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Professor Ren, Wei
Director, Energy and Environmental Engineering ProgrammeAssociate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
Research Interests:
- Combustion and fuels
- Optical diagnostics
- Spectroscopic instrumentation
Professor Chen, Chun
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Automation EngineeringResearch Interests:
- Indoor air quality: modeling, measurement, and control technologies for indoor air pollutants, including particles, ozone, volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds.
- Energy-efficient buildings: natural ventilation, personalized cooling and heating, and thermal comfort.
- Aerosol dynamics: computational fluid dynamics simulation, particle dispersion, deposition, penetration, and resuspension.
- Airborne infectious disease transmission: infectious particle transport in buildings, hospitals, and commercial airliner cabins.
Professor Chen, Xi
Research Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests:
- Built environment modelling
- Green building and passive design
- Renewable application in buildings
- Building lifecycle assessment
Professor Chen, Yongqin David
Professor, Department of Geography and Resource ManagementResearch Interests:
- Hydrologic Analysis and Modelling
- Water Resources Management
- Environmental Assessment and Sustainability
Professor Chen, Yue
Vice-Chancellor Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Automation EngineeringResearch Interests:
- Smart grid and smart city
- Integrated energy systems
- Optimization and game theory
- Mathematical economics
Professor Liao, Wei-Hsin
Professor and Chairman, Department of Mechanical and Automation EngineeringResearch Interests:
- Smart Materials and Structures
- Energy Harvesting
- Vibration Control
- Mechatronics
- Precision Machinery
- Nanotechnology, and Medical Devices
Professor Lu, Yi-Chun
Professor, Department of Mechanical and Automation EngineeringResearch Interests:
- Electrode and electrolyte design for high-energy metal-air and metal sulfur batteries
- Redox-active components and solution chemistry for redox-flow batteries
- Electrocatalysts and electrode design for low-temperature fuel cells and electrolyzers
- Mechanistic understanding of interfacial phenomena governing electrochemical energy conversion and storage processes
Professor Wong, Ching Ping
Adjunct ProfessorResearch Interests:
- Polymeric electronic materials
- Electronic, photonic and MEMS packaging and interconnect
- Interfacial adhesions
- Nano-functional material syntheses and characterizations
Professor Wong, Teng-fong
Emeritus Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences ProgrammeResearch Interests:
- Experimental rock deformation
- Rock physics applied to energy resources
- Earthquake mechanics
- Environmental hydrogeology
Professor Xiao, Xudong
Adjunct Professor, Department of PhysicsResearch Interests:
- Thin Film Solar Cells
- Surface diffusion
- Nanotribology study using atomic force microscopy
- Novel properties of nanostructures and materials
- Scanning tunneling microscopy
Professor Xu, Dongyan
Professor, Department of Mechanical and Automation EngineeringResearch Interests:
- Nanoscale Thermal Transport
- Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
- Phase Change Heat Transfer and Thermal Management
- Micro/Nanofluidic Devices for Biomedical Applications
Professor Xu, Yunjian
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Automation EngineeringResearch Interests:
- Power System Optimization and Control
- Electricity Markets
- Stochastic Optimal Control
Professor Yam, Yeung
Research Professor, Department of Mechanical and Automation EngineeringDirector, CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute (SZRI)
Research Interests:
- Robotic platform for Chinese calligraphy and painting
- Tensor-Product (TP)-based Computational Design Approach
- Fuzzy Inference Mappings
- Optical Element Design and Fabrication
- Modeling of Biological Systems
