.

Fan, Haibo, Wong, Cell Kit Ying, Yuen, Matthew Ming Fai (2006) "A multi-scale method to investigate delamination in electronic packages", Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, 20 (10), pp. 1061-1078.

Wong, Cell Kit Ying, Gu, Hongwei, Xu, Bing, Yuen, Matthew Ming Fai (2006) "A new approach in measuring Cu-EMC adhesion strength by AFM", IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, 29 (3), pp. 543-550.

Gong, Jing Feng, Chan, Philip Ching Ho, Xiao, Guowei, Lee, Ricky Shi-wei, Yuen, Matthew Ming Fai (2006) "A reliability comparison of electroplated and stencil printed flip-chip solder bumps based on UBM related intermetallic compound growth properties", IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, 29 (1), pp. 164-172.

Fan, Haibo, Chan, Edward King Long, Wong, Cell Kit Ying, Yuen, Matthew Ming Fai (2006) "Investigation of moisture diffusion in electronic packages by molecular dynamics simulation", Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, 20 (16), pp. 1937-1947.

Yuen, Matthew Ming Fai (2006) "3D Garment Design System", Int. Symp. Series on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering, TCME, Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 2006.

Gong, Jinfeng, Chan, Philip Ching Ho, Xiao, Guowei, Lee, Ricky Shi-wei, Yuen, Matthew Ming Fai (2006) "A reliability comparison of electroplated and stencil printed flip-chip solder bumps based on UBM related intermetallic compound growth properties", IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, 29 (1), pp. 164- 172.

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: Conceptual Stusy of Adaptive Energy Absorbers RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$696,267 01 Sep 2005 Numerical techniques and studies of dynamic behavior of porous solids with large porosity RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$777,600 01 Jul 2007 Dynamic characterization of high-strength fibers/yarns and niti microtubes by using a mini-shtb system RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$725,250 01 Oct 2006 Joint laboratory on microsystems between Institute of Mechanics (CAS) and HKUST UGC - Collaboration with Mainland Institutions HK$400,000 01 Dec 2003 Nano-composites DSM Research, Material Science Centre HK$237,750 01 May 2004

Representative Research Publications:

Zhu, C.Z., Guo, W.L., Yu, T.X. (2007) "An efficient method for evaluating nanohardness of layer-configured materials by atomistic simulation", Nanotechnology, 18(29), paper No. 295704.

Zhu, B., Yu, T.X., Tao, X.M. (2007) "Large deformation and failure mechanisms of plain woven composite in bias extension test", Key Engineering Materials, 334-335, 253-256.

Yu, T.X., Karagiozova, D., Gao, Z.Y. (2007) "The dependence of the energy-absorption capacity of metal hollow sphere materials on their relative density", Key Engineering Materials, 340-341, 389-396.

Zhu, B., Yu, T.X., Tao, X.M. (2006) "An experimental study of in-plane large shear deformation of woven fabric composite", Composite Science and Technology, 67(2), 252-261,.

Gao, Z.Y., Yu, T.X., Karagiozova, D. (2006) "Finite element simulation on the mechanical properties of MHS materials", Acta Mechanica Sinica (English edition), 23, 65-75.

Yu, T.X., Zhu, B., Teng, J., Tao, X.M. (2006) "In-plane large shear deformation and failure mechanism of plain woven composite in picture frame test (Keynote paper)", ACCM-5 (The Asia-Pacific Conf. Composite Materials), Hong Kong, 27-30 November, 2006.

Karagiozova, D., Yu, T.X., Gao, Z.Y. (2006) "Modeling of MHS cellular solid in large strains", Int. J. Mech. Sci., 48 (11), 1273-1286.

Gao, Z.Y., Yu, T.X. (2006) "One-dimensional analysis on the dynamic response of cellular chains to pulse loading", Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science (Proc. IMechE. Part C), 220(5), 679-689.

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 automatic electromechanical system to sort diamonds into different grades according to their colour/impurity characteristics Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$2,185,000 01 Apr 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Zhao, Xin, Cai, Lilong (2007) "Current Control For Single Phase AC Resistance Spot Welding Systems Using Fourier Learning Scheme", the proceedings of the 26th IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Identification, and Control', pp. 7-12, Feb. 12-14, 2007, Innsbruck, Austria.

Liao, Jiarui, Cai, Lilong (2006) "A novel approach for 3D discontinuity measurement of combining relative and absolute methods", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics 2006,12/07/Kunming, China.

Mei, Weilong, Li, Vincent, Cai, Lilong (2006) "Application of Finite Element Analysis in the Simulation of Spot Welding Process", Engineering Journal of WuHan University, pp. 94-99, Vol. 39, 2006. (ISSN 1671-8844).

Mei, Weilong, Li, Vincent, Cai, Lilong (2006) "Application of Finite Element Analysis on the Simulation of Spot Welding Process", ANSYS-CHINA Conference 2006,Nov, 2006 Hainan, China.

Liao, Jiarui, Cai, Lilong (2006) "Measurement of Discontinuities on 3D Objects Using Digital Moiré", Electronic Imaging 2006,San Jose, USA, Jan. 2006.

Yuan, Xiaohong, Cai, Lilong (2005) "Variable amplitude Fourier series with its application in gearbox diagnosis - Part I: Principle and simulation", MECHANICAL SYSTEMS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, 19 (5): 1055-1066 SEP 2005.

Yuan, Xiaohong, Cai, Lilong (2005) "Variable amplitude Fourier series with its application in gearbox diagnosis - Part II: Experiment and application", MECHANICAL SYSTEMS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, 19 (5): 1067-1081 SEP 2005.

Zuo, Wei, Cai, Lilong (2005) "“Tracking Control of Nonlinear Systems Using Fourier Neural Network”,", 2005 IEEE/ ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Monterey, California, USA., July, 2005.

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: Technology development of energy efficient evaporative condensers for split-type air-conditioners Innovation and Technology Commission & Industries HK$2,301,000 01 Mar 2006

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:8080/web/people_details.jsp?gid=863)

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: Interface science and adhesion mechanisms in various composite materials Carbon nanotube, Carbon nanofiber, Graphite, Nanoclay, Nano-fillers, Nano-composites, Manoscale characterization of interphase Fibre reinforced composites; Laminates; Thin films/coatings Damage and fracture of advanced materials, microstructure-property relationships Reliability of microelectronic packages: delamination failures, shrinkage stresses, wire bonding, electronic materials

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Self-healing fibres with nanocomposite coating RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$402,600 01 Sep 2007 Moisture barrier nanocomposites for strengthening concrete structures RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$696,678 01 Aug 2003 Research Training: Development of carbon fibre-carbon nanotube hybrid composites Pakistan Institute of Technology for Mineral and Advanced Engineering Materials HK$111,294 01 Sep 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Li, Jing, Vaisman, Linda, Marom, G., Kim, Jang-Kyo (2007) "Br treated graphite nanoplatelets for improved electrical properties of conducting polymer composites", Carbon, Vol. 45, 744-750.

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.

Li, Jing, Kim, Jang-Kyo, Sham, Man Lung, Maron, Gad (2007) "Morphology and properties of UV/Ozone treated graphite nanoplatelet/epoxy nanocomposites", Composites Science and Technology, Vol. 67, 296-305.

Sham, Man Lung, Kim, Jang-Kyo, Park, Joo Hyuk (2007) "Numerical analysis of plastic encapsulated electronic package reliability: viscoelastic properties of underfill resin", Computational Mater. Sci., Vol. 40, 81-89.

Li, Jing, Kim, Jang-Kyo (2007) "Percolation threshold of conducting polymer composites containing 3D randomly distributed graphite nanoplatelets", Composites Science and Technology, Vol. 67, 2114-2120.

Ma, Peng Cheng, Kim, Jang-Kyo, Tang, Ben Zhong (2006) "Functionalization of carbon nanotubes using a silane coupling agent", Carbon, Vol. 44, 3232-3238.

Sham, Man Lung, Kim, Jang-Kyo (2006) "Surface functionalities of multi-wall carbon nanotubes after UV/ozone and TETA treatments", Carbon, 44, 768-777.

Kim, Jang-Kyo, Hu, Chugang, Woo, Ricky S.C., Sham, Man Lung (2005) "Moisture barrier characteristics of organoclay-epoxy nanocomposites", Composites Science & Technology, Vol. 65 (2005) 805-813.

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: Study of Osteoinduction Mechanism of Bioceramic Materials UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$400,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Leng, Yang (2008) Materials Characterization-Introduction to microscopic and spectroscopic methods, 337 pages.

Xin, Renlong, Leng, Yang, Wang, Ning (2006) "In Situ TEM Examinations of Octacalcium Phosphate to Hydroxyapatite Transformation", Journal of Crystal Growth, 289 (2006) 339-344.

Xin, Renlong, Leng, Yang, Chen, Jiyong, Zhang, Qiyi (2005) "A Comparative Study of Calcium Phosphate Formation on Bioceramics In Vitro and in Vivo", Biomaterials, 26 (2005) 6477-6486.

Zhang, Qiyi, Leng, Yang (2005) "Electrochemical Activation Titanium for Biomimetic Coating of Calcium Phosphate", Biomaterials, Vol. 26, 3853-3859.

Lu, Xiong, Leng, Yang (2005) "Theoretical Analysis of Calcium Phosphate Precipitation in Simulated Body Fluid", Biomaterials, Vol. 26, pp. 1097-1108.

Lu, Xiong, Leng, Yang (2004) "TEM Study of Calcium Phosphate Precipitation on Bioactive Titanium Surfaces", Biomaterials, Vol. 25, pp. 1779-1786.

Yan, Liling, Leng, Yang, Weng, Lutao (2003) "Characterization of chemical inhomogeneity in plasma-sprayed hydroxyapatite coatings", Biomaterials, Vol. 24(15), pp. 2585-2592.

Leng, Y., Chen, J.Y., Qu, S.X. (2003) "TEM Examinations of Calcium Phosphate Precipitation on HA/TCP", Biomaterials, Vol. 24/13, pp. 2125 - 2131.

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: Modelling and computational study of macroscopic domain evolution in polycrystalline NiTi tubing RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$356,000 01 Jan 2007 Effects of temperature and texture-induced anisotropy on deformation instability of NiTi shape memory alloy micro-tubes RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$591,279 01 Jan 2005

Representative Research Publications:

Sun, Qingping, He, Yongjun (2008) "A multiscale continuum model on the grain size dependence of the stress hysteresis in shape memory alloy polycrystals", Int. J. Solids and Structures, 45 (2008) 3868-3896.

Feng, Xiqiao, Sun, Qingping (2007) "Shakedown analysis of shape memory alloy structures", Int. J. Plasticity, 23, pp. 183-206.

YAN, W. Y., SUN, Q.P., FENG, X.Q., QIAN, L.M. (2006) "Determination of transformation stresses of shape memory alloys thin film – a method based on spherical indentation", Applied Physics Letter,, 88, p. 241912.

FENG, P., SUN, Q.P. (2006) "Experimental investigation on Macroscopic Domain Formation and Evolution in Polycrystalline NiTi Microtubing under Mechanical Force", J. Mech. Phys. Solids,, 54, pp. 1568-1603.

NG, K. L., SUN, Q. P. (2006) "Stress-induced Phase Transformation and Detwinning in NiTi Tubes", Mechanics of Materials, 38, pp. 41-56.

Qian, Linmao, Xiao, Xudong, Sun, Qingping, Yu, Tongxi (2004) "Anomalous relationship between hardness and wear properties of a superelastic nickel-titanium alloy", Applied Physics Letter, Vol. 84, No. 7, pp. 1076-1078.

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.

Sun, Qing-Ping, Li, Zhi-Qi (2001-2002) "Phase Transformation in Superelastic NiTi Polycrystalline Micro-tubes under Tension and Torsion - From Localization to Homogeneous Deformation", International Journal of Solids and Structure, 39, 3797-3809.

Tongyi ZHANG 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: Microbridge tests of gallium nitride films RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$406,000 01 Jan 2007 Pre-plate frame (PPF) project ASM Assembly Materials Limited HK$325,000 01 Aug 2004 Mechanical and/or electrical characterization of nano materials Eastland Limited HK$312,000 01 Sep 2006 Phase field simulations of ferroelectric materials Germany / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$26,600 01 Jan 2008 Hong Kong - Beijing UST Joint Research Center Nansha Research Centers HK$4,846,000 01 Jul 2006 Size-dependent Properties in Nanometer-thick Ferroelectric, Ferromagnetic and Magnetoelectric Films UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant HK$400,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Liu, Lilin, Zhang, Yousheng, Zhang, Tong-Yi (2008) "Critical thickness for misfit twinning in an epilayer", International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 45, pp. 3173-3191.

Wang, Jie, Zhang, Tong-Yi (2008) "Influence of depolarization field on polarization states in epitaxial ferroelectric thin films with nonequally biaxial misfit strains", Physical Review B, Vol. 77, 014104.

Wang, Jie, Kamlah, Marc, Zhang, Tong-Yi, Li, Yulan, Chen, Long-Qing (2008) "Size-Dependent Polarization Distribution in Ferroelectric Nanostructures: Phase Field Simulations", Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, 162905.

Zhang, Tong-Yi, Luo, Miao, Chan, Wing Kin (2008) "Size-dependent Surface Stress, Surface Stiffness, and Young's Modulus of Hexagonal Prism 111 beta-SiC Nanowires", Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 103, 104308. Zhao, Ming-Hao, Yang, Feng, Zhang, Tong-Yi (2007) "Delamination Buckling in the Microwedge Indentation of a Thin Film on an Elastically Deformable Substrate", Mechanics of Materials, Vol. 39, pp. 881-892.

Zhao, Ming-Hao, Zhou, Jian, Yang, Feng, Liu, Tong, Zhang, Tong-Yi (2007) "Effects of substrate compliance on circular buckle delamination of thin films", Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 74, pp. 2334-2351.

Ko, Sun-Chien, Zhang, Tong-Yi, Lee, Sanboh (2007) "Influence of Chemical Stresses in the Permeation, One-side and Two-side Charging Processes", Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 101, 113521.

Wang, Xu-Sheng, Zhang, Tong-Yi (2007) "Microbridge tests on bilayer thin films", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Vol. 38A, pp. 2273-2282.

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

PhD, University of Hawaii (1995) Lecturer, Tianjin University (1986-91)

Current Research Activities: Fuel cell; microscale heat transfer; phase-change flow and heat transfer in capillary structures; electronic cooling; heat pipes; advanced air conditioning and refrigeration systems.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Coupled heat and mass transfer in passive silicon-based direct methanol fuel cells RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$538,836 01 Jan 2006 Bubble dynamics and mass transport in microfluidic direct methanol fuel cells RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$734,000 01 Jan 2007 Mass transport in the nano-structured electrode of polymer electrolyte-based fuel cells RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,222,800 01 Jan 2008 Transport phenomena in passively-operated micro direct methanol fuel cells RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$70,125 01 Jan 2006 An evaporation-based micropump for integrated microfluidic systems RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$718,527 01 Jan 2005 Direct ethanol fuel cell Sumitomo Corporation HK$200,000 01 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Yang, W W, Zhao, T S (2007) "A two-dimensional, two-phase mass transport model for liquid-feed DMFCsY", Electrochimica Acta 52, 6125-6140. (IF: 2.955).

Xu, Chao, He, Yaling, Zhao, Tianshou, Chen, Rong, Ye, Qiang (2006) "Analysis of mass transport of methanol at the anode of a direct methanol fuel cell", J. Electrochemical Society, 153 (7) A1358-A1364.

Chen, Rong, Zhao, Tianshou, Liu, Jianguo (2006) "Effect of cell orientation on the performance of passive direct methanol fuel cells", J. Power Source, 157 (2006) 351-357.

Shi, Yong, Zhao, Tianshou, Guo, Zhaoli (2006) "Finite Difference-Based Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Natural Convection Heat Transfer in a Horizontal Concentric Annulus", Computers & Fluids, 35 (2006) 1–15.

Shi, Yong, Zhao, Tianshou, Guo, Zhaoli (2006) "Lattice Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook model for incompressible flows with large pressure gradients", Physical Review E, 73, 026704 (2006).

Guo, Zhaoli, Zhao, Tianshou, Shi, Yong (2006) "Physical symmetry, spatial accuracy, and relaxation time of the lattice Boltzmann equation for micro gas flows", J. Applied Physics, 99, 074903 (2006).

Ye, Qiang, Zhao, Tianshou (2005) "Abrupt decline in open-circuit voltage of direct methanol fuel cells at critical oxygen feed rate", J. Electrochemical Society, 152 (11) A2238-A2245 (2005).

Ye, Qiang, Zhao, Tianshou, Liu, Jianguo (2005) "Effect of transient hydrogen evolution/oxidation reactions on the open circuit voltage of direct methanol fuel cells", Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, 8, A549-A553, (2005).

Christopher Yu Hang CHAO Associate Professor (2358 7210 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1994) Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (1995-97)

Current Research Activities: Indoor environmental quality in buildings; combustion and fire safety science.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Transmission Characteristics of Human-Exhaled Droplets due to Respiratory Actions in Aircraft Cabin Environments RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive HK$538,836 01 Jan 2006 Earmarked Research Grant) Dispersion of expiratory aerosols in indoor environments with buoyancy generated turbulence RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive HK$613,500 01 Jan 2007 Earmarked Research Grant) A study of the mass transfer and reaction characteristics of catalytic oxidation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in a fixed- bed reactor with micro/meso-porous catalysts RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive HK$517,000 01 Jan 2008 Earmarked Research Grant) Development of advanced environmental technologies for indoor air quality control and assessment Acron International Technology Limited HK$651,000 01 May 2002 The effect of co-combustion of coal and biomass on combustion performance and pollutant emissions CLP Research Institute Limited HK$537,500 01 Jul 2003 Development of advanced environmental technologies for indoor air quality control and assessment UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$15,500 01 Jul 2003 The effect of co-combustion of coal and biomass on combustion performance and pollutant emissions UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$53,750 01 Jul 2003

Representative Research Publications:

Hu, J.S., Chao, C.Y.H. (2008) "Development of an Electroosmotic Pump Driven Micro LiBr Absorption Heat Pump System for Controlling Microclimate in Protective Clothing – Feasibility Review and Role of the EO Pump", HVAC&R Research.

Kwong, C.W., Chao, C.Y.H., Hui, K.S., Wan, M.P. (2008) "Removal of VOCs from Indoor Environment by Ozonation over Different Porous Materials", Atmospheric Environment, 42, pp. 2300-2311.

Chao, C.Y.H., Wan, M.P., Sze To, G.N. (2008) "Transport and Removal of Expiratory Droplets in Hospital Ward Environment", Aerosol Science and Technology, 42, pp. 377-394.

Hui, K.S., Chao, C.Y.H., Kwong, C.W., Wan, M.P. (2008) "Use of Multi-transition Metal-ion-exchanged Zeolite 13X Catalysts in Methane Emissions Abatement", Combustion and Flame, 153, pp. 119-129.

Hu, J.S., Chao, C.Y.H. (2007) "An Experimental Study of the Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics in Micro Condensers with Slug-bubbly Flow", International Journal of Refrigeration, 30, pp. 1309-1318.

Chao, C.Y.H., Kwong, C.W., Wang, J.H., Cheung, C.W., Kendall, Gail (2007) "Co-Firing Coal with Rice Husk and Bamboo and the Impact on Particulate Matters and Associated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emissions", Bioresource Technology, 99, pp. 83-93.

Kwong, P.C.W., Chao, C.Y.H., Wang, J.H., Cheung, C.W., Kendall, Gail (2007) "Co-combustion Performance of Coal with Rice Husks and Bamboo", Atmospheric Environment, 41, pp. 7462-7472.

Sze To, G.N., Wan, M.P., Wei, F., Chao, C.Y.H., Yu, S.T.C., Kwan, J.K.C. (2007) "Estimation of Exposure Levels of Virus-Laden Expiratory Aerosols in a Hospital Ward under Imperfect Mixing Condition", The 6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings, Sendai, Japan, October 28-31.

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: Experimental study of active cooling assisted by high frequency activation for surface grinding RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$355,493 01 Dec 2006 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 (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.

Tao, Zhengsu, Gao, Yongsheng (2005) "Effects of key parameters on the performance of a new in-process optical measurement method", Key Engineering Materials, 295-296, pp. 405-410.

Gao, Yongsheng, Tse, Shuetfung, Gao, Wei (2005) Measurement Technology and Intelligent Instruments VI.

Liu, Xiaojun, Gao, Yongsheng, To, Sandy S., Lee, W. B. (2004-2005) "Anti-Vibration Characteristics of a Lateral Shear Interferometer for On-Machine Surface Measurement", Key Engineering Materials, 295-296, pp. 411-416.

See Chun KOT Senior Lecturer (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 wid 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.

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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$655,200 01 Jan 2008 Characterization and modeling of strain gradient stiffened nanocomposite RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$582,116 31 Dec 2005 Research and development of statistical process-reliability relations on multilayerd flexible substrates Compass Technology Co. Ltd. HK$756,000 01 Sep 2006 Research and development of statistical process-reliability relations on multilayerd flexible substrates UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$18,900 01 Sep 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Lam, David CC, Wang, Jun (2007) "Hygrothermal Delaminations in Lead-Free Solder Reflow of Electronic Packages", Journal of Electronic Materia, Volume 36, Number 3 / March, 2007 pp 226-231.

Leung, Stanley YY, Lam, David CC (2007) "Performance of printed polymer-based RFID antenna on curvilinear surface", IEEE Transaction on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing, pp 200 - 5; Vol 30 No 3 2007.

Cheng, PL, Leung, Stanley YY, Law, T W, Liu, C K, Chong, J I T, Lam, David CC (2007) "Quantitative Analysis of Resistance Tolerance of Polymer Thick Film Printed Resistors", IEEE Transactions on Components, packaging and technologies, vol 30 No. 2 2007 pp 269-274.

Mui, Man Kit, Lam, David CC (2006) "Development and characterizations of low cost accelerometers", 8th International Conference on Electronics Materials and Packaging, Hong Kong, December 11–14, 2006.

Leung, Stanley YY, Tiu, Pui Kwan, Lam, David CC (2006) "Printed polymer based RFID antenna on curvilinear surface", 8th International Conference on Electronics Materials and Packaging, Hong Kong, December 11–14, 2006.

Chong, A.C.M., Yang, F., Lam, D.C.C., Tong, P. (2005) "Mechanics Framework for Micron-Scale Planar Structures", Advanced Materials Research, Vol. 9, Page 173.

Tong, P., Lam, D.C.C., Yang, F. (2005) "Mode I solution for micron-sized crack", Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Volume 72, Issue 12, Page 1779-1804.

Lam, S., Liu, C.K., Mui, M.K., Shek, K.T., Kok, C.W., Lam, D.C.C. (2005) "Realization of a 27-MHz wireless transmitter using embedded passives on a thin organic substrate", Proceedings of 2005 Electronic Components and Technology Conference, ECTC 2005, pp. 1704 1710.

Ricky Shi-Wei LEE Associate Professor and Associate Director, Center for Advanced Electronics System Packaging (2358 7203 ; [email protected] ; http://www.me.ust.hk/~rickylee)

PhD, Purdue University (1992) Visiting Assistant Professor, Purdue University (1993)

Current Research Activities: Electronic packaging and surface mount technology; smart materials and mechanics for sensors and actuators; composite materials and structures.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Characterization of board level solder joint reliability of Etched Leadless Packages (ELP) Advanced Interconnect Technologies HK$161,600 01 Feb 2007 Computational simulation and experimental study for board level solder joint and process reliability UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$2,494 01 Jul 2007 Characterization of board level solder joint reliability of Etched Leadless Packages (ELP) UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$4,040 01 Jul 2007 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 UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$23,800 01 Jul 2007 Computational simulation and experimental study for board level solder joint and process reliability Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. HK$160,000 01 Jul 2005 Packaging of high-brightness light emitting diode (HB-LED) array module for the placement of saloon lighting on MTR subway trains Mass Transit Railway Corporation HK$212,000 01 Sep 2005 Yellow phosphor coating and glob-top encapsulation of high brightness light emitting diode (HB-LED) arrays using wafer level packaging process RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$230,000 30 Jun 2007 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$634,200 19 Feb 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Lee, Shi-Wei Ricky, Lo, C. C. (2007) "Passive Alignment of Optical Fibers in V-grooves with Low Viscosity Epoxy Flow", Micro- & Opto-Electronic Materials and Structures: Physics, Mechanics, Design, Reliability, Packaging, Volume II, Springer, Boston, MA, pp. 151-172.

Song, Fubin, Lee, Shi-Wei Ricky (2006) "Investigation of IMC Thickness Effect on the Lead-free Solder Ball Attachment Strength: Comparison between Ball Shear Test and Cold Bump Pull Test Results", 56th Electronic Components & Technology Conference, San Diego, California, USA, 30 May-2 June, pp. 1196-1203.

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.

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.

Lau, John, Wong, C. P., Lee, N. C., Lee, S. W. Ricky (2003) Electronics Manufacturing with Lead-free, Halogen-free, and Conductive Adhesive Materials, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.

Lee, S. W. Ricky, Lui, Ben H. W., Kong, Y. H., Baylon, Bernard, Leung, T., Umali, P., Agtarap, H. (2002) "Assessment of Board Level Solder Joint Reliability for PBGA Assemblies with Lead-free Solders", Soldering & Surface Mount Technology, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 46-50.

Zhang, Xiaowu, Lee, S.W. Ricky, Choi, K.S., Kim, Y.G. (2002) "Computational Parametric Analyzes on the Solder Joint Reliability of Bottom Leaded Plastic (BLP) Package", IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging Technologies, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 514-521.

Lau, John, Lee, S. W. Ricky, Pan, S. H., Chang, Chris (2002) "Nonlinear Time-Dependent Analysis of Micro Via-in-Pad Substrates for Solder Bumped Flip Chip Applications", Journal of Electronic Packaging, ASME Transactions, Vol. 124, No. 3, pp. 205-211.

Yi-Kuen LEE Associate Professor; Associate Director of Center for Bioengineering & Biomedical Devices in Nansha Campus; Associate Director of Institute of Integrated Microsystem; Research Affiliate in Bioengineering Graduate Program (2358 8663 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~meyklee)

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (2001) Research Assistant, University of California, Los Angeles (1997-2001); Research Assistant, National Taiwan University (1992-1995)

Current Research Activities: Bio-MEMS/NEMS: micro biosensor chip; micro electroporation chip for DNA transfection, micro thermal inkjet; micro/nano capillary electrophoresis chip; micro biometric sensor; micro inertia sensor chip; micro chaotic mixing; DNA fluorescence microscopy.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Microelectroendocytosis cell chips for large DNA transfection with high cell viability RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$468,050 01 Sep 2007 Nonlinear electrophoretic dynamics of large DNA molecules in micro electrophoresis chip with nanopillar arrays RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$745,000 01 Sep 2006 Giant electrorheological fluid based-digital microfluidics France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme HK$30,600 01 Jan 2008 High-throughput micro electroporation cell chip technology for DNA transfection Kenreal International Trading Co. Ltd. HK$78,000 01 Jan 2004

Representative Research Publications:

Ling, Yun-Yang, Zhang, Yechi, Wen, Weijia, Tabeling, Patrick, Lee, Yi-Kuen (2008) "Design and Fabrication of Integrated Micro GER Valves for Micro Flow Cytometry", 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Transducers and Micro- Nano Technology 2008 (APCOT 2008), Tainan, Taiwan, 22-25 Jun.

He, Huiqi, Lee, Yi-Kuen, Chang, Donald C. (2008) "Nonlinear Current Response of Micro Electroporation and Resealing Dynamics for Human Cancer Cells", Bioelectrochemistry, Vol. 72, No. 2, pp.161-168.

Cao, Xinping, Chiang, Wen-Jen, King, Ya-Chin, Lee, Yi-Kuen (2007) "Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting Circuit With Feedforward and Feedback DC-DC PWM Boost Converter for Vibration Power Generator System", IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp.679-685, 2007.

Lee, Yi-Kuen, Shih, Chiang, Tabeling, Patrick, Ho, Chih-Ming (2007) "Experimental Study and Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Time-periodic Micro Chaotic Mixers", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 575, pp.425-448, 2007. Lee, Yi-Kuen, Lee, Lap Man, Hau, Winky Lap Wing, Zohar, Yitshak (2007) "Two-Dimensional Analysis of Electrokinetically-driven Out-of-plane Vorticies in a Microchannel Liquid Flow Using Patterned Surface Charge", Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp.58-67, 2007.

Xu, Baojian, Lee, Yi-Kuen, Jin, Qinghui, Zhao, Jianglong, Ho, Chih-Ming (2006) "Multi-layer SU-8 Microdispenser for Microarray Assay", Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Vol.132, No.2, pp.714-725, 2006.

Deng, Peigang, Lee, Yi-Kuen, Cheng, Ping (2006) "An Experimental Study of Heater Size Effect on Micro Bubble Generation", International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 49, No. 15-16, pp. 2535-2544, 2006.

Chan, Yick Chuen, Lee, Yi-Kuen, Zohar, Yitshak (2006) "High-throughput Design and Fabrication of an Integrated Microsystem with High Aspect-Ratio Sub-Micron Pillar Arrays for Free-Solution Micro Capillary Electrophoresis", Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 699-707, 2006.

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: Interfacial Film Dynamics in Pulsating Multiphase Micro Flows RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$579,411 01 Jan 2006 Droplet dynamics and control in immiscible microfluids RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$386,000 01 Jan 2007 Transport dynamics and coalescence of spreading microdroplets on a heterogeneous surface RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$711,360 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Qiu, Huihe, Wang, Xishi (2006) "Experimental Study on Interfacial Film Dynamics of Oscillating Multiphase Micro Flows", 13th International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics, June 26-29, 1036, 1-12.

Zhao, Yong, Qiu, Huihe (2006) "Measurements of Multicomponent Microdroplet Evaporation by Using Novel Optical Techniques", Experiments in Fluids, 40, pp60-69.

Hong, Fangjun, Qiu, Huihe (2005) "Experimental Study on Rapid Solidification Process Using a Novel Ultrasound Technique", Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 30/1, pp17-26.

Wang, Xishi, Qiu, Huihe (2005) "Fringe Probing of Gas-Liquid Interfacial Film in a Micro Capillary Tube", Applied Optics, Vol. 44, No. 22, pp4648-4653.

Xue, Zhenlan, Wang, Xishi, Hong, Fangjun, Zhang, Peng, Qiu, Huihe (2005) "Interfacial Film Dynamics of Oscillating Plug/Slug Flows in Mini/Micro Channels", International Conference on Jets, Wakes and Separated Flows, Toba-shi, Mie, Japan, October 5-8, P-015, 1-6.

Hong, Fangjun, Qiu, Huihe (2005) "Modeling of Substrate Remelting, Flow, and Resolidification in Microcasting", Numerical Heat Transfer, 48, pp987-1008.

Wang, Xishi, Qiu, Huihe (2005) "Fringe Probing of Liquid Film Thickness of a Plug Bubble in a Micropipe", Measurement Science & Technology, 16, pp. 594-600.

Xue, Zhenlan, Qiu, Huihe (2005) "Integrating micromachined fast response temperature sensor array in a glass microchannel", Sensors and Actuators A, Vol.122, 189-195.

Kai TANG Associate Professor (2358 8656 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~mektang)

PhD, University of Michigan (1990) Software specialist, Applicon Inc (1991-2001)

Current Research Activities: Solid modeling; CAD/CAM; geometric algorithms; multi-axis surface machining algorithms; feature recognition; robotics algorithms.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A new MRG algorithm for 3D shape matching RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$382,800 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Wang, Charlie, Tang, Kai (2007) "Woven model based geometric design of elastic medical braces", Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 67-69, 2007.

Wang, Huawei, Tang, Kai, Qin, Kai-huai (2006) "Efficient wavelet construction with Catmull-Clark subdivision", The Visual Computer, Vol. 22, pp. 874-884, 2006.

Tang, Kai, Wang, Charlie, Chen, Danny (2006) "Minimum area convex packing of two convex polygons", International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 41 - 74.

Liu, Yong-jin, Tang, Kai, Joneja, Ajay (2005) "2D sketch-based shape modeling with a fast and stable numerical engine", Computers & Graphics, Vol. 29, pp. 778-793.

Wang, Charlie, Tang, Kai (2005) "Optimal boundary triangulations of an interpolating ruled surface", ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 291-301.

Wang, Charlie, Tang, Kai, Yeung, Benjamin (2005) "Freeform surface flattening based on fitting a woven mesh model", Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 37/8, pp. 799-814, 2005.

Tang, Kai, Wang, Charlie (2005) "Modeling developable folds on a strip", ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 200., No. 1, pp. 35-47.

Fu, Jing, Joneja, Ajay, Tang, Kai (2005) "Modeling wrinkles on smooth surfaces for footwear design", Computer- Aided Design, Vol. 37/8, pp. 815-823, 2005.

Jingshen WU Associate 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: Yielding, fracture and micro-deformation mechanisms of polymer nanocomposites with inorganic nano-fillers RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$366,000 01 Sep 2006 Structure, property and modification of low cost nanocomposites for electronic packaging applications ASAT Limited HK$1,458,000 01 Oct 2002 Pb-free solder joint strength and reliability under impact and vibration ATI Technologies Inc. HK$1,021,644 20 Oct 2006 Structure, property and modification of low cost nanocomposites for electronic packaging applications UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$36,450 01 Oct 2003 Pb-free solder joint strength and reliability under impact and vibration UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$29,990 20 Oct 2006 Failure mechanisms and property-structure relationship of flip-chip packages UGC - Government's Matching Grant Scheme HK$17,200 01 Jul 2006 Center for Engineering Materials and Reliability Nansha Research Centers HK$6,152,000 01 Jul 2006 Development of Novel Carbon Nanotube-Glass Fiber Sensor RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$450,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Wang, Ke, Wang, Lei, Wu, Jingshen, Chen, Ling, He, Chaobin (2005) "Preparation of Highly Exfoliated Epoxy/Clay Nanocomposites by Slurry Compounding: Process and Mechanisms", Langmuir, Vol. 21(8); 3613-3618.

Zheng, Genhua, Wu, Jingshen, Wang, Wenping, Pan, Caiyuan (2004) "Characterizations of expended graphite/ polymer composites prepared by in situ polymerization", Carbon, vol 42 (14), 2839-2847.

Chen, Bin, Liu, Jia, Wu, Jingshen (2004) "Synthesis of Disordered and Highly Exfoliated Epoxy/Clay Nanocomposites Using Organoclay with Catalytic Function via Acetone-Clay Slurry Method", Chemistry of Materials, Vol 16 (24); 4864-4866.

Mclellan, Neil, Fan, Nelson, Liu, Shilai, Lau, Kim, Wu, Jingshen (2003-2004) "Effects of Wafer Thinning Condition on the Roughness, Morphology and Fracture Strength of Silicon Die", Journal of Electronic Packaging, Vol. 126, pp110-114.

Zhigang LI Assistant Professor (2358 7186 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Active transport of gases in non-uniform nanochannels RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Nov 2007 Exploration of novel approaches for biomolecule separation through micro/nano-fluidic networks UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$351,500 01 Nov 2007

Wenjing YE Assistant Professor (2358 7194 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Numerical investigation and characterization of Knudsen force RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 30 Jun 2007 Numerical techniques driven by various engineering design application and developing computational prototypes for actual applications & computational tools for fundamental studies UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$351,500 15 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Ye, Wenjing (2008) "A New Transformation Technique for Evaluating Nearly Singular Integrals", Computational Mechanics, Vol. 24, No. 3, PP. 457 - 466.

Masters, Nathan, Ye, Wenjing (2008) "Multiscale Modeling of Heat Transfer in a Thermally Sensing Atomic Force Microscope", ASME International Conference on Micro/Nanoscale Heat Transfer, Jan. 5 - Jan. 10, 2008.

Ye, Wenjing (2008) "The Boundary Element Method and its Applications to the Modeling of MEMS Devices", Encyclopedia of Micro-Fluidics and Nano-Fluidics.

Masters, Nathan, Ye, Wenjing (2007) "Octant Flux Splitting Information Preservation DSMC Method for Thermally Driven Flows", Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 226, pp. 2044 - 2062.

Wang, Xin, White, Jacob, Kanapka, Joel, Ye, Wenjing, Aluru, Narayan (2006) "Algorithms in FastStokes and its Applications to Micromachined Device Simulation", IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 248-257.

Ding, Jian, Ye, Wenjing (2006) "Grid Based Integral Approach for Quasilinear Problems", Computational Mechanics, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 114-118.

Ye, Wenjing, Yoon, Kyu-Yong, Allen, Mark (2006) "Theoretical Investigation of Gas Separation in a Micro Channel by Thermal Diffusion", Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Vol. 30, No. 11, pp. 1006-1010.

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Kevin C W CHEN, Department Head and Chair Professor

Guochang ZHANG, Professor

Krishnan ARJUNAN, 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

K P RAMASWAMY, Adjunct Associate Professor

Brian W SEMKOW, Adjunct Associate Professor

Tai-Yuan CHEN, Assistant Professor

Charles Y HSU, Assistant Professor

Kai Wai HUI, Assistant Professor

Kirill NOVOSELOV, Assistant Professor

Jian XUE, Assistant Professor

Mingshan ZHANG, Assistant Professor

Yong ZHANG, Assistant Professor Kevin C W CHEN Department Head and Chair Professor (2358 7585 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1985) Assistant and Associate Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick (1989-99)

Current Research Activities: Accounting information and securities pricing; use of accounting information in contract enforcement and regulation.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Are founders, descendents, and professionals rewarded differently as CEOs in Hong Kong's family firms? RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$441,692 01 Jan 2008 Center for Asian Family Business Studies UGC - High Impact Area HK$1,700,000 04 Nov 2002 Do managers talk down overvaluation? The interplay of litigation risks, agency costs, short-selling, and management disclosures RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$390,500 01 Jan 2007 Centralized RA support for 2007 RPC projects of Accounting Department UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$150,000 01 Jun 2007 Center for Asian family business studies UGC - Strategic Initiatives HK$1,500,000 05 May 2008

Representative Research Publications:

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: Segment profitability, misvaluation, and corporate divestment RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$61,000 01 Jan 2005 Earnings Sensitivities to Macroeconomic Conditions: The Business Cycle Risk RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$176,282 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Chen, Peter, Zhang, Guochang (2007) "How do accounting variables explain stock price movements? Theory and evidence.", Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 43.

Chen, Peter, Zhang, Guochang (2007) "Segment profitability, misvaluation, and corporate divestment", The Accounting Review, Vol. 82: pp. 1-26.

Chen, Peter, Zhang, Guochang (2004) "Profitability (ROE), Earnings and Book Value in Equity Valuation: A Geometric View and Empirical Evidence", 2004 Information, Markets, and Organizations (Harvard Business School), June 21- 22.

Chen, Peter, Zhang, Guochang (2003) "Heterogeneous investment opportunities in multiple segment firms and the incremental value relevance of segment accounting data", The Accounting Review, Vol. 78, pp.397-428.

Zhang, Guochang (2001) "Private information production, public disclosure, and the cost of capital: Theory and implications", Contemporary Accounting Research, 18(2): 363-384.

Biddle, Gary, Chen, Peter, Zhang, Guochang (2001) "When capital follows profitability: Non-linear residual income dynamics", Review of Accounting Studies, 6, 229-265.

Krishnan ARJUNAN Adjunct Professor (2358 7573 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Representative Research Publications:

Baksh, Abdul Majid, Arjunan, Krishnan (2005) Business Law in Malaysia. Baksh, Abdul Majid, Arjunan, Krishnan (2004) Business Law in Malaysia, Textbook, pp. 640. Arjunan, Krishnan (2003-2004) "Securities and Futures in Hong Kong: A Revamp of the Law", Company and Securities Law Journal, (2003) 21 C & SLJ 336-348.

Arjunan, Krishnan, Nabi Baksh, Abdul Majid (2002) Business Law in Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Lexis Nexis.

Peter F CHEN Associate Professor (2358 7572 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Alberta (1998) Instructor, University of Alberta (1996-98)

Current Research Activities: Financial reporting of segment information; financial reporting issues for banks; accounting information and valuation.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Conflicts of interest and analysts' stock recommendations: Evidence from Hong Kong RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$325,000 01 Sep 2007 Does NASD 2711 Change Analysts' Independence in Making Stock Recommendation in Oversea Markets? RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$127,804 30 Jun 2008 International Financial Reporting Standards and the Quality of Financial Reporting: Evidence from China UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Dec 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Chen, Peter, Zhang, Guochang (2007) "How do Accounting Variables Explain Stock Price Movements? Theory and Evidence", Journal of Accounting and Economics, 43, 219-244, 2007.

Chen, Peter F., Zhang, Guochang (2007) "Segment Profitability, Misvaluation, and Corporate Divestment", The Accounting Review, 82(1), 1-26.

Chen, Peter F, Zhang, Guochang (2006) "How do financial statement data inform investors about the change in equity value? Modelling and empirically testing the relation between operating performance and market performance", IAAER conference on reporting financial performance Research, IAAER conference on reporting financial performance research, March 19-20.

Chen, Peter F, Zhang, Tianyu (2005) "Pyramidal ownership structure and proprietary disclosures: Evidence from segment reporting in Hong Kong", International journal of Business Research, Volume IV, Number 1, pp.85-95.

Chen, Peter F., Zhang, Guochang (2003) "Heterogeneous Investment Opportunities in Multiple-Segment Firms and the Incremental Value Relevance of Segment Accounting Data", The Accounting Review, Vol. 78, 397-428.

Chen, Peter F., Mehrotra, Vikas, Sivakumar, Ranjini, Yu, Wayne (2001-2002) "Layoffs, Shareholders' Wealth, and Corporate Performance", Journal of Empirical Finance, 8(2), 171-199.

Biddle, Gary C., Chen, Peter F., Zhang, Guochang (2001-2002) "When Capital Follows Profitability: Non-linear Residual Income Dynamics", Review of Accounting Studies, 6,pp.229-265.

Gilles HILARY Associate Professor (2358 7579 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Chicago (2002) Auditor, KPMG/EY (1995-97) Teaching Assistant, University of Chicago (1997-2002) Current Research Activities: Corporate governance and disclosure of information; behavioral economics; international accounting.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Financing and market activity RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$524,000 01 Aug 2007 The effect of creditor rights on the investment policy RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$134,000 01 Nov 2004 Capital structure and auditing RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$472,000 01 Jan 2007 Disclosure quality and capital investment RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$174,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Biddle, Gary, Hilary, Gilles (2006) "Accounting Quality and Firm-level Capital Investment", The Accounting Review, Vol. 81, Iss. 5, 2006, pp.963-982.

Hilary, Gilles (2006) "Organized Labor and Information Asymmetry in Financial Markets", The Review of Accounting Studies, Vol. 11, Iss. 4, 2006, pp.963-982.

CHANG, Xin, DASGUPTA, Sudipto, HILARY, Gilles (2006) "Analyst Coverage and Financing Decisions.", Journal of Finance, Vol. 61, Iss 6, 3009-3048.

Hilary, Gilles, Menzly, Lior (2006) "Does Past Success Lead Analysts to Become Overconfident?", Management Science, Vol. 52, No. 4, 2006, pp. 489-500.

Hilary, Gilles, Lennox, Clive (2005) "The Credibility of Self-regulation: Evidence from the Accounting Profession's Peer Review Program", Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 40, 2005, pp. 211-229.

Clive LENNOX Associate Professor (2358 7571 ; [email protected])

PhD, Oxford University (1998) Reader, Bristol University (1998-2001) Current Research Activities: Auditing, financial distress and economic methodology.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The informativeness of earnings and management's issuance of earnings forecasts RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$447,754 15 Sep 2006 Who cares about accounting frauds: Individual or institutional investors RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$117,600 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Lennox, Clive, Caramanis, Constantinos (2008) "Audit effort and earnings management", Journal of Accounting and Economics, Volume 45, pp. 116-138.

Lennox, Clive, Geiger, Marshall, North, David (2008) "The hiring of accounting and finance officers from audit firms: how did the market react?", Review of Accounting Studies, Volume 13, pp. 55-86.

Lennox, Clive, Park, Chul (2007) "Audit Firm Appointments, Audit Alumni, and Audit Committee Independence", Contemporary Accounting Research, 2007, Vol. 24, No. 1: 235-258.

Lennox, Clive, Park, Chul (2006) "The Informativeness of Earnings and Management's Issuance of Earnings Forecasts", Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2006, Vol. 42, No. 3: 439-458.

Lennox, Clive, Hilary, Gilles (2005) "The Credibility of Self-Regulation: Evidence from the Accounting Profession’s Peer Review Program", Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2005, Vol. 40, No. 1-3: 211-229.

Lennox, Clive (2005) "Audit quality and executive officers' affiliations with CPA firms", Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 39, pp. 201-231.

Lennox, Clive (2001-2002) "Self-serving Disclosures by Chairpersons of Failing UK Companies", Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics, 8(2): 63-81.

Lennox, Clive, Ireland, Jen (2001-2002) "The Large Audit Firm Fee Premium: A Case of Selectivity Bias?", Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, 17(1): 73-91.

Patrick J HARVEY Adjunct Associate Professor (2358 7561 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Southern California (1994) Hong Kong University 1995-1999 IBM Marketing, 1986-1989 Coopers & Lybrand 1982-86

Current Research Activities: Anti-counterfeiting and counterfeiting; fraud, tax evasion and 'black economy' controls and measurements.

Representative Research Publications:

Walls, W. David, Harvey, Patrick (2006) "Digital Pirates in Practice: Analysis of Market Transactions in Hong Kong's Pirate Software Arcades", International Journal of Management, Vol. 23 No. 2 June 2006 pages -207-214.

Harvey, Patrick, Walls, W.david (2003) "Laboratory markets in pirate goods: Hong Kong versus Las Vegas", Applied Economics Letters, Volume 10, Number 14/15, pages 883-887 November.

Harvey, Patrick James, Walls, W. David (2003) "The Revealed Demand for Pirate Goods: Probit Analysis of Experimental Data", International Journal of Management, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 194-201.

Harvey, Patrick (2001) "'Gresham's Law and Accounting Standard Setting'", International Accounting Conference, National Accounting Institute, Beijing China.

Harvey, Patrick (2001) "'International Accounting and China: New Opportunities'", Hong Kong International Accounting Association.

Harvey, Patrick, Walls, David (2001) "Task Completion Time and Accountant Performance", International Journal of Management, 18(3), 358-371.

Sabrina Y S KWAN Adjunct Associate Professor (2358 7566 ; [email protected])

PhD, London Business School (1996)

Current Research Activities: Accounting and capital markets; international accounting; taxation.

Representative Research Publications:

Kallapur, Sanjay, Kwan, Sabrina (2004) "The Value Relevance and Reliability of Brand Assets Recognized by UK Firms", The Accounting Review, 79.1, January 2004, p.151-172.

K P RAMASWAMY Adjunct Associate Professor (2358 7556 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Kansas (1993) Visiting Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire (1993-94)

Current Research Activities: Management accounting in international context; mergers and acquisitions.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Educational research on the impact of soft skills development among undergraduate accounting majors RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$20,000 15 Dec 2002 Research on mergers and acquisitions, educational issues and management accounting RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$10,000 01 Nov 2004 Research on my teaching-related topics RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$8,000 01 Dec 2005

Representative Research Publications:

Ramaswamy, Kadangode P., Waegelein, James F. (2003) "The Influence of Long-term Performance Plans, Method of Payment, and Type of Acquisition on Post-Merger Financial Performance", Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 115-126.

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])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Family firms, auditor's fees, and earnings management RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 10 Aug 2006 The characteristics and determinants of long-term incentive plans RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$148,800 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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.

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: The impact of the SEC's regulation of non-GAAP disclosures RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$31,000 01 Dec 2005

Kai Wai HUI Assistant Professor (2358 7563 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Oregon (2004) Tax Accountant, Ernst and Young (1998)

Current Research Activities: Voluntary disclosures; executive compensation and contracting; financial reporting; earnings management.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Management forecast strategy and CEO disclosure credibility RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$72,920 01 Nov 2004 Accounting conservatism and management forecast frequency: An empirical study RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$31,000 01 Dec 2005 Why CEOs only take one dollar salary? Office of the Dean of Business & Management, HKUST HK$50,000 30 Jun 2008

Kirill NOVOSELOV Assistant Professor (2358 7578 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Delegation to encourage communication of problems RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Aug 2007

Jian XUE Assistant Professor (2358 7565 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

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: Information asymmetry, institutional trading, and cost of capital RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$60,036 01 Dec 2005 The Warren Buffet Anomaly RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$149,840 16 Apr 2008

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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research HK$382,855 01 Jan 2008 Grant) Are investors fooled by affiliated analysts' optimistic forecasts/recommendations? RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$50,000 01 Dec 2005

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Bagnoli, Mark, Watts, Susan, Zhang, Yong (2006) "Reg FD and the Competitiveness of All-Star Analysts", American Accounting Association 2006 Annual Meeting, American Accounting Association 2006 Annual Meeting.

Department of Economics

Danyang XIE, Head of Department, Professor

Songnian CHEN, Chair Professor

Leonard K H CHENG, Chair Professor and Acting Dean of Business & Management

Soo Hong CHEW, Chair Professor

In CHOI, Professor

Siu Fai LEUNG, Professor

Francis T LUI, Professor and Director, Center for Economic Development

Cheng HSIAO, Adjunct Professor

David E COOK, Associate Professor

Susheng WANG, Associate Professor

Yan YU, Visiting Associate Professor

Milind S RAO, Adjunct Associate Professor

Jiahua CHE, Assistant Professor

William W Y CHOW, Visiting Assistant Professor

Tanjim HOSSAIN, Assistant Professor

Xinyu HUA, Assistant Professor

Ryo OKUI, Assistant Professor

Hei Wai TANG, Assistant Professor

Pengfei WANG, Assistant Professor

Juanyi XU, Assistant Professor Danyang XIE Head of Department, Professor (2358 7615 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Chicago Assistant Professor, University of Montreal (1991-93). Assistant Professor (1993-98) and Associate Professor (1998-2002), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund (2001-2004)

Current Research Activities: Economic growth, money and banking.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Transitional dynamics of labor migration, income distribution, and housing needs in China RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$397,000 01 Jan 2007 Centralized RA support for 2007 RPC projects of Economics Department UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$100,000 01 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Shimomura, Koji, Xie, DanYang (2008) "Advances on Stackelberg Open-Loop and Feedback Strategies", International Journal of Economic Theory, 115-133.

Xie, DanYang (2008) "Technological Progress and the Urbanization Process", The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 8 : Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 16.

Kongsamut, Piyabha, Rebelo, Sergio, Xie, Danyang (2001) "Beyond balanced growth", The Review of Economic Studies, 68(237), 869.

Songnian CHEN Chair Professor (2358 7602 ; [email protected])

PhD, Princeton University (1994)

Current Research Activities: Econometrics.

Representative Research Publications:

Chen, Songnian, Khan, Shakeeb (2003) "Rates of Convergence for Estimating Regression Coefficients in Heteroscedastic Discrete Response", Journal of Econometrics, Vol 117, 245-278.

Chen, Songnian, Khan, Shakeeb (2003) "Root-n Consistent Estimation of Heteroskedastic Sample Selection Models", Econometric Theory, 19, 1040-1064.

Chen, Songnian, Khan, Shakeeb (2001) "Estimation of a Semilinear Censored Regression Model", Econometric Theory, 17, 567-590.

Leonard K H CHENG Chair Professor and Acting 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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Business strategies, operating characteristics, and financial performance of technology companies in Shenzhen UGC - High Impact Area HK$150,000 01 Jul 2005 Centralized RA support for 2007 RPC projects of SBM (5 RAs) UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$750,000 01 Jun 2007 Management education and research UGC - Strategic Initiatives HK$2,500,000 05 May 2008

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Cheng, Leonard K., Lau, Lawrence J., Chen, Xikang, 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 (Chinese Journal of Social Sciences), 2007, Issue No. 5, pp.91-103.

Cheng, Leonard, Ma, Zihui (2007) "China's Outward FDI: Past and Present", 中國經濟發展模式之研究學術研討 會, at Acadmia Sinica, Taipei, June 28-29, 2007. Qiu, Larry, Cheng, Leonard, Fung, Michael (2007) "Trigger-Point Mechanism: Partial Commitment and Collusion", Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 25 (April 2007),156 -169.

Cheng, Leonard, Ma, Zihui (2006) "A Currency Board Model with Application to Hong Kong", 2006 Far Eastern Econometric Society Meeting, at Tsinghua University, Beijing, July 8-13, 2006.

Ma, Zihui, Cheng, Leonard (2006) "An Empirical Analysis of the Pressure on Hong Kong’s Currency Peg during the Asian Financial Crisis", 2006 Far Eastern Econometric Society Meeting, at Tsinghua University, Beijing, July 8- 13, 2006.

Tsui, Anne, Bian, Yanjie, Cheng, Leonard (2006) "Explaining the Growth and Development of the Chinese Domestic Private Sector", The Management & Performance of China’s Domestic Private Firms: Multi- Disciplinary Approaches, eds., Anne S. Tsui, Yanjie Bian, and Leonard K. Cheng, M.E. Sharpe, Armonk,

New York, 2006., Chapter 1, 3-24.

Cheng, Leonard, Qiu, Larry, Tan, Guofu (2005) "Foreign Direct Investment and International Trade in a Continuum Ricardian Trade Model", Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 77 (August 2005), pp. 477-501.

Soo Hong CHEW Chair Professor (2358 7603 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of British Columbia (1981)

Current Research Activities: Economics of uncertainty; experimental economics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Neuroeconomics and Decision Making UGC - Targets of Opportunity and Others HK$2,500,000 12 May 2007 Neuroeconomics approach to theory of mind RGC - Collaborative Research Fund - Seed Funding HK$200,000 02 May 2008 An experimental economics approach to the theory of the mind RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$174,000 30 Jun 2007

In CHOI Professor (2358 7611 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk./~inchoi)

PhD, Yale University (1990) Assistant Professor, Ohio State University (1989-94); Assistant and Associate Professor, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea (1993 - 2001); Visiting Associate Professor, University of Southern Calif. (1999-2000); Visiting Associate Professor, Yale University (2000-2001)

Current Research Activities: Time series analysis; simultaneous equations model; panel data analysis; exchange rate dynamics.

Representative Research Publications:

Choi, In, Park, Daekeun (2008) "Causal Relation Between Interest and Exchange Rates in the Asian Currency Crisis, forthcoming in the", Japan and the World Economy, Vo. 20, pp. 435-452.

Choi, In, Chue, Timothy (2007) "Subsampling Hypothesis Tests for Nonstationary Panels with Applications to Exchange Rates and Stock Prices,", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 22, pp. 233-264.

Choi, In (2006) "Nonstationary Panels", Palgrave Handbooks of Econometrics, Vol. 1, 511-539. Choi, In (2006) "Unit Root Tests for Cross-Sectionally Correlated Panels", Econometric Theory and Practice: Frontiers of Analysis and Applied Research, 311-333.

Choi, In (2005) "Inconsistency of Bootstrap for Nonstationary, Vector Autoregressive Processes", Statistics and Probability Letters, Vol. 75, 39-48. Saikkonnen, Pentti, Choi, In (2003-2004) "Cointegrating Smooth Transition Regressions", Econometric Theory, Vol. 20, pp. 301-340.

Choi, In (2002) "Instrumental Variables Estimation of a Nearly Nonstationary, Heterogenous Error Component Model", Journal of Econometrics, 109, 1-32.

Choi, In (2002) "Structural Changes and Seemingly Unidentified Structural Equations", Econometric Theory, 18, 744- 775.

Siu Fai LEUNG Professor (2358 7618 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Chicago (1987)

Current Research Activities: Microeconomics; economics of human behavior; labor economics; econometrics.

Representative Research Publications:

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) "An Economic Application of the Dubovitskii-Milyutin Version of the Maximum Principle", Optimal Control, Applications and Methods, in print.

Leung, Siu Fai (2007) "The Existence, Uniqueness, and Optimality of the Terminal Wealth Depletion Time in Life-cycle Models of Saving under Uncertain Lifetime and Borrowing Constraint", Journal of Economic Theory, 134, 470-493.

Leung, Siu Fai (2006) "The Existence, Uniqueness, and Optimality of the Terminal Wealth Depletion Time in Life-cycle Models of Saving under Uncertain Lifetime and Borrowing Constraint", Journal of Economic Theory.

Chen, Kong-Pin, Chiang, Shin-Hwan, Leung, Siu Fai (2003) "Migration, Family, and Risk Diversification", Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 353-380.

Leung, Siu Fai (2002) "The Dynamic Effects of Social Security on Individual Consumption, Wealth, and Welfare", Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 581-612.

Leung, Siu Fai (2001-2002) "The Life-cycle Model of Saving with Uncertain Lifetime and Borrowing Constraint: Characterization and Sensitivity Analysis", Mathematical Social Sciences, 42(2), 179-201.

Leung, Siu Fai, Yu, Shihti (2001-2002) "The Sensitivity of the RESET Tests to Disturbance Autocorrelation in Regression Analysis", Empirical Economics, 26, 721-726.

Francis T LUI Professor and Director, Center for Economic Development (2358 7606 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Minnesota (1985)

Current Research Activities: Economic growth; social security; corruption; Chinese economy; macroeconomics; Hong Kong’s economy.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Childless families, demographic transition, and economic growth RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$417,500 30 Nov 2006

Representative Research Publications:

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.

BIDDLE, Gary C, HILARY, Gilles (2004-2005) Feeling the Pulse of the Hong Kong Economy (替香港經濟 把脈), Hong Kong: Cosmos Books. Kwan, Yum K., Lui, Francis T. (2004-2005) "Les Regimes de Caisse D’emission Sont-ils Performants? Le Cas de Hong- Kong", la Revue d'Economie Financiere, vol. 75, p.153-178.

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.

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.

Lui, Francis T. (2001-2002) "Hong Kong's Economy After 1997", Crisis and Transformations in China's Hong Kong (eds. Chan, M.K. and So, A.Y.), M.E. Sharpe Press and University of Hong Kong Press, Chapter 9.

Kwong, Kai-Sun, Chau, Leung-Chuen, Lui, Francis T., Qiu, Larry Q. (2001-2002) Industrial Development in Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co..

Wang, Hongling, Li, David D., Lui, Francis T. (2001-2002) "Why Do Governments Give Up Property Rights of State- Owned Enterprises", Economic Research (in Chinese), 8.

Cheng HSIAO Adjunct Professor ([email protected])

PhD, Stanford University (1972). Professor, University of South California (1985- ) Co-editor, Journal of Econometrics (1991- )

Current Research Activities: Theoretical and applied econometrics.

David E COOK Associate Professor (2358 7614 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1996)

Current Research Activities: Macroeconomics and monetary economics; international finance.

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.

Representative Research Publications:

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:

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".

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

Jiahua CHE Assistant Professor (2358 7619 ; [email protected])

PhD, Stanford University (1996)

Current Research Activities: Comparative institutional analysis; theory of firm; Chinese economy; development economics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Insecure property rights and mode of entry in FDI RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$90,000 15 Jan 2005 Insecure Property Rights, Liquidity Constraints, and Privatization UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Dec 2006 Made in China UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Che, Jiahua (2004) "Dual Track Liberalization: with and without losers". Che, Jiahua (2004) "Insecure Property Rights and the Mode of Entry Decisions". Che, Jiahua (2004) "Running Dinosaurs". Che, Jiahua (2004) "Soft Budget Constraints, Network Externality, and Financial Dual Track". CHE, Jiahua, Willman, Gerald (2004) "The Economics of a Multilateral Investment Agreement". Che, Jiahua (2004) "The Lifecycle of Government Ownership".

William W Y CHOW Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 7598 ; [email protected])

PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Economics) (1998) Economist, Kanae Capital Limited (2002-2003)

Current Research Activities: Forecasting; bayesian econometrics; technology and development

Representative Research Publications:

Chow, Wai Yip William (2008) "Volatility of stock price as predicted by patent data: An MGARCH perspective", Journal of Empirical Finance, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2008, Pages: 64-79.

Tanjim HOSSAIN Assistant Professor (2358 7605 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~tanjim)

PhD, Princeton University (2004)

Current Research Activities: Industrial Organization; experimental economics; applied microeconomic theory.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Private signals, information processing and the no trade theorem - An experimental investigation RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Hossain, Tanjim, Morgan, John (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: Firm diversification and incentive contracts RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$90,000 01 Dec 2005 Ex-ante Contracts and Renegotiation Clauses UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Hua, Xinyu (2007) "Strategic ex ante contracts: rent extraction and opportunity costs", The RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 38 Issue 3, pages 786-803.

Ryo OKUI Assistant Professor (2358 7608 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~okui)

PhD, University of Pennsylvania (2005)

Current Research Activities: Econometrics; Microeconometrics; Empirical Microeconomics.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Analysis of autocovariance with panel data: Persistency versus unobserved heterogeneity RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$403,300 01 Jan 2008

Hei Wai TANG Assistant Professor (2358 7626 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Pengfei WANG Assistant Professor (2358 7612 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Expectation-driven fluctuations without sunspots: A labor market approach RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Sep 2007 Trade and Growth with Heterogeneous Sectors RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$158,654 15 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Wang, Pengfei, Wen, Yi (2007) "Imperfect Competition and Indeterminacy of Aggregate Output", Journal of Economic Theory, Forthcoming.

Wang, Pengfei, Wen, Yi (2007) "Inflation Dynamics: A Cross-Country Investigation", Journal of Monetary Economics, October 2007, 54(7), pp. 2004-31.

Juanyi XU Assistant Professor (2358 7604 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Learning and Exchange Rate Dynamics RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 13 Nov 2006 Vertical trade and exchange rate policy UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

SHI, KANG, XU, JUANYI (2007) "Optimal Monetary Policy with Vertical Production and Trade", Review of International Economics, vol. 15 (3), Pg. 514-537.

Devereux, Michael, Shi, Kang, Xu, Juanyi (2007) "Global monetary policy under a dollar standard", Journal of International Economics, Volume 71, Issue 1, 8 March 2007, Pages 113-132.

Department of Finance

Ka Lok CHAN, Head of Department and Chair Professor

John K C WEI, Chair Professor; Director of MSc(FA)/(IM) Programs

Sudipto DASGUPTA, Professor

Vidhan Krishan GOYAL, Professor

Michael L LEMMON, Visiting Professor

Salih N NEFTCI, Visiting Professor

Jerome YEN, Visiting Professor

Jonathan A BATTEN, Adjunct Professor

Prescott BEIGHLEY, Adjunct Professor

Laurence FRANKLIN, Adjunct Professor

Roger KING, Adjunct Professor

Bruno H SOLNIK, Adjunct Professor

Jie GAN, Associate Professor

Nengjiu JU, Associate Professor

Peter Ian MACKAY, Associate Professor

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

Fei DING, Assistant Professor

Du DU, Assistant Professor

Xiaolei LIU, Assistant Professor Jianjun MIAO, Assistant Professor

Sophie X NI, 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: Optimal managerial contracting and dynamic asset pricing under asymmetric information RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$83,814 30 Jun 2005 Proposed Center for Fund management UGC - High Impact Area HK$500,000 16 Oct 2003 Does home bias affect firm value? RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$442,000 01 Jan 2007 Centralized RA support for 2007 RPC projects of Finance Department UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$150,000 01 Jun 2007 Center for fund management UGC - Strategic Initiatives HK$1,000,000 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.

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 theories; options and futures; international finance; applications of econometrics in finance.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Cultures and Finance RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$176,282 30 Jun 2008 The Influence of Supervision and Regulation on the Conservatism of Financial Reportiong by Banks: International Evidence UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Jan 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Chou, Pin-Huang, Wei, K.C. John, Chung, Huimin (2007) "Sources of contrarian profits in the Japanese market", Journal of Empirical Finance, 14, 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.

Cheung, W.K. Adrian, Wei, K.C. John (2006) "Insider ownership and corporate performance: evidence from the adjustment cost approach", Journal of Corporate Finance, 12, 906-925.

Wang, Junbo, Wei, K.C. John, Pruitt, Stephen (2006) "An analysis of the share price and accounting performance of rights offerings in China", Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 14, 49-72.

Wei, K.C. John, Chiang, Raymond (2004-2005) "A GMM approach for estimation of volatility and regression models when daily prices are subject to price limits", Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Volume 12, pp. 445-461.

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.

Sudipto DASGUPTA 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: Price run-ups, dynamic adverse selection and market timing: Testing competing theories of equity issuance RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$768,000 01 Sep 2006 Estimation of housing price index and prediction of real estate bubble in Hong Kong Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited HK$303,000 31 Jul 2004

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Dasgupta, Sudipto, Tsui, Kevin (2003-2004) "A “Matching Auction” for Targets with Heterogeneous Bidders", Journal of Financial Intermediation, volume 12, pages 331-364. Dasgupta, Sudipto, Shin, Jhinyoung (2003-2004) "Managerial Risk-Taking Incentives, Product Market Competition, and Welfare", European Economic Review, Volume 48, pages 391-401.

Vidhan Krishan GOYAL Professor (2358 7678 ; [email protected] ; http://home.ust.hk/~goyal)

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: Incentives and leverage RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$26,000 01 Jan 2006 Managerial incentives and leverage adjustment RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$341,000 01 Dec 2006 Value Added by a New CEO : The First 100 days RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$176,282 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Frank, Murray Z., Goyal, Vidhan K. (2006) "Corporate Leverage Adjustment: How Much Do Managers Really Matter?", Minnesota-Wisconsin Corporate Finance Conference, May 20-22, 2006.

Fan, Joseph, Goyal, Vidhan K. (2006) "On the patterns and wealth effects of vertical mergers", Journal of Business, 79, 877-902.

Bae, Kee-Hong, Goyal, Vidhan K. (2005) "Creditor Rights, Enforcement and Costs of Loan Finance", Sixth CIFRA International Conference on Financial Development and Governance. Moscow, August 2005.

Goyal, Vidhan K. (2005) "Market Discipline of Bank Risk: Evidence from Subordinated Debt Contracts", Journal of Financial Intermediation, 14, 318-350.

Frank, Murray Z., Goyal, Vidhan K. (2004) "Capital Structure Decisions", American Finance Association (AFA) Meetings, San Diego, January.

Goyal, Vidhan K., Yamada, Takeshi (2003-2004) "Asset price shocks, financial constraints, and investment: Evidence from Japan", Journal of Business, 77, 175-199. Bae, Kee-Hong, Goyal, Vidhan K. (2003-2004) "Property rights protection and bank loan pricing", Assurant/Georgia Tech Tenth Annual International Finance Conference, Atlanta, April.

Frank, Murray Z., Goyal, Vidhan K. (2003-2004) "The effect of market conditions on capital structure adjustment", Finance Research Letters, 1, 47-55.

Michael L LEMMON Visiting Professor (2358 7668 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Salih N NEFTCI Visiting Professor (2358 7039 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Jerome YEN Visiting Professor (2358 8204 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Representative Research Publications:

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 (Sydney) # Professor of Management, Graduate School of Management; Macquarie Graduate School of Management; August 2004 - present. # External Research Associate, Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS); Trinity College, Dublin; March 2005 - present. # 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: Simultaneously modeling asset prices and the term structure of interest rates RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Nov 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Batten, Jonathan, Ellis, Craig, Fetherston, Thomas (2008) "Sample Period Selection and Long-Term Dependence: New Evidence from the Dow Jones", Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 36 (5): 1126-1140.

Batten, Jonathan, Gerry, Gannon, Kannan, Thuraisamy (2008) "The Credit Spread Dynamics of Latin American Euro Issues in International Bond Markets", Journal of Multinational Financial Management, 18: 328-345.

Batten, Jonathan, Hettihewa, Samanthala, George, Ranjan (2007) "Corporate Ethical Practice in Developing Economies: A Longitudinal Study of Practice in Sri-Lanka", Asia Pacific Business Review, 13 (1): 59-78.

Batten, Jonathan, Szilagyi, Peter (2007) "Domestic Bond Market Development: The Arirang Bond Experience in Korea", World Bank Research Observer, 22: 165-195.

Batten, Jonathan, Hettihewa, Samanthala (2007) "Risk Management and Derivatives Use in Australian Firms", Journal of Asian Business Studies, Spring (2): 37-44.

Batten, Jonathan, Hoontrakul, Pongsak (2007) "What are the Next Steps for Bond Market Development in Thailand?", International Finance Review, 8: 497-519.

Batten, Jonathan, Szilagyi, Peter (2007) "Covered interest parity arbitrage and temporal long-term dependence between the US dollar and the Yen", Physica A, Volume 376, pages 409-421.

Prescott BEIGHLEY Adjunct Professor (2358 7689 ; [email protected])

PhD, Purdue University (1970) Senior Lecturer, University of Otago (1999-2002). Invited Associate Professor, University of Macau (2002-03)

Current Research Activities: Financial risk management; banking and financial institutions.

Laurence FRANKLIN Adjunct Professor (2358 7688 ; [email protected])

JD, Stanford Law School (1976), CPA (1980) China Country Head/Asia Pacific Regional Counsel, First Chicago Bank (1981-88) Deputy MD, AIA Capital Corp (1989-98) GM-Investments & Head Legal Counsel, Hutchison Whampoa China Ltd (2000-01)

Current Research Activities: Investment strategies in Asia, venture capital; China; business law.

Roger KING Adjunct Professor (2358 8259 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

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

Current Research Activities:

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: The financing and governance of China's private firms RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$665,500 01 Jan 2007 Toeholds, winner's curse, and overbidding: An empirical investigation of Hong Kong land auctions RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$174,000 30 Jun 2007 Understanding the Chinese stock market UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Gan, Jie (2006) "The Real Effects of Asset Market Bubbles: Loan- and Firm-Level Evidence of a Lending Channel", Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming.

Gan, Jie (2006) "Collateral, Debt Capacity, and Corporate Investment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment", , Journal of Financial Economics, 2006.

Gan, Jie (2005) "The Real Effects of Asset Market Bubbles: Loan- and Firm- level Evidence of a Lending Channel", City University of Hong Kong Finance Symposium 2005, June 1-2.

Gan, Jie (2004) "Banking Market Structure and Financial Stability: Evidence from the Texas Real Estate Crisis in the 1980s", Journal of Financial Economics, Vol 73, 2004, pp. 567-601. (2004) "Monopoly and Information Advantage in the Residential Mortgage Market", European Finance Association Conference, 2004, Aug. 2004.

Nengjiu JU Associate Professor (2358 8318 ; [email protected])

PhD, Michigan State University (1993); PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1998) Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Maryland, College Park, (1998-2005)

Current Research Activities: Stock valuation; option valuation; term structure of interest rates; asset pricing; density approximations; capital structure.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Theory and applications of dynamic contracts in continuous-time UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$148,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Ju, Nengjiu, Hui, Ou-Yang (2006) "Capital Structure, Maturity Structure, and Stochastic Interest Rates", Journal of Business, Vol 79, 2469-2502.

Bakshi, Gurdip, Ju, Nengjiu, Hui, Ou-Yang (2006) "Estimation of Continuous-Time Models with an Application to Equity Volatility Dynamic", Journal of Financial Economics, Vol 82, 227-249.

Ju, Nengjiu, Parrino, Robert, Poteshman, Allen, Weishach, Michael (2005) "Horses and Rabbits? Trade-Off Theory and Optimal Capital Structure", Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, V40, , 259-281.

Peter Ian MACKAY Associate Professor (2358 8319 ; [email protected])

PhD, Purdue University (1998) Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas (1998-2005)

Current Research Activities: Corporate finance; financial institutions and management; international finance; real options; risk management.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Firm value and the breadth of diversification RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$487,720 01 Jul 2006

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.

Chu ZHANG Associate Professor (2358 7684 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Chicago (1992) Assistant & Associate Professor, University of Alberta (1991-2000)

Current Research Activities: Theory and empirical study of investments.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Why do stock return volatilities change over time? RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$664,000 01 Dec 2007 On identification of systematic factors in asset returns RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$85,000 01 Jan 2004 An analysis of derivative warrants RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$40,000 29 Jun 2007 On the Relationship between Expected Returns and Expected Idiosyncratic Volatilities UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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:

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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The information contents of return volatility and trading volume RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$40,000 01 Dec 2003

Representative Research Publications:

Bekaert, Geert, Harvey, Campbell, Ng, Angela (2005) "Market Integration and Contagion", Journal of Business, Volume 78, Pages 39-70.

Bae, Kee-Hong, Chan, Kalok, Ng, Angela (2004) "Investibility and Return Volatility", Journal of Financial Economics, 71, 239-263.

Bekaert, Geert, Harvey, Campbell R., Ng, Angela (2003) "Market Integration and Contagion", Econometric Society Meeting, Washington D.C..

Chan, Kalok, Bae, Kee-Hong, Ng, Angela (2002) "Investibility and Return Volatility", Pacific-Basin Capital Markets Research Center Meeting, Japan.

Bekaert, Geert, Harvey, Campbell R., Ng, Angela (2002) "Market Integration and Contagion", European Finance Association, Berlin.

Lynn K F PI Adjunct Associate Professor (2358 7687 ; [email protected])

PhD in Finance, Georgia State University, 1992 Executive Director of Certification, Institute of Financial Planners of Hong Kong, 2003-2006

Current Research Activities: Personal Financial Planning; Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Investments

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Corporate restructuring, information and market expectations RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$61,345 15 May 2006 MPF Fund Styles, Flows and Related Allocation Decisions CPU - Public Policy Research HK$446,000 01 Sep 2007

Ilona BABENKA Assistant Professor (2358 7679 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Why do managers announce share repurchase programs? RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 15 Aug 2006 Does Managerial Risk Aversion Implied by Stock Option Exercise Explain Corporate Diversification? RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$142,788 30 Apr 2008

Fei DING Assistant Professor (2358 5051 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Information gathering: organization and incentives RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Dec 2007

Du DU Assistant Professor (2358 5049 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Inaccurately observed habit formation and asset pricing RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Oct 2007

Xiaolei LIU Assistant Professor (2358 7661 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Rochester (2005)

Current Research Activities: Empirical corporate finance; market efficiency anomalies; empirical market microstructure.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Range-based trading rules RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$68,000 11 Jun 2007 How does off-balance sheet liability affect a firm's capital structure UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Dec 2006 Investment-based expected stock returns UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Liu, Laura Xiaolei, Whited, Toni, Zhang, Lu (2007) "Regularities", American Finance Association Conference 2007, Chicago, 2007.

Jianjun MIAO Assistant Professor (2358 8298 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Representative Research Publications:

Miao, Jianjun (2007) "CEO Power, Compensation, and Governance", American Economic Association Meetings 2007.

Miao, Jianjun (2007) "Experimentation under Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Risk: An Application to Entrepreneurial Survival", Penn State Conference on 'Financial Frictions or Technological Differences?', 2006.

Miao, Jianjun (2007) "Firm Heterogeneity and the Long-Run Effects of Dividend Tax Reform", American Finance Association Meetings 2007.

Miao, Jianjun (2007) "Investment, Consumption and Hedging under Incomplete Markets,", Journal of Financial Economics.

Miao, Jianjun (2007) "Option Exercise with Temptation", Economic Theory, 2007.

Sophie X NI Assistant Professor (2358 5052 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Curse on the option expiration date RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Ni, Sophie (2008) "Volatility Information Trading in the Option Market", Journal of Finance.

Yuri TSERLUKEVICH Assistant Professor (2358 8016 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Financing with Convertible Bonds RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 20 Oct 2006 The Relationship between Risk and Savings-to-Cash Flows Sensitivity RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$158,654 16 Apr 2008 Optimal call strategy for convertible bonds UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 15 Nov 2007

Mungo I G WILSON Assistant Professor (2358 7672 ; [email protected])

PhD, Harvard University (2004)

Current Research Activities: Finance; asset pricing.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Why do households own houses? Quantifying the sources of housing investment demand with the sensitivities of consumption to housing return shocks RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked HK$411,400 01 Dec 2006 Research Grant)

Department of Information and Systems Management

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

James Christopher WESTLAND, Adjunct Professor

Ki Ling CHEUNG, Associate Professor

Theodore H K CLARK, Associate Professor

James S H KWOK, Visiting Associate Professor

Ronald LAU, Visiting Associate Professor

Qing LI, Associate Professor

Shu Ming NG, Associate Professor

Mike Ka Pui SO, Associate Professor

Yan XU, Associate Professor

Hongtao ZHANG, Associate Professor

Paul W FORSTER, Adjunct Associate Professor

Paul J H HU, Adjunct Associate Professor

Anthony T K CHAN, Visiting Assistant Professor

Garvin Percy DIAS, Visiting Assistant Professor

Jeevan JAISINGH, Assistant Professor

Jae Yun MOON, Assistant Professor Stephen W H SHUM, Assistant Professor

Raymond G SIN, Assistant Professor

Xuhu WAN, Assistant Professor

Sean X XU, Assistant Professor

Seunghee YU, Assistant Professor

Michael X ZHANG, Assistant Professor

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: Delivery logistics and supply chain competition UGC - High Impact Area HK$350,000 16 Oct 2003 Centralized RA support for 2007 RPC projects of ISMT Dept UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$50,000 01 Jun 2007 Supply chain contracting under asymmetric information UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Dec 2007

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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$267,000 01 Dec 2007 Bayesian nonparametric methods and a statistical model for clustering RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$388,460 01 Jul 2006

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

Representative Research Publications:

Tam, K. Y., Ho, S. Y. (2006) "Understanding the Impact of Web Personalization on User Information Processing, Behavior and Judgment", MIS Quarterly, 30, 4, 865-890.

Hong, Se-Joon, Tam, Kar Yan (2006) "Understanding the Adoption of Multi-purpose Information Appliances: The Case of Mobile Data Services", Information Systems Research, Vol 17 No 2 162-179.

Tam, Kar Yan, Ho, Shuk Ying (2005) "Web Personalization as a Persuasion Strategy: An Elaboration Likelihood Model Perspective", Information Systems Research, Vol. 16, No. 3 271-291.

Hong, W. L., Thong, J. Y. L., Tam, K. Y. (2005) "The Effects of Information Format and Shopping Task on Consumers’ Online Shopping Behavior: A Cognitive Fit Perspective", Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 21, 3, 149- 184.

Hong, W H, Thong, J. Y. L., Tam, K. Y (2004) "Does Animation Attract Online Consumers’ Attention? The Effect of Flash on Information Search Tasks", Information Systems Research, Volume 15, No. 1, 2004, 60-86.

Hong, Weiyin, Thong, J.Y.L., Wong, Wai-Man, Tam, Kar Yan (2002) "Determinants of User Acceptance of Digital Libraries: An Empirical Examination of Individual Differences and System Characteristics", Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 18, No. 3, 97-124.

Inchi HU Professor (2358 7734 ; [email protected])

PhD, Stanford University (1985) Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Pennsylvania (1986-93)

Current Research Activities: Sequential analysis; stochastic control; stochastic process; statistical inference.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Accerlation of stochastic approximation and optimization via coupling spline models RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$546,675 31 Oct 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Ho, Kwok Wah, Hu, Inchi (2008) "Flexible modelling of Random Effects in Linear Mixed Models - a Bayesian approach", Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, vol. 52, pp. 1347-1361.

Chan, Hock Peng, Fuh, Cheng-Der, Hu, Inchi (2007) "Optimal strategies for a class of sequential control problem with precedence relation", Annals of Statistics, vol. 35, pp. 1722 - 1748.

Fuh, Cheng-Der, Hu, Inchi (2007) "Estimation in hidden Markov models via efficient importance re-sampling", Bernoulli, Vol. 13, pp. 492 - 513.

Hu, Inchi (2006) "A dynamic statistician with timeless contributions", Statistica Sinica, Vo. 16, pp. 677 - 682. Fuh, Cheng-Der, Hu, Inchi (2006) "Bayesian stochastic estimation of the maximum of a regression function", Random Walks, Sequential Analysis, and Related Topics, pp. 269 - 280.

Chan, Hock Peng, Fuh, Cheng-Der, Hu, Inchi (2006) "Multi-armed bandit problems with precedence relations", Time Series and Related Topics, Volume 52, IMS Lecture Notes - Monograph Series, pp. 223 - 236.

Fuh, Cheng-Der, Hu, Inchi (2004) "Efficient importance sampling for events of moderate deviations with applications", Biometrika, vo. 91, pp. 471 - 490.

Hu, Inchi, Lee, Chi-Wen (2003) "Bayesian adaptive stochastic processes termination", Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 28, pp. 361-381.

Lancelot F JAMES Professor (2358 7742 ; [email protected])

PhD, The State University of New York at Buffalo (1993) Visiting Scholar, INRA and CREST, France (1994-95) Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University (1995-2002)

Current Research Activities: Bayesian statistics; Bayesian poisson calculus; financial econometrics; semiparametric models; survival analysis; resampling methods; sequential importance sampling and MCMC methods; random measures.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The study of GGC and dirichlet mean functionals with applications to models for financial econometrics RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$570,000 01 Jul 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Ishwaran, Hemant, James, Lancelot F. (2002) "Approximate Dirichlet process computing in finite normal mixtures: smoothing and prior information", Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Vol. 11, pp. 508-532.

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: Animation and web users' behavior: The effects of task difficulty and experience RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$404,900 01 Dec 2005 The Impact of Modern Web Animation on Consumer Behavior RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$127,804 30 Jun 2008 Internet privacy concern: A review and construct development UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

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) "Design of product listing pages on e-commerce websites: An examination of presentation mode and information format", International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 61, 481-503.

Hong, Weiyin, Thong, J.Y.L., Tam, Kar Yan (2004) "Does animation attract online users' attention? The effects of flash on information search performance and perceptions", Information Systems Research, 15 (1), 60-86.

Peace, A.G., Galletta, D.F., Thong, J.Y.L. (2003) "Software piracy in the workplace: A model and empirical test", Journal of Management Information Systems, 20 (1), 153-177.

Hong, Weiyin, Thong, J.Y.L., Wong, W.M., Tam, Kar Yan (2002) "Determinants of user acceptance of digital libraries: an empirical examination of individual characteristics and system characteristics", Journal of Management Information Systems, Winter, 18(3) 97-124.

Shaohui ZHENG Professor (2358 7751 ; [email protected])

PhD, Columbia University (1994) Assistant Professor, HKUST (1994-2000)

Current Research Activities: Supply chain management; production and quality control; queuing systems; Markov decision processes.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Managing Inventory Replenishment, Product Substitution, and Pricing in Supply Chains RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$538,836 01 Oct 2005 Managing capacity expansion for service firms with uncertain supplies RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$350,222 01 Sep 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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.

James Christopher WESTLAND Adjunct Professor (2358 7643 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/westland)

PhD, University of Michigan (1987) Associate Professor of Information and Operations Management, University of Southern California (1987-96)

Current Research Activities: E-commerce; electronic securities exchange; Internet risk modeling and simulation systems; information systems services pricing; economics of informa- tion systems auditing and security; information retrieval economics.

Representative Research Publications:

Westland, James (2003-2004) Financial Dynamics: A System for Valuing Technology Companies, New York: John Wiley & Sons, June 2003.

Westland, James C. (2003) Financial Dynamics: A System for Valuing Technology Companies, New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Westland, J.C. (2003) "The Cost Behavior of Software Defects", Decision Support Systems, In press. Westland, J.C. (2002) "Transaction risk in electronic commerce,", Decision Support Systems, 33(1), pp. 87-103. Lang, Karl, Westland, J. Christopher (2002) "Electronic Delivery of Convenience: A Service Innovation at the 7- Eleven Retail Chain in Hong Kong", Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applications(JITCA).

Westland, J. Christopher (2002) "Electronic commerce and delays in market matching", Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, 12(2), 121-132.

Westland, J. Christopher (2002) "Preference ordering Cash, Near Cash and Electronic Cash", Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, 12(3), 223-242.

Westland, J. Christopher (2002) "Systems Complexity and the Cost of Errors in Software Develpment", Journal of Systems and Software, 62(1), 1-10.

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.

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.

James S H KWOK Visiting Associate Professor (2358 7652 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of London (1997)

Current Research Activities: Multimedia database management systems; digital watermarking; digital rights management; copyright and intellectual property protection; peer-to-peer (P2P) technology; knowledge management.

Representative Research Publications:

Kwok, S.H., Liu, S.M., Cheung, S.C., Tam, K.Y. (2003) "Digital Rights Management with Web Services", Electronic Markets, 13, 2, pp. 133-140.

Yang, C.C., Kwok, S.H. (2003) "Efficient Gamut Clipping for Color Image Processing using LHS and YIQ", Optical Engineering, Vol. 42 (3), pp.701-711.

Kwok, S.H., Cheung, S.C., Wong, K.C., Tsang, K.F., Lui, S.M., Tam, K.Y. (2003) "Integration of Digital Rights Management into the Internet Open Trading Protocol", Decision Support Systems, Vol. 34 (4), pp. 413-425.

Kwok, James S.H. (2002) "Digital Rights Management for Mobile Multimedia", Mobile Commerce: Current States and Future Trends, 97-111.

Yang, Christopher C., Kwok, S.H., Yip, Milo (2002) "Image Browsing for Infomediaries", Proceedings of the Thirty- fifth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2608-2614.

Lui, S.M., Lang, Karl R., Kwok, S.H. (2002) "Participation Incentive Mechanisms in Peer-to-Peer Subscription Systems", Proceedings of the Thirty-fifth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 3957-3963.

Kwok, S.H., Yang, Christopher C. (2002) "Watermarking in Online Media E-Business", Proceedings of the Third IEEE Conference on Information Technology (ITCC-2002), 158-163.

Lui, S.M., Kwok, S.H. (2001) "A Comprehensive Analysis of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) File Sharing Software: System Architecture and Interoperability of File Sharing Protocol", The 6th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference Of International Telecommunications Society, 669-677.

Ronald LAU Visiting Associate Professor (2358 8348 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Alabama (1991) Associate Professor, University of South Dakota (1997-2001)

Current Research Activities: Operations management; enterprise resource planning; SAP software applications; supply chain management; quality management.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Impacts of information sharing on business partners' performance in a supply chain (Phase 2 of 2) RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$16,000 01 Dec 2002 Benchmarking the supply chain performance in Hong Kong RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$13,000 01 Jan 2004 Enterprise systems implementation for small and midsize manufacturing companies RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$20,000 01 Jan 2005

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Lau, R.S.M. (2005) Enterprise Resource Management, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0071249052, 326 pages. 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: The strategic effect of firm-driven downward substitution RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$527,576 31 Dec 2005

Representative Research Publications:

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, Zheng, Shaohui (2004) "Joint inventory replenishment and pricing control for systems with uncertain supply and demand", INFORMS Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Conference, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 2004.

Li, Qing (2004) "Risk, risk aversion and the optimal time to produce", INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, Beijing, China, June 2004.

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 (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 multivariate GARCH model with correlation clustering RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$250,000 01 Sep 2006 A Class of Copula GARCH Models and its Applications to Financial Risk Management RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$176,282 01 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

So, Mike K.P. (2006) "Bayesian Analysis of Nonlinear and Non-Gaussian State Space Models via Multiple-try Sampling Methods", Statistics and Computing, 16, 125-141.

So, Mike K.P., Chen, Cathy W.S., Liu, Feng-Chi (2006) "Best Subset Selection of Autoregressive Models With Exogenous Variables and Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity Errors", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, 55, 201-224.

Chen, Cathy W.S., So, Mike K.P. (2006) "On a Threshold Heteroscedastic Model", International Journal of Forecasting, 22, 73-89.

So, Mike K.P., Chen, Cathy W.S., Chen, Ming-Tien (2005) "A Bayesian Threshold Nonlinearity Test for Financial Time Series", Journal of Forecasting, 24, 61-75.

Wong, Chi-Ming, So, Mike K.P. (2003) "On Conditional Moments of GARCH Models, With Applications to Multiple Period Value at Risk Estimation", Statistica Sinica, 13, 1015-1044.

So, Mike K.P. (2003) "Posterior Mode Estimation for Nonlinear and Non-Gaussian State Space Models", Statistica Sinica, 13(1), 255-274.

So, Mike K.P., Li, W.K., Lam, K. (2002) "A Threshold Stochastic Volatility Model", Journal of Forecasting, 21, 473- 500.

So, Mike K.P. (2002) "Bayesian Analysis of Long Memory Stochastic Volatility Models", Sankhya, B64(1), 1-10.

Yan XU Associate Professor (2358 7640 ; [email protected])

PhD, Strathclyde University (1997)

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

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Messaging Communications: The Technology, Application and Regulation UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Jan 2007 Evaluation of effective communication platforms for electronic commerce UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Xu, Sean, Xu, Yan, Zheng, Xiaona (2008) "Communication Platforms in Electronic Commerce: A Three-Dimension Analysis", INFO, Vol. 10, No.2, 2008, pp. 47-56.

Wong, Albert, Zhang, Nan, Xu, Yan (2007-2008) "Messaging Systems: Facsimile and Voice Processing", The Handbook of Computer Network, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007, pp. 127-157.

Xu, Yan (2006) "Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA): A Testing Bed for Overseas Investors in China's Telecommunications Market?", The 16th Bienial Conference of International telecommunications Society (ITS), ITS, Beijing,, 12-15 June 2006.

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, Gong, Min (2003) "National Innovation System and Its Implications for 3G Development in China", Communications and Strategies, No. 52, pp. 155-174.

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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$548,988 01 Aug 2007 Confidentiality, information allocation, and supply chain efficiency RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$26,173 01 Jun 2006

Representative Research Publications:

STEIN, William, Rapoport, Amnon, SEALE, Darryl, Zhang, Hongtao, Zwick, Rami (2007) "Batch Queue with Choice of Arrivals: Equilibrium Analysis and Experimental Study", Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 59, Number 2, May 2007.

BODOFF, David, LEVECQ, Hugo, Zhang, Hongtao (2006) "EDGAR on the Internet: the Welfare Effect of Wider Information Distribution in an Experimental Market of Risky Assets", Experimental Economics, Volume 9, pp.361-381, Dec 06, No. 4.

Zhang, Hongtao (2002) "Vertical Information Exchange in a Supply Chain with Duopoly Retailers", Production and Operations Management, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 531-546.

Li, Lode, Zhang, Hongtao (2002) "Supply Chain Information Sharing in a Competitive Environment", Supply Chain Structures: Coordination, Information and Optimization (eds. Song, J.S. and Yao, D.D.), 161-206.

Li, Lode, Porteus, Evan, Zhang, Hongtao (2001) "Optimal Operating Policies for Multiplant Stochastic Manufacturing Systems in a Changing Environment", Management Science, 47(11), 1539-1551.

Paul W FORSTER Adjunct Associate Professor (2358 7649 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Irvine (2000)

Current Research Activities: Impact of information technology on organizations; information systems and global logistics.

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Forster, Paul, Regan, Amelia (2001) "Electronic Integration in the Air Cargo Industry: An Information Processing Model of On-Time Performance", Transportation Journal, 40(4):46-61.

Paul J H HU Adjunct Associate Professor (2358 7647 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Arizona (1998) Assistant Professor, University of South Florida (1998-2000). Assistant Professor (2000-03) and Associate Professor (2003-), University of Utah

Current Research Activities: IT application and management in health care; technology implementation management; systems evaluation; e-commerce and digital government; knowledge management; human-computer interaction

Anthony T K CHAN Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 7729 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Michigan (1992) Visiting Lecturer, Eastern Michigan University (1990-92)

Current Research Activities: Time series analysis and stochastic control with applications in financial derivative markets.

Garvin Percy DIAS Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 7654 ; [email protected])

PhD, Fudan University, Shanghai (1998) Visiting Scholar, HKUST (1999-2000)

Current Research Activities: Group decision support systems; mobile computing; electronic commerce; web-based information systems; intelligent computing; human computer interface.

Jeevan JAISINGH Assistant Professor (2358 7639 ; [email protected])

PhD, Purdue University (Management Information Systems) (2003)

Current Research Activities: Economics of information systems; information privacy; electronic commerce.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: 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.

Jae Yun MOON Assistant Professor (2358 7635 ; [email protected])

Ph.D. New York University, 2004

Current Research Activities: voluntary technical support groups, online customer communities, human computer interaction

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: An exploratory study of everyday communication practices using multiple media RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$43,880 01 Mar 2005 Understanding the emergence and roles of leaders in open source communities: Role of key participants in the evolution of open source software networks RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked HK$341,000 01 Aug 2006 Research Grant)

Representative Research Publications:

Hahn, Jungpil, Moon, Jae Y., Zhang, Chen (2005-2006) "Impact of social ties on open source project team formation.", Ernesto Damiani, Brian Fitzgerald, Walt Scacchi, Marco Scotto and Giancarlo Succi (Eds.). Open Source

Systems. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Volume 203. Boston: Springer., 307- 317.

Sproull, Lee, Conley, Caryn, Moon, Jae Yun (2005) "Prosocial behavior on the net", Amichai-Hamburger, Yair (Ed.). The Social Net: Human behavior in cyberspace. Oxford University Press., 139-161.

Stephen W H SHUM Assistant Professor (2358 7758 ; [email protected] ; http://www.bm.ust.hk/~ismt/staff/sshum.html)

PhD, Operations Research, MIT

Current Research Activities: Supply chain management; revenue management; operations incentives; marketing-operations interface

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Marketing efforts of distribution channels and supply chain contracting RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Sep 2007

Raymond G SIN Assistant Professor (2358 7632 ; [email protected] ; http://www.bm.ust.hk/~ismt/staff/rsin.html)

PhD, University of Southern California

Current Research Activities: Economics of electronic commerce; web-based personalization; information privacy; intermediated electronic markets; game theory; industrial organization.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Dynamic price leadership in electronic markets RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$429,000 01 Aug 2007 Estimating online search costs - implications of price formats RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$90,000 01 Oct 2005 Implementation and implications of the "Everyday Low Price" (EDLP) strategy in electronic markets RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$306,900 01 Aug 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Chellappa, Ramnath K., Sin, Raymond G. (2007) "An Economic Model of Portal Competition under Privacy Concerns", 9th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2007), Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A. Invited

Paper., August 19-22, 2007.

Sin, Raymond G., Chellappa, Ramnath K. (2007) "Competition for Customer Information: Online Personalization in the Presence of Privacy Concerns", 2007 INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, Singapore. Invited Paper., June 28-30, 2007.

Sin, Raymond G., Chellappa, Ramnath K., Siddarth, Srinivasan (2006) "Everyday, Low Prices? An Investigation of the Practice of EDLP in Electronic Markets", NFORMS International Hong Kong 2006, June 25-28, 2006.

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.

Sin, Raymond G., Chellappa, Ramnath K., Siddarth, Sivaramakrishnan (2006) "Everyday, Low Prices? An Investigation of the Practice of EDLP in Electronic Markets", INFORMS International Hong Kong 2006, Hong Kong, China, June 25-28, 2006.

Chellappa, Ramnath K., Sin, Raymond G., Siddarth, Sivaramakrishnan (2005) "Price-formats as Sources of Price Dispersion: A Study of Online and Offline Prices in the Domestic US Airline Markets", Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE 2005), Irvine, CA, U.S.A., December 10 - 11, 2005.

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: Relative Income Concern In Contract Design UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Feb 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Inter-firm coordination under standards changes: Network effects and path dependency RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$501,992 01 Oct 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Zhu, Kevin, Kraemer, Kenneth, Gurbaxani, Vijay, Xu, Sean Xin (2006) "Migration to open-standard interorganizational systems: Network effects, switching costs, and path dependency", MIS Quarterly, vol 30, special issue on standard-making, page 515-539.

Zhu, Kevin, Kraemer, Kenneth, Xu, Sean Xin (2006) "The process of innovation assimilation by firms in different countries: A technology diffusion perspective on e-business", Management Science, vol 52, issue 10, page 1557-1576.

Seunghee YU Assistant Professor (2358 7651 ; [email protected])

PhD, Carnegie Mellon University (2003) 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.

Michael X ZHANG Assistant Professor (2358 7644 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Understanding The Influence of Online Consumer Reviews on the Demand for Experience Goods RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Aug 2006 On the Impact of Information Technology in Financial Markets RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$149,840 01 May 2008 Socially efficient innovation incentives and pricing of information goods UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Aug 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Dellarocas, Chrysanthos, Zhang, Xiaoquan (Michael), Awad, Neveen (2007) "Exploring the Value of Online Product Reviews in Forecasting Sales: The Case of Motion Pictures", Journal of Interactive Marketing, 21,23-45.

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 of Organizations

Jiatao LI, Head of Department and Professor

Larry J L FARH, Chair Professor

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

John HULPKE, Adjunct Professor

Prithviraj CHATTOPADHYAY, Associate Professor

Elizabeth GEORGE, Associate Professor

Ya-Ping GONG, Associate Professor

Riki TAKEUCHI, Associate Professor

Kin Fai Ellick WONG, Associate Professor

Stephen W NASON, Adjunct Associate Professor

Jaepil CHOI, Visiting Assistant Professor

Jinyu HE, Assistant Professor

Zhi HUANG, Assistant Professor

Jeroen G KUILMAN, Assistant Professor

Emily M NASON, Assistant Professor

Bilian NI SULLIVAN, Assistant Professor

Heli C WANG, Assistant Professor Jiatao LI Head of Department and Professor (2358 7757 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Texas, Dallas (1992) Management Consultant, McKinsey & Co (1994-96)

Current Research Activities: International strategy; competitive strategy; organization theory; alliances/joint venture success in China; international corporate governance.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Knowledge management and innovation strategy: The challenge for latecomers RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$174,000 30 Jun 2007 Centralized RA support for 2007 RPC projects of MGTO Dept UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$200,000 01 Jun 2007 Globalizing Chinese firms: Moving up the ladder in human resources in the global playing field UGC - School-based Initiatives and Others HK$50,000 30 Jun 2008 Center for innovation & strategy UGC - Strategic Initiatives HK$2,500,000 05 May 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Li, Jiatao, Yang, Jingyu, Due, Deborah (2007) "Identity, Community, and Audience: How Wholly Owned Foreign Subsidiaries Gain Legitimacy in China", Academy of Management Journal, 50 (1): 175-190.

Li, Jiatao, Yang, Jing yu (2006) "China's Domestic Private Firms: A Literature Review and Directions for Future Research", In A.S. Tsui, Y. Bian, and L. Cheng (Eds.), The Management and Performance of China’s Domestic Private Firms: Multi-Disciplinary Perspective. New York: M.E. Sharp, pp. 206-229.

Li, Jiatao, Yang, Jing yu (2006) "Foreign Direct Investment Communities and the Legitimation of Wholly-owned Foreign Subsidiaries in China", In S. Söderman (Ed.), Emerging Multiplicity - Integration and Responsiveness in Asian Business Development. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 215-233.

Kuilman, Jerone, Li, Jiatao (2006) "The Organizers' Ecology: An Empirical Study of Foreign Banks in Shanghai", Organization Science, 17(3): 385-401.

Li, Jiatao, Hambrick, Don (2005) "Factional Groups: A New Vantage on Demographic Faultlines, Conflict, and Disintegration in Work Teams", Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 48 (5): 794-813.

Li, Jiatao, Yue, Deborah (2005) "Managing Global Research and Development in China: Patterns of R&D Configuration and Evolution", Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, Vol. 17 (3): 317-337. Li, Jiatao, Zhong, Jing (2003) "Explaining the Growth of International R&D Alliances in China", Managerial and Decision Economics, 24 (2-3): 101-115.

Li, Jiatao, Shenkar, Oded (2003) "Knowledge Search and Governance Choice: International Joint Ventures in the People's Republic of China", Management International Review, 43, 3: 91-110.

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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$571,690 20 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Pillutla, Madan, Farh, Jiing-Lih, Lee, Cynthia, Lin, Zhiang (2007) "An investigation of traditionality as a moderator of reward allocation", Group and Organizational Management, 32, 233-253.

Farh, Jiing-Lih, Hackett, Rick, Liang, Jian (2007) "Individual-level cultural values as moderators of perceived organizational support-employee outcomes relationships: Comparing the effects of power distance and traditionality",

Academy of Management Journal, 50, 715-729.

Farh, Jiing-Lih, Cannella, Albert, Lee, Cynthia (2006) "Approaches to scale development in Chinese management research", Management and Organization Review, 2: 1-18.

Gong, Yaping, Farh, Jiing-Lih (2006) "Asymmetric reactions to common dialect group identity in vertical dyads in Chinese organizations", Best Paper Proceedings of the Annual National Meeting of Academy of Management, August.

Farh, Jiing-Lih, Cheng, Borshiuan, Chou, Lifang, Chu, Xiaoping (2006) "Authority and benevolence: employees’ responses to paternalistic leadership in China", China's Domestic Private Firms: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Management and Performance, China's Domestic Private Firms: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Management and Performance. Zhang, Yan, Farh, Jiing-Lih, Wang, Hui (2006) "Organizational antecedents of employee perceived organizational support in China: A grounded investigation", The Annual National Meeting of Academy of Management, August 2006.

Zhong, Chen-bo, Wang, Hui, Tsui, Anne, Farh, Jiing-Lih, Cheng, Bor-shiuan (2006) Strategic versus diffusion perspectives of organizational culture: Implications for employee commitment and extra role behavior in the Chinese context, Advances in Global Leadership, 4, 49-81.

Lee, Cynthia, Farh, Jiing-Lih (2004) "Joint effects of group efficacy and gender diversity on group cohesion and performance", Applied Psychology: An International Review, Vol. 53, no. 1, 136-154.

Steve DEKREY Adjunct Professor and Associate Dean of Business and Management; Director, MBA/EMBA/MSC Programs (2358 8749 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Iowa (1982) Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (1983-89). Director of MBA Program and Lecturer, University of Florida (1989-95)

Current Research Activities: Leadership development; personality assessments; executive education.

John HULPKE Adjunct Professor (2358 7736 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1977) Department Chair and Professor, California State University (1989-97). MBA Program Director, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) (2001-02)

Current Research Activities: Relationship of business and society: how managers deal with issues such as discrimination and environmental pollution, and how changing economics policies in China relate to social issues.

Representative Research Publications:

Hulpke, John, Lau, Cubie, Sharif, Naubahar (2006) "On Line Ethics Debates", Presented to European Computer Applications in Philosophy Conference (ECAP 06), Trondheim Norway, 22-24 June 2006.

Malkani, Madhu, Hulpke, John, Lau, Cubie, Ho, Teresa (2005) "CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS – WHAT NEXT?", International Journal of Case Method Research & Application, Volume XVII, Issue No. 4, December 2005, pages 503-514.

Hulpke, John, Kelly, Aidan, To, Michelle (2005) "Aha! Using Computers to Teach Creatively", Academy for Creative Teaching, Eighth Creative Teaching Conference (ACT 8), World Association of Case Research and Application 2005, San Juan Puerto Rico, January 2005.

Hulpke, John, Kelly, Aidan, To, Michelle (2005) "Computers teaching ethics: killing three birds with one stone?", Asia Pacific - Computer Applications in Philosophy (AP-CAP) , Bangkok, January 2005.

Goggin, Liu, Kelly, Aidan, Hulpke, John, Lau, Cubie, To, Michelle (2005) "Guanxi: What the Irish See, and Do Not See", Fifth International Symposium on Multinational Business Management, Nanjing, May 2005.

Hulpke, John, To, Michelle, Kelly, Aidan, Li, Lily (2004) "Careers of Chinese Women: Half the sky, not much Earth?", 2004 Hawaii International Conference on Business, Honolulu, July 2004.

Hulpke, John, Kelly, Aidan, To, Michelle, Li, Lily (2004) "Careers of Chinese Women: Half the sky, not much Earth?", Hawaii International Conference on Business University of Hawaii East West Center Honolulu, 21- 24 June 2004.

Hulpke, John, Kelly, Aidan, Levine, Jacqueline, To, Michelle (2003-2004) "Career Structures: a look at China", Inaugural International Conference International Association for Chinese Management Research Beijing, 16-19 June 2004.

Prithviraj CHATTOPADHYAY Associate Professor (2358 7740 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

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

Elizabeth GEORGE Associate Professor (2358 7727 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Asymmetric effect of work status differences on attitudes of standard and non-standard workers RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Nov 2007 Research on integrated human resource management systems The University of New South Wales HK$143,525 01 Jul 2007

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: High investment HR practices, network-building HR practices, and international joint venture performance in China RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$688,600 01 Aug 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Gong, Yaping, Chang, Song (2008) "Institutional antecedents and performance consequences of employment security and career advancement practices: Evidence from the People’s Republic of China.", Human Resource Management, Volume 47, page 33-48.

Gong, Yaping, Shenkar, Oded, Luo, Yadong, Nyaw, Mee-Kau (2007) "Parent multiplicity and international joint venture performance: The mediating role of contract completeness and partner cooperation", Strategic Management Journal, volume 28, page 1021-1034.

Gong, Yaping, Fan, Jinyan (2006) "Longitudinal examination of the role of goal orientation in cross-cultural adjustment", Journal of Applied Psychology, volume 91, pp. 176-184.

Gong, Yaping, Shenkar, Oded, Luo, Yadong, Nyaw, Mee-Kau (2005) "Human resources and international joint venture performance: A system perspective", Journal of International Business Studies, volume 36, pp. 505-518.

Gong, Yaping (2003) "Subsidiary staffing in multinational enterprises: Agency, resources, and performance", Academy of Management Journal, 46, 728-739.

Gong, Yaping (2003) "Toward a dynamic process model of staffing composition and subsidiary outcomes in multinational enterprises", Journal of Management, 29, 259-280.

Gong, Yaping (2003) "Toward a dynamic process model of staffing composition and subsidiary outcomes in multinational enterprises", Journal of Management, 29(2): 259-280.

Riki TAKEUCHI Associate Professor (2358 7741 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Maryland, College Park (2003)

Current Research Activities: Expatriate adjustment and international HRM; strategic HRM; social exchange relationships (organizational justice and organizational citizenship behaviors).

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: New twists in the expatriate adjustment research: Quest for new ideas RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$60,000 01 Dec 2005 Organizational justice as a mediator of the relationship between an HR system and performance RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$486,200 01 Sep 2006 Motives approach to organizational citizenship behaviors: moderating effects social exchange relationship quality RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$128,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Tekleab, Amanuel G., Takeuchi, Riki, Taylor, M. Susan (2005) "Extending the chain of relationships among organizational justice, social exchange, and employee reactions: The role of contract violations", Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 48, pp. 146-157.

Kin Fai Ellick WONG Associate Professor (2358 8063 ; [email protected])

PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong (2000)

Current Research Activities: Managerial decision making; human judgment and decision processes; language processing; human attention.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Understanding justice perception from interpersonal input comparisons: a prospect theory perspective RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$72,000 30 Jun 2007 Preference Reversals in Performance Evaluation: A Perspective from Range Theory UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 30 Jun 2007 Understanding justice perceptions from a counterfactual thinking perspective UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Kwong, Jessica Y. Y., Wong, Kin Fai Ellick (2006) "The role of ratio differences in the framing of numerical information", International Journal of Research in Marketing, 23, 385-394.

Wong, Kin Fai Ellick, Yik, Michelle, Kwong, Jessica Y. Y. (2006) "Understanding the emotional aspects of escalation of commitment: The role of negative affect", Journal of Applied Psychology, 91 (2), 282-297.

Wong, Kin Fai Ellick, Kwong, Jessica Y. Y. (2005) "Comparing two tiny giants or two huge dwarfs? Preference reversals owing to number size framing.", Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 98, 54-65.

Wong, Kin Fai Ellick (2005) "The role of risk in making decisions under escalation situations", Applied Psychology: An International Review, 54 (4), 584-607.

Wong, Kin Fai Ellick, Kwong, Jessica Y. Y. (2005) "Between-individual comparisons in performance evaluation: A perspective from prospect theory", Journal of Applied Psychology, 90, 284-294.

Wong, Kin Fai Ellick (2002) "The relationship between attentional blink and psychological refractory period", Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 54-71.

Stephen W NASON Adjunct Associate Professor (2358 7759 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Organizational learning in hyper-dynamic environments: Hong Kong and PRC RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$20,000 01 Nov 2002 Organizational learning in hyper-dynamic environments: Hong Kong and PRC RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$10,000 01 Nov 2004

Representative Research Publications:

Milliman, John, Nason, Stephen, Zhu, Cherrie, De Cieri, Helen (2002) "An Exploratory Study of the Purpose of Performance Appraisal in Asia, Latin America, and North America", Human Resource Management Journal, 41: 87-102.

Jaepil CHOI Visiting Assistant Professor (2358 7739 ; [email protected])

PhD, Rutgers University (2001)

Current Research Activities: Effect of cultural values on organizational justice perceptions; procedural justice; compensation system fairness; individualism- collectivism; leadership; joint venture management.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Work demands, employee stress, and creativity in the workplace: The moderating role of organizational justice perceptions RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$60,000 21 Nov 2005 Organizational justice and employee creativity: The mediating roles of social exchange relationships and intrinsic motivation UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Chen, Chao C., Choi, Jaepil, Chi, Shu-Cheng (2002) "Making justice sense of local-expatriate compensation disparity: Mitigation by local referents, ideological explanations, and interpersonal sensitivity in China-foreign joint ventures", Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp.807-817.

Pothukuchi, Vijay, Damanpour, Fariborz, Choi, Jaepil, Chen, Chao, Park, Seung Ho (2002) "National and organizational culture differences and international joint venture performance", Journal of International Business Studies, 33, 243-265.

Pothukuchi, Vijay, Damanpour, Fariborz, Choi, Jaepil, Chen, Chao, Park, Seung Ho (2001) "National and organizational culture differences and international joint venture performance", Academy of International Business.

Hooijberg, Robert, Choi, Jaepil (2001) "The impact of organizational characteristics on leadership effectiveness models: An examination of leadership in a private and a public sector organization", Administration & Society, 33, 403-431.

Jinyu HE Assistant Professor (2358 7738 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (2005)

Current Research Activities: Competitive dynamics; coopetition; strategic factor markets; corporate governance.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Corporate governance and firm-level competitive behavior RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$90,000 01 Nov 2005 The Strategic Consequences of Firm-level and Industry-level Co-opetition UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Dec 2006 The strategic antecedences, patterns, and performance implications of inter-firm co-opetition UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Gnyawali, Devi R., He, Jinyu, Madhavan, Ravindranath (2006) "Effects of Network Structure on Competitive Behavior: An Empirical Examination", Journal of Management, 32(4): 507-530.

Zhi HUANG Assistant Professor (2358 7732 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: What to signal? Status and patterns of organizational market signaling RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 22 Oct 2007

Jeroen G KUILMAN Assistant Professor (2358 7745 ; [email protected])

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Current Research Activities:

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

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: New to the party: The role of technology innovation in formation of strategic alliances for start-up companies RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$569,797 01 Oct 2005 Institutional and relational influences on firm innovations in China UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 15 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Sullivan, Bilian (2004) "Competition or Urgency?: Contextual Impact of Problem in the Process of Solution Generation.", Academy of Management Annual Meetings, New Orleans, 2004.

Sullivan, Bilian (2004) "The Evolution of a Research Community: Organization in Anglophone North America, 1945- 2000.", Academy of Management Annual Meetings, New Orleans, 2004.

Heli C WANG Assistant 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: Firm-specific knowledge resources and competitive advantage: The roles of economic- and relationship-based employee governance mechanisms RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$74,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Department of Marketing

Rami ZWICK, Acting Head and Chair Professor of Marketing; Associate Dean; Co-Director of the Center for Experimental Business Research

Gerald J GORN, Chair Professor

Wilfried R R VANHONACKER, Chair Professor

Akshay R RAO, Visiting Professor

Jaideep SENGUPTA, Professor

Robert S WYER, Visiting Professor

Jeongwen CHIANG, Adjunct Professor

Amnon RAPOPORT, Adjunct Professor

Rashmi ADAVAL, Associate Professor

Kristiaan HELSEN, Associate Professor

A V MUTHUKRISHNAN, Associate Professor

Inseong SONG, Associate Professor

Rongrong ZHOU, Associate Professor

Joseph SALVACRUZ, Adjunct Associate Professor

Maria GALLI, Assistant Professor

Liang GUO, Assistant Professor

Jiewen HONG, Assistant Professor

Anirban MUKHOPADHYAY, Assistant Professor

Yi XIANG, Assistant Professor

Ying ZHAO, Assistant Professor

Oliver Yue ZHAO, Adjunct Assistant Professor Rami ZWICK Acting Head and Chair Professor of Marketing; Associate Dean; Co-Director of the Center for Experimental Business Research (2358 7695 ; [email protected] ; http://iHome.ust.hk/~mkzwick/zwick.html)

PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1987) Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University (1988-93) Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland (1994-95)

Current Research Activities: Consumer behavior, Experimental and behavioral economics, Negotiation and auctions, e-Marketing, Neuromarketing

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Opinion leaders and new-product diffusion through social networks: An experimental analysis RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$79,000 01 Jun 2007 Centralized RA support for 2007 RPC projects of Marketing Department UGC - Targets of Opportunity HK$100,000 01 Jun 2007 Pay as you wish: A sustainable pricing strategy? Office of the Dean of Business & Management, HKUST HK$50,000 01 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Stein, William, Rapoport, Amnon, Seale, Darryl, Zhang, Hongtao, Zwick, Rami (2007) "Batch Queues with Choice of Arrivals: equilibrium analysis and experimental study", Games and Economic Behavior, 59, 345–363.

Rapoport, Amnon, Mak, Vincent, Zwick, Rami (2006) "Navigating Congested Networks with Variable Demand: Experimental Evidence", Journal of Economic Psychology, 27, 648–666.

Zwick, Rami, Rapoport, Amnon (2005) Experimental Business Research, Vol. III: Marketing, Accounting, and Cognitive Perspectives, Springer: Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-387-

24215-5.

Zwick, Rami, Rapoport, Amnon, Lo, Alison King Chung, Muthukrishnan, A. V. (2003) "Consumer Search: Not Enough or Too Much?", Marketing Science, 22(4), 503-519.

Cooper, David J, Feltovich, Nick, Roth, Alvin E., Zwick, Rami (2003) "Relative versus Absolute Speed of Adjustment in Strategic Environments: Responder Behavior in Ultimatum Games", Experimental Economics, 6, 181–207.

Rapoport, Amnon, Lo, Alison King Chung, Zwick, Rami (2002) "Choice of prizes allocated by multiple lotteries with endogenously determined probabilities", Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 87(1), 180-206.

Zwick, Rami, Rapoport, Amnon (2002) "Tacit Coordination in a Decentralized Market Entry Game with Fixed Capacity", Experimental Economics, 5, 253-272. Zwick, Rami, Weg, Eythan, Rapoport, Amnon (2000) "Invariance failure under subgame perfectness in sequential bargaining", Journal of Economic Phychology, 21(5): 517-544.

Gerald J GORN Chair Professor (2358 7693 ; [email protected])

PhD, Pennsylvania State University (1971) Advisory Council Professor of Consumer Behavior, University of British Columbia (1985-99)

Current Research Activities: Effects of advertising; cross-cultural consumer behavior; social marketing.

Representative Research Publications:

Gorn, Gerald J., Dahl, Darren, Darke, Peter, Weinberg, Charles (2005) "Promiscuous or Confident?: Attributions Made About Condom Purchasers", Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 35(4), 869-887.

Gorn, Gerald J, Goldberg, M E, Perrachio, L, Bamossey, G (2003) "Materialism in Youth", Journal of Consumer Psychology, 13(3), 278-288.

Sengupta, Jaideep, Gorn, Gerald (2002) "Absence Makes the Mind Grow Sharper: Element Omission and Product Recall", Journal of Marketing Research, May, 2002, pp. 186-201.

Sengupta, Jaideep, Gorn, Gerald (2002) "Misrepresentation in the Consumer Context", Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2, 69-79. Chattopadhyay, Amitava (2001) "Creative New Product Design: The Influence of Visualization, Intrinsic Motivation, and

Extrinsic Rewards", MSI Conference on Global Innovation of New Products and Services, London October 1 & 2, 2001.

Wilfried R R VANHONACKER Chair Professor (2358 7691 ; [email protected])

PhD, Purdue University (1979) Professor of Marketing, INSEAD, Fontainebleau (1990- ) Current Research Activities: Dynamic choice modeling; data trans- ferability; choice set/consideration set formation process modeling; brand loyalty development and customer satisfaction measurement; cross-cultural marketing issues with PRC focus.

Representative Research Publications:

Vanhonacker, Wilfried R (2004) "Guanxi Networks in China", The China Business Review, 31 (number 3), 48-53. Vanhonacker, Wilfried R (2004) The China Casebook, McGraw Hill Education, Singapore, 1-350. Vanhonacker, Wilfried R (2004) "When Good Guanxi Turns Bad", Harvard Business Review, April 2004, 18-19.

Akshay R RAO Visiting Professor (2358 7703 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Jaideep SENGUPTA Professor (2358 7718 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Cali- fornia, Los Angeles (1996). Marketing Executive, ANZ Grindlays Bank (1991)

Current Research Activities: Effects of marketing communications; consumer information processing; attitude strength; e-commerce.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Flattery and its Consequences: A New Look RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$176,282 15 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Sengupta, Jaideep, Zhou, Rongrong (2007) "Understanding Impulsive Eaters' Choice Behaviors: The Motivational Influences of Regulatory Focus", Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 44 Issue 2, p297-308.

Johar, Gita, Sengupta, Jaideep, Aaker, Jennifer (2005) "Two Roads to Updating Brand Personality Impressions: Trait versus Evaluative Inferencing", Journal of Marketing Research, November (2005) 458- 469.

Sengupta, Jaideep, Fitzsimons, Gavan (2004-2005) "The Effects of Analyzing Reasons on the Stability of Brand Attitudes", Journal of Consumer Research, Vol 31 (December 2004), 705-711.

Gorn, Gerald, Chattopadhyay, Amitava, Sengupta, Jaideep, Tripathi, Shashank (2003-2004) "Waiting for the Web: How Screen Color Affects Time Perception", Journal of Marketing Research, Vol 41 (2), pp. 215-225.

Johar, Gita, Sengupta, Jaideep (2002) "The effects of dissimulation on the accessibility and predictive power of weakly held attitudes", Social Cognition, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 247-293.

Sengupta, Jaideep, Gorn, Gerald (2002) "Absence Makes the Mind Grow Sharper: The Effect of Element Omission on Subsequent Recall", Journal of Marketing Research, 39, 186-201.

Sengupta, Jaideep, Johar, Gita (2002) "Effects of Inconsistent Information on the Predictive Value of Product Attitudes: Towards A Resolution of Opposing Perspectives", Journal of Consumer Research, 29 (June), 39-56.

Robert S WYER Visiting 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 (2007) "Principles of mental representation", In A. Kruglanski & E. T. Higgins (Eds.), Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles. New York: Guilford, April 2007.

Wyer, Robert S (2006) "The role of information processing in single-alternative and multiple-alternative judgments and decisions", In F. R. Kardes, P. M. Herr, & J. Nantel (Eds.), Applying Social Cognition to Consumer-Focused Strategy. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, forthcoming.

Yeung, Wing Man, Wyer, Robert S (2005) "Love a brand = love its products? The role of brand-elicited affect in brand extension evaluations", Journal of Marketing Research, 42, 495-506.

WYER, Robert S., Albarracin, Dolores (2005) "Belief formation, organization and change: Cognitive and motivational influences", In D. Albarracin, B. T. Johnson, & Mark P. Zanna (Eds.), Handbook of attitudes and attitude change, Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 273-322.

WYER, Robert S. (2005) "The role of information processing in single-alternative and multiple-alternative judgments and decisions", In F. R. Kardes, P. M. Herr, & J. Nantel (Eds.), Applying Social Cognition to Consumer-Focused Strategy. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum., 1-36.

WYER, Robert S., Yeung, Catherine W. M. (2004) "Affect, appraisal and consumer judgment", Journal of Consumer Research, 31, 412-424.

WYER, Robert S., Adaval, Rashmi (2004) "Communicating about a social interaction: Effects on memory for protagonists’ statements and nonverbal behaviors", Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40 (4), 450-465.

Wyer, Robert (2003-2004) "A personalized theory of theory construction", Personality and Social Psychology Review, Vol 8, pp.200-208.

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.

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, 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.

Adaval, Rashmi (2003) "How Good Gets Better and Bad Gets Worse: Understanding the Impact of Affect on Evaluations of Known Brands", Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 30, December, pp. 352-367.

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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$1,323,486 01 Jan 2008 Divestment strategies of multinational enterprises' subsidiaries in China: Reasons and modes RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$498,120 01 Jan 2007

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.

A V MUTHUKRISHNAN Associate Professor (2358 7715 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Florida (1993) Assistant Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University (1993-95)

Current Research Activities: Consumer judgment and decision making.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Ambiguity aversion and preference for the established brand RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$84,000 30 Jun 2007 Farmers' crop choices and decision making UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$50,000 01 Dec 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Muthukrishnan, A.V., Chattopadhyay, Amitava (2007) "Just Give Me Another Chance: The Strategies for Brand Recovery from a Bad First Impression", Journal of Marketing Research, XLIV 334-345.

Muthukrishnan, A. V., Wathieu, Luc (2007) "Superfluous Choices and the Persistence of Preference", Journal of Consumer Research, 33, 454-460.

Wathieu, Luc, Muthukrishnan, Anaimalai, Bronnenberg, Bart (2004) "The Asymmetric Effect of Discount Retraction on Subsequent Choice", Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 31, Number 3, December 2004,652-657.

Wathieu, Luc, Muthukrishnan, Anaimalai, Bronnenberg, Bart (2004) "Refereed Conference Paper", Behavioral Decision Research in Management (BDRM), Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA, April.

Zwick, Rami, Rappoport, Amnon, Lo, Allison, Muthukrishnan, Anaimalai (2003) "Consumer Sequential Search: Not Enough or Too Much?", MARKETING SCIENCE, Vol. 22 (4), 503-519.

Zwick, Rami, Rappoport, Amnon, Lo, Allison, Muthukrishnan, Anaimalai (2003) "Journal Article", MARKETING SCIENCE, Vol. 22 (4), 503-519.

Pham, Michel, Muthukrishnan, Anaimalai (2002) "Search and Alignment in Judgment Revision: Implications for Brand Positioning", Journal of Marketing Research, 39, 18-30.

Nedungadi, Prakash, Chattophadhyay, Amitava, Muthukrishnan, Anaimalai (2001) "Category Structure, Brand Recall, and Choice", International Journal of Research in Marketing, 18, 191-202.

Inseong SONG Associate Professor (2358 7706 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Chicago (2002)

Current Research Activities: Dynamics of the demand for new products; measuring and exploiting consumer heterogeneity; understanding firms' strategic and competitive behaviors.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: An optimal sampling network for new product testing RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$620,800 01 Aug 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Song, Inseong, Chintagunta, Pradeep K. (2007) "A Discrete-Continuous Model for Multicategory Purchase Behavior of Households", Journal of Marketing Research, Volume XLIV, 595-612.

Song, Inseong, Chintagunta, Pradeep K. (2006) "Measuring Cross-Category Price Effects with Aggregate Store Data", Management science, Volume 52, Number 10, October 2006, 1594-1609.

Anderson, Eric T., Song, Inseong (2004-2005) "Coordinating Price Reductions and Coupon Events", Journal of Marketing Reserach, Volume XLI, November 2004, 411-422.

Song, Inseong, Chintagunta, Pradeep K. (2003-2004) "A Micromodel of New Product Adoption with Heterogeneous and Forward-Looking Consumers: Application to the Digital Camera Category", Qauntitative Marketing and Economics, Volume 1, 371-407.

Chintagunta, Pradeep K., Bonfrer, Andre, Song, Inseong (2002) "Investigating the effects of store brand introduction on retailer demand and pricing behavior", Management Science, Vol. 48, No. 19, 1242-1267.

Rongrong ZHOU Associate Professor (2358 7702 ; [email protected] ; http://www.bm.ust.hk/~mark/staff/mkrrzhou.html)

PhD, Columbia University (2001)

Current Research Activities: Consumer decision making; financial decision making; customer experiences in services; social influences in consumer behavior.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: "Understanding impulsive consumption behavior: The role of regulatory focus" RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$695,200 05 Aug 2006

Representative Research Publications:

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.

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: Using classical conditioning to persuade consumers: Impact on brand attitudes and behavior RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$808,484 15 Jul 2006

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

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (2004)

Current Research Activities: Marketing Strategy; Information and Contract; Economics of Social Culture; Structural Modeling of Consumer and Firm Behavior and Market Structure

Representative Research Publications:

Guo, Liang, Villas-Boas, J. Miguel (2006) "Consumer Stockpiling and Price Competition in Differentiated Markets", Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, forthcoming.

Guo, Liang (2006) "Removing the Boundary between Structural and Reduced-Form Models", Marketing Science, 25 (6), 629-632.

Guo, Liang (2006) "Consumption Flexibility, Product Configuration, and Market Competition", Marketing Science, 25 (2), 116-130.

Jiewen HONG Assistant Professor (2358 7694 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Anirban MUKHOPADHYAY Assistant Professor (2358 7708 ; [email protected])

PhD, Columbia University (2004)

Current Research Activities: Consumer decision processes and their marketing implications; self-control and intertemporal behavior; agents, recommendations, and preferences; effects of consumers' implicit theories.

Representative Research Publications:

Gershoff, Andrew, Mukherjee, Ashesh, Mukhopadhyay, Anirban (2007) "Few Ways to Love, but Many Ways to Hate: Attribute Ambiguity and the Positivity Effect in Agent Evaluation", Journal of Consumer Research, 33, 4 (March), 499-505.

Mukhopadhyay, Anirban, Johar, Gita (2007) "Tempted or Not? The Effect of Recent Purchase History on Responses to Affective Advertising", Journal of Consumer Research, 33, 4 (March), 445-453.

Gershoff, Andrew, Mukherjee, Ashesh, Mukhopadhyay, Anirban (2006) "’I Love It’ or ‘I Hate It’? The Positivity Effect in Stated Preferences for Agent Evaluation", Marketing Letters, 17, 103-117.

Mukhopadhyay, Anirban, Johar, Gita (2005) "Where There Is a Will, Is There a Way? Effects of Lay Theories of Self- Control on Setting and Keeping Resolutions", Journal of Consumer Research, 31, 4 (March), 779-786.

Yi XIANG Assistant Professor (2358 7712 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Ying ZHAO Assistant Professor (2358 7701 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (2001)

Current Research Activities: Empirical modeling of competitive strategies; impact of Internet on marketing strategies; pricing; consumer choice models and consumer decision making.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Consumer evolution and targeting in the credit card market RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$446,176 01 Jan 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Chen, Yuxin, Yang, Sha, Zhao, Ying (2008) "'A Model of Consumer Brand Choice with Negotieated Prices'", Management Science, 54(3), 538-549.

Zhao, Ying (2006) "Price Dispersion in the Grocery Market", Journal of Business, 79, 1175-1192. Zhao, Ying (2004) "Performance of Store Brands: A Cross-Country Analysis of Consumer Store Brand Preferences, Perceptions, and Risk", Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 41(1), 86-115.

Zhao, Ying (2004) "Retailer, Manufacturers, and Individual Consumers: Modeling the Supply Side in the Ketchup Marketplace", Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 42, Iss. 1; p. 83-102.

Oliver Yue ZHAO Adjunct Assistant Professor (2358 7633 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Alberta (2000)

Current Research Activities: Business intelligence; marketing intelligence/CRM; data modeling; data mining; knowledge discovery and management.

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Kim Chong CHONG, Head of Division and Professor

Yiu Ming FUNG, Chair Professor

Chang Tai HUNG, Chair Professor

William TAY, Chair Professor

Leonard K K CHAN, 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

Zongli LU, Associate Professor

Xinyang WANG, Associate Professor

Simon M H WONG, Associate Professor

Angelina C C YEE, Associate Professor and Director, Center for Cultural Studies

Kam-Ming YIP, Associate Professor

Min ZHANG, Associate Professor

Xiaonong ZHU, Associate Professor

Kit Yee CHAN, Assistant Professor

Guanglin LIU, Assistant Professor

Jianxiong MA, Assistant Professor Kenny K K NG, Assistant Professor

Jingtao SUN, Assistant Professor

Lisa L M WONG, Assistant Professor

Carine Y M YIU, Assistant Professor Kim Chong CHONG Head of Division and 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 (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) 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.

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 (2008) "Problematizing Contemporary Confucianism in East Asia", Teaching Confucianism, ed. by Jeffrey L. Richey, Oxford University Press, pp. 193-234.

Fung, Yiu Ming (2007) "A Logical Perspective on 'Discourse on White-Horse'", Journal of Chinese Philosophy, USA, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 515-536.

Fung, Yiu Ming (2007) "Paradigm Shifts in Chinese Confucianism (中國儒學的典範轉移)", Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture (International Edition), South Korea, vol. 8, pp. 1-33.

Fung, Yiu-ming (2007) "Contemporary Confucianism in East Asia: The Main Problematic and Approaches", Journal of Nanjing University (Philosophy, Humanities and Social Sciences), Vol.44, No.2, pp.113-127.

Fung, Yiu-ming (2007) "Paradigm Shifts in Chinese Confucianism", Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture (Korea), Vol.11, pp.147-187 .

Fung, Yiu-ming (2006) "Davidson's Charity in the Context of Chinese Philosophy.", Davidson's Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement, ed. by Bo Mou, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers,

March 2006..

Fung, Yiu-ming (2005) "A New Interpretation of Xunzi's Theory of Human Nature: With an Appendix on the Rectification of the Redundancy Problem of 23 words in 'Rong-ru' Chapter.", NCCU Philosophical Journal (Taiwan: National Chengchi University), no.14 (July 2005), pp.169-230.

Fung, Yiu-Ming (2003) "A New Interpretation of Wang Yang-ming's Thesis of 'No Wu (Thing) outside Hsin (mind)'", Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, pp.65-85.

Chang Tai HUNG Chair Professor (2358 7805 ; [email protected])

PhD, Harvard University (1981) Professor of History (1992-98), Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor Asian Studies (1993-98), Carleton College Current Research Activities: Modern Chinese cultural history; Chinese popular and folk culture; contemporary Chinese rituals and politics.

Representative Research Publications:

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. Hung, Chang-tai (2005) "The Dance of Revolution: Yangge in Beijing in the Early 1950s", The China Quarterly. Hung, Chang-tai (2004) "'Kongjian yu zhengzhi: Kuojian Tiananmen guangchang' (Space and Politics: Extending Tiananmen Square) (in Chinese)", 'Conference on Cross-Straits Political and Economic Developments during the Cold War,' The Institute of Modern History, Taipei, Taiwan, November 4-5, 2004.

Hung, Chang-Tai (2003) "Book review of Milena Dolezelova-Velingerova and Oldrich Kral (eds.), The Appropriation of Cultural Capital: China's May Fourth Project", The China Quarterly, Vol. 173, pp. 238-239.

William TAY Chair Professor (2358 7825 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, San Diego (1977) Professor of Literature and Director of Graduate Studies, University of California, San Diego (1990)

Current Research Activities: Critical theory; cultural criticism; twentieth-century literature in Chinese.

Representative Research Publications:

Tay, William (2007) 《從諾貝爾到張愛玲》 From the Nobel Prize to Eileen Chang, 255 pages. Tay, William (2005) 《電影類型與類型電影》 Film Genres and Genre Films (Tien-ying lei-hsing y• lei- hsing tien-ying), 282 pages.

Tay, William (2004) 《縱目傳聲》Distant Views, Echoing Voices, Hong Kong: Cosmos, 382 pages. Tay, William S. (2003) 《小說地圖》 A Map of Fiction, Taipei: iFront, 150 pages.

Leonard K K CHAN Professor (2358 7796 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Hong Kong (1988) Head of Department of Chinese, Hong Kong Baptist University (1991-93)

Current Research Activities: Chinese literary criticism; theory of literary history; classical and modern Chinese poetry; classical and modern Chinese fiction.

Representative Research Publications:

Chan, Kwok Kou Leonard (2004-2005) "Literature as an Academic Discipline in China: Charters of the Imperial University and Literature", China Studies, 23.1 (June 2005): 359-392.

Chan, Kwok Kou Leonard (2004) "Cultural Castration and Poetical Writing: An Exposition of Lin Geng's A History of Chinese Literature", Chung Wai Literary Monthly, 33: 61-90.

Chan, Kwok Kou Leonard (2004) The Modes of Writings and Cultural Politics of Literary Histories: Studies on Chinese Literary Historiography.

Chan, Kwok Kou Leonard (2003) A Mechancholic Journey: Reading Literature in Hong Kong. Chan, K.K. Leonard (2002) "An exploration of Lin Geng's History of Chinese Literature", Chinese Views of Literary History, 257-292.

Chan, K.K. Leonard (2002) "Hong Kong literature in literary history", HK Writer, 2: 76-86. Chan, K.K. Leonard (2002) "Imaging linguistic forms and the national tradition: Hu Shi's conception of vernacular literary history and Sima Changfeng's History of Chinese New Literature", Selected Academic Lectures in Chinese Colleges and Universities 2002, 272-284.

Chan, K K Leonard (2001) "A reading of the modern works on 'gediao' in 1917-1979", Festschrift Presented to Professor Ping-leung Chan in Honor to His Retirement, 115-150.

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.

Representative Research Publications:

Chan Chan, Wing Hoi (2007) "“糊塗齋主人筆下的當代知識分子” (Contemporary Chinese intelligentsia as portrayed by the late Professor Yao-tung Lu).", In 《結網三篇》 (Chieh-wang San-pien). Ed. C.L. Huang. Taipei: Tao-hsiang, 2007., pp. 261-322.

Chan, Wing Hoi (2006) "朱子《中庸》結構說 上 (On Chu Hsi's analysis of the structure of the Chung-yung I ).", 《儒 學、文化與宗教——賀劉述先教授七秩壽慶論文集》 (Confucianism, Culture and Religion——Volume in Celebration of the 70th Birthday of Professor Shu-hsien Liu). Eds. Ming-huei Lee, Hai-yen Yeh and

Chung-yi Cheng. Taipei: Taiwan Hsueh Sheng Shu Chu, 200, pp. 63-96.

Chan, Wing Hoi (2006) "“從章句的分析到義理的通貫——朱子《中庸章句》的研究” (From the anatomy of the verses and sentences to the search for the internal consistency of the entire text: A study on the Zhongyong Zhangju by Zhu

Xi).", 「注釋、詮釋與建構——朱子與四書」國際學術會議 (International Conference on Zhu Xi and the Four Books——Commentaries, Hermeneutics, and Philosophical Construction), organized by Research Centre for Chinese Philosophy and Culture, Department of Philosophy, May 16-18, 2006.

Chan, Wing Hoi (2001) "A Critical Analysis of the 'Sorai Gakkan' by Yoshikawa Kojiro", Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy Academia Sinica, 19, 499-550.

Chan, Wing Hoi (2001) "A Preliminary Analysis of Chu Hsi's and Sorai's Interpretations of the Doctrine of the Mean", Transcendence and Immanence--Comparative and Multi-dimensional Perspectives, Hong Kong, 145-171.

Chan, Wing Hoi (2001) "Introduction", Transcendence and Immanence--Comparative and Multi- dimensional Perspectives, Hong Kong, iii-xxxvi.

Chan, Wing Hoi (2001) "On Chu Hsi's Interpretation of the Doctrine of the Mean: Focusing on the Concepts of Tao-shin and Jen-shin in the 'Preface' to His Commentary on the Book", Marching into the 21st Century of the Chu Hsi Study-- Collection of Essays in Commemoration of the 870th Anniversary of Chu Hsi's Birthday and the 800th

Anniversary of His Death, Jie-ren Zhu, Shanghai, 57-77.

Chan, Wing Hoi, Liu, Shu Hsien, Cheng, Chung Yi, Fung, Yiu Ming (2001) Transcendence and Immanence-- Comparative and Multi-dimensional Perspectives, Hong Kong.

Jianhua CHEN Associate Professor (2358 8909 ; [email protected])

PhD, Fudan University (1988) and Harvard University (2002) Lecturer of Chinese Literature, Fudan University (1988) Instructor of Chinese Literature, Oberlin College (2001-02)

Current Research Activities: Chinese poetics and hermeneutics; Ming-Qing literature; Republican urban and popular culture; Chinese revolution discourses and translation theory; Chinese literary and visual modernity.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Popular literature, politics, and visuality: A study of Zhou Shoujuan, domestic fiction and film, 1911-1927 RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$372,996 01 Sep 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Chen, Jianhua (2008) "Canon Formation and Linguistic Turn: Literary Debates in Republican China, 1919-1949", In Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm: In Search of Chinese Modernity, ed. by Kai-Wing Chow, Tze-ki Hon,

Hung-yok Ip, and Don C. Price (New York: Lexington Books), pp. 51-70.

陳, 建華 (2007) 《革命與形式――茅盾早期小說的現代性展開, 1927-1930》, 上海：復旦大學出版社, 288 pages.

陳, 建華 (2007) "〈1920年代「新」、「舊」文學之爭與文學公共空間的轉型――以文學雜誌「通信」與 「談話會」欄目為例〉", 載於王汎森等：《中國近代思想史的轉型時代――張灝院士七秩祝壽論文集》，臺 北：聯經, 頁429-462. Chen, Jianhua (2007) "Mao Dun’s Rainbow: A Modern Epic and Bildungsroman Novel in 20th-Century China", L’Oriente Storia di una figura nelle arti occidentali (1700-2000), eds., Paolo Amalfittano and Loretta

Innocenti. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, pp. 57-77.

Chen, Jianhua (2007) "Xu Zhenya", Chinese Fiction Writers, 1900-1949 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed., Thomas Moran. New York: Clark Layman Book, pp. 257-263.

陳, 建華 (2006) 《帝制末與世紀末--中國文學文化考論》, 上海：上海教育出版社，324 頁。. 陳, 建華 (2006) "〈質疑理性、反諷自我：張愛玲《傳奇》與奇幻小說現代性〉", 《中外文學》, 35卷3期， 頁109-130。. Chen, Jianhua (2005) "Zhu Xi's Poetic Hermeneutics and the Polemics of the 'Licentious Poems.", In Ching-I Tu, ed., Interpretation and Intellectual Change: Chinese Hermeneutics in Historical Perspective. New Brunswick:

Transaction Publishers, pp. 133-148.

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.

Representative Research Publications:

Chen, Li-fen (2007) "〈天花板下的旅人：尋找黃國峻〉(The Traveler under the Ceiling: In Search of Huang Guojun).", Interdisciplinary Interlocution: International Conference on Taiwan Literature and Culture under Globalization. National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan., Oct. 26- 27.

Chen, Li-fen (2007) "〈誰怕張愛玲？--從黃碧雲的相機說起〉(Who’s Afraid of Aileen Chang?—Huang Biyun and Her Camera).", 《張愛玲：文學．電影．舞台》(Aileen Chang: Literature, Film, Stage). Ed. Lin Xingqian, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press., pp. 61-78.

Chen, Li-Fen (2002) "Discoursing 'Taiwan': The Literary and Cultural Critiques in Taiwan in the 1990s", Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 111-145.

Chen, Li-Fen (2002) "The Discourse of Naivete: Xi Xi's 'Mourning Breasts' and Women's Writings", Hong Kong Literature as/and Cultural Studies (eds. Zhang Meichun and Zhu Yiaowei), Hong Kong, Oxford University

Press, 517-530.

Siu Woo CHEUNG Associate Professor (2358 7763 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Washington (1996)

Current Research Activities: Ethnicity and ethno-historical processes in South China and Vietnam; subject- identity constitution and representation; cultural politics among border peoples; anthropology of tourism.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Writing indigenism: Non-Han intellectuals' Chinese writings on Miao-Yi identities and frontier politics in southwest China during the republican period RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research HK$674,040 01 Aug 2006 Grant)

Representative Research Publications:

Cheung, Siu-woo (2006) "〈廣西京族跨國身份認同：試探中國邊界跨境民族研究〉(Transnational Identity Among the Jing People in Guangxi: On the Study of China's Cross-border Ethnic Groups).", In Tiantai Wu, ed.,《族群與社 會》(Ethnicity and Society), pp., 231-260. Taibei: Wu-nan.

Liu, Tik-sang, Cheung, Siu-woo (2006) 《大澳》(Tai-O). Cheung, Siu-woo (2006) "〈廣西京族跨國身份認同：試探中國邊界跨境民族研究〉(Transnational Identity Among the Jing People in Guangxi: On the Study of China’s Cross-border Ethnic Groups)", 《族群與社會》(Ethnicity and Society), pp. 231-260.

Cheung, Siu-woo (2004) " 'Miao Identity in Western Guizhou: Indigenism and the Politics of Appropriation in Southwest China during the Republican Period.'", Nicholas Tapp, Jean Michaud, Christian Culas, and Gary Lee, eds., Hmong/Miao in Asia, Chiangmai: Silkworm., pp.237-272.

Cheung, Siu-woo (2004) " 〈中越邊界跨境交往與廣西京族跨國身份認同〉(Cross-border interaction along the Sino-Vietnamese border and the transnational identity among the Jing people in Guangxi)", 《歷史人類學刊 》(Journal of History and Anthropology), Volume 2, issue 1, pp. 89-133.

Cheung, Siu-Woo (2004) "Miao Identity in Western Guizhou: Indigenism and the Politics of Appropriation in Southwest China during the Republican Period", Hmong/Miao in Asia, pp. 237-272.

Cheung, Siu-Woo (2003) "'東江游擊隊與抗日戰爭期間的西貢' (The East River Guerilla Column and the Community of Sai Kung during the Anti-Japanese War)", 《西貢風物》(Customs and Heritage in Sai Kung), pp. 149- 164.

Cheung, Siu-Woo (2003) "Miao Identities, Indigenism, and the Politics of Appropriation in Southwest China during the Republican Period", Asian Ethnicity, Vol. 4, Issue 1, pp. 85-114.

Flora L T FU Associate Professor (2358 8024 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1995)

Current Research Activities: History of Chinese painting; Ming and Qing landscape painting; representation of famous mountains.

Representative Research Publications:

Fu, Li Tsui (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: Canton in the "Dark Ages"? Revisiting Canton under the Japanese occupation, 1938-45 RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$60,000 01 Feb 2004

Representative Research Publications:

Ho, Virgil kit yiu (2006) Understanding Canton: Rethinking popular culture in Republican Period. Ho, Virgil kit yiu (2005) "Martyrs or Ghosts? A Short Cultural History of a Tomb in Revolutionary Canton, 1911-1970", East Asian History, no.27, pp.99-138.

Ho, Virgil Kit Yiu (2005) "What is wrong with capital punishment? Official and unofficial attitudes toward capital punishment in modern and contemporary China", The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment, pp. 274-290.

Ho, 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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$750,175 01 Jan 2008 Redefining the West River: Ming and Qing state building and the transformation of native society RGC - Collaborative Research Fund (formerly known as Central Allocation) HK$248,280 01 Jul 2007 A study of the professional Daoist traditions in Hong Kong, the Pearl River Delta area, and South Vietnam RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$53,000 01 Feb 2004 The globalization of seafood consumption in Hong Kong RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$33,000 30 Jun 2005 Research and teaching activities: South China Research Center Give to UST Program HK$33,000 01 Mar 2004 Study of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Hong Kong: With reference to listed items of Guangdong Leisure and Cultural Services Department HK$499,400 01 Oct 2006 Traditional festivals and Hong Kong community Leisure and Cultural Services Department HK$418,000 17 Jun 2008 South China Research Center Nansha Research Centers HK$2,301,000 01 Jul 2006 Hong Kong culture and heritage Private Donor HK$20,000 01 Jun 2007 The research and publication project of Tai Po tradition and culture Tai Po District Council HK$480,930 01 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Zongli LU 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:

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.

Lu, Zongli (2002) "Liang Jin Nanbeichao zhi weixue: jingxue jie de tong wei fengshang 兩晉南北朝之緯學-經學界的 通緯風尚 (The Trend of Studying the Apocrypha among the Canonical Scholars in the Early Medieval China)", Yi fen ji: Zhang Zhenglang xiansheng jiushi huadan ji'nian wenji 揖芬集-張政烺先生九十華誕紀念文集, Beijing, Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe, 655-669.

Lu, Zongli (2001) "'Gansheng shenhua yu Han dai huangquan zhengdangxing de lunzheng' 感生神話 與漢代皇權正當 性的論證 Miraculous Birth in Legitimation of Imperial Throne During the Han dynastie", Qin Han shi luncong 秦漢史論 叢 Essays on the Studies of Qin and Han Dyansities, 8: 415-434.

Xinyang WANG Associate Professor (2358 7767 ; [email protected])

PhD, Yale University (1988) Research Fellow, Institute of East Asian Philosophies, Singapore (1988-90) Assistant Professor, Washington State University (1991-95) Current Research Activities: Chinese diaspora history; comparative immigration studies; history of Sino-foreign relations.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Assimilation of Chinese in Thailand, 1840s to 1940s - melting pot or cultural pluralism? RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$60,000 01 Feb 2003

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 (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) "A Continued Discussion of the Significance of Mou Tsung-san's Research on Song-Ming Confucianism in His Early Years - Using 'A Summarized Description of the Song-Ming Confucianism' and 'The Learning of Mind and Nature ofthe Lu-Wang School' as example", The Humanities Journal, (2006) : 301 - 313.

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 (2006) "The Significance of Mou Tsung-san's Research on Song-Ming Confucianism in His Early Years--Using Wang Yang-ming's Teaching of Extending liang-chih as Example (in Chinese)", New Asia Academic Bulletin, Volume 19: 437-450.

Wong, Simon Man Ho (2003) "Hsiung Shih-li's Concept of Change", Second Collection of the Academic Discussions Concerning the Profound Orchard, Collection of Essays of the International Symposium on

Hsiung Shih-li and the Chinese Traditional Culture (in Chinese), 165-175.

Wong, Simon Man Ho (2002) "Mou Tsung-san's Discussion of the 'Perfect Teaching' of Buddhism (in Chinese)", The Sixth Conference on the Synthesis of Confucianism and Buddhism; Department of Philosophy, Hua-fan

University; Taiwan..

Wong, Simon Man Ho (2001) "A Comparative Study of Confucianism and Buddhism from the Perspective of Liu Tsung- chou (in Chinese)", Transcendence and Immanence: Comparative and Multidimensional Perspectives, 173- 194.

Wong, Simon Man Ho (2001) "Mou Tsung-san's Critique of the 'Ti-yung' Theory of Buddhism (in Chinese)", The Sixth International Conference on Contemporary New Confucianism; Legein Society, National Central

University and others; Taiwan..

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 (2003) Logical Analysis and the Philosophy of Name and Disputation, Xue Sheng Publication, Taipei, 238 pages.

Yip, Kam-Ming (2001) "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.

Yip, Kam-Ming (2001) "〈對辯者二十一事的分析批判〉 Criticisms of the 21 Paradoxes of the Debaters", In《分析 哲學-回顧與反省》Analytic Philosophy--Review and Reflection (ed. Chen Bo), Si Chuan Education Publishers, 694-712.

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.

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: Chinese linguistics; Chinese historical phonology; Chinese dialectology; experimental phonetics; phonology.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Speech sounds with special articulatory/phonatory features in Chinese dialects: A basic research topic in Chinese experimental phonology RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research HK$1,098,000 15 Aug 2006 Grant) Searching for universals of tone: an instrumental study of tonal systems in Cantonese dialects RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$200,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Zhu, Xiaonong (2008) 《方法：語言學的靈魂》. 北京大學出版社. Methodology: The Soul of Linguistics. Beijing University.

Zhu, Xiaonong, Cun, Xi (2007) "清濁音變圈：自然音變和泛時層次 A circle of sound changes in voicing", 《歷 史層次與方言研究》 Historical Strata and Dialect Studies, ed by Pang Hsin Ting. 166-186. Shanghai Education Press., 166-186.

Zhu, Xiaonong (2007) "近音. On approximant", 《方言》Dialect, 1: 2-9. 2007. Zhu, Xiaonong (2007) "證早期上聲帶假聲. Shangsheng originates from falsetto", Zhongguo Yuwen《中國語 文》, 2:160-168. 2007. Zhu, Xiaonong (2006) A Grammar of Shanghai Wu. Muenchen, Germany: Lincom Europa. 2006.. Zhu, Xiaonong (2006) "Creaky voice and the dialectal boundary between Taizhou and Wuzhou Wu", Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 34.1: 121-133.

Zhu, Xiaonong (2006) 《音韻研究》. Studies in Chinese Phonology. Beijing: Commercial Press. 2006. Zhu, Xiaonong (2006) "內爆音. Implosive.", 《方言》Dialect, 2006. 1: 16-21.

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 (2008) "〈《我城》的現代性：「未來」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), 25(July 2008).

Chan, Kit Yee (2008) "〈西西《我城》的科幻元素與現代性〉 An analysis of the scientific elements and the modernity of Xixi’s My City", 香港文學史研討會：騰飛的歲月──1949以來的香港文學研討會 The International Conference on the History of Hong Kong Literature , The University of Hong Kong, 28-30 April 2008.

Chan, Kit Yee (2007) "〈「邊緣」內外：探討六十年代港台形塑「本土」文學經驗的異同──從殖民地文 化空間看香港小說〉", 《苦悶與蛻變：六○、七○年代台灣文學與社會》?台北：文津書局，2007年5月）, 頁684-718.

Chan, Kit Yee (2006) "不忘來時路﹝下﹞－－選讀《香港文學》欣賞教材套﹝光碟版﹞之小說篇", 《城市 文藝》，香港, 第3期，2006年4月，頁72-75.

Chan, Kit Yee (2006) "不忘來時路﹝上﹞－－選讀《香港文學欣賞教材套》﹝光碟版﹞之小說篇", 《城市 文藝》，香港, 第2期，2006年3月，頁65-70. 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.

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: Wrestling for Power: the changing relationship between the state and the market economy in pre-industrial China (a book manuscript) RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$98,000 01 Mar 2007 Global Prices and Incomes, 1200-1950, Stage 2 National Science Foundation HK$99,598 15 Sep 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Liu, Guanglin William (2007-2008) "'Inland Trade and Water Transports in Pre-industrial China, 1000-1800'", Trading Networks in Early Modern East Asia, Billy So & Angela Schottenhammer eds (accepted), East Asian maritime history, vol.13.

Jianxiong MA Assistant Professor (2358 7766 ; [email protected])

PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2007)

Current Research Activities: Ethnicity; kinship; tourism anthropology; ethnic minorities in China and in highland Southeast Asia.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Cross-border minorities: the case of the Lahu and the Wa on the borderland of Southwest Yunnan and Myanmar RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

MA, Jianxiong (2008) "Reconstructing Lahu History in China", Challenging the Limits: Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region, p. 275-288.

Kenny K K NG Assistant Professor (2358 8908 ; [email protected])

PhD, Harvard University (2004)

Current Research Activities: modern chinese literary and cultural studies; media, visual and verbal culture; colonial cultural history and chinese cinema; globalization and modern Chinese culture.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Localism, nation building, and fictional writing: A study of Li Jieren and the modern Chinese historical novel RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$50,000 01 Jun 2006 Chinese cinemas in the cold war period: An trans-regional inquiry RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Jun 2008 Localism, nation building, and fictional writing: A study of Li Jieren and the modern Chinese historical novel RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$110,000 01 Sep 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Ng, Kenny Kwok Kwan (2008) "'Inhibition vs. Exhibition: Political Censorship of Chinese and Foreign Cinemas in Postwar Hong Kong.'", Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 2.1 (May/June 2008).

Ng, Kenny Kwok Kwan (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，2007，頁305-322。. Ng, Kwok Kwan Kenny (2007) "Romantic comedies of Cathay-MP&GI in the 1950s and 60s: language, locality, and urban character", Jump Cut, No. 49 (Spring 2007).

Jingtao SUN Assistant 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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$786,600 01 Nov 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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) "<說“營?”——兼釋“宮”“營”二字> An Interpretation of yingku 營? – with some additional thoughts on gong 宮 and ying 營", The International Conference in Honor of Professor JAO Tsung-I 饒宗? on His 90th Birthday, organized by all eight universities in Hong Kong as well as The Hong Kong Institute of

Education. The University of Hong Kong, December 14-15, 2006.

孫 Sun, 景濤 Jingtao (2006) "<介音在音節中的地位> The Status of the Medial in Syllable", 《語言科學》 Language Science, 2: 44-52.

Sun, Jingtao (2006) "Fission Reduplication in Modern Chinese Dialects", Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, 1.1: 105- 126.

孫 Sun, 景濤 Jingtao (2005) "<‘屋漏’探源> An etymological study of wulou", 《語言研究》 Language Research, 25.4: 96-101.

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.

孫 Sun, 景濤 Jingtao (2005) "<論‘一音一義’> On 'One syllable/one meaning principle'", 《語言學論叢》 Collected papers on linguistics, 31: 48-71.

SUN, Jingtao (2005) "<形態構詞與古音研究> 'Morphology and the Research of Old Chinese Phonology'", 《漢語史 學報》 'Journal of the History of Chinese', Vol. 5; pp184-195.

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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: A Theoretical Study of Addressivity in Lyric RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$69,000 01 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Wong, Lisa Lai-Ming (2007) "The Making of a Poem: Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Spender, and Yang Mu", The Comparatist 31 (2007): 130-147.

Wong, Lai-ming, Lisa (2006) "A Promise (Over)Heard in Lyric", New Literary History: A Journal of Theory & Interpretation, 37.2 (Spring 2006): 271-284.

Wong, Lai-ming, Lisa (2006) "Between You and I: the Performative Utterance in Lyric", International Journal of the Humanities, 3.8 (2005/2006): 135-138.

Wong, Lai-ming, Lisa (2006) "Epiphany in Echoland: Cross-cultural Intertextuality in Yang Mu's Poetry", Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 31.1 (March 2004) [October 2006]: 27-38. Wong, Lai-ming, Lisa (2006) "Voices from a Room of One's Own: Examples from Contemporary Chinese Women's Poetry",

Modern China: An International Quarterly of History and Social Science, 32.3 (July 2006): 385-408. Wong, Lisa Lai-Ming (2004) "A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever: Yang Mu's 'Letters to Keats'.", The Keats-Shelley Review (UK) 18 (September, 2004): 188-205. Wong, Lisa Lai-Ming (2004) "An Island of Voices: Negotiations of Cultural Identity in Modern Taiwan Poetry.", Transgressing Cultural and Ethnic Borders, Boundaries, Limits, Traditions. Ed. Ampie Coetzee. Pretoria:

University of South Africa Press, 2004, 454-463. Wong, Lisa Lai-Ming (2004) "Living between languages - Aboriginal life-writing in modern Taiwan poetry.", a/b: Auto/ Biography Studies 19.1-2 (Summer and Winter 2004): 295-311.

Carine Y M YIU Assistant Professor (2358 7801 ; [email protected])

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

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Cantonese tones at the turns of the 19th and 20th centuries: Acoustic and statistical analyses RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 May 2007

Representative Research Publications:

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, Hong Kong: Linguistic Society of Hong Kong., 75-94.

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

James Kai-Sing KUNG, Acting Head

Yanjie BIAN, Chair Professor; Director, Survey Research Center

Alvin Y SO, Chair Professor

David Zweig, Chair Professor; Director, Center on China's Transnational Relations

Erik Baark, Professor and Acting Dean of Humanities and Social Science

X L DING, 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

Ngai PUN, 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

Wenkai HE, Assistant Professor

Daniel Yiu-Fai LEE, Assistant Professor

Ying LIN, Assistant Professor

Naubahar SHARIF, Assistant Professor Satoru SHIMOKAWA, Assistant Professor James Kai-Sing KUNG Acting Head (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: The political economy of land reform in China: New evidence from a "Commercialized" village community RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$501,600 01 Oct 2006 Determinants of Local Public Goods Provision in Rural China RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$330,000 02 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Kung, 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.

Kung, James K. S., Lee, Daniel Yiu-fai, Bai, Nansheng (2005) "Beyond Involution: The Welfare Effects of Markets and Household Allocation of Resources in the Lower Yangzi", Paper presented at the (second) workshop 'The Failure of Breaking with the Past: Economic Life in Modern China Between 1840 and 1949', The Chinese

University of Hong Kong, March 19-20, 2005.

Kung, James, Lee, Yiu-Fai, Bai, Nansheng (2004) "Did the Modern Chinese Economy Involute on its Way to Communism?: New Evidence from the Lower Yangzi", Paper prepared for the Workshop on Chinese Institutional Economic History 10-11 January 2004, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Kung, James, Lee, Yiu-Fai, Bai, Nansheng (2004) "Sericulture and Women's Contributions to the Household Economy: The Case of the Lower Yangzi in the 1930", International Workshop on Gender and Development in China, sponsored by both The World Bank and Ford Foundaion, and held at the China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, June 21-22 2004..

Kung, James, Lin, Justin (2003) "The Causes of China's Great Leap Famine, 1959-1961", Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 51-73, October.

Yanjie BIAN Chair Professor; Director, Survey Research Center (2358 7782 ; [email protected])

PhD, State University of New York at Albany (1990) Assistant and Associate Professor, University of Minnesota (1991-97)

Current Research Activities: Social networks and occupational mobility; economic transition and social stratification; social capital of Chinese firms.

Representative Research Publications:

Bian, Yanjie, Li, Lulu (2008) Institutional Transformation and the Dynamics of Social Stratification in Urban China., Book, Renmin University of China Press..

Bian, Yanjie, Li, Lulu, Wu, Xiaogang (2008) Social Stratification and Mobility: Overseas Researchers’ New Advancements and Analyses of China, Book, Renmin University of China..

Bian, Yanjie, Gerber, Ted (2008) "“Class Structure and Class Inequality in Urban China and Russia: Effects of Institutional Change or Economic Performance?”", Urban China in Transition edited John R. Logan. London and New York: Blackwell., Pp. 66-88.

Bian, Yanjie, Breiger, Ronald, Davis, Deborah (2005) "Occupation, Class, and Social Networks in Urban China", Social Forces, 83 (4): 1443-1468.

Bian, Yanjie, Li, Lulu, Cai, He (2004) Social Survey Research in Practice: Chinese Experiences and Analyses (Shehui Diaocha Shijian: Zhongguo Jingyan yu Fenxi), Hong Kong : Oxford University Press.

Bian, Yanjie (2002) "Chinese Social Stratification and Social Mobility", Annual Review of Sociology, 28:91-116. Bian, Yanjie (2002) "Social Capital of the Firm and Its Impact on Performance: A Social Network Perspective and Analysis", The Management of Enterprises in the People's Republic of China, Pp. 275-298.

Bian, Yanjie (2001) "Guanxi Capital and Social Eating: Theoretical Models and Empirical Analyses", Social Capital: Theory and Research, 275-295.

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 studies UGC - High Impact Area HK$450,000 10 Sep 2001 Globalization and the restructuring state-society in East Asia UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$164,400 01 May 2008

Representative Research Publications:

So, Alvin (2007) "Beyond the Logic of Capital and the Polarization Model: The State, Market Reforms, and the Plurality of Class Conflict in China", Critical Perspectives on China's Economic Transformation, edited by Hari Sharma. Delhi: Daanish Books, Pp.99-116.

So, Alvin (2007) "Globalization and the transition from neoliberal capitalism to State developmentalism in China", International Review of Modern Sociology, 33:61-76, vol. Pp.:61-76.

So, Alvin (2007) "Peasant Conflict and Local Predatory State in the Chinese Countryside", Journal of Peasant Studies., vol, 34 (#3-4), Pp. 1-22.

So, Alvin (2006) "Historical Formation, Transformation, and the Future Trajectory of Middle Classes in Asia-Pacific", The Changing Faces of the Middle Classes in Asia-Pacific, edited by Michael Hsin-Huang Hsiao. Taipei:

Center of Asia-Pacific Studies, Academia Sinica., P. 25-38.

Baark, Erik, So, Alvin (2006) "The Political Economy of Hong Kong’s Quest for High-Tech Innovation", Journal of Contemporary Asia, 31 (#1): 102-120.

So, Alvin (2006) "The State and Labor Insurgency in Post-socialist China: Implication for Development", Challenges and Policy Programmes of China’s New Leadership, edited by Joseph Cheng. Hong Kong: Hong Kong

City University Press., Pp. 133-15.

So, Alvin Y. (2005) "Beyond the Logic of Capital and the Polarization Model: The State, Market Reforms, and the Plurality of Class Conflict in China", Critical Asian Studies, vol. 37 (#3), pp. 481-494.

So, Alvin Y. (2005) "Citizen all? Citizens Equally? Social Exclusion, Marginality, and the Remaking of Citizenship in the Era of Globalization.", In Rethinking and Recasting Citizenship: Social Exclusion and Marginality in Chinese Societies, edited by May Tam, Hok Bun Ku, and Tavis Kong. Hong Kong: The Centre for Social Policy

Studies, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Pp. 27-34.

David Zweig Chair Professor; Director, Center on China's Transnational Relations (2358-7832 ; [email protected] ; http://www.cctr.ust.hk)

PhD, University of Michigan (1983) Post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard University (1984-85), Associate Professor, Department of Political Studies, Queen's University (1999-2001), Associate Professor of International Politics, Fletcher School, Tufts University (1986-96)

Current Research Activities: Movement of Human Capital in East Asia and Overseas Chinese Scholars (and returnees); Chinese politics and political economy; rural development in China; Sino- American relations; Chinese foreign policy and resource diplomacy; East Asian international political economy; East Asian international relations.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Hong Kong People on the Mainland: A Force for Integration? CPU - Public Policy Research HK$799,017 01 Sep 2007 Center on China's transnational relations UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$80,250 01 Mar 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Zweig, David, Chen, Zhimin (2007) Globalization and China's Reforms, (London: England, Routledge). Zweig, David, Chen, Zhimin (2007) "International Political Economy and Explanations of China's Globalization", David Zweig and Chen Zhimin, eds. Globalization and China's Reforms (London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 1-18.

Zweig, David (2007) "The Mobility of Chinese Human Capital: The View from the United States", Udai Tambar ed., The Movement of Global Talent: The Impact of High Skill Labor Flows from India and China (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, The Policy Research Institute for the Region, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 2007), pp. 9-22.

Zweig, David, Chung, Siu Fung (2006) "Democracy, Good Governance and Economic Development in Rural China", in Manoranjan Mohanty, Ma Rong and Richard Baum (eds), Grass Roots Democracy in India and China:

The Right to Participate (New Delhi: Sage, 2006), pp. 339-362.

Zweig, David (2006) Guoji zhengzhi jingjixue yu zhongguo de quanqiuhua (International Political Economy and China's Globalization) (in Chinese), with Chen Zhimin (Shanghai: Shanghai Sanlian Publishing House, 2006). BOOK.

Zweig, David (2006) "Is China a Magnet for Talent?", Horizon (Ottawa: Department of External Affairs, 2006). Zweig, David (2006) "Learning to Compete: China's Efforts to Encourage a Reverse Brain Drain", in Chistiane Kuptsch and PANG Eng Fong, eds., Competing for Global Talent (Geneva: International Institute for

Labour Studies, 2006), pp. 187-213.

Zweig, David (2006) "Transnational or Social Capital? Returned Scholars as Private Entrepreneurs", (with Wilfried Vanhanocker and Chung Siu Fung), in Anne S. Tsui, Yanjie Bian and Leonard Cheng (eds), China's Domestic Private Firms: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Management and Performance (Armonk, NY:

M.E. Sharpe, 2006), pp. 65-81.

Erik Baark Professor and Acting Dean of Humanities and Social Science (2358 7831 ; [email protected])

University of Lund, Sweden Associate Professor (1988-99) and Director, Institute of Social Sciences (1992-94), Technical University of Denmark

Current Research Activities: Science and technology policy in China; technology assessment; national innovation systems; international technology transfer; innovation processes in engineering consultancy.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Hong Kong as an innovation hub: complementary innovation linkages with the mainland RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$304,000 30 Jun 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Baark, Erik, 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 (2007) "Knowledge and Innovation in China: Historical Legacies and Emerging Institutions", Asia Pacific Business Review, Vol. 13, No. 3, p.337-372.

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.

Baark, Erik, So, Alvin (2006) "The Political Economy of Hong Kong's Quest for High Technology Innovation", Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 36, No. 1, p. 102-120.

Au, Kevin, Baark, Erik, Chua, Bee Leng, Thomas, Hugh (2006) Innovation Policy and High Growth Startups. Baark, Erik (2006) "Policies for Support to High Growth Entrepreneurial Firms in Hong Kong: An Assessment of Achievements and Problems", 3rd Asialics Conference 'From Imitation to Innovation-- Asia Meets Global Challenge' in Shanghai, China, 16-19 April 2006.

Baark, Erik, Sharif, Naubahar (2005) "The Tamest of Tigers? Understanding Hong Kong's Innovation System and Innovation Policies", International Journal of Technology and Globalization, Vol. 1, No 3-4 (2005) p. 462-479.

Baark, Erik (2005) "Innovation Policy Forensics: An Analysis of Biotechnology in Hong Kong", The DRUID Tenth Anniversary Summer Conference 2005 on Dynamics of Industry and Innovation: Organisations,

Networks and Systems Copenhagen, Denmark, 27-29 June, 2005.

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, Xue-liang (2007) Zhongguo Jingji Zai Jueqi China's Economic Re-Emergence: Promises and Challenges , Beijing: Peking University Press.

Ding, Xue-liang (2006) "Core Institutional Elements of A Research University", A Collection of Public Lectures by Leading Scholars (Guoqiang Tian, ed., Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Press, 2006), Volume 1, pp. 260-274.

Ding, X. L. (2006) "India and China: Each Has Its Own Problems but There Is A Big Difference", Carnegie ChinaNet (Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), June Issue 2006.

Ding, X.L. (2006) "The Chinese Cultural Revolution Was A Revolution of Everyone Revenging on Everyone - Reflections on the Cultural Revolution at Its 40th Anniversary", Reflexion (Taipei: Linking Publishing Company, in Chinese), No. 1, 2006, pp. 153-175.

Ding, Xue-liang (2006) "The Chinese Cultural Revolution Was A Revolution of Everyone Revenging on Everyone - Reflections on the Cultural Revolution at Its 40th Anniversary.", Reflexion (Taipei: Linking Publishing Company, in Chinese), No. 1, pp. 153-175.

Ding, Xue-liang (2006) "To Institutionalize Social Justice", China and World Affairs (Beijing: Tsinghua University, in Chinese), No. 1, pp. 25-33.

Ding, Xue-liang (2006) "“Core Institutional Elements of A Research University.” Pp. 260-274 in ,", 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. (2005) Mekong: The Spring of Life, (co-produced by the Great Mekong Subregional environmental protection research team) Kunming: Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing Company, 2005. viii, 233 pp..

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 social stability in China Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Exchange, Taiwan HK$106,158 01 Jul 2008

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Cai, Yongshun (2004) "Managed Participation in China", Political Science Quarterly, 119, no. 3 (2004), pp. 425-451.

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 (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$376,508 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Holz, Carsten (2008) "China's Economic Growth 1978-2025: What We Know Today about China's Economic Growth Tomorrow", World Development, (forthcoming in late 2008).

Holz, Carsten, Brandt, Loren (2006) "Spatial Price Differences in China: Estimates and Implications", Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 55, no. 1 (Oct. 2006): 43-86.

Holz, Carsten A (2006) "China's Reform Period Economic Growth: How Reliable Are Angus Maddison's Estimates", Review of Income and Wealth, 52, no. 1 (March 2006): 85-119.

Holz, Carsten A (2006) "New Capital Estimates for China", China Economic Review, 17, no. 2 (2006): 142-85. Holz, Carsten (2004) "Deconstructing China’s GDP Statistics", China Economic Review, Vol. 15, no. 2 (2004): 164- 202.

Holz, Carsten (2003) China's State-owned Enterprises between Profitability and Bankruptcy, Singapore: World Scientific, August.

Holz, Carsten A. (2003) "'Fast, Clear and Accurate': How Reliable Are Chinese Output and Economic Growth Statistics?", The China Quarterly, No. 173, pp. 122-63.

Holz, Carsten A. (2002) "Long Live China's State-owned Enterprises: Deflating the Myth of Poor Financial Performance", Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 493-529.

Agnes Shuk-Mei KU Associate Professor (2358 7784 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (1995) Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (1993-2000) Current Research Activities: Cultural sociology; civil society and public sphere; Hong Kong culture and politics; gender issues.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Citizenship rights in Hong Kong RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$50,000 01 Jan 2002 A preliminary comparative study of cultural developments in Hong Kong and Taipei RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$35,000 01 Feb 2006 Cultural governance, urban form, and civil society RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$301,400 01 Nov 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes (2004) "'Immigration Policies, Discourses, and the Politics of Local Belonging in Hong Kong (1950- 1980).'", Modern China, Vol 30 (3), pp. 326-360.

Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes (2004) "'Negotiating the Space of Civil Autonomy in Hong Kong - Power, Discourses and Dramaturgical Representations.'", The China Quarterly, No. 179, pp. 647-664.

Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes, Pun, Ngai (2004) Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation, and the Global City , editied by Agnes S. Ku and Ngai Pun. London : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.

Ku, Shuk-Mei Agnes (2002) "Beyond the Paradoxical Conception of 'Civil Society without Citizenship'", International Sociology, 17 (4): 551-570.

Ku, Shuk-Mei Agnes (2002) "Post-Colonial Cultural Trends in Hong Kong - Imagining the Local, the National and the Global", Crisis and Transformation in China's Hong Kong, pp. 343-362.

Ku, Shuk Mei Agnes (2001) "Hegemonic Construction, Negotiation and Displacement - Struggle over Right of Abode in Hong Kong", International Journal of Cultural Studies, 4 (3): 259-278.

Ku, Agnes S. (2001) "The 'Public' Up Against the State - Narrative Cracks and Credibility Crisis in Postcolonial Hong Kong", Theory, Culture and Society 18(1): 121-44. Also in Narrating Hong Kong Culture and Identity, edited by N. Pun. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press (2003).

Ku, Agnes S. (2000) "Revisiting THE Notion Of 'Public' in Habermas's Theory-Towards a Theory of Politics of Public Credibility", Socialogical Theory, 18 (2):216-240.

Yi-Min LIN Associate Professor (2358 7816 ; [email protected])

PhD, Yale University (1991) Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley (1991-92)

Current Research Activities: Political economy; organizations and institutions.

John Z MA Associate Professor (2358 7829 ; [email protected])

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

Current Research Activities: Migration and family dynamics in developing countries; geographical information systems (GIS).

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Center for Spatial and Social Demographics Nansha Research Centers HK$5,566,000 01 Jul 2006 Center for spatial and social demographics UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$80,250 01 Mar 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Ma, Zhongdong, Zhang, Weimin, Liang, Zai, Cui, Hongyan (2004) "Labor migration: A New Income Growth Point in Rural China", Population Research, 28 (3): 1-15.

Liang, Zai, Ma, Zhongdong (2004) "The floating Population of China: New Evidence from the 2000 Population Census", Population and Development Review, 30 (3): 467-488.

Devoretz, D.J., Ma, Zhongdong, Zhang, K (2003) "Triangular Human Capital Flows: Empirical Evidence from Hong Kong and Canada", in Reitz, J.G. edited Host Societies and the Reception of Immigrants, USMEX press: California.

Ma, Zhongdong (2002) "Social capital mobilization and income returns to entrepreneurship: the case of return migration in rural China", Environment and Planning A, 34(10): 1763-84.

Devoretz, Don, Ma, Zhongdong (2002) "Triangular human capital flows between sending, entrepot and the rest of the world destinations", Special Issue on Migration and Globalizaiton, Canadian Studies in Population, 29(1): 53-69.

Gerald R PATCHELL Associate Professor (2358 7781 ; [email protected])

PhD, Simon Frazer University (1991)

Current Research Activities: Economic and cultural geography; geography of Japan; cooperative communities and the diffusion of organizations; environmental management and regional development.

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Ngai PUN Associate Professor (2358 7775 ; [email protected])

PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1998)

Current Research Activities: Chinese labor and global factories; gender and cultural politics; globalization and transborder studies.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Making a new working class: A study of collective actions in a dormitory labor regime of South China RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$702,500 01 Oct 2007 Global labor and community development program ACORN International HK$975,000 01 Jan 2005 International consortium for research on Chinese labour Australian National University HK$39,705 01 Sep 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Pun, Ngai, Smith, Chris (2007) "Putting Transnational Labour Process in its Place: Dormitory Labour Regime in Post- Socialist China", Work, Employment and Society, 2007, Vol 21, No 1, pp27-46, 2007.

Pun, Ngai (2007) "The Dormitory Labor Regime: Sites of Control and Resistance for Women Migrant Workers in South China", Feminist Economics, Vol 13, 239-258.

潘, 毅, 黎, 婉薇 (2006) 失語與發聲: 中國女工口述, 北京:二聯書店。. Pun, Ngai (2005) "Global Production and Corporate Business Ethics: Company Codes of Conduct Implementation and its Implication on Labour Rights in China", China Journal, July, pp. 101-113.

Pun, Ngai (2005) Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace, Durham: Duke University Press and HK University Press.

Ku, Agnes, Pun, Ngai (2004) Making Citizenship in Hong Kong: (Post-) Colonial Subject, Community and Global City, London and New York: Routledge, 2004.

Pun, Ngai (2003-2004) "Subsumption or Consumption?: The Phantom of Consumer Revolution in Globalizing China.", Cultural Anthropology, 18(4), November, pp.469-492.

Pun, Ngai (2000) "Opening a Minor Genre of Resistance in Reform China: Scream, Dream and Transgression in a Workplace", Positions: 8:2, pp1-24.

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: The political economy of contemporary China-Africa relations RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$682,112 01 Jul 2005

Representative Research Publications:

Sautman, Barry, Yan, Hairong (2008) "Forest for the trees: trade, investment and the China-in Africa discourse", Pacific Affairs, 81:9-29.

Sautman, Barry, Yan, Hairong (2007) East Mountain Tiger, West Mountain Tiger: China, Africa, the West and 'colonialism' in Africa, Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies (Baltimore: University of Maryland School of Law), Monograph no. 186.

Sautman, Barry, Yan, Hairong (2007) "Friends and interests: China's distinctive links with Africa", African Studies Review, 50:75-114.

Sautman, Barry (2006) "'Demographic Annihilation' an Tibet", in Barry Sautman & June Dreyer (eds.), Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development and Society in a Disputed Region (Armonk: ME Sharpe), (2006): 230-257.

Sautman, Barry, Dreyer, June (2006) Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development and Society in a Disputed Region, (Armonk: ME Sharpe), 2006.

Sautman, Barry, Dreyer, June (2006) "Introduction", in Barry Sautman & June Dreyer (eds.), Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development and Society in a Disputed Region (Armonk: ME Sharpe), (2006): 3-22.

Sautman, Barry, He, Baogang (2006) "The Politics of the Dalai Lama's New Initiative for Autonomy", Pacific Affairs, 78:4 (2006): 601-629.

Sautman, Barry (2005) "China's Vulnerability to Ethnic Minority Separatism in Tibet", Asian Affairs: an American Review, 31:2 (2005): 87-118.

Ming SING Associate Professor (2358 7839 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Longitudinal and comparative study on political attitudes & democratic development in Hong Kong RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Nov 2007

Edward Jow-Ching TU Associate Professor (2358 7776 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Tennessee (1983) Research Associate, Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, State University of New York (1980- 92)

Current Research Activities: Comparative study of recent population changes and policy implications in Taiwan, China, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Mortality transition in Hong Kong and its major theoretical and policy implications CPU - Public Policy Research HK$657,600 30 Sep 2006

Representative Research Publications:

Tu, Jow Ching, Yuan, Xin, Zhang, Xia (2006-2007) "Fertility Transition in Hong Kong and Taiwan", in Transition and Challenge: China's Population at the Beginning of the 21st Century Edited by Zhongwei Zhao and

Fei Guo, Oxford University Press, page 71-86 Oxford University Press.

Tu, Jow Ching (2006) "Education, Gender and Migration", International conference on New Rural Development, Jinan, Shandong, China, October 28-29, 2006.

Tu, Jow Ching (2003) "Patterns of Lowest-Low Fertility in Hong Kong", Journal of Population and Social Security, Volume 1, Supplement pp. 629-642.

Tu, Jow Ching (2002) "A model of Intermarriage Involving Attribute Exchange", Global Economic Review, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 109-124.

Tu, Jow Ching, Yuan, Xin (2002) "Replacement Migration in Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin", Journal of Population, Vol. 24, pp. 59-87.

Xiaogang WU Associate Professor (2358 7827 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~sowu)

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (Sociology) (2001) Non-residential faculty associate, California Population Research Center

Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow(2001-2003), Research Affiliate (2005-), Population Studies Center, University of Michigan Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan (2001-2003)

Speech Writer/Policy Research Officer for the Mayor, Shanghai Municipal Government, CHINA

Current Research Activities: Institutional Structure and Social Mobility in State Socialist China; Inequalities in Mainland China and Hong Kong

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Self-employment and private entrepreneurship in China's economic transition Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Exchange, Taiwan HK$273,000 01 Jul 2008 Social inequality and mobility in Hong Kong: A benchmark study CPU - Public Policy Research HK$981,000 10 Apr 2006 Educational inequalities in reform-era China, 1990-2000 RGC - General Research Fund (formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) HK$531,440 01 Dec 2005 Chinese College Students Panel Survey: A Pilot Study RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$320,000 30 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Xie, Yu, Wu, Xiaogang (2008) "Danwei Profitability and Earnings Inequality in Urban China.", the China Quarterly, forthcoming.

Wu, Xiaogang (2007) "Family Resources and Educational Stratification: The Case of Hong Kong, 1981-2001", Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, Volume 3 :173-201.

Wu, Xiaogang, Treiman, Donald (2007) "Inequality and Equality under Chinese Socialism: The Hukou System and Intergenerational Occupational Mobility.", American Journal of Sociology, 113(2):415-45.

Wu, Xiaogang (2006) "Communist Cadres and Market Opportunities: Entry to Self-Employment in China, 1978-1996. The Research Paper Award from Asia and Asian American Section, American Sociological Association, 2006", Social Forces, 85 (1): 389-411.

Wu, Xiaogang (2006) "Family Businesses in China (1978-1996): Entry and Performance", in The Management and Performance of China's Domestic Private Firms: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives, edited by Anne S Tsui and Yanjie Bian. New York: M.E. Sharpe, pp. 40-64, 2006.

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.

Wu, Xiaogang, Xie, Yu (2003) "'Does the Market Pay Off? Earnings Returns to Education in Urban China'", American Sociology Review, 68:425-442.

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; Internet Response Behaviors

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Predicting students' behaviors from personality: The Chinese case RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$57,142 01 Feb 2004 A preliminary examination of the benefits of "feeling good" on physical and psychological well-being RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$32,000 01 Jun 2006 Happiness is a choice UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$164,400 01 May 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Yik, Michelle (2007) "Culture, gender, and the bipolarity of momentary affect", Cognition and Emotion, vol 21, pp. 664-680.

Yik, Michelle (2006) "On the Emotional Core of Students’Academic Achievement: The Role of Negative Affectivity", Invited presentation on “Asia’s Educational Miracle: Psychological, Social and Cultural Perspectives” at the Korean Association of Psychological and Social Issues, Korea..

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; Creative industries; Urban studies, Environment studies

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Making cultural clusters: New strategies for culture-led urban redevelopment CPU - Public Policy Research HK$612,600 01 Feb 2007 The restructuring of movie industry in Hong Kong: flexible specialization, innovation and the labor market RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$403,890 18 Jun 2007 The center for cultural studies UGC - School-based Initiatives HK$80,250 01 Mar 2007

Representative Research Publications:

Chen, Chung Chen, 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) "Why do Multinational Corporations locate their advanced R&D centers in Beijing?", Journal of Development Studies, 44(5):610-632.

Chen, Yun Chung, Pun, Ngai (2007) "Neoliberalism and Privatization in Hong Kong after the 1997 Financial Crisis", China Review, 7(2) 65-92.

Chen, Yun Chung (2007) "Neoliberalism, Urban Crises and the New Preservation Movement in Hong Kong", International Conference of Critical Geography, Mumbai, 3-7 December 2007.

Chen, Yun-Chung (2007) "The Limits of Brain Circulation: Chinese Returnees and Technological Development in Beijing", Pacific Affairs, Special Issue on 'An Overview of 21st Century Chinese Brain Circulation'. Accepted.

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 (2007) "Wal-Martization in Southern China", Annual Conference of Association of American Geographers (AAG), San Francisco, U.S.A., April 17-21.

Chen, Yun-Chung (2006) "Changing the Shanghai Innovation Systems: The Role of Multinational Corporations' R&D Centres", Science, Technology and Society, 11 (1): 67-107.

Wenkai HE Assistant Professor (2358 7775 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Daniel Yiu-Fai LEE Assistant Professor (2358 7830 ; [email protected])

PhD, University of Toronto (2002)

Current Research Activities: Development economics; economics of human resources; Chinese economy.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Determinants of fertility in rural China RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$100,000 01 Dec 2002 Income inequality and income mobility in rural China RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$37,142 01 Mar 2004 The determinants of income, income inequality and income mobility in rural China RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$50,000 01 Mar 2005

Representative Research Publications:

Lee, Yiu-fai (2008) "Do Families Spend more on Boys than on Girls: Empirical Evidence from Rural China", China Economic Review, 2008, 19, 80-100.

Lee, Yiu-fai, Kung, James (2008) "Women's Contributions to the Household Economy in Pre-Communist China: Evidence from the Lower Yangzi", Modern China, forthcoming.

Kung, James, Lee, Daniel (2001) "So What if there is Income Inequality? The distributive Consequence of Non-Farm Employment in Rural China", Economic Development and Cultural Change, 50(1), 19-46.

Ying LIN Assistant Professor (2358 7834 ; [email protected])

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: The impacts of ownership and public investment on industrial technology innovation in China RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$99,000 01 Mar 2008

Naubahar SHARIF Assistant Professor (2358 7826 ; [email protected] ; http://www.nsharif.com)

PhD, Cornell University (2005)

Current Research Activities: Development of Hong Kong's innovation system; technology policy in Hong Kong; emergence of the innovation systems approach; business and economic history of technology; sociology of technology.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Regional, sectoral and technological innovation systems conceptual approaches: Inception, development and diffusion RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$99,900 30 Jun 2006 Hong Kong virtual university campus Restructuring and Collaboration Fund HK$150,000 01 Jul 2007 Wheels of Change? A Comparison of the Automotive Parts and Accessory Systems (APAS) Industries of Shanghai and Hong Kong RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$80,000 01 Jun 2008

Representative Research Publications:

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.

Baark, Erik, Sharif, Naubahar (2006) "Hong Kong's Innovation System in Transition: Challenges of Regional Integration and Promotion of High Technology", Asian Innovation Systems and Clusters.

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.

Sharif, Naubahar (2005) "Beyond the dotcom Fever: Mapping the Dynamics of E-commerce Policy in Hong Kong", In CyberAsia: The Internet and Society in Asia, edited by Zaheer Baber. Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston,

USA: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005.

Sharif, Naubahar, Baark, Erik (2005) "The Tamest of Tigers? Understanding Hong Kong's Innovation System and Innovation Policies", International Journal of Technology and Globalization, 1, no. 3-4 (2005): 462-479.

Satoru SHIMOKAWA Assistant Professor (2358 7836 ; [email protected])

PhD, Cornell University (2007)

Current Research Activities:

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Detecting explanations for the puzzled observation of gender bias in China: the introduction of asymmetric consumption response and asymmetric response by gender RGC - Direct Allocation Grant HK$98,800 01 Jan 2008

Representative Research Publications:

Shimokawa, Satoru (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.

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John C MILTON, Director, English Courses, College of Life-Long Learning; Senior Instructor, Language Centre

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Mark HOPKINS, Instructor, Self-Access Centre Manager

Sarah TOOGOOD, Instructor;SAC Adviser Gregory C A JAMES Director, Language Center (2358 7878 ; [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.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Web-based learning/exit e-portfolio Restructuring and Collaboration Fund HK$10,000,000 01 Jul 2006 Web-based learning/exit e-portfolio Restructuring and Collaboration Fund HK$1,186,000 01 Jul 2006

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 (2006) "Current Trends in Corpus Linguistics Research: Texts, tools and contexts for corpora of written discourse", 40th Annual TESOL Conference, Tampa, U.S., 14-17 March 2006.

Flowerdew, Lynne (2005) "An integration of corpus-based and genre-based approaches to text analysis in EAP/ESP: Countering criticisms against corpus-based methodologies", English for Specific Purposes, 23 (3): 321-332.

Flowerdew, Lynne (2005) "Integrating traditional and critical approaches to syllabus design: the 'what', the 'how' and the 'why?'", Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 4 (2): 135-147.

Flowerdew, Lynne (2005) "Working from the Appraisal system to experiential meanings in analysing apprentice and professional reports", The 17th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference, King's College, London, U. K., 2-5 Aug. 2005.

Flowerdew, Lynne (2005) "An integration of corpus-based and genre-based approaches to text analysis in EAP / ESP: Countering criticisms against corpus-based methodologies", English for Specific Purposes Journal, 23 (3): 321-332.

Flowerdew, Lynne (2005) "Integrating Traditional and critical appproaches to syllabus design: the 'what', the 'how' and the 'why?'", Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 4 (2): 135-147.

Flowerdew, Lynne (2004) "The Problem-Solution pattern in apprentice and professional technical writing: an application of appraisal theory", Corpora and Language Learners, pp. 125-135.

Flowerdew, Lynne (2004) "The argument for using English specialised corpora to understand academic and professional language.", Discourse in the Professions: Perspectives from Corpus Linguistics, pp. 11-33.

John C MILTON Director, English Courses, College of Life-Long Learning; Senior Instructor, Language Centre (2358 7849 ; [email protected] ; http://ihome.ust.hk/~lcjohn/index.htm)

PhD, Lancaster University (2001) Senior Lecturer, Acting Director and Assistant Director of English Center, The University of Bahrain, Bahrain (1982-91) 'Foreign Expert', Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electrical Engineering, Hubei, P.R.C. (1981-82)

Current Research Activities: Analysis of the writing of non-native speakers of English; development of Information Technology for language learning and instruction; online tools, resources, learning materials and activities.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator: Development of writing tools Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs/HKUST and Others HK$1,650,000 04 Mar 2005

Representative Research Publications:

Milton, John (2005) "From Parrots to Puppet masters: fostering creative and authentic language use with online tools", 'Distance Education and Languages: Evolution and Change' Eds: B. Holmberg, M Shelley & C. White:

Multilingual Matters.

Milton, John (2002-2003) "Design Principles for an Online EFL Course", Directions in CALL: Experience, Experiments and Evaluation, 165-178.

Susanna Pui-San HO Instructor; Manager of Writing and Speaking through the Curriculum Programme (2358 7852 ; [email protected])

PhD, Macquarie University (2005)

Current Research Activities: Reading and writing; Language for specific purposes; Interdisciplinary discourse.

Representative Research Publications:

Ho, Susanna 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 (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.archetude.com/sarahtoogood/)

MA, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Current Research Activities: Integrating self-access learning into classroom-based courses; 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:

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. Pemberton, Richard, Toogood, Sarah, Ho, Susanna, Lam, Jacqueline Kam-mei (2002) "Approaches to advising for self-directed langauge learning", Learner Autonomy: New Insights, AILA Review, 15, 16-25.

Pemberton, Richard, Toogood, Sarah (2001) "Expectations and assumptions in a self-directed language-learning programme", In Beyond Language Teaching Towards Language Advising (eds. Mozzon-McPherson M. & Vismans R.) London, CILT, 66-83.

Pemberton, Richard, Toogood, Sarah, Ho, Susanna, Lam, Jacqui (2001) "Enhancing the quality of adviser support for self-directed language learning", Further Case Studies in Improving Teaching and Learning from the Action Learning Project, Hong Kong, 143-160.

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