He is the author of 2 books and 230+ journal papers. His work encompasses two main areas: ‘construction informatics’ and ‘circular construction’, empowered by modern Industry 4.0 technologies. His lab devises PropTech, such as BIM, big data, and blockchain for project management. He has been named a Top 1% Scholar by Clarivate since 2017 and World’s Top 2% Scientists since 2019.

Lu received numerous awards, including the Best Paper Awards from ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering and Elsevier Resources, Conservation and Recycling, the Hong Kong ICT Gold Award, and buildingSMART International Award. He is the leader of HK$60m research grants supported by various funding regimes including the Hong Kong RGC, ITF, and the NSFC China.

Prior to joining HKU in 2023, she held positions at the economics departments of University College London and the University of Rochester. She served as a Joint Managing Editor at the Review of Economic Studies from 2016 to 2021 and is currently a Co-Editor of the American Economic Review.  

Schoenberg is an elected Fellow of the British Academy and the Society of Labor Economists. She was awarded the 2021-22 British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2016.

Shen’s research focuses on data-driven decision making, particularly for digital transformation for entities and smart healthcare. He founded the Master of Science (Business Analytics) Programme, the Executive Master of Business Administration programme, the Data Scientist Programme, the Business Leadership Programme, and the Global CEO Programme at HKU Business School.  

He was elected a Member of the International Statistical Institute and Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2015 and is a Board Member of the Production and Operations Management Hong Kong Chapter since 2017 and named Forbes China Digital Commerce Top 20 in 2023.  

He joined HKU in 2023 from the London School of Economics and has taught previously at University College London and the University of Chicago.  

Szentes’ work has garnered recognition in the form of grants from the Olin Foundation Fellowship of the University of Chicago, the National Science Foundation of the USA, and the ERC Starting Grant of the European Union. He is also an elected fellow of the Econometric Society Fellows.  

His expertise is in Chinese economy, growth and development, and macroeconomics. His research, which explores economic growth, trade, migration, agriculture in economic development, and fiscal policies, has been published in American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Monetary Economics, and other leading economic journals.  

Zhu is the recipient of the Tan Chong Tai Lecture in Development Economics by Wuhan University, the CICM Lecture by the China International Conference for Macroeconomics, and the Dean’s Excellence Award by the University of Toronto. Additionally, he is an Editorial Board Member of VoxChina and Frontiers of Economics in China. 

Chu’s expertise is in preventive dentistry. He has published over 300 articles in international journals. As a Board Director of Project Concern Hong Kong and the pioneer of the Jockey Club Children Oral Health Project launched by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, he is a long-standing advocate for community oral health dedicated to promoting awareness and access to care for patients of all ages. 

Chu was named a Master of the Academy of General Dentistry (AGD) and received the AGD Lifelong Learning and Service Recognition Award 2015.  

She is the Chairman of the Fellowships Committee, International Association for Dental Research, and Deputy Chairman for the Specialty Board in Paediatric Dentistry of the College of Dental Surgeons of Hong Kong. And she is an Examiner for the Licensing Examination of the Dental Council of Hong Kong and the College of Dental Surgeons of Hong Kong. 

A Clinical Professor in Paediatric Dentistry since 1989, Yiu has published over 240 papers in international scientific journals on paediatric oral health, cariology, adhesive dentistry, with a focus on caries prevention and enhancing the longevity of bonded restorations. 

His research interests focus on the fundamentals of processing-microstructure-property relationship of metals and alloys, as well as the development of high-performance alloys. Both experimental and modelling works are involved in his research which has been published in top international journals including Science and Science Advances.   

Huang is a recipient of the Croucher Foundation Senior Research Fellowship in 2022 and the Xplorer Prize in Chemistry and New Materials in 2021, and his extensive research endeavours are supported by prestigious funding sources, such as the National Key R&D Program, the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, Collaborative Research Fund and Research Impact Fund.  

With over 330 refereed journal publications, Hui’s research focuses on the management of energy consumption and addressing the pressing issue of electronic waste. His inventions underpin the key dimensions of the world’s first wireless charging standard “Qi” launched by the Wireless Power Consortium in 2010. In 2015, he received the IEEE Technical Field Award (IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award). 

He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the National Academy of Inventors, USA, the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, and was awarded the Croucher Foundation Senior Research Fellowship.  

He specializes in membrane technology, surface and interfacial science, and advanced physical and chemical processes. His work on aquaporin-based biomimetic membranes has led to the commercialization of Aquaporin Inside Membranes (AIMs®), a highly impactful invention in the desalination field.  

Tang was named Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate for 3 consecutive years from 2021 to 2023. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Institution of Civil Engineers and currently serves as a Co-Editor of Desalination. He is a recipient of the CAPEES/Nanova Frontier Research Award and the Singapore Ministry of National Development R&D Merit Award. 

He is an expert in the fields of AI and visual computing, with a particular emphasis on deep learning, computer vision, image processing, medical image analysis, and computer graphics. His current research interests encompass AI foundation models, AI-based multimedia content generation, AI for medicine, and computer vision. His co-invented technologies have found widespread adoption in industries such as film and healthcare.  

Yu is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is a recipient of the US National Science Foundation CAREER Award and serves as the editor of multiple IEEE journals. 

His research focuses on AIDS/SARS/COVID-19 pathogenesis and immunotherapy, with a particular emphasis on the early events of viral infection. He pioneered the creation of HKU-patented technologies, such as a PD1-based vaccine, a tandem bi-specific antibody, and an anti-Δ42PD1 antibody drug for the fight against viral infection and cancer.  

Chen has been named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate in both 2022 and 2023 and he is a recipient of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grants.  

A dual specialist in infectious diseases, and gastroenterology and hepatology, he has pioneered antiviral treatment and vaccinology against influenza and COVID-19. He has published extensively including research articles in the Lancet, Nature, and the Lancet Infectious Diseases.  

Hung is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh, and Fellow of the IDSA and Advisory Board Member of the USERN and was named Highly Cited Researcher in 2022 to 2023 by Clarivate. He is ranked as HKU Scholars in the world top 1% in 2018-2023. He is currently Associate Editor of Vaccine. 

Dedicated to enhancing the outcomes of liver transplantation through reducing graft injury and cancer recurrence, she leads research endeavours encompassing basic, clinical, and translational studies resulting in major advances on transplant oncology and immunology in the world. She is the first Asian lady being the President of International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS) (2018-19). She received Basic Science Established Investigator Award of ILTS (2022) and ILTS Rising Star Awards as mentor (2010, 2011, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022). 

Man received the First Class Award of the Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award from the Ministry of Education in 2013 and First Class Award for Science and Technology from Chinese Medical Association in 2014.   

Working at HKU since 2001, he is a virologist specialising in influenza viruses and coronaviruses. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles, with a research focus on emerging infectious diseases, vaccinology, and molecular diagnosis. He successfully decoded the SARS coronavirus sequence in 2003. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he made significant contributions to our understanding of SARS-CoV-2 and applied these scientific findings to public health practices.   

Poon has been recognised as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate from 2015 through 2023. He was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship by the Croucher Foundation in 2017, and the Louis Pasteur Bicentenary Prize by the Institut Pasteur in 2023.  

His research focuses on (1) the application of machine learning in computational chemistry, and (2) the development of first-principles quantum mechanical method to simulate electronic, optoelectronic and electrochemical devices. Employing the integrated platform of machine learning, quantum simulation and experimental calibration, Chen’s lab is currently interested in solving the realistic challenges in renewable energy industry.    

Chen is an elected Fellow of American Physical Society (2014-), a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (2011-), and he received the Croucher Foundation Senior Research Fellowship in 2016.  

His work centres around the investigation of the physical properties of 2D semiconductors, with a specific emphasis on exploring the optical properties of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides. Notably, he leads an internationally recognized team that conducts cutting-edge research in the field of Valleytronics, a groundbreaking research area leveraging the concept of “valleys” to impart electrons with a novel degree of freedom under controlled conditions.  

Cui is a 2017 recipient of the Croucher Foundation Senior Research Fellowship and he received the Outstanding Researcher Award in 2017 and the Research Output Prize in 2015 from HKU.

His highly interdisciplinary research spans multiple disciplines including chemistry, physics, materials science, and medicine. He is a pioneering figure in the fields of carbon nanotube and nano-graphene based drug delivery and photothermal therapy, and he has contributed significantly to the development of in vivo near-infrared II/short-wave infrared biological imaging.   

Dai has been named Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate for 10 years from 2014 to 2023 in 3 different fields. In addition, he is a Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, USA, and the National Academy of Sciences, USA, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

Focused on the synthesis and simulations of highly functional atomic clusters, nanostructures, and materials, Guo’s group combines fundamental design principles with ab initio, molecular dynamics, cellular automata, and finite element simulations and machine learning for materials discovery and device innovation. He has contributed around 300 high-quality journal publications and over 300 conference papers/presentations.  

He was the first Chinese recipient of the Sir Beilby Medal & Prize in 2000, and is an elected Member of the Academia Europaea, a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, where he served as a Member of the RSC Publishing Board and Science Sub-Board from 2015 to 2018.

He investigates arithmetic geometry, algebraic groups, and representation theory, with a focus on finite and affine Weyl groups, flag varieties, and their applications.  

He is a New Cornerstone Investigator and a recipient of the Xplorer Prize, and the Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory from the American Mathematical Society in 2022. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018.

His research primarily centres around nonlinear partial differential equations, specifically the fundamental aspects and long-time asymptotic behaviour of solutions. His work also probes the application of mathematics in the sciences, such as fluid dynamics, biology, and physics.  

Li was a von Neumann Fellow at the School of Mathematics of the Institute of Advanced Study from 2012 to 2013. He received the Charles A. McDowell Award at UBC for his outstanding achievements in pure or applied scientific research as a young faculty member, and was honoured with the Coxeter-James Prize by the Canadian Mathematical Society in 2015.  Li has been a founding member of the Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences since 2019.  

Stoddart’s research has transformed the understanding of chemical bonding by introducing the concept of the mechanical bond. He is currently working on the fabrication of molecular pumps and electric molecular motors, and his research spans the fields of chemistry, materials science, and molecular nanotechnology.  

In addition to the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he is a recipient of the Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry and the King Faisal International Prize in Science. A Highly Cited Researcher for 11 consecutive years, he is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, the Royal Society of London, UK, and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. 

She is recognized for her expertise in signal transduction in cancer. In particular, cell adhesion molecules in various physiological processes, and their contribution to cancer when dysregulated. She has made numerous seminal contributions to this research and its translational applications with innovation and technology awards. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. She is also the recipient of numerous awards for research excellence, including the Women in Cancer Research – Brigid G. Leventhal Scholar Award, the AACR-Bristol-Myer Squibb Oncology Young Investigator Scholar Award, the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, and the RGC Senior Research Fellowship. 

In addition to her research achievements, Wong has been recognised for her contribution to teaching and learning through the Senior Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy. 

He is a recipient of the Hao Wang Prize and the Overseas Outstanding Young Scholar Award. One of his papers was selected as an Outstanding Research Achievement by the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and another was included in the very first volume of Discrete Mathematics – Editor’s Choice.  

Zang is currently an editorial board member for both Discrete Applied Mathematics and Journal of Combinatorial Optimization. He also served as an associate editor for Operations Research, a flagship international journal in this subject.

He joined HKU in 2023 from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He specializes in spatiotemporal data analytics, satellite image fusion, and multi-objective optimization, with applications in environment, transportation, public health, and spatial planning. With an impressive record of over 300 publications in leading scientific journals, he is renowned for developing the Geographically and Temporally Weighted Regression (GTWR) model, a method widely adopted and proven highly effective in analysing big spatiotemporal data. 

Huang is a recipient of the RGC Senior Research Fellowship and the Chang Jiang Chair Professorship and was awarded a Gold Medal at the 2021 International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva.

His research interests include computer vision, generalized principal component analysis, and high-dimensional data analysis, focusing on identifying key mathematical principles for the analysis and understanding of high-dimensional sensorial data to develop intelligent decision-making capabilities in machines and humans.  

Ma is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He is a recipient of the US National Science Foundation Faculty CAREER Award and the David Marr Prize in Computer Vision.