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Professor Xu, Dongyan
Director, Energy Engineering ProgrammeEnergy and Environmental Engineering Programme
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
Research Interests:
- Nanoscale Thermal Transport
- Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
- Phase Change Heat Transfer and Thermal Management
- Micro/Nanofluidic Devices for Biomedical Applications
Professor Chen, Chun
Assistant 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, Yongqin David
Professor, Department of Geography and Resource ManagementResearch Interests:
- Hydrologic Analysis and Modelling
- Water Resources Management
- Environmental Assessment and Sustainability
Professor Chen, Yongsheng
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Automation EngineeringResearch Interests:
- Energy and materials, sustainability, emissions control
- Hydrogen production, steam reforming, adsorptive desulfurization
- Catalysis, electrocatalysts, fuel cells
- Energy storage, lithium-sulfur batteries, carbon materials
- Materials characterization, X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) spectroscopy
Professor Lau, Ngar-Cheung Gabriel
Professor (by Courtesy), Earth System Science ProgrammeAXA Professor, Department of Geography and Resource Management
Research Interests:
- Diagnosis of atmospheric circulation system
- Large-scale air-sea interaction
- Regional phenomena related to climate change
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
Associate 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 Ren, Wei
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Automation EngineeringResearch Interests:
- Combustion and fuels
- Optical diagnostics
- Spectroscopic instrumentation
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
Research Professor, Earth System Science 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, Yunjian
Assistant 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
Professor Zhao, Ni
Professor, Department of Electronic EngineeringResearch Interests:
- Optoelectronic, electronic and electrochemical devices based on organic and nanostructured materials
- spectroscopic characterization of the physical processes in nanostructured thin films, structures, and devices
Professor Zi, Yunlong
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Automation EngineeringResearch Interests:
- Mechanical energy harvesting: fundamental studies and experimental demonstration of converting mechanical energy to be electricity, mainly through triboelectric nanogenerators;
- High-voltage applications of triboelectric nanogenerators: develop novel applications utilizing high-voltage output of triboelectric nanogenerators;
- Self-powered systems: develop self-powered systems including energy harvesters, energy storage units, power-management units, and functional devices;
- Novel energy harvesting technologies: emerging mechanical/thermal energy harvesting approaches based on newly-developed mechanisms.