PEOPLE
CHING Shuk Chi Emily 程淑姿
Emily S. C. Ching / Professor
PHONE: (852) 3943 6305
EMAIL: ching@phy.cuhk.edu.hk
OFFICE: Room G5, G/F, Science Centre North Block
ORCID: 0000-0001-5114-5072
Education
- PhD, University of Chicago, USA
- MPhil, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- BSc, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Position
- Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research Interests
- Turbulent thermal convection and turbulent double diffusive convection
- Scaling and statistics in fluid turbulence
- Effect of polymers in turbulence
- Collective dynamics of neuronal networks
- Reconstructing networks from dynamics
Honours and Awards
- Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2021
- Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014 and 2021
- Outstanding Referee, The American Physical Society, 2013
- Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, 2007-08
- Fellow, The American Physical Society, 2005
- Fellow, The Institute of Physics, UK, 2004
- Achievement in Asia Award, The Overseas Chinese Physics Association, 1999
Professional Activities
- Associate Editor, Physical Review E (November 1, 2019 – present)
- Editorial Board Member, Physical Review E ( January 1, 2017 – October 31, 2019)
- Editorial Committee Member, Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics (January 1, 2016 – December 31, 2025)
- Member, American Physical Society Fellowship Committee for the Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (2018)
- Selection Committee Member, Francois Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics, Division of Fluid Dynamics, American Physical Society (January 2016 – December 2017)
- Selection Committee Member, Stanley Corrsin Award, American Physical Society (August 2012 – July 2014)
- Physical Science Panel member (2007-2013), Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Research Grants
- RGC Earmarked Grant: Statistics of Fluctuations in Turbulent Fluid Flows
- RGC Earmarked Grant: Model Study of Fracture Propagation in Solids
- RGC Earmarked Grant: Statistics and Scaling in Turbulence
- RGC Earmarked Grant: Velocity and Temperature Statistics in Turbulent Convection
- RGC Earmarked Grant: Turbulent Convection: Statistics, Large-scale Circulating Wind, and Heat Transport
- RGC Earmarked Grant: A Shell-Model Study of Turbulence: Drag Reduction and Thermal Convection
- RGC Earmarked Grant: Extending Refined Similarity Ideas to Understand Anomalous Scaling of a Active Scalar in Turbulent Convection
- RGC Earmarked Grant: Effects of Polymer Additives on Heat Transport in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
- RGC Earmarked Grant: Extracting Connectivity of a Network from Dynamics of Nodes
- RGC Earmarked Grant: Reconstructing Complex Networks from Noisy Dynamics
- RGC Earmarked Grant: Spatial Structure of Boundary Layers and Heat Transfer in Turbulent Rayleigh-Benard Convection
- RGC Earmarked Grant: Turbulent vertical convection and turbulent double diffusive convection in a vertical fluid layer
Selected Publications
- Emily S.C. Ching, “Heat flux and wall shear stress in large-aspect-ratio turbulent vertical convection, Physical Review Fluids 8, L022601 (2023).
- Chumin Sun, K. C. Lin, C. Y. Yeung, Emily S. C. Ching, Yu-Ting Huang, Pik-Yin Lai, and C. K. Chan, “Revealing directed effective connectivity of cortical neuronal networks from measurements”, Physical Review E 105, 044406 (2022).
- Emily S.C. Ching, H.S. Leung, Lukas Zwirner and Olga Shishkina, “Velocity and thermal boundary layer equations for turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection”, Physical Review Research 1, 033037 (2019).
- Roberto Benzi and Emily S.C. Ching, “Polymers in fluid flows”, Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 9, 161-183 (2018).
- Emily S.C. Ching and H.C. Tam, “Reconstructing links in directed networks from noisy dynamics”, Physical Review E (Rapid Communications) 95, 010301(R) (2017).
- Olga Shishkina, Susanne Horn, Sebastian Wagner, and Emily S.C. Ching, “Thermal boundary layer equation for turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection”, Physical Review Letters 114, 114302 (2015).
- Emily S.C. Ching, Pik-Yin Lai, and C. Y. Leung, “Reconstructing weighted networks from dynamics”, Physical Review E (Rapid Communications) 91, 030801(R) (2015).
- Emily S.C. Ching, Pik-Yin Lai, and C. Y. Leung, “Extracting connectivity from dynamics of networks with uniform bidirectional coupling”, Physical Review E 88, 042817 (2013). Erratum, Physical Review E 89, 029901 (2014).
- Emily S.C. Ching, Statistics and Scaling in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection, (Springer, Singapore, 2014).
- Roberto Benzi, Emily S.C. Ching, Vivien W.S. Chu, “Heat transport by laminar boundary layer flow with polymers”, J. Fluid Mech. 696, 330 (2012).
- Roberto Benzi, Emily S.C. Ching, and E. De Angelis, “Effect of polymer additives on heat transport in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection”, Physical Review Letters 104, 024502 (2010).