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The twenty-first century will bring forth a phenomenal transformation of thesocio-economic structure of mankind. We will witness the full bloom of theknowledge-based society in which science and technology will berecognized as the engine of economic growth. Research and developmentwill gain increased prominence among all human endeavors. Throughresearch and development, knowledge will be generated, disseminated andutilized to benefit society at a pace previously unimagined.

A research university is distinguished by the quality and accomplishment inresearch by its faculty, staff and students. It is also characterized by theleadership it demonstrates in bringing forth the fruits of research to impactsociety. HKUST, since its inception in 1991, has striven to excel and toattain world-class standing in its chosen fields of pursuit.

While the University has encouraged its members to pursue any field ofintellectual curiosity and challenge, it has also focused on several specificfields to establish areas of core impact and excellence. These include:advanced materials and manufacturing, biotechnology, e-commerce,environment, executive education, financial services, infrastructure, internetand information technology, microelectronics and microsystems, molecularneuroscience, nanoscience and technology, social survey studies, SouthChina research, technology policy studies, traditional Chinese medicine,transportation, and wireless communication.

This publication highlights the research activities of HKUST facultymembers during the 1998-2000 period. It is the University's objective toengage in the forefront of global research as well as in areas of significantrelevance to Hong Kong as a world city in the knowledge-based economy.We hope that this publication will serve as a useful reference to benchmarkour progress toward this goal.

Professor Otto C. C. LinVice-President for Research and Development

The twenty-first century will bring forth a phenomenal transformation of the socio-economicstructure of mankind. We will witness the full bloom of the knowledge-based society inwhich science and technology will be recognized as the engine of economic growth.Research and development will gain increased prominence among all human endeavors.Through research and development, knowledge will be generated, disseminated and utilizedto benefit society at a pace previously unimagined.

A research university is distinguished by the quality and accomplishment in research by itsfaculty, staff and students. It is also characterized by the leadership it demonstrates inbringing forth the fruits of research to impact society. HKUST, since its inception in 1991,has striven 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 curiosityand challenge, it has also focused on several specific fields to establish areas of core impactand excellence. These include: advanced materials and manufacturing, biotechnology,e-commerce, environment, executive education, financial services, infrastructure, internetand information technology, microelectronics and microsystems, molecular neuroscience,nanoscience and technology, social survey studies, South China research, technology policystudies, traditional Chinese medicine, transportation, and wireless communication.

This publication highlights the research activities of HKUST faculty members during the1998-2000 period. It is the University's objective to engage in the forefront of globalresearch as well as in areas of significant relevance to Hong Kong as a world city in theknowledge-based economy. We hope that this publication will serve as a useful reference tobenchmark our progress toward this goal.

Professor Otto C. C. LinVice-President for Research and Development

Review

Consistent with its mandate, HKUST continues to foster research excellence and to engage incollaboration with business and industry such that the fruits of our intellectual endeavours andresearch can make a contribution to the economic and social development of Hong Kong.

HKUST continues to engage in a diversity of R&D from the most basic or fundamental,through applied research, to developmental and prototyping activities. Further, we seek patentprotection for intellectual property having commercial potential, and this is transferred to industrythrough licensing arrangements. One highly successful new initiative is our EntrepreneurshipProgram - HKUST is now incubating 18 high tech start-up companies.

The Evolving Funding Picture

In 1999-2000, HKUST secured $286.2 million for new research projects - a 27% increaseover the previous year. Most of this growth came from funding for industrially relevant research. Asillustrated in Figure 1, about 40% of new research is now funded by RGC; the rest being supportedby UGC (11%), the Innovation and Technology Fund and other governmental initiatives (31%) or bythe private sector directly (17%).

The Research Grants Council continues to be the largest single source of funding. In theinternationally peer-reviewed Competitive Earmarked Research Grants program, HKUST researcherssecured 153 new projects, with a success rate of 60% in this increasingly competitive annualprogram. The growth in CERG funding and new projects at HKUST is shown in Figure 2.

Academic and Applied Research

We offer just a few highlights to indicate the diversity of research activities and achievementsat HKUST.

In Science, Dr. Zikang Tang has fabricated uniform arrays of the world's smallest carbonnanotubes. These are the best example of one-dimensional quantum wires, with implications forfundamental and applied research into electronic properties of 1D systems. Dr. Xiaoping Wang hasapplied a new adaptive method to numerically challenging problems, such as solving the multiplesingularities of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation. This has enormous potential for addressing manysingular problems in science and engineering. Dr. Yong Xie has developed an

Figure 1 New research funding (in $ million) in 1999-2000

Figure 2 Growth in RGC-CERG funding

effective recombinant vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease in pigs. This will contributesignificantly to the region, as millions of pigs are raised each year in China. Dr. Wei-Ping Li hasconfirmed a conjecture for the blow-up formulae based upon the S-duality in physics. Theseformulae have vertex algebra interpretations showing the existence of beautiful symmetries of vectorbundles over algebraic surfaces. Dr. Mingjie Zhang was awarded a grant by the prestigious HumanFrontier Science Program for an international research project on nitric oxide that could lead to moreeffective treatments for stroke and muscular dystrophy.

In Engineering, Dr. Oscar Au's research on MPEG4 has led to a fast motion estimationalgorithm that has been recognized as a new global standard for multimedia applications. Dr.Guohua Chen has tested a novel electrocoagulation system for treating wastewater from restaurantsand food processing plants. Dr. Chun-Man Chan has introduced an innovative computer-aidedoptimization system for the design of tall buildings. This will help cut design time and maximizeusable floor area, while reducing construction costs and meeting all Hong Kong building coderequirements. Its effectiveness has been demonstrated by application to two of Hong Kong's tallestnew buildings; the 88-storey NE Tower at Hong Kong station and the 74-storey Tower 19 atKowloon station. Dr. I Ming Hsing developed a Si-based miniaturized reactor for TraditionalChinese Medicine DNA amplification. Prof. Mitchell Tseng and his team have completedHKTAIGA, a multi-faceted communications infrastructure (with on-line catalogs, messaging,advertising, etc.) to help members expand markets and conduct business over the Internet, therebyenhancing the global competitiveness of the Hong Kong textile and apparel industry.

Economics at HKUST was ranked No. 1 among all east Asian universities and comparable toexcellent research universities in US by the academic journal "Economic Inquiry". Finance researchis modelling asset prices, and addressing corporate governance, banking issues and marketmicrostructure in Asia. Drs. Ted Clark and Chris Westland have published a leading postgraduatetext on Global Electronic Commerce: Theory and Cases - a good example of the impact of researchon education. Drs. Rami Zwick and Soo Hong Chew co-organized the First Asia Conference onExperimental Business Research at HKUST in December 1999. Prof. Anne Tsui and colleaguesedited a book on "Management and Organization in the Chinese Context", resulting from theinaugural conference of the Hang Lung Center for Organizational Research, which examines suchkey topics as reform of state enterprises, management of international joint ventures, businessnetworks and guanxi, and Chinese organizational behaviour.

In collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, scholars in Humanities andSocial Science, led by Prof. Ting Pang Hsin have designed a windows-based database of lexicalitems from Sino-Tibetan languages. They have completed a monograph on archeological andhistorical evidence for the genetic classification of these languages. Through exhibitions, workshops,talks and field trips, the South China Research Center, in collaboration with the EducationDepartment, has exposed secondary school teachers to forefront ideas, theories, researchmethodology and source material relating to Hong Kong history, heritage and culture. The output ofresearch is thereby being transferred to secondary school education.

Major Research Facilities

In June 2000, the Hon Tung Chee Hwa (HKSAR Chief Executive), the Hon MichaelKadoorie (Chairman of CLP Holdings), and Prof. Chia-Wei Woo (President of HKUST) inauguratedHong Kong's first large-scale wind/wave tunnel facility. At a cost of about $40 million, thissophisticated teaching and research facility will allow the tertiary community to examine wind andwave engineering and pollution dispersion problems for the engineering, construction and regulatorybodies in Hong Kong.

Technology Transfer and Commercialization

The knowledge and expertise of HKUST personnel and the results of research are transferredto society by many routes. 1862 Bachelors, 362 Masters (plus 198 EMBA/MBA) and 56 PhDstudents graduated from HKUST this year. Most move into the public or private sectors in HongKong and carry with them the experience and know-how acquired from learning and participating inleading-edge research. This is a "diffusion" process. Faculty engage in contract research andcollaborate with companies through ITF and RGC CRC programs to develop and transfertechnologies of specific industrial interest.

During 1999-2000, 6 US patents were granted, and a further 15 patents were filed. 28

invention disclosures were processed and considered by the Technology Review Committee. Fromthese, 17 were recommended for application for a US patent, while 2 were recommended forprovisional application in the US. Eight licenses were also signed to transfer HKUST technology toindustry.

Finally, entrepreneurial faculty and graduates have established many technology-basedstart-up companies. By year end, 18 of these were being incubated in the Entrepreneurship Center atHKUST, in areas as diverse as biotechnology, communications, consumer electronics, e-commerce,Internet applications, microelectronics and Traditional Chinese Medicine. These companies arecreating high-quality jobs and wealth to assist diversification in the Hong Kong economy by thegrowth of a vibrant, technology-based sector.

INSTITUTIONAL POLICY ON RESEARCH

HKUST admitted its first students in 1991. 1999-2000 was thus its ninth year of operation. Whilethe foundation research policies have served the University well, we continue to review and fine-tuneour operational practices to ensure that resources are used effectively towards achieving our mandateto serve economic, social and technological development in Hong Kong and the region.

Research is integral to the overall mission of the University. HKUST’s research policies aredesigned to achieve both world-class excellence and techno-economic benefits to Hong Kongthrough quality, focus and synergy.

Quality is achieved through human and physical resources. HKUST has attracted, and continues toattract, senior faculty of great distinction and established reputation, junior faculty of proven researchcapability, and postgraduate students with great promise. The University has created an environmentthat is both supportive and demanding. Our strong record of publication, success in winningcompetitive grants and growing international reputation attest to the quality of research beingconducted at HKUST.

Focus is achieved as a result of the identification of strategic areas of research and therecruitment of faculty to build strengths in these areas. Synergy is fostered by establishing researchunits that provide both support and coordination. Entities such as the Hongkong Telecom Institute ofInformation Technology, Sino Software Research Institute, Biotechnology Research Institute,Institute for the Environment and Sustainable Development, Centre for Display Research,Transportation Institute, and the Hong Kong Traditional Chinese Medicine Research Centre areshowing that collaboration can be effective to stimulate research excellence and to build strengths inareas that are important both for Hong Kong and the world.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RESEARCH POLICY AND OTHER INSTITUTIONAL

POLICIES

It is difficult to segregate research and other policies as research is woven into the fabric of theUniversity. Research plays a major role in personnel policies and represents a principal criterion inthe appointment, advancement and retention of faculty. It is an integral component of educationalprograms, not just for PhD and MPhil students, but also at the undergraduate level. Faculty at theleading edge of their disciplines enrich undergraduate programs, and participation in research byundergraduates is encouraged and opportunities to do so are provided throughout the year.

The timely application of the fruits of research to serve societal needs and to create economicdevelopment opportunities is central to the mission of the University. In this regard, HKUSTencourages and assists researchers to recognize the value of intellectual property, and the Universityhas a well-established business arm, the RandD Corporation Ltd., to protect, market andcommercialize intellectual property with developmental potential.

ORGANIZATION OF RESEARCH FUNDING

Each academic unit has a mentoring and peer review process to assist in the development of researchproposals. Draft applications are reviewed by Schools for intellectual merit and by the Office ofContract and Grant Administration (OCGA) for compliance and presentation. Research proposalsare finally approved for submission to the appropriate agency and signed by senior administrativeofficers of the University.

The University also has internal competitions for project funding from the block grant, directallocation and private gifts. Proposals for such funding are reviewed and adjudicated by the SenateResearch Committee for institution-wide funds, or by the Research Committees of the Schools orresearch units for funds earmarked for such units.

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

USAGE OF DIRECT ALLOCATION GRANT

In 1999-2000, HKUST received a Direct Allocation Grant from RGC of $8.3 million. The fundingwas allocated to Schools on a formula basis for allocation by the Research Committees of theseSchools.

In total, the four Schools and other qualifying units at HKUST allocated funding to 169 projects fromthe Direct Allocation Grant, as follows:

School of Science 35 ($1.9 million)

School of Engineering 42 ($2.2 million)

School of Business & Management 78 ($3.2 million)

School of Humanities & Social Science 14 ($0.8 million)

Consistent with the guidelines established by RGC and HKUST’s Senate Research Committee, theabove resources were committed to assist newly appointed staff and junior faculty in developing theirinitial research activities and to support new and on-going research programs for which fundingrequirements are below the threshold amounts of RGC grants.

In addition, UGC funding in the amount of $1.2 million was used for Research TravelGrants. This funding was adjudicated on a competitive basis to assist senior postgraduate studentsand junior faculty to present the results of their research at international conferences.

CRITERIA FOR DETERMINING PRIORITIES

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

Internal research funding tends to be used to help junior faculty to achieve their potential, tomeet the modest research program needs of some faculty, and to provide seed funding for strategicnew initiatives. Excellence or potential for excellence is the dominant criterion in internal fundingdecisions.

EFFORTS MADE TO ATTRACT PRIVATE FUNDS

Many of the organised research units at HKUST were established through major gifts made inthe early days of the University. Efforts to obtain major gifts for research continue, but recent effortshave been extended to establishing collaborative activities and contract research with the privatesector, as well as the involvement in civil and commercial projects. While most of the research

funding at HKUST still comes from RGC/UGC programs, an increasingly significant component iscontributed by the private sector in Hong Kong. Industrial funding has risen steadily from $7.6million in 1993-94 to $42.9 million in 1999-2000. This large increase demonstrates both thecommitment of HKUST to foster techno-economic development in Hong Kong and the recognitionby industry of the value of developing partnerships with researchers at HKUST.

Commercial activities are in their early stages, but in time they can be expected to provide asignificant source of funds for research at HKUST. Our Applied Technology Center (ATC) isexpected to play a major role in such work.

OPPORTUNITIES AND DIFFICULTIES IN INTER-INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATION

Academics can and do collaborate well, and applications to programs such as the China/HongKong, Germany/Hong Kong and France/Hong Kong collaboration and joint research schemes showthat the availability of resources can stimulate joint research programs.

Collaboration exists at the inter-institutional level and between research groups and individualresearchers. We have established partnerships with a number of leading research universities inMainland China and Europe.

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

CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

HKUST is a research university that seeks to undertake research of the highest quality andimpact from an international perspective, but in the context of an equally strong commitment toeducation and application. While these are compatible and synergistic goals, in practice they imposea high work load on faculty and an optimal balance is difficult to achieve. This is especially true in ayoung institution in which policy formulation, facilities development, and academic managementalso draw on the time and energies of the predominantly junior faculty.

A major inhibiting factor in building research excellence remains the modest number of Ph.D.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 situationwould need a significant policy change, for example admitting more students from the Chinesemainland, there are near-term measures that are being taken. These include greater collaborationamong 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 resourcesprovided by RGC and other agencies have been utilized should be evident from this Biennial Reportof our research output.

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DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRYDEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGYDEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRYDEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICSDEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

Department of Biochemistry

The Department of Biochemistry conducts a comprehensive research program in both basicand applied aspects of biochemistry. Departmental staff with different specialties andexpertise have been and will be recruited to perform research and development in thefollowing areas:

Cellular Biochemistry

Biotechnology and Medicinal Biochemistry

Macromolecular Structure and Function

Faculty working in these areas form a co-ordinated research team. Such co-ordination takesfull advantage of the faculty’s expertise in generating innovative development andproductive research.

Facilities

Both teaching and research laboratories in the Department of Biochemistry are equippedwith advanced instruments. The equipment, serving both biochemical and biotechnologicalstudies, includes a protein sequencer, oligonucleotide synthesizer, centrifugal partitionchromatograph, plant growth, animal care, and cell culture facilities. There are alsomicrocalorimeters, circular dichroism spectropolarimeter, stopped-flow kinetic apparatus,etc. for biophysical studies of protein folding. The recently installed modern 750 MHz NMRspectrometer marks another great effort of the Department to achieve first class research instructural and functional studies of biomolecules, and protein engineering.

Research Profile

NANCY YUK-YU IP

Department Head and Professor; Associate Dean of Science; Director, BiotechnologyResearch Institute and Co-Director, Molecular Neuroscience Center

JERRY H WANG

Professor and Co-Director, Molecular Neuroscience Center

JEFFREY TZE-FEI WONG

Professor and Director, Drug Delivery Technology Center

JAMES HACKETT

Associate Professor

ROBERT K M KO

Associate Professor

RAYMOND S C WONG

Associate Professor; Director, Plant Growth Facility and Director, Animal Care Facility

WAN-KEUNG R WONG

Associate Professor

YUNG HOU WONG

Associate Professor; Associate Director, Biotechnology Research Institute

HONG XUE

Associate Professor

MINGJIE ZHANG

Associate Professor

GUANG ZHU

Associate Professor

HUEIH MIN CHEN

Assistant Professor

KING CHUEN CHOW

Assistant Professor

YI FAN HAN

Assistant Professor

CHUN LIANG

Assistant Professor

RANDY YAT CHOI POON

Assistant Professor

WU ZHENGUO

Assistant Professor

NANCY YUK-YU IP

Department Head and Professor; Associate Dean of Science;Director, Biotechnology Research Institute and Co-Director,Molecular Neuroscience Center

(23587289; [email protected])

PhD, Harvard Medical School (1983)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School (1983-84)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Sloan Kettering Institute (1984-85)

Laboratory Head, Medical Genetics, Lifecodes Corporation (1987-89)

Senior Staff Scientist, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (1989-93)

Visiting Researcher, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK (1989-91)

Current Research Activities:

Developmental and molecular neuro-biology; neurotrophic factors and their receptors;neuronal differentiation; synapse formation and neural regeneration.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator:

Characterization of the functional roles of muscle-specific kinase during xenopus embryonicdevelopment

CERG HKUST6107/98M HK$1,072,000 Sep 1998

Emerging High Impact Area of Biochip Program

HIA HIA98/99.SC05 HK$3,775,000 Jan 1999

Identification Of The Interactive Domains In The gp130 Cytokine Family Receptors

CERG HKUST6127/99M HK$1,561,700 Dec 1999

Mapping signal transduction networks by a multidisciplinary approach

RCA CA99/00.SC01 HK$5,500,000 Apr 2000

TCM projects with Mainland institutes

CMI CMI99/00.SC02 HK$305,000 Apr 2000

Investigation of the roles of ephrins and their isoforms inaxon guidance and synapseformation at neuromuscular junctions

DAG DAG99/00.SC09 HK$62,000 Jun 2000

Functional Roles of G Protein Signalling at the Neuromuscular Junction

CERG HKUST6103/00M HK$1,062,600 Nov 2000

A new family of neurotrophic factors: the ligands for the Eph-related receptor tyrosinekinases

DAG DAG97/98.SC07 HK$100,000 Mar 1998

Exploring a novel role of truncated trkB receptors during CNS neuronal development

DAG DAG98/99.SC09 HK$70,000 Mar 1999

Biotechnology Research Institute - Traditional Chinese Medicine Center

AOE AOE97/98.SC03 HK$125,000 Apr 1998

China Program on collaboration on TCM projects with research institutes in the ChineseMainland

CP CP98/99.SC04 HK$300,000 Apr 1999

Development of Innovative Genechip Technology

ITC AF/150/99 HK$8,600,000 Oct 1999

High-throughput drug screening center for traditional Chinese medicine

ITC AF/166/99 HK$9,665,000 Oct 1999


CCFL CCFL99/00.SC01 HK$800,000 Oct 1999

Gordon research conference on molecular & cellular neurobiology

CF CF00/01.SC01 HK$100,000 May 2000

Development of quality index for Sanqi (Radix Notoginseng) from Wenshan, Yunnan

ITC UIM/9 HK$2,246,000 Jun 2000

Standardization and certification (S & C) of Chinese medicine

ITC ITS/173/00 HK$1,000,000 Jul 2000

Combinatorial libraries based on compounds of traditional Chinese medicine origin

ITC ITS/119/00 HK$9,917,000 Oct 2000

Representative Recent Publications:

Fu, A.K.Y., Cheung, W.M.W., Ip, F.C.F. and Ip, N.Y. (1999) "Identification of genesinduced by neuregulin in cultured myotubes", Mol. Cell Neurosci, 14, 241-253.

Fu, A.K.Y, Smith, F.D., Zhou, H, Chu, A.H., Tsim, K.W.K., Peng, H.B. and Ip, N.Y.(1999) "Xenopus Muscle Specific Kinase: Molecular cloning and prominent expression inneural tissues during early embryonic development", Eur. J. Neurosci, 11, 373-382.

Lai, K.O., Ip, F.C.F. and Ip, N.Y. (1999) "Identification and characterization of splice

variants of ephrin-A3 and ephrin-A5", FEBS Lett, 458, 265-269.

Cheung, W.M.W., Chu, P.W.K., Lung, C.H., Hui, W.S., Chu, A.H. and Ip, N.Y. (2000)"Expression of retinoid receptors during the retinoic acid-induced neuronal differentiation ofa human embryonal carcinoma cell line", J. Neurochem., 75: 34-40.

Tang, H., Zhang, Z. and Ip, N.Y. (1999) "Identification and characterization ofdifferentially expressed genes in denervated muscle", Mol. Cell. Neurosci., 16: 127-140.

Ip, F.C.F., Glass, D.J., Gies, D.R., Cheung, J., Lai, K.O., Fu, A.K.Y., Yancopoulos, G.D.and Ip, N.Y. (2000) "Cloning and characterization of muscle specific kinase (MuSK) inchicken", Mol. Cell. Neurosci., 16: 661-673.

JERRY H. WANG

Professor and Co-Director, Molecular Neuroscience Center


PhD, Iowa State University (1965)

Postdoctoral Fellow, National Research Council of Canada (1965-66)

Professor of Biochemistry, University of Calgary (1982-94)

Director, MRC Signal Transduction Group, University of Calgary (1990-94)


Cellular signal transduction mechanisms; cell proliferation and cancer; cell calcium andsecond messengers; protein phoshorylations and cellular regulation.


Molecular basis for therapeutic modulation of learning and memory & The MolecularNeuroscience Center (MNC)

AOE AOE97/98.SC06 HK$390,520 Apr 1998

The structure and function relationship of neuronal cdc2-like kinase


Understanding gene function and molecular bases of disease using transgenic and genetargeting technology - The role of p39nck5ai in neuronal and muscle differentiation by genetargeting

RCA CA98/99.SC03-1 HK$250,000 Mar 1999

Molecular neuroscience

HIA HIA99/00.SC01 HK$1,200,000 Mar 2000

C42-A Novel Neuronal Cyclin-dependent Kinase 5 Activator-binding Protein



Chin, K., Ohki, S., Tang, D., Cheng, H., Wang, J.H. and Zhang, M. (1999) "Identificationand Structural Characterization of a Cdk Inhibitory Peptide Derived from Neuronal-specificCdk5 Activator", The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 274 (11): 7120-7127.

Ching, Y.P., Qi, Z. and Wang, J.H. (2000) "Cloning of Three Novel Neuronal Cdk5Activator Binding Proteins", Gene, 242, 285-294.

Wang, X., Ching, Y., Lam, W., Qi, Z., Zhang, M. and Wang, J.H. (in press) "Identificationof a common protein association region in neuronal cdk5 activator", J. Biol.Chem.

Egan, C., Durda, D., Cheng, H., Wang, J.H. and Fujita, D.J. (1999) "Activation of Src inHuman Breast Tumor Cell Lines: Elevated Levels of Phosphotyrosine Phosphatase Activitythat Preferentially Recognizes the Src Carboxy Terminal Negative Regulatory Tyrosine530", Oncogene, (18): 1227-1237.

Ching, Y., Qi, Z. and Wang, J.H. (1999) "Potential Novel Protein Inhibitor of NeuronalCdc2-like Kinase", Miami Nature Biotechnology Winter Symposia, The UniversityBiochemistry and Molecular Biol..., Miami, U.S.A, 6 - 10 February 1999, S69a.

Lam, J.K., Tsim, K.W.K. and Wang, J.H. (1998) "Differential Roles of Cyclin-dependentKinase 5 Activator Proteins in Muscle Differentiation", The 38th Annual Meeting of theAmerican Society for Cell Biology, The American Society for Cell Biology, San Francisco,U.S.A, 12 - 16 December 1998, B340.

JEFFREY TZE-FEI WONG

Professor and Director, Drug Delivery Technology Center


PhD, University of Toronto (1963)

Research Associate, University of Oregon (1963-65)

Professor of Biochemistry, University of Toronto (1976-90)


Coevolution of the genetic code and pathways of amino acid biosynthesis; substraterecognition by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases; drug delivery technologies..


Identity elements of transfer RNA for tryptophan: For enzyme binding and aminoacylation


Co-operative research centre for soluble receptor biology

CRC CRC98/01.SC04 HK$3,000,000 Jun 2000

Structural Elucidation Of 13C- And 15N- Doubly Labelled Transfer RNA For TryptophanBy Multidimensional NMR



Yan, X., Xue, H., Liu, H., Wong, M.S., Hang, J., Wong, J.T. and Zhu, G. (2000) "NMRstudies of Bacillus subtilis tRNATrp hyperexpressed in Escherichia coli: Assignment ofimino proton signals and determination of thermal stability", Journal of BiologicalChemistry, 275 (10): 6712-6716.

Wong, J.T. (1991) "Origin of Genetically Encoded Protein Synthesis: A Model Based onSelection for RNA Peptidation", Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, 21:165-176.

Xue, H., Shen, W., Giege, R. and Wong, J.T. (1993) "Identity Elements of tRNATrp:Identification and Evolutionary Conservation", J. Biol. Chem., 268: 9316-9322.

Xue, H and Wong, J.T. (1994) "Preparation of Conjugated Hemoglobins", Methods inEnzymology (ed. Everse, J., Winslow, R.M. and Vandegriff, K.D.), 231: 308-322.

Tsai, S.P. and Wong, J.T. (1996) "Enhancement of Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate byPolymerized Hemoglobin", Art Cells Blood Subs. & Immob. Biotech., 24(5): 513-523.

Winslow, R.M., Vandegriff, K.D. and Intaglietta, M. (1997) "Dextran-hemoglobin InAdvances in Blood Substitutes Industrial Opportunities and Medical Challenges", Intaglietta(eds. Tsai, S.P. and Wong, T.J.), Boston: Birkhauser, Chapter 12.

JAMES HACKETT

Associate Professor


PhD, University College Dublin (1978)

Research Fellow, University of Adelaide (1980-84)

Senior Lecturer, University of Adelaide (1992)


Microbial pathogenesis; vaccine development; plasmid stability mechanisms; fermentation.


The characterization of putative chromosomal stabilization genes in escherichia coli

CERG HKUST6092/98M HK$645,000 Oct 1998

Prevention of intestinal bacterial infections by blocking or removing human intestinal cellreceptor proteins

DAG DAG99/00.SC02 HK$45,000 Nov 1999

A Search For Human Epithelial Cell Receptors Recognizing The Structural PilS Protein,And The Pilus-tip PilV Proteins of the Salmonella Typhi Type IV Pili

CERG HKUST6197/00M HK$763,200 Jul 2000


Zhang, X.L., Morris, C. and Hackett. J. (1997) "Molecular cloning, nucleotide sequence,and function of a site-specific recombinase encoded in the major pathogenicity island ofsalmonella typhi, Gene, 202, 139-146.

Wong, D.K.H., Lam, K.H.E., Chan, C.K.P., Wong, Y.C.V., Wong, W.R. and Hackett, J.(1998) "Extracellular expression of human epidermal growth factor encoded by anEscherichia coli K-12 plasmid stabilized by the ytl2-incR system of Salmonellatyphimurium", J. Indus. Microbiol. and Biotech, 21, 31-36.

Sivakesava, S., Xu, Z.N., Chen, Y.H., Hackett, J., Huang, R.C., Lam, E., Lam, T.L. andSiu, K.L. (1999) "Production of excreted human epidermal growth factor (hEGF) by anefficient recombinant Escherichia coli system", Process Biochemistry, 34, 893-900.

Huang, R.C., Lam, E., Chen, Y.H., Hackett, J., Lam, T.L., Liu, D., Ma, M.C. and Siu,K.L. (1999) "Human epidermal growth factor (hEGF) excreted by recombinant Escherichiacoli K-12 has the correct N-terminus and is fully bioactive", Process Biochemistry, 35, 1-5.

Wong, D.K.H., Morris, C., Lam, T.L., Wong, W.R. and Hackett, J. (1999) "Identificationof O-antigen polymerase transcription and translation start signals and visualization of theprotein in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium", Microbiology, 145, 2443-2451.

Zhang, X.L., Tsui, I.S.M., Yip, C.M.C., Fung, A.W.Y., Wong, D.K.H., Dai, X., Yang, Y.and Hackett, J. (2000) "Salmonella typhi uses Type IVB pili to enter human intestinalepithelial cells", Infection and Immunity, 68, 3067-3073.

ROBERT K. M. KO

Associate Professor


PhD, University of British Columbia (1990)

Research Associate, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1990-91)


Free radica-related mechanisms in tissue injuries; protection against such injuries byantioxidane; antioxidant properties of TCMs in relation to their anti-aging activities.


Ip, S.P., Yiu, H.Y. and Ko, K.M. (2000) "Differential effect of schisandrin B and dimethyldiphenyl bicarboxylate (DDB) on hepatic mitochondrial glutathione redox status in carbontetrachloride intoxicated mice", Mol.Cell.Biochem, (205): 111-114.

Yim, T.K. and Ko, K.M. (1999) "Methylenedioxy group and Cyclooctadiene ring asstructural determinants of schisandrin in protecting against myocardial ischemia-reperfusioninjury in rats", Biochemical Pharmacology, 57, 77-81.

Yim, T.K. and Ko, K.M. (1999) "Schisandrin B protects against myocardialischemia-reperfusion injury by enhancing myocardial glutathione antioxidant status",Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 196, 151-156.

Yim, T.K., Wu, W.K., Pak, W.F. and Ko, K.M. (in press) "Hepatoprotective action of anoleanolic acid-enriched extract of Ligustrum Lucidum fruits is mediated through anenhancement on hepatic glutathione regeneration capacity in mice", Pytotherapy Res.

Yim, T.K., Wu, W.K., Pak, W.F., Mak, D.H.F., Liang, S.M. and Ko, K.M. (2000)"Myocardial protection against ischaemia-reperfusion injury by a Polygonum multiflorumextract supplemented Dang-Gui decoction for enriching blood , a compound formulation, exvivo", Phytotherapy Res, (14): 195-199.

Yim, T.K., Wu, W.K., Mak, D.H.F. and Ko, K.M. (1999) "Myocardial protective effect ofan anthraquinone-containing extract of Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. ex vivo", PlantaMedica, 64, 607-611.

RAYMOND S. C. WONG

Associate Professor; Director, Plant Growth Facility and Director,Animal Care Facility


PhD, South Dakota State University (1975)

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto (1975-77)

Research Associate, University of Toronto (1978-82)

Chief Biochemist, Allelix Crop Technologies (1988-90)


Plant biotechnology; oilseed Brassica and vegetable Brassica; oilseed storage lipidbiosynthesis; food biochemistry and related research.



ITC AF/150/99 HK$8,600,000 Oct 1999


ITC UIM/9 HK$2,246,000 Jun 2000


Huang, R.C., Lam, E., Lam, T.L., Hackett, J., Ma, M.C., Siu, K.L., Wong, R.S.C. andWong, W.R. (1999) "Human epidermal growth factor excreted by recombinant Escherichiacoli K-12 has the correct N-terminus and is fully bioactive", Process Biochemistry, 35, 1-5.

Sivakesava, S., Hackett, J., Huang, R.C., Lam, E., Lam, T.L., Siu, K.L., Wong, R.S.C.and Wong, W.R. (1999) "Production of excreted human epidermal growth factor (hEGF) byan efficient recombinant Escherichia coli system", Process Biochemistry, 34, 893-900.

Xiang, Y., Wong, W.R, Ma, M.C. and Wong, R.S.C. (2000) "Agrobacterium-mediatedtransformation of Brassica campestris ssp. parachinensis with synthetic Bacillusthuringiensis cry1Ab and cry1Ac genes", Plant Cell Reports, 19: 251-256.

Lam, T.L., Wong, R.S.C and Wong, W.R. (1997) "Enhancement of ExtracelluarProduction of a Cellulomonas Fimi Exoglucanase in Escherichia Coli by the Reduction ofPromoter Strength, Enzyme and Microbial Technology, 20: 482-488.

WAN-KEUNG R. WONG

Associate Professor



Postdoctoral Fellow, Allelix Biochemicals Inc. (1986-87)

Project Leader, Allelix Biopharmaceuticals Inc. (1988-90)


Cloning and expression of genes in E. coli, Bacillus subtilis and Saccharamyces cerevisiae;excretion of proteins from E. coli; cellulosic waste management.


Application of recombinant cellulases to cellulose hydrolysis

DAG DAG98/99.SC04 HK$60,000 Dec 1998

Cloning, expression and characterization of an endonuclease gene from Bacillus Subtilis

DAG DAG00/01.SC03 HK$40,000 Jan 2001


Huang, R.C., Lam, E., Chen, Y.H., Hackett, J., Lam, T.L., Siu, K.L., Wong, R.S.C. andWong, W.R. (1999) "Human epidermal growth factor (hEGF) excreted by recombinantEscherichia coli K-12 has the correct N-terminus and is fully bioactive", ProcessBiochemistry, 35, 1-5.

Sivakesava, S., Hackett, J., Huang, R.C., Lam, E., Lam, T.L., Siu, K.L., Wong, R.S.C.and Wong, W.R. (1999) "Production of excreted human epidermal growth factor (hEGF) byan efficient recombinant Escherchia coli system", Process Biochemistry, 34, 893-900.

Wong, D.K.H., Lam, K.H.E., Chan, C.K.P., Wong, Y.C.V., Wong, W.R. and Hackett, J.(1998) "Extracellular expression of human epidermal growth factor encoded by anEscherichia coli K-12 plasmid stabilized by the ytl2-incR system of Salmonellatyphimurium", Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology, 21, 31-36.

Xiang, Y., Wong, W.R., Ma, M.C. and Wong, R.S.C. (2000) "Agrobacterium-mediatedtransformation of Brassica camprestris ssp. parachinensis with synthetic Bacillusthuringiensis cryIAb and cryIAc genes", Plant Cell Reports, 19, 251-256.

Lin, Q., Ewart, K.V., Yan, Q., Wong, W.R., Yang, D.S.C. and Hew, C.L. (1999) "Secretoryexpression and site-directed mutagenesis studies of the winter flounder skin-type antifreezepolypeptides", Eur. J. Biochem, 264, 49-54.

Tong, L., Lin, Q., Wong, W.R., Ali, A., Lim, D., Sung, W., Hew, C.L. and Yang, D.S.C.(2000) "Extracellular expression, purification and characterization of a winter flounderantifreeze polypeptide from Escherichia coli", Protein Expression and Purification, 18,175-181.

YUNG HOU WONG

Associate Professor; Associate Director, Biotechnology ResearchInstitute


PhD, University of Cambridge (1988)

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco (1989-92)


Receptor pharmacology; signal transduction; drug screening; neuropeptides; tumor biology.


Construction of chimeric G protein a- subunits for promiscuous receptor coupling:Applications in drug discovery


Construction of Constitutively Active Mutants of The ORL1 Receptor As Tools ForDiscovering Novel Analgesics

CERG HKUST6139/99M HK$1,403,000 Oct 1999


RCA CAG99/00.SC01 HK$5,500,000 Apr 2000

Regulation of the C-jun N-terminal Kinase by Opioid Receptors

CERG HKUST6115/00M HK$763,200 Sep 2000

Determining the signaling capacity of chemokine receptors which function as co-receptorsfor HIV entry

DAG DAG98/99.SC14 HK$60,000 Dec 1998


ITC AF/150/99 HK$8,600,000 Oct 1999


ITC AF/166/99 HK$9,665,000 Oct 1999


PHY PHY99/00.SC01 US$128,497 Oct 1999


ITC UIM/9 HK$2,246,000 Jun 2000


ITC ITS/119/00 HK$9,917,000 Oct 2000


Mody, S.M., Joshi, S.A., Ho, M.K.C. and Wong, Y.H. (2000) "Incorporation ofGaz-Specific Sequence at the Carboxy Terminus Increases the Promiscuity of Ga16 TowardsGi-Coupled Receptors", Mol. Pharmacology, 57, 13-23.

Law, P.Y., Wong, Y.H. and Loh, H.H. (2000) "Molecular Mechanisms and Regulation ofOpioid Receptor Signaling", Ann. Rev. Pharmacol. Toxicol, 40, 389-430.

Chan, J.S.C., Lee, J.W.M., Ho, M.K.C. and Wong, Y.H. (2000) "Preactivation PermitsSubsequent Stimulation of Phospholipase C by Gi-Coupled Receptors", Mol. Pharmacol, 57,700-708.

Antonelli, V., Bernasconi, F., Wong, Y.H. and Vallar, L. (2000) "Activation of B-Raf andRegulation of the Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Cascade by the Goa Chain", Mol. Biol.Cell, 11, 1129-1142.

Tso, P.H., Yung, L.Y. and Wong, Y.H. (2000) "Regulation of Adenylyl Cyclase, ERK1/2and CREB by Gz Following Acute and Chronic Activation of the d-Opioid Receptor", J.Neurochem, 74, 1685-1693.

Ho, M.K.C., and Wong, Y.H. (2000) "The amino terminus of Gaz is required for receptorrecognition whereas its a4/ ß6 loop is essential for inhibition of adenylyl cyclase", MolecularPharmacology, 58, 993-1000.

HONG XUE

Associate Professor



Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Glasgow (1993-95)


Structure and function of neuroreceptors; identity elements of transfer RNA.


Analysis of bacillus subtilis tryptophanyl tRNA synthetase interactions with the transferRNA for tryptophan by NMR

CERG HKUST6192/97M HK$1,478,040 Jan 1998

Molecular basis for therapeutic modulation of learning and memory & the MolecularNeuroscience Center (MNC)

AOE AOE97/98.SC06 HK$390,520 Apr 1998

Establishment of a catalogue of genes expressed in human liver cancer and mental diseases

ITC AF/47/98 HK$2,000,000 Jul 1998

Establishment of Hong Kong Bioinformatics Centre

ITC AF/9/97 HK$794,500 Sep 1998

Understanding gene function and molecular bases of disease using transgenic and genetargeting technology - The role of the alpha 1 chain of GABA receptor in neuronal function.

RCA CA98/99.SC03-2 HK$250,000 Mar 1999

Identifying IG-like domains in invertebrates and bacteria: a challenge for bioinformaticmethods

G-HK G-HK98/99.SC05 HK$30,000 Apr 1999

Characterization of a fragment of GABAa receptor hyperexpressed in escherichia coli

DAG DAG98/99.SC05 HK$70,000 Jun 1999

Archaebacterial Tryptophanyl-tRNA Synthetase: Properties and tRNATrp Recognition


Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic study of GABAa receptor structure

F-HK F-HK99/00.SC01 HK$30,600 Jan 2000

Co-operative research centre for soluble receptor biology

CRC CRC98/01.SC04 HK$3,000,000 Jun 2000

A crystallization trial of GABA receptor hyperexpressed in E Coli

CP CP98/99.SC01-A HK$52,500 Aug 2000

Isolation and identification of neurologically active constituents from Traditional ChineseMedicine (TCM)

ITC UIM/40 HK$1,636,600 Dec 2000

Human Tryptophanyl-tRNA Synthetase: Properties And TRNA Trp Recognition

CERG HKUST6206/00M HK$763,200 Dec 2000


Hang, J., Shi, H., Li, D., Liao, Y., Lian, D., Xiao, Y. and Xue, H. (2000) "Ligand bindingand structural properties of segments of GABAa receptor a1 subunit overexpressed inEscherichia coli", Journal of Biological Chemistry, 275 (25): 18818-18823.

Hui, K.M., Wang, X.H. and Xue, H. (2000) "Interaction of flavones from the roots ofScutellaria baicalensis with benzodiazepine site", Planta Medica, 66 (1): 91-93.

Rachedi, A., Rebhan, M. and Xue, H. (2000) "GABA agent: a database system forretrieving integrated data on GABA receptors", Bioinformatics, 16 (4): 301-312.

Xue, H. (1998) "Identification of major phylogenetic branches of inhibitory ligand gatedchannel receptors", J. Mol. Evol, 47,323-333.

Xue, H., Hang, J., Chu, R., Xiao, Y., Li, H., Lee, P. and Zheng, H. (1999) "Delineation ofa membrane-proximal b-rich domain in GABAa receptor by progressive deletions", J. Mol.Biol, 285 (1): 55-61.

Xue, H., Zheng, H., Li, H.M., Kitmitto, A., Zhu, H.M., Lee, P. and Holzenburg, A. (2000)"A fragment of recombinant GABAA receptor a1 subunit forming rosette-likehomo-oligomers", Journal of Molecular Biology, 296 (3): 739-742.

MINGJIE ZHANG

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Calgary (1993)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Ontario Cancer Institute (1994-95)


Multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance; protein structure and function; neuronalsignal transduction.


Structural determination and functional characterization of neuronal nitric oxide synthaseinhibitor -----PIN


The structure and function relationship of neuronal cdc2-like kinase


The PDZ Domain of Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase: Made to be Versatile


Origin of the domain swapping of the DLC8 dimer observed in the NMR and X-raystructures

DAG DAG99/00.SC06 HK$45,000 Dec 1999

Cytoplasmic Dynein Light Chains as Target Adaptors of the Motor Complex: A Structuraland Functional Study

CERG HKUST6207/00M HK$1,490,400 Aug 2000

Nitric oxide in excitable tissues: physiology and disease

HFSP HFSP99/00.SC01 US$171,429 Aug 2000

Discovery and structure-based design of potent nNOS inhibitors from TCM using SAR byNMR

CP CP98/99.SC01-B HK$23,000 Aug 2000


Chin, C., Ohki, S., Cheng, H., Wang, J.H. and Zhang, M. (1999) "Identification andStructural Characterization of a Cdk Inhibitory Peptide Derived from Neuronal SpecificCdk5 Activator", J. Biol. Chem, 274, 7120-7127.

Fan, J., Zhang, Q., Li, M., Yamazaki, T., Shimizu, M. and Zhang, M. (1998) "ProteinInhibitor of Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase (PIN) Binds to a 17 Amino Acid ResiduesFragment of the Enzyme", J. Biol. Chem, 273, 33472-33481.

Lo, K.W., Zhang, Q., Li, M. and Zhang, M. (1999) "Apoptosis-linked Gene ALG-2 Is aNew member of Calpain Small Subunit Subfamily Ca2+ -binding protein", Biochemistry, 38,7498-7508.

Tochio, H., Hung, F., Li, M., Bredt, D.S. and Zhang, M. (2000) "Solution Structure andBackbone Dynamics of the Second PDZ Domain of Postsynaptic Density-95", J. Mol. Biol,295, 225-237.

Tochio, H., Ohki, S., Zhang, Q., Li, M. and Zhang, M. (1998) "Solution Structure of aProtein Inhibitor of Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase", Nature Struct. Biol, 5, 965-969.

Tochio, H., Zhang, Q., Mandal, P., Li, M. and Zhang, M. (1999) "Solution Structure ofthe Extended Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase PDZ Domain Complexed with an AssociatedPeptide", Nature Struct. Biol, 6, 417-421.

GUANG ZHU

Associate Professor


PhD,University of Maryland, College Park (1992)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health(1992-93)

Research Associate, Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, CollegePark(1993-94)


Application and development of multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance techniquesfor structure and function study of biomacromolecules.


Development and application of multidimensional NMR signal processing and experimentalmethods for a structure and function study of skp1


Structure-function Studies of the Cntf Receptor Complex and the Development of NMRTechniques for Studies of the Structure and Interactions of Large Modular Proteins


Theoretical studies of the NMR properties of marcobiomolecules in a dilute liquid crystallinemedium

DAG DAG99/00.SC07 HK$45,000 Dec 1999

Co-operative research centre for soluble receptor Biology

CRC CRC98/01.SC04 HK$3,000,000 Jun 2000


Kong, X.M., Sze, K.H. and Zhu, G. (1999) "Gradient and Sensitivity EnhancedMultiple-quantum Coherence and Its Application in Heteronuclear Multi-dimensional NMRExperiments", J. Biomolecular NMR, 14, 133-140.

Sze, K.H., Kong, X. and Zhu, G. (1999) "Measuring 3JCH by 3D J-Resolved HMBCExperiment", Tetrahedran lett, 40, 5587-5591.

Yan, X.Z., Xue, H., Liu, H.Z., Hang, J., Wong, J. and Zhu, G. (2000) "NMR Studies ofBacillus subtilis tRNATrp Hyper-expressed in E.coli: Assignment of Imino Proton Signals

and Determination of Thermal Stability", J. Biological Chemistry, 275, 6712-6716.

Zhu, G., Xia, Y.L., Sze, K.H. and Yan, X.Z. (1999) "2D and 3D TROSY EnhancedNOESY of 15N Labeled Proteins", J. Biomlecular NMR, 14, 377-381.

Zhu, G., Kong, X.M. and Sze, K.H. (1999) "Gradient and Sensitivity Enhancement ofTransverse Relaxation-Optimized Spectroscopy with Water Flip-Back", J. BiomolecularNMR, 13, 77-81.

Zhu, G., Xia, Y.L., Nicholson, L. and Sze, K.H. (2000) "TROSY-Based NMR dynamicsstudy of proteins labeled with 15N", J. Magnetic Resonance, 143, 423-426.

HUEIH MIN CHEN

Assistant Professor


PhD,University of Texas, Arlington (1988)

Postdoctoral Associate, University of Minnesota (1989-92)

Research Fellow II, National Medical Center of the City of Hope (1992-93)


Peptide antibiotics; chemical antibiotics; constructions of anti-cancer peptides; proteinfolding; protein chemistry.


Dynamics of the Permeabilization of Custom Antibacterial Peptides on Lipid Bilayers

CERG HKUST6192/99M HK$918,500 Aug 1999


Chan, S.C., Yan, W.L., Wang, W., Smith, D., Sheu, F.S. and Chen, H.M. (1998)"Microscopic observations of the different morphological changes by the anti-bacterialpeptides on Klebsiella pneunomiae and HL-60 leukaemia cells", Journal of Peptide Science,4, 413-425.

Chen, H.M., Dimagno, T.J., Wang, W., Leung, E., Lee, C.H. and Chan, S.I. (1999) "Theeffect of E75 of staphylococcal nuclease on enzyme activity, protein stability and proteinunfolding", European J. of Biochemistry, 261, 599-609.

Wang, W., Smith, D.K. and Chen, H.M. (1999) "The effect of pH on the structure bindingand model membrane lysis by cecropin B and analogs", Biochimi. Biophs. Acta (Generalsubject), 1473, 418-430.

Wang, W., Smith D., Moulding, K. and Chen, H.M. (1998) "The dependence ofmembrane permeability by the anti-bacterial peptide cecropin B and its analogs CB-1, CB-3on liposomes of different composition", Journal of Biological Chemistry, 273, 27438-27448.

Hung, S., Wang, W., Chan, S.I. and Chen, H.M. (1999) "Membrane lysis by the customanti-bacterial peptides cecropins B1 and B3: A spin-label electron spin resonance study onthe phospholipid bilayers", Biophysical Journal, 77, 3120-3133.

Sailam, S., Arunkumar, A.I., Yu, C. and Chen, H.M. (2000) "Conformational study of acustom antibacterial peptide cecropin B1: Implication of the lytic activity", Biochim.Biophys. Acta (Protein Struc. Mol. Enzy.), 1479, 275-285.

KING-CHUEN CHOW

Assistant Professor



Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institution of Washington (1988-92)


Stress response of living organisms; improvement of stress tolerance of plant strains bygenetic engineering; gene overexpression systems for plants; molecular evolution.


Isolation and characterization of the cDNAs that encode antifreeze proteins of winter rye

DAG DAG97/98.SC02 HK$73,780 Feb 1998


Chow, K.C. and Tung, W.L. (1998) "Overexpression of dnaK/dnaJ and groEL confersFreeze Tolerance to Escherichai coli", Biochemical and Biophysical ResearchCommunications, 253, 502-505.

Chow, K.C. (2000) "Hsp70 (DnaK) - an evolution facilitator?", Trends in Genetics, 16 (11),484-485.

Chow, K.C. and Tung, W.L. (1999) "Electrotransformation of Chlorella vulgaris", PlantCell Reports, 18, 778-780.

Chow, K.C. and Tung, W.L. (2000) "Magnetic field exposure stimulates transpositionthrough the induction of DnaK/J synthesis", Biochem Biophys Res Comm, 270 (3): 745-748.

Chow, K.C. and Tung, W.L. (2000) "Magnetic field exposure enhances DNA repairingthrough the induction of DnaK/J synthesis", FEBS Letters, 478, 133-136.

Chow, K.C., Wong, W.R. and Lam, K.H.E. (1998) "Construction of an efficient Bacillussubtilis system for extracellular production of heterologous proteins", J. Biotechnology, 63,167-177.

YI-FAN HAN

Assistant Professor


PhD, Medical College of Ohio (1991)

Research Fellow, National Institutes of Health (1991-94)

Visiting Scientist, Hoechst AG (1985-86)


Memory enhancers and analgesics, including those from Chinese medicinal herbs; proteinphosphorylation and dephosphorylation in neuronal functions.


Studies of Bis(7)-THA, a novel dimeric AChE inhibitor, on cholinesterase activities andspatial memory: comparison with E2020, Huperzine A and THA

DAG DAG98/99.SC02 HK$60,000 Jan 1999

Studies of Bis-THAs, Novel Dimeric AChE Inhibitors, on Cholinesterase Activities andSpatial Memory : Comparison with E2020, Huperzine A, and THA


Collaboration with Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, CAS

CMI CMI99/00.SC01 HK$150,000 Apr 2000


ITC ITS/119/00 HK$9,917,000 Oct 2000

Isolation and identification of neurologically active constituents from Traditional ChineseMedicine (TCM)

ITC UIM/40 HK$1,636,600 Dec 2000


Han, Y.F., Carlier, P.R., Chow, E.S.H., Wang, H, Lieu, T.X. and Pang, Y.P. (1999)"Evaluation of short-tether bis-THA AChE inhibitor. A further test of the dual binding site

hypothesis", Bio-organic & Medicinal Chem. Lett, 8, 351.

Wang, H, Carlier, P.R., Ho, W.L., Lee, N.T.K., Li, C.P.L., Pang, Y.P. and Han, Y.F.(1999) "Effects of Bis(7)-tacrine, a novel anti-Alzheimer's agent, on rat brain AChE",Neuroreport, 10, 789.

Liu, J, Ho, W.L., Lee, N.T.K., Carlier, P.R., Pang, Y.P. and Han, Y.F. (2000)"Bis(7)-tacrine, a novel acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, reverses AF64A-induced deficits innavitational memory in rats", Neuroscience Letters, 282, 165-168.

Wang, H, Carlier, P.R., Ho, W.L., Lee, N.T.K., Pang, Y.P. and Han, Y.F. (1999)"Reversal of scopolamine-induced deficits in spatial navigation performance in rats bybis(7)-THA:a novel dimeric AChE inhibitor", Acta Pharmacol Sinica, 20, 211.

Wu, D.C, Xiao, X.Q, Chen, P.M.Y., Ng, A.K.Y., Chung, W., Carliet, P.R., Yu, Y. andHan, Y.F. (2000) "Protection against ischemic injury in primary cultured astrocytes ofmouse cerebral cortex by bis(7)-tacrine, a novel anti-Alzheimer's agents", NeuroscienceLetters, 288, 1-4.

Chao, Y.L., Wang, H., Xue, H., Carlier, P.R., Hui, K.M., Pang, Y.P., Li, Z.W. and Han,Y.F. (1999) "Bis(7)-tacrine, a novel dimeric AChE inhibitor, is a potent GABAa receptorantagonist", NeuroReport, 10, 795.

CHUN LIANG

Assistant Professor


PhD,Brown University (1993)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (1993-98)


Mechanism and cell cycle control of DNA replication in the budding yeast Saccharomycescerevisiae; control of DNA replication in normal and cancer cells.


Mechanism and cell cycle control of DNA replication in the budding yeast saccharomycescerevisiae

DAG DAG98/99.SC01 HK$100,000 Nov 1998

Mechanism and cell cycle control of DNA replication in the budding yeast Saccharomycescerevisiae


A novel molecular method for diagnosis, early detection and mass screening of urinarybladder carcinoma

DAG DAG99/00.SC04 HK$45,000 Nov 1999

Identificaton of proteins for initiation of DNA replication in Saccharomyces cerevisiae usingnovel genetic screening strategies


Development of anticancer drugs using the antisense strategy

DAG DAG00/01.SC01 HK$60,000 Dec 2000


Gerbi, S.A., Bielinsky, A., Liang, C., Lunyak, V. and Urnov, F. (1999) "Methods to MapOrigins of Replication in Eukaryotes", Eukaryotic DNA Replication: A Practical Approach,Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, 1-42.

Weinreich, M., Liang, C. and Stillman, B. (1999) "The Cdc6p Nucleotide Binding Motif isRequired for Loading Mcm Proteins onto Chromatin", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA, 96,441-446.

Fu, X. and Liang, C. (1999) "A Multicopy Suppressor Screen for Orc4 Interacting Proteinsin S. cerevisiae", Eukaryotic DNA Replication, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold SpringHarbor, N.Y., USA, 15-19, Sep 99, 71.

Zhang, Y. and Liang, C. (1999) "Identification of the Budding Yeast Mcm5 InteractingProteins by a Multicopy Suppressor Screen", Eucaryotic DNA Replication, Cold SpringHarbor Laboratory, Cold Spring harbor, N.Y., USA, 15-19 Sep 99, 226.

Liang, C. and Stillman, B. (1997) "Persistent initiation of DNA replication and chromatinbound MCM proteins during the cell cycle in cdc6 mutants", Genes Dev., 11, 3375-3386.

Liang, C., Weinreich, M. and Stillman, B. (1995) "ORC and Cdc6p interact and determinethe frequency of initiation of DNA replication in the genone", Cell, 81, 667-676.

RANDY YAT CHOI POON

Assistant Professor


PhD, Cambridge University (1994)

Postdoctoral Fellow, The Salk Institute (1994-96)


Molecular basis of cell cycle control in normal and cancer cells.


Penetration of mammalian cell membranes with peptides

DAG DAG97/98.SC03 HK$68,106 Jan 1998

Characterization of the cyclin-dependent kinase interactors skp1 and skp2 in normal andtransformed cells


Novel approach for identifying human cell cycle control genes by rescue of yeast deletionmutants

DAG DAG98/99.SC03 HK$60,000 Jan 1999

Functional Characterization of Prohibitin in Cell Cycle Control and Senescence


Delivery of genes into mammalian cells by retrovirus systems

DAG DAG99/00.SC03 HK$45,000 Jan 2000

The effects of ectopic expression of the evolutionary diverged yeast Cak1p in human cells

DAG DAG00/01.SC02 HK$60,000 Dec 2000


Arooz, T., Yam, C.H., Siu, W.Y., Lau, A., Li, K.K.W. and Poon, R.Y.C. (2000) "On theconcentrations of cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases in extracts of cultured human cells",Biochemistry, 19: 9494-9501.

Yam, C.H., Ng, R.W.M., Siu, W.Y., Lau, A. and Poon, R.Y.C. (1999) "Regulation ofCyclin A-Cdk2 Activity by SCF Component Skp1 and F-box Protein Skp2", Molecular andCellular Biology, 19, 635-645.

Yam, C.H., Siu, W.Y., Arooz, T., Chiu, C.H.S., Lau, A., Wang, X.Q. and Poon, R.Y.C.(1999) "MDM2 and MDMX inhibit the transcriptional activity of ectopically expressedSMAD proteins", Cancer Research, 59, 5075-5078.

Yam, C.H., Siu, W.Y., Lau, A. and Poon, R.Y.C. (2000) "Degradation of cyclin A does notrequire its phosphorylation by CDC2 and cyclin-dependent kinase 2", Journal of BiologicalChemistry, 275, 3158-3167.

Yam, C.H., Siu, W.Y., Kaganovich, D., Ruderman, J.V. and Poon, R.Y.C. (2001)"Cleavage of Cyclin A at R70/ R71 by the Bacterial Protease Ompt.", Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences, USA, 98, 497-501.

Ongkeko, W.M., Wang, X.Q., Siu, W.Y., Lau, A., Yamashita, K., Harris, A.L., Cox, L.S.and Poon, R.Y.C. (1999) "MDM2 and MDMX target p53 for degradation but stabilize p73",Current Biology, 9, 829-832.

WU ZHENGUO

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Western Ontario (1995)

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego (1996-99)


Signal transduction pathways mediated by kinases; roles and regulation of MAP kinasesduring normal muscle differentiation and in muscle tumors (Rhabdomyosarcoma).


The role of serine/threonine kinase PRAK during muscle differentiation

DAG DAG99/00.SC05 HK$99,000 Nov 1999

Transcriptional Regulation of Myogenin during Myogenesis by P38 Map Kinase andInsulin-like Growth Factors


Molecular mechanisms by which the JNK signalling pathway inhibits muscle differentiation

DAG DAG00/01.SC04 HK$60,000 Dec 2000


Wu, Z., Woodring, P.J., Bahakta, K.S., Tamura, K., Wen, F., Feramisco, J.R., Karin, M. andWang, J.Y. (2000) "p38 and Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinases Regulate the MyogenicProgram at Multiple Steps", Mol. Cell. Biol., 20, 3951-3964.

Puri, P.L., Wu, Z., Zhang, P., Wood, L.D., Bhakta, K.S., Han, J., Feramisco, J.R. and Karin,M. (2000) "Induction of terminal differentiation by constitutive activation of p38 MAPkinase in human rhabdomyosarcoma cells", Genes Dev., 14, 574-584.

Xu, Q. and Wu, Z. (2000) "The insulin-like growth factor - phosphatidylinositol3-kinase-Akt signaling pathway regulates myogenin expression in normal myogenic cells butnot in habdomyosarcoma-derived RD cells", J. Biol. Chem., 275, 36750-7.

Department of Biology

The faculty in the Department of Biology are committed to creative, scholarly research. Themajor foci of departmental research interests are:

Molecular Biology: gene regulation; molecular biology of plant organelles; tumor virology;molecular basis of carcinogenesis; gene therapy; phytohormone biosynthesis and action;plant senescence; molecular biology of stress response in algae.

Cell and Developmental biology: cell signaling; receptors and signal transduction; celldivision, differentiation, transformation, and death; membrane biophysics; molecularneurobiology; growth factors; neural regeneration; neurotransmitter receptors.

Marine/Environmental Biology: harmful algal blooms; larval ecology; marine fouling andantifouling; marine and estuarine pollution; marine population dynamics; environmentaldecontamination.

Biotechnology:gene transfer; immuno-diagnostics; cancer drug development; bioproductionof natural products.

The first two areas encompass molecular genetics, developmental biology, microbiology,molecular pharmacology and immunology, and genetic engineering in plants and animals. The Department focuses on a few key areas and emphasizes co-operative efforts with otherresearch groups. One of the focus areas is the delineation of the signaling mechanisms ofcell fate regulation at subcellular and molecular levels. In addition, molecular approachesare emphasized to study many important aspects of neurobiology, including neuronaldifferentiation, neural regeneration and structure of neurotransmitter receptors. The plantphysiology and molecular biology areas focus on research with great potential fortechnological applications in the coming decades. The fundamental molecular, cellular andgenetic basis of tumor development and the applied aspects of identification of tumormarkers and cancer therapy are areas of focus in cancer research.

The marine biology and environmental biology cover molecular and organismic studies oftoxic red tide algae and bacteria and other marine organisms. Modern techniques inenvironmental and biological monitoring, ecotoxicology, remote sensing (satellite),biotechnology and mathematical modeling are used in these studies. Special attention isdirected towards improving the quality of coastal and marine environments of Hong Kongand the utilization of natural resources in these environments. The Department is incollaboration with the University’s Institute of Environmental and Sustainable Development

and Center for Coastal and Atmospheric Research in this area of development. TheDepartment is also administering a well-received MSc Program in Environmental Science.

Research in biotechnology is an integral part of the activity of the University’sBiotechnology Research Institute.

FACILITIES

The Department of Biology is equipped with modern research facilities for most areas ofbiological studies. Besides the central facilities for Animal Care and Plant Growth(greenhouse), the following facilities are available in the Department:

Cell Culture: For the cultivation, maintenance, characterization and cold storage of animaland plant cells as well as for production of monoclonal antibodies.

Molecular and Cellular Biology: Major equipment includes fluorescence-activated cellsorter, amino acid analyzer, automatic DNA sequencer, oligonucleotide synthesizer, PCRmachines, ultracentrifuges, spectrophotometers and spectrofluorimeters, atomic absorption,mass spectrometer, HPLC and FPLC, gamma and liquid scintillation counters.

Modern Microscopy: The Department is equipped with state-of-art optical microscopysystems including fluorescence microscope, confocal laser microscope, computer-enhancedvideo microscope, intensified CCD detector with image processor, ratio-imagingmicroscope. The Department also has a transmission electron microscope, and two scanningelectron microscopes are already available in the University. The Department is trying todevelop the most advanced microscopy facilities for biological research in this part of Asia.

Marine/Environmental Biology: The University is bordered by an extensive shoreline ofvarious habitats (rocky, sandy, cobbled, and a well-functioning pier), providing a favourablecondition for developing a strong marine and coastal science program. The university hasrecently established a new Mphil/ PhD program in the areas of coastal, atmospheric andmarine environment (CAME) to strengthen educational/ research program in Marine/Environmental science. Facilities available include a 16-foot outboard motor boat fornear-shore operations, a wet laboratory of circulating seawater, and various environmental

chambers and reactors for bioproduction studies. These facilities are due to expand inanticipation of the completion of a new, enlarged marine research laboratory at thewaterfront by the end of 2001.

Research Profile

H. BENJAMIN PENG

Professor and Department Head

DONALD C. CHANG

Professor

DENNIS P H HSIEH

Professor

SHAIN DOW KUNG

Professor and Advisor to the President

MARIA LI LUNG

Professor

MADELINE C. S. WU

Professor

ANDREW L MILLER

Associate Professor

I-HSUN NI

Associate Professor

NING LI

Associate Professor

PEI-YUAN QIAN

Associate Professor and Associate Director, Center for Coastal & Atmospheric Research

KARL W K TSIM

Associate Professor

YONG XIE

Associate Professor

DAVID BANFIELD

Assistant Professor

KING-LAU CHOW

Assistant Professor

WEN-LUAN WENDY HSIAO

Lecturer

KEVIN LEE

Assistant Professor

CHRISTOPHER ROCK

Assistant Professor

NIKOLAUS J. SUCHER

Assistant Professor

WEN-XIONG WANG

Assistant Professor

JOSEPH T. Y. WONG

Assistant Professor

ALBERT C. H. YU

Assistant Professor

H. BENJAMIN PENG


( 23587302; [email protected] )

PhD, Purdue University (1976)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University (1976-78)

Assistant to Associate Professor, University of Illinois College of Medicine (1978-85)

Associate to Full Professor, University of North Carolina, School of Medicine (1985-00)


Molecular and cellular neuroscience; cell biology; developmental biology.


Development of the synapse

NIH NS23583 US$757,877 Jul 1999

Retrograde signaling in nerve terminal formation

NIH NS36754 US$556,739 Apr 1999

Tyrosine phosphatase and Rho in ACH receptor clustering

MDA US$180,000 Jan 1998


Kaksonen, M. and Peng, H.B. (2000) "Association of cortactin with dynamic actin inlamellipodia and on endosomal vesicles", J. Cell Science , 113: 4421-4426.

Dai, Z., Luo, X., Xie, H. and Peng, H.B. (2000) "The actin-driven movement and formationof acetylcholine receptor clusters", J. Cell Biol., 150: 1321-1334.

Yang, J.F., Zhou, H., Choi, R.C., Ip, N.Y., Peng, H.B. and Tsim, K.W. (1999) "Acysteine-rich form of Xenopus neuregulin induces the expression of acetylcholine receptorsin cultured myotubes", Mol. Cell. Neurosci., 13: 415-429.

Peng, H.B., Xie, H., Rossi, S.G. and Rotundo, R.L. (1999) "Acetylcholinesterase clusteringat the neuromuscular junction involves perlecan and dystroglycan", J. Cell. Biol., 145:911-921.

Fu, A.K.Y., Smith, F.D., Zhou, H., Chu, A.H., Tsim, K.W.K., Peng, H.B. and Ip, N.Y.(1999) "Xenopus muscle specific kinase: molecular cloning and prominent expression inneural tissues during early embryonic development", Eur. J. Neurosci., 11: 373-382.

Peng, H.B., Ali, A.A., Daggett, D.F., Rauvala, H., Hassell, J.R. and Smalheiser, N.R. (1998)"The relationship between perlecan and dystroglycan and its implication in the formation ofthe neuromuscular junction", Cell Adhesion and Communication, 5: 475-489.

DONALD C CHANG

Professor


PhD, Rice University (1970)

Welch Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine (1970-73)

Summer Investigator, Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole (1976-94)

Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine (1985-91)


Molecular biophysics; calcium signaling; cellular structure and function by lasermicroscopy; mechanisms of cell division; gene transfer and cell fusion using an electricfield.


Molecular signaling in cell fate determination

AOE AOE97/98.SC05 HK$260,347 Apr 1998

Development of new molecular probes for cell signaling study based on the FRET method

DAG DAG98/99.SC06 HK$70,000 Nov 1998


Chang, D.C. and Lu, P. (2000) "Multiple types of calcium signals are associated with celldivision in zebrafish embryo", Microscopy Research and Technique, 49 (2): 111-122.

Chang, D.C., Lu, P. and Li, C.J. (1999) "Dynamic redistribution of calmodulin in livingcells during cell division: An in vivo study using a GFP-calmodulin fusion proteintechnique", Proceedings of the 1st Guangdong / Hong Kong Joint Biophysics Symposium,Biophysical Society of Guangdong, Guangzhou, China, 9-12.

Li, C.J., Lu, P. and Chang (zhang), D.C. (1999) "Using a GFP-labeling technique to studycell cycle-dependent distribution of calmodulin in living cells", Science in China, 42,517-528.

Li, C.J., Heim, R., Lu, P., Pu, Y.M., Tsien, R.Y. and Chang, D.C. (1999) "Dynamicredistribution of calmodulin in HeLa cells during cell division as revealed by a

GFP-calmodulin fusion protein technique", J. of Cell Science, 112 (10): 1567-1577.

Pu, Y.M. and Chang, D.C. (1999) "Study of Ca2+ signaling during the process ofapoptosis", Proceedings of the 1st Guangdong / Hong Kong Joint Biophysics Symposium,Biophysical Society of Guangdong, Guangzhou, China, 53-56.

Chang, D.C. (1997) "Experimental strategies in efficient transfection of mammalian cells:Electroporation", Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 62: Recombinant Gene ExpressionProtocols (ed. Rocky, S.T.), Humana Press, 307-318.

DENNIS P H HSIEH

Professor


PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1969)

Professor of Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Davis (1980-94)

Chairman, Department of Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Davis(1983-88)

Head, Department of Biology, HKUST (1999-2000)


Natural toxins in foods, herbs, and red tides : their bioproduction, analyses and assays andmechanisms of toxic actions.


Comparative toxicology of ephedrine alkaloids in Chinese medicinal herbs

DAG DAG97/98.SC06 HK$79,456 Jan 1998

Development of novel non-toxic antifoulants and human interactions with the coastalenvironment: Improving basic knowledge and strategies for utilizing the marine resources ofHong Kong and the region

AOE AOE97/98.SC02 HK$390,520 Apr 1998

Coastal marine science facilities

RCA CA97/98.SC01 HK$2,300,000 Jul 1998

Bacterial toxigenicity associated with harmful algal blooms

DAG DAG98/99.SC08 HK$70,000 Jan 1999

Studies on Important Toxicants in Coastal Waters of Hong Kong: A Risk Assessment

Approach

RCA CA99/00.SC03 HK$848,898 Jan 2000

Development of a simple and rapid toxicity bioassay for paralytic shellfish toxins andciguatoxins in seafoods

ECWW ECWW98/99.SC03 HK$1,274,366 Jan 2000

Metabolism of Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Toxins in Mammalian Systems



Hsieh, D.P.H., Huxtable, S., Ng, K.F., Chen, H.M., Tsang, P.W.K., Wang, J. and Xu,P.L. (2000) "Determination of interactions between human thrombopoietin and its receptorMPL by yeast two-hybrid system and affinity biosensor", The International Journal ofBiochemistry & Cell Biology, 32, 481-488.

Hsieh, D.P.H., Huxtable, S. and Chang, G. (2000) "Total production of paralytic shellfishtoxins in a Hong Kong species of dinoflagellate", International Conference on HarmfulAlgal Blooms 2000, Gustaaf Hallegraeff, Univ. of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia,7-11 Feb, 00, Abs p.23.

Lee, M.K., Wong, Y.H., Che, C.T. and Hsieh, D.P.H. (2000) "Cytotoxicity assessment ofma-huang (Ephedra) under different conditions of preparation", Toxicological Sciences, 56,424-430.

Ng, K.F., Huxtable, S., Xu, P.L. and Hsieh, D.P.H. (in press) "Purification and in virtrofolding of recombinant human thrombopoietin receptor expressed in Escherichia coli",Protein Expression and Purification.

SHAIN DOW KUNG

Professor and Advisor to the President



Research Fellow, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto (1968-70)

Research Cell Biologist/Biochemist, University of California, Los Angeles (1971-74)

Acting Department Chairman, Biology, University of Maryland Baltimore Country(1992-93)

Assoc. Dean, University of Maryland Baltimore County (1984-86)

Director, Center for Agricultural Biotechnology (1986-93)

Acting Provost, Center for Agricultural Biotechnology (1989-91)

Dean of Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1991-92)

Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(1992-98)

Acting Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Hong Kong University of Science andTechnology (2000)


Molecular evolution of chloroplast genomes; structure and function of Rubisco; molecularmechanism of genetic tumors.


The establishment of a BRI Traditional Chinese Medicine Center

BRI 97-I-1 HK$622,659 Jan 1998

Biotechnology Research Institute - Traditional Chinese Medicine Center

AOE AOE97/98.SC03 HK$125,000 Apr 1998

Emerging High Impact Area of TCM

HIA HIA98/99.SC02 HK$2,400,000 Jan 1999

China Program on HKUST life science joint laboratory personnel exchange program

CP CP98/99.SC01 HK$600,000 Apr 1999


ITC AF/150/99 HK$8,600,000 Oct 1999


Kung, S.D. and Yang, S.F. (2000) Discoveries in Plant Biology, Vol III, World ScientificPublishers, Singapore, 473 pages.

Kung, S.D. (1999) "The Discovery of Genetic Tumours", Discoveries in Plant Biology,Volume I, World Scientific Pub., Singapore, 131-144.

Kung, S.D. (1999) "The Discovery of Chloroplast Promoters", Discoveries in Plant Biology,World Scientific Pub, Singapore, 61-72.

Kung, S.D. (2000) "The Discovery of Maternal Inheritance of Large Subunit of Rubisco",Discovery in Plant Biology, Vol III,, World Scientific Publishers, Singapore, pp. 267-274.

Kung, S.D. and Sun, S.S.M. (1999) "From Green Revolution to Gene Revolution",Agriculture in China: 1949 to 2030, IDEALS, U.S.A, 446-467.

Ge, L., Liu, J.Z., Wong, W.S., Hsiao, W.L.W., Chong, K., Xu, Z.K., Yang, S.F., Kung,S.D. and Li, N. (2000) "Identification of a novel multiple environmental factor-responsive

1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase gene, NT-ACS2, from tobacco", Plant Cell &Environment, 23, 1169-1182.

MARIA LI LUNG

Professor


PhD, Stanford University (1978)

NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1978-80)

Lecturer, University of Hong Kong (1980-91)


Molecular oncology; molecular virology; epidemiology of cancer.


Functional Analysis Of The Role Of Tumor Suppressor Genes In NasopharyngealCarcinomas


Microsatellite analysis of nasopharyngeal carcinomas

DAG DAG99/00.SC10 HK$45,000 Dec 1999

Cooperative nasopharyngeal carcinoma research center

RCA CA99/00.SC02 HK$3,500,000 Apr 2000


Cheng, Y., Stanbridge, E.J., Kong, H., Lerman, M.I. and Lung, M.L. (2000) "A functionalinvestigation of tumor suppressor gene activities in nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell lineHONE1 using a monochromosome transfer approach", Genes, Chromosomes, and Cancer,28, 82-91.

Ko, J.M.Y., Cheung, M.H.Y., Wong, C.M., Lau, K.W., Tang, C.M.C., Kwan, M.W. andLung, M.L. (1998) "Ki-ras codon 12 point mutational activation in Hong Kong colorectalcarcinoma patients", Cancer Letters, 134, 169-176.

Ko, J.M.Y., Cheung, M.H.Y., Kwan, M.W., Wong, C.M., Lau, K.W., Tang, C.M.C. andLung, M.L. (1999) "Genomic instability and alterations in Apc, Mcc and Dcc in Hong Kongpatients with colorectal carcinoma", Int. J. Cancer, 84, 404-409.

Leung, C.S. and Lung, M.L. (1999) "Detection of p53 mutations in Hong Kong colorectalcarcinomas by conventional PCR-SSCP analysis versus p53 yeast functional assays",

Anticancer Research, 19, 625-628.

Lung, M.L., Hu, Y., Cheng, Y., Li, M.F., Tang, C.M.C., O, S.K. and Iggo, R.D. (1998)"p53 inactivating mutations in Chinese nasopharyngeal carcinomas", Cancer Letters, 133,89-94.

Cheng, Y., Poulos, N.E., Lung, M.L., Hampton, R., Ou, B., Lerman, M. and Stanbridge,E.J. (1998) "Functional evidence for a nosopharyngeal carcinoma tumor suppressor gene thatmaps at chromosome 3p21.3", Proc. Nat'l. Acad. Sci., 95, 3042-3047.

MADELINE C S WU

Professor


PhD, University of Texas, Austin (1966)

Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology (1969-72)

Staff Scientist, California Institute of Technology (1974-80)

Associate Professor of Biology, University of Maryland (1981-86)

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland (1987-93)

Senior Scientist, Center of Marine Biotechnology, Maryland Biotechnology Institute(1988-93)


Algal biotechnology; effect of environmental factors on secondary metabolism in plants.


Genetic Analysis of Cadmium Response in Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii

CERG HKUST6140/99M HK$561,000 Dec 1999

Experimental and theoretical studies of algal motility

JRS JRS00/15 HK$72,981 Mar 2000

UST joint lab with South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, CAS

CMI CMI99/00.SC06 HK$250,000 Apr 2000


Qian, P., Wu, M. and Ni, I.H. (in press) "Comparison of nutrients release among somemaricultured animals", Aquaculture.

Chang, C.H. and Wu, M. (2000) "The effect of transcription and RNA processing on theinitiation of chloroplast DNA replication in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii", Mol. and Gen.Genetics, 263, 320-327.

Nie, Z. and Wu, M. (1999) "The functional role of a DNA primase in chloroplast DNAreplication in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii", Arch. Biochem. Biophys., 369, 174-180.

Vladimirov, V.A., Denissenko, P.V., Pedley, T.J., Wu, M. and Moskalev, L.S. (2000)"Algal motility measured by a laser tracking method", Mar. & Freshwater Res., 51, 589-600.

Wu, M. (1998) "The discovery of chloroplast DNA replication origin in Chlamydomonasreinhardtii", Discoveries in Plant Biology, Vol. II, World Scientific, Singapore, 73-84.

ANDREW L MILLER

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Dundee (1986)

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Aberdeen (1985-88)

Research Associate, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole (1988-91)

Principal Investigator, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole (1992-95)


Calcium signaling during early development; calcium imaging techniques; transgenic modelsystems for imaging calcium ions in living organisms.


A study of calcium signaling during the gastrula period of developing zebrafish (DanioRerio)

CERG HKUST6103/98M HK$1,195,000 Jan 1999

Subplasmalemmal Calcium and Activation of Store-Operated Calcium Channels


A study of the role of slow waves in pattern formation and cytokinesis

DAG DAG97/98.SC09 HK$64,700 Jan 1998

Subplasmalemmal Calcium and Activation of Store-Operated Calcium Channels

DAG DAG99/00.SC11 HK$62,000 Dec 1999

Generation of a transgenic vertebrate model to study embryonic calcium signalling

DAG DAG99/00.SC11 HK$62,000 Dec 1999

Role of calcium in gene expression during neural induction in amphibians

F-HK F-HK98/99.SC06 HK$53,600 Mar 1999

A study of the dynamic interaction between calcium, calmodulin, and the cytoskeletonduring mitosis and cytokinesis in zebrafish

JRS JRS99/39 HK$74,466 Mar 1999


Leclerc, C., Webb, S.E., Daguzan, C., Moreau, M. and Miller, A.L. (2000) "Imagingpatterns of calcium transients during neural induction in Xenopus laevis embryos", J.CellSci., 113, 3519-3529.

Webb, S.E. and Miller, A.L. (2000) "Calcium signalling during zebrafish embryonicdevelopment", Bioessays, 22(2), 113-123.

Leung, C.F., Webb, S.E. and Miller, A.L. (2000) "On the Mechanism of OoplasmicSegregation in Single-cell Zebrafish Embryos", Develop. Growth Differ, 42, 29-40.

Lee, K.W., Webb, S.E. and Miller, A.L. (1999) "A Wave of Free Cytosolic CalciumTraverses Zebrafish Eggs on Activation", Developmental Biology, 214, 168-180.

Gilland, E., Miller, A.L., Karplus, E., Baker, R. and Webb, S.E. (1999) "Imaging ofMulticellular Large-scale Rhythmic Calcium Waves during Zebrafish Gastrulation", Proc.Natl. Acad. Sci., 96, 157-161.

Leung, C.F., Webb, S.E. and Miller, A.L. (1998) "Calcium transients accompanyooplasmic segregation in zebrafish embryos", Develop. Growth Differ., 40(3), 313-327.

I-HSUN NI

Associate Professor



Research Scientist, Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre, Canadian Department of Fisheriesand Oceans. (1978-90)

Section Head, Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre, Canadian Department of Fisheries andOceans. (1985-90)


Fisheries management and aquaculture; marine environmental impact assessment by satellite

remote sensing; comparative population dynamics of marine animals.


Tai O sheltered boat anchorage - environmental and drainage impact assessment

EL EL98/99.SC01 HK$50,000 Dec 1998

Environmental monitoring for SDDS stage 1 - baseline monitoring and performanceverification trawling surveys

MEMC MEMCL98/99.SC01 HK$250,000 Mar 1999

Biodiversity of marine fishes in Hong Kong waters

ECWW ECWW98/99.SC02 HK$782,800 Sep 1999

Dietary Uptake of Major Metal Contaminants in Fishes of Hong Kong Coastal Waters



Kwok, K.Y. and Ni, I.H. (1999) "Reproduction of cutlassfishes, Trichiurus spp., from SouthChina Sea", Marine Ecology Progress Series, 176, 39-47.

Kwok, K.Y. and Ni, I.H. (2000) "Age and growth of cutlassfishes, Trichiurus spp., from theSouth China Sea", Fishery Bulletin, 98 (4): 748-758.

Ni, I.H. and Kwok, K.Y. (1999) "Marine fish fauna in Hong Kong waters", ZoologicalStudies, 38 (2): 130-152.

Ni, I.H., Wang, W.X. and Tam, Y.K. (2000) "The transfer of Cd, Cr and Zn fromzooplankton prey to mudskipper (Periophthalmus cantonensis) and glassy (Ambassisurotaenia) fishes", Marine Progress Series, 194, 203-211.

Tang, D.L., Ni, I.H., Muller-karger, F.E. and Kester, D.R. (1999) "Remote sensingobservations of winter phytoplankton blooms southwest of the Luzon Strait in the SouthChina Sea", Marine Ecology Progress Series, 191, 43-51.

Wong, C.L. and Ni, I.H. (2000) "Population dynamics of the feral macaques in the Kowloonhills of Hong Kong", American Journal of Primatology, 50, 53-66.

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NING LI

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Washington (1989)

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington (1989-)

Research Associate, USDA/ARS/PSI Plant Molecular Biology Laboratory (1989-93)


Ethylene signal transduction; plant senescence; genetic engineering of agricultural crops;natural products.


The Production and Function of UV-light Activated Cinnamic Acid Isomer in Higher Plants



Ge, L., Liu, J.Z., Wong, W.S., Hsiao, W.L.W., Chong, K., Xu, Z.K., Yang, S.F., Kung,S.D. and Li, N. (2000) "Identification of a novel multiple environmental factor-responsive1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase gene, NT-ACS2, from tobacco", Plant Cell &Environment, 23, 1169-1182.

Lu, B.W., Wang, J. and Li, N. (2000) "Ethylene as a gaseous reporter molecule formonitoring gene expression in cultured cells", Biotechnique, 28, 646-648.

Young, E.T., Sloan, J., Miller, B., Li, N., van Riper, K. and Dombek, K.M. (2000)"Evolution of a glucose-regulated ADH gene in the genus Sccharomyces", Gene, 245,299-309.

Zhou, H.Q., Wang, H.W., Zhu, K., Sui, S.F., Xu, P.L., Yang, S.F. and Li, N. (1999) "Themultiple roles of conserved arginine286 of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid synthase:coenzyme-, substrate-binding and beyond", Plant Physiology, 121, 913-919.

Yang, X.X., Choi, H.W., Yang, S.F. and Li, N. (1999) "An UV-light activated cinnamicacid isomer regulates plant growth and gravitropism via an ethylene receptor independentpathway", Australian Journal of Plant Physiology, 26, 325-335.

Wong, W.S., Ning, W., Xu, P.L., Kung, S.D., Yang, S.F. and Li, N. (1999) "Identificationof two chilling-regulated 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid synthase genes from citrus(Citrus sinensis cv Osbeck) fruit", Plant Molecular Biology, 41, 587-600.

PEI-YUAN QIAN

Associate Professor and Associate Director, Center for Coastal &Atmospheric Research


PhD, University of Alberta (1991)

Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia (1992)


Larval ecology; anti-fouling; ecotoxicology; marine aquaculture; benthic ecology; marinenatural products.


Environmental monitoring and audit for contaminated mud at east of Sha Chau

ERM ERM97/98.SC01 HK$1,555,200 Jan 1998


RCA CA97/98.SC01 HK$2,300,000 Jul 1998

Development of sediment toxicity test protocols using local species

EPD WS98-215/1 HK$200,000 Nov 1998

Identification and qualification of macrobenthic samples

AFD AFD98/99.SC01 HK$800,000 Dec 1998

Provision of service for study of physiological response of the polychaete, capitella capitata

EPD WS99-217 HK$800,000 Sep 1999

Larval Settlement and Metamorphosis of Biofouling Invertebrates: Roles of Biofilm andChemical Cues

CERG HKUST6133/99M HK$709,500 Oct 1999

Ecological monitoring for uncontaminated mud disposal

ERM ERM99/00.SC01 HK$1,620,000 Jan 2000

Coastal, Atmospheric and Marine Environment (CAME)

HIA HIA00/01.SC01 HK$1,000,000 Dec 2000


Harder, T. and Qian, P.Y. (2000) "Waterborne compounds from the green seaweed Ulvareticulata as inhibitive cues for larval attachment and metamorphosis in the polychaeteHydroides elegans", Biofouling, 16: 205-214.

Lau, K.K. and Qian, P.Y. (2000) "Inhibitory effect of phenolic compounds and marinebacteria on larval settlement of the barnacle balanus amphitrite amphitrite Darwin",Biofouling, 16: 47-58.

Qian P.Y., Rittschof, D. and Sreedhar, B. (2000) "Macrofouling in unidirectional flow:miniature pipes as experimental models for studying the interaction of flow and surfacecharacteristics on the attachment of barnacle, bryozoan and polychaete larvae", Mar. Ecol.Prog. Ser., 207: 109-121.

Beckmann, M., Harder, T. and Qian, P.Y. (1999) "Induction of larval attachment and

metamorphosis in the serpulid polychaete Hydroides elegans (Haswell) by dissolved freeamino acids. Part II: Mode of action in laboratory bioassays", Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 190:167-178.

Qian, P.Y., Rittschof, D., Sreedhar, B. and Chia, F.S. (1999) "Macrofouling inunidirectional flow: miniature pipes as experimental models for studying the effects ofhydrodynamics on invertebrate larval settlement", Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 191: 141-151.

Harder, T. and Qian, P.Y. (1999) "Amino acids as conspecific chemical signals for larvalattachment and metamorphosis in the serpulid polychaete Hydroides elegans (Haswell). Mar.Ecol. Prog. Ser., 179: 259-271.

KARL W K TSIM

Associate Professor



Research Fellow, Stanford University (1988-92)


Molecular neurobiology of synaptogenesis; molecular analysis of traditional Chinesemedicine (TCM).


Molecular diversity of neuregulin: Functional roles and expression profiles during theformation of neuromuscular junctions


Identification of novel neurotoxins from the screening of snake venom cDNA libraries

DAG DAG98/99.SC12 HK$60,000 Nov 1998

Development of innovative genechip technology

ITC AF/150/99 HK$8,600,000 Oct 1999


ITC AF/166/99 HK$9,665,000 Oct 1999


RCA CA99/00.SC01 HK$5,500,000 Apr 2000


ITC AND INDUSTRY UIM/9 HK$2,246,000 Jun 2000

Probing the role of P2Y1 purinoceptor in the formation of the neuromuscular junctions


Large scale production of cordyceps sinensis in laboratory

DAG DAG00/01.SC12 HK$60,000 Dec 2000


Cai, Z.H., Li, P., Dong, T.T.X. and Tsim, K.W.K. (1999) "The molecular diversity of5S-rRNA spacer domain in Fritillaria species revealed by PCR analysis", Planta Medica, 65,360-364.

Choi, R.C.Y., Siow, N., Zhu, S.Q. and Tsim, K.W.K. (2000) "The CAMP-dependentprotein kinase mediates the expression of AChE in chick myotubes", NeuroReport, 11,801-806.

Choi, R.C.Y., Yung, L.Y., Dong, T.T.X., Wan, D.C.C., Wong, Y.H. and Tsim, K.W.K.(1998) "The Calcitonin Gene-related Peptide-induced Acetylcholinesterase Synthesis inCultured Chick Myotubes is Mediated by Cyclic AMP", J. Neurochem., 71, 152-160.

Fu, A.K.Y., Smith, F.D., Zhou, H., Chu, A.H., Tsim, K.W.K., Peng, H.B. and Ip, N.Y.(1999) "Xenopus muscle specific kinase: molecular cloning and prominent expression inneural tissues during early embryonic development", Eur. J. Neruosci., 11, 373-382.

Ma, X.Q., Duan, J.A., Zhu, D.Y., Dong, T.T.X. and Tsim, K.W.K. (2000) "Speciesidentification of Radix Astragali (Huangqi) by DNA sequence of its 5S-rRNA spacerdomain", Phytochemistry, 54, 363-368.

Yang, J.F., Zhou, H., Choi, R.C.Y., Ip, N.Y., Peng, H.B. and Tsim, K.W.K. (1999) "Acysteine-rich form of Xenopus neuregulin induces the expression of acetylcholine receptor incultured myotubes", Mol. Cell. Neurosci., 13, 415-429.

YONG XIE

Associate Professor


PhD, Cornell University (1988)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University (1989-90)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Rockefeller University (1990-93)


Tumor immunology; protein engineering (including recombinant antibodies, vaccines and

enzyme engineering); apoptosis study.


Function Studies of Newly Discovered Human Selenium-containing Protein



Cheng, S.C.S., Luo, D. and Xie, Y. (in press) "Taxol induced Bcl-2 protein phosphorylationin human hepatocellular carcinoma QGY-7703 cell line", Cell. Biol. Int..

Wong, H.T., Sheng, Z.T., Yan, W.Y., Zhang, Z.X., Zhu, L.Q., Chan, E.W.C., Cheng,S.C.S. and Xie, Y. (2000) "Plasmids encoding foot-and-mouth disease virus VP1 epitopeselicit immune response in mice and swine and protect swine against viral infection",Virology, 278: 27-35.

Chan, E.W.C., Wong, H.T., Cheng, S.C.C., Sheng, Z.T., Yan, W.Y., Zheng, Z.X., Zhu,L.Q. and Xie, Y. (2000) "An immunoglobulin G based chimeric protein inducedfoot-and-mouth disease specific immune response in swine", Vaccine, 19(4-5): 538-546.

Luo, D., Cheng, S.C.S., Xie, H. and Xie, Y. (2000) "Effects of Bcl-2 and Bcl-XL proteinlevels on chemoresistance of hepatoblastoma HepG2 cell line", Biochem. Cell Biol., 78,119-126.

Luo, D., Cheng, S.C.S. and Xie, Y. (1999) "Expression of Bcl-2 family proteins duringchemotherapeutic agents induced apoptosis in hepatoblastoma HepG2 cell lines", BritishJournal of Biomedical Science, 56, 114-122.

Luo, D., Cheng, S.C.S., Xie, H. and Xie, Y. (1999) "Chemosensitivity of humanhepatocellular carcinoma cell line QGY-7703 is related to Bcl-2 protein levels", Tumor Biol.,20, 331-340.

DAVID BANFIELD

Assistant Professor



Postdoctoral Fellow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (1992-95)


Intracellular protein trafficking and secretory organelle maintenance; the role of SNAREs intransport vesicle biogenesis, targeting and fusion.


Molecular genetic analysis of golgi membrane dynamics in yeast

DAG DAG99/00.SC08 HK$62,000 Nov 1999

Molecular Genetic and Biochemical Studies of SED5, SFT1, YKT6 and SFT2 FourInteracting Genes whose Products are Involved in Transport through the Yeast Golgi



Tsui, M.M.K. and Banfield, D.K. (2000) "Yeast Golgi SNARE Interactions arePromiscuous", Journal of Cell Science, 113, 145-152.

Tsui, M.M.K., Tai, W.C.S. and Banfield, D.K. (in press) "The Selective Formation ofSed5p-containing SNARE Complexes is Mediated by Combinatorial Binding Interactions",Molecular Biology of the Cell.

Banfield, D.K. (in press) "SNARE complexes - is there sufficient complexity for vesicletargeting specificity?", Trends in Biochemical Sciences.

Tochio, H., Tsui, M.M.K., Banfield, D.K. and Zhang, M. (in press) The Structure YeastYkt6p Reveals an Auto-inhibitory Mechanism for Non-syntaxin SNARE proteins.

Tai, W.C.S. and Banfield, D.K. (in press) Evidence in Higher Eukaryotes for FunctionalRedundancy within the Bet1/ Sft1 SNARE Family.

Tsui, M.M.K. and Banfield, D.K. "Mapping the Determinants of Selective GolgiSNARE-complex Assembly", working paper.

KING-LAU CHOW

Assistant Professor


PhD, Baylor College of Medicine (1990)

Research Associate, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1990-94)


Pattern formation and differentiation of sensory organs in animals; tissue remodeling andmorphogenesis.


Cloning and characteristization of ram genes which affect sensory ray morophogensis in C.elegans



Chow, K.L. and Chan, K.W. (1999) "Stress induced phenocopy of C. elegans definesfunctional steps of sensory organ differentiation", Development, Growth & Differentiation,41, 629-638.

Ko, F.C.F. and Chow, K.L. (2000) "Synthesis of glycoprotein is important for molting andmale tail sensory ray morphogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans", Development, Growth &Differentiation, 42, 69-76.

Wong, L.Y., Chan, K.L. and Chow, K.L. (1999) "Developmental expression of Mab21l2, asecond mab-21 mouse homolog, during embryogenesis", Mechanism of Development, 87,185-188.

Wong, L.Y., Wong, H.T. and Chow, K.L. (1999) "Genomic cloning and chromosomallocalization of the mouse Mab21l2 locus", Cytogenetics & Cell Genetics, 86, 21-24.

Yu, R.Y.L., Nguyen, C.Q., Hall, D.H. and Chow, K.L. (in press) "Expression of ram-5 genein structural cell is required for sensory ray morphogenesis in C. elegans male tail", EMBOJournal.

Morita, K., Chow, K.L. and Ueno, N. (1999) "Body length and male tail ray patternformation of C. elegans are regulated by a member of TGF-beta family", Development, 126,1237-1247.

WEN-LUAN WENDY HSIAO

Lecturer


PhD, Columbia University (1985)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Columbia University (1985-88)

Research Biochemist, University of California, Irvine (1988-93)


Molecular tumor biology; oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes; gene regulation and signaltransduction; natural products with antitumor potential.


Studying apoptosis, cell cycle progression and cell transformation in rat 6 fibroblastsover-expressing myc gene

DAG DAG97/98.SC05 HK$73,780 Mar 1998

Assessment and study of the anti-cancer effect of mushroom extract in an Epstein Barr Virus

(EBV) positive lymphoma model

G-HK G-HK97/98.SC01 HK$25,000 Apr 1998

Development of manufacturing protocols for improved production of standardized qualitymushroom nutriceuticals from Ganoderma lucidum

ITC AF/237/97 HK$160,500 Jul 1998

Studying mushroom-derived polysaccharides on cell transformation induced by c-H-rasoncogene in a cell model system

DAG DAG98/99.SC07 HK$70,000 Apr 1999

A novel role of a newly isolated rat homologue of nonmuscle myosin heavy chain-B - theeffect of tumor suppression and promoter function analysis

DAG DAG00/01.SC08 HK$40,000 Dec 2000


Hsiao, W.L.W. (1999) "A molecular approach to elucidate the anti-cancer effects ofmedicinal mushrooms and Gynostemma pentaphyllum", Advanced research in PSP, 1999,The Hong Kong Association for Health Care Ltd, Hong Kong, 350.

Yam, J.W.P., Zheng, J.Y. and Hsiao, W.L.W. (1999) "Identification and characterizationof genes whose expressions are altered in Rat 6 fibroblasts transformed by mutantp53val135", BBRC, 266, 472-480.

Ge, L., Wong, W.S., Liu, J.Z., Hsiao, W.L.W., Chong, K., Xu, Z.K., Yang, S.F. andKung, S.D. (2000) "Identification of a novel multiple environmental cue-responsive1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase gene, NT-ACS2, from tobacco", Plant, Cell &Environment, 23, 1169-1182.

Hsiao, W.L.W., Mo, Z.Y, Fang, M., Shi, X.M. and Wong, F. (2000) "Cytotoxicity ofPM2.5 and PM2.5-10 ambient air pollutants assessed by the MTT and the Comet assays",Mutation Research, 471, 45-55.

Yam, J.W.P. and Hsiao, W.L.W. (1999) "Molecular cloning and functional analysis of thepromoter region of rat nonmuscle myosin heavy chain-B gene", BBRC, 276, 1203-1209.

Wong, S.C.C., Chan, J.K.C., Lee, K.C. and Hsiao, W.L.W. (in press) "Differentialexpression of p16/p21/p27 and cyclin D1/D3, and their relationships to cell proliferation,apoptosis, and tumour progression in invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast", J. Pathol..

Yam, J.W.P., Chan, K.W. and Hsiao, W.W.L. (2001) "Suppression of the tumorigenicityof mutant p53-transformed rat embryo fibroblasts through expression of a newly cloned ratnonmuscle myosin heavy chain-B", Oncogene, 20, 58-68.

KEVIN LEE

Assistant Professor


PhD, McGill University (1985)

Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University (1985-88)

Research Scientist, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, UK (1988-95)


Mammalian transcription factors; DNA-binding proteins; nucleic acid protein interactions;Ewings sarcoma oncogene.


Molecular analysis of transcriptional activation by the EWS/ATF1 oncogene


Development of in vivo Assays for Transcriptional Activation by the Ews/ATF1 Oncogene



Li, K.K.C. and Lee, K.A.W. (1998) "MMSP tumor cells expressing the EWS/ATF1oncogene do not support cAMP-inducible transcription", Oncogene, 16: 1625-1331.

Pan, S., Koh, Y.M., Dumm, T., Li, K.K.C. and Lee, K.A.W. (1998) "The EWS/ATF1fusion protein contains a dispersed activation domain that functions directly", Oncogene, 16:1625-1631.

Lung, R.W.M. and Lee, K.A.W. (2000) "The Cellular Oncogene EWS/ATF1 is unable toactivate adenovirus-borne promoters: Implications for Cytotoxic Prodrug Therapy ofMalignant Melanoma of Soft Parts", Cancer Gene Therapy, 7 (3): 396-406.

Li, K.K.C. and Lee, K.A.W. (2000) "Transcriptional Activation by the Ewing's Sarcoma(EWS) Oncogene can be Cis-Repressed by the EWS RNA-binding domain", Journal ofBiological Chemistry, 275 (30): 23053-23058.

Zhou, H. and Lee, K.A.W. (in press) "An hsRPB3/7-dependent yeast assay fortrans-activation by the EWS oncogene", Oncogene.

CHRISTOPHER ROCK

Assistant Professor


PhD, Michigan State University (1991)

Visiting Research Associate, MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory (1991-92)

Visiting Faculty Instructor, Dept. of Biology, University of North Carolina (1993)


Molecular genetics of plant growth and development; plant hormone signal transduction;role of abscisic acid in plant stress adaptation.


Genetic analysis of abscisic acid signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana

F-HK F-HK98/99.SC02 HK$32,000 Mar 1999

Molecular cloning of a short blue root mutant and reverse genetic analysis of P450monoxygenases in Arabidopsis thaliana

G-HK G-HK98/99.SC02 HK$29,960 Apr 1999

Genetic Analysis Of Abscisic Acid Signaling In Arabidopsis Thaliana

CERG HKUST6134/99M HK$1,053,920 Jul 1999

Inter-university postgraduate student symposium on plant biology

PSCG PSCG98/99.SC01 HK$44,574 Sep 1999

Functional expression of abscisic acid catabolism genes in yeast

DAG DAG99/00.SC01 HK$62,000 Nov 1999

A two component system for seed-and-tissue-specific stress-inducible gene expression inrice

AOE AOE99/00.SC08 HK$500,000 Mar 2000

Surface plasmon resonance biosensor analysis of abscisic acid interaction with plasmamembranes

DAG DAG00/01.SC10 HK$40,000 Dec 2000

Plant and Fungal Biotechnology

AOE AOE99/00.SC08 HK$38,823,000 Jan 2000


Gampala, S.S., Hagenbeek, D., and Rock, C.D (in press) "Functional interactions oflanthanum and phospholipase D with the abscisic acid signaling effectors VIVIPAROUS1and ABA-INSENSITIVE1-1 in rice protoplasts", Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Rock, C.D. (2000) "Pathways to abscisic acid-regulated gene expression", New Phytologist,148: 357-396.

Hagenbeek, D., Quatrano, R.S. and Rock, C.D. (2000) "Trivalent ions activateABA-inducible promoters through an ABI1-dependent pathway in rice (Oryza sativa L.)protoplasts", Plant Physiology, 123: 1553-1560.

Chak, R.K.F., Thomas, T.L., Quatrano, R.S. and Rock, C.D. (2000) "The genes ABI1 andABI2 are involved in abscisic acid- and drought-inducible expression of the Daucus carotaL. Dc3 promoter in guard cells of transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana L. Heynh", Planta, 210(5): 875-883.

Rock, C.D. and Ng, P.F. (1999) "Dominant Wilty mutants of Zea mays (Poaceae) are notimpaired in abscisic acid perception or metabolism", American Journal of Botany, 86,1976-1800.

Desikan, R., Hagenbeek, D., Neill, S.J. and Rock, C.D. (1999) "Flow cytometry and surfaceplasmon resonance analyses demonstrate that the monoclonal antibody JIM19 interacts witha rice cell surface component involved in abscisic acid signalling in protoplasts", FEBSLetters, 456, 257-262.

NIKOLAUS J SUCHER

Assistant Professor


Dr med, Free University of Berlin (1988)

Assistant in Psychiatry, Klinikum Rudolf Virchow, Free University of Berlin (1987-88)

Research Fellow in Neurology, Children's Hospital, Boston (1988-91)

Research Associate in Neurology, Children's Hospital, Boston (1991-96)

Asst Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School (1994-96)


Structure, function and regulation of expression of neurotransmitter receptors.


Post-Transcriptional control of N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor (NMDAR) expression

DAG DAG97/98.SC10 HK$99,910 Feb 1998

Glutamate receptors in the retina: Their functional significance for the establishment ofretinal circuitry

G-HK G-HK97/98.SC05 HK$25,000 Apr 1998

Post-transcriptional control of n-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) expression


Developmental, Anatomical, And Functional Characterization Of The Novel NMDAReceptor Subunit NMDAR3A



ITC AF/150/99 HK$8,600,000 Oct 1999


ITC AF/166/99 HK$9,665,000 Oct 1999

Association of the serine/threonine protein phosphatase 2A with the N-methyl-D-aspartatereceptor subunit NR3A

DAG DAG00/01.SC11 HK$40,000 Dec 2000


Gong, X. and Sucher, N.J. (1999) "Stroke Therapy in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):prospects for drug discovery and development", Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, 20,191-196.

Lipton, S.A., Choi, Y.B., Sucher, N. and Chen, V. (2000) "Neuronal protection by nitricoxide-related species", Nitric Oxide in the Eye, Springer Verlag, Tokyo.

Lipton, S.A., Choi, Y.B., Sucher, N.J. and Chen, H.S. (1998) "Neuroprotective versusneurodestructive effects of NO-related species", Biofactors, 8, 33-40.

Lipton, S.A., Rayudu, P.V., Choi, Y.B., Sucher, N.J. and Chen, H.S. (1998) "Redoxmodulation of the NMDA receptor by NO-related species", Progress in Brain Research,118, 73-82.

WEN-XIONG WANG

Assistant Professor


PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook (1996)

Postdoctoral Fellow, State University of New York at Stony Brook (1996-97)

Visiting Researcher, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK (1989-91)


Metal bioavailability; aquatic bio-monitoring; physiological ecology of marine invertebrates;trace element biogeochemistry.


The physiology of trace metal uptake in marine invertebrates: pathway and regulation

DAG DAG97/98.SC11 HK$98,000 May 1998

Metal bioavailability from contaminated sediment in marine deposit feeders

DAG DAG98/99.SC13 HK$70,000 Jan 1999

Assessment of metal bioavailability in barnacles

JRS JRS99/42 HK$61,585 Mar 1999

Metal Bioaccumulation In Marine Bivalves From Hong Kong Coastal Waters


Studies on Important Toxicants in Coastal Waters of Hong Kong: A Risk AssessmentApproach

RCA CA99/00.SC03 HK$848,898 Jan 2000

Physiological energetics of marine bivalves exposed to red tide toxins

DAG DAG99/00.SC12 HK$62,000 Jan 2000

Geochemical And Physiological Controls Of Metal Bioavailability From ContaminatedSediments In Marine Benthic Invertebrates



Wang, W.-X. and Fisher, N.S. (1999) "Assimilation efficiencies of chemical contaminantsin aquatic invertebrates: a synthesis", Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 18:2034-2045.

Wang, W.-X., Qiu, J.W. and Qian, P.Y. (1999) "Significance of trophic transfer inpredicting the high concentration of zinc in barnacles", Environmental Science andTechnology, 33:2905-2909.

Wang, W.-X. and Guo, L. (2000) "Bioavailability of colloidal-bound Cd, Cr, and Zn tomarine plankton", Marine Ecology Progress Series, 202: 41-49.

Wang, W.-X., Ke, C., Yu, K.Y. and Lam, P.K.S. (2000) "Modeling the bioaccumulation of

radiocesium in a marine food chain", Marine Ecology Progress Series, 208: 41-50.

Chong, I. and Wang, W.-X. (2000) "Assimilation of Cd, Cr, and Zn by the green musselPerna viridis and the clam Ruditapes philippinarum", Environmental Toxicology andChemistry, 19, 1660-1667.

Wang, W.-X. and Dei, R.C.H. (2001) "Influences of phosphate and silicate on Cr(VI) andSe(IV) accumulation in marine phytoplankton", Aquatic Toxicology, 52: 19-47.

JOSEPH T Y WONG

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Stirling (1988)

Croucher Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, NERC Institute of Virology, Oxford (1988-89)

Postdoctoral Fellow, ICRF Cell Cycle Control Group, Biochemistry Department, OxfordUniversity (1989-1990)

Research Fellow and Senior Scientific Officer, Marine Biological Association of the UnitedKingdom (1990-94)


Molecular mechanisms of cell cycle control in dinoflagellates; general molecular biology ofdinoflagellate; receptor biology in marine organisms.


Molecular probes for red-tide forming dinoflagellates found in Hong Kong

ECWW ECWW97/98.SC06 HK$593,700 Jan 1999


ITC AF/166/99 HK$9,665,000 Oct 1999

Isolation of S-phase specific genes in dinoflagellates

DAG DAG99/00.SC13 HK$45,000 Nov 1999


Leveson, A. and Wong, J.T.Y. (1999) "PCNA-like proteins in dinoflagellates", Journal ofPhycology, 35, 798-805.

New, D., Wong, Y.H. and Wong, J.T.Y. (2000) "Cloning of a Novel G Protein-CoupledReceptor from the Sea Anemone Nervous System", Biochemical and Biophysical Research

Communications, 271, 761-769.

Yeung, K.K., New, D., Leveson, A., Yam, C., Poon, R. and Wong, J.T.Y. (2000) "Thespindle checkpoint in the dinoflagellate Crypthecodinium cohnii", Experimental CellResearch, 254, 761-769.

Yeung, P.,Wong, F. and Wong, J.T.Y. (1996) "Sequence data of two small subunit riosomalRNA for a South China strain of Alexandrium contenella", Applied and EnvironmentalMicrobiology, 62: 4199-4201.

Tsim, S.T., Wong, J.T.Y. and Wong, Y.H. (1997) "Calcium ion dependency and the role ofinositol phosphates in melatonin-induced encystement of dinoflagellates", Journal of CellScience, 110: 1387-1393.

Tsim, S.T., Wong, J.T.Y. and Wong, Y.H. (1998) "Regulation of calcium flux andphospholipase C activity by indoleamines in dinoflagellates", Journal of Pineal Research,24: 152-161.

ALBERT C H YU

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Saskatchewan (1984)

Postdoctoral Fellow and Neurochemist, University of California, San Francisco (1984-89)

Research Associate, Stanford University School of Medicine (1989-91)

Senior Research Associate, Stanford University School of Medicine (1991-94)


Neural cell injury and regeneration; stroke and energy metabolism; apoptosis; neuraltransplantation; novel gene expression, biotechnology.


Study of cell death protein expression in a rat venous thrombosis model

G-HK G-HK98/99.SC06 HK$29,280 Apr 1999

Collaboration with College of Life Sciences, Beida

CMI CMI99/00.SC03 HK$80,000 Apr 2000

Promotion of environmental protection awareness in quality education

QEF QEF99/00.SC07 HK$1,200,000 Jun 2000

Neural injury and regeneration lab at Shanghai Research Center of Life Sciences

CP CP98/99.SC01-C HK$53,000 Aug 2000

Development of a novel, reliable and cost-effective molecular detection kit for avianinfluenza virus

ITC UIM/44 HK$1,737,500 Dec 2000


Ho. M.C.Y., Lo, A.C.Y., Kurihara, H., Yu, A.C.H. and Chung, S.K. (in press) "Endothelin-1protects astrocytes from hypoxic/ ischemic injury", FASEB J.

Wu, B.Y. and Yu, A.C.H (2000) "Quercetin inhibis c-fos, heat shock protein, and glialfibrillary acidic protein expression in astrocytes under injury", Journal of NeuroscienceResearch, 62:730-736.

Wu, B.Y., Liu, R.Y., So, K.L and Yu, A.C.H. (2000) "Multi-lipofection efficientlytransfected genes into astrocytes in primary culture", Journal of Neuroscience Method, 102:133-141.

Huang, R., Chen, Y., Yu, A.C.H. and Hertz, L. (2000) "Dexmedetomidine-inducedstimulation of glutamine oxidation in astrocytes - a possible mechanism for itsneuroprotective activity", Journal Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 20(6): 895-898.

Yang, X.P., She, C.W., Guo, J.Z., Yu, A.C.H., Lu, Y.I., Shi, X.L., Feng, G.Y. and He, L.(2000) "A locus for brachydactyly type a-1 maps to Chromosome 2q26-36", AmericanJournal of Human Genetics, 66(3): 892-903.

Yu, A.C.H. and Lau, L.T. (2000) "A brief introduction to the methods for novel genecloning", Progress in Physiological Sciences, 31:35-42.

Department of Chemistry

While chemistry is traditionally divided into four mainstream areas (i.e., analytical,inorganic, organic and physical chemistry), such a division is largely pedagogical in nature,and does not reflect the highly dynamic, multidisciplinary nature of chemistry. Chemistry istruly ‘the central science’ and its activities, while consisting of a purely chemical corecontaining fundamental science which is studied in its own right, also intimately involveareas such as molecular biology, molecular physics, materials science, molecular engineeringas directed towards the development of nanotechnological devices, biotechnology,environmental science, drug design and development, nuclear medicine and others. We thushave developed teaching and research programs in the Department to reflect these modernviewpoints, and there is a strong interdisciplinary flavor in both programs.

From a research viewpoint, it is convenient to classify the different activities into three maingroups. Thus, all those research staff whose projects involve synthetic organic and inorganicchemistry are integrated into the Molecular Design and Synthesis group. Analytical andsome experimental physical chemists form the Molecular Characterization andInstrumentation group. The third group is named Molecular Dynamics and Structure ofComplex Systems; this includes spectroscopists, physical, theoretical and computationalchemists.

FacilitiesThe Department’s research laboratories are located at the top level of the academic complex,overlooking Port Shelter.

Our equipment includes excimer laser, nanosecond Nd:YAG laser, mode-locked Nd:YLFlaser, argon-ion laser, krypton-ion laser, pico-second/femto-second mode-locked Ti:Sapphirelasers, Spex macro/micro spectrometers, Bruker FT-IR/FT-Ramen system, GC/MS, HPLC,GPC, capillary electrophoresis, atomic absorption spectrometer, a triple quadrupole massspectrometer (Finnigan TSQ7000), a Bruker ARX 300 and a Varian Mercury 300 NMRspectrometer and a Jeol JES-TE 200 ESR spectrometer. We also have access to a 500 MHzNMR Spectrometer maintained at the Biochemistry Department.

The centralized facilities of the Materials Characterization and Preparation Facility containstate-of-the-art instrumentation such as high resolution NMR (400 MHz), single-crystalX-ray diffractometer, SEM, scanning tunneling/atomic force microscope, secondary ionmass spectrometer, surface and micro analytical system (AES/XPS/UPS), and othersurface/film characterization instruments. The Microelectronic Fabrication Center providesstate-of-the-art facilities for collaborative research and technology transfer related tochemical micro-lithography and development of biomedical instrumentation.

Supporting facilities include machine, electronic and glass-blowing shops and a centralstockroom for chemicals, including biochemical and organic solvents.

Research Profile

CHI KWONG CHANG


RICHARD HAYNES

Professor

REINHARD RENNEBERG

Professor

YU NAI-TENG

Professor and Co-director, Center for Medical Diagnostic Technology

WEI-MIN DAI

Associate Professor

GUOCHENG JIA

Associate Professor

WA-HUNG LEUNG

Associate Professor and Director, Glassblowing Facility

XIAO-YUAN LI

Associate Professor

ZHENYANG LIN

Associate Professor

BEN ZHONG TANG

Associate Professor

YUN-DONG WU

Associate Professor

YI JING YAN

Associate Professor

SHIHE YANG

Associate Professor

ZHIHONG GUO

Assistant Professor

IAN D WILLIAMS

Assistant Professor

BING XU

Assistant Professor

JIANZHEN YU

Assistant Professor

Research Profile

CHI KWONG CHANG



PhD, University of California, San Diego (1973)

Professor of Chemistry, Michigan State University (1982-98)<./p>

Associate Department Chairman, Michigan State University (1990-94)

Visiting Professor, National Taiwan University (1991)


Synthesis of porphyrins and macrocyclic ligands; biological oxygen binding and activation;models of metalloenzymes; nitrite reduction; electrocatalysis; photodynamic cancer therapy .


Emerging High Impact Area of Asian Cancer Studies

HIA HIA98/99.SC03 HK$1,500,000 Jan 1999

New Approaches to Oxidation Catalysis and Biomimetic Materials

CERG HKUST6182/99P HK$455,000 Sep 1999

Functional low-dimensional materials: Design, synthesis, assembly and applications

N-RGC NSFC/HKUST43 HK$700,000 Mar 2000

Cooperative nasopharyngeal carcinoma research center

RCA CA99/00.SC02 HK$3,500,000 Apr 2000


Chang, C.K., Yeh, C.-Y. and Lai, T.-S. (in press) "Synthesis of Sterically EncumberedPorphyrins as Catalysis for Shape-Selective Oxidations", Macromolecular Symposia.

Chang, C.J., Deng, Y., Heyduk, A.F., Chang, C.K. and Nocera, D.G. (2000)"Xanthene-Bridged Cofacial Bisporphyrins", Inorganic Chemistry, 39 (5): 959-966.

Deng, Y., Chang, C.K. and Nocera, D.G. (2000) "Facile Synthesis of beta-DerivatizedPorphyrins - Structural Characterization of a beta-beta-Bis-Porphyrin", Angewandte Chemie,International Edition, 39 (6): 1066-1068.

Varotsis, C., Wu, W., Chang, C.K. and Babcock, J.T. (1999) "Resonance Raman Scattering

from Heme o Complexes and Cytochrome bo3 Oxidase", Laser Chemistry, 19, 227-232.

Chang, C.K., Yeh, C.-Y. and Lai, T.S. (2000) "New Synthesis of Sterically EncumberedPorphyrins as Catalysis for Shape-Selective Oxidations", First International Conference onPorphyrins and Phthalocyanines, Prof. K. Kadish and R. Guilard, Dijon, France, 25-30 June2000.

Chang, C.J., Deng, Y., Shi, C., Chang, C.K., Anson, F.C. and Nocera, D.G. (2000)"Electrocatalytic Four-electron Reduction of Oxygen to Water by a Highly Flexible CofacialCobalt Bisporphyrin", J.C.S. Chemical Communications, 1355-1357.

RICHARD HAYNES

Professor


PhD, University of Western Australia (1970)

Gillette International Fellow, University of Karlsruhe (1970-72)

Australian Academy of Science-Chinese Academy of Science Exchange Program Fellowship(1988, 1990)

Reader in Organic Chemistry, University of Sydney (1989-92)


Total synthesis of natural products; pharmaceutical agents and medicinal chemistry;naturally occurring drugs from Chinese plants; asymmetric catalysis; organophosphoruschemistry.


Molecular approaches to cancer therapy

AOE AOE97/98.SC07 HK$285,347 Apr 1998

Analytical development of artesunate

WHO WHO98/99.SC01 US$50,826 Jan 1999

Mode of Action and Synthesis of Second Generation Qinghaosu Derivatives


Enantiomerically-pure P-chiral Phosphine Oxides, Phosphine Sulfides and Phosphines forAsymmetric Catalysis



Boukouvalas, J. and Hayes, R.K. (2001) "Peroxyl Radicals in Organic Synthesis", inRadicals in Organic Synthesis, vol. 2 (ed. Renaud, J.), Wiley, Chichester, 455-484.

Au-Yeung, T.L., Chan, K.Y., Chan, W.K., Haynes, R.K., Williams, I.D. and Yeung, L.L.(2001) "Reactions of (Rp)- and (Sp)- tert-Butylphenylphosphinobromidates and tert-Butylphenylthionophosphinochloridates with Heteroatom Nucleophiles; PreparationofP-Chiral BINOL Phosphinates and Related Compounds", Tetrahedron Letters, 42,453-456.

Haynes, R.K., Au-yeung, T.-L., Chan, W.-K., Lam, W.-L., Li, Z.-Y., Yeung, L.-L.,Chan, A.S.C. and Li, P. (2001) "Reaction of Metallated tert-Butylphenyl Phosphine Oxidewith Electrophiles as a Route to Functionalized Tertiary Phosphine Oxides: AlkylationReactions", European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 3205-3216.

Haynes, R.K., Lam, K.-P., Wu, K.-Y., Williams, I.D. and Yeung, L.-L. (1999)"Trimethylsilyl Triflate Catalysed Diels-Alder Reaction of TMS Ethers of ConjugatedDienols with Cyclic Enones: Evidence for an Endo Transition State and First Application tothe Synthesis of Enantiopu", Tetrahedron, 55, 89-118.

Haynes, R.K., Lam, K.-P., Wu, K.-Y. and Yeung, L.-L. (1999) "An Improved Preparationof the Desmethyl Qinghao Acid Precursor of (±)-6,9-Desmethylqinghaosu", Tetrahedron,55, 10087-10100.

Haynes, R.K., Pai, H.-O. and Voerste, A. (1999) "Ring Opening of Artemisinin(Qinghaosu) and Dihydroartemisinin and Interception of the Open Hydroperoxides withFormation of N-Oxides - A Chemical Model for Antimalarial Mode of Action", TetrahedronLetters, 40, 4715-4718.

REINHARD RENNEBERG

Professor


PhD, Institute of Molecular Biology, Berlin (1979)

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas, Dallas (1979)

Head, Department of Immunosensors, Institute of Chemical and Biosensors, Munster,Germany (1991-95)


Biosensors and bioelectronics; bioanalytical chemistry; environmental chemistry; medicaldiagnostics; protein engineering.


Application of a continuous and portable biosensor for lactate and glucose measurement onHK athletes

SDB SDB98/99.SC01 HK$246,460 Jun 1998

Rapid test for early detection of heart infarction

ITC AF/7/98 HK$4,292,000 Jul 1998

Fast detection of high-molecular substances in sea- and wastewater in subtropical andtropical regions based on an enzymatic hydrolysis combined with the new Arxula BODsensor system

G-HK G-HK98/99.SC03 HK$29,680 Apr 1999

FABP in weight training programmes

SDB SDB99/00.SC01 HK$252,184 Sep 1999

Fitness measurements with novel biosensors (collaboration with Shatin Sports Institute andPWH)

PD CF99/00.SC07 HK$5,500 Oct 1999

Novel polymer-encapsulated colloids and thin films

G-HK G-HK99/00.SC01 HK$28,240 May 2000

Ultra-sensitive Determination of Cyanide in Coral Reef Fishes



Lenigk, R., Lam, E., Lai, A., Wang, H., Han, Y., Carlier, P. and Renneberg, R. (2000)"Enzyme Biosensor for Studying Therapeutics of Alzheimer's Disease", Biosensors andBioelectronics, 15: 541-542.

Caruso, F., Yang, W.J., Trau, D. and Renneberg, R. (2000) "Microencapsulation ofUncharged Low Molecular Weight Organic Materials by Polyelectrolyte MultilayerSelf-Assembly", Langmuir, 16(23): 8932-89363.

Caruso, F., Trau, D., Moehwald, H. and Renneberg, R. (2000) "Enzyme Encapsulation inLayer-by-Layer Engineered Polymer Multilayer Capsules", Langmuir, 16(4), 1485-1488.

Renneberg, R., Cheng, S., Kaptein, W.A., McNeil, C.J., Rishpon, J., Grundig, B.,Sanderson, J., Chu, A. and Galtz, J.F.C. (1999) "Novel immunosensors for rapid diagnosis ofacute myocardial infarction: A case report", Adv. Biosens., 4, 241-272.

Chan, C., Lehmann, M., Chan, P., Chan, C.W., Greundig, B., Kunze, G. and Renneberg, R.(2000) "Designing an amperometric thick film microbial BOD sensor", Biosensors andBioelectronics, 15, 343-353.

Kaptein, W.A., Korf, J., Cheng, S., Yang, M., Glatz, J.F.C. and Renneberg, R. (1998)"On-line flow displacement immunoassay for fatty acid-binding protein", J. Immunol.

Methods, 217(1-2), 103-111.

YU NAI-TENG

Professor and Co-director, Center for Medical Diagnostic Technology



Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1969-70)

Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology (1980-90)

Adjunct Research Professor, Emory University Medical School (1984-)


Ligand binding to metalloporphyrins and hemoproteins; organometallic chemical bonding;laser-based spectroscopy and applications; cataract/vision research; biomedicalinstrumentation.


The study of water-insoluble molecules in aqueous media by surface enhanced Raman andsurface enhanced hyper-Raman scattering

CERG HKUST6171/97P HK$450,000 Jan 1998

Biomedical Optics Facility

RCA CA97/98.EG01 HK$2,700,000 Mar 1998


Jia, G., Ng, W.S., Chu, H.S., Wong, W.-T., Yu, N.-T. >and Williams, I.D. (1999)"Dioxygen Complexes from the Reaction of Cp*RuH2(PP) +(PP = dppm, dppe) with Air",Organometallics, 18, 3597-3602.

Li, W.-H., Li, X.-Y. and Yu, N.-T. (1999) "Surface-Enhanced Resonance Hyper-RamanScattering and Surface-Enhanced Resonance Raman Scattering of Dyes Adsorbed on SilverElectrode and Silver Colloid: A Comparison Study", Chem. Phys. Lett., 312, 28-36.

Li, W.-H., Li, X.-Y. and Yu, N.-T. (2000) "Surface-enhanced Hyper Raman Scattering(SEHRS) and Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Studies of Electroreduction ofPhenazine on Silver Electrode", Chem. Phys. Lett., 327, 153-161.

Li, W.H., Li, X.-Y. and Yu, N.-T. (1999) "Surface-Enhanced Hyper-Raman Spectroscopy(SEHRS) and Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) Studies of Pyrazine andPyridine Adsorbed on Silver Electrodes", Chem. Phys. Lett., 305, 303-310.

Yu, N.-T., Obergriesser, F., Schmieger, M. and Steck, J. (1999) "Flow Profile Analysis withthe Speckle Tracker and Time-of-Flight Methods", Asian Industrial TechnologyCongress'99, Hong Kong, 26-29 April 1999, 20.

WEI-MIN DAI

Associate Professor


PhD, Kyoto University (1990)

Research Associate, Scripps Research Institute (1990-92)


Synthetic organic and bioorganic chemistry; asymmetric reactions and catalysis; synthesis ofnatural products and biomedically interesting molecules; porphyrin analog synthesis; solidphase organic synthesis.


Synthesis of maduropeptin chromophore analogs and study on the formation of enediynes byan allylic rearrangement

DAG DAG97/98.SC12 HK$73,780 Feb 1998

Study on site-specific cleavage of carcinogenic DNA by designed agents

JRS JRS98/38 HK$48,800 Mar 1998

Asymmetric wittig reaction of chiral arsonium ylides


Development of axially chiral amides for asymmetric catalysis

DAG DAG99/00.SC14 HK$45,000 Nov 1999


ITC ITS/119/00 HK$9,917,000 Oct 2000

Desymmetrization of meso-diene esters via allylic rearrangement

DAG DAG00/01.SC13 HK$60,000 Dec 2000


Dai, W.-M. and Lee, M.Y.H. (1998) "Regiocontrolled Synthesis of cis-Enediynes viaIntramolecular Trapping of Allylic Cations", Tetrahedron Letters, 39, 8149-8152.

Dai, W.-M., Fong, K.-C., Lau, C.W., Zhou, L., Hamaguchi, W. and Nishimoto, S. (1999)"Synthesis and DNA Cleavage Study of a 10-Membered Ring Enediyne Formed via AllylicRearrangement", Journal of Organic Chemistry, 64, 682-683.

Dai, W.-M., Wu, J., Fong, K.C., Lee, M.Y.H. and Lau, C.W. (1999) "RegioselectiveSynthesis of Acyclic cis-Enediynes via an Acid-Catalyzed Rearrangement of1,2-Dialkynylallyl Alcohols. Syntheses, Computational Calculations, and Mechanism",Journal of Organic Chemistry, 64, 5062-5082.

Dai, W.-M., Zhu, H.-J. and Hao, X.-J. (2000) "Chiral Ligands Derived from abrine. Part 6:Importance of a Bully N-Alkyl Group in Indole-Containing Chiral ß-tertiary Amino Alcholsfor Controlling Enantioselectivity in Addition of Diethylzinc toward Aldehydes",Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 11, 2315-2337.

Dai, W.-M., Mak, W.L. and Wu, A. (2000) "Eu(fod)3-Catalyzed Tandem RegiospecificRearrangement of Divinyl alkoxyacetates and Diels-Alder Reaction", Tetrahedron Letters,41, 7101-7105.

Dai, W.-M. and Mak, W.L. (2000) "First Synthesis of Dioxadithiaporphycene with aBenzene Ring Fused onto the Double Bond", Tetrahedron Letters, 41, 10277-10280.

GUOCHENG JIA

Associate Professor


PhD, Ohio State University (1989)

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto (1989-91)


Organometallic chemistry; materials synthesis; homogeneous catalysis; metal hydridechemistry.


Dihydrogen complexes in stoichiometric organometallic reactions and catalysis

CERG POLYU5153/98P HK$458,000 Sep 1998

Synthesis of metal-containing dendrimeric materials

DAG DAG98/99.SC15 HK$70,000 Jan 1999

Synthesis and characterization of bi- and polymetallic complexes connected through linear(CH)x chains


Alkane activation and functionalization with Ru(II) and Os(II) complexes

DAG DAG99/00.SC15 HK$45,000 Dec 1999

Synthesis, Characterization and NLO Properties of Conjugated Octopolar Organic andOrganometallic Compounds



Jia, G. and Lau, C.P. (1999) "Structural, Acidity and Chemical Properties of SomeDihydrogen/Hydride Complexes of Group 8 Metals with Cyclopentadienyls and RelatedLigands", Coord. Chem. Rev., 190, 83-108.

Jia, G., Ng, W.S., Chu, H.S., Wong, W.T., Yu, N.T. and Williams, I.D. (1999) "DioxygenComplexes from the Reactions of Cp*RuH2(PP) + (PP = dppm, dppe) with Air",Organometallics, 18, 3597-3602.

Wen, T.B., Cheung, Y.K., Yao, J.Z. and Jia, G. (in press) "Vinylidene and CarbyneComplexes Derived from the Reactions of OsCl(PPh3)(PCP) (PCP = 2,6-(PPh2CH2)2C6H3)with Acetylenes", Organometallics.

Wen, T.B., Yang, S.Y., Zhou, Z.Y., Lin, Z.Y., Lau, C.P. and Jia, G. (in press) "UnexpectedFormation of Osmium Carbyne and Vinylidene Complexes from the Reaction ofOsCl2(PPh3)3 with HC*CCMe3", Organometallics.

Xia, H.P., Ng, W.S., Ye, J.S., Li, X.Y., Wong, W.T., Lin, Z.Y. and Jia, G. (1999)"Synthesis and Electrochemical Properties of C5H-Bridged Bimetallic Iron, Ruthenium andOsmium Complexes", Organometallics, 18, 4552-4557.

Xia, H.P., Yeung, R.C.Y. and Jia, G. (1998) "Synthesis and Characterization of DimericRuthenium Complexes Bridged with Linear C4H4 and C6H4O2 Hydrocarbon Ligands",Organometallics, 17, 4762-4768.

WA-HUNG LEUNG

Associate Professor and Director, Glassblowing Facility


PhD, University of Hong Kong (1989)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Imperial College of Science & Technology (1989-91)


Inorganic and organometallic synthesis; homogeneous catalysis; materials synthesis;bioinorganic chemistry.


Novel chiral and polymeric oxygen tripod ligands


Development of novel non-linear optical materials derived from molecular metal-seleniumclusters

DAG DAG99/00.SC16 HK$45,000 Jan 2000

Seventh chemistry postgraduate research symposium in Hong Kong

PSCG PSCG99/00.SC02 HK$32,600 Apr 2000

Development of Novel Materials Derived from Transition Metal Aryls

CERG HKUST6189/00P HK$419,817 Dec 2000


Leung, W.-H., Chan, E.Y.Y. and Wong, W.-T. (1999) "Synthesis and Electrochemistry ofRuthenium Complexes with an Oxygen Tripod Ligand", Inorganic Chemistry, 38 (1):136-143.

Leung, W.-H., Chim, J.L.C. and Wong, W.-T. (1999) "Reactions of nitrido-rhenium(V)and -osmium(VI) complexes with acylating agents", Inorg. Chem., 39, 3000-3005.

Leung, W.-H., Chim, J.L.C., Williams, I.D. and Wong, W.-T. (1999) "Reaction ofNitridorhenium(V) and Osmium(VI) Complexes with Acylating Agents", InorganicChemistry, 38 (12): 3000-3005.

Leung, W.-H., Lau, K.-K., Zhang, Q.-F., Wong, W.-T. and Tang, B.-Z. (2000)"Ruthenium benzylidene and vinylidene complexes in a sulfur-rich coordinationenvironment", Organometallics, 19, 2084-2089.

Leung, W.-H., Wong, T.K.T., Tran, J.C.H. and Yeung, L.L. (2000) "Regioselective ringopening of disubstituted epoxides mediated by imido(halo)metal complexes", Syn. Lett.,677-679.

Zhang, Q.-F., Zheng, H., Wong, W.-Y., Wong, W.-T. and Leung, W.H. (2000)"Ruthenium (II) Ammine and Hydrazine Complexes with [N(Ph2PQ)2]- (Q=S, Se)Ligands", Inorg. Chem., 39, 5255-5264.

XIAO-YUAN LI

Associate Professor


PhD, Princeton University (1988)

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley (1988-89)

Research Associate, National Research Council of Canada (1989-91)


Biophysical, bioinorganic and bio-analytical chemistry; materials science.


Chemical mimicry of cytochrome P450: Development of biomimetic catalysts withzeolite-encapsulated metalloporphyrins


Functionalized molecular films: Chemical assembly and applications

DAG DAG99/00.SC17 HK$45,000 Dec 1999


Pei, J.H. and Li, X.-Y. (2000) "Electrochemical Study and Flow-Injection AmperometricDetection of Trace NO2- at CuPtCl6 Chemically Modified Electrode", Talanta (Intl. J. PureAppl. Analy. Chem.), 51 (6): 1107-1115.

Pei, J.H., Li, X.-Y. and Buffle, J. (2000) "Preparation, Characterization and Application ofan Electrode Modified with Electropolymerized CuPtBr6 Film", Electrochem. Acta, 45 (10):1581-1593.

Pei, J.H., Weng, L.T. and Li, X.-Y. (2000) "A New One-Dimensional CuPt(CN)6 InorganicPolymer Film: Preparation and Characterization", J. Electroanal. Chem., 480 (1/2): 74-83.

Pei, J.H. and Li, X.Y. (2000) "Preparation, Characterization and Application of ElectrodeModified with Electropolymerized One-dimensional Magnus' Green Salts: Pt(NH3)4.PtCl4and Pt(NH3)4.PtCl6", J. Solid. State. Electrochem., 4, 131-140.

Chen, D.-M., Li, X.Y. and Yu, N.T. (1998) "Resonance Raman Scattering Study andVibrational Analysis of Metalloporphyrin Analogues", Chinese Journal of Light Scattering,(10(3-4)): 151-157.

Kozlowki, P.M., Wolinski, K., Pulay, P., Ye, B.-H. and Li, X.-Y. (1999) "GIAO NuclearMagnetic Shielding Tensors in Free Base Porphyrin and in Magnesium and ZincMetalloporphyrins", J. Phys. Chem., (103): 420-425.

ZHENYANG LIN

Associate Professor


PhD, Oxford University (1989)

Senior Research Associate, Texas A&M University (1990-93)


Theoretical inorganic chemistry; structure, bonding and computer modeling studies ininorganic, organometallic and solid state compounds.


Structure and bonding studies in nickel chalcogenide compounds

DAG DAG97/98.SC13 HK$73,780 Jun 1998

Theoretical studies of transition metal-silane complexes


Theoretical Studies of Transition Metal Boryl Complexes

CERG HKUST6186/00P HK$403,817 Oct 2000


Bytheway, I. and Lin, Z. (1998) "Understanding non-Linearity in Multiply-BondedDigallium Molecules", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 120, 12133-12134.

Choi, S.-H. and Lin, Z. (1999) "Structural Preferences in Transition-metal ?2-AlkenylComplexes ML5(?2-alkenyl) and MCpL2(?2-alkenyl)", Organometallics, 18, 2473-2478.

Choi, S.-H., Feng, J.-W. and Lin, Z. (2000) "Understanding the Readiness of SilaneDissociation in Transition Metal ?2-Silane Complexes Cp(CO)2M ?2-H(SiH3-nCln) (M =Mn, Tc and Re; n = 1 - 3)", Organometallics, 19, 2051-2054.

Choi, S.-H., Lin, Z. and Xue, Z.L. (1999) "Theoretical Studies of the Relative Stabilities ofTransition Metal Alkylidyne (CH3)2M(CH)(X) and Bis(alkylidene) (CH3)M(=CH2)2(X)Complexes", Organometallics, 18, 5488-5495.

Fan, M.-F. and Lin, Z. (1999) "Stability of the trans-bis-(H···Si) Structure in the ComplexRuH2(PCy3)2(k- ?2-H···SiMe2-o-C6H4-SiMe2···H), Studied by Density FunctionalTheory", Organometallics, 18, 286-289.

Lam, W.H. and Lin, Z. (2000) "Bonding Analysis of Titanocene Borane s-Complexes",Organometallics, 19, 2625-2628.

BEN ZHONG TANG

Associate Professor



Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Toronto (1989-94)

Senior Research Scientist, Neos Co. Ltd. (1989-94)


Polymer chemistry; materials science; liquid crystals; chiral polymers; optical materials;hyperbranched polymers; light emitting materials; biominetic systems; nanoscience andtechnology.


Green chemistry: development of environmentally benign aqueous polymerization systemsfor the synthesis of amphiphilic polyacetylenes with biocompatibility

DAG DAG98/99.SC31 HK$60,000 Dec 1998

Development of processible nanostructured materials: synthesis of functional polyacetylenesand preparation of metal cluster-polyacetylene nanocomposites


Development Of New Methodology For Constructing Novel Macromolecular Architectures:Synthesis Of Hyperbranched Polyphenylenes Via Polycyclotrimerization Of Diynes



Kong, X. and Tang, B.Z. (1998) "Synthesis and Novel Mesomorphic Properties of theSide-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polyacetylenes Containing Phenyl Benzoate Mesogens withCyano and Methoxy Tails", Chem. Mater., 10, 3352-3363.

Kong, X., Lam, J.W.Y. and Tang, B.Z. (1999) "Synthesis, Mesomorphism, Isomerization,and Aromatization of Stereoregular Poly{ 4-({ 6-({4'-(heptyl)oxy-4-biphenylyl)carbonyl}oxy)hexyl oxy}carbonyl)phenyl acetylene}",Macromolecules, 32, 1722-1730.

Lam, J.W.Y., Kong, X, Dong, Y.P., Cheuk, K.K.L., Xu, K and Tang, B.Z. (2000)"Synthesis and Properties of Liquid Crystalline Polyacetylenes with Different SpacerLengths and Bridge Orientations", Macromolecules, 33, 5027-5040.

Tang, B.Z. and Xu, H. (1999) "Preparation, Alignment, and Optical Properties of SolublePoly(phenylacetylene)-Wrapped Carbon Nanotubes", Macromolecules, 32, 2569-2576.

Tang, B.Z., Geng, Y., Lam, J.W.Y., Li, B., Jing, X., Wang, X., Wang, F. and Pakhomov,A.B., Zhang, X.X. (1999) "Processible Nanostructured Materials with ElectricalConductivity and Magnetic Susceptibility: Preparation and Properties ofMaghemite/Polyaniline Nanocomposite Films", Chem. Mater., 11, 1581-1589.

Tang, B.Z., Kong, X., Wan, X., Peng, H., Lam, J.W.Y., Feng, X.D. and Kwok, H.S.(1998) "Liquid Crystalline Polyacetylenes: Synthesis and Properties of Poly{n-((4'-cyano-4-biphenylyl)oxy)carbonyl -1-alkynes}", Macromolecules, 31, 2419-2432.

Tang, B.Z., Xu, H, Lam, J.W.Y., Lee, P.P.S., Xu, K, Sun, Q and Cheuk, K.K.L. (2000)"C60-Containing Poly(1-phenyl-1-alkynes): Synthesis, Light Emission, and OpticalLimiting", Chem. of Mater., 12, 1446-1455.

Tang, B.Z., Chen, H.Z., Xu, R.S., Lam, J.W.Y., Cheuk, K.K.L., Wong, H.N.C. and Wang,M (2000) "Structure-Property Relationship for Photoconduction in SubstitutedPolyacetylenes", Chem. of Mater., 12, 213-221.

YUN-DONG WU

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Pittsburgh (1986)

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles (1986-87)

Research Associate, University of California, Los Angeles (1989-91)


Theoretical organic, bioorganic and materials chemistry.


Early-transition-metal d alkyl and alkylidene complexes: Stability, reactivity, catalysis, anddecomposition mechanism


Design and synthesis of novel self-assembly systems

DAG DAG98/99.SC16 HK$80,000 Jan 1999

Study of conformational features of peptides formed by and incorporated with non-naturalamino acids


Workshop on computational chemistry

PSCG PSCG99/00.SC01 HK$50,000 Feb 2000

Theoretical Study Of Metal-alkylidene Catalyzed Ring-closing And Crossing Metathesis

CERG HKUST6193/00P HK$287,817 Nov 2000


Wu, Y.-D. and Peng, Z.-H (1999) "Theoretical Study of the Mechanism and Stereocontrolof Molybdenum Alkylidene Mediated Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization", ACS

Symposium Series 721, American Chemical Society, Washington, 187-197.

Wu, Y.-D. and Wang, D.-P. (1999) "Theoretical Studies on the Side-Chain Control of14-Helix and 10/12-Mixed Helix of ß-peptides", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 12, 9352-9362.

Wu, Y.-D., Peng, Z.-H., Chan, K.W.K., Liu, X., Tuinman, A.A. and Xue, Z. (1999)"Computational and Experimental Studies on the Thermolysis Mechanism of Zirconium andHafnium Tetraalkyl Complexes. Difference Between Titanium and Zirconium Complexes",Organometallics, 18, 2081-2090.

Wu, Y.-D., Wang, D.-P., Chan, K.W.K. and Yang, D (1999) "Theoretical Study ofPeptides Formed by Aminoxy Acids", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 12, 11189-11196.

Liu, X.Z., Wu, Z.Z., Peng, Z.-H., Wu, Y.-D. and Xue, Z. (1999) "Synthesis and Structure ofan Unsual Zirconium Hydride Amide Complex. Mechanistic Studies of the Reactions ofTransition Metal Amides with Silanes", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121, 5350-5351.

Vogel, E., Scholz, P., Demuth, R., Erben, C., Broring, M., Schmickler, H., Lex, J. and Wu,Y.-D. (1999) "Isoporphycene 4. Porphyrin-Constitutional Isomer with N4-Core of(E)/(Z)-Stereoisomers", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 38, 2919-2923.

YI JING YAN

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Rochester (1989)

Research Associate, University of Rochester (1988-90)

Research Chemist, University of California, San Diego (1992-93)


Optimal control of chemistry by light; molecular nonlinear spectroscopy in condensedphases; molecular dynamics and cooperativity; computational methods in the chemicalphysics of complex systems.


Optimal control of molecular dynamics


Active photochemistry control of catalytic hydroformylation

G-HK G-HK98/99.SC04 HK$26,180 Apr 1999

Quantum Dissipation In Nonadiabatic Chemical Dynamics



Shen, Z.W., Yan, Y.J., Cheng, J.X., Shuang, F., Zhao, Y. and He, G.Z. (1999)"Pump-dump control and the related transient absorption spectroscopies", Journal ofChemical Physics, 110 (15): 7192-201.

Xu, R.X., Cheng, J.X. and Yan, Y.J. (1999) "A simple theory of optimal coherent control",J. Phys. Chem. A, 103 (49): 10611-18.

Kühn, O., Zhao, Y., Shuang, F. and Yan, Y.J. (2000) "Generalized quantum Fokker-Plancktheory and its application to laser driven intramolecular hydrogen transfer reactions incondensed phases", J. Chem. Phys, 112 (14): 6104-12.

Yan, Y.J., Shuang, F., Xu, R.X., Cheng, J.X., Li, X.Q., Yang, C. and Zhang, H.Y. (2000)"Unified approach to the Bloch-Redfield theory and quantum Fokker-Planck equations", J.Chem. Phys, 113, 2068-78.

Shuang, F., Cheng, Y., Zhang, H.Y. and Yan, Y.J. (2000) "Cooperativity and resonancesin periodically driven spin-boson systems", Physical Review E,61 (6): 7192.

Yang, C., Shuang, F. and Yan, Y.J. (2000) "Generalized Redfield theory and its applicationto transient absorption spectroscopies in condensed phases",J. Chinese Chemical Society, 47,799-805.

SHIHE YANG

Associate Professor


PhD, Rice University (1988)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory (1988-89)


Gas phase clusters; nanomaterials; fullerene derivative materials.


Nano-particle incorporation in polymer matrix by pulsed-laser-ablation: A novel approach tothe fabrication of metal and semiconductor quantum structures


Probing the nonlinear optical properties of higher fullerenes and metallofullerenes

DAG DAG98/99.SC17 HK$70,000 Jun 1999

Self-Assembly And Characterization Of Layered Inorganic/Organic Nanocomposites


Thin Films Of Endohedral Metallofullerenes



Huang, H.J. and Yang, S.H. (2000) "Langmuir-Blodgett films of the endohedralmetallofullerene Dy@C82 at the air-water interface", J. Organometall. Chem., 599 (1):42-48.

Huang, H.J., Yang, S.H. and Zhang, X.X. (2000) "Magnetic properties of heavy rare-earthmetallofullerenes M@C82 (M = Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho and Er", J. Phys. Chem. B, 104 (7):1473-1482.

Huang, H.J and Yang, S.H. (1998) "Relative yields of endohedral lanthanidemetallofullerenes by arc synthesis and their correlation with the elution behavior", J. Phys.Chem. B, 102 (50): 10196-10200.

Sun, D.Y., Huang, H.J., Yang, S.H., Liu, Z.Y. and Liu, S.Y. (1999) "A simple method forthe selective enrichment of endohedral metallofullerenes", Chem. Mater., 112 (2): 374-377.

Sun, D.Y., Huang, H.J., Yang, S.H., Liu, Z.Y. and Liu, S.Y. (1999) "Synthesis andcharacterization of water soluble multi-hydroxyl endohedral metallofullerenols", Chem.Mater., 11 (4): 1003-1006.

Wang, S.H. and Yang, S.H. (2000) "Preparation and characterization of oriented PbScrystalline nanorods in polymer films", Langmuir, 16 (2): 389-397.

Wang, S.H. and Yang, S.H. (2000) "Surfactant-assisted growth of crystalline coppersulphide nanowire arrays", Chem. Phys. Lett., 322 (6): 567-571.

Wu, Q.F. and Yang, S.H. (1999) "Reactions of niobium cluster ions Nbx (x = 2-16) withNO and NO2", Int. J. Mass Spectrom., 184, 57-65.

Wu, Q.F., Lu, W.Y. and Yang, S.H. (1998) "Dehydrogenation and physisorption ofsaturated hydrocarbons (n-butane and isobutane) on Nbx", J. Chem. Phys, 109 (20):8935-8939.

Yang, S.H., Wang, S.H. and Fung, K.K. (2000) "One-dimensional growth of rock-salt PbSnanocrystals mediated by surfactant/polymer templates", Pure Appl. Chem., 72 (1-2):119-126.

Yang, X., Gao, K.L., Liu, H.C. and Yang, S.H. (2000) "Photodissociation spectroscopy ofMg+-C6H5X (X = H, F, Cl, Br)", J. Chem. Phys., 112 (23): 10236-10246.

Yang, X., Hu, Y.H. and Yang, S.H. (2000) "A selective photo-induced reaction in theion-molecule complex Mg+-FCH3", Chem. Phys. Lett., 322 (6): 491-495.

Zeng, Z.H., Wang, S.H. and Yang, S.H. (1999) "Synthesis and characterization of PbSnanocrystallites in random copolymer ionomers", Chem. Mater., 11 (11): 3365-3369.

ZHIHONG GUO

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Minnesota (1998)

Research Associate, The Scripps Research Institute (1998-00)


Bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology; combinatorial chemistry and biomedicalengineering; Alzheimer's disease; protein engineering and molecular evolution.


Enzyme-assisted combinatorial synthesis of analogues of iron (III)-chelating enterobactin

DAG DAG00/01.SC29 HK$100,000 Dec 2000

Enzyme-assisted combinatorial synthesis of natural-like libraries

ITF TCMRPS/800 HK$807,000 Oct 2000


Guo, Z., Zhou, D. and Schultz, P.G. (2000) "Designing Small Molecule Switches forProtein-Protein Interactions", Science, 288: 2042-2045.

Chen, H., Agnihotri, G., Guo, Z., Que, N.L.S., Chen, X.H. and Liu, H.-W. (1999)"Biosynthesis of Mycarose: Isolation and characterization of enzymes involved in the C-2deoxygenation", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121: 8124-8125.

Chen, H., Guo, Z. and Liu, H.-W. (1998) "Biosynthesis of yersiniose: Attachment of thetwo-carbon branched-chain is catalyzed by a thiamine pyrophosphate-dependentflavoprotein", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 120: 11796-11797.

Chen, Guo, Z., Liu, H.-W. (1998) "Expression, purification, and characterization of Ty1M1,an N,N-dimethyltransferase involved in the biosynthesis of mycaminose", J. Am. Chem.Soc., 120: 9951-9952.

Li, D., Guo, Z., Liu, H.-W. (1996) "Mechanistic Studies of the Inactivation of Crotonase by(Methylenecyclopropyl) formyl-CoA", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118: 275-276.

Pieper, P.A., Guo, Z., Liu, H.-W. (1995) "Mechanistic Studies of the Biosynthesis of3,6-Dideoxy Sugars: Stereochemical Analysis of C-3 Deoxygenation", J. Am. Chem. Soc.,117: 5158-5159.

IAN D WILLIAMS

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Bristol (1983)

Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1983-85)

Research Associate, Materials Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University(1986-92)


Materials and solid state chemistry; X-ray crystallography; microporous materials;coordination polymers; hydrothermal synthesis.


High temperature coordination chemistry


Development of advanced magnetic materials and related components for theelectrical/electronics industries

ITC AF/155/99 HK$10,060,000 Oct 1999


KTHK KTLTD99/00.SC01 HK$200,000 Oct 1999

Design Of Inorganic Solids Using Organic Templates


Organo-ceramic hybrid solids

DAG DAG00/01.SC15 HK$60,000 Dec 2000


Chui, S.Y., Lo, S.M.F., Charmant, J.P.H., Orpen, A.G. and Williams, I.D. (1999) "AChemically Functionalizable Nanoporous Solid Cu3(TMA)2(H2O)3", Science, 873,5512-5514.

Sung, H.H.Y., Yu, J. and Williams, I.D. (1998) "Zirconium Phosphates of VariableDimension Templated by Ethylene Diamine. Crystal Structures of 1-D enH2 Zr(HPO4)3 and2-D 0.5 enH2 Zr(PO4)(HPO4)", J. Solid State Chem., 140, 46-55.

Williams, I.D., Wu, M.M., Sung, H.H.Y., Zhang, X.X. and Yu, J. (1998) "An Organotemplated Vanadium Borate Polymer from Molten Boric Acid Flux Synthesis 4 enH2 enH2V6B22O53H8", J. Chem. Communication, 2463-2464.

Yu, J. and Williams, I.D. (1998) "Two New Aluminophosphate Frameworks Templated byImidazaolium Ions 2 N2C3H5 AlP2O8H.2H2O and 2 N2C3H5 Al3P4O16H", J. Solid StateChem., 136, 141-144.

Yu, J., Sung, H.H.Y. and Williams, I.D. (1999) "A 2-D Mixed-Metal Phosphate Templatedby Ethylene Diamine", J. Solid State Chemistry, 142, 241-246.

BING XU

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1996)

PostDoctoral Associate, California Institute of Technology (1997-99)


Materials chemistry; biomaterials; polymer chemistry and surface chemistry; synthesis andfabrication of functional molecular and nanomaterials for microelectronics and proteomics.


Developing novel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents

DAG DAG00/01.SC30 HK$100,000 Dec 2000


Xu, B., Carroll, P.J. and Swager, T.M. (1996) "Chiral Metallocalix[4]arene: Resolution viaDiastereomer Tungsten Alkoxide", Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed. Engl., 35, 2094-2097.

Fu, D.-K., Xu, B. and Swager, T.M. (1997) "Alternationgpoly(pyridylvinylenephenylenevinylene)s: Synthesis and solid state organizations",Tetrahedron, 1997, 53, 15487.

Xu, B., Arias, F. and Whitesides, G.M. (1999) "Making Honeycomb Microcomposites bySoft Lithography", Adv. Mater., 1999, 11, 492.

Rao, J., Yan, L, Xu, B. and Whitesides, G.M. (1999) "Using Surface Plasmon Resonance toStudy the Binding of Vancomycin and Its Dimer to Self-Assembled Monolayers PresentingD-Ala-D-Ala", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121, 2629.

Xu, B., Arias, F., Brittian, S.T., Zhao, X.-M., Grzybowski, B., Torquato, S. and Whitesides,G.M. (1999) "Making Negative Poisson's Ratio Microstructures by Soft Lithography", Adv.

Mater., 11, 1186.

Yu, H.-H., Pullen, A.E., Xu, B. and Swager, T.M. (2000) "Toward new actuating devices:synthesis and electrochemical studies ofpoly(11,23-BIS([2,2'-bithiophen]-5-yl)-26,28-dimethoxycalix[4]arene-25,27-diol)", Polym.Mater. Sci. Eng..

JIANZHEN YU

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1996)

Postdoctoral Associate, California Institute of Technology (1997-99)


Method development for atmospheric applications chemical characterization of ambientaerosols.


Sampling and determination of carbonyls in air

DAG DAG99/00.SC18 HK$99,700 Nov 1999

Chemical Analysis Of Water Soluble Organic Compounds In Atmospheric Particles



Kalberber, M., Yu, J., Cocker, D.R., Flagan, R.C. and Seinfeld, J.H. (in press) "AerosolFormation in the Cyclohexene-Ozone System", Environmental Science & Technology.

Ho, S.H. and Yu, J.Z. (2000) "Sampling and Determination of Carbonyls in Air", SeventhSymposium on Chemistry Postgraduate Research in Hong Kong, HK University of Science& Technology, Hong Kong, 29 Apr 2000.

Wan, C.H. and Yu, J.Z. (2000) "Determination of Water-soluble Carbohydrate Content inAerosol samples", Seventh Symposium on Chemistry Postgraduate Research in Hong Kong,HK university of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, 29 Apr 2000.

Yu, J.Z., Seinfeld, J.H. and Flagan, R.C. (1999) "Molecular Composition of SecondaryOrganic Aerosols from Ozone Oxidation of Monoterpenes", American Assocaition forAerosol Research Annual Conference, American Association for Aerosol Research, Tacoma,Washington, USA, 11-15 Oct 1999.

Yu, J.Z., Cocker, D.F. IV, Griffin, R.J., Flagan, R.C. and Seinfeld, J.H. (1999) "Gas-phase

Ozone Oxidation of Monoterpenes: Gaseous and Particulate Products", J. AtmosphericChemistry, 34, 207-258.

Yu, J.Z., Griffin, R.J., Cocker, D.F. IV, Flagan, R.C. and Seinfeld, J.H. (1999)"Observations of Gaseous and Particulate Products of Monoterpene Oxidation in ForestAtmospheres", Geophysical Research Letters, 26, 1145-1148.

Department of Mathematics

Seven major areas of research are being emphasized in the Department of Mathematics.They are: Algebra and Number Theory, Analysis and Differential Equations, Geometry andTopology, Fluid Mechanics, Scientific Computation, Probability and Statistics, FinancialMathematics.

Algebra and Number Theory: The theory of Lie groups, Lie algebras and theirrepresentations play an important role in many of the recent development of mathematicsand in the interaction of mathematics with physics. Our current research includesrepresentation theory of reductive groups, Kac-Moody algebras, quantum groups, conformalfield theory and combinatorics.

Number theory has a long and distinguished history, and the concepts and problems relatingto the theory have been instrumental in the foundation of a large part of mathematics.Number theory is flourishing in the past decades, as evidence by the recent proof of Fermat’sLast Theorem. Our current research specializes in transcendental number theory andDiophantine approximation.

Analysis and Differential Equations: Analysis of real and complex functions studiesproperties of various classes of functions. Many beautiful results in this area serve to providea solid foundation for mathematics as a whole.

Differential equations appear in many scientific as well as engineering problems whenmathematical models are proposed to quantify the underlying phenomenon. The study ofsuch equations, either theoretically or numerically, is crucial in understanding relatedproblems.

Current research areas comprise complex analysis, exponential asymptotics, functionalanalysis, nonlinear dynamical systems, nonlinear parabolic equations and nonlinearSchrödinger equations.

Geometry and Topology: Geometry and topology study shapes and forms and theirtransformations. The visual recognition of physical objects in the universe stimulates theirinitial development. Through interaction with various fields of science (e.g., astronomy,mechanics, physics and computer science) and other areas of mathematics such as algebraand analysis, geometry and topology have become subjects with their own independentinterests as well as applications in almost every area of science and technology. The currenttrend is in global analysis on manifolds and the study of low-dimensional topology usingideas and methods inspired by high energy physics.

The active research areas in the department include algebraic geometry, differentialgeometry, gauge theory, K-theory and low-dimensional topology.

Fluid Mechanics: Fluid mechanics studies the motion of liquids and gases with directapplication to industry and the environment. It is particularly rich in nonlinear problems andis a major source of ideas and techniques in applied mathematics.

Current research areas include the study of such flows as two-phase flow, rotating flow, highspeed flow, and their stability, the fluid dynamics of combustion, typhoon (which comes toHong Kong several times a year), and bubbles. Research is also carried out on such dynamic

phenomena as bifurcation, chaos, and turbulence. The research in fluid dynamics is oftenheavily computational and there is strong interaction with the researchers in scientificcomputation. Scientific Computation: With the spectacular advances of computer hardwareand computing algorithms, scientific computation has become an independent approach tostudying science and technology, complementing the theoretical and experimental approach.It focuses on developing algorithms that are reliable, accurate, and economical in large scalecomputation of solutions of problems in science, engineering, and business and management.

Current research is concentrated on parallel algorithms, shock-capturing schemes,gas-kinetic schemes, numerical linear algebra, numerical solutions to elliptic and hyperbolicdifferential equations, a generalized Lagrangian formulation of computational fluiddynamics, numerical simulation of turbulence, turbulent dispersion, quantum chaos andsuperconductivity. There are also joint research projects with other departments and otherinstitutions in and outside Hong Kong.

Probability and Statistics: Applications of statistics have been receiving increasingattention among local business and industrial communities. The balance between theory andapplications is reflected through the faculty research activities which can be classified intofour main categories.

In the study of time series and dependent data, inference procedures are sought to model andexplain temporal and spatial dependent structures. Specific areas include inference fornonstationarity, nonlinearity, long-memory behavior, and continuous time models. This areaof research has a close connection with economics and engineering. Resamplingmethodology forms the second category. It deals with the estimation of parameters andconstruction of confidence regions with resampling techniques. Particular topics includeblock bootstrap, bootstrap for censored data, and Edgeworth and saddle pointapproximations. The third component, survival analysis, comprises estimation of survivalfunction under random censoring and truncation, Kaplan-Meier estimator, and errors invariables for general linear models. Applications to biomedical sciences constitute anintegral part of categories two and three. The fourth area is stochastic processes andstochastic analysis. Topics currently under investigation include filtering, diffusion andMarkov processes, and stochastic approximation and control. Research in this area is relatedto the study of financial modeling.

Financial Mathematics: Financial mathematics is one of the fastest growing research fieldsin applied mathematics. International banking and financial firms around the globe are hiringscience PhDs who can use advanced analytical and numerical techniques to price financialderivatives and manage portfolio risks. Such phenomenon is coined as the “Rocket Scienceon Wall Street”. This trend has been accelerating in recent years on numerous fronts, drivenboth by substantial theoretical advances as well as by a practical need in the industry todevelop effective methods to price and hedge increasingly complex financial instruments.

The current research areas in the Department include pricing models for exotic options,development of pricing algorithms for complex financial derivatives, optimal portfolio andasset allocation, stochastic analysis of interest rates and related models.

FacilitiesThe Department of Mathematics has its own teaching/research laboratories equipped with anumber of high-end workstations. For research in high performance scientific computation, aparallel computer which consists of an HP workstation cluster connected by an ATM(Asynchronous Transfer Mode) switch has been purchased. With the PVM (Parallel VirtualMachine) software system installed, faculty and students can make use of the aggregatepower of the workstation cluster to solve large computational problems. Two SGIworkstations have also been installed for the purpose of high quality visualization.

Another facility in the Department of Mathematics is the Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. It isequipped with modern experimental facilities such as PIV (Particle Image Velocimeter)system for measuring velocity fields in fluid flows. The laboratory is equipped for theteaching and for research in several active directions of Fluid Mechanics such as rotatingflows, waves, biological fluid mechanics and various industrial applications.

Operated by the University’s Center of Computing Services and Telecommunications, allcomputing machines on campus are connected by a 100 million bits/second high-speed fiberoptic network (FDDI) as backbone with Ethernet subnet reaching all desktops. Moreover, aParagon and Onyx supercomputer have also been purchased to serve those users who requireextremely intensive computational processing power.

Research Profile

SHIU-YUEN CHENG


KWING LAM CHAN

Professor

WU-YI HSIANG

Professor

WAI-HOW HUI

Professor and Director, Center for Scientific Computation

JIAN-SHU LI

Professor

CHUNG-CHUN YANG

Professor

KUNRUI YU

Professor

JEFFREY R CHASNOV

Associate Professor

BEIFANG CHEN

Associate Professor

QIANG DU

Associate Professor

J C H FUNG

Associate Professor

JISHAN HU

Associate Professor

JING-SONG HUANG

Associate Professor

BINGYI JING

Associate Professor

YUE-KUEN KWOK

Senior Lecturer

KIN Y LI

Associate Professor

WEI-PING LI

Associate Professor

GUOWU MENG

Associate Professor

MO MU

Associate Professor

XIAOPING WANG

Associate Professor

MIN YAN

Associate Professor

YONGCHANG ZHU

Associate Professor

KANI CHEN

Assistant Professor

YIK MAN CHIANG

Lecturer

SHIQING LING

Assistant Professor

SHIU-HONG LUI

Assistant Professor

JIAN-MIN MAO

Assistant Professor

YUANWEI QI

Lecturer

WONG MAN YU

Assistant Professor

LIXIN WU

Lecturer

KUN XU

Lecturer

XIAOPING XU

Lecturer

Research Profile

SHIU-YUEN CHENG



PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1974)

Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles (1981)

Professor of Mathematics, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1992-95)


Differential geometry; game theory; geometric partial differential equations.


Spectral gap estimates and isoperimetric inequalities


An HKUST initiative for the enhancement of teaching and learning in science subjects in theschool sector

QEF QEF97/98.SC01 HK$3,036,400 Aug 1998


Cheng, S.Y. (1999) "Report on the QEF project at HKUST", Conference on QualityEducation, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1 May 1999.

KWING LAM CHAN

Professor



Senior Scientist, Applied Research Corporation (1980-94)


Astrophysics; atmospheric dynamics; large-scale computation.


Numerical study of astrophysical dynamos

JRS JRS98/39 HK$61,540 Apr 1998

Numerical solar convection


Numerical Study Of The Solar Differential Rotation By A Global Spectral Method

CERG HKUST6118/00P HK$379,817 Jul 2000


Mayr, H.G., Mengel, J.G., Chan, K.L. and Porter, H.S. (1999) "Seasonal variations andplanetary wave modulation of diurnal tides influenced by gravity waves", Adv. Space Res.,24, 1541.

Mayr, H.G., Mengel, J.G., Reddy, C.A., Chan, K.L. and Porter, H.S. (1998) "Variability ofthe equatorial oscillations induced by gravity wave filtering", Geophysical Research Letters,25 (14): 2629-2632.

Mayr, H.G., Mengel, J.G., Reddy, C.A., Chan, K.L. and Porter, H.S. (1999) "The role ofgravity waves in maintaining of the QBO and SAO at equatorial latitudes", Adv. Space Res.,24, 1531.

Mayr, H.G., Mengel, J.G., Reddy, C.A., Chan, K.L. and Porter, H.S. (2000) "Properties ofQBO and SAO generated by gravity waves", J. Atmos. Solar Terr. Phys., 62, 1135.

Saikia, E., Singh, H.P., Chan, K.L., Roxburgh, I.W. and Srivastava, M.P. (2000)"Examination of scaling relationships involving penetration distance at the bottom of astellar convective envelope", Astrophys. J, 529, 402.

Singh, H.P., Roxburgh, I.W. and Chan, K.L. (1998) "A study of penetration at the bottom ofa stellar convective envelope and its scaling relationships", Astron. & Astrophys., 340,178-182.

WU-YI HSIANG

Professor



Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley (1968)


Differential geometry; transferration group; classical geometry; celestial mechanics;quantum mechanics.


Mang body problem in quantum mechanics

DAG DAG97/98.SC14 HK$90,807 May 1998

Celestial Mechanics: The central configuration problem in n-body problem

DAG DAG98/99.SC21 HK$30,000 Feb 1999

Kinematic Geometry and Its Application to the Study of Schrodinger's Equation of n-bodyProblem



Hsiang, W.Y. (in press) The proof of Kepler's conjecture on sphere packings and leastaction principle of crystal formation, World Scientific Press.

Hsiang, W.Y. (1999) "On the kinematic geometry of many body systems", Chinese Annalsof Mathematics, 20B (1): 11-28.

Hsiang, W.Y. (1999) "On the kissing number of sphere packings in E4 and a stronguniqueness theorem", working paper.

WAI-HOW HUI

Professor and Director, Center for Scientific Computation


PhD, University of Southampton (1968)

DSc, University of Southampton (1983)

Research Associate, University of Southampton (1968-69)

Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo(1979-94)

Visiting Professor, NASA Ames Research Center (1980)


Computational fluid dynamics; high speed aerodynamics; nonlinear water wave theory;applied partial differential equations.


Computational fluid dynamics & modeling and simulation of complex systems

AOE AOE97/98.SC0 HK$390,520 Apr 1998

China Program on research collaboration with the National Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD) Laboratory in Beijing

CP CP98/99.SC05 HK$100,000 Apr 1999

A Unified Coordinate System For Computing Viscous Compressible Flow

CERG HKUST6166/99E HK$622,000 Sep 1999

Numerical Simulation Of The Tidal Bore On The Qiantang River

CER HKUST6122/00E HK$635,81 Sep 2000


Hui, W.H., Li, P.Y. and Li, Z.W. (1999) "A unified coordinate system for solving thetwo-dimensional Euler equations", Journal of Computational Physics, 153, 596-637.

Hui, W.H. and Koudriakov, S. (2000) "The role of coordinates in the computtion ofdiscontinuities in one-dimensional flow", Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal,8(4):495-510.

Loh, C.Y. and Hui, W.H. (2001) "A New Lagrangian Method for the Time DependentInviscid Flow Computation", SIAM journal on Scientific Computing, 22, 33-350.

Loh, C.Y., Liou,M.S.and Hui, W.H. (1999) "An Investigation of Random Choice Methodfor Three-Dimensional Steady Supersonic Flows", International Journal for NumericalMethods in Fluids, 29, 97-119.

JIAN-SHU LI

Professor


PhD, Yale University (1987)

Asst. Professor, Assoc. and Professor of Mathematics, University of Maryland (1989-98)


Representation theory; automorphic forms.


Theta series and cohomology of arithmetic manifolds

DAG DAG97/98.SC16 HK$79,456 Jun 1998

Duality Correspondences And Applications


Spectrum Of Laplacian On Arithmetic Manifolds



Li, J.S. (2000) "Minimal Representations and reductive dual pairs", Representation Theoryof Lie groups, American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 291-340.

Li, J.S. (1999) "The Correspondence of Infinitesimal Characters for Reductive Dual Pairs inSimple Lie Groups", Duke Mathematics Journal, (97): 347-377.

Li, J.S. (in press) "A Description of the Discrete Spectrum of (SL(2), E7(-25))", AsiaJournal of Mathematics.

Li, J.S. (in press) "Minimal Representations and Reductive Dual Pairs", IAS/Park CityMathematics Series.

Li, J.S. and Huang, J.S. (in press) "Unipotent Representations Attached to Small NilpotentOrbits", American Journal of Mathematics.

Li, J.S., Paul, A., Tan, E.C. and Zhu, C.B. (2000) "The Explicit Duality Correspondence of$O^*(2n), Sp(p,q)$", working paper.

CHUNG-CHUN YANG

Professor


PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1969)

Research Associate, Michigan State University (1969-70)

Research Mathematician, Naval Research Laboratory (1970-90)

Visiting Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (1983-84)

Concurrent Professor of Nanjing University, China (1993 )

Honorary Professor of Guanzhou Normal University (1995 )

Honorary Professor of Central-South University of Science and Technology (1999)

Academician of Russian National Academy of Natural Sciences, Armenia Branch (1999)


Real and complex analysis; value distribution theory and its applications.


Complex dynamics and value distribution

G-HK G-HK97/98.SC04 HK$25,000 Apr 1998

Complex analysis and p-adic analysis in several variables


Further Research On p-adic Analysis


Value Distribution Theory For Some Classes Of Non-analytic Functions And ItsApplications



Li, P. and Yang, C.C. (1999) "Values sharing of an entire function and its derivatives", J.Math. Soc. Japan, 51, 781-799.

Hua, X.H. and Yang, C.C. (1998) Dynamics of Transcendental Functions, Gordon Breach,Science Publishers.

Hu, P.C. and Yang, C.C. (1999) Differentiable and Complex Dynamics of SeveralVariables, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Hu, P.C. and Yang, C.C. (2000) Meromorphic Functions over Non-Archimedean Fields,Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Cherry, W. and Yang, C.C. (1999) "Uniqueness of non-Archimedean entire functionssharing sets of values counting multiplicity", Proc. AMS, vol. 127, 967-971.

Barsegian, G.A. and Yang, C.C. (2000) "Some new generalizations in the theory ofmeromorphic functions and their applications' Part 1", Complex Variables, 41, 293-313.

KUNRUI YU

Professor


Dr. rer. nat., Universität Bonn (1987)

Professor, Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Science (1988-91)


Transcendental number theory; diophantine approximation.


The Theory Of Linear Forms In Logarithms And Its Application To Diophantine Problems



Yu, K. (1999) "p-adic logarithmic forms and group varieties II", Acta Arithmetica, 89 (4):337-378.

Yu, K. (1998) "P-adic Logarithmic Forms and Group Varieties I", J. reine angew. Math,502, 29-92.

Yu, K. (1999) "Linear Forms in p-adic Logarithms", Workshop on Number Theory,Transcendence and Diophantine Geometry, Baker, A., Liu, M.-C. and Wustholz, G. eds.,Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 20 - 22 March 1999.

JEFFREY R CHASNOV

Associate Professor



Research Fellow, NASA-Ames/Stanford Center for Turbulence Research (1991-93)


Evolutionary genetics; turbulence; scientific computation.


Mutation-selection balance and the evolution of sexual reproduction

DAG DAG99/00.SC19 &nbspHK$45,000 &nbspDec 1999


Chasnov, J.R. (2000) "Mutation-Selection Balance, Dominance and the Maintenance ofSex", Genetics, 156, 1419-1425.

Chasnov, J.R. (1997) "On the decay of inhomogeneous turbulence", J. Fluid Mech., 342,335-354.

Chasnov, J.R. (1997) "On the decay of two-dimensional homogeneous turbulence", Phys.

Fluids, 9, 171-180.

Chasnov, J.R. (1994) "Similarity states of passive scalar transport in isotropic turbulence",Phys. Fluids, E, 1036-1051.

Batchelor, G.K., Canuto, V.M. and Chasnov, J.R. (1992) "Homogeneousbuoyancy-generated turbulence", J. Fluid. Mech., 235, 349-378.

Chasnov, J.R. (1991) "Simulation of the inertial-conductive subrange", Phys. Fluids, A,1164-1168.

BEIFANG CHEN

Associate Professor


PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo (1991)

Instructor in Applied Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1991-93)


Discrete mathematics; combinatorics; geometric probability; computational geometry.


Ehrhart Polynomials And Combinatorial Riemann-roch For Lattice Polytopes AndPolyhedra



Chen, B. (1998) "Weight functions, double reciprocity laws, and volume formulas for latticepolyhedra", Proceedings of National Acadamy of Sciences of USA, 95, 9093-9098.

Chen, B. and Yan, M. (1999) "Eulerian 2-strata spaces", Journal of Combinatorial Theory,Series A, 85, 1-28.

Chen, B. and Yan, M. (1998) "Eulerian stratified polyhedra", Advances in AppliedMathematics, 21, 22-57.

QIANG DU

Associate Professor


PhD, Carnegie Mellon University (1988)

Dickerson Instructor, University of Chicago

Asst and Assoc Professor, Michigan State University (1990-95)

Visiting Assoc Professor, Carnegie Mellon University (1993)


Computational and applied mathematics; numerical and applied analysis; scientificcomputing.


Centroidal voronoi tessellations: applications and algorithms

DAG DAG98/99.SC23 HK$40,000 Nov 1998

Towards a better mathematical understanding of the Josephson effects

JRS JRS99/41 HK$72,264 Mar 1999

Nonlinear PDES, Their Numerical Solution And Application

CERG HKUST6162/99P HK$405,000 Aug 1999

Mathematical modelling of superconductivity based on Ginzburg-Landau theory

F-HK F-HK99/00.SC03 HK$58,000 Jan 2000


Du, Q. (2000) "Convergence analysis of a numerical method for a mean field model ofsuperconducting vortices", SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 37 (1): 911-926.

Du, Q. and Gray, P. (1999) "Numerical algorithms of the of Lawrence-Doniach models andits parallel implementation", SIAM J. Sci. Comp., 20 (4): 2122-2139.

Du, Q. and Remski, J. (1999) "Simplified models of the Josephson-Junctions and its finiteelement approximations", Euro. J. Applied Math., 10 (1): 1-25.

Du, Q. and Wu, X. (1999) "Numerical approximation of the three dimensionalGinzburg-Landau equations using artificial boundary conditions", SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 36(3): 1482-1506.

Du, Q., Faber, V. and Gunzburger, M. (1999) "Centroidal voronoi diagrams and theirapplications", SIAM Review, 41 (4): 637-676.

Du, Q., Gunzburger, M. and Lee, H. (1999) "Analysis and computation of a mean fieldmodel for superconductivity", Numer. Math., 81 (4): 539-560.

J C H FUNG

Associate Professor



Research Associate, University of Cambridge (1990-92)


Computational fluid dynamics; turbulence; environmental studies.


The effect of roton backflow in quantum evaporation in 4Helium


The influence of particle-particle collisions on particle dispersion in turbulent flows

F-HK F-HK99/00.SC04 HK$24,000 Jan 2000

The Geometry And Statistics Of Particle Dispersion



Matik, N.A. and Fung, J.C.H. (2000) "Anomalous burning rate of flamelets induced byself-similar multiple scale (fractal and spiral) initial fields", Phys. Rev. E, 62(5): 6636-6647.

Fung, J.C.H. (2000) "Residence Time of Inertial Particles in a Vortex", J. GeophysicalResearch, Oceans, 105(C6): 14261-14272.

Sobnack, M.B., Inkson, J.C. and Fung, J.C.H. (1999) "Quasiparticle Scattering at HeliumSurfaces: A Microscopic Theory", Phys. Rev. B, 60 (5): 3465-3475.

Chan, C.C. and Fung, J.C.H. (1999) "The Change in Settling Velocity of Inertial Particlesin Cellular Flow", Fluid Dynamics Research, 25 (5): 257-273.

Fung, J.C.H. and Vassitiros, J.C. (1998) " Two-particle dispersion in turbulentlike flows",Phys. Rev. E, 57(2): 1677-1690.

Fung, J.C.H. (1998) "Effect of nonlinear drag on the settling velocity of particles in

homogeneous isotropic turbulence", Journal of Geophysical Research, 103 (C12): 27905 -27917.

JISHAN HU

Associate Professor


PhD, Princeton University (1991

Visiting Asst. Professor, West Virginia University (1990-92)


Applied analysis; Integrable systems.


Interactive dynamics of convection and dendritic growth

DAG DAG97/98.SC15 HK$73,780 Mar 1998

The Painleve property and regular differential systems

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Integrability, Painleve Property, And Regular Differential Systems



Hu, J. (1998) "Linkage between Adiabatic Invariance and Symmetry of Solutions", Studiesin Applied Mathematics, 101, 99-126.

Hu, J. (1998) "Non-uniformity of adiabatic invariance for nonlinear oscillators", SIAM inApplied Mathematics, 59, 777-786.

Hu, J. and Yan, M. (1999) "Singularity analysis for integrable systems by their mirrors",Nonlinearity, 12, 1531-1543.

Hu, J. and Yan, M. (2000) "The mirror systems of integrable equations", Studies in AppliedMathematics, 104, 67-90.

JING-SONG HUANG

Associate Professor



Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1989-90)

Instructor, University of Utah (1990-93)

Research Asst. Professor, University of Utah (1993-96)


Representation theory; Lie theory.


Orbit Method For Unitary Representations And Harmonic Analysis On Symmetric Spaces



Huang, J.-S. (in press) Representation Theory of Lie Groups, Hunan Education Press,Hunan, China.

Huang, J.-S. (1999) Lectures on Representation Theory, World Scientific Publishers,Singapore/New Jersey/London/Hong Kong.

Huang, J.-S. and Li, J.-S. (1999) "Unipotent representations attached to spherical nilpotentorbits", American Journal of Mathematics, 121, 497-517.

Huang, J.-S. and Zhu, C.-B. (1999) "Weyl's construction and tensor power decompositionfor G_2", Proceedings of AMS, 127 (3): 925-934.

Huang, J.-S., Magaard, K. and Savin, G. (1998) "Unipotent representations of G_2 arisingfrom the minimal representation of D_4^E", J. reine angew. Math, 500, 65-81.

Huang, J.-S., Adam, J. and Vogan, D. (1998) "Functions on Model Orbits in E8",Representation Theory, vol. 2, 224-263.

BINGYI JING

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Sydney (1993)

Research Associate, Australian National University (1992-94)


Resampling methods; asymptotic expansions.


Some limit theorems on self-normalized sums

DAG DAG98/99.SC18 HK$30,000 Dec 1998

Edgeworth expansion for U-statistics with lattice projections

DAG DAG99/00.SC22 HK$47,500 Oct 1999

Edgeworth expansion for U-statistics under optimal conditions

DAG DAG00/01.SC19 HK$30,000 Nov 2000


Qin, G.S. and Jing, B.-Y. (2000) "Asymptotic properties for estimation of partial linearmodels with censored data", J. Statist. Plann. Inference, 84 (1): 95-110.

Hall, P. and Jing, B.-Y. (1998) "Performance of Bootstrap for Heavy-tail Distributions",Statistica Sinica, 8 (3): 887-906.

Hall, P., Jing, B.-Y. and Lahiri, S.N. (1998) "On the Sampling Window Method forLong-range Dependent Data", Statistica Sinica, 8 (4): 1189-1204.

Wang, Q.H. and Jing, B.-Y. (2000) "A martingale-based bootstrap inference with censoreddata", Comm. Statist. Theory Methods, 29 (2): 401-415.

Wang, Q.Y. and Jing, B.-Y. (1999) "An exponential nonuniform Berry-Esseen bound forself-normalized sums", Ann. Probab., 27 (4): 2068--2088.

Wang, Q.Y., Jing, B.-Y. and Zhao, L.C. (2000) "The Berry-Esséen bound for Studentizedstatistics", Ann. Probab., 28 (1): 511--535.

YUE-KUEN KWOK

Senior Lecturer


PhD, Brown University (1985)

Asst. Professor, West Virginia University (1985-87)

Asst. Professor, San Jose State University (1987-90)


Financial mathematics


Kwok, Y.K. and Wong, H.Y. (2000) "Currency-translated foreign equity options with pathdependent features and their multi-asset extensions", International Journal of Theoreticaland Applied Finance, 3(2): 257-258.

Kwok, Y.K. and Wu, L. (2000) "Effects of allable feature on early exercise feature", Reviewof Derivatives Research, 4: 189-211.

Kwok, Y.K., Wu, L.X. and Yu, H. (1998) "Pricing multi-asset options with an externalbarrier", International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, 1 (4): 523-541.

Wu, L.X., Kwok, Y.K. and Yu, H. (1999) "Asian options with the American early exercisefeature", International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, 2 (1): 101-111.

Fang, G.H., Kwok, Y.K., Yu, J. and Zhu, Y.H. (1999) "Numerical Simulation of PrincipalTidal Constituents in the South China Sea, Gulf of Tonkin and Gulf of Thailand",Continental Shelf Research, 19, 845-869.

Kwok, Y.K., Wong, H.Y.., and Lau, K.W. (in press) "Pricing algorithms of multivariate pathdependent options", Journal of Complexity.

KIN Y LI

Associate Professor




Complex function theory; Hilbert space operator theory; functional analysis.


Guillory, C. and Li, K.Y. (1998) "Algebras of Blaschke Products Unimodular on TrivialParts", Complex Variables,vol. 35, 307-318.

Ko, T., Li, K.Y., Kwok, K., Chu, W. and Lam, S. (1999) "International MathematicalOlympiad Preliminary Selection Contest (1988-1997)", Hong Kong Mathematical Society

WEI-PING LI

Associate Professor



Visiting Asst. Professor, Oklahoma State University (1991-92)


Algebraic geometry.


Moduli Spaces of Stable Sheaves, S-duality Conjectures of Vafa-Witten and VertexAlgebras

CERG HKUST6170/99P &nbspHK$405,000 &nbspDec 1999


Li, W.-P. and Qin, Z.-B. (1999) "On blowup formulae for the S-duality conjecture of Vafaand Witten", Inventiones Mathematicae, 136 (2): 451-482.

Li, W.-P. and Qin, Z.-B. (1998) "On blowup formulae for the S-duality conjecture of Vafaand Witten II: the universal functions", Mathematical Research Letters, 5, 439-453.

Li, W.-P. and Qin, Z.-B. (1998) "Vertex operator algebras and the blowup formula for theS-duality conjecture of Vafa and Witten", Mathematical Research Letters, 5, 791-798.

GUOWU MENG

Associate Professor


PhD, Brown University (1993)


Algebraic topology; differential topology; knot theory.


Meng, G. (in press) "The Seiberg-Witten Equations and The Milnor Torsion", Proceedingsof ICCM98, The Academy of Sciences of China, Beijing, 12-16 Dec. 1998.

MO MU

Associate Professor


PhD, Academia Sinica (1987)

Asst. Professor, Academia Sinica (1987)


Network and distributed computing; mathematical software; numerical solution to PDES.


Shi, Z., Mu, M., Zou, J. and Xue, W. (in press) Advances in Scientific Computing, ScientificPress, Beijing.

Mu, M. (in press) "Superconductor Simulation with Parallel Computing", Internat. J. Appl.Math.

Mu, M. (1999) "Solving Composite PDEs with Interface Relaxation", SIAM J. Sci. Comput.,20 (4): 1394-1416.

Mu, M. (in press) "Platform for building PDE-based problem solving environments",Advances in Scientific Computing, Scientific Press, Beijing.

Mu, M. and Huang, Y.Q. (in press) "Partition Property of Domain Decomposition without

Ellipticity", J. Computational Mathematics.

Mu, M., Deng, Y.F. and Chou, C. (1998) "Numerical Methods for SimulatingGinzburg-Landau Vortices", SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 19 (4): 1333-1339.

XIAOPING WANG

Associate Professor


PhD, New York University (1990


Nonlinear partial differential equations; applied and computational mathematics.


Mathematical Investigations Of Ultra-intense Laser Beam Propagation



Ren, W.Q. andWang, X.P. (2000) "An Iterative Grid Redistribution Method for SingularProblems in Multiple Dimensions", Journal of Computational Physics, 159, 246-273.

Chen, X. and Wang, X.P. (2000) "Phase Transition Near a Liquid-Gas CoexistenceEquilibrium", SIAM J. Appl. Math., 61, 454-471.

E, W. and Wang, X.P. (2000) "Numerical methods for the Landau-Lifshitz equation,", SIAMJ. Num. Analysis, 38, 1647-1655.

Guo, M.Z. and Wang, X.P. (1999) "Transport Equations for a General Class of EvolutionEquations with random perturbations", J. Math. Phys, 40 (10): 4828-4858.

Jian, H., Wang, X.-P. and Hsieh, D.Y. (1999) "The global attractor of a dissipativenonlinear evolution system", J. Math. Analy. Appl., 238, 124-142.

Wang, X.-P. (1998) "On the existence of non-trivial solutions for a scalar light-nematicsystem and its Frederiks transition threshold", SIAM J. Appl. Math, 58 (6): 1852-1861.

MIN YAN

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Chicago (1990)

Asst. Professor, Pennsylvania State University (1990-91)

Asst. Professor, University of Michigan (1991-92)


Intergrable systems; Hopf algebra; geometric topology; combinatorics.


Stratified approach to eulerian topology and combinatorics


Elementary and direct proofs of the Painleve property

DAG DAG00/01.SC23 HK$31,000 Jan 2001


Chen, B.F. and Yan, M. (1999) "Eulerian 2-strata Spaces", J. of Combinatorial Theory A,85, 1-28.

Yan, M. and Hu, J.S. (2000) "The Mirror Systems of Integrable Equations", Studies in App.Math, 104, 67-90

Yan, M. and Hu, J.S. (1999) "Singularity Analysis for Integrable Systems by their Mirrors",Nonlinearity, 12, 1531-1543.

Lu, J.H., Yan, M. and Zhu, Y.C. (2000) "On Set-theoretical Yang-Baxter Equations", DukeMath. Jour., 104, 1-18.

Lu, J.H., Yan, M. and Zhu, Y.C. (in press) "On Hopf Algebras with Positive Bases", Jour.of Algebra.

Lu, J.H., Yan, M. and Zhu, Y.C. (2000) "Quasi-triangular Structures on Hopf Algebra witha Positive Basis", Trends in Hopf Algebra Theory (eds. Andreuskiewitsch, N. et al.),339-356, AMS Press.

YONGCHANG ZHU

Associate Professor



Division Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology (1990-93)

Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1993-94)

Visiting Member, Max Planck Institute, Bonn (1994-95)


Infinite dimensional lie algebras; algebras and quantum groups; vertex operator algebras;conformal field theory.


Cocycles of quantum groups and finite group algebras

DAG DAG99/00.SC26 HK$47,500 Oct 1999

Structure And Applications Of Finite Dimensional Hopf Algebras


KANI CHEN

Assistant Professor



Visiting Asst. Professor, Columbia University (1994)


Survival analysis; sequential analysis; bootstrapping; empirical process; stochastic modeling;missing data and EM algorithm.


Regression with response-biased sampling

DAG DAG99/00.SC20 HK$47,500 Nov 1999

Case-control studies of recurrent event times

DAG DAG00/01.SC18 HK$30,400 Dec 2000


Chen, K.-N. and Ying, Z.-L. (1999) "A note on uniform consistency of the product-limitestimator with staggered entry", Statistics and Probability Letters, 42 (1): 275-281.

Chen, K. and Lo, S.-H. (1999) "Case-Cohort and Case-Control Analysis with Cox's Model",Biometrika, 86 (4): 755-764.

Chen, K., Hu, I. and Ying, Z. (1999) "Strong Consistency of Maximum Quasi-LikelihoodEstimators in Generalized Linear Models with Fixed and Adaptive Designs", Annals ofStatistics, 27 (4): 1155-1163

YIK MAN CHIANG

Lecturer


PhD, University of London (1991)

Lecturer, Bolton Institute, UK (1991-92)

Chief Research Assistant, University of Joensuu, Finland (1992-96)


Complex function theory; ordinary differential equations in the complex plane.


Chiang, Y.-M. and Laine, I. (1998) "Some Oscillation Results for Linear DifferentialEquations in the Complex Plane", Japanese Journal of Mathematics, 24 (2): 367-402.

Chiang, Y.-M. (2000) "On the zero-free solutions of linear periodic differential equations inthe complex phase", Results in Mathematics, 38: 213-225.

Chiang, Y.-M. (1998) "Uniformal Estimates on the Growth of Entire and MeromorphicSolutions of Linear Differential Equations", working paper

SHIQING LING

Assistant Professor



Postdoctor, University of Western Australia (1997-00)


Large sample theory; empirical processes; nonstationary time series; nonlinear time series;long memory time series; econometrics.

SHIU-HONG LUI

Assistant Professor


PhD, California Institute of Technology (1992)


Numerical analysis; differential equations.


Schwarz method for nonlinear partial differential equations

DAG DAG98/99.SC19 HK$30,000 Jun 1999

Schwarz Methods For Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations



Lui, S.H. (1999) "Multiple bifurcation from 'Simple' Eigenvalues", Applied Mathematicsand Computation, 100, 111-130.

Lui, S.H. (2000) "On Schwarz Alternating Methods for Nonlinear Elliptic PDEs", SIAM J.Sci. Comput., 21, 1506-1523.

Lui, S.H. (1998) "Kron's Method for Symmetric Eigenvalue Problems", Journal ofComputational and Applied Mathematics, 98, 35-48.

Lui, S.H.(2000) "Domain Decomposition Methods for Eigenvalue Problems", Journal ofComputational and Applied Math., 117, 17-34.

Lui, S.H. (in press) "On Schwarz Alternating Methods for the Incompressible Navier-StokesEquations", SIAM J. Sci. Comput.

Lui, S.H. (in press) "On Monotone and Schwarz Alternating Methods for Nonlinear EllipticPDEs", Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis.

JIAN-MIN MAO

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Houston (1985)

Postdoctoral Fellow, La Jolla Institute (1985-87)


Chaos and nonlinear dynamics; Hamiltonian bifurcation theory; mathematical physics;scientific computation.


A new type of instability in nonlinear partial differential equations

DAG DAG99/00.SC23 HK$47,500 Nov 1999


Mao, J.-M. (2000) "A condition for an area-preserving mapping to be in the Engel's form",Journal of Mathematical Physics, 41 (5): 3226-3232.

Mao, J.-M., Liu, Z.R. and Cao, Y.L. (1999) "Constructing New Periodic Exact Solutions ofEvolution Equations", Physical Review E, 60 (4): 3589-3596.

Zhao, Y.-L., Du, M.-L. and Mao, J.-M. (1999) "Formula for Laser PulsePhoto-Detachments of Negative Ions", Journal of Physics B, 32, 1409-1417.

Yu, T. and Mao, J.-M. (2000) "Drifting of solution pattern for the nonlinear Schrodingerequation", J. Phys. A: Math. Gen., 33, 9119-9130.

Mao, J.-M., Liu, Z.R. and Yang, L. (2000) "Straight-line stabilization", Phys. Rev. E, 62,4846-4849.

Yang, L., Liu, Z.R. and Mao, J.-M. (2000) "Controlling Hyperchaos", Phys. Rev. Lett., 84,67-70.

YUANWEI QI

Lecturer


PhD, University of Oxford (1990)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford (1990)

Visiting Asst. Professor, Iowa State University (1990-91)


Differential equations; scientific computation.


Analytical solutions for a class of optimal portfolio problems

DAG DAG97/98.SC17 HK$56,755 Jan 1998

The Dynamics Of Doubly-singular Parabolic Equations With Absorption


A multi-factor stock valuation model

DAG DAG00/01.SC20 HK$30,000 Dec 2000


Qi, Y.W. (1998) "The existence and non-existence theorems for ground states of nonlinearelliptic systems", Communications of Partial Differential Equations, 23 (9 & 10):1749-1780.

Qi, Y.W. (in press) "The existence of ground states to a weakly-coupled elliptic system",Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, methods and Applications.

Qi, Y.W. (in press) "The non-existence of singular solutions to nonlinear elliptic systems",Differential and Integral Equations.

Qi, Y.W. and Wang, M.X. (1999) "The global existence and finite time extinction of aquasilinear parabolic equation", Advances in Differential Equations, 4 (5): 731-753.

Chen, X.F., Qi, Y.W. and Wang, M.X. (in press) "Self-similar singular solutions of ap-Laplacian evolution equation with absorption", Journal of Differential Equations.

Pan, X.B. and Qi, Y.W. (in press) "Asymptotics of minimizers of variational problemsinvolving curl functional", Journal of Mathematical Physics

WONG MAN YU

Assistant Professor



Lecturer, Hong Kong Polytechnic (1984-87)

Statistician, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (1989-92)


Error in variables model; statistical inference; generalized linear models; biostatistics.


Statistical methods in nutritional epidemiology

JRS JRS98/41 HK$77,700 Mar 1998

Measurement error in epidemiology

DAG DAG97/98.SC20 HK$73,780 Apr 1998

Trends in cancer mortality

DAG DAG98/99.SC20 HK$31,000 Mar 1999


Wong, M.Y. and Cox, D.R. (1998) "A note on the robust interpretation of regressioncoefficients", Test, 7, 287-294.

Wong, M.Y. and Day, N.E. (in press) "Validation studies in epidemiology: the relativeprecision of different designs", Journal of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

Wong, M.Y., Day, N.E. and Wareham, N.J. (1999) "Measurement error in epidemiology:the design of validation studies II: bivariate situation", Statistics in Medicine, 18, 2830-2845.

Wong, M.Y., Day, N.E., Bashir, S.A. and Duffy, S.W. (1999) "Measurement error inepidemiology: the design of validation studies I: univariate situation", Statistics in Medicine,18, 2815-2829.

Wareham, N.J., Wong, M.Y. and Day, N.E. (2000) "Glucose intolerance and physicalinactivity: the relative importance of low habitual energy expenditure and cardio-respiratoryfitness", American Journal of Epidemiology, 152, 132-139.

Wareham, N.J., Wong, M.Y., Hennings, S., Mitchell, J., Rennie, K., Cruickshank, K. andDay, N.E. (2000) "Quantifying the association between habitual energy expenditure and

blood pressure", International Journal Epidemiology, 29, 655-660.

LIXIN WU

Lecturer


PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (1991)

Asst. Professor, University of California, Los Angeles (1991-92)


Numerical analysis; computational fluid dynamics; finance mathematics.


Mathematical modeling of soft-barrier options

DAG DAG99/00.SC24 HK$47,500 Dec 1999

Modeling the correlation of default with finite-state Markov process

DAG DAG00/01.SC22 HK$31,000 Dec 2000


Dai, M., Kwok, Y.-K. and Wu, L. (in press) "Shout Options", Review of Financial Studies.

Avellaneda, M. and Wu, L. (in press) "Credit Contagion - Pricing the Cross Country Risk inthe Brady Debt Markets", Int'l. J. of Theoret. and Appl. Fin..

Kwok, Y.-K. and Wu, L. (2000) "Effects of callable feature on early exercise policy",Review of Derivative Research, 4: 189-211.

Avellaneda, M. and Wu, L. (1999) "Pricing Parisian Options with A Trinomial Method",International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, 2 (1): 1-16.

Wu, L., Kwok, Y.K. and Yu, H. (1999) "Asian Options with American Early Exercise",International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, 2 (1): 101-111.

Kwok, Y.K., Wu, L. and Yu, H. (1998) "Multi-Asset Options with External Barriers",International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, 1 (4): 523-541.

KUN XU

Lecturer



Research Associate, Princeton University (1993-96)

Research Staff, Princeton University (1996)

Visiting Scientist, NASA Langley Research Center (summers since 1996)


Computational fluid dynamics; gas kinetic schemes; rarefied gas; heat transfer.


Gas-kinetic method for multiphase flows

DAG DAG98/99.SC22 HK$50,000 Jan 1999

Gas-kinetic Methods For Computational Fluid Dynamics



Lian, Y.S. and Xu, K. (2000) "A Gas-kinetic scheme for multimaterial flows and itsapplication in chemical reaction", Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 163, 349-375.

Xu, K. (1999) "A gas-kinetic scheme for the Euler equations with heat transfer", SIAM J. onScientific Computing, 40 (4): 1317-1335.

Xu, K. (1999) "Gas-kinetic theory-based flux splitting method for idealmagnetohydrodynamics", Journal of Computational Physics, 153 (2): 334-352.

Xu, K. and Lui, S.H. (1999) "Rayleigh-Benard simulation using gas-kinetic BGK scheme inthe incompressible limit", Physical Review E, 60 (1): 464-470.

Xu, K. (1999) "Gas-kinetic theory based flux splitting method for idealmagnetohydrodynamics", Journal Computational Physics, 153 (2): 334-352.

Su, M.D., Xu, K. and Ghidaoui, M. (1999) "Low speed flow simulation by the gas-kineticscheme", Journal of Computational Physics, 150 (1): 17-39.

XIAOPING XU

Lecturer


PhD, Rutgers University (1992)


Lie algebras; vertex operator algebras; self-dual lattices and codes; discrete groups;Hamiltonian operators and related algebraic structures; Yang-Baxter equations; groupinvariants.


Functional invariants on symmetric spaces

DAG DAG99/00.SC25 HK$47,500 Mar 2000

Structure And Representation Theory Of Simple Vertex Operator Superalgebras DeterminedBy Their Subspaces Of Small Weights



Xu, X.P. (1998) Introduction to Vertex Operator Superalgebras and Their Modules, KluwerAcademic Publishers, Dorgdecht, the Netherlands.

Xu, X. (1999) "Generalizations of the Block Algebras", Manuscripta Mathematica, 100,489-518.

Xu, X. (2000) "New Generalized simple Lie algebras of Cartan type over a field withcharacteristic 0", Journal of Algebra, 224, 23-58.

Xu, X. (2000) "Variational Calculus of Supervariables and Related Algebraic Structures",Journal of Algebra, 223, 396-437.

Xu, X. (2000) "Simple Conformal Superalgebras of Finite Growth", Algebra Colloquium, 7(2): 205-240.

Xu, X.P. (1998) "Differential Invariants of Classical Groups", Duke Mathematical Journal,94 (3): 543-572.

Department of Physics

As a fundamental science, physics presents major challenges to the human mind, and theprinciples of physics serve as a foundation for engineering and other sciences. The newtechnologies that physics has spawned are so ingrained in our civilization that their scientificorigins are often overlooked. The discoveries of the principles of solid-state transistors,which led to the miniaturization of electronic devices, or atomic hyperfine structure andsuperconductivity, which made possible nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging, and ofthe laser, which underpins present-day information technology are but a few examples. Inaddition to directly generating technological innovation, physics are indirectly supportsprogress throughout society by providing tools with which people in other fields createinnovations.

Of all areas, condensed matter physics (CMP) and optical physics have the greatest impacton our daily lives. It is thus natural that the Department places research emphasis on thesefields. Programs include both experimental and theoretical aspects of linear and non-linearoptics, low-dimensional systems, mesoscopic systems, microstructured and nanostructuredmaterials, and surfaces and interfaces. A program of regular visiting faculty members andscholars in the other sepecialities helps ensure a breadth of coverage.

FacilitiesA number of central service facilities and interdisciplinary research institutes provide supportfor the Department's research programs. Particularly relevant are the centers for MaterialsCharacterization and Preparation, Microelectronic Fabrication, Com putting Services andTelecommunications, and the research institutes for Information Technology, AdvancedMaterials, Microsystems, and Scientific Computation. Facilities for scientific computationinclude optical-fibre distributive networks, various workstations, and a parallel processingcomputer. The Department has laboratories for laser physics, photonics, new thin-filmmaterials, surface/interface studies, solid state properties, polymers and liquid crystals, x-rayoptics, semiconductor clusters, and non-linear dynamics. The Zheng Ge Ru Thin FilmPhysics Laboratory, the Joyce M. Kuok Laser and Photonics Laboratory, and the WilliamMong Semiconductor Clusters Laboratory form a nucleus for HKUST's Advanced MaterialsResearch Institute.

Research Profile

PING SHENG


LEROY L CHANG

University Professor

NELSON CUE

Professor and Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs; Director, Office of Continuing& Professional Education; Director, HKUST College of Lifelong Learning, Ltd..

PETER N DOBSON, JR

Professor and Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs

MICHAEL M LOY

Professor and Dean of Science

GEORGE K L WONG

Professor; Director, Materials Characterization and Preparation Facility and Director,Liquid Helium Facility

CHIA-WEI WOO

Professor and President of the University

MICHAEL S ALTMAN

Associate Professor

CHE-TING CHAN

Associate Professor

KWOK KWONG FUNG

Senior Lecturer

WEIKUN GE

Senior Lecturer

PAK-WO LEUNG

Associate Professor

TAI-KAI NG

Associate Professor

IAM KEONG SOU

Associate Professor

KWOK-YIP SZETO

Associate Professor

WING YIM TAM

Associate Professor

JIANNONG WANG

Associate Professor

XIANGRONG WANG

Associate Professor

KAM-SING WONG

Associate Professor

MICHAEL K Y WONG

Associate Professor

XU-DONG XIAO

Assistant Professor

ZHIYU YANG

Associate Professor

ZHAO QING ZHANG

Associate Professor

BRADLEY A FOREMAN

Assistant Professor

ZI KANG TANG

Lecturer

OPHELIA K C TSUI

Assistant Professor

NING WANG

Assistant Professor

WANG XUE-SEN

Assistant Professor

YUQI WANG

Lecturer

WEI-JIA WEN

Assistant Professor

ZHANG XIXIANG

Assistant Professor

Research Profile

PING SHENG



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


Physics of disordered materials; complex fluids; liquid crystals; wave localisation andmultiple scattering; physics of composites.


Nanostructured materials

AOE AOE97/98.SC01 HK$285,346 Apr 1998

Development of new liquid crystal display products and technologies

ITC AF/175/98 HK$12,135,000 Jan 1999

Physics and chemistry of nanostructure materials

CF ASI98/99.SC01 HK$600,000 Jan 1999

Emerging High Impact Area of Nanostructures

HIA HIA98/99.SC01 HK$2,600,000 Jan 1999

China Program on CAS-HKUST joint institute on nanostructured materials

CP CP98/99.SC02 HK$700,000 Apr 1999

China Program on collaboration with Zhejiang University

CP CP98/99.SC03 HK$200,000 Apr 1999

Fifth international conference on the Electrical Transport and Optical Properties ofInhomogeneous Media (ETOPIM5)

CF CF98/99.SC02 HK$100,000 Jun 1999

The Fifth International Conference on the Electrical Transport and Optical Properties ofInhomogeneous Media (Etopim5)

KCWE KCWEF97/98.SC01 HK$75,000 Jun 1999

Elastic wave bandgap material with tunable scatterers

DAG DAG99/00.SC30 HK$62,000 Nov 1999

CAS-UST nanostructure materials and technology joint lab

CMI CMI99/00.SC04 HK$600,000 Apr 2000

Elastic Wave Bandgap From Tunable Scatterers



Dyrting, S., Fang, H.P., Szeto, K.Y. and Sheng, P. (1999) "Tunneling States in TetrahedrallyBonded Amorphous Semiconductors", Europhysics Lett., 48, 403-409.

Wen, W., Wang, N., Ma, H., Lin, Z., Tam, W.Y., Chan, C.T. and Sheng, P. (1999) "FieldInduced Structural Transition in Mesocrystallites", Phys. Rev. Lett., 82 (21): 4248-4251.

Yi, L. and Sheng, P. (2000) "Breit Interaction, Level Spacing Statistics and Far-infraredAbsorption in Small Metal Clusters", Solid State Communications, 114, 177-192.

Zhang, W.Y., Lei, X.Y., Wang, Z.L., Zheng, D.G., Tam, W.Y., Chan, C.T. and Sheng, P.(2000) "Robust Photonic Band Gap from Tunable Scatterers", Phys. Rev. Lett., 84,2853-2856.

Zhou, L., Wen, W. and Sheng, P. (1998) "Ground States of Magnetorheological Fluids",Phys. Rev. Lett., 81, 1509-1512.

Liu, Z., Zhang, X., Mao, Y., Zhu, Y.Y., Yang, Z., Chan, C.T. and Sheng, P. (2000) "LocallyResonant Sonic Materials", Science, 289, 1734-1736.

LEROY L CHANG

University Professor


PhD, Stanford University (1963)Manager, Quantum Structures, Molecular Beam Epitaxy, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center(1975-92)


Semiconductor physics, materials, and devices.

NELSON CUE

Professor and Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs;Director, Office of Continuing & Professional Education; Director,HKUST College of Lifelong Learning, Ltd..


PhD, University of Washington (1967)Research Associate, State University of New York at Stony Brook (1968-70)Professor of Physics, State University of New York at Albany (1982-90)Chairman of Physics, State University of New York at Albany (1984-90)


X-ray optics; nanostructured materials; strong-field QED and coherent processes in alignedcrystals; channeling of heavy ions; ion beam analysis; active learning.


Transmission of fast charged particles through carbon nanotubes in zeolites and in etched iontracks

F-HK F-HK98/99.SC04 HK$32,000 Mar 1999

Scanning tunneling microscopy of endohedral metallofullerenes

G-HK G-HK99/00.SC03 HK$29,330 May 2000


Lin, N., Huang, H.J., Yang, S.H. and Cue, N. (1998) "Nucleation of endohedralmetallofullerene Nd@C82 on C60 films", Physical Review B, 58 (4): 2126-30.

Zhai, G.J., Yang, J.S., Cue, N. and Wang, X.S. (2000) "Surface Structures of Silicon NitrideThin Films on Si(111)", Thin Solid Films, 366 (1-2): 121-128.

Chevallier, M., Cohen, C., Cue, N., Dauvergne, D., Dural, J., Gangnan, P., Kirsch, R. andL'hoir, A. (2000) "Upper-Limit Determination of Resonant Trielectronic RecombinationCross-Section for Krypton Using Crystal Channelling", Physical Review A, 61 (2):022724/1-6.

Cue, N. (1999) "A Universal Learning Tool for Classrooms?", Quality in Teaching &Learning in Higher Education, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK, 186-191. [ISBN962-367-267-5].

Wang, K.M., Shi, B.R, Cue, N. Meng, M.Q., Lu, F., Wang, F.X., Li, W. and Shen, D.Y.(2000) "Range straggling and lateral spread of MeV Au+ ions in LiB3O5 andSiN1.375H0.625", Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 33: 1764-1767.

Wang, K.M., Hu, H., Chen, F., Shi, B.R., Cue, N., Wong, P.C.L., Wong, C.Y.C and Shen,D.Y (2000) "Concentration profile of MeV Ni+ ions in LiNbO3 and KTiOPO4 determined

by SIMS.", Solid State Communications, 166: 551-555.

PETER N DOBSON, JR

Professor and Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs


PhD, University of Maryland (1965)Professor of Physics, University of Hawaii at Manoa (1975-1991)Assistant Vice-President for Academic Affairs, University of Hawaii (1981-1985)


Theoretical high energy physics; quantum field theory, relativistic stellar models.


Mak, M.K., Dobson, P.N. and Harko, T. (2000) "Maximum Mass-Radius Ratio for CompactGeneral Relativistic Objects in Schwarzschild-de Sitter Geometry", Mod. Phy. Lett. A, vol.15, no. 35, 2153-2158.

MICHAEL M LOY

Professor and Dean of Science


PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1971)Research Staff Member and Manager, IBM Research (1971-86)Technical Planning Staff for Director of Research, IBM Research (1986-87)Senior Manager, IBM Research (1987-93)


Nonlinear optical propagation effects; two-photon coherent transients; nonlinear opticalstudies of surfaces; state-selective studies of molecule-surface interactions.



RCA CA97/98.SC01 HK$2,300,000 Jul 1998


ITC AF/175/98 HK$12,135,000 Jan 1999

Hydrogen Diffusion On Stepped Pt (111) Surfaces


GEORGE K L WONG

Professor; Director, Materials Characterization and PreparationFacility and Director, Liquid Helium Facility


PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1974)Research Associate, University of California, Berkeley (1974)Professor of Physics, Northwestern University (1989-96)


Nonlinear optics; optical properties of quantum wells and superlattices; nanostructures ofsemiconductors, ferroelectrics, polymers, and organic materials.


Microstructure-enhanced Large Third-order Optical Nonlinearity In MetalNanocluster-doped Dielectric Composite Films



Guo, L., Yang, S., Yang, C., Wang, J., Ge, W.K. and Wong, G.K.L. (2000) "Highlymondisperse polymer-capped ZnO nanoparticles: Preparation and optical properties",Applied Physics Letters, 76 (20): 2901-3.

Ma, Z.H., Sou, I.K., Wong, K.S., Yang, Z. and Wong, G.K.L. (1998) "ZnSTe-basedSchottky Barrier Ultraviolet Detectors With Nanosecond Response Time", Applied PhysicsLetters, 73 (16): 2251.

Ma, Z.H., Sun, W.D., Sou, I.K. and Wong, G.K.L. (1998) "Atomic Force MicroscopyStudies of ZnSe Self-organized Dots Fabricated on ZnS/GaP", Applied Physics Letters, 73(10): 1340.

Sou, I.K., Ma, Z.H. and Wong, G.K.L. (1999) "Photoresponse studies of ZnSSevisible-blind ultraviolet detectors: A comparison to ZnSTe detectors", Applied PhysicsLetters, 75 (23): 3707-9.

Wong, K.S., Wang, H., Yang, Z., Sou, I.K. and Wong, G.K.L. (1999) "ZnSe/GaAs InterfaceState Probed by Time-resolved Reflectance Difference Spectroscopy", Applied PhysicsLetters, 74 (24): 3663.

Zhang, W., Wang, H., Wong, K.S., Tang, Z.K., Wong, G.K.L. and Jain, R. (1999)"Third-order optical nonlinearity in ZnO microcrystallite thin films", Applied PhysicsLetters, 75 (21): 3321-3.

CHIA-WEI WOO

Professor and President of the University


PhD, Washington University (1966)Asst Research Physicist, University of California, San Diego (1966-68)Provost and Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego (1979-83)President and Professor of Physics, San Francisco State University (1983-88)


Quantum many-body theory; low temperature physics; surface physics; liquid crystals;technology transfer and economic development.

MICHAEL S ALTMAN

Associate Professor


PhD, Brown University (1988)Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Technische Universität Clausthal (1988-90)Visiting Scientist, IBM Almaden Research Center (1990-91)


Surface physics; epitaxial growth; low energy electron microscopy and diffraction; fieldemission.


The quantum size effect in electron reflectivity from thin films


Spin Polarized Vacuum Tunneling From Magnetic Thin Films



Altman, M.S., Chung, W.F. and Liu, C.H. (1998) "LEEM Phase Contrast", Surface Reviewand Letters, 5 (6): 1129-1141.

Altman, M.S., Chung, W.F., He, Z.Q., Poon, H.C. and Tong, S.Y. (2001) "Quantum SizeEffect in Low Energy Electron Diffraction from Thin Films", Applied Surface Science, vol.169/170, 81-86.

Chung, W.F. and Altman, M.S. (1998) "Step Contrast in Low Energy ElectronMicroscopy", Ultramicroscopy, 74 (4): 237-246.

Wu, D., Lau, W.K., He, Z.Q., Feng, Y.J., Altman, M.S. and Chan, C.T. (2000) "OrderedAlloying of Pd with the Mo(100) Surface", Physical Review B, 62(12): 8366-8375.

Bartos, I., Van Hove, M.A., Chung, W.F., He, Z.Q. and Altman, M.S. (1998) "Ag(111)Electron Band Structure and Channeling by VLEED", Surface Science, 402-404: 697-700.

Poon, H.C., Tong, S.Y., Chung, W.F. and Altman, M.S. (1998) "Low Energy ElectronDiffraction Analysis of Ultrathin Ag Films on W(110)", Surface Review and Letters, 5 (6):1143-1149.

CHE-TING CHAN

Associate Professor


PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1985)Postdoctoral Fellow, Ames Laboratory-USDOE (1986-88)Physicist, Ames Laboratory-USDOE (1992-95)


Application of first principles in studying the electronic, structural, and other physicalproperties of matter; surface physics; photonic band gaps.


Effect of external electric field and surface charging on surface properties


Emerging High Impact Area of Computational Science

HIA HIA98/99.SC04 HK$1,840,000 Jan 1999

Optical Properties Of Self-assembled Photonic Band Gap Systems Consisting OfMultiply-coated Particles


Multiple-scattering Theory In Real Space And The Quantitative Theory Of Photo-inducedInteractions



Che, J.G., Zhu, Z.Z. and Chan, C.T. (1999) "Change of ground state configuration inducedby the Stark shift of surface states in some bcc(001) surfaces", Physical Review Letters, 82(16): 3292-5.

Liu, Z.Y., Zhang, X.X., Mao, Y., Zhu, Y.Y., Yang, Z., Chan, C.T. and Sheng, P. (2000)"Subwavelength sonic bandgap material", Science, 28, 1734.

Wen, W., Wang, N., Ma, H., Lin, Z., Tam, W.Y., Chan, C.T. and Ping, S. (1999) "Fieldinduced structural transition in mesocrystallites", Physical Review Letters, 82 (21): 4248-51.

Zhang, W.Y., Lei, X.Y., Wang, Z.L., Zheng, D.G., Tam, W.Y., Chan, C.T. and Sheng, P.(2000) "Robust Photonic band gap from tunable scatterers", Physical Review Letters, 84(13): 2853-6.

K. Deng, Yang, J.L. and Chan, C.T. (2000) "Calculated polarizabilities of small Si clusters",Physical Review A, 61 (2): 025201/1-4.

Cheng, S.S.M., Li, L.M., Chan, C.T. and Zhang, Z.Q. (1999) "Defect and transmissionproperties of two dimensional quasi-periodic photonic band gap systems", Physical ReviewB, 59: 4901-4099.

KWOK KWONG FUNG

Senior Lecturer


PhD, University of Bristol (1979)Research Professor and Deputy Director, Beijing Laboratory of Electron Microscopy(1985-91)


Characterization of crystal structures and crystal defects by transmission electronmicroscopy; passive oxide films on nanocrystals of metals; magnetic alloys; quasicrystals;semiconductor multilayers.


High resolution transmission electron microscopy study of nanostructured magneticmaterials

DAG DAG97/98.SC22 HK$73,780 Jun 1998


ITC AF/155/99 HK$10,060,000 Oct 1999

High resolution transmission electron microscopy study of protective oxide films onnanocrystals of stainless steel

DAG DAG99/00.SC28 HK$45,000 Feb 2000

High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy And Conductivity Study Of IsolatedAnd Embedded Metallic Nanoparticles



Kwok, Y.S., Zhang, X.X., Qin, B. and Fung, K.K. (2000) "High resolution transmissionelectron microscopy study of epitaxial oxide shell on nanoparticles of iron", Appl. Phys.Lett., 77, 3971-3973.

Fung, K.K., Qin, B. and Zhang, X.X. (2000) "Passivation of alpha-Fe nanoparticles byepitaxial gamma-Fe2O3 shell", Mater. Sci. Eng. A, 286 (1): 135-138.

Fung, K.K. and Wang, N. (2000) "Transmission electron microscopy study of intersectingstacking faults in ZnSe/GaAs(001) epilayers and (SiGe)/Si(001) multilayers", Defects andDiffusion in Semiconductors, 183, 215-230.

Wang, N., Fung, K.K. and Sou, I.K. (2000) "Direct observation of stacking fault nucleationin the early stage of ZnSe/GaAs pseudomorphic epitaxial layer growth", Appl. Phys. Lett.,77, 2846-2848.

Xu, L., Wang, N., Lee, S.T. and Fung, K.K. (2000) "Electron diffraction study ofoctagonal-cubic phase transitions in Mn-Si-Al", Phys. Rev. B, 62, 3078-3082.

Wang, N, Fung, K.K., Zhang, X.F., Geng, J.B., Wang, P.K. and Lee, S.T. (1999)"Transmission electron microscopy study of cross-sections of magnetoresistive read heads",Phil. Mag. A, 79 (1): 107-112.

WEIKUN GE

Senior Lecturer


PhD, University of Manchester (1983)Research Associate, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1984-85)


Semiconductor physics: heterostructures, nanostructures, and defects; optical properties.


Alloying vs. isoelectronic doping in tertiary semiconductor alloys


Optical study of ultrathin III-V quantum wells: Application to multicolour displays

G-HK G-HK98/99.SC07 HK$30,000 Apr 1999

CAS-UST nanostructure materials and technology joint lab

CMI CMI99/00.SC04 HK$600,000 Apr 2000

Development Of Nanostructured Polymeric Materials And Devices For Converting Light ToElectricity --- Solar Cells And Photo-detectors



Huang, Y.M., Ge, W.K., Lam, J.W.Y. and Tang, B.Z. (1999) "Efficient Photoluminescenceof Monosubstituted Polyacetylenes", Appl. Phys. Lett., 75, 4094-6.

Huang, Y.M., Lam, J.W.Y., Cheuk, K.K.L., Ge, W.K. and Tang, B.Z. (1999) "StrongLuminescence from Poly(1-alkynes)", Macromolecules, 32, 5976-8.

Lu, L.W., Zhang, Y.H., Yang, G.W., Wang, J.N. and Ge, W.K. (1998) "Threshold reductionin strained-layer InGaAs/GaAs quantum well lasers by liquid phase epitaxy regrowth",Journal of Crystal Growth, 194, 25-30.

Lu, Z.D, Xu, J.Z., Zheng, B.Z., Xu, Z.Y. and Ge, W.K. (1999) "Effect of growthinterruption on the optical properties of InAs/GaAs quantum dots", Solid St. Commun., 109,649-653.

Li, Q., Xu, Z.Y. and Ge, W.K. (2000) "Carrier capture into InAs/GaAs quantum dotsdetected by a simple degenerate pump-probe technique", Solid State Communications, 115,105-108.

Zhang, Y, and Ge, W.K. (2000) "Behavior of nitrogen impurities in II-V semiconductors", J.Luminescence, 85, 247-260.

PAK-WO LEUNG

Associate Professor



Postdoctoral Research Associate, Florida State University (1990-92)


Computational condensed matter physics; low-dimension quantum spin systems.


A systematic numerical study of high temperature superconductors with a small number ofcharge carries


Numerical studies of frustrated and dimerized quantum magnetic systems in low dimensions

F-HK F-HK98/99.SC05 HK$59,000 Mar 1999

Numerical Studies Of Finite Temperature Properties Of High Temperature Superconductors



Leung, P.W. (in press) "Signatures of a staggered-flux phase in the t-J model with two holeson a 32-site lattice", Physical Review B - Rapid Communications.

Yin, W.-G., Gong, C.-D. and Leung, P.W. (1998) "Origin of the Extended Van Hove regionin Cuprate Superconductors", Physical Review Letters, 81 (12): 2534-2537.

Chernyshev, A.L. and Leung, P.W. (in press) "Holes in the t-Jz model", Physical Review B.

Chernyshev, A.L. and Leung, P.W. (1999) "Holes in the t-Jz model: a diagrammatic study",Physical Review B, 60, 1592-1606.

Chernyshev, A.L., Leung, P.W. and Gooding, R.J. (1998) "Comprehensive numerical andanalytical study of two holes doped into the two-dimensional t-J model", Physical Review B,58 (20): 13594-13613.

Chernyshev, A.L., Leung, P.W. and Gooding, R.J. (1998) "A numerical and analytical studyof two holes doped into the 2D t-J model", Journal of Physics & Chemistry of Solids, 59(10-12): 1815-1817.

TAI-KAI NG

Associate Professor


PhD, Northwestern University (1987)Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1987-89)Postdoctoral Associate, AT&T Bell Laboratories (1989-91)


Mesoscopic physics; non-equilibrium quantum mechanical phenomena; quantum spinsystems; strongly correlated metals.


Topological disorder in quantum hall ferromagnets and quantum spin

JRS JRS98/40 HK$71,875 Apr 1998

Magnetic superconductors


Topological spin and charge excitations in zero-doping limit of t-J model

DAG DAG99/00.SC29 HK$62,000 Dec 1999

Coulomb Blockade And Quantum Effects In Granular Systems



Liu, Y.L. and Ng, T.K. (1999) "A model of marginal Fermi liquid superconductor at twodimensions", Physical Review Letters, 83, 3504.

Ng, T.K. (1999) "Topological spin excitations of Heisenberg antiferromagnets in twodimensions", Physical Review Letters, 82 (17): 3504-3507.

Ng, T.K. and Cheng, C.H. (1999) "Supersymmetry in models with strong on-site Coulombrepulsion: Application to Heisenberg model", Physical Review B (Rapid Communication),59 (10): 6616-6619.

Ng, T.K. and Varma, C.M. (1998) "Spin and vortex dynamics and electromagneticpropagation in the spontaneous vortex phase", Physical Review B, 58 (17): 11624-11630.

Wong, S.K., Zhao, B., Ng, T.K., Jing, X.N., Yan, X. and Hui, P.M. (in press) "Aphenomenological model for percolating magnetic nanostructures", Journal of Europhysics.

Lee, P.A., Nagaosa, N., Ng, T.K. and Wen, X.G. (1998) "SU(2) theory of undoped High-Tccuprates", Physical Review B, 57, 6003-6011.

IAM KEONG SOU

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Illinois, Chicago (1990)

Research Associate, University of Illinois, Chicago (1990-91)


Thin film growth by molecular beam epitaxy; II-VI semiconductor quantum structures;visible optoelectronic devices; structural and transport properties of thin films.


II-VI Alloy Based Tunable UV Photodetectors


Visible-blind ultra-violet liquid crystal light valve



Ma, Z.H., Smith, T. and Sou, I.K. (1999) "Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy Study of AlDiffusion in Sandwich-ZnSTe Structures Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy", Journal ofApplied Physics, 86 (5): 2505-2508.

Ma, Z.H., Sou, I.K., Wong, K.S., Yang, Z. and Wong, G.K.L. (1998) "ZnSTe-basedSchottky Barrier Ultraviolet Detectors with Nanosecond Response Time", Applied PhysicsLetters, 73 (16): 2251-2253.

Ma, Z.H., Sun, W.D., Sou, I.K. and Wong, G.K.L. (1998) "Atomic Force MicroscopyStudies of ZnSe Self-organized Dots Fabricated on ZnS/GaP", Applied Physics Letters, 73(10): 1340-1342.

Sou, I.K., Ma, Z.H. and Wong, G.K.L. (1999) "Photoresponse studies of ZnSSevisible-blind ultraviolet detectors: a comparison to ZnSTe detectors", Applied PhysicsLetters, 75 (23): 3707-3709.

Sou, I.K., Ma, Z.H., Zhang, Z.Q. and Wong, G.K.L. (2000) "Temperature Dependence ofthe Responsivity of II-VI ultraviolet photodiodes", Applied Physics Letters, 76 (9):1098-1100.

Wong, K.S., Wang, H., Yang, Z., Sou, I.K. and Wong, G.K.L. (1999) "ZnSe/GaAs InterfaceState Probed by Time-resolved Reflectance Difference Spectroscopy", Applied PhysicsLetters, 74 (24): 3663-3665.

KWOK-YIP SZETO

Associate Professor



Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto (1985-86)Postdoctoral Fellow, KFA, Juelich, Germany (1986-87)Asst. Professor of Physics, York University (1987-91)


Pattern formation in complex systems; Evolution; Two-dimensional cellular systems;Genetic algorithm; Multi-agents systems; Data mining; Bioinformatics; Artificial life;Frustrated spin systems; Quasicrystal growth.


Universal topological properties in two-dimensional cellular structures


Theoretical studies of pattern recognition in bioinformatics

DAG DAG98/99.SC25 HK$60,000 Feb 1999

Development of the SNP-based fingerprinting and disease pattern recognition using thepatented DNA technology developed in Hong Kong

ITC AF/204/99 HK$136,720 Sep 1999

Interdisciplinary Research On The Topological Characteristics Of Point Patterns GeneratedBy Agent Dynamics



Dyrting, S., Fang, H.-P., Szeto, K.Y. and Sheng, P. (1999) "Tunneling states in tetrahedrallybonded amorphous semiconductors", Europhysics Letters, 48 (4): 403-409.

Dubertret, B., Szeto, K.-Y. and Tam, W.Y. (1999) "T1-Correlations in Two-dimensionalCellular Systems", Europhysics Letters, 45 (2): 143-148.

Szeto, K.-Y., Aste, T. and Tam, W.Y. (1999) "Topological Correlations in Soap Froths",Physical Review E, 58 ( 2): 2656-2659.

Jiang, R., Szeto, K.Y., Luo, Y, Hu, D. (2000) "Distributed parallel genetic algorithm withpath splitting scheme for the large travelling salesman problems", Proceedings of Conferenceon Intelligent Information Processing, 16th World Computer Congress 2000, August 21-25,Beijing, (eds. Shi, Z., Faltings, B. and Musen, M.), Publishing House of Electronic Industry,478-485.

Szeto, K.Y. and Fong, A.L.Y. (2000) "How adaptive agents in stock market perform in thepresence of random news: A genetic algorithm approach", Lecture Notes in ComputerScience Series, LNCS/ LNAI, vol, 1983, (eds. Leung, K.S., Chan, W.C. and Meng, H.),Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Proceeding of the Second International Conference onIntelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL 2000, 505-510.

WING YIM TAM

Associate Professor


PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara (1985)Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Texas, Austin (1985-88)Asst. Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson (1988-93)


Nonlinear dynamics and complex systems; cellular structures; complex fluids(electrorheological fluids); photonic band gap materials.


Multi-phased electrorheological fluids


Testing and certifying laser speed detection system

HKPT HKPTB99/00.SC01 HK$80,000 Nov 1999

Light Emission And Lasing From 3D Photonic Crystals Formed By Metallo-dielectricMicro-spheres



Chan, C.T., Zhang, W.Y., Wang, Z.L., Lei, X.Y., Zheng, D.G., Tam, W.Y. and Sheng, P.(2000) "Photonic Band Gaps from Metallo-dielectric Spheres", Physica B, 279, 150-154.

Tam, W.-Y. (1998) "The evolution of a single defect in an ideal two-dimensional hexagonalsoap froth", Phys. Rev. E, 58, 8032-8035.

Tam, W.-Y., Cheung, K.-M. and Szeto, K.-Y. (1998) "Ancestral cells in two-dimensionalsoap froth", Phys. Rev. E, 57, 7354-7357.

Tam, W.Y., Wen, W. and Sheng, P. (2000) "Electrorheological Fluids Using Bi-DispersedParticles", Physica B, 279, 171-173.

Wen, W., Wang, N., Ma, H., Lin, Z., Tam, W.Y., Chan, C.T. and Sheng, P. (1999) "FieldInduced Martensitic Transition in Mesocrystallites", Phys. Rev. Lett., 82, 4248-4251.

Dubertret, B., Szeto, K.Y. and Tam, W.Y. (1999) "T1-Correlations in Two-dimensionalCellular System", Europhys. Lett., 45, 143-148.

JIANNONG WANG

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Bristol (1990)Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Bristol (1990-92)Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Nottingham (1992-94)


Physics of semiconductor low-dimensional structures; magneto-transport and opticalproperties, and fabrication of semiconductor nanostructures; novel device applications.


The electrical characterisation of ZnSe self-organised quantum dots embeded in ZnS grownby molecular beam epitaxy



Sun, B.Q., Wang, J.N., Ge, W.K., Wang, Y.Q., Jiang, D.S., Zhu, H.J., Wang, H.L. andDeng, Y.M. (1999) "Current Self-oscillation Induced by a Transverse magnetic Field in aDoped GaAs/AlAs Superlattice", Physical Review B, 60 (12): 8866-8870.

Tang, Z.K., Sun, H.D., Wang, J.N., Chen, J. and Li, G. (1998) "Mono-sized single wallcarbon nanotubes formed in channels of AlPO4-5 single crystal", Applied Physics Letters,73, 2287-2289.

Wang, J.N., Chne, Z.M., Woo, P.W., Ge, W.K., Wang, Y.Q. and Yu, M.B. (1999)"UV-light-enhanced luminescence in crystaline SiC grown on Si by hot filament CVD andUV-light-induced luminescent center in anodized SiC", Applied Physics Letters, 74,923-925.

Wang, J.N., Sun, B.Q., Wang, X.R. and Wang, H.L. (1999) "Negative DifferentialResistance and the Transition to Current Self-oscillation in GaAs/AlAs Superlattices", SolidState Communications, 112, 371-374.

Wang, J.N., Sun, B.Q., Wang, X.R., Wang, Y.Q., Ge, W.K. and Wang, H.L. (1999)"Dynamic dc Voltage Band Observed Within Each Current Branch in the Transition fromStatic to Dynamic Electric-field Domain Formation in a Doped GaAs/AlAs Superlattice",Applied Physics Letters, 75 (17): 2620-2622.

Xu, Z.Y., Wang, J.N., Wang, Y.Q., Ge, W.K., Li, Q., Li, S.S. and Henini, M. (1999)"Wavelength tuning in GaAs/AlAs quantum wells by InAs submonolayer insertion", J. ofPhysics: Condensed Matter, 11, 3629-3633.

XIANGRONG WANG

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Rochester (1990)Research Associate, University of Minnesota (1990-91)MSI Research Fellow, University of Minnesota (1991-92)


Statistical physics and theoretical condensed matter physics; localization, hopping andvariable-range hopping conduction in disordered systems; critical phenomena.


3D Anderson localization in a magnetic field

DAG DAG97/98.SC23 HK$68,106 Mar 1998

Negative magnetoresistance of non-magnetic granular materials in nearest-neighbor hoppingconduction

DAG DAG98/99.SC26 HK$30,000 Mar 1999

Electronic Transport In Disordered Two-dimensional Electron Systems


Instabilities And Oscillations Of The Sequential Tunneling In Superlattices



Wang, J.N., Sun, B.Q., Wang, X.R., Wang, Y.Q., Ge, W.K. and Wang, H.L. (1999)"Dynamic dc voltage band observed within each current branch in the transition from staticto dynamic electric field domain formation in a doped GaAs/AlAs superlattice", Appl. Phys.Lett., 75 (17): 2620.

Wang, X.R. and Niu, Q. (1999) "A general analysis of instabilities and oscillations of thesequential tunneling in superlattices", Phys. Rev. B, 59 (20): R12755.

Wang, X.R., Ma, S.C. and Xie, X.C. (1999) "The level shifting induced negativemagnetoresistance in the nearest-neighbor hopping conduction", Europhysics Letters, 45 (3):368.

Wang, X.R., Wong, C.Y. and Xie, X.C. (1999) "Metal-insulator transition in a multilayersystem with a strong magnetic field", Phys. Rev. B, 59 (8): R5277.

Wang, X.R., Xiong, G. and Wang, D.-D. (2000) "Dephasing of conduction electrons due tozero-point fluctuation", Phys. Rev. B, 61 (8): R5090.

Xie, X.C., Wang, X.R. and Liu, D.Z. (1998) "Kosterlity-Thouless type metal insulatortransition of 2D in a random magnetic field", Phys. Rev. Lett., 50, 615.

KAM-SING WONG

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Oxford (1987)Research Associate, City College of New York (1987-88)Research Associate, University of Utah (1989-91)


Ultrashort pulse lasers; time-resolved spectroscopy; semiconductor and polymer physics.


Ultrafast excition relaxation and dephasing in wide-gap II-VI quantum wells andmicrostructures

DAG DAG97/98.SC25 HK$56,755 Mar 1998

Polymer light emitting diode fabrication and study of recombination dynamics ofphotoluminescence quenching at polymer/metal interface

JRS JRS98/44 HK$72,275 Apr 1998

Femtosecond time-resolved photoluminescence studies of conjugated polymers


Generation of 10 fs laser pulses by optical parametric amplifier

DAG DAG98/99.SC28 HK$30,000 Jan 1999

Carrier mobility study in electro-luminescent polymers using time-of-flight technique

DAG DAG99/00.SC33 HK$45,000 Jan 2000

Microfabrication of 3-dimensional photonic device using two-photon assisted polymerisation

DAG DAG00/01.SC26 HK$40,000 Dec 2000


Law, W.Y., Wong, K.S., Yang, Z., Horsburg, L.E. and Monkman, A.P. (2000) "Observationof in-plane optical anisotropy of spin-cast rigid rod electroluminescent polymer films", Appl.

Phys. Lett., 76 (11): 1416-1418.

Lee, C.W., Wong, K.S., Lam, W.L. and Tang, B.Z. (1999) "Light emitting properties ofstereoregular cis-rich poly(phenylacetylene)s", Chemical Physics Letters, 307 (1-2): 67-74.

Lee, C.W., Wong, K.S., Huang, W.L., Frolov, S.V. and Vardeny, Z.V. (1999) "Femtosecondtime-resolved laser-action in poly(p-phenylene vinylene) films: stimulated emission in aninhomogeneously broadened exciton distribution", Chem. Phys. Lett., 314, 564-569.

Wang, H. and Wong, K.S. (1998) "Time resolved photoluminescence investigation ofpolyacetylene derivatives", Applied Physics Letters, 73 (12): 1637-1639.

Wong, K.S., Wang, H., Yang, Z., Sou, I.K. and Wong, G.K.L. (1999) "ZnSe/GaAs interfacestate probed by time-resolved reflectance difference spectroscopy", Applied Physics Letters,74 (24): 3663-3665.

Zhang, W., Wang, H., Wong, K.S., Tang, Z.K., Wong, G.K.L. and Jain, R. (1999)"Third-order optical nonlinearity in ZnO microcrystallite thin films", Appl. Phys. Lett., 75(21): 3321-3323.

MICHAEL K Y WONG

Associate Professor


PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (1986)Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Imperial College (1986-89)Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Oxford (1989-91)


Learning theory, error-correcting; complex and disordered systems; optimization;telecommunication network management.


ATM service provisioning to wireless hosts

HKTII HKTIIT97/98.EG01 HK$1,165,000 Jul 1998

Multistage Dynamics In Spin Models And Applications To Information Processing


Teaching integrated science with a question-centered approach

QEF QEF99/00.SC02 HK$385,000 Jul 2000


Wong, K.Y.M. and Nishimori, H. (2000) "Error-correcting Codes and Image Restorationwith Multiple Stages of Dynamics", Phys. Rev. E, 62 (1): 179-190.

Wong, K.Y.M., Li, S. and Tong, Y.W. (2000) "Many-body Approach to the Dyanmics ofBatch Learning", Phys. Rev. E, 62 (3): 4036-4042.

Wu, S. and Wong, K.Y.M. (1998) "Dynamic Overload Control for Distributed CallProcessors Using the Neural Network Method", IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, 9 (6):1377-1387.

Nishimori, H. and Wong, K.Y.M. (1999) "Statistical Mechanics of Image Restoration andError-Correcting Codes", Phys. Rev. E, 60 (1): 132-144.

Van Mourik, J., Wong, K.Y.M. and Bolle, D. (2000) "From Shrinking to Percolation in anOptimisation Model", J. Phys. A, 33, L53-L59.

XU-DONG XIAO

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1992)Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (1993-94)


Scanning probe microscopy; surface structure and dynamics; surface diffusion; nanoclusters;nanotribology; nonlinear optics.


Exploratory study of cluster doped zeolite crystals using NSOM


Searching for surface diffusion anomaly near substrate reconstructive phase transition


Investigation Of Gauche Defects As An Energy Dissipation Channel In Friction For MixedAlkanethiol Monolayers



Ma, J.-W., Xiao, X.-D., Dinardo, N.-J. and Loy, M.-M. (1998) "Diffusion of CO on Pt(111)studied by optical diffraction method", Phys. Rev. B, 58 (8): 4977-4983.

Ma, J.-W., Xiao, X.-D. and Loy, M.M.T. (1999) "Experimental study of surface diffusion

rate enhancement along steps: CO on Pt(111)", Surf. Sci., 436, L661-665.

Tian, F., Xiao, X.-D., Loy, M.M., Wang, C. and Bai, C.-L. (1999) "Humidity andtemperature effect on frictional properties of mica and alkylsilane monolayer self-assembledon mica", Langmuir, 15 (1): 244-249.

Qian, L.-M., Xiao, X.-D. and Wen, S.-Z. (2000) "Tip in-situ chemical modification and itseffects on tribological measurements", Langmuir, 16, 662-670.

Wang, B., Xiao, X.-D. and Sheng, P. (2000) "Growth and characterization of Au clusters onalkanethiol self-assembled monolayers", J. Vac. Sci. Technl. B, 18, 2351-2358.

Wang, B., Xiao, X.-D., Huang, X.-X., Sheng, P. and Hou, J.G. (2000) "Single-electrontunneling study of two-dimensional gold clusters", Appl. Phys. Lett., 77, 1179-1181.

ZHIYU YANG

Associate Professor


PhD, Purdue University (1988)Senior Research Scientist, North Carolina State University (1988-92)


Optical in situ study of thin film growth; semiconductor nanostructures; mesoscopicsystems; polymers and liquid crystals; magneto-optical properties of magnetic materials.


Reflectance difference spectroscopy study of semiconductor surfaces and interfaces

DAG DAG97/98.SC26 HK$79,456 Mar 1998

Nanostructured materials

AOE AOE97/98.SC01 HK$285,346 Apr 1998

Reflectance difference spectroscopy study of semiconductor surfaces and interfaces


Study of the optical anisotropy of common-atom semiconductor interfaces

DAG DAG98/99.SC29 HK$30,000 Nov 1998

Emerging High Impact Area of Nanostructures

HIA HIA98/99.SC01 HK$2,600,000 Jan 1999

Study of II-VI semiconductor buried interfaces by reflectance difference spectroscopy with

sub-micrometer spatial resolution

DAG DAG99/00.SC34 HK$47,500 Dec 1999

Study Of II-VI Semiconductor Buried Interfaces By Reflectance Difference SpectroscopyWith Sub-micrometer Spatial Resolution



Chen, Y.H. and Yang, Z. (1998) "Theory of linear electro-optic effect near the E/sub 1/ andthe E/sub 1/+ Delta /sub 1/ energies", Applied Physics Letters, 73 (12): 1667-1669.

Chen, Y.H., Yang, Z., Wang, Z.G., Bo, X. and Liang, J.B. (1999) "Observation ofcommon-atom interface potential effects on the optical properties of quantum wells", Phys.Rev. B, 60 (3): 1783.

Law, W.Y., Wong, K.S., Yang, Z., Horburgh, L.E. and Monkman, A.P. (2000) "Observationof in-plane optical anisotropy of spin-cast rigid-rod electroluminescent polymer films", Appl.Phys. Lett., 76 (11): 1418.

Yang, Z., Chen, Y.H. and Sou, I.K. (1999) "Observation of ZnSe/GaAs interface states byphotomodulation reflectance difference spectroscopy", , Appl. Phys. Lett., 75 (4): 528.

Yang, Z., Chen, Y.H. and Wang, Y.Q. (1998) "Comparison between optical techniques forthe measurement of the surface electric field in (100) oriented GaAs", Applied PhysicsLetters, 73 (11): 1520-1522.

Chen, Y.H., Wang, Z.G. and Yang, Z. (2000) "Effect of arsenic precipitates on Fermi levelin GaAs grown by molecular-beam epitaxy at low temperature", J. Appl. Phys., 87 (6): 2923.

ZHAO QING ZHANG

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Pennsylvania (1974)Research Associate, University of Minnesota (1974-76)Research Professor, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica (1986-89)


Many-body theory; fractals; electronic structure and transport properties in disorderedsystems; wave propagation and localization in random media; mesoscopic physics; photoniccrystals.


The studies of scattering properties of photonic band gap materials and other relatedproblems


The Study Of Ternary Photonic Band Gap Materials With A Metallic Component


The Engineering Of Band Gaps For Elastic/acoustic Waves In "Phononic Crystals"



Li, L.M. and Zhang, Z.Q. (1998) "Multiple-Scattering Approach to Finite-Sized PhotonicBand-Gap Materials", Physical Review B, 58 (15): 9587.

Li, Z.Y., Zhang, X. and Zhang, Z.Q. (2000) "Disordered Photonic Crystals:Understood by aPerturbation Formulism", Phys. Rev. B, 61, 15738-15748.

Li, Z.Y., Lin, L.L. and Zhang, Z.Q. (2000) "Spontaneous Emission from Photonic Crystals:Full Vectorial Calculations", Phys. Rev. Lett., 84, 4341-4344.

Zhang, X., Zhang, Z.Q., Jin, C., Zhang, D., Li, L., Man, B. and Cheng, B. (2000) "Enlarge aPhotonic Band Gap by Using Insertion", Phys. Rev. B, 61, 1892-1897.

Zhang, Z.Q., Wong, C.C, Fung, K.K., Ho, Y.L., Chan, W.L., Kan, S.C., Chan, T.L. andCheung, N. (1998) "Observation of Localized Electromagnetic Waves in Three-DimensionalNetworks Of Waveguides", Physical Review Letters, 81 (25): 5540.

Zhang, Z.Q., Jones, I.P., Schriemer, H.P., Page, J., Weitz, D. and Sheng, P. (1999) "WaveTransport in Random Media: the Ballistic to Diffusive Transition", Phys. Rev. E, 60,8050-8054.

BRADLEY A FOREMAN

Assistant Professor


PhD, Cornell University (1995)NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Essex (1995-96)


Theoretical semiconductor physics: electrons and phonons in low-dimensional systems;effects of strain in opto-electronic devices; envelope-function theory; high-speedsemiconductor lasers; quantum mechanics.


Optical anisotropy of zinc-blend semiconductors in an electric field

DAG DAG99/00.SC27 HK$62,000 Dec 1999

Experimental And Theoretical Study Of The Optical Anisotropy Of Common-atomSemiconductor Interfaces



Foreman, B.A. (1998) "Analytical envelope-function theory of interface band mixing",Physical Review Letters, 81 (2): 425-428.

Foreman, B.A. (1999) "Importance of the microscopic wave function in envelope-functiontheory", Physical Review Letters, 82 (6): 1339.

Foreman, B.A. (2000) "Optical Anisotropy of Zinc-Blende Semiconductors in an ElectricField", Physical Review Letters, 84 (11): 2505-2508.

Foreman, B.A. (2000) "Comment on Electro-optic Effect and Valence-Band Mixing inZinc-Blende Semiconductors", Physical Review Letters, 84 (19): 4513-4513.

Foreman, B.A. and Ridley, B.K. (1999) "Long-wavelength phonons in semiconductornanostructures", Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on the Physics ofSemiconductors, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, Jerusalem, Israel, 2-7Aug 98, 120.

Burt, M.G. and Foreman, B.A. (1999) "Valence-band mixing at heterojunctions: The effectof Bloch-function differences", Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on thePhysics of Semiconductors, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, Jerusalem,Israel, 2-7 Aug 98, 119.

ZI KANG TANG

Lecturer


PhD, Tohoku University (1992)Special Researcher, Photodynamics Research Centre, Institute of Physical and ChemicalResearch (1992-94)


Nanostructured materials; electronic structure, optical and electrical transport properties ofnanostructured metals and semiconductors; short-wavelength semiconductor laser materials.


Study of electroluminescence of organic thin films dopted with fluorescent molecules


Fabrication And Characterization Of Mono-dispersed Single-wall Carbon Nanotubes InChannels Of Micro-porous Crystals



Sun, H.D., Tang, Z.K. and Wang, J.N. (1999) "Conductance of mono-sized single-wallcarbon nanotubes formed in channels of zeolite crystals", J. Magnetism and MagneticMaterials, 198/199, 255-257.

Sun, H.D., Tang, Z.K., Chen, J. and Li, G. (1999) "Polarized Raman Spectra of Single-wallCarbon Nanotubes Mono-dispersed in Channels of AlPO4-5 Single Crystal", Solid StateCommunication, 109: 365-369.

Sun, H.D., Tang, Z.K., Chen, J.S. and Li, G.D. (1999) "Synthesis and Ramancharacterization of mono-sized single wall carbon nanotubes in one-dimensional channels ofAlPO4-5 crystals", Applied Phys. A, 69, 381-384.

Tang, Z.K., Sun, H.D. and Wang, J.N. (2000) "Electrical transport properties ofmono-dispersed single wall carbon nanotubes formed in channels of zeolite crystal", PhysicaB, 279, 200-203.

Wang, X.R., Tang, Z.K. and Ge, W.K. (1999) "Pseudo hysteresis current loop and negativedifferential resistance in cluster superlattice of tellurium in zeolite", Physica B, 271,386-395.

OPHELIA K C TSUI

Assistant Professor


PhD, Princeton University (1996) Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (1996-1997)Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1997-1998)


Dynamics and glass transition of polymer thin films; field alignment of block co-polymers;nanolithography; quantum interference devices.


Dynamics and glass transition of polymer thin films

DAG DAG98/99.SC24 HK$99,888 Dec 1998

Study of strong localization effects in quantum interference nanostructures

DAG DAG99/00.SC31 HK$62,000 Jun 2000


Tsui, O.K.C., Wang, X.P., Ho, J.Y.L., Ng, T.K. and Xiao, X.-D. (2000) "Studying SurfaceGlass-to-Rubber Transition Using Atomic Force Microscopic Adhesion Measurements",Macromolecules, 33 (11): 4198-4204.

Tsang, O.C., Tsui, O.K.C. and Yang, Z. (in press) "Temporal Evolution of Relaxation inRubbed Polystyrene Thin Films".

Bayrakci, S.P., Tsui, O.K.C., Ong, N.P., Kishio, K. and Watauchi, S. (1999) "The JosephsonPlasma Resonance in Bi_{2}Sr_{2}CaCu_{2}O_{8 plusdelta} as a Probe of VortexCorrelation", Europhysics Letter, 46 (1): 68-74.

Du, B., Zhang, J., Zhang, Q., Yang, D., He, T. and Tsui, O.K.C. (2000) "Nanostructure andMechanical Measurement of Highly Oriented Lamellae of Melt-drawn HDPE by ScanningProbe Microscopy", Macromolecules, 33(20): 7521-7528.

Mansky, P., Tsui, O.K.C., Russell, T.P. and Gallot, Y. (1999) "Phase Coherence andMicrophase Separation Transitions in Diblock Copolymer Thin Films", Macromolecules, 32(15): 4832-4837.

Zhang, Q., Tsui, O.K.C., Du, B., Zhang, F., Tang, T., and He, T. (2000) "Observation ofInverted Phases in Poly(styrene-b-butadiene-b-styrene) Triblock Copolymer bySolvent-Induced Order-Disorder Phase Transition", Macromolecules, 33(26): 9564-9567.

NING WANG

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Sciences and Technology, Beijing (1990)Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Gottingen University (1990-91)Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong (1997-00)


Nanomaterials; electron microscopy; materials characterization.


Synthesis and characterization of semiconductor nanowires


Growth and characterization of semiconductor nanocomposites



Wang, N., Tang, Z.K., Li, G.D. and Li, J.S. (2000) "Single-walled 4 Å carbon nanotubearrays", Nature, 408, 50-51.

Peng, H.Y., Wang, N., Zheng, Y.F., Lifshitz, Y. and Kulik, J. (2000) "Smallest diametercarbon nanotubes", Appl. Phys. Lett., 77, 2831-33.

Wang, N., Fung, K.K. and Sou, I.K. (2000) "Direct observation of stacking fault nucleationin the early stage of ZnSe/GaAs pseudomorphic epitaxial layer growth", Appl. Phys. Lett.,77, 2846-48.

Wang, N., Lu, H.B., Chen, W.Z, Zhao, T., Chen, F., Peng, H.Y., Lee, S.T. and Yang, G.Z.(1999) "Morphology and Microstructure of BaTiO3/SrTiO3 Superlattices Grown on SrTiO3by Laser Molecular Beam Epitaxy", Appl. Phys. Lett., 75, 3464-3466..

Zhou, X.T., Wang, N., Lai, H.L., Peng, H.Y., Bello, I, Lee, C.S. and Lee, S.T. (1999)"Beta-SiC nanorods synthesized by hot filament chemical vapor deposition", Appl. Phys.Lett., 74, 3942-44.Wen, W., Wang, N., Ma, H., Tam, W.Y., Chen, C.T. and Sheng, P. (1999)"Fields induced martensitic transition mesocrystallites", Phys. Rev. Lett., 82, 4248-51.

WANG XUE-SEN

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Maryland (1990)Research Associate, University of California, Santa Barbara (1990-92)Research Associate, University of Minnesota (1993-95)Asst. Research Scientist, University of Maryland (1995-97)


Surface science; scanning tunneling microscopy; thin film and nanostructure growth andanalysis; dielectric films on semiconductor; MOS and SOS structures.

Active Projects as Principal Investigator:>

STM studies of dielectric thin film on silicon and related MOS structure

DAG DAG97/98.SC24 HK$90,000 Jan 1998

Investigations of Si3N4, AIN and GaN growth on silicon

DAG DAG98/99.SC27 HK$30,000 Jan 1999

Investigations of Silicon Nitride on Silicon: Film Growth, Surface and Interface Structures,and Overlayer Deposition



Wang, X.-S., Zhai, G., Yang, J. and Cue, N. (1999) "Crystalline Si3N4 thin films on Si(111)and the 4x4 reconstruction on Si3N4(0001)", Physical Review B, 60 (4): 2146-2149.

Zhai, G., Yang, J., Cue, N. and Wang, X.-S. (2000) "Surface structures of silicon nitride thinfilms on Si(111)", Thin Solid Films, 366 (1): 121-128.

Fu, E.S., Wang, X.-S. and Williams, E.D. (1999) "Characterization of structures fabricatedby atomic force microscope lithography", Surface Science, 438 (1): 58-67.

Schwennicke, C., Wang, X.-S., Einstein, T.L. and Williams, E.D. (1998) "Evolution ofsurface morphology of vicinal Si(111) surfaces after aluminum deposition", Surface Science,418 (1): 22-31.

Wang, X.-S., Zhai, G., Yang, J. and Cue, N. (1999) "Surface/interface structures and filmmorphology of silicon nitride on Si(111)", Centennial Meeting of American PhysicalSociety, American Physical Society, Atlanta, USA, 21-26 March.

Wang, X.-S. (2000) "STM analyses of columnar and polycrystalline Si growth on siliconnitride", The 8th International Colloqium on Scanning Probe Microscopy and Asian SPM(3), Japan Society of Applied Physics, Atagawa, Japan, 7-9 December.

YUQI WANG

Lecturer


PhD, Columbia University (1993)Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University (1993-94)


Growth kinetics and surface microstructures of compound semiconductors; semiconductorquantum structures and devices; long wavelength semiconductor lasers; wide gap III-Vsemiconductor materials.


Deep centers and persistent photoconductivity in GaN/AlGaN material system and theireffects on modfet performance


Novel Photodetectors With Very Low Intrinsic Noise For Very Weak Light Detection



Chen, H., Liu, S., Zhow, J.M., Huang, Q. and Wang, Y. (1999) "A new initial growthmethod for cubic GAN on GaAs(001)", Journal of Crystal Growth, 201/202, 336.

Sun, B.-Q., Wang, J.-N., Ge, W.-K., Wang, Y.-Q., Jiang, D.-S, Zhu, H.-J., Wang, H.-L. andDeng, S.-L. (1999) "Current self-oscillation by transverse magnetic field in a dopedGaAs/AlAs superlattice", Phys. Rev., B60, 8866-8870.

Sun, B.Q., Jiang, D.S., Wu, J.Q., Xu, Z.Y., Wang, Y., Wang, J.N. and Ge, W.K. (1998)"Photovoltage and photoreflectance spectroscopy of InAs/GaAs self-organized quantumdots", Applied Physics Letters, 73, 2657.

Sun, B.Q., Wang, J.N., Jiang, D.S., Wu, J.Q., Wang, Y.Q., Ge, W.K. and Wang, H.L. (2000)"Self-sustained oscillation caused by magnetic field in a weakly-coupled GaAs/AlAssuperlattice", Physica, B279, 220-223.

Wang, J.N., Chen, Z.M., Woo, P.W., Ge, W.K. and Wang, Y. (1999)"Ultraviolet-light-enhanced luminescence in SiC thin films grown on Si by hot filamentchemical vapor deposition and ultraviolet-light-induced luminescence in anodized SiC",Applied Physics Letters, 74, 923.

Wang, J.N., Sun, B.Q., Wang, X.R., Wang, Y.Q. and Ge, W.K. (1999) "Dynamic dc voltageband observed within each current branch in the transition from static to dynamic electricfield domain formation in a doped GaAs/AlAs superlattice", Appl. Phys. Lett., 75,2620-2622.

WEI-JIA WEN

Assistant Professor


PhD, Chinese Academy of Science (1995)Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles (1997-99)


Soft condensed matter physics; electrorheological and magnetorheological fluids;field-induced pattern and structure transition; microsphere fabrication; thin film physics.


Synthesis of micro-rods and disk for electrorheological (ER) and magnetorheological (MR)fluids

DAG DAG99/00.SC32 HK$99,000 Dec 1999

Synthesis Of Micro-rods And Micro-disks For Electrorheological (ER) AndMagnetorheological (MR) Fluids


Investigating for magnetic colloidal structures

DAG DAG00/01.SC25 HK$40,000 Jan 2001

Fabrication of a novel material with large third-order optical nonlinearity in metalnanocluster-doped dielectric composite films

NSFC N_HKUST025/00 HK$730,000 Sep 2001


Wen, W.J., Zhang, L.Y. and Sheng, P. (2000) "Plannar Magnetic Colloidal Crystals", Phys.Rev. Lett., 85, 5464-5467.

Wen, W.J., Wang, N., Ma, H., Tam, W.Y., and Sheng, P. (2000) Appl. Phys. Lett., 77:3821-3823.

Sheng, P., Wen, W.J., Wang, N., Ma, H.R., Lin, Z.F., Tam, W.Y. and Chan, C.T. (2000)"Field-induced structural transition in mesocrystallites", Phys. Rev. Lett., 82, 4248-4251.

Wen, W.J., Kun, F., Kál, F., Zheng, D.W., and Tu, K.N (1999) "Aggregation Kinetic andStability of Structures Formed by Magnetic Microspheres", Phys. Rev. E, RapidCommunication, 59, R4758-4761.

Wen, W.J., Ma, H.R., Tam, W.Y. and Sheng, P. (1998) "Anisotropic Dielectric Properties ofStructured Electrorheological Fluids", Appl. Phys. Lett., 73, 3070-3772.

Wen, W.J., Zheng, D.W. and Tu, K.N. (1998) "Fractal-chain transition of field-inducedcolloid structure", Phys. Rev. E., 58, 7682-7685.

ZHANG XIXIANG

Assistant Professor


PhD, Universitat de Barcelona (1992)Research Scientist, Universitat de Barcelona (1992-97)


Macroscopic quantum tunneling of magnetization; magneto-transport properties;magnetocaloric effect and magneto-refrigerants; thin film fabrication by magnetronsputtering; nanostructural materials.


Surface effects on metallic iron magnetic nanoparticles

DAG DAG97/98.SC27 HK$100,000 Mar 1998

Fabrication and characterization of metallic nanoparticles and ferrofluids


Novel rare earth based magnetic refrigerants and their intrinsic magnetic properties

DAG DAG99/00.SC35 HK$62,000 Nov 1999

Investigation of Mechanisms for the Giant Hall Effect


Magnetic Materials Study For Magnetic Refrigeration At Room Temperature

CERG HKUST6157/00E HK$537,817 Aug 2000

Novel rare earth based magnetic refrigerants and their intrinsic magnetic properties

973 G1998061319 RMB 180,000 Oct 1998


Zhang, X.X., Hernandez, J.M., del Barco, E., Tejada, J., Roig, A., Molins, E. andWieghardt, K. (1999) "Thermally Assisted Resonant Quantum Tunneling of Magnetizationin Fe8 Clusters", J. Appl. Phys., 85, 5633.

Zhang, X.X. (2000) "Energy barrier in quantum nanomagnet: Mn12", Physics andChemistry of Nano-structured Materials, (eds. Yang, S.H., Sheng, P.), Taylor and FrancisLtd., UK, 176.

Zhang, X.X. and Hernandez, J.M. (1999) "Observation of colossal positive and negativemagnetoresistance in peroviskite manganese oxide Nd 0.67Ca0.33MnO3", EurophysicsLetters, 47: 487.

Zhang, X.X., Liu, H. and Pakhomov (2000) "Observation of Giant Hall effect inNon-magnetic cermets", Physica B, 279, 81-83.

Zhang, X.X., Wen, G.H., Wang, F.W., Wang, W.H., Yu, C.H. and Wu, G.H. (2000)"Magnetic entropy change in Fe-based compound LaFe10.6Si2.4", Appl. Phys. Lett., 77,3072.

Kowk, Y.S., Zhang, X.X., Qin, B.X. and Fung, K.K. (2000) "High resolution transmissionelectron microscopy study of epitaxial oxide shell on nanoparticles of iron", Appl. Phys.Lett., 77, 3971.

[CENG] [CIVL] [COMP] [ELEC] [IEEM] [MECH]

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERINGDEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERINGDEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCEDEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERINGDEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING MANAGEMENTDEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Department of Chemical Engineering

Chemical Engineering has become a highly diversified engineering and science disciplinewhich encompasses research interests ranging from aerosol to zeolite, and from conventionalpetrochemical processing to multi-disciplinary areas such as materials engineering,biotechnology, and environmental engineering. In addition to the fundamentals of transport,thermodynamics, kinetics, and reaction engineering, research interest in the Department ofChemical Engineering focus on five areas. They are: (1) Advanced Materials, (2) BioprocessEngineering, (3) Environmental Engineering, (4) Electrochemical Engineering, and (5)Process Systems Engineering.

Advanced Materials: At HKUST, research efforts are being focused on novel polymers andpolymer composites, polymer blends, polymer surfaces and interfaces, and advancedmaterials for membrane (zeolitic membranes) and sensor application. The fundamentalprocesses such as rheology, process measurement, dynamics and control in polymer processare being studied in depth.

Bioprocess Engineering: Research efforts focus on environmental biotechnology - fungalbiodegradation of pollutants, biological nitrogen and phosphorous removal, biofiltration,biodegradable plastics, soil bioremediation, coal desulfurization; Chinese traditionalmedicine - novel extraction, drying, and packaging; gene chips; food industries - batchprocessing, mathematical modeling/simulation and process control.

Environmental Engineering: Research efforts focus on air pollution formation andabatement, aerosols, deodorization of indoor air, catalytic and advanced oxidation,membrane separation and adsorption, advanced methods for the treatment of wastewater,hazardous wastes and micro-contamination, waste minimization and cleaner technologies.

Process System Engineering: Research efforts focus on developing and validating robustmodels

of systems such as chemical and biochemical processes, environmental fate and transport,injection molding, and surface phenomena. Process control, optimization and scale-up ofsuch processes is also an active research area.

Electrochemical Engineering: Research efforts are devoted to the development ofpolymer-electrolyte fuel cells and batteries by characterizing and improving the transport andreaction processes using experimental and modeling techniques. IC manufacturingtechnology is applied to the fabrication of a miniature device for DNA amplification andhybridization. Electrochemical methods for the efficient and economical treatment of toxiceffluents are also being developed.

Facilities

The Department is equipped with state-of-the-art analytical instruments including HighPerformance Liquid Chromatograph; Gas Chromatographs with Mass Selective Detector,Flame Ionization Detector, Thermal Conductivity Detector, Electron Capture Detector andAtomic Emission Detector; Supercritical Fluid Extractor and Chromatograph; OrganicCarbon Analyzer; Ultraviolet/Visible Spectrophotometer; Luminescence Spectrometer;Rheometrics Mechanical Spectrometer; Differential Scanning Calorimeter; Capillary

Rheometer and Universal Testing Machine.

Research Profile

PO LOCK YUE


CHI-MING CHAN

Professor

KA MING NG

Professor

JOHN P BARFORD

Associate Professor

CHAK KEUNG CHAN

Associate Professor

FURONG GAO

Associate Professor

PING GAO

Associate Professor

XIJUN HU

Associate Professor

GORDON MCKAY

Associate Professor

YONGLI MI

Associate Professor

GUOHUA CHEN

Assistant Professor

I-MING HSING

Assistant Professor

DAVID CHI-WAI HUI

Assistant Professor

JOHN F PORTER

Assistant Professor

KING LUN YEUNG

Assistant Professor

JIAN YU

Assistant Professor

MING FANG

Senior Technical Programme MAnager, Appiled tTechnology Centre;Director, Institute forEnvironment & Sustainable Development.

Research Profile

PO LOCK YUE



PhD, McGill University (1971)Research Fellow, University of Leeds (1970-71)Reader, University of Bath (1991)


Detoxification of hazardous waste and wastewater; advanced oxidation and membraneseparation; waste minimization; novel reactor engineering and applied catalysis; artificialintelligence.


An investigation of using recycled-glass as a raw material for cement production

ECWW ECWW97/98.EG01 HK$120,000 Mar 1998

Areas of Excellence in electrochemical engineering

AOE AOE97/98.EG02 HK$200,000 Mar 1998

A neural network based operational support system for the plastic industry

JRS JRS98/35 HK$77,100 Apr 1998

The performance, degradability and material property of disposable plastic food containers

EPD FP98-009 HK$327,000 Aug 1998

Vivendi

CGE CGE98/99.RD01 HK$440,000 Sep 1998

Development of an approach to the determination of waste oil

EPD WM98-199 HK$383,000 Dec 1998

Oscillatory Flow Photocatalytic Reactor (OFPR)


Emerging High Impact Area of Environment

HIA HIA98/99.EG07 HK$1,388,000 Jan 1999

The development of novel catalysts for the treatment of industrial wastewater and sludge by

wet air oxidation (WAO)

F-HK F-HK98/99.EG04 HK$32,000 Mar 1999

Feasibility study of Ozone disinfection for strategic sewage disposal scheme stage I

DSD DSD98/99.EG01 HK$928,058 Mar 1999

Deodorization of indoor air by VUV

G-HK G-HK98/99.EG05 HK$30,000 Apr 1999

Reuse of waste glasses in cement production - a DEMOS project

ECWW ECWW99/00.EG02 HK$127,500 Oct 1999

Removal of volatile organic compounds in indoor air

DAG DAG99/00.EG21 HK$40,000 Jan 2000

Photocatalytic treatment of air

F-HK F-HK99/00.EG08 HK$29,800 Jan 2000

Collaboration with Institute of Photographic Chemistry, CAS

CMI CMI99/00.EG02 HK$150,000 Apr 2000

Integrated co-combustion cement production facility for optimum energy usage and wasteminimization

ITC UIM/13 HK$17,862,800 May 2000

A new deposition technology for fabricating catalyzed-electrodes in fuel cells

ITC UIM/15 HK$3,252,000 May 2000

Asia-Pacific conference on sustainable energy and environmental technology-APCSEET2000

CF CF00/01.EG04 HK$100,000 May 2000

Study on the corrosion effect due to increase of sewage salinity in wastewater at varioussewage treatment works

DSD DSD99/00.EG01 HK$1,295,000 May 2000

Remediation of the aquatic and atmospheric environments by advanced oxidation

CF ASI00/01.EG01 HK$389,400 Jul 2000

Novel membranes for wastewater treatment by enhanced pervaporation and vacuumuntraviolet radiation

G-HK G-HK99/00.EG02 HK$30,000 Sep 2000

Chemical engineering research support

PD PD00/01.EG01 HK$30,000 Nov 2000

A Novel Photocatalytic System with an Aerogel Matrix Of Nanometer-sized CatalystParticles for the Removal of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)



Li Puma, G. and Yue, P.L. (1998) "A Laminar Falling Film Slurry Photocatalytic Reactor.Part I - Model Development", Chem. Eng. Sci., 53 (16): 2993-3006.

Li Puma, G. and Yue, P.L. (1998) "A Laminar Falling Film Slurry Photocatalytic Reactor.Part II - Experimental Validation of the Model", Chem. Eng. Sci., 53 (16): 3007-3021.

Li Puma, G. and Yue, P.L. (1999) "Comparison of the effectiveness of photon-basedoxidation processes in a pilot falling film photoreactor", Environ. Sci. & Technol., 33,3210-3216.

Chen, G., and Lei, L. and Yue, P.L. (1999) "Wet oxidation of high concentration reactivedyes", Ind. & Eng. Chem. Res., 38, 1837-1843.

Lei, L., Hu, X. and Yue, P.L. (1998) "Improved wet oxidation for the treatment of dyeingwastewater concentrate from membrane separation process", Wat. Res., 32, 2753-2759.

Maira, A.J. Yeung, K.L., Lee C.Y., Yue, P.L. and Chan, C.K. (2000) "Size effects ingas-phased photo-oxidation of trichloroethylene using nanometer-sized TiO2 catalysts", J.Catal., 192, 185-196.

CHI-MING CHAN

Professor


PhD, California Institute of Technology (1979)Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology (1979)Project Manager and Senior Scientist, Raychem Corporation (1979-92)


Polymer blends and alloys; conductive composite polymers; crosslinking of polymers;adhesion phenomena; surface and interface science.


Areas of Excellence in polymer technology

AOE AOE97/98.EG01 HK$200,000 Mar 1998

The Second East Asia Polymer Conference

ITC AF/19/98 HK$360,000 Aug 1998

Compatibilization of polystyrene and low density polyethylene blends by a two-stepcrosslinking process


Transition in surface chemical composition induced by specific interaction

DAG DAG99/00.EG01 HK$53,738 Dec 1999


Chan, C.-M., Wu, J. and Mai, Y.W. (1999) "Application of X- Ray PhotoelectronSpectroscopy and Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry", Characterization of Polymer Blends,Polymer Alloys and Blends, Marcel Dekker, New York, 415-449.

Li, J.X., Chan, C.M., Gao, B. and Wu, J.S. (2000) "Effects of Thermal History on TheInterfacial Layer of PS/DHPE/SBS Blends", Macromolecules, 33, 1022-1029.

Li, J.X., Wu, J.S. and Chan, C.M. (2000) "Thermoplastics Nanocomposites", Polymer, 41,6935-6937.

Li, L., Chan, C.-M., Weng, L.T., Xiang, M.-L. and Jiang, M. (1998) "The SpecificationInteraction Between Poly(styrene-co-4-vinylphenol) and Poly(styrene-co-4-vinylpyridine)",Macromolecules, 31, 7248-7255.

Li, L., Chan, C.M., Li, J.X., Yeung, K.L. and Weng, L.T. (1999) "A Direct Observation ofthe Formation of Nuclei and the Development of Lamellae in Polymer Spherulites",Macromolecules, 32, 8240-8242.

Lo, H.-K., Chan, C.-M. and Zhu, S.-H. (1999) "Characterization of the Lubrication LayerFormed at the Interface Between Extrudate and Die Wall During Extrusion of Blends ofHigh Density Polyethylene and Fluoroelastomer Blends by XPS and SIMS", Polymer Eng.Sci., 39, 721-732.

Li, L., Ng, K.M., Chan, C.M., Feng, J.Y., Zeng, X.M. and Weng, L.T. (2000) "SurfaceStudies of the Rearrangement of End Grouops of a Polymer by ToF-SIMS and AFM",Macromolecules, 33, 5588-5592.

KA MING NG

Professor


PhD, University of Houston (1980)Visiting Scientist, MIT (1989)Visiting Research Engineer, DuPont Central R&D (1995-96)Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1991-00)

Adjunct Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2000)


Synthesis of processes with multiphase reactions, separation and purification usingextraction and crystallization, solids processing; applications in manufacture ofpharmaceuticals and specialty chemicals, and environmental conservation.


Synthesis of multiphase and catalytic reaction systems

MC MC00/01.EG01 US$30,000 Aug 2000

Donation to support process synthesis research

MC MC99/00.EG01 ¢D1,500,000 Aug 2000

Reaction system synthesis

RH RH00/01.EG01 US$7,700 Aug 2000

Design of tableting processes for pharmaceuticals

DAG 00/01.EG19 HK$100,000 Dec 2000


Wibowo, C. and Ng, K.M. (1999) "Synthesis of Bulk Solids Processing Systems", AIChE J.,45 1629-1648.

Samant, K.D. and Ng, K.M. (1999) "Synthesis of Prepolymerization Stage inPolycondensation Processes", AIChE J., 45, 1808-1829.

Pressly, T.G. and Ng, K.M. (1999) "A Process Boundary Approach for SeparationsSynthesis", AIChE J., 45, 1939-1952.

Kelkar, V.V. and Ng, K.M. (2000) "Screening of Multiphase Reactors for NonisothermalMultiple Reactions", AIChE J., 46, 389-406.

Wibowo, C. and Ng, K.M. (2000) "Unified Approach for Synthesizing Crystallization-BasedSeparation Processes", AIChE J., 46, 1400-1421.

Samant, K.D., Berry, D.A. and Ng, K.M. (2000) "Framework for Representation ofHigh-Dimensional, Molecular Solid-Liquid Phase Diagrams", AIChE J., 46, 2453-2455.

JOHN P BARFORD

Associate Professor


PhD, University of New South Wales (1979)Assoc. Professor, University of Sydney (1979-98)Senior Research Scientist, Suntory, Japan (1985-86)Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore (1989)


Biochemical engineering; yeast metabolism; bioremediation wastewater treatment;biological nutrient removal; biofiltration; animal cell cultivation; bioaerosols.


Biofiltration studies

DAG DAG98/99.EG01 HK$100,000 Jan 1999

The use of advanced control to optimise the biological treatment of piggery effluent bysequencing batch reactors

ECWW ECWW98/99.EG13 HK$129,500 Nov 1999


ITC UIM/13 HK$17,862,800 May 2000


Barford, J.P. and Fu, P.-C. (1999) "Data Analysis", Manual of Industrial Microbiology andBiotechnology, ASM Press, Washington D.C, 240-254.

Jang, J.D. and Barford, J.P. (2000) "An Unstructured Kinetic Model of MacromolecularMetabolism in Batch and Fed-Batch Cultures of Hybridoma Cells Producing MonoclonalAntibody", Biochemical Engineering Journal, 4 (2): 153-168.

Menoud, P., Wong, C.H., Robinson, A., Farquhar, A., Barford, J.P. and Barton, G.W.(1999) "Simultaneous Nitrification and Denitrification Using Siporax Packing", WaterScience and Technology, 40 (4-5): 153-160.

Peters, G.M., Maher, W.A., Krikowa, F., Roach, A.C., Jeswani, H.K., Barford, J.P., Gomes,V.G. and Reible, D.D. (1999) "Selenium in Sediments, Pore Waters and Benthic Infauna ofLake Macqaurie, New South Wales, Australia", Marine Environmental Research, 47,491-508.

Sanderson, C.S., Barford, J.P. and Barton, G.W. (1999) "A Structured Dynamic Model ForAnimal Cell Culture Systems", Biochemical Engineering Journal, 3, 203-211.

Sanderson, C.S., Barford, J.P., Barton, G.W., Wong, T.K.K. and Reid, S. (1999) "AStuctured Dynamic Model for Animal Cell Culture Systems - Application toBaculovirus/Insect Cell Systems", Biochemical Engineering Journal, 3, 219-229.

CHAK KEUNG CHAN

Associate Professor


PhD, California Institute of Technology (1992)Process Engineer, Ralph M Parsons Company (1991-92)


Aerosol physics and chemistry; air pollution; light scattering and spectroscopy; powderpreparation.


A cascade solar powered photocatalytic reactor for wastewater treatment


Sorption kinetics of metal ion removal from wastewaters

DAG DAG98/99.EG17 HK$50,000 Feb 1999

The Acidity and Gas-particle Interactions of PM2.5 Aerosols in HK


The Role of Water-soluble Organic Compounds (WSOC) on the Hygroscopic Growth ofAtmospheric Aerosols


Mobile real-time air monitoring platform (MAP)

JCCT HKJCCT00/01.ATC01 HK$12,300,000 Dec 2000


Chan, C.K. and Ha, Z. (1999) "A simple method to derive the water activities of highlysupersaturated binary electrolyte solutions from ternary solution data", J. GeophysicalResearch, 104 (D23): 30193-30200.

Chan, C.K., Porter, J.F., Li, Y.G., Guo, W. and Chan, C.-M. (1999) "The effect ofcalcination on the microstructures and photocatalytic properties of nano-sized TiO2 powdersprepared by vapor hydrolysis", J. American Ceramic Society, 82 (3): 566-572.

Ha, Z., Choy, L. and Chan, C.K. (2000) "Study of water activities of supersaturated aerosolsof sodium and ammonium salts", J. Geophysical Research, 105 (D5): 11699-11709.

Lee, E., Chan, C.K. and Paatero, P. (1999) "Application of positive matrix factorization in

source apportionment of particulate pollutants in Hong Kong", Atmospheric Environment,33 (19): 3201-3212.

Zhuang, H., Chan, C.K., Fang, M. and Wexler, A.S. (1999) "Size distributions of particulatesulfate, nitrate and ammonium at a coastal site in Hong Kong", Atmospheric Environment,33 (6): 843-853.

Zhuang, H., Chan, C.K., Fang, M. and Wexler, A.S. (1999) "Formation of nitrate andnon-seasalt sulfate on coarse particles", Atmospheric Environment, 33 (26): 4223-4233.

FURONG GAO

Associate Professor


PhD, McGill University (1993)Senior Research Engineer, Moldflow International Ltd (1993-95)


Process measurement, modeling, and control; polymer processing; computer-aided design,engineering, and manufacturing ; applications of neural networks, fuzzy systems, and expertsystems.


Intelligent and advanced control of injection molding

MOOG MOOG98/99.EG01 US$130,000 Oct 1998

Fuzzy logic control of injection molding filling velocity


Fuzzy logic control of injection molding filling velocity

DAG DAG98/99.EG19 HK$43,309 Mar 1999

Intelligent Control of Injection Molding Process

MOOG MOOG99/00.EG01 US$145,000 Oct 1999


Zhao, C.H. and Gao, F. (1999) "Melt Temperature Profile Prediction for ThermoplasticInjection Molding", Polymer Engineering and Science, 39 (9): 1787-1801.

Yang, Y. and Gao, F. (1999) "Cycle-to-Cycle and Within-Cycle Adaptive Control of NozzlePressure During Packing-Holding for Thermoplastic Injection Molding", PolymerEnginereing and Science, 39 (10): 2042-2063.

Tsoi, H.-P. and Gao, F.-R. (1999) "Control of Injection Velocity Using a Fuzzy LogicRule-Based Controller for Thermoplastics Injection Molding", Polymer Engineering &Science, 39 (1): 3-17.

Gao, F., Wang, F. and Li, M.Z. (2000) "An Analytical Predictive Control Law for a Class ofNonlinear Processes", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 39 (6): 2029-2034.

Gao, F., Wang, F. and Li, M.Z. (2000) "A Simple Nonlinear Control with DiagonalRecurrent Neural Network", Chemical Engineering Science, 55, 1283-1288.

Gao, F.-R., Wang, F.-L. and Li, M.-Z. (1999) "A Neural-network-based Controller Using anExtended Kalman Filter", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 38, 2345-2349.

PING GAO

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Cambridge (1990)Research Associate, University of Cambridge (1990-93)


Diffusion in polymers; rheology of liquid crystalline polymers and polymer blends; coldextrusion of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene.


Dynamics of polymer-polymer mixing during the initial stages of compounding


Flow-Induced Texture Changes and Phase Behaviours within Model TLCPs


Preparation of High Performance UHMWPE Prostheses in Total Joint Replacements



Chan, C.K., Whitehouse, C. and Gao, P. (1999) "The effect of TLCP melt structure on thebulk viscosity of high molecular mass polyethylene", Polymer Engineering Science, 39 (8):525-545.

Gao, P., Mackley, M.R. and Zhao, D.F. (1999) "The deformation and break up ofthermotropic liquid crystalline polymer droplets in molten polypropylene matrix", Journal ofNon-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 80 (1): 199-216.

Gao, P., Su, K.B., Ward, Y. and Weng, L.T. (2000) "Effects of Chemical Composition andThermal Stability of Finishes on the Compatibility Between Glass Fiber and High MeltingTemperature Thermoplastics", Polymer Composites, 21 (2): 312-321.

Whitehouse, C., Liu, M.L. and Gao, P. (1999) "In Situ Formation and Processing of UltraHigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene Blends into Precursors for High Strength and StiffnessFibres", Polymer Engineering Science, 39 (5): 904-919.

Whitehouse, C., Liu, M.L. and Gao, P. (1999) "Forming Porous Nascent UHMWPEStructures by Mineral Oil Substitution for Toxic Solvents and Process Change", Advances inEnvironmental Research, 3 (3): 243-254.

Markley, M.R., Wannaborwon, S., Gao, P. and Zhao, F. (1999) Microscopy and Analysis,January, 25-27.

XIJUN HU

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Queensland (1993)Research Officer, University of Queensland (1993-94)Engineer, Guangzhou R&D Base of Biotechnology (1985-88)


Gas separation, air pollution control and wastewater treatment through adsorption andcatalysis; development of a heterogeneous catalyst by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) andits application in wastewater treatment by catalytic wet oxidation, catalytic photo-oxidation;continuous wastewater treatment by catalytic wet oxidation in a trickle bed reactor;multicomponent adsorption equilibrium and kinetics in heterogeneous porous media.


Development of heterogeneous catalysts by metallo-orgaic chemical vapor deposition(MOCVD)


A preliminary study of continuous wastewater treatment by catalytic wet oxidation in atrickle bed reactor

DAG DAG99/00.EG17 HK$40,000 Feb 2000


ITC UIM/13 HK$17,862,800 May 2000

A Systematic Experimental Study of Wastewater Treatment by Catalytic Oxidation



Hu, X., Lei, L., Chu, H.P. and Yue, P.L. (1999) "Copper/Activated Carbon as Catalyst forOrganic Wastewater Treatment", Carbon, 37 (4): 631-637.

Hu, X., Qiao, S. and Do, D.D. (1999) "Multicomponent Adsorption Kinetics of Gases inActivated Carbon: Effect of Pore Size Distribution", Langmuir, 15 (19): 6428-6437.

Qiao, S. and Hu, X. (2000) "Effect of Micropore Size Distribution Induced Heterogeneity onBinary Adsorption Kinetics of Hydrocarbons in Activated Carbon", Chemical EngineeringScience, 55, 1533-1544.

Qiao, S. and Hu, X. (2000) "Use IAST with MPSD to Predict Binary Adsorption Kinetics onActivated Carbon", AIChE Journal, 46, 1743-1752.

Qiao, S., Wang, K. and Hu, X. (2000) "Using Local IAST with Micropore Size Distributionto Predict Multicomponent Adsorption Equilibrium of Gases in Activated Carbon",Langmuir, 16, 1292-1298.

Zhao, X.S., Lu, M.G.Q. and Hu, X. (1999) "A Novel Method for Tailoring the Pore-openingSize of MCM-41 Materials", Chemical Communications, 1391-1392.

GORDON MCKAY

Associate Professor


PhD, Bradford University (1970)DSc, Bradford University (1992)Project Manager, European Commission (1983-84)Reader, Queen's University, Belfast (1986)Managing Director, CPE (1987-92)Senior Process Specialist, Project Management (1992-95)


Wastewater treatment using adsorption and ozonation; production of biopolymers from craband prawn shells and their applications; safety relief systems; mass transfer modeling formulticomponent mixtures.


Production of activated carbon from HK bamboo

ECWW ECWW97/98.EG07 HK$119,500 Sep 1998

Development of a pore-surface mass transfer model for pollutant removal by adsorption

DAG DAG99/00.EG18 HK$40,000 Dec 1999


ITC UIM/13 HK$17,862,800 May 2000

Production of pollution treatment chemicals from seafood shell waste

EHS EHS99/00.EG01 HK$50,000 Jun 2000

Production of BBQ briquettes from HK bamboo scaffolding waste

SBEAS SBEAS99/00.EG01 HK$32,000 Jul 2000


Cheung, C.W., Porter, J.F. and McKay, G. (2000) "Sorption kinetics for the removal ofcopper and zinc from effluents using bone char", Sep. Purif. Technol., 19, 55-64.

Choy, K.H., McKay, G. and Porter, J.F. (1999) "Sorption of acid dyes from effluents usingacitvated carbon", Res. Cons. Recycl., 27, 57-71.

Choy, K.H., Porter, J.F. and McKay, G. (2000) "Langmuir isotherm models applied to themulticomponent sorption of acid dyes from effluents onto activated carbon", Chem. Eng. J.,45, 575-584.

Ho, Y.S. and McKay, G. (1998) "A Two Stage Batch Sorption Optimised Design for DyeRemoval to Minimize Contact Time", Transactions of The Institution of ChemicalEngineers, 76 (Part B): 313-318.

Ho, Y.S. and McKay, G. (1998) "A Comparison of Chemisorption Kinetic Models Appliedto Pollutant Removal on Various Sorbents", Transactions of The Institution of ChemicalEngineers, 76 (Part B): 332-340.

Ho, Y.S. and McKay, G. (1999) "Batch lead (II) removal from aqueous solution by peat.Equilibrium and kinetics", Trans. IChemE, 77 (Part B): 165-173.

YONGLI MI

Associate Professor


PhD, Syracuse University (1991)Research Associate, Syracuse University (1992-93)


Gas separation with membrane processes; synthesis of novel polyimides; high-performancepolymer blends; macromolecular condensed state of the single-molecule single chains ofpolymers.


Plasticization of polymers by high pressure gas as studied by high pressure

DSC DAG DAG98/99.EG03 HK$75,000 Jun 1999

Solution, Diffusion, Relaxation, Plasticization, and Thermal Transitions of Glassy Polymersunder High Pressure Gases as Studied by Pressure DSC, Computer Simulations, andModeling


Collaboration with Nanjing University

CMI CMI99/00.EG03 HK$80,000 Apr 2000


Lau, C., Zheng, S., Zhong, Z. and Mi, Y. (1998) "Miscibility, IntermolecularInteractions,and Thermal Behaviors of Poly(hydroxyl ether of Bisphenol A) / Poly(ethyloxazoline) Blends", Macromolecules, 31, 7291-7297.

Zheng, S., Chan, C.-M. and Mi, Y. (1998) "Blends of Phenolphthalein Poly(ether etherketone)(PEK-C) and a Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Copolyester", J. Appl. Polym. Sci.,69, 1923-1931.

Zheng, S., Guo, Q. and Mi, Y. (1998) "Examination of Miscibility at Molecular Level ofPoly ( hydroxyether of bisphenol A)/Poly(N-vinyl pyrrolidone) Blends by Cross-Polarisation/ Magic Angle Spinning 13C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrum", J. Polym. Sci., PartB: Polym. Phys., 36, 2291-2300.

Zhong, Z. and Mi, Y. (1999) "Thermal Characterization and Solid-State 13C NMRInvestigation of Blends of Poly(N-Phenyl-2-Hydroxytrimethylene Amine) and Poly(N-vinylPyrrolidone)", J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys., 37, 237-245.

Zhong, Z., Zheng, S. and Mi, Y. (1999) "High Pressure DSC Study of Thermal Transitionsof Poly(ethylene terephthalate)/Carbon Dioxide System", Polymer, 40, 3829-3834.

Cheung, M.K., Wang, J., Zheng, S. and Mi, Y. (2000) "Miscibility of Poly(epichorohydrin)/Poly (vinyl acetate) Blends Investigated with High-resolution Solid-State 13C NMR",Polymer, 41, 1469-1474.

GUOHUA CHEN

Assistant Professor


PhD, McGill University (1994)


Environmental management; industrial wastewater treatment; membrane separation andmembrane reactor; drying of solids.


The effect of physiochemical properties and moisture content of sewage sludge on its heatvalue

ECWW ECWW98/99.EG09 HK$150,000 Jun 1999

Reuse of waste glasses in cement production - a DEMOS project

ECWW ECWW99/00.EG02 HK$127,500 Oct 1999

Atmospheric fluidized bed freeze drying of extracts of traditional Chinese medicine in a heatpump dryer with microwave heating

DAG DAG99/00.EG02 HK$53,738 Dec 1999

Collaboration with Beida & CUHK

CMI CMI99/00.EG01 HK$100,000 Apr 2000


ITC UIM/13 HK$17,862,800 May 2000

Dielectric Material Assisted Microwave Freeze Drying of Extracts of Chinese Medicine



He, G., Mi, Y., Yue, P.L. and Chen, G. (1999) "Theoretical study on concentrationpolarization in gas separation membrane processes", Journal of Membrane Science, 153,243-258.

Wang, Z.H. and Chen, G. (1999) "Heat and mass transfer during convection drying",Chemical Engineering Science, 54 (17): 3899-3908.

Wang, Z.H. and Chen, G. (2000) "Theoretical Study of Fluidized Bed Drying withMicrowave Heating", Industrial Engineering and Chemistry Research, 59 (3): 775-782.

Wang, Z.H. and Chen, G. (2000) "Heat and Mass Transfer in Batch Fluidized Drying ofPorous Particles", Chemical Engineering Science, 55 (10): 1857-1869.

Chen, G., Lei, L. and Yue, P.L. (1999) "Wet oxidation of high concentration reactive dyesolutions", Industrial Engineering & Chemistry Research, 38 (5): 1837-1843.

Chen, G., Chen, X. and Yue, P.L. (2000) "Electrocoagulation and Flotation of RestaurantWastewater", Journal of Environmental Engineering, 126(9): 858-864.

I-MING HSING

Assistant Professor




Polymer-electrolyte fuel cells; bio-chips; electrochemical detection of DNA biomolecules;finite-element based numerical simulation.


Development of simulation tools for chemical vapor deposition processes in semiconductordevice fabrication

DAG DAG97/98.EG12 HK$100,000 Mar 1998

Development and evaluation of electrochemical processes for metal burrs removal

BELN BELTON98/99.EG04 HK$129,200 Sep 1998


ITC AF/150/99 HK$8,600,000 Oct 1999

Water management and transient operation of polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs): Aconcurrent approach of simulation and experiment

DAG DAG99/00.EG03 HK$53,738 Dec 1999

A new deposition technology for fabricating catalyzed-electrodes in fuel cells

ITC UIM/15 HK$3,252,000 May 2000

Development of Finite Element Simulation Programs for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells(PEFCs) and Light Hydrocarbon Based Compact Reformers



Futerko, P. and Hsing, I-M. (2000) "Two-dimensional finite-element method study of theresistance of membrane in polymer electrolyte fuel cells", Electrochimica Acta, (45):1741-1751.

Futerko, P. and Hsing, I.-M. (1999) "Thermodynamics of Water Vapor Uptake inPerfluorosulfonic Acid Membranes", Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 146 (6):2049-2053.

Hsing, I-M. and Futerko, P. (in press) "Two-dimensional Simulation of Water Transport inPolymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells", Chemical Engineering Science.

Lee, T., Carles, M., Lao, A. and Hsing, I-M. (in press) "An Efficient Miniaturized DNAAmplifier: Its Application in Traditional Chinese Medicine", Analytical Chemistry.

Lee, T., Hsing, I-M. and Yue, P.L. (in press) "Electrochemical Characterization of BinaryCarbon Supported Electrode in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells", Journal of Power Sources.

Lee, T., Hsing, I-M., and Liaw, C. (2000) "An improved Anodic Bonding Process UsingPulsed Voltage Technique", Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 9, no.4, Dec.

DAVID CHI-WAI HUI

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (1991)Senior Consultant, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (1992-97)


Energy conservation; heat exchanger network design and optimization; production planningand scheduling; waste minimization.


Modeling chemical processes with discontinuous functions

DAG DAG97/98.EG11 HK$100,000 Feb 1998

Site modeling - integrating thermodynamic analysis and mathematical programming forsite-wide targeting and optimization


Developing a targeting and optimisation approach for minimising flue gas emissions fromprocess industries

JRS JRS99/33 HK$70,249 Mar 1999

Site Modeling, Simulation, Optimization, Targeting and Management


Developing a targeting and optimisation approach for minimising wastewater from processindustries

JRS JRS00/12 HK$72,816 Mar 2000


ITC UIM/13 HK$17,862,800 May 2000

Supply chain optimization of batch production

DAG DAG00/01.EG05 HK$50,000 Dec 2000


Hui, C.W. (1999) "Optimizing Chemical Processes with Discontinuous Function - A NovelFormulation", Computers and Chemical Engineering, 23, S479-S482.

Ma, K.L., Hui, C.W. and Yee, T.F. (2000) "Constant Approach Temperature Model forHEN Retrofit", Applied Thermal Engineering, 20, 1505-1533.

Hui, C.W. and Gupta, A. (2000) "A Novel MILP formulation for Short Term Scheduling ofMultistage Multi-Products Batch Plants", Comput. & Chem. Eng., vol. 24, 2705-2717.

Hui, C.W. (2000) "Determine Marginal Values of Intermediate Material and Utility using aSite Model", Computers & Chem. Eng., vol. 24, 1023-1029.

Hui, C.W., Chan, B. and Mckay, G. (in print) "Pore-Surface Diffusion Model for BatchAdsorption Process", Chemical Engineering Science.

Hui, C.W. and Smith, R. (in press) "Targeting and Designing for Minimum TreatmentFlowrate for Vent Streams", IChemE Trans..

JOHN F PORTER

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Bath (1994)


Novel production and environmental treatment processes with emphasis on adsorption and

catalysis; application of computer-aided process design to waste minimization and pollutionprevention.


The production of novel sorbents from natural products and wastes

RIG DAG97/98.EG38 HK$96,834 Jun 1998

DAG DAG97/98.EG38-1 HK$3,166 Jun 1998


ITC UIM/13 HK$17,862,800 May 2000

Production of pollution treatment chemicals from seafood shell waste

EHS EHS99/00.EG01 HK$50,000 Jun 2000


Chan, C.K., Porter, J.F., Li, Y.-G., Guo, W. and Chan, C.M. (1999) "Effects of Calcinationon the Microstructures and Photocatalytic Properties of Nanosized Titanium DioxidePowders Prepared by Vapour Hydrolysis", Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 82 (3):566-572.

Cheung, C.W., Porter, J.F. and McKay, G. (2000) "Sorption Kinetics for the Removal ofCopper and Zinc from Effluents using Bone Char", Separation and Purification Technology,19, 55-64.

Ko, D.C.K., Porter, J.F. and McKay, G. (1999) "Correlation-Based Approach to theOptimisation of Fixed-bed Sorption Units", Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research,38 (12): 4868-4877.

Porter, J.F., Li, Y.-G. and Chan, C.K. (1999) "The Effect of Calcination on theMicrostructural Characteristics and Phototreactivity of Degussa P-25 TiO2", Journal ofMaterials Science, 34, 1523-1531.

Porter, J.F., McKay, G. and Choy, K.H. (2000) "The Prediction of Sorption from a BinaryMixture of Acidic Dyes using Single and Mixed Isotherm Variants of the Ideal AdsorbedSolution Theory", Chemical Engineering Science, 54 (24): 5863-5886.

Leib, E., Li, J., Porter, J.F. and Yue, P.-L. (1999) "Photocatalytic Oxidation of VolatileOrganic Compounds in Indoor Air", Asia-Pacific Chemical Reaction EngineeringSymposium, HKUST, 13-16 June 1999, 443-448.

KING LUN YEUNG

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Notre Dame (1993)Research Associate, University of Notre Dame (1993-94)Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame (1994-96)


Synthesis of advanced materials for thin film coating, membranes and sensors; membraneand catalyst technology for waste minimization and pollution control; advanced reactordesign and analysis.


Membrane technology for a cleaner environment: Synthesis and application of zeolitemembranes


Microfabricated miniature membrane reactors for catalytic hydrogenation and oxidation

JRS JRS98/32 HK$61,875 Mar 1998

Palladium alloy membranes for hydrogen separation and production


Interinstitutional Meeting on Chemical Reaction Engineering '99

PSCG PSCG98/99.EG01 HK$44,624 Jun 1999

Separation Properties of Engineered Zeolite Membranes


Separation properties of zeolite membranes with engineered structure and tailored chemistry

DAG DAG99/00.EG19 HK$40,000 Feb 2000

Environmental Applications of Mesoporous Silica with Engineered Pore Structure andTailored Chemistry



Chau, L.H., Tellez, C., Yeung, K.L. and Ho, K.C. (in press) "The role of surface chemistry

on zeolite membrane formation", Journal of Membrane Science.

Cheng, Y.S. and Yeung, K.L. (in press) "Effects of Electroless Plating Chemistry on theSynthesis of Palladium Membranes", Journal of Membrane Science.

Maira, A.J., Yeung, K.L., Lee, C.Y., Yue, P.L. and Chan, C.K. (2000) "Size Effects inGas-Phase Photo-Oxidation of Trichloroethylene Using Nanometer-Sized TiO2 catalysts",Journal of Catalysis, 192 (1): 185-196.

Wan, Y.S.S., Chau, J.L.H., Yeung, K.L. and Gavriilidis, A. (in press) "Design andFabrication of Zeolite-based Microreactors and Membrane Microseparators", Microporousand Mesoporous Materials.

Maira, A.J., Yeung, K.L., Soria, J., Coronado, J.M., Belver, C., Lee, C.Y. and Augugliaro,V. (2000) "Gas-phase photo-oxidation of toluene using nanometer-size TiO2 catalysts",Applied Catalysis B, Environmental, 29: 327-336.

Au, L.T.Y., Wong, W.C., Tellez, C. and Yeung, K.L. (2000) "Growth Behavior andPermeation Properties of Si-rich MFI Membranes on Seeded Porous Support", 6thInternational Conference on Inorganic Membranes, ENSAM, Montpellier, France, 26-30June 2000.

JIAN YU

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of British Columbia (1991)Industrial Postdoctoral Fellow, British Columbia Science Council (1991-92)Asst. Lecturer, Zhejiang University (1985-87)Research Fellow, University of Windsor (1993-94)


Biotransformation and biodegradation; enzymatic catalysis; microbial fermentationprocesses; Biodegradable polymers.


Kinetic studies on formation of biodegradable thermoplastics from organic acids in bacterialcells


The performance, degradability and material property of disposable plastic food containers

EPD FP98-009 HK$327,000 Aug 1998

Biodegradable polymer blends and their degradation kinetics by soil microorganisms

DAG DAG99/00.EG20 HK$40,000 Jan 2000


Wang, J. and Yu, J. (in press) "Metabolic flux modeling of detoxification of acetic acid byRalstonia eutropha at slightly alkaline pH levels", Biotechnology and Bioengineering.

Wang, J. and Yu, J. (in press) "Kinetic analysis of formation of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate)from acetic acid by Ralstonia eutropha under chemically defined conditions", Journal ofApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology.

Wang, J. and Yu, J. (2000) "Kinetic Analysis on Inhibited Growth andPoly(3-hydroxybutyrate) Formation of Alcaligenes eutrophus on Acetate under Nutrient-richConditions", Process Biochemistry, 36: 201-207.

Zhang, F.M. and Yu, J. (2000) "Decolorization of Acid Violet 7 with Complex Pellets ofWhite-rot Fungus and Activated Carbon", Bioprocess Engineering, 23: 295-301.

Wang, Y. and Yu, J. (1999) "Laccase-catalysed Decolorization of Synthetic Dyes", WaterResearch, 33 (16): 3512-3520.

Cho, S. and Yu, J. (1998) "Copper adsorption and removal from water by living myceliumof white-rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium", Water Research, 32: 2746-2752.

MING FANG

Senior Technical Programme Manager, Applied Technology Centre;Director, Institute for Environment & Sustainable Development.


PhD, University of Illinois


Catalysis; air pollution monitoring and source abatement.


Atmospheric Research and Pollution Control Center

AOE AOE97/98.ATC01 HK$39,000 Jun 1998

Emerging High Impact Area of Atmospheric Research and Pollution Control

HIA HIA98/99.ATC01 HK$1,300,000 Feb 1999

Mobile real-time air monitoring platform (MAP)

JCCT HKJCCT00/01.ATC01 HK$12,300,000 Dec 2000


Fang, M., Zheng, M., To, K.L., Bakar, J.A. and Tong, S.L. (1999) "The solvent-extractableorganic compounds in the Indonesia biomass burning aerosols -- characterization studies",Atmospheric Environment, 33 (5): 783-795.

Ma, J.X., Fang, M. and Lau, N.T. (2000) "Simultaneous catalytic reduction of sulfur dioxideand nitric oxide", Catal. Lett., 62, 127-130.

Zheng, M. and Fang, M. (2000) "Particle-associated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons inthe Atmosphere of Hong Kong", Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 117, 175-189.

Zheng, M. and Fang, M. (in press) "Correlations between organic and inorganic species inatmospheric aerosols", Environmental Science & Technology.

Zheng, M., Fang, M., Wang, F. and To, K.L. (2000) "Characterization of the solventextractable organic compounds in PM2.5 aerosols", Atmospheric Environment, 34,2691-2702.

Hsiao, W.L., Mo, Z.Y., Fang, M., Shi, X.M. and Wang, F. (2000) "Cytotoxicity of PM2.5and PM2.5-10 ambient air pollutants assessed by the MTT and the Comet assays", MutationResearch, 471, 45-55.

Department of Civil and Structural Engineering

The research focus of the Civil and Structural Engineering Department lies in two broadareas: infrastructural development and planning, and environmental and water resourcesstudies. There are many subgroups under each of these two areas.

Infrastructure Development and Planning: Major research areas identified includeconstruction technology and ground engineering, advanced construction material, computeraided and optimal design of structures, bridge monitoring system, tall building-systemdesign and analysis, geotechnical engineering and soil-structure interaction, infrastructuresystem development and rehabilitation, transportation engineering and system planning,engineering risk management and hazard mitigation.

Environmental Engineering: Other the areas of research where civil and structuralengineering play a leading role include contaminated sediment transport; physical, chemical,and biological water and waste treatment processes; mathematical models for environmentalquality management; mixing and transport phenomena of pollutants in natural and artificialsystems; and water resources management and engineering

Facilities

The following laboratories are established for instruction and research:

Computer Aid Design Lab

Structural Engineering Lab

Environmental Engineering Lab

Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility

Geotechnical Engineering Lab

Construction Materials Research Lab

Water Resources Lab

Wind/Wave Tunnel Facility

Intelligent Transport Research Lab

Research Profile

WILSON H. TANG


PAUL T. Y. CHANG

Professor

TONY R. EASTHAM

Professor, and Associate Vice President - Research & Development

HOWARD JU-CHUNG HUANG

Professor

KWOK CHUNG SAU, KENNY

Professor and Director

Y. K. TUNG

Professor

CHIH-CHEN CHANG

Associate Professor

LAMBROS KATAFYGIOTIS

Associate Professor

JUN-SHANG KUANG

Associate Professor

CHRISTOPHER K. Y. LEUNG

Associate Professor

XIANG-SONG LI

Associate Professor

ZONGJIN LI

Associate Professor

IRENE MAN-CHI LO

Assistant Professor

NEIL COLIN MICKEBOROUGH

Assistant Professor and Director

CHARLES W W NG

Assistant Professor and Associate Director

HAI YANG

Associate Professor

CHUN-MAN CHAN

Assistant Professor

CHEN GUANG HAO

Assistant Professor

MARK JAMES DAVIDSON

Lecturer

MONAMED S GHIDAOUI

Assistant Professor

KIN-MAN LEE

Assistant Professor

HONG KAM LO

Assistant Professor

CHII SHANG

Assistant Professor

LI MIN ZHANG

Assistant Professor

Research Profile

WILSON H. TANG

Professor and Department Head;Director, Construction Research Centre and Acting Director,Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility

(2358-7152; [email protected])


Professor (1980-95) and Assoc Head (1989-91), Dept of Civil Engineering, University ofIllinois, Urbana-Champaign


Risk, reliability and decision analysis of engineering systems; uncertainty modeling.


Areas of Excellence in natural hazard mitigation

AOE AOE97/98.EG06 HK$200,000 Mar 1998 - Dec 1999

The construction research centre: Start-up project-friction piles

OAP OAP98/99.EG01 HK$300,000 Dec 1998

Emerging High Impact Area of Infrastructure Lab

HIA HIA98/99.EG02 HK$3,300,000 Jan 1999

Reliability Analysis And Optimal Design Of Road Networks

CERG HKUST6208/99E HK$430,000 Dec 1999

Behaviour of loose fill slopes and its stabilisation with soil nails

RCA CA99/00.EG01 HK$4,750,000 Mar 2000

Collaboration with Geology Department, Beida

CMI CMI99/00.EG04 HK$150,000 Apr 2000

Deep excavations and tunnelling in urban areas - effective method to predict and control thesoil-structure interation

G-HK G-HK99/00.EG07 HK$12,000 Jul 2000

Calibration Of Landslide Probability From Observed Performance



Angulo, M. and Tang, W.H.(1999) "Optimal Groundwater Detection Monitoring SystemDesign Under Uncertainty , June, 1999",ASCE Journal of Geotechnical andGeoenvironmental Engineering,,125 (6): 510-517

Tang, W.H., Stark, T. and Angulo, M. (1999) "Reliability in Back Analysis of SlopeFailures", Soils and Foundation, 39 (5): 73-80.

Juang, C.H., Rosowsky, D.V. and Tang, W.H. (1999) "Reliability-Based Method forAssessing Liquefaction Potential of Soils", ASCE Journal of Geotechnical andGeoenvironmental Engineering, 125 (8): 684.

Ng, C.W.W., Van Laak, P., Tang, W.H. and Li, X.S. (1999) "The Geotechnical CentrifugeFacility in Hong Kong", Proceedings of 2nd China-Japan Joint Symposium on RecentDevelopment of Theory and Practice in Geotechnology, The University of Hong Kong, Dec.,327-334.

Juang, C.H., Chen, C.J., Tang, W. and Rosowsky, D.V. (2000) "A CPT-based Limit Statefor Assessing Liquefaction Resistance", Geotechnique, 50(5), 583-592.

Cheung, R.W.M. and Tang, W. (1999) "Bayesian Calibration of Slope Failure Probability",Slope Stability 2000, ASCE Special Publication, 101: 73-85.

PAUL T. Y. CHANG

Professor



Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology (1966-67)

Research Engineer, General Atomic Company (1968-70)

Professor and Chair, Dept of Civil Engineering, University of Akron (1989-92)


Computational methods and finite element modeling of large-scale structures; parallelengineering computation; computer-aided-design; structural health monitoring and conditionassessment.


An early detection technique of corrosion in reinforced concrete structures

DAG DAG97/98.EG25 HK$49,066 Jun 1998

On construction control of prestressed concete segmental bridges


Cost efficiency of structural design of standard domestic blocks

HKHA HKHA98/99.EG01 HK$1,200,000 Dec 1998

On Integrated Computer-aided-design Of Buildings In A Collaborative Design Environment


TONG R EASTHAM

Professor and Associate Vice-President for Research & Development;President & Chief Executive Officer, HKUST RandD Corp. Ltd.;Acting Director, Transportation Institute


PhD, University of Surrey (1969)

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Warwick (1969-72)

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University (1984-96)

Director of International Programs and Director of Research Services, Queen's University(1985-95)

Associate Dean, School of Graduate Studies & Research, Queen's University (1990-95)


Advanced ground transportation; modeling and analysis of electric drives; research anddevelopment policy issues.


Emerging High Impact Area; transportation science and engineering

HIA HIA98/99.EG03 HK$888,000 Jan 1999

A study on the future development of waterborne services

TD TD99/00.EG01 HK$654,630 May 2000

Joint University Consortium on IT Network for Interfacing (JUCIT)

UCA CA95/98.RD01 HK$700,000 Jul 1998

Vivendi

CGE CGE98/99.RD01 HK$440,000 Sep 1998 ,


Eastham, A.R. and Masada, E. (2000) "Electric Urban Transit Technologies for the

Reduction of Air Pollution in Cities", Proc. 16th Int. Conf. on Magnetically LevitatedSystems and Linear Drives, , Rio de Janeiro, 7-10 June, 51-55.

Eastham, A.R. (1999) "Improving Hong Kong's Air Quality: Transportation Policy andInfrastructural Issues", Proc. 4th Mtg. of HK Society for Transportation Studies, HK Societyfor Transportation Studies, Hong Kong, 4 Dec., 211-219.

Kwok, L.K. and Eastham, A.R. (1999) "Education-specific Networks: World WidePractices and Lessons for Hong Kong", Proc. 5th Hong Kong Web Symposium, Hong Kong,4-6 Oct., 117-141.

Eastham, A.R. (1998) "The Role of Universities in Regional Economic Development",Proc. Symp. on Science & Technology and the Development of Macau, University of Macau,Macau, 1-4 Dec., 92-97.

Eastham, A.R. (1999) "A Re-evaluation of Maglev for High Speed Ground Transport",Proc. 4th Int. Conf. on Unconventional Electromechanical and Electrical Systems, TechnicalUniversity of Szczecin, St. Petersburg, Russia, 21-24 June, 35-46.

Park, D.Y., Karmaker, H.C., Dawson, G.E. and Eastham, A.R. (1998) "Standstill FrequencyResponse Testing and Modeling of Salient-pole Synchronous Machines", IEEE Trans. onEnergy Conversion, 13 (3): 230-236.

HOWARD JU-CHANG HUANG

Professor



Chief Environmental Engineer, Austin, Smith & Associates Inc. (1972-73)

Professor of Civil Engineering (1975-92) and Director, Environmental Research Center(1979-92), University of Missouri-Rolla

Director, Environmental Research Center, University of Missouri-Rolla (1979-92)


Development of innovative water and wastewater treatment technologies; aerobic hybridbiological reactor; improved primary waste treatment by sludge recycling; anaerobic wastetreatment for sulfate laden wastewater; nucleated precipitation of heavy metals in fluidizedsand bed.


Effects of total metal concentration and hexavalent chromium on nucleated precipitation ofheavy metals

DAG DAG00/01.EG07 HK$50,000 Jan 2000


Ren, N.B., Wang, B. and Huang, J.C. (1997) "Ethanol-Type Fermemtation fromCarbohydrate in High Rate Acidogenic Reactor", Biotechnology and Bioengineering, vol.54, 5, 428-433.

Tur, M.Y. and Huang, J.C. (1997) "Treatment of Phthalic Waste by Anaerobic HybridReactor", J. of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, vol. 123, 11, 1093-1099.

Zhou, P., Huang, J.C., Li, W.F. and Wai, S. (1999) "Heavy Metal Removal fromWastewater in Fluidized Bed Reactor", Water Research, vol. 33, no. 8, 1918-1924.

Chen, G.H., Leong, I., Liu, J. and Huang, J.C. (1999) "Study of Oxygen Uptake by TidalRiver Sediment", Water Research, vol. 33 no. 13, 2905-2912.

Huang, J.C. and Li, L. (2000) "An Innovative Approach to Maximize Primary TreatmentPerformance", Water Science and Technology, vol. 42, no. 12, 209-222.

Chen, G.H., Leung, D.H.W. and Huang, J.C. (in press) "Removal of Dissolved OrganicCarbon in a Sanitary Gravity Sewer", Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE.

KWOK CHUNG SAU, KENNY

Professor and Director, CLP Power Wind/Wave Tunnel Facility


PhD, Monash University (1978)

Personal Chair of Wind Engineering, The University of Sydney (1999)

Associate Dean (Postgraduate and Research), Faculty of Engineering, The University ofSydney (1998)

Director, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Sydney (1998)

Director, Australian Graduate School of Engineering Innovation (1998)


Wind effects on building and structures; wind tunnel modeling; structural dynamics;vibration control; environmental fluid mechanics.


Wind-induced interference excitation of tall buildings with coupled translational- torsionalmotion and with eccentricity

DAG DAG98/99.EG08 HK$100,000 May 1999

Wind-induced Motion Of Tall Flexible Buildings And Its Effects On Occupant Comfort AndMental Efficiency



Thepmongkorn, S., Kwok, K.C.S. and Lakshmanan, N. (1999) "A Two-Degree-of-FreedomBase Hinged Aeroelastic (BHA) Model for Response Predictions", Journal of WindEngineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 83, 171-181.

Hitchcock, P.A. and Kwok, K.C.S. (2000) "Introducing the CLP Power Wind/Wave TunnelFacility (WWTF)", Proceedings of Australasian Wind Engineering Society 8th Workshop onWind Engineering, Australasian Wind Engineering Society, Scarborough, Perth, 10-11 Feb.,Session Paper.

Kwok, K.C.S. (1999) "Wind-induced Interference Excitation of Tall Buildings",Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Advances in Structural Engineering andMechanics, KAIST, Seoul, Aug., 2:1693-1698.

Kwok, K.C.S., Denoon, R.O. and Letchford, C.W. (2000) "Towards a Better Understandingof Wind-induced Response of Towers - Field Measurements", First InternationalSymposium on Wind and Structures for the 21st Century, KAIST, Cheju, Korea, 26-28 Jan.,99-114.

Wood, G.S., Kwok, K.C.S., Denoon, R.O. and Moore, A.J. (2000) "Comparison betweenThunderstorm Downburst and Developed Boundary Layer Flows", Proceedings ofAustralasian Wind Engineering Society 8th Workshop on Wind Engineering, AustralasianWind Engineering Society, Scarborough, Perth, 10-11 Feb., Session Paper.

Wood, G.S., Kwok, K.C.S., Motteram, N.A. and Fletcher, D.F. (1999) "Physical andNumerical Modelling of Thunderstorm Downdrafts", Proceedings of 10th InternationalConference on Wind Engineering, Danish Association of Wind Engineers, Copenhagen,21-24 June, 1919-1924.

Y. K. TUNG

Professor



Professor of Statistics and Statistical Hydrologist, University of Wyoming, Laramie(1985-96)


Water resources systems analysis; urban drainage and water distribution systems design;

reliability and uncertainty analyses applied to water resources/water quality management andhydraulic structural designs.


Analysis of rainstorm characteristics in Hong Kong

CERG HKUST6035/97E HK$531,000 Jan 1998

Lai Ping Road landslide investigation - Three dimensional groundwater flow computations

GEO GEO97/98.EG02 HK$129,500 Jun 1998

Integrating Hydrologic Uncertainties For Risk-Based Design Of Hydraulic Structures


Investigation of issues in intensity-duration relationships and time scale dependence ofrainstorms in Hong Kong

DAG DAG00/01.EG08 HK$50,000 Dec 2000


Tung, Y.K. (1999) "Chapter 7. Risk/Reliability-Based Hydraulics Engineering Design",Hydraulic Design Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, NY, 7.1-7.56.

Goulter, I., Thomas, M., Mays, L.W., Sakarya, B., Bouchart, F. and Tung, Y.K. (1999)"Chapter 18 Reliability Analysis for Design", Water Distribution Systems Handbook,McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, NY, 18.1-18.52.

Tung, Y.K. (1999) "Polynomial normal transform in uncertainty analysis", Applications ofStatistics and Probability, CERRA, Sydney, Australia, 12-15 Dec., 1:167-174.

CHIH-CHEN CHANG

Associate Professor



Asst. Professor of Mechanical Engineering, HKUST (1993-95)


Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Hong Kong (1988-89)


Passive and semi-active control of structures; wind effects on structures; dynamicmeasurement and system identification; health monitoring; structural dynamics; bridge

dynamics.


A distributed intelligent sensory system for the health monitoring of tall buildings

DAG DAG97/98.EG24 HK$49,066 Jun 1998

On Enhancing Serviceability And Safety Of Tall Buildings During Wind Storms UsingSemi-active MR Dampers: Analytical And Wind Tunnel Studies


An engineering study for safety and reliability of bamboo scaffoldings

OSHC OSHC99/00.EG02 HK$380,000 Jun 2000

Development of an automated and integrated information knowledge-base system for acontinuously-monitored cable-stayed bridge

DAG DAG00/01.EG06 HK$50,000 Dec 2000


Chang, C.C. (1998) "Designing Water Dampers for Along-wind and Cross-wind BuildingVibration", Transactios of Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, 5(3), 17-24.

Chang, C.C. and Roschke, P. (1998) "Neural Network Modeling of a MagnetorheologicalDamper", Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 9(9), 755-764.

Chang, C.C. and Gu, M. (1999) "Suppression of vortex-excited vibration of tall buildingsusing tuned liquid dampers", Journal of Industrial Aerodynamics and Wind Engineering, 83,225-237.

Chang, C.C., Chang, T.Y.P. and Xu, Y.G. (2000) "Adaptive neural networks for modelupdating of structures", Smart Materials and Structures, 9, 59-68.

Zhang, Q.W., Chang, C.C. and Chang, T.Y.P. (2000) "Finite element model updating forstructures with parametric constraints", Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics,29(7), 927-944.

Chang, C.C., Chang, T.Y.P. and Zhang, Q.W. (2001) "Ambient Vibration of a Long-SpanCable-Stayed Bridge", Journal of Bridge Engineering, ASCE, 6(1), 46-53.

LAMBROS KATAFYGIOTIS

Associate Professor



Asst. Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Akron (1991-94)


Structural dynamics, control and reliability; computational stochastic mechanics; systemidentification; damage detection; random vibrations; earthquake and wind engineering.


A Statistical Methodology For Structural Model Updating And Health Monitoring



Katafygiotis, L.S., Papadimitriou, C. and Lam, H.F. (1998) "A Probabilistic Approach toStructural Model Updating", Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering, 17 (7-8): 495-507.

Katafygiotis, L.S., Lam, H.F. and Papadimitirou, C (2000) "Treatment of Unidentifiabilityin Structural Model Updating", Advances in Structural Engineering, 3(1), 19-39.

Katafygiotis, L.S., Zerva, A. and Malyarenko, A.A. (1999) "Simulation of Homogeneousand Partially Isotropic Random Fields", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, 125(10),1180-1189.

Katafygiotis, L.S., Yuen, K.V. and Chen, J.C. (in press) "Bayesian Model Updating UsingAmbient Data", AIAA Journal.

Papadimitirou, C., Bech, J.L. and Katafygiotis, L.S. (in press) "Updating Robust ReliabilityUsing Structural Test Data", Journal of Probablilistic Engineering Mechanics.

Yuen, K.V. and Katafygiotis, L.S. (in press) "Bayesian Model Updating Using CompleteInput and Incomplete Response Noisy Measurements", Journal of Engineering Mechanics,ASCE.

JUN-SHUANG KUANG

Associate Professor




Tall building structures; reinforced and prestressed concrete; design for earthquakeresistance; strength and assessment of structures; bridge engineering.


Experiment on the investigation of failure mechanism of RC cantilevers subjected tovibration

BD BD97/98.EG01 HK$96,000 Jan 1998

Transfer plate systems in tall buildings: Analysis, behaviour and design


Transfer plate systems in tall buildings: Analysis, behaviour and design

DAG DAG98/99.EG21 HK$43,309 Mar 1999

Potential Seismic Hazard In Regions Of Moderate Seismicity: A Case-study Of Hong Kong


CHRISTOPHER K. Y. LEUNG

Associate Professor


PhD, Massachusetts Institue of Technology (1990)

Asst and Assoc Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (1992-97)


Construction materials; high performance concrete; composites in civil engineering;composite micro-mechanics; fracture mechanics; optical fiber sensors.


Distributed crack sensing in concrete structures

CERG HKUST6204/98E HK$490,000 Jul 1998

Fibre Reinforced Shotcrete For Slope Protection



Leung, C.K.Y. and Geng, Y. (1998) "Micromechanical Modeling of Softening Behavior inSteel Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Materials", International Journal of Solids andStructures, 35 (31/32): 4205-4222.

Leung, C.K.Y. and Shapiro, N. (1999) "Optimal Steel Fiber Strength for the Reinforcementof Cementitious Materials", ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 11 (2):

116-125.

Leung, C.K.Y., Wang, X. and Olson, N. (2000) "Effect of Interfacial Changes on Longterm Performance of Optical Fiber Sensors in a Cementitious Environment", ASCE Journalof Engineering Mechanics, 126 (3): 300-307.

Leung, C.K.Y., Elvin, N., Olson, N., Morse, T.F. and He, Y.-F. (2000) "A NovelDistributed Optical Crack Sensor for Concrete Structures", Engineering FractureMechanics, 65 (2-3): 133-148.

Elvin, N. and Leung, C.K.Y. (2000) "A Fast Iterative Boundary Element Method forSolving Closed Crack Problems", Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 63(5), 6031-648.

Elvin, N., Leung, C.K.Y., Sudarshanam, V.S. and Ezekiel, S. (2000) "A Novel Fiber OpticDelamination Detection Scheme: Theoretical and Experimental Feasibility Studies", Journalof Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 10 (4): 314-321.

XIANG-SONG LI

Associate Professor


PhD, University of California, Davis (1990)

Adjunct Asst. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California,Davis (1992-93)


Soil mechanics, soil dynamics; geotechnical earthquake engineering; constitutive modeling;computational mechanics; signal processing; instrumentation and control systems.


Critical-State And State-Dependent Dilatancy For Cohesionless Soils


Centrifuge Modeling Of Pile-sand Systems Under Multi-directional Earthquake Loading



Li, X.-S. and Dafalias, Y.-F. (in press) "Dilatancy for Cohesionless Soils", Geotechnique.

Li, X.-S. and Ming, H.-Y. (in press) "Unified Modeling of Flow Liquefaction and CyclicMobility", Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering.

Li, X.-S. and Cai, Z.-Y. (1999) "Effects of Low-Number Pre-Vibration Cycles on Dynamic

Properties of Dry Sand", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering,ASCE, 125 (11): 979-987.

Li, X.-S., Dafalias, Y.-F. and Wang, Z.-L. (1999) "State-Dependent Dilatancy inCritical-State Constitutive Modeling of Sand", Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 36 (4):599-611.

Li, X.-S. and Yang, W.-L. (1998) "Effects of Vibration History on Modulus and Dampingof Dry Sand", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 124 (11):1071-1081.

Li, X.-S. Shen, C.-K. and Wang, Z.-L. (1998) "Fully-coupled Inelastic Site ResponseAnalysis for 1986 Lotung Earthquakes", Journal of Geotechnical and GeoenvironmentalEngineering, ASCE, 124(7): 560-573.

ZONGJIN LI

Associate Professor

(2358-8751, [email protected])

PhD, Northwestern University (1993)

Instructor, Shandong Architectural and Civil Institute, China (1982-86)

Research Associate, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University (1993-94)


Fiber-reinforced cementitious composites; fracture and durability of concrete;non-destructive tests of infrastructure; building products manufactured by extrusiontechniques; functional materials.


Advanced cement-based building products

CRC CRC98/01.EG04 HK$3,250,000 Mar 1999

A Systematic Study Of A New Concrete Durability-enhancing Admixture


Advanced cement-based building products

RPCPL RPCPL99/00.EG01 HK$20,000 Mar 2000

Functional materials development and building defect detection

PSL PSL00/01.EG01 HK$200,000 Aug 2000

Advanced Composite Reinforced Concrete


Fiber reinforced wall panel with mineral admixtures

HBMM HBMMH00/01.EG01 RMB100,000 Sep 2000


Li, Z.J., Mu, B. and Chui, N.C. (1999) "The systematic study of the properties of extrudateswith incorporated metakaolin or silica fume", ACI Materials Journal, 96 (5): 574-579.

Li, Z.J., Mu, B. and Chui, S. (1999) "The rheology behavior of short fiber-reinforcedcementitious composites by extrusion", J. of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, 125 (5):530-536.

Li, Z.J., Peng, J. and Ma, B.G. (1999) "Investigation of chloride diffusion forhigh-performance concrete containing fly ash, microsilica, and chemical admixtures", ACIMaterials Journal, 96 (3): 391-397.

Li, Z.J., Qi, M., Li, Z.L. and Ma, B.G. (1999) "Crack width of high-performance concretedue to restrained shrinkage experiment and analysis", J. of Materials in Civil Engineering,ASCE, 11 (3): 214-223.

Li, Z.J. and Chau, C.K. (2000) "A new water permeability test scheme for concrete", ACIMaterials Journal, 97 (1): 84-90.

Li, Z.J., Li, F.M., Li, X.S. and Yang, W.L. (2000) "P-wave arrival detection and acousticemission characterization", J. Of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, 126 (2): 194-200.

IRENE MAN-CHI LO

Associate Professor



Senior Geoenvironmental Engineer, Golder Associates (HK) Limited (1999)

Visiting Associate Professor, Dept of Environmental Engineering and Science, TheTechnical University of Denmark (1999)


Clay liners for waste disposal facilities; remediation of contaminated soils; chemical(hazardous) waste treatment; groundwater pollutant transport and modeling; geotechnicalcentrifuge modeling.


Accelerated inorganic contaminant transport through low permeability soil materials


Characterization of the physical and chemical nature of sewage sludge with regard to itssuitability for disposal in landfills

ECWW ECWW98/99.EG01 HK$150,000 Feb 1999

The effect of Physiochemical properties and moisture content of sewage sludge on its heatvalue

ECWW ECWW98/99.EG09 HK$150,000 Jun 1999

Investigation of the Subsurface Contamination and the Effectiveness of RemediationTechnologies Using Geotechnical Centrifuge Techniques


Laboratory- and Full- Scale Study of Permeable Reactive Barriers for Removal ofChlorinated Solvents in Groundwater



Lo, I.M.-C. and Yang, X.Y. (in press) "Laboratory Investigation of the Migration ofHydrocarbons in Organobentonite", Environ. Sci. and Technol.

Lo, I.M.C., Tang, C.I., Li, X.D. and Poon, C.S. (in press) "Leaching and MicrostructuralAnalysis of Cement-Based Solidified Wastes", Environ. Sci. and Technol.

Inyang, H.I., Ogunro, V.O. and Lo, I.M.-C. (2000) Environmental Geotechnology andGlobal Sustainable Development, vol. II, Technomic Press, USA.

Lo, I.M.-C. and Pota, A. (1997) "Expert System for Technology Screening for SOC andVOC Contaminated Water", J. of Environ. Eng., ASCE, 123(9): 911-918.

Lo, I.M.C., Mak, K.M. and Lee, S.C.-H. (1997) "Modified Clays for Waste Containmentand Pollutant Attenuation", J. of Environ. Eng., ASCE, 123(1): 25-32.

Lo, I.M.-C. (1996) "Solidification/ Stabilizationof Phenols Waste Using QuaternaryAmmonium-Clay Complex", J. of Environ. Eng., ASCE, 122(9): 850-855.

NEIL COLIN MICKLEBOROUGH

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Tasmania (1979)

Senior Bridge Design Engineer, Rankine and Hill, Consulting Engineers (1981-83)

Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales (1983-91)


Serviceability effects of prestressed and reinforced concrete; structural dynamics; systemidentification and vibration control; bridge engineering; structural behavior of tall buildings.


Behaviour of joints in segmental hollow box girder bridges

DAG DAG99/00.EG22 HK$40,000 Dec 1999

Behaviour of joints in segmental hollow box girder bridges

G-HK G-HK99/00.EG01 HK$30,000 Jun 2000

Prediction Of Joint Behaviour In Segmental Hollow Box Girder Bridges



Chan, C.-M., Mickleborough, N.C. and Ning, F. (in press) "Analysis of Cracking Effectson Tall Concrete Buildings", Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE.

Chan, C.-M., Ning, F. and Mickleborough, N.C. (in press) "Lateral StiffnessCharacteristics of Tall Reinforced Concrete Buildings under Service Loads", InternationalJournal of Structural Analysis and Design of Tall Buildings.

Mickleborough, N.C., Ning, F. and Chan, C.-M. (1999) "Prediction of the Stiffness ofReinforced Concrete Shear Walls Under Service Loads", Structural Journal, ACI, 96 (6):1018-1026.

Ning, F., Mickleborough, N.C. and Chan, C.-M. (1999) "The Effective Stiffness ofReinforced Concrete Flexural Members Under Service Load Conditions", Australian Journalof Structural Engineering, 2 (2 & 3): 135-144.

Pi, Y.L. and Mickleborough, N.C. (1999) "Nonlinear Inelastic Dynamic Analysis of Beamsand Beam-Columns", Structural Dynamic Systems Computational Techniques andOptimization Nonlinear Techniques, Gordon and Breach, The Netherlands, 49-84.

CHARLES W W NG

Associate Professor and Associate Director, Geotechnical CentrifugeFacility



Visiting Professor, Northern Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

Visiting Professor, Beijing University, Beijing, China

Chairman of the Association of Geotechnical Specialists, HK (2000-01)

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge (1993-95)

Independent Consultant, Mott MacDonald Group (1993-95)

Independent Consultant, Ove Arup & Partners (1994-95)

Independent Consultant, Maunsell Scott Wilson Joint Venture, HK (2000)

Independent Consultant, The Housing Authority, HK (2000)


Centrifuge modeling; numerical analysis and constitutive models; triaxial stress path testing;unsaturated soils; slope stability; soil-structure interaction problems such as retaining walls,deep excavations, poles and tunnels.


Centrifuge modelling of loose fill slopes subjected to uniaxial and biaxial earthquakes


Proposed Belcher Garden Redevelopment - Testing of no-fines concrete

JCP JCP97/98.EG01 HK$450,000 Apr 1998

Lai Ping Road landslide investigation - Three dimensional groundwater flow computations

GEO GEO97/98.EG02 HK$129,500 Jun 1998

Lai Ping Road landslide investigation - specialist testing of unsaturated soils

GEO GEO97/98.EG03 HK$20,000 Jun 1998

Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation-West Rail

BS BS98/99.EG01 HK$19,200 Oct 1998

Full scale deep foundation load testing Tuen Mun North and Tuen Mun Centre stations:Concrete testing

EBC EBC98/99.EG01 HK$40,800 Dec 1998

The construction research centre: Start-up project-friction piles

OAP OAP98/99.EG01 HK$300,000 Dec 1998

Behaviour of soil nails in saturated and unsaturated loose fill slopes


KCRC West Rail contract no. FCC-016: Tin Shui Wai, Long Ping & Yuen Long Stationstesting of concrete cores

GCL GCL98/99.EG01 HK$25,600 Jan 1999

Numerical analysis of the behaviour of recompacted fill slopes

GEO GEO99/00.EG01 HK$60,000 Sep 1999

Geotechnical Centrifuge Modelling

GCG GCG99/00.EG01 HK$180,000 Oct 1999

Stochastic Modeling Of Surface-Subsurface Flow For Stability Analysis Of Soil Slopes InHong Kong


Behaviour of unsaturated expansive soils

DAG DAG99/00.EG23 HK$40,000 Jan 2000

Investigation of slope instability in swelling soils for the South-North water diversion projectin China

F-HK F-HK99/00.EG05 HK$30,700 Jan 2000

Collaboration with Geology Department, Beida

CMI CMI99/00.EG04 HK$150,000 Apr 2000

Investigation Of Slope Instability In Unsaturated Expansive Soils



Ng, C.W.W., Yan, T.L.Y., Li, J.H.M. and Tang, W.H. (in press) "A new failure loadcriterion for large diameter bored piles in weathered geomaterials", Journal of Geotehnicaland Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE.

Ng, C.W.W. and Pang, Y.W. (2000) "Influence of stress state on soil-water characteristicsand slope stability", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE,vol. 126, no. 2, 157-166.

Ng, C.W.W., Pun, W.K and Pang, R.P.L. (2000) "Small strain stiffness of natural graniticsaprolites in Hong Kong", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering,ASCE, vol. 126, no. 9, 819-833.

Ng, C.W.W., Rigby, D., Lei, G.H. and Ng, S.W.L. (1999) "Observed performance of ashort diaphragm wall panel", Geotechnique, 49 (5): 681-694.

Ng, C.W.W. and Yan, W.M. (1998) "Stress transfer and deformation mechanisms around adiaphragm wall panel", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE,vol. 124, no. 7, 638-648.

Ng, C.W.W., Springman, S.M. and Norrish, A.R.M. (1998) "Centrifuge modelling ofspread-base integral bridge abutments", Journal of Geotechnical and GeoenvironmentalEngineering, ASCE, vol. 124, no. 5, 376-388.

HAI YANG

Assistant Professor



Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Waterloo (1992-93)


Transportation economics; transportation network reliability; traffic control; road pricing andintelligent transportation systems.


Urban development and traffic environment from the perspective of road network capacity

DAG DAG97/98.EG27 HK$49,066 Jun 1998

Designing And Tolling Private Roads: A Network Equilibrium Approach


Research on traffic/urban transportation

HIA HIA98/99.EG03-B HK$300,000 Mar 2000

Modeling And Evaluating Joint Implementation Of Road Pricing And Route GuidanceSystems



Yang, H. (1999) "System optimum, stochastic user equilibrium and optimal link tolls",Transportation Science, 33 (4): 354-360.

Yang, H. (1999) "Evaluating the benefits of a combined road pricing and route guidancesystem in a traffic network with recurrent congestion", Transportation, 26 (3): 299-322.

Yang, H. and Meng, Q. (2000) "Highway pricing and capacity choice in a road networkunder a build-operate-transfer scheme", Transportation Research, 34A (3): 207-222.

Yang, H. and Huang, H.J. (1999) "Carpooling and congestion pricing in a multilanehighway with high-occupancy-vehicle lanes", Transportation Research Part A, 33A,

139-155.

Yang, H. and Wong, S.C. (2000) "A continuous equilibrium model for estimating marketareas by competitive facilities with elastic demand and market externality", TransportationScience, 34 (2): 216-227.

Yang, H., Bell, M.G.H. and Meng, Q. (2000) "Modeling the capacity and level of service ofurban transportation networks", Transportation Research, 34B (4): 255-275.

CHUN-MAN CHAN

Assistant Professor

(2358-7173; (23587173; [email protected])@ust.hk)

PhD, University of Waterloo (1993)

Structural Engineer, Office of Irwin G. Cantor (1985-87)

Director of Computer Operations, Office of Irwin G. Cantor (1987-89)


Structural optimization of tall buildings; computer automated design; wind effects onbuildings; structural stiffness and vibration control; structural steel design; design ofcomposite structures.


Structural optimization of tall building systems


Structural Optimization To Limit Wind-Induced Vibrations Of Tall Steel Buildings


Structural Optimization For Seismic Design Of Reinforced Concrete Buildings



Chan, C.-M. (in press) "Optimal Stiffness Design of Tall Buildings of Mixed Steel andConcrete Construction", Journal of Structural Design of Tall Buildings.

Chan, C.-M., Ning, F. and Mickleborough, N. (in press) "Lateral Stiffness Characteristicsof Tall Reinforced Concrete Buildings under Service Loads", Journal of Structural Design ofTall Buildings.

Chan, C.-M., Michleborough, N.C. and Ning, F. (2000) "Analysis of Cracking Effects on

Tall Reinforced Concrete Buildings under Service Loads", Journal of StructuralEngineering, ASCE, vol. 126, no. 9, 995-1003.

Mickleborough, N.C., Ning, F. and Chan, C.-M. (1999) "Prediction of Stiffness ofReinforced Concrete Shearwalls under Service Loads", ACI Structural Journal, 96 (6):1018-1026.

Chan, C.-M. (1998) "Optimal Stiffness Design to Limit Static and Dynamic WindResponses of Tall Steel Buildings", Engineering Journal, American Institute of SteelConstruction, Third Quarter, 94-105.

Liang, J., Chang, T.Y.P. and Chan, C.-M. (1998) "An Object-Oriented DatabaseManagement System for Computer-Aided Design of Tall Buildings", Engineering withComputers, 14, 275-286.

CHEN GUANG HAO

Assistant Professor


DEng, Kyoto University (1990)

Researcher, Ursin Co. Ltd., Japan (1990-92)

Technical Manager, Unix Co. Ltd., Japan (1990-92)

Research Scientist, Dept. of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore (1992-94)


Biological treatment processes; biosewer development; minimization of excess sludge; waterquality control.


Minimization of sludge production through energy uncoupling in an activated sludge process

CERG HKUST6038/98E HK$380,000 Oct 1998

Utilization of a gravity sewer as a pollutant treatment system

DAG DAG99/00.EG04 HK$53,738 Dec 1999


Chen, G.H., Leong, I.M., Liu, J. and Huang, J.C. (1999) "Study of oxygen uptake by tidalriver sediment", Water Research, 33, 2905-2912.

Chen, G.H. and Liu, Y. (1999) "Modelling of energy spilling in substrate-sufficientcultures", Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, 125 (6): 508-513.

Chen, G.H. and Leung, D.H.W. (2000) "Utilization of oxygen in a sanitary gravity sewer",Water Research, 34(15), 3813-3821.

Chen, G.H., Yip, W.K., Mo, H.K. and Liu, Y. (in press) "Effect of sludge fasting/feastingon the growth of activated sludge cultures", Water Research.

Chen, G.H., Leung, D.H.W. and Huang, J.C. (in press) "Removal of dissolved organiccarbon in a sanitary gravity sewer", Journal of Environ. Eng., ASCE.

Liu, Y., Chen, G.H. and Paul, E. (1998) "Effect of the So/Xo ratio on energy uncoupling insubstrate-sufficient batch culture of activated sludge", Water Research, 32, 2883-2888.

MARK JAMES DAVIDSON

Lecturer


PhD, University of Canterbury (1989)

Research Associate, University of Cambridge (1989-92)


Environmental hydraulics; modeling of dispersion phenomena; inverse problems;non-intrusive measurement techniques; multimedia and information technology in education.


The hydraulics of a non-buoyant, co-flowing discharge in a moving

turbulent environment


The hydraulics of a non-buoyant, co-flowing discharge in a moving turbulent environment

DAG DAG98/99.EG20 HK$43,309 Mar 1999


Davidson, M.J. and Pun, K.L. (1999) "Weakly-Advected Jets in a Crossflow", Journal ofHydraulic Engineering, ASCE, 125, (1): 47-58.

Davidson, M.J. and Pun, K.L. (1998) "A Hybrid Model for ] the Predictions of InitialDilutions from Outfall Discharges", Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, 124 (12):1188-1197.

Davidson, M.J. and Pun, K.L. (2000) "Locating Outfall Discharges in Still and MovingEnvironments", Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, 126, no. 7: 513-524.

Pun, K.L. and Davidson, M.J. (1999) "On the Behaviour of ' Advected Plumes and

Thermals", Journal of Hydraulic Resarch, IAHR, 37 (4): 519-540.

Pun, K.L., Davidson, M.J. and Wang, H.J. (2000) "Merging Jets in a Co-flowing AmbientFluid - A Hybrid Approach", Journal of Hydraulic Research, IAHR, 38 (2): 105-114.

Wang, H.J. and Davidson, M.J. (1998) "The Spreading Rate of a Single CoflowingAxisymmetric Jet", 2nd International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics, Universityof Hong Kong, 16-18 Dec., 1: 129-134.

MOHAMED S. GHIDAOUI

Assistant Professor




Theoretical and numerical modelling in hydraulics and environmental fluids; unsteadyfriction; inverse analysis; flow stability; Boltzmann theory & hydraulics.


Theoretical and experimental investigation of unsteady friction in pipe flow


Theoretical And Experimental Studies Of Flow In The Leeward Of Islands And Its ImpactOn Environmental Hydraulics


Investigation Of Flow Behavior In Pipeline Hydraulic Transients



Axworthy, D.H., Ghidaoui, M.S. and Mcinnis, D.A. (2000) "An ExtendedThermodynamics Derivation of Energy Dissipation in Unsteady Pipe Flow", Journal ofHydraulic Engineering, ASCE, 126 (4): 276-287.

Ghidaoui, M.-S. and Kolyshkin, A.-A. (1998) "Some Global Properties of Flow in aHeterogeneous Isotropic Porous Medium", Mech. Res. Comm., 26 (2): 161-166.

Ghidaoui, M.-S., Karney, B.-W. and Mcinnis, D.-A. (1998) "Energy Estimates forDiscretization Errors in Waterhammer Problems", ASCE, 123 (11): 384-393.

Ghidaoui, M.S. and Hari, K.S. (2000) "A Priori Identifiability of Unsaturated SoilParameters", Journal of Irrigation Engineering, ASCE, 126 (3): 163-171.

Ghidaoui, M.S. and Kolyshkin, A.A. (1999) "Linear Stability Analysis of Lateral Motionsin Compound Channels with Free Surface", Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, 125(8): 871-880.

Su, M., Xu, K. and Ghidaoui, M.-S. (1998) "Low Speed Flow Simulation by theGas-Kinetic Scheme", Journal of Computational Physics, 150, 17-39.

KIN-MAN LEE

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Western Ontario (1989)

Technical Consultant, K. Y. Lo Inc. (1984-91)

Asst. Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Western Ontario (1989-91)


Tunneling in soft ground; hydraulic filling and land reclamation; soil-structural interaction;application of geosynthetics in engineering problems; numerical modeling in geotechnicalengineering.


Deep excavations and tunnelling in urban areas - Effective methods to predict and controlthe soil-structure interaction

G-HK G-HK98/99.EG10 HK$30,800 Apr 1999

Calibration Of Piezocone Data For Land Reclamation Works By Geotechnical CentrifugeModel Testing



Lee, K.M. (in press) "Influence of placement method on the cone penetration resistance ofhydraulic placed sand-fills", Canadian Geotechnical Journal.

Lee, K.M. and Manjunath, V.R. (2000) "Experimental and numerical studies ofgeosynthetic reinforced sand slopes loaded with a footing", Canadian Geotechnical Journal,37(4): 828-842.

Lee, K.M. and Manjunath, V.R. (2000) "Soil-geotextile interface friction by direct sheartests", Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 37 (1): 238-252.

Lee, K.M. and Ng, P.C.C. (1999) "A geotechnical investigation of marine deposits innear-shore seabed for land reclamation", Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 36 (6): 981-1000.

Lee, K.M., Ji, H.W. and Shen, C.K. (1999) "Ground response to the construction ofShanghai metro tunnel - Line 2", Soils and Foundations, 39 (3): 113-134.

Lee, K.M., Shen, C.K., Leung, D.H.K. and Mitchell, J.K. (1999) "Effects of placementmethod on geotechnical behavior of hydraulic fill sands", ASCE Journal of Geotechnical andGeoenvironmental Engineering, 125 (10): 832 - 846.

HONG KAM LO

Assistant Professor


PhD, Ohio State University (1991)

Postdoctoral Researcher, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Center for TransportationAnalysis (1992)

Asst. Research Engineer, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California,Berkeley (1993-96)


Transportation systems modeling; intelligent transportation systems; dynamic trafficassignment; traffic simulation; traffic signal control; traffic flow theory.


Traffic signal control for over-saturated transportation networks

DAG DAG97/98.EG03 HK$50,000 Feb 1998

Comprehensive Citybus (CTB) screenline survey

TD HKGTD98/99.EG06 HK$72,335 Dec 1998

Software simulation environment for adaptive traffic control with real-time information

SSRI SSRI98/99.EG02 HK$311,000 Jul 1999

Dynamic Intersection Control For Over-saturated Traffic


Real-time adaptive traffic control

SSRI SSRI99/00.EG02 HK$211,000 Aug 2000

An Integrated Planning Methodology For Win-Win Public Transit Services



Lo, H.K. (in press) "A cell-based traffic control formulation: strategies and benefits ofdynamic timing plans", Transportation Science.

Lo, H.K. and Szeto, Y.W. (in press) "A methodology for sustainable traveler informationservices", Transportation Research B.

Lo, H.K., Chang, E. and Chan, Y.C. (in press) "Dynamic Network Traffic Control",Transportation Research A.

Lo, H.K. and Chen, A. (2000) "Traffic equilibrium problem with route-specific costs:formulation and algorithms", Transportation Research B, 34, 493-513.

Lo, H.K. (1999) "A dynamic traffic assignment formulation that encapsulates the celltransmission model", Transportation and Traffic Theory, (ed. Cedar, A.), Elsevier Science,327-350.

Lo, H.K. (1999) "A novel traffic signal control formulation", ,Transportation Research A,33, 433-448.

CHII SHANG

Assistant Professor

(2358-7885 [email protected])


Research Associate of Agricultural Engineering, National Taiwan University (1999-00)


Physico/chemical processes; environmental assessment/ instrumentation; disinfectionprocesses; heavy metal removal; subsurface contaminant transport and remediation.


Shang, C. and Blatcheley III, E.R. (2001) "Chlorination of pure bacterial cultures in aqueoussolution", Water Research, 35, 244-254.

Shang, C., Gong, W.L. and Blatcheley III, E.R. (2000) "Breakpoint chemistry and volatileby-product formation resulting from chlorination of model organic-N compounds",Environmental Science &Technology, 34, 1721-1728.

Liu, C.W., Lin, W.S., Shang, C. and Liu, S.H. (in press) "The effect of clay dehydration onland subsidence in Yun-Lin coastal area, Taiwan", Environmental Geology.

Shang, C., Lin, W.S. and Liu, C.W. (in press) "A simulation of supergene copperenrichment process", Proceedings of the National Science Council, ROC, Part A: Physical

Science and Engineering.Shang, C. and Blatcheley III, E.R. (1999) "Differentiation andquantification of free chlorine and inorganic chloramines in aqueous solution by MIMS",Environmental Science & Technology, 33, 2218-2223.

LI MIN ZHANG

Assistant Professor


PhD, Sichuan University (1989)

Visiting Scientist, Karlsruhe University (1995)

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Florida (1996-98)

Visiting Assistant Lecturer, HKUST (1999-00)


Pile foundations; embankments and slopes; centrifuge modelling; pile dynamics andreliability.


Innovative pile testing technology based on wave mechanics

RGC DAG00/01.EG22 HK$100,000 Jan 2001


Zhang, L.M. and McVay, M. C. (1998) "Centrifuge Testing of Vertically Loaded BatteredPile Groups in Sand", Geotechnical Testing Journal, ASTM, 21(4): 281-288.

Zhang, L.M., Yu, X.M. and Hu, T. (1998) "Optimization of Compaction Zoning inEmbankments", Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 35(4): 611-621.]

McVay, M.C., Zhang, L.M., Molnit, T. and Lai, P. (1998) "Centrifuge Testing of LargePlumb Pile Groups in Sands", J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Eng., ASCE, 124(10): 1016-1026.

Zhang, L.M., McVay, M.C. and Lai, P. (1999) "Numerical Analysis of Laterally Loaded3x3 to 7x3 Pile Groups in Sands", J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Eng., ASCE, 125(11): 936-946.

Zhang, L.M., McVay, M.C. and Lai, P.W. (1999) "Centrifuge Modelling of LaterallyLoaded Single Battered Piles in Sands", Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 36(6): 1074 -1084.

Zhang, L.M., McVay, M. C. and Ng, C.W.W. (in press) "A Possible Physical Meaning ofCase Damping in Pile Dynamics", Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 38(1).

Department of Computer Science

The Department of Computer Science has established critical mass in a number of focusedresearch areas that are relevant to the needs of society and are pushing the forefront ofresearch and technology in information and computer science. These areas are listed belowwith topics currently under investigation in the Department:

Artificial Intelligence: Computer Vision; Image Processing; Knowledge Discovery andData Mining, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning; Logic Programming; MachineLearning; Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition; Robotics, Speech and LanguageProcessing.

Computer Engineering: Computer Architecture and Organization; ComputerCommunication and Networking; Fault-Tolerant Computing; Operating Systems; Paralleland Distributed Computing; Real-Time Systems; Wireless Networks; System and NetworkSecurity; VLSI Design.

Data and Knowledge Base Systems: cooperative information systems; data warehousing;OLAP and data mining; data modeling and database design; distributed/heterogeneousdatabase systems; information retrieval; spatial/geographic/mobile database systems webdatabases and information management.

Foundations of Computer Science: Combinatorial Optimization; ComputationalGeometry; Data Structures; Graph Algorithms; Online Algorithms; Probabilistic andRandomized Algorithms.

Software Technology: Chinese Computing; Formal Specifications; Graphical Use InterfaceDesign; Graphics and Multi-media Technology; Visualization; Requirements Engineering;Software Architecture Design; Internet Technology.

Facilities

The Department is served by about 600 workstations and PCs, including those in fourteaching labs: two PC Labs, one UNIX lab (Ultras) and a multi-media Lab (HP Kayaks).Each teaching lab has 41 sets of computers networked together, a LCD projector, and at leastone high-speed laser printer. In addition, the multi-media lab is equipped with professionalgrade amplifiers, speakers, synthesizers, top-of-the-line Turtle Beach sound cards, and 3Dgraphics cards. Wireless stations of speed 11 Mbps will be installed in early 2001 to allowwireless Internet access for all teaching and research labs in the Department. The teachinglabs are upgraded frequently to keep the equipment current.

In addition, the Department runs a number of research labs. All have a number of PCs andULTRAstations and servers, and special hardware/software to support specific research. TheComputer Engineering Lab has two ATM switches, a PowerHub, some wireless modemsand multi-media workstations, as well as a number of notebook computers with videocameras. The Database Lab maintains various database management systems such as Oracle,Sybase and Informix Dynamic Server, as well as software engineering packages likeRational and Orbix. The Game Room is for computer graphics and music research and hasIntergraph TDZ-2000 graphics workstations, SGI Octanes and Indigos, video-editing rackand microVideo 300 video capture boards. It also has music hardware as described in the

multi-media teaching lab. The available software includes Softimage, Csound and SNDAN.The AI/Robotics/Image Processing lab has a number of multi-media computers, studioquality nonlinear digital video and audio editing systems, various sensory and computervision equipment, and a mobile robot.

There are also specialized project labs, including the Human Language Technology Center(with various corpora and powerful servers); the Cyberspace Center with a large assortmentof Internet related software (E-commerce packages, different Web server software,multi-media support packages, etc.) and smart card hardware and software; the Multi-mediaTechnology Research Center with the state-of-the-art video processing equipment.

In addition to our own CPU servers, the Department also manages the School ofEngineering's cluster of 30 SUN Ultra30 processors and SGI Origin 2000 workstations with72GB RAID disks interconnected by an ATM switch and various high-speed switches.

All computing facilities in the Department are connected by high-speed Ethernet switchesand to the University's multi-ring FDDI backbone. Internet access overseas is via 48 MbpsHARNET connection and a 4 Mbps ATM backup link to UUNET. There is also a 2 Mbpsconnection to CERNET (China Academic & Research Network).

Research Profile

ROLAND T. CHIN


SAMUEL T. CHANSON

Professor and Associate Department Head; Director, Cyberspace Center

JUN GU

Professor

DIK LUN LEE

Professor

FREDERICK H. LOCHOVSKY

Professor

VINCENT Y. SHEN

Professor

DERICK WOOD

Professor

TING-CHUEN PONG

Reader; Associate Dean of Engineering; Director, Sino Software Research Institute

ISHFAQ AHMAD

Associate Professor

SIU WING CHENG

Associate Professor

RUDOLF FLEISCHER

Associate Professor

MORDECAI J. GOLIN

Associate Professor

MOUNIR HAMDI

Associate Professor

ANDREW HORNER

Assistant Professor

HONGJUN LU

Associate Professor

JOGESH K. MUPPALA

Assistant Professor

HELEN C. SHEN

Associate Professor

DEKAI WU

Associate Professor

DIT-YAN YEUNG

Associate Professor

LIANWEN (NEVIN) ZHANG

Associate Professor

SUNIL ARYA

Assistant Professor

GEORGE BACIU

Assistant Professor

BRAHIM BENSAOU

Assistant Professor

GARY SHEUNG-HAN CHAN

Assistant Professor

SHING CHI CHEUNG

Assistant Professor

MANHOI CHOY

Assistant Professor

CUNSHENG DING

Assistant Professor

JAMES TIN-YAU KWOK

Assistant Professor

BO LI

Assistant Professor

FANGZHEN LIN

Assistant Professor

BRIAN KAN-WING MAK

Assistant Professor

JELENA MISIC

Assistant Professor

DIMITRIS PAPDIAS

Assistant Professor

CHIEW-LAN TAI

Assistant Professor

CHI-KEUNG TANG

Assistant Professor

Research Profile

ROLAND T CHIN



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)


Computer vision; image processing; pattern recognition; digital signal processing.


Language and speech technology research : Towards the development of a spokentranslation system between English, Mandarin and Cantonese

UGC CA97/98.EG02 HK$3,900,000 Mar 1998

Areas of Excellence in internet technology

AOE AOE97/98.EG03 HK$174,100 Mar 1998

Emerging High Impact Area of Internet Technology

HIA HIA98/99.EG01 HK$1,625,000 Jan 1999

Language and speech technology research

HKTII HKTIIT98/99.EG01 HK$2,354,000 Feb 1999

Acquisition And Synthesis Of Global Illumination For Digital Images


Information technology for a 21st century Hong Kong: an IT society with a strongvalue-added economy

AOE AOE98/99.EG01 HK$20,400,000 Jan 2000


Cheung, K.W., Lee, T. and Chin, R.T. (1998) "Optimal image boundary detection viaHopfield net and tunneling", Progress in Neural Network - Special Volume in ShapeAnalysis, International Specialized Book Services, Inc, Portland, Oregon, 00-47.

Cheung, K.W, Yeung, D.Y. and Chin, R.T. (1998) "A Bayesian framework for deformable

pattern recognition with application to handwritten character recognition", IEEETransactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 20 (12): 1382-1388.

Hajj, H.M., Nguyen, T.Q. and Chin, R.T. (1999) "2D multirate Bayesian framework formultiscale feature detection", Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 8.

Cheung, K.W., Yeung, D.Y. and Chin, R.T. (1999) "A Bidirectional Matching Algorithmfor Deformable Pattern detection with Application to Handwritten Word Retrieval", 7thInternational Conference on Computer Vision, IEEE, Corfu, Greece, 20-25 August.

Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C., Chin, R.T. and Zhang, H.J. (2000) "Motion-based videorepresentation for scene change detection", International Conference on Pattern Recognition,IEEE, Barcelona, Spain, 3-8 September.

Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C., and Chin, R.T. (2000) "Motion characterization by temporal slicesanalysis", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Hilton Head,USA.

SAMUEL T CHANSON

Professor and Associate Department Head; Director, CyberspaceCenter


PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1975)Professor, Purdue University (1974-75)Professor, University of British Columbia (1975-96)


Web cachings; multimedia communication; communication protocols; internet security;mobile electronic commerce.


Fair, robust and efficent parallel and distributed processing in the intranet environment


Chinese computing on the web and electronic commerce

SSRI SSRI97/98.EG01 HK$991,000 Mar 1998

Software support for scalable multiparty interactive multimedia applications

G-HK G-HK97/98.EG07 HK$37,000 Apr 1998

Testing of distributed multimedia software systems




Survey study on the need of certification authorities in Hong Kong to facilitateE-Commerece as well as internet usage behaviors

HKP HKP98/99.EG01 HK$200,000 Sep 1998

User identity authentication for secure JAVA card applications using integrated biometricsand cryptography

ITC AF/223/98 HK$3,241,000 Jan 1999

Testing of distributed multimedia software systems

DAG DAG98/99.EG22 HK$43,309 Mar 1999

Open infrastructure and protocol for mobile electronic commerce

ITC AF/153/99 HK$3,587,000 Sep 1999


SMCL SMCL99/00.EG01 HK$375,000 Sep 1999

Development of a prototype authentication server software

SGHL SGHL00/01.EG01 HK$165,000 Jul 2000

Enhancing The Performance Of Distributed WWW Server Systems

CERG HKUST6066/00E HK$437,817 Nov 2000


Wu, J., Chanson, S. and Gao, Q. (1999) Formal Methods for Protocol Engineering andDistributed Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston MA, U.S.A.

Chan, D. and Chanson, S. (1999) "Scalability support for multiparty multimediacommunication", ACM/ SpringerVerlag Multimedia Systems Journal, 6(2): 75-87.

Chueng, S.C. and Chanson, S. (1999) "A Model-Based Authorware for the Construction ofDistributed Multimedia Systems", Journal of Information and Software Technology, 41(11-12): 715-727.

Hui, C.C. and Chanson, S. (1999) "Hydrodynamic Load Balancing", IEEE Transactions onParallel and Distributed Systems, 10 (11): 1118-1137.

Hui, C.C. and Chanson, S. (1999) "Improved Strategies for Dynamic Load Balancing",IEEE Concurrency, 7 (3): 58-67.

Kim, M.C., Chanson, S. and Vuong, S.T. (1999) "Concurrency Model for DistributedSystems", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 59 (3): 445-464.

JUN GU

Professor


PhD, University of Utah (1989)


Multimedia communications; VLSI integrated circuit design; computer architecture; paralleland distributed processing; operations research and combinatorial optimization.


A method for fast evaluation of Boolean expressions




A method for evaluating general SAT formulas

DAG DAG99/00.EG07 HK$53,738 Dec 1999


Gu, J., Liou, M.L., Li, C.X. and Lu, J.H. (in press) "Error Resilient Video transmission withAdaptive Stream-shuffling and Bi-directional Error Concealment ", Journal of VLSI onSignal Processing System for Signal, Image and Video Technology.

Gu, J., Jia, X.H., Du, D.Z., Hu, X.D. and Lee, M.K. (in press) "Optimization of WavelengthAssignment for QOS Multicast in WDM Networks ", IEEE Trans. On Communications.

Gu, J., Lu, B., Hu, X.D. and Shragowitz, E. (in press) "Wire Segmenting for BufferInsertion Based on RSTP-MSP ", Theoretical Computer Science.

Gu, J., Zhang, J., Mei, S.L. and Lu, J.H. (1999) "Burst Demodulation of QAM withUnknown Carrier Phase ", Electronics Letters, 35 (24): 2077-2079.

Gu, J., Zhang, Y.X. and Wang, X.C. (in press) "An End-to-end QOS Control Model forEnhanced Internet ", Journal of Computer Science & Technology.

Gu, J. (1999) "The Multi-sat Algorithm ", Discrete Applied Mathematics, 96-97 (1999):111-126.

DIK LUN LEE

Professor




Database systems; information retrieval.


Financial forecasting and news search service


Distributed information discovery on internet


Development of mobile platforms and applications



ITC AF/153/99 HK$3,587,000 Sep 1999

Secured agent applications

DAG DAG99/00.EG08 HK$53,738 Dec 1999

Data Access And Dissemination In A Multicell Mobile Computing Environment



Hu, Q., Lee, W.-C. and Lee, D.L. (in press) "A Hybrid Indexing Technique for PowerConserving Wireless Data Broadcast", Journal on Distributed and Parallel Databases.

Hu, Q., Lee, W.-C. and Lee, D.L. (in press) "Indexing Techniques for Power Management inMulti-Attribute Data Broadcast", Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET).

Lee, W.-C., Hu, Q. and Lee, D.L. (1999) "A Study of Channel Allocation for DataDissemination in Mobile Computing Environments", Mobile Networks and Applications(MONET), vol. 4, no. 2, 117-129.

Hu, Q., Lee, W.-C. and Lee, D.L. (2000) "Power Conservative Multi-Attribute Queries onData Broadcast", Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering

(ICDE'2000), 157-166, San Diego, CA, February.

Hu, Q., Lee, W.-C. and Lee, D.L. (1999) "Performance Evaluation of a WirelessHierarchical Data Dissemination System", Proceedings of the The Fifth Annual InternationalConference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM '99), ACM, Seattle, USA,August, 163-173.

Lin, C.W. and Lee, D.L. (2000) "Adaptive Data Delivery in Wireless CommunicationEnvironments", Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Distributed ComputingSystems (ICDCS '2000), IEEE Computer Society, Taipei, 444-452.

FREDERICK H LOCHOVSKY

Professor


PhD, University of Toronto (1978)Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto (1988-94)


Information systems design; database design; data and knowledge base integration;organizational support systems; human-computer interaction; web information management.


Discovering and Managing Expertise Knowledge



Mei, J., Karlapalem, K. and Lochovsky, F.H. (2000) "A Multiagent Framework forExpertise Location", 2nd Intl. Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented InformationSystems, CAiSE, Stockholm, Sweden, 5-9 Jun, 101-113.

Lau, N.M.L., Lochovsky, F.H. and Karlapalem, K. (2000) "An Expertise Finding Agent",Intl. ICSC Symposium on Multi-Agents and Mobile Agents in Virtual Organizations andE-Commerce, Wollongong, Australia, 11-15.

Li, Q. and Lochovsky, F.H. (1998) "ADOME: An advanced object modelling environment",IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering, 10(2), 255-276.

Ahmed, I. and Lochovsky, F.H. (1998) "A comparative case study of three databaseapplication development environments", Database, 29(4), 68-76.

Wong, R.K., Chan, H.L. and Lochovsky, F.H. (1997) "A data model and semantics ofobjects with dynamic roles", 13th Intl. Conference on Data Engineering, Birmingham, U.K.,7-11 Apr, 402-411.

Li, Q. and Lochovsky, F.H. (1996) "Advanced database support facilities for CSCWsystems", J. Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, 6(2), 191-210.

VINCENT Y SHEN

Professor


PhD, Princeton University (1969)Manager & Program Director, Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corp. (1985-90)Founding Head, Dept of Computer Science, HKUST (1990-95)Associate Vice-president for Academic Affairs, HKUST (1996-97)


Software productivity and quality; internet computing; computer-aided instruction.


Chinese computing on the web and electronic commerce

SSRI SSRI97/98.EG01 HK$991,000 Mar 1998

World wide web consortium office in Hong Kong


MPAS - A micropayment authorization system


The tenth international world wide web conference (WWW10)

CF CF00/01.EG02 HK$100,000 Jul 2000

World Wide Web consortium office in Hong Kong



Shen, V.Y. and Liao, R. (in press) "Design, Implementation, and Experience in Using theWeb to Teach an Introductory Computer Science Class", Information Environment andInternational Cooperation for the 21st Century, The United Nations University/IAS, Tokyo,6-8 March.

DERICK WOOD

Professor


PhD, Leeds University (1968)Professor of Computer Science, University of Waterloo (1982-92)Professor of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario (1991-96)


Document engineering; data structures and algorithms; computational formal-languagetheory; computational geometry.


Editing And Presenting High-dimension, Online, Large And Dynamic (HOLD) Tables



Brueggemann-Klein, A. and Wood, D. (2000) "Caterpillars: A Context SpecificationTechnique", Markup Languages: Theory & Practice, 2(1), 82-106.

Albert, J., Giammarresi, D. and Wood, D. (in press) "Normal Form Algorithms for ExtendedContext-Free Grammars", Theoretical Computer Science.

Giammarresi, D., Ponty, J.-L. and Wood, D. (1999) "Thompson Languages", Jewels areForever, Contributions on Theoretical Computer Science in Honor of Arto Salomaa,Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 16-24.

Kilpeläinen, P. and Wood, D. (in press) "SGML and XML Document Grammars andExceptions", Information and Computation.

Schuierer, S. and Wood, D. (1997) "Visibility in Semi-Convex Spaces", Journal ofGeometry, 60, 160-187.

Brueggemann-Klein, A., Hermann, S. and Wood, D. (1999) "The Visual Specification ofContext", Proceedings of the IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries, IEEE, Maryland, May,28-36.

TING-CHUEN PONG

Reader; Associate Dean of Engineering; Director, Sino SoftwareResearch Institute


PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1984)Assoc. Professor of Computer Science, University of Minnesota (1990-95)


Computer vision; artificial intelligence; pattern recognition; robotics; parallel algorithms forpattern recognition and image analysis.


Automatic visual inspection of LED display board

MIT MIT98/99.EG03 HK$115,000 Sep 1998

User identity authentication for secure JAVA card applications using integrated Biometricsand Cryptography

ITC AF/223/98 HK$3,241,000 Jan 1999


Lee, C.M., Pong, T.C. and Esterline, A. (1998) "Enhancing Object Recognition UsingRecency and Co-occurrence Heuristics", Pattern Recognition, 31 (9): 1319-1336.

Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C. and Chin, R. (in press) "Exploiting Image Indexing Techniques inDCT Domain", Pattern Recognition.

Yip, H.M., Ahmad, I. and Pong, T.C. (in press) "An Efficient Parallel Algorithm forComputing the Gaussian Convolution of Multi-dimensional Image Data", Journal ofSupercomputing.

Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C. and Chin, R. (1999) "Camera Breaks Detection by Partitioning of2-D Spatio-Temporal Images in MPEG Domain", IEEE International Conference onMultimedia Computing and Systems, IEEE, France, June 99.

Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C. and Chin, R. (1999) "Detection of Gradual Transitions throughTemporal Slice Analysis", IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and PatternRecognition, IEEE, U.S.A, June 99.

Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C. and Chin, R. (2000) "A Robust Wipe Detection Algorithm", The 4thAsian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV, Taipei, Taiwan, 8-11 January, I:246-251.

ISHFAQ AHMAD

Associate Professor


PhD, Syracuse University (1992)


Parallel and distributed processing; high performance computer architectures; performanceevaluation; video technology multimedia systems.


Prototyping HDTV using high-performance computing


MPEG-4 video encoding using parallel processing


Cooperative Research Centre For MPEG-4 Based Information Technology

SMI SMI98/99.EG01 US$60,000 Jan 1999

Cooperative research centre for MPEG-4 based information technology

CRC CRC98/01.EG05 HK$3,000,000 Mar 1999

An infrastructure for MPEG-4 based interactive multimedia systems and applications

HKTII HKTIIT98/99.EG02 HK$589,769 Jul 1999

Software-based enabling technologies for providing cost-effective and high-quality videoservices

ITC AF/165/99 HK$7,503,000 Aug 1999

Software-Based Enabling Technologies for Providing Cost-effective and High-QualityVideo Services

HKT HKT99/00.EG01 HK$1,100,000 Aug 1999

Software-Based Video Compression: Research Issues, Application, And Prototyping



Kwok, Y.-K. and Ahmad, I. (1998) Parallel Program Scheduling Techniques for Networked

Computer Systems, Wiley, U.S.A, 547-571.

Ahmad, I. and Kwok, Y.-K. (1998) "On Exploiting Task Duplication in Parallel ProgramScheduling", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 9 (9): 872-892.

Ahmad, I. and Kwok, Y.-K. (1999) "Parallelizing the Multiprocessor Scheduling Problem",IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 10 (4): 414-432.

Ahmad, I. and Lau, F.C.M. (in press) "Special Issue on Software Support for DistributedComputing: Guest Editors' Introduction", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.

Ahmad, I., Akramullah, S.M., Liou, M.L. and Kafeel, M. (in press) "A Scalable Off-lineMPEG-2 Encoder Using a Multiprocessor Machine", Parallel Computing.

Ahmad, I., Lai, W. and Li, B. (1998) "Scheduling Multimedia Documents in a DistributedSystem", Web Technologies and Applications, International Academic Publisher, ThePeople's Republic of China, 3-15.

SIU WING CHENG

Associate Professor




Computational geometry; data structures; design and analysis of algorithms.


Areas of Excellence in computational geometry

AOE AOE97/98.EG04 HK$150,000 Mar 1998

A Theoretical Study Of Hierarchy Of Triangulations



Cheng, S.W. and Xu, Y.F. (in press) "On beta-skeleton as a subgraph of a minimum weighttrangulation", Theoretical Computer Science A (Algorithms, automata, complexity andgames), also see Proceedings of 12th Annual ACM Symposium on ComputationalGeometry, ACM, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 24-26 May 1996, 196-203.

Ayra, S., Cheng, S.W. and Mount, D.M. (in press) "Approximation algorithms formultiple-tool milling", International Journal on Computational Geometry: Theory andApplication, also see Proceedings of the 14th Annual ACM Symposium on ComputationalGeometry, ACM, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 7-10 June 1998, 297-306.

Cheng, S.W. (2000) "The Steiner tree problem for terminals on the boundary of a rectilinearpolygon", Theoretical Computer Science A (Algorithms, automata, complexity and games),237, 213-238.

Cheng, S.W., Dey, T.K., Edelsbrunner, H., Facello, M.A. and Teng, S.-H. (in press) "SliverExudation", Journal of Association of Computer Machinery, also see Proceedings of the 15thAnnual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, ACM, Miami Beach, Florida, USA,13-16 June 1999, 1-13.

Dai, Y., Katoh, N. and Cheng, S.W. (2000) "LMT-Skeleton heuristics for several newclasses of optimal triangulations", Computational Geometry Theory and Applications, 17,51-68.

Cheng, S.W., Cheong, O., Everett, H. and Van Oostrum, R. (1999) "Hierarchical verticaldecompositions, ray shooting, and circular arc queries in simple polygons", Proceedings ofthe 14th Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, ACM, Miami Beach,Florida, USA, 13-16 June, 227-236.

RUDOLF FLEISCHER

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Saarbrücken (1993)Research Associate, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken (1989-99)Habilitation, University of Saarbrücken (1999)Research Associate Professor, University of Waterloo (1999-00)


Efficient algorithms and data structures; computational geometry; online algorithms.


Oblivious sorting algorithms

DAG DAG00/01.EG03 HK$100,000 Dec 2000


Fleischer. R. and Wahl, M. (2000) "Online scheduling revisited", Proceedings of the 8thEuropean Symposium on Algorithms (ESA '00), Springer Lecture Notes in ComputerScience, 1879, 202-210.

>Fleischer, R. and Seiden, S. (2000) "New results for online page replication", Proceedingsof the International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for CombinatorialOptimization (APPROX '00), Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1913, 144-154.

Biedl, T., Cenek, E., Chan, T.M., Demaine, E.D., Demaine, M.L., Fleischer, R. and Wong,

M.-W. (2000) "Balanced k-colorings", Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium onthe Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS '00), Springer Lecture Notes inComputer Science, 1893, 202-211.

Burnikel, C., Fleischer, R., Mehlhorn, K. and Schirra, S. (2000) "A strong and easilycomputable separation bound for arithmetic expressions involving radicals", Algorithmica,27: 87-99.

Fleischer, R. (1999) "Decisions trees: old and new results", Information and Computation,152: 44-61.

Burnikel, C., Fleischer, R., Mehlhorn, K., and Schirra, S. (1999) "Efficient exact geometriccomputation made easy", Proceedings of the 15th Annual Symposium on ComputationalGeometry (SoCG '99), 341-350.

MORDECAI J GOLIN

Associate Professor


PhD, Princeton University (1990)Researcher, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (1990-92)


Design and analysis of algorithms; computational geometry; combinatorics; informationtheory.


Algorithms for constructing variants of prefix-free codes


Algorithms for constructing variants of prefix-free codes

DAG DAG98/99.EG23 HK$43,309 Mar 1999

Mathematical analysis of algorithms

F-HK F-HK99/00.EG06 HK$33,400 Jan 2000

Analyzing The Capacity Of Two-dimensional Constrained Codes



Chan, S.-Z. and Golin, M.J. (2000) "A Dynamic Programming Algorithm for ConstructingOptimal '1'-ended Binary Prefix-Free Codes", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,

(46) 4, 1637-44

Choi, S.-N. and Golin, M.J. (in press) "Lopsided trees: Algorithms, Analyses andApplications", Algorithmica.

Golin, M. (in press) "A Combinatorial Approach to Golomb Forests", Theoretical ComputerScience.

Vigenron, A., Gao, L., Golin, M.J., Italiano, G.F. and Li, B. (2000) "An Algorithm forFinding a k-Median in a Directed Tree", Information Processing Letters, 74, 81-88.

Zhang, Y.P., Yong, X.R. and Golin, M.J. (2000) "The Number of Spanning Trees inCirculant Graphs", Discrete Mathematics, 223: 337-350.

Li, B., Deng, X., Golin, M. and Sohraby, K. (1999) "On The Optimal Placement of WebProxies in the Internet", IEEE Infocom'99, IEEE, New York, March.

MOUNIR HAMDI

Associate Professor




High-speed networking; ATM packet switching; wireless communications; parallelcomputing; high-performance computer architectures.


Wireless channel access in multimedia personal communication systems

DAG DAG97/98.EG23 HK$49,066 Apr 1998

Providing Quality-of-Service Guarantees For High-Speed Switches



Ma, M. and Hamdi, M. (in press) "Providing Deterministic Quality-of-Service Guaranteesfor WDM Networks", IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications.

Nong, G. and Hamdi, M. (in press) "On the Provision of Quality-of-Service Guarantees forInput-Queued Switches", IEEE Communications Magazine.

Nong, G. and Hamdi, M. (2000) "Burst-based Scheduling on ATM Switches with MultipleInput Queues", IEEE Communications Letters, 4 (6): 202-204.

Wang, L. and Hamdi, M. (2000) "A hybrid adaptive wireless channel access protocol formultimedia personal communication systems", Wireless Personal Communications, 13 (1-2):79-96.

Hamidzadeh, B., Ma, M. and Hamdi, M. (1999) "Efficient sequencing techniques forvariable-length messages in WDM networks", IEEE Journal of Lightwave technology, 17(8): 1309-1319.

ANDREW HORNER

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana (1993)


Computer music; audio engineering; musical acoustics; genetic algorithms.


Simulating unison playing with doubling and chorus


Simulating unison playing with doubling and chorus

DAG DAG98/99.EG24 HK$28,000 Mar 1999

Low Peak Amplitudes For Wavetable Synthesis



Ayers, L. and Horner, A. (1999) "Modeling the Woodstock Gamelan for Synthesis", Journalof the Audio Engineering Society, 47 (10): 813-823.

Horner, A. (1998) "Nested Modulator and Feedback FM Matching of Instrument Tones",IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 6 (4): 398-409.

Horner, A. (1999) "Fake Horns: Experiments in Taped Auditions", The Horn Call: Journalof the International Horn Society, 30 (1): 61-65.

Horner, A., Ayers, L. and Law, D. (1999) "Synthesis Modeling of the Chinese Dizi, Bawu,and Sheng", Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 47 (12): 1076-1087.

Horner, A and Ayers, L. (2000) "Contiguous-Group Wavetable Synthesis of the FrenchHorn in Csound", The Csound Book, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 187-195.

Lee, K. and Horner, A. (1999) "Modeling Piano Tones with Group Synthesis", Journal ofthe Audio Engineering Society, 47 (3): 101-111.

HONGJUN LU

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1985)Principal Research Scientist, Honeywell Inc. (1985-87)Assoc. Professor, National University of Singapore (1987-98)


Data/knowledge base management; query processing and optimization; data warehousingand data mining; database application development and performance evaluation.


Areas of Excellence in data mining/retrieval

AOE AOE97/98.EG05 HK$100,000 Mar 1998

Inter-transaction association rules and share price movement prediction

DAG DAG97/98.EG33 HK$100,000 Apr 1998

Data cleansing techniques and tools


Inductive enterprise data warehouse design

JRS JRS99/38 HK$72,052 Mar 1999

Data cleansing techniques and tools


Mining Context And Integrating Data From The World Wide Web


Extensible data integration software environment


XBASE: An XML Document Management System



Chee, C.-L., Lu, H., Tang, H. and Ramamoorthy, C.V. (1998) "Adaptive Prefetching andStorage Reorganization In A Log-Structured Storage System", IEEE Transactions onKnowledge and Data Engineering, 10 (5): 824-838.

Lu, H., Ng, Y.Y. and Tian, Z. (2000) "T-Tree or B-Tree: Main Memory Database IndexStructure Revisited", Australasian Database Conference, ADC'2000, Canberra, Australia, 31January - 3 February, 65-73.

Chen, S., Diao, Y., Lu, H. and Tian, Z. (2000) "Fact: A Learning Based Web QueryProcessing System", 2000 ACM SIGMOD Intl. Conference on Management of Data, ACMSIGMOD, Dallas, May 14-19, 587.

Feng, L., Lu, H., Yu, J.X. and Han, J. (1999) "Mining Inter-Transaction Associations withTemplates", Proceedings of the 1999 ACM CIKM International Conference on Informationand Knowledge Management, ACM, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, November 2-6, 225-233.

Tung, A.K.H., Lu, H., Han, J. and Feng, L. (1999) "Breaking the Barrier of Transactions:Mining Inter-Transaction Association Rules", Proceedings of the Fifth ACM SIGKDDInternational Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, ACM SIGKDD, SanDiego, August 15-18, 1999, 297-301.

Tung, K.-H., Tay, Y.C. and Lu, H. (1998) "BROOM: Buffer Replacement Using OnlineOptimization By Mining", Seventh International Conference on Information and KnowledgeManagement, ACM, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, 3-7 Nov, 185-192.

JOGESH K MUPPALA

Associate Professor


PhD, Duke University (1991)Technical Staff, Software Productivity Consortium (1991-92)


High-speed networking; performance evaluation; stochastic Petri nets; distributed systems.


Accelerated methods for numerical solution of Markov chains

DAG DAG97/98.EG01 HK$50,000 Feb 1998

Quality of Service (QoS) management of multimedia applications and its impact on anAsynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networking infrastructure

G-HK G-HK97/98.EG05 HK$24,920 Apr 1998

Quality Of Service Assessment Of Non-Blocking ATM Switches With Multiple Input

Queues



Ge, N., Muppala, J.K. and Hamdi, M. (1999) "Analysis of Non-blocking ATM Switcheswith Multiple Input Queues", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 7 (1): 60-74.

Tyagi, A., Muppala, J. and De-Meer, H. (1999) "Study of Expedited Forwarding inDifferentiated Services and Its Performance Characteristics Using CBQ Implementation",Proc. 7th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications(ADCOM'99), University of Roorkee, Roorkee, India, 20-22 Dec., 75-79.

Tyagi, A., Muppala, J. and De-Meer, H. (2000) "VoIP Support on Differentiated Servicesusing Expedited Forwarding", Proc. 19th IEEE Int. Performance, Computing andCommunications Conference (IPCCC 2000), IEEE Computer Society, Phoenix, AZ, USA,20-22 Feb., 574-580.

Ge, N., Hamdi, M. and Muppala, J.K. (1999) "Analytical Modeling of a High-SpeedScheduling Algorithm for Multiple Input-Queued ATM Switches", Third IEEE InternationalWorkshop on Broadband Switching Systems, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario Canada,June 1-3.

Nong, G., Hamdi, M. and Muppala, J. (1999) "Analytical Analysis of ATM Switches withMultiple Input Queues with Bursty Traffic", GLOBECOM'99, IEEE CommunicationsSociety, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 3 Nov., 1222-1226.

HELEN C SHEN

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Waterloo (1982)Assoc. Professor, Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo (1992-95)Associate Dean, School of Engineering, HKUST (1996-99)Adjunct Professor, Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo (1995-00)


Multisensor-based robotic systems; 3D object reconstruction; pattern recognition; medicalimaging.


A computer-aided diagnosis system for neurosurgeons



Chung, A.C.S. and Shen, H.C. (2000) "Entropy Based Markov Chains for MultisensorFusion", Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 29: 161-189.

Shen, H.C. and Wang, X.G. (in press) "Multiple Hypotheses Testing Method for DistributedMultisensor Systems", Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems.

Basir, O.A. and Shen, H.C. (1999) "Interdependence and Information Loss in Multi-SensorySystems", Journal of Robotic Systems, 16 (11): 597-612.

Jojic, N., Gu, J., Shen, H.C. and Huang, T.S. (1999) "Computer Modeling, Analysis, andSynthesis of Dressed Humans", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for VideoTechnology, 9 (2): 378-388.

Chung, A.C.S. and Shen, H.C. (1998) "Dependency in Sensory Data Combination", 1998IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'98), IEEE andRobotics Society of Japan, Victoria, B.C., Canada, 13-17 October, 1676-1681.

Gu, J., Chang, T., Mak, I.M., Gopalsamy, S., Shen, H.C. and Yuen, M.M.F. (1998) "A 3DReconstruction System for Human Body Modeling", The First International Workshop onModelling and Motion Capture Techniques for Virtual Environments, MiraLab, Universityof Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, 26-28 November, 229-241.

DEKAI WU

Associate Professor




Statistical and corpus-based natural language processing; machine translation; languagemodeling; speech recognition; dialog systems; internet information processing.


Computationally efficient methods for statistical machine translation


Language and speech technology research: Towards the development of a spoken translationsystem between English, Mandarin and Cantonese

RCA CA97/98.EG02 HK$3,900,000 Mar 1998

A statistical study of deterministic natural language parsing


A Bilingual Language Modeling Approach To Word Sense Disambiguation


Two-tier Bigrammars: A Unified Approach To Machine Translation Learning


DIT-YAN YEUNG

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Southern California (1989)Asst. Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (1989-90)


Machine learning; pattern recognition; handwriting recognition; pen computing; biometrics;smart cards and information security.



ITC AF/223/98 HK$3,241,000 Jan 1999

User identity authentication for secure JAVA card applications using integrated biometricsand cryptography

ACSL ACSL99/00.EG01 HK$400,000 Jan 1999

PenCalc Project

ITEA ITEA99/00.EG01 HK$275,520 Oct 1999


Chan, K.F. and Yeung, D.Y. (in press) "Error Detection, Error Correction and PerformanceEvaluation in On-line Mathematical Expression Recognition", Pattern Recognition.

Chan, K.F. and Yeung, D.Y. (in press) "Mathematical Expression Recognition: A Survey",International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition.

Chan, K.F. and Yeung, D.Y. (in press) "An efficient syntactic approach to structural analysisof on-line handwritten mathematical expressions", Pattern Recognition.

Chan, K.F. and b (1999) "Recognizing On-line Handwritten Alphanumeric CharactersThrough Flexible Structural Matching", Pattern Recognition, 32 (7): 1099-1114.

Cheung, K.W., Yeung, D.Y. and Chin, R.T. (1998) "A Bayesian framework for deformablepattern recognition with application to handwritten character recognition", IEEETransactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 20 (12): 1382-1388.

Kwok, T.Y. and Yeung, D.Y. (1997) "Objective functions for training new hidden units inconstructive neural networks", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 8(5): 1131-1148.

LIANWEN (NEVIN) ZHANG

Associate Professor


PhD, Beijing Normal University (1989)


Artificial intelligence; knowledge representation; Bayesian networks; decision networks;planning and control under uncertainty.


Efficient algorithms for large partially observable Markov decision processes


Three Types Of Independence, Factorizations Of Joint Probabilities And Inference InBayesian Networks


Artificial intelligence, statistics and quantification of Chinese medicine pathology

DAG DAG00/01.EG11 HK$50,000 Dec 2000


Choi, S.P.M., Yeung, D.Y. and Zhang, N.L. (in press) "Hidden-mode Markov decisionprocesses for non-stationary sequential decision making", in Sequence Learning: Paradigms,Algorithms, and Applications, (eds. Sun. R and Lee, G.)", Springer.

Zhang, N.L. and Poole, D. (1999) "On the role of context-specific Independence inProbabilistic Reasoning", IJCAI-99, 1288-1293.

Zhang, N.L., Lee, S.S. and Zhang, W. (1999) "A method for speeding up value iteration inpartially observable Markov decision", Proc.of the 15th Conference on Uncertainties inArtificial Intelligence, 696-703.

Shen, Y., Lee, D.L. and Zhang, N.L. (1999) "A distributed search system based on Markovdecision process", ICSC'99, December, Hong Kong.

Zhang, N.L. (1998) "Probabilistic Inference in Influence Diagrams", ComputationalIntelligence, 14(4), 475-497.

Zhang, N.L. (1998) "Computational properties of two exact algorithms for Bayesiannetworks", Applied Intelligence, 9(2), 173-183.

SUNIL ARYA

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Maryland, College Park (1995)


Computational geometry; data structures; design and analysis of algorithms; combinatorics.


Multiple travelling salesmen problems


Efficient Expected-case Algorithms For Problems In Geometric Searching



Arya, S. and Mount, D.M. (2000) "Approximate Range Searching", ComputationalGeometry: Theory and Applications, 17(3-4): 135-152.

Arya, S., Cheng, S.W and Mount, D.M. (in press) "Approximation Algorithm forMultiple-Tool Milling", International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications.

Arya, S., Golin, M.J. and Mehlhorn, K. (1999) "On the Expected Depth of RandomCircuits", Combinatorics, Probability and Computing, 8 (3): 209-228.

Arya, S., Mount, D.M. and Smid, M. (1999) "Dynamic Algorithms for Geometric Spannersof Small Diameter: Randomized Solutions", Computational Geometry: Theory andApplications, 13, 91-107.

Arya, S., Mount, D.M., Netanyahu, N.S., Silverman, R. and Wu, A. (1998) "An OptimalAlgorithm for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Searching", Journal of the ACM, 45 (6):891-923.

Arya, S. and Fu, H.Y. (2000) "Expected-Case Complexity of Approximate NearestNeighbor Searching", Proceedings of the 11th ACM-SIAM Symposium on DiscreteAlgorithms, San Francisco, California, 9-11 Jan, 379-388.

GEORGE BACIU

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Waterloo (1992)


Computer graphics; rendering; visualization; virtual environments; robotics; graph-theoreticanalysis of physical systems; entropy optimization.


Graph-theoretic multibody collision response

DAG DAG99/00.EG24 HK$40,000 Jan 2000


Baciu, G., Wong, S.K. and Sun, H. (1999) "RECODE: An Image-Based Collision DetectionAlgorithm", Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, 10 (4): 181-192.

Sun, H., Yuan, X. and Baciu, G. (1999) "Hand Modeling Functions in Robot AssemblyProgramming", The Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, vol. 10, 55-68.

Baciu, G. and Cheung, C.Y. (2000) "Global Visibility in the Presence of Curved Occluders",Proceedings of the Pacific Graphics 2000, Computer Graphics Society, Hong Kong, 3-5 Oct,105-114.

Baciu, G. and Wong, S.K. (in press) "The Impulse Graph: A New Dynamic Structure forGlobal Collisions", Eurographics 2000, Eurographics, Interlaken, Switzerland, 20 Aug 00.

Baciu, G. and Kunii, T.L. (2000) "Homological Invariants and Holor GraphicRepresentations of Topological Structures in Cellular Spaces", Proceedings ComputerGraphics International 2000, CGI, IEEE Computer Society, Geneva, Switzerland, 19-24June, 89-98.

BRAHIM BENSAOU

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Paris VI, France (1993)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1995-97)Senior Member of Technical Staff, Center for Wireless Communications, Singapore(1997-00)


Computer communications; quality of service engineering in wired and wireless networks.


Handoff priority with guaranteed call and packet level quality of service metrics in cellularmobile multimedia networks

DAG DAG00/01.EG01 HK$100,000 Dec 2000


Tsang, D.H.K., Bensaou, B. and Lam, S.T.C. (1998) "Fuzzy based rate control for real-timeMPEG video and quality of service guarantee", IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 6,no. 4, November.

Bensaou, B., Chua, K.C., and Zhang, W. (1999) "Call and Packet Level Performance of anAdaptive QoS Handoff Priority Scheme for Mobile Multimedia Networks", IEEE ICC'99Vancouver, Canada, June.

Tse, C.H., Bensaou, B. and Chua, K.C. (2000) "Efficient Distributed SchedulingArchitecture for Wireless ATM Networks", IEICE Transactions on Communications, vol.E-83-B, no. 2, February.

Zhuang, W., Bensaou, B. and Chua, K.C. (2000) "Adaptive Quality of Service HandoffPriority Scheme for Mobile Multimedia Networks", IEEE Transactions on VehicularTechnology, March.

Bensaou, B., Wang, Y. and Ko, C.C. (2000) "Fair Medium Access in 802.11 based WirelessAd-Hoc Networks", IEEE/ACM MobiHOC, Boston, USA, August.

Zhuang, W., Bensaou, B. and Chua, K.C. (2000) "Handoffs priority scheme withpreemptive, finite queueing and reneging in Mobile Multimedia Networks", inTelecommunications Systems, Balzer Science Publishers, vol. 15, 37-51

GARY SHEUNG-HAN CHAN

Assistant Professor

(23586990;[email protected])

PhD, Stantford University (1999)Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis (1998-99)


Provisioning of cost-effective on-demand interactive video services using multicasting

DAG DAG99/00.EG25 HK$100,000 Jan 2000

The development of a packet-based video surveillance system


Path-finder

ITEA ITEA00/01.EG01 HK$408,480 Oct 2000


Chan, S.-H. and Kobayashi, H. (2000) "Packet Scheduling Algorithms and Performance of aBuffered Shufflenet with Deflection Routing", IEEE/OSA Journal of LightwaveTechnology, 18 (4): 490-501.

Wen, W.-S., Mukherjee, B., Ghosal, D. and Chan, S.-H. (2000) "LVMSR -- An EfficientAlgorithm To Multicast Layered Video", Proceedings of the IEEE ICC'00, IEEE, NewOrleans, June 18-22, 254-258.

Wu, X.-X., Chan, S.-H. and Mukherjee, B. (2000) "MADF: A Novel Approach To Add AnAd-Hoc Overlay On A Fixed Cellular Infrastructure", Proceedings of the IEEE WirelessCommunications and Networking Conference, IEEE, Chicago, Sept 23-28.

Chan, S.-H. and Tobagi, F. (in press) "Distributed servers architecture for networked videoservices", IEEE/ ACM Transactions on Networking.

Chan, S.-H. and Tobagi, F. (in press) "Trade-off between system profit and user delay/ lossin providing video services with request batching", IEEE Transactions on Circuits andSystems for Video Technology.

Yeung, S.-H. and Chan, S.-H. (2001) "Stream-bundling approach to provide video servicesover broadband networks", Proceedings of Multimedia Computing and Networking(MMCN), San Jose, California, January 22-24.

SHING CHI CHEUNG

Assistant Professor




Software engineering, testing and verification; component-based and object-orientedtechnologies; UML; E-commerce; CORBA; internet and multimedia computing; distributedcomputing; computer security.


A multimedia architect's assistant for distributed multimedia applications


Digital property rights infrastructure - Music and publishing industry online coyrightprotection and content distribution

ITC AF/168/99 HK$3,576,000 Sep 1999

Metamorphic testing - a new approach for generating next test cases

DAG DAG99/00.EG05 HK$53,738 Dec 1999


Giannakopoulou, J., Kramer, J. and Cheung, S.C. (1999) "Behaviour Analysis ofDistributed Systems using the Tracta Approach", Journal of Automated SoftwareEngineering, 6,1, 7-35.

Cheung, S.C., and Kramer, J. (1999) "Checking Safety Properties using CompositionalReachability Analysis", ACM Transactions in Software Engineering and Methodology, 8, 1,49-78.

Cheung, S.C. and Chanson, S.T. (1999) "A Model-Based Authorware for the Constructionof Distributed Multimedia Systems", Journal of Information and Software Technology, 41(11-12): 715-727.

Leung, K.F. and Cheung, S.C. (1999) "A CSCW Framework for the Flexible Coupling ofGroupware Widgets", 5th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of ComplexComputer Systems (ICECCS'99), IEEE, Las Vegas, October 1999, 9-20.

Lam, C.Y. and Cheung, S.C. (2000) "Modelling and Analysis of Web-based CoursewareSystems", Web-based Learning and Teaching Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges,Idea Group Publishing, New York, 155-173

MANHOI CHOY

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara (1994)


Parallel and distributed systems; distributed algorithms; mobile computing; security andcryptography.


Dynamic channel allocation for wireless computing environment


Software anti-piracy by cryptography and internet technology



ITC AF/223/98 HK$3,241,000 Jan 1999

ATM/IP telephony solution cooperative research center (CRC)

CRC CRC98/01.EG03 HK$3,000,000 Mar 1999


ITC AF/153/99 HK$3,587,000 Sep 1999

Time-based distributed key management protocols in crypto-systems

DAG DAG99/00.EG06 HK$53,738 Dec 1999


Choy, M., Leong, H.V. and Wong, M.H. (in press) "Disaster recovery techniques fordatabase systems", Communications of the ACM.

Choy, M. (1999) "Consistent Implementations of Replicated Objects", Computer Journal, 42(1): 24-38.

Choy, M., Kwan, M.-P. and Leong, H.-V. (2000) "Distributed Database Design for MobileGeographical Applications", Journal of Database Management, 11 (1): 3-17.

Wong, Y., Choy, M. and Shum, C. (1999) "Digital Contention Distribution Protection",Hong Kong Computer Society Database Conference, Hong Kong Computer Society, HongKong, August, 1-8.

CUNSHENG DING

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Turku, Finland (1997)Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore (1997-00)


Cryptography; coding theory; computer security


Optimal Cartesian authentication codes

DAG DAG00/01.EG02 HK$100,000 Dec 2000


Ding, C., Kohel, D.R. and Ling, S. (2000) "Secret sharing with a class of ternary codes",Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 246, 285-298.

Ding, C., Kohel, D.R. and Ling, S. (2000) "Split group codes", IEEE Trans. InformationTheory, vol. 46, no. 2, March, 485-495.

Ding, C., Kohel. S. and Ling, S. (2000) "Elementary 2-group character codes", IEEE Trans.Information Theory, vol. 46, no. 1, January, 280-284.

Ding, C., Helleseth, T. and Lam, K.Y. (1999) "Several Classes of binary sequences withthree-level autocorrelation", IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 45, no. 7, 2606-2612.

Ding, C. and Helleseth, T. (1999) "Generalized cyclotomic codes of length p1 e1…ptet",IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 45, no. 2, 467-474.

Ding, C., and Pless, V. (1999) "Cyclotomy and duadic codes of prime lengths", IEEE Trans.Information Theory, vol. 45, no. 2, 453-466.

JAMES TIN-YAU KWOK

Assistant Professor


PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1996)Assistant Professor, Baptist University of Hong Kong (1997-00)


Support vector machines; artificial neural networks; pattern recognition; machine learning.


Support vector machine with Bayesian learning for the automatic categorization of text andhypertext documents


Bayesian support vector regression

DAG DAG00/01.EG04 HK$100,000 Dec 2000

Information geometry of kernel methods with applications to data mining



Kwok, J.T. (2000) "The evidence framework applied to support vector machines", IEEETrans. on Neural Networks, 11(5): 1162-1173.

Kwok, J.T. (1999) "Moderating the outputs of support vector machine classifiers", IEEETrans. on Neural Networks, 10(5): 1018-1031.

Law, M.H. and Kwok, J.T. (2000) "Rival penalized competitive learning for model-basedsequence clustering", Proc. International Conference on Patter Recognition, Bacelona,September, 195-198.

Liu, J.J. and Kwok. J.T. (2000) "An extended genetic rule induction algorithm", Proc.Congress on Evolutionary Computation, La Jolla, 458-463.

Kwok, J.T. (1999) "Integrating the evidence framework and the support vector machine",Proc. European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Bruges, April, 177-182.

Kwok, J.T. (1998) "Support vector mixture for classification and regression problems",Proc. International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Brisbane, August, 255-258.

BO LI

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1993)


Mobile wireless networking; multimedia communications; optical networks.


Supporting virtual LAN services based on ATM LAN emulation in mobile/wirelessnetworks





CRC CRC98/01.EG03 HK$3,000,000 Mar 1999



Channel allocation for data dissemination in a multiple-cell mobile computing environment

DAG DAG99/00.EG09 HK$53,738 Dec 1999

Bandwidth Allocation With QoS Guarantee For Multiple Traffic Streams In WirelessCellular Networks



Li, B., Yin, L., Wong, K. and Wu, S. (2001) "An Efficient and Adaptive BandwidthAllocation Scheme for Mobile Wireless Networks Based on On-line Local ParameterEstimations", ACM/Baltzer Journal of Wireless Networks, vol. 7, no. 2.

Li, B., Ganz, A. and Krishna, M. (2000) "An In-Band Signaling Protocol for Optical PacketSwitching Networks", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Special Issue onProtocols for Next Generation Optical WDM Networks, vol. 18, no. 10, 1876-1884.

Li, B., Hamdi, M., Jiang, D., Hou, Y. and Cao, X. (2000) "QoS Enabled Voice Support inthe Next Generation Internet: Issues, Existing Approaches and Challenges", IEEECommunication Magazine Special Issue on Internet Telephony, vol. 38, no. 4, 54-61.

Gao, L., Li, B. and Chen, F. (2000) "Optimal Placement of Repair Servers for ReliableMulticast", Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 53, 61-79.

Hou, Y., Wu, D., Li, B., Zhu, W. and Zhang, Y. (2000) "An End-to-End Approach forOptimal Mode Selection in Internet Streaming Video: Theory and Application", IEEEJournal on Selected Areas in Communication, Special Issue on Error-Resilient Image andVideo Transmission, vol. 18, no. 6.

FANGZHEN LIN

Assistant Professor




Artificial intelligence; knowledge representations; robotics.


Applications of the situation calculus to formalizing control knowledge: logic programming

and beyond


Strongest Necessary Conditions, Weakest Sufficient Conditions, And Their Applications



Lin, F. (1999) "Search algorithms in the situation calculus", Logical foundations forcognitive agents, Springer, Berlin, 213-233.

Lin, F. (2000) "On the strongest necessary and weakest sufficient conditions", InternationalConference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, KR, Inc.,Breckeridge, CO, U.S.A, 8 April, 111-116.

Lin, F. and Wang, K.W. (1999) "From causal theories to logic programs (sometimes)",International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, LPNMR, ElPaso, TX, USA, 1 Dec., 117-131

BRIAN KAN-WING MAK

Assistant Professor


PhD, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology (1998)


Speech recognition; spoken language understanding; dialog modeling; machine learning.


Developing a Cantonese broadcast news speech corpus

DAG DAG97/98.EG39 HK$100,000 Jun 1998

Effective learning of English pronunciation via speech recognition technology

QEF QEF99/00.EG01 HK$1,570,000 Jul 2000

A communicator between cantonese and putonghua speakers



Mak, B. and Bocchieri, E. (in press) "Direct Training of Subspace Distribution ClusteringHidden Markov Model", IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing.

Wong, K.M. and Mak, B. (2000) "MAP Adaptation with Subspace Regression Classes andTying", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and SignalProcessing, IEEE, Istanbul, Turkey, 12 June, III:1551-1554.

JELENA MISIC

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Belgrade (1993)


High-speed networking; wireless networking




Quality of service management for wireless networks with heterogenous traffic

DAG DAG98/99.EG04 HK$75,000 Nov 1998

Coping With Nonuniform Traffic And Heterogeneous User Mobilities In WirelessMulti-media Networks



Misic, J. and Tam, Y.B. (in press) "Adaptive admission control in wireless multimedianetworks under nonuniform traffic conditions", Journal of Selected Areas inCommunications, Wireless Series.

Misic, J., Chanson, S.T. and Lai, S.K.-F (1999) "Admission Control for WirelessMultimedia Networks with Hard Call Level Quality of Service Bounds", ComputerNetworks and ISDN Systems, 31 (1-2): 123-138.

Misic, J. and Tam, Y.B. (1999) "About the problem of hot-spots under adaptive admissioncontrol in wireless multimedia networks", 1999 IEEE Wireless Communications andNetworking Conference, IEEE, New Orleans, USA, 21 Sept 99, 1:6.

Misic, J. and Tam, Y.B. (1999) "On call level QoS guarantees under heterogeneous usermobilities in wireless multimedia networks", IEEE, GLOBECOM'99, GlobalTelecommunications conference, IEEE, Rio de Janeiro, 5 Dec., 1:7.

Wong, Y.M.-B., Misic, J. and Chanson, S.T. (1998) "Call Admission Control in DCAWireless Network", 9th. IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile

Radio Communications, IEEE, Boston, 8 Sep., 1.

DIMITRIS PAPADIAS

Assistant Professor


PhD, NTU Athens (1994)Asst Professor, University of Maine (1995-96)ERCIM Fellow, German National Research Center for Information Technology (1996)


Data and knowledge base systems; spatial databases; constraint satisfaction algorithms;qualitative reasoning; argumentation systems; WWW applications.


Collaborative spatial decision making on the World Wide Web

DAG DAG97/98.EG02 HK$50,000 Jun 1998

On the retrieval of similar configuration




Constrained-based Processing Of Multi-way Spatial Joins


Complex Spatial Query Processing



Gueting, R.-H., Papadias, D. and Lochovsky, F. (1999) Advances in Spatial Databases: 6thInternational Symposium, SSD'99, Springer LNCS, Berlin.

Papadias, D., Mamoulis, N. and Theodoridis, Y. (in press) "Constraint-based Processing ofMultiway Spatial Joins", Algorithmica.

Papadias, D., Mamoulis, N. and Delis, V. (in press) "Approximate Spatio-temporalRetrieval", ACM Transactions on Information Systems.

Mamoulis, N. and Papadias, D. (1999) "Integration of Spatial Join Algorithms forProcessing Multiple Inputs", ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD),

ACM, Philadelphia, USA, 1-3 June, 1-12.

Papadias, D., Mamoulis, N. and Theodoridis, Y. (1999) "Processing and Optimization ofMultiway Spatial Joins Using R-trees", ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium onPrinciples of Database Systems (PODS), ACM, Philadelphia, USA, 11 May-2 June, 44-55.

Papadias, D., Mamoulis, N. and Kalnis, P. (1999) "Hierarchical Constraint Satisfaction inSpatial Databases", Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), AAAI,Orlando, FL, July 18-22, 1:142-147.

CHIEW-LAN TAI

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Tokyo (1997)


Computer-aided design; computer graphics; raster-to-rector conversion.


Deformation of polyhedrons into smooth objects for design

DAG DAG97/98.EG14 HK$100,000 Apr 1998

Developing An Interpolation Technique And A Modeling Paradigm Using SingularReparametrization



Tai, C.-L. and Loe, K.-F. (1999) "Alpha-spline: a C2 Continuous Spline with Weights andTension Control", Shape Modeling International '99, The University of Aizu,Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, 1-4 Mar., 138-145.

Tai, C.-L., Barsky, B.A. and Loe, K.-F. (1999) "An Interpolation Method with Weights andRelaxation Parameters", Fourth International Conference on Curves and Surfaces,Association Francaise d'Approximation, Saint-Malo, France, 1-7 July, 393-401.

Tai, C.-L., Loe, K.-F., Barsky, B.A. and Chan, Y.-H. (1999) "A Method for DeformingPolygonal Shapes into Smooth Spline Surface Models", Information Visualization,GraphicsLink, UK, London, 14-16 July, 302-308, IEEE Computer Society Press.

Song, J., Su, F., Chen, J., Tai, C.-L. and Cai, S. (2000) "Line Net Global Vectorization: AnAlgorithm and its Performance Evaluation", IEEE Computer Vision and PatternRecognition, IEEE Computer Society, South Carolina, 13-15 June, 383-388.

Liu, S.-X., Hu, S.-M., Tai, C.-L., and Sun, J.-G. (2000) "A matrix-based approach toreconstruction of 3D objects from three orthographic views", Pacific Graphics, HK, 3-5October, IEEE Computer Society Press, 254-261.

Hu, S.-M., Zhang, H., Tai, C.-L. and Sun, J.-G. (in press), "Direct manipulation of FFD:Efficient explicit solutions and decomposable multiplepoint constraints", Visual Computer.

CHI-KEUNG TANG

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Southern California (2000)


Computer vision; medical image analysis; computer graphics; visualization technology.


Interactive and coupled feature extraction and visualization for multivariate data

DAG DAG99/00.EG38 HK$100,000 Feb 2000

User Guided Multidimensional Feature Extraction And Visualization



Medioni, G., Lee, M.-S. and Tang, C.-K. (2000) A Computational Framework forSegmentation and Grouping, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Tang, C.-K., Medioni, G. and Lee, M.-S. (in press) "N-Dimensional Tensor Voting,Application to Epipolar Geometry Estimation", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis andMachine Intelligence.

Tang, C.-K. and Medioni, G. (1999) "Robust Estimation of Curvature Information fromNoisy 3D Data for Shape Description", Proc. IEEE International Conference on ComputerVision, 426-433.

Tang, C.-K., Medioni, G. and Lee, M.-S. (1999) "Epipolar Geometry Estimation by TensorVoting in 8D", Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 502-509.

Tang, C.-K. and Medioni, G. (1998) "Integrated Surface, Curve, and Junction Inferencefrom Sparse 3-D Data Sets", Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision,818-824.

Tang, C.-K. and Medioni, G. (1998) "Inferring Integrated Surface, Curve, and JunctionDescription from Sparse 3-D Data Sets", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine

Intelligence, vol. 20, no. 11, 1026-1223.

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Faculty research is concentrated on the two broad areas of microelectronics and informationtechnology, which are further subdivided into several closely related areas. These include:microelectronics, integrated circuits design, microprocessors and instrumentation, photonics,robotics, control and CAD/CAM, signal, image and video processing, information theory,communications and networks.

Research problems being addressed in these areas include: advanced semiconductormaterials preparation and characterization; radio frequency semiconductor devices; advancedintegrated circuits fabrication technology; integrated sensor and transducer technology;application of electronic microfabrication techniques to electro-optical device design andfabrication; optoelectronic integrated curcuits (OEIC) based on silicon technology; displaytechnology; new optical and electro-optical materials; image coding and compressing; imageprocessing and enhancement; video conversion, composition, and compression; real-timevideo signal processing; very low bit-rate video for various applications; HDTV and superHDTV; virtual reality; medical imaging; lossless and lossy data compression; coding anderror control mechanisms; data encryption and system security; B-ISDN, ATM and otherhigh speed networks; spread spectrum systems; channel propagation measurement andprediction; cellular channel allocation, frequency reuse, and spread spectrum; radio linktechniques, technology and implementation; system architecture, control and networking;and universal wireless personal communication network.

FacilitiesIn addition to advanced computing facilities within the Department and University, EEEhouses several labs for research and teaching. They are:

Advanced VLSI Design and Test Laboratory

Analog Research / Teaching Laboratory

Automatic-Control Laboratory

Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory

Broadband-Network Laboratory

Chemical-Mechanical Polishing Laboratory

Computer-Networks and System-Integration Laboratory

Device-Characterisation Laboratory

Digital-Electronics and Microprocessor Laboratory

Electro-Optics Laboratory

Fine-line Lithographic Laboratory

Integrated Power Electronics Laboratory

Machine-Intelligence Laboratory

Optical Device-Characterization Laboratory

PC CAD Laboratory

Photonic Materials Laboratory

Robot Manipulation Laboratory

Robotics Teaching Laboratory

Sensor and Instrumentation Laboratory

Signal-Processing and Communication Laboratory

Video-Technology Laboratory

Wireless-Communication Laboratory (WCL)

Center for Display Research

Center for Wireless Information Technology (CenWIT)

Hongkong Telecom Institute of Information Technology (HKTIIT)

Institute of Micro Systems (IMS)

Materials Characterisation and Preparation Facility (MCPF)

Microelectronics Fabrication Facility (MFF)

Research Profile

PHILIP C. H. CHAN

Professor and Department Head; Director, Microelectronics Fabrication Facility

KHALED BEN LETAIEF

Professor

XIREN CAO

Professor

PING K. KO

Professor

HOI-SING KWOK

Professor and Director, Center for Display Research

KEI MAY LAU

Professor

CHIN-TAO LEA

Professor

KANG WANG

Professor, Dean of Engineering

ROGER SHU KWAN CHENG

Associate Professor and Director, Center for Wireless Information Technology

HO CHI HUANG

Assistant Professor

JACK LAU

Associate Professor and Director, Consumer Media Laboratory

ZEXIANG LI

Associate Professor

ROSS D. MURCH

Associate Professor

LI QIU

Associate Professor

JOHNNY K. O. SIN

Associate Professor

BERTRAM EMIL SHI

Associate Professor

DANNY H. K. TSANG

Associate Professor

CHI-YING TSUI

Associate Professor

MAN WONG

Associate Professor

BING ZENG

Associate Professor

OSCAR C. AU

Assistant Professor

MANSUN CHAN

Assistant Professor

PASCALE FUNG

Assistant Professor

WING HUNG KI

Assistant Professor

CHI WAH KOK

Assistant Professor

HOWARD C LUONG

Assistant Professor

PHILIP K. T. MOK

Assistant Professor

WAI HO MOW

Assistant Professor

VINCENT M C POON

Assistant Professor

JIANAN QU

Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Center for Medical Diagnostic Technology

PENGCHENG SHI

Assistant Professor

MAN HUNG SIU

Assistant Professor

LI-XIN WANG

Assistant Professor

Research Profile

PHILIP C. H. CHAN

Professor and Department Head; Director, MicroelectronicsFabrication Facility


PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana (1978)Program Manager, Technology Development, Intel Corporation (1981-90)Principal Engineer, Design Technology (1990-91)


VLSI devices, circuits and systems; microelectronics; electronic packaging; integratedsensors.


The establishment of a consumer media laboratory for innovative home electronicstechnology

ITC AF/264/97 HK$14,733,000 Jan 1998

Deep sub-micron SOI CMOS integrated circuit technology for radio-frequencycommunication applications

CERG HKUST6025/97E HK$1,166,000 Jan 1998

Areas of Excellence in biomed instrumentation

AOE AOE97/98.EG09 HK$200,000 Mar 1998

A surface micromachined integrated gas sensor


Areas of Excellence in microelectronics

AOE AOE97/98.EG15 HK$25,000 Nov 1998

A programme for delamination control in electronic packages

ITC AF/222/98 HK$8,314,000 Jan 1999

A program for delamination control in electronic packages

ACP ACP98/99.EG01 HK$90,000 Jan 1999

Emerging High Impact Area of Sensors and Actuators

HIA HIA98/99.EG06 HK$1,288,000 Jan 1999


CRC CRC98/01.EG03 HK$3,000,000 Mar 1999

The Development Of Stable Carbon Monoxide Sensing Film For Integrated Gas SensorApplications


CAS-UST Microelectronics Joint Lab

CMI CMI99/00.EG05 HK$440,000 Apr 2000

Fully Depleted SOI MOSFET Using Self-aligned Polysilicon Gate With Low AndSymmetric Source/Drain Resistance


Development and dissemination of low-cost flip-chip and wafer level packaging

ITC ITS/196/00 HK$8,258,000 Oct 2000


Banna, S.R., Chan, C.H., Chan, M., Chan, K.H. and Ko, P. (1999) "Fully DepletedCMOS/SOI Device Design Guidelines for Low Power Applications", IEEE Transactions onElectron Devices, 46 (4): 754-761.

Jin, W., Chan, C.H. and Chan, M. (1998) "On the Power Dissipation in Dynamic ThresholdSilicon-on-Insulator CMOS Inverter", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 45 (8):171-1724.

Jin, W., Chan, C.H., Fung, K.H. and Ko, P. (1999) "Shot-Noise Induced ExcessLow-Frequency Noise in Non-Fully Depleted SOI MOSFET's", IEEE Transactions onElectron Devices, 46(6): 1180-1185.

Jin, W., Chan, P.C.H. and Lau, J. (2000) "A Physical Thermal Noise Model for SOIMOSFET", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 47 (4): 768-773.

Shen, K., Hui, F., Wong, W., Chen, Z., Lau, J. and Chan, P.C.H. (in press) "AThree-Terminal SOI Gated Varactor for RF Applications", IEEE Transactions on ElectronDevices.

KHALED BEN LETAIEF

Professor


PhD, Purdue University (1990)Asst. Professor, University of Melbourne (1990-93)


Wireless personal and mobile communications; OFDM; space-time proessing for wirelesssystems; multiuser detection; wireless multimedia communications; CDMA systems.


Performance characterization and analysis of ATM networks


Space-Time Modems For CDMA Wireless Personal Communications


Adaptive transmit antennas for wireless communications systems

DAG DAG99/00.EG26 HK$40,000 Mar 2000

Wireless communications

HIA HIA00/01.EG01 HK$800,000 Dec 2000


Chen, Y., Ben Letaief, K. and Chuang, J. (1998) "Soft-output equalization and TCM forwireless personal communication systems", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas inCommunications, 16 (9): 1679-1690.

Fan, P., Ben Letaief, K. and Murch, D. (1999) "Analysis of the effects of time delay spreadon TCM performance", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 17 (7):1112-1223.

Lo, C.W. and Ben Letaief, K. (1999) "Adaptive equalization and interference cancellationfor wireless communications systems", IEEE Transactions on Communications, 47 (4):538-545.

Lu, J., Ben Letaief, K. and Liou, M.L. (1999) "Robust video transmission over correlatedmobile fading channels", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology,9 (5): 737-751.

Ng, C.L. and Ben Letaief, K. (1998) "Antenna diversity combining and finite-tap decisionfeedback equalization for high-speed data transmission", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas inCommunications, 16 (8): 1367-1375.

Tang, T.K. and Ben Letaief, K. (1999) "Optical CDMA communications systems withmultiuser and blind detection", IEEE Transactions on Communications, 47 (8): 1211-1217.

XIREN CAO

Professor


PhD, Harvard University (1984)Manager and Consultant Engineer, Digital Equipment Corporation (1986-93)


Discrete event system theory and applications; computer and communication systems;B-ISDN and ATM; signal processing; queueing theory.


A single sample path-based Markov decision problem


State and time aggregations in single sample path-based Markov decision problem and theirapplications



CRC CRC98/01.EG03 HK$3,000,000 Mar 1999

State and time aggregations in single sample path-based Markov decision problems and theirapplications

DAG DAG98/99.EG25 HK$43,309 Mar 1999

Internet Pricing With A Cooperative Game Theoretical Approach


ATM/IP telephony solution cooperative research center

CMHK CMIHK99/00.EG01 HK$800,000 Jan 2000

Markov Decision Problems With Partial Observable States



Cao, X.-R. (1998) "The Maclaurin Series for Performance Functions of Markov Chains",Advances in Applied Probability, 30, 676-692.

Li, B., Hamdi, M., Hou, Y.T., Jiang, D. and Cao, X. (2000) "QoS Enabled Voice Support in

the next generation Internet: Issues, existing approaches and challenges", IEEECommunications Magazine, vol. 38, 54-61.

Li, B., Qin, Y. and Cao, X. (in press) "Photonic Packet Switching: Architectures andPerformance", SPIE/Baltzer Optical Networking Magazine.

Zhu, J., Cao, X. and Liu, R.-W. (1999) "A Blind Fractionally-Spaced Equalizer with JointMatrix Diagonalization", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, 46, 755-764.

Zhu, J., Ding, Z. and Cao, X.-R. (1999) "Column Anchoring Zeroforcing Blind Equalizationfor Wireless FIR Channels", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications, 17,411-423.

Cao, X. (2000) "A Unified Approach to Markov Decision Problems and PerformanceSensitivity Analysis", Automatica, 36, 771-774.

PING K KO

Professor


PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1982)Professor and Vice Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley (1990-93)


High-speed VLSI devices, technology, and circuits; MOS device modeling for circuitsimulation; CAD tools for integrated circuit design.



ITC AF/264/97 HK$14,733,000 Jan 1998

Non-quasi-static and high frequency MOSFET modeling for circuit simulation



ITC AF/175/98 HK$12,135,000 Jan 1999

Integrated RF Passive Components


Technologies for system-on-a-chip on SOI substrate including logic circuits, memories, and

RF communication front end


Design And Characterization Of SOI CMOS Mixers For RF Applications


HOI-SING KWOK

Professor and Director, Center for Display Research


PhD, Harvard University (1978)Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo(1980-92)


Display technologies; thin film materials; electro-optic devices.



ITC AF/175/98 HK$12,135,000 Jan 1999

Co-operative research in active matrix organic light emitting diode displays

CRC CRC98/01.EG08 HK$1,440,000 Mar 2000

Organic Light Emitting Diodes With Novel Structures Using A Combination Of EvaporationAnd Pulsed Laser Deposition



Guo, J.X. and Kwok, H.S. (2000) "High Performance Transmittive Bistable TwistedNematic Liquid Crystal Displays", Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 39, 1210-1216.

Jin, Z.H., Kwok, H.S. and Wong, M. (1999) "Performance of Thin Film Transistors withUltrathin Ni-MILC Polycrystalline Silicon Channel Layers", IEEE Electron Device Letters,20, 167-169.

Jin, Z.H., Moulding, K., Kwok, H.S. and Wong, M. (1999) "The Effect of Extended HeatTreatment on Ni Induced Crystallization of Amorphous Silicon Thin Films", IEEETransactions on Electron Devices, 46, 78-82.

Kwok, H.S., Chen, J., Yu, F.H. and Huang, H.C. (1999) "Generalized Mixed Mode

Reflective LCD with Large Cell Gap and High Contrast Ratios", Journal of the Society forInformation Display, 7, 127-133.

Kwok, H.S., Cheng, P.W., Huang, H.C., Liu, X and Li, H.F. (2000) "A New Trichroic PrismAssembly for Separating and Recombining Colors in a Compact Projection Display",Applied Optics, 39, 168-172.

Sun, X.W. and Kwok, H.S. (1999) "Optical properties of epitaxially grown zinc oxide filmson sapphire by pulsed laser deposition", J. of Applied Physics, 86, 408-411.

KEI MAY LAU

Professor


PhD, Rice University (1981)Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst(1982-00)


Compound semiconductor materials and devices for photonic and high-frequencyapplications; organometallic chemical vapor deposition.


The outlook of solid state lighting

RGC DAG00/01.EG23 HK$100,000 Dec 2000


Tolliver, T.R., Anderson, N.G., Agahi, F. and Lau, K.M. (2000) "Characteristic temperaturestudy of GaAsP-AlGaAs tensile strained quantum well lasers", J. Appl. Phys., vol. 88.

Perez, E., Vina, L., Koteles, E.S., Lau, K.M., Di Carlo, A. and Lugli, P. (2000) "Excitondynamics and mixing in tensile-strained semiconductor quantum wells", Semicond. Sci.Technol., vol. 15, 189-196.

Lutz, C.R., Kannaley, J. and Lau, K.M. (2000) "Improved Intersubband Absorption inOMVPE Grown Delta-Doped GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Well Structures", IEEM/TMSJournal of Electronic Materials, vol. 29, 225-230.

Agahi, F., Baliga, A., Lau, K.M. and Anderson, N.G. (1997) "Dependence of PolarizationMode and Threshold Current on Tensile Strain in AlGaAs/GaAsP Quantum Well Lasers",Solid State Electronics, vol. 41, 647-649.

Basco, R., Prabhu, A., Yngvesson, K.S. and Lau, K.M. (1997) "Monolithic Integration ofAlGaAs/GaAs 2DEG 94GHz Mixers on Quartz Substrate by Epitaxial Lift-Off", IEEE

Trans. Electron Devices, vol. ED-44, 11-16.

Perez, E., Bellani, V., Zimmermann, S., Munoz, L., Vina, L., Ploog, K., Koteles, E.S. andLau, K.M. (1996) "Exciton dynamics and spin relaxation in unstrained and tensile-strainedquantum wells", J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, vol. 13, no. 5.

CHIN-TAO LEA

Professor


PhD, University of Washington (1982)Assoc. Professor of Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1991-96)


Broadband and wireless network architectures; high-speed electronic and photonicswitching; network protocols.


MAWCC: A new network architecture for wireless communications


Internet switching technology centre (ISTC)

CRC CRC98/01.EG15 HK$2,880,000 Mar 2000

Photonic Switching Networks Under Crosstalk Constraints



Ho, C-J and Lea, C-T (1999) "Improving call admission policies in wireless networks",ACM Wireless Networks, 5 (4): 257-265.

Vaez, M. and Lea, C-T (2000) "Strictly nonblocking directional-coupler-based switchingnetworks under crosstalk constraint", IEEE Transaction on Communications, 48, 316-323.

Wang, L-C, Stuber, G. and Lea, C-T (1999) "Effects to Rican fading and branch correlationon a local-mean -based macrodiversity cellular system", IEEE Trans. on VehicularTechnology, vol. 48 (no. 2): 429-436.

Wang, J.-J., Lea, C-T and Cao, X.-R. (1998) "Computing MDP cost function for high-speednetwork with sample-path and quantization", CDC'98, IEEE, Tampa, FL, Dec.

Xie, J. and Lea, C-T (1999) "Speedup and buffer division in input-output queuing ATMswitches", IEEE Globecom 99, IEEE, Rio, Brazil, 30 Nov.

Ke, K.-W. and Lea, C-T (1999) "Performance evaluation of cost-based routing andleast-cost routing in a broadband network", IEEE Globecom 99, IEEE, Rio, Brazil, 30 Nov

KANG WANG

Professor, Dean of Engineering




Quantum cellular automata (CMOS and Beyond); GaN Power amplifiers forcommunications - microwave and millimetre wave devices/ circuits and technology forwireless communications; integrated Si-based optoelectronics; Quantum computing andquantum information.


Balandin, A., Wang, K.L., Kouklin, N. and Bandyopadhaya, S. (2000) "Ramanspectroscopy of electrochemically self-assembled CdS quantum dots", Applied PhysicsLetters, vol. 76, no. 2., 137-137.

Liu, J., Jin, G., Tang, Y., Luo, Y., Wang, K.L. and Yu, D. (2000) "Optical and acousticphonon modes in self-organized Ge quantum dot superlattices", Applied Physics Letters, vol.76, 586-588.

Jin, G., Liu, J.L., Thomas, S.G., Luo, Y.H., Wang, K.L. and Nguyen, B.-Y. (2000) "Perfectalignment of self-organized Ge islands on pre-grown Si stripe mesas", Applied Physics A,vol. 70, 551-554.

Jin, G., Liu, J.L. and Wang, K.L. (2000) "Regimented placement of self-assembled Ge dotson selectively grown Si mesas", Applied Physics Letters, vol. 76, 3591-3593.

Adoram, B., Krapf, D., Levy, M., Beserman, R., Thomas, S., Wang, K.L., Shappir, J. andSa'ar, A. (2000) "Thermal relaxation processes in Si1-XGeX/Si quantum wells studied byinter-subband and inter-valence band spectoscopy", Physica E, vol. 7, 255-258.

Vrijen, R., Yablonovitch, E., Wang, K., Jiang, H.W., Blandin, A., Roychowdhury, V., Mor,T. and Di Vincenzo, D. (2000) "Electron-spin-resonance transistors for quantum computingin silicon-germanium heterostructures", Physical Review A, vol. 62, 012306-1 - 012306-10.

ROGER SHU KWAN CHENG

Associate Professor and Director, Center for Wireless InformationTechnology


PhD, Princeton University (1991)Asst. Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder(1991-95)


Wireless communications; spread spectrum CDMA systems; information theory and coding;communication networks; digital VLSI implementation of communication algorithm.



ITC AF/264/97 HK$14,733,000 Jan 1998

Adaptive modulation, OFDM & re-configurable RF power amplifier design for wirelesscommunication

CERG HKUST6227/98E HK$1,093,000 Sep 1998

Turbo code codec design for next generation wide-band CDMA Standards

MI MI98/99.EG02 HK$592,000 Sep 1998


Tsui, C.Y., Cheng, R.S. and Ling, C. (in press) "Low Power Rake Receiver and ViterbiDecoder Design for CDMA Applications", Wireless Personal Communications.

Wong, C.Y., Cheng, R.S., Letaief, K.B. and Murch, R.D. (in press) "Multiuser OFDM withAdaptive Sub-carrier, Bit, and Power Allocation", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas inCommunications - Special Issue on Broadband Wireless Techniques.

Chan, P.W.C., Cheng, R.S. and Ling, C.C. (1999) "Low-complexity Antenna DiversityReceivers for WCDMA Handsets", 1999 Vehicular Technology Conference, IEEE, Houston,TX, USA, 16 May.

Wong, K.K., Cheng, R.S., Letaief, K.B. and Murch, R.D. (1998) "Adaptive Antennas at theMobile and Base Stations in an OFDM/TDMA System", 1998 IEEE GlobalTelecommunications Conference, IEEE, Sydney, Australia, Nov.

Wong, T.S., Letaief, K.B., Cheng, R.S. and Murch, R.D. (1999) "Multiuser InterferenceCancellation in TCM and Convolutionally Coded DS/CDMA System", 1999 Vehicular

Technology Conference, IEEE, Houston, TX, USA, 16 May.

HO-CHI HUANG

Assistant Professor




Integrated guided-wave optics; silicon-based opto-electronic technologies; CMOS AMLCDtechnology; ASIC design.



ITC AF/175/98 HK$12,135,000 Jan 1999

Miniature silicon display integrated with CMOS image sensor as a simultaneous vision anddisplay system

DAG DAG98/99.EG07 HK$75,000 Jan 1999

MPEG Decoder Integrated With Silicon Microdisplay For Internet And Wireless VideoApplications



CRC CRC98/01.EG08 HK$1,440,000 Mar 2000

Internet switching technology centre (ISTC)

CRC CRC98/01.EG15 HK$2,880,000 Mar 2000

On The Minimization Of Flicker And Image Retention In Active Matrix Liquid CrystalDisplays



Huang, H.C., Cheng, P.W., Kwok, H.S. and Kwok, S.K. (1999) "A compact andhigh-resolution video projector based on silicon light valves", IEEE Transactions onConsumer Electronics, 45 (4): 1144-1149.

Huang, H.C., Huang, D.D. and Chen, J. (2000) "Two-dimensional optical analysis of smallpixels in reflective silicon microdisplay", Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 39 (2A):

485-489.

Kwok, H.S., Chen, J., Yu, F.H. and Huang, H.C. (1999) "Generalized mixed modereflective liquid crystal displays with large cell gaps and high contrast ratios", Journal of theSociety for Information Display, 7 (1): 1 - 7.

Kwok, H.S., Cheng, P.W., Huang, H.C., Li, H.F., Zheng, Z.R., Gu, P.F. and Liu, X. (2000)"New trichroic prism assembly for separating and recombing colors in a compact projectiondisplay", Applied Optics, 39 (1): 168-172.

Huang, H.C. (1998) "Fabrication of highly integrated silicon based AMLCD with optimizedoptical performance", Proceedings of the 1998 International Electron Devices and MaterialSymposia, Tainan, Taiwan, 20 - 23 Dec, 371 - 374.

Huang, H.C. (1998) "Color Sequential Miniature Silicon Display Using Mixed-modeTwisted Nematics", Proceedings of the 1998 International Chinese LCD Symposium,Society for Information Display, Taipei Chapter, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 28 - 29 Dec, 60 - 63.

JACK LAU

Associate Professor and Director, Consumer Media Laboratory


PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1994)


High frequency analog integrated circuits for wireless applications and magnetic sensors.



ITC AF/264/97 HK$14,733,000 Jan 1998


VCL VCL00/01.EG01 HK$3,600,000 Jan 1998

System design and circuit implementation for high bit rate, multi-user indoor wirelesscommunication for the home environment

DAG DAG97/98.EG28 HK$49,066 Jun 1998

Low interference radio frequency (RF) circuit design


A Direct Conversion Integrated Circuit For Wireless Receiver With Significant DC Offset


Dual Band (2.4/5.7 GHz) RF Circuit And Coding Scheme For Very High Bit Rate Operation



Banna, S.R., Chan, P.C. and Lau, J. (1998) "On Buried Oxide Effects in SOI Lateral BipolarTransistors", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Jan, 139-144.

Jin, W., Chan, P.C.H. and Lau, J. (1999) "A Physical Thermal Noise Model for SOIMOSFET", The IEEE Transaction on Electron Devices.

Lau, J., Ko, P.K., Chan, P.C. and Nguyen, C.T. (1998) "Minimum Detectable Signal forIntegrated Magnetic Sensors", Sensors and Actuators: A Physical, SNA 054/1-3, 636-640.

Liu, W.F., Lau, J. and Cheng, R. (1999) "Considerations on Applying OFDM on a HighlyEfficient PA at 1 GHz", The IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems II.

Tsui, H.Y. and Lau, J. (1999) "SPICE Simulation and Tradeoffs of CMOS LNAPerformance with Source-Degeneration Inductor", The IEEE Transaction on Circuits andSystems II.

Chen, Z.H. and Lau, J. (1999) "Circuit requirements for direct conversion FLEX pagerreceiver", IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 46, no. 6, 802-807.

ZEXIANG LI

Associate Professor


PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1989)Asst. Professor of Computer Science, Robotics Research Laboratory, New York University(1990-92)


Robot manipulation; multifingered robotic hands; geometric analysis of robotic mechanisms;intelligent control and nonlinear systems; manufacturing.


Areas of Excellence in automation technology

AOE AOE97/98.EG08 HK$200,000 Mar 1998

Geometric algorithms for hybrid localization and tolerance verification


Automation technology cooperative research centre

CRC CRC98/01.EG02 HK$3,000,000 Mar 1999

Completion Of A Unified Control System Architecture For Multifingered Manipulation



Chu, Y.X., Gou, J.B. and Li, Z.X. (1999) "Workpiece localization algorithms : Performanceevaluation and reliability analysis", SME Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 18 (2):113-126.

Chu, Y.X., Gou, J.B., Wu, H. and Li, Z.X. (2000) "Research on HybridLocalization/envelopment problems", Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 36 (1): 47-51.

Gou, J.B., Chu, Y.X. and Li, Z.X. (1999) "A geometric theory of form, profile andorientation tolerances", Precision Engineering, 23: 79-93.

Lewis, F., Woo, T., Wang, L.X. and Li, Z.X. (1999) "Deadzone compensation in motioncontrol systems using adaptive fuzzy logic control", IEEE Trans. on Control SystemsTechnology, 7 (6): 731-742.

ROSS D MURCH

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Canterbury (1990)Postdoctoral Fellow, Dundee University (1990-92)Research Engineer, New Zealand Telecom (1987-90)


Antenna design for mobile telephone handsets: smart antenna algorithms; propagationprediction for wireless communications.


Multi-frequency diversity antennas for wireless communication

DAG DAG97/98.EG29 HK$49,066 Apr 1998

MAWCC: A new network architecture for wireless communications


Techniques for mobile telephone location identification

JRS JRS99/34 HK$56,850 Mar 1999

Designing Compact Integrated Diversity Antennas For Wireless Communication



Tam, M.T.K. and Murch, R.D. (1999) "Compact Sector and Annular Sector DielectricResonator Antennas", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 47 (5), 837-842.

Tam, M.T.K. and Murch, R.D. (2000) "Circularily Polarised Circular Sector DielectricResonator Antenna", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 48 (1): 126-128.

Wong, C.Y., Cheng, R.S., Ben Letaief, K. and Murch, R.D. (1999) "Multiuser OFDM withadaptive sub-carrier, bit, and power allocation", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas inCommunications, 17 (10): 1747-1758.

Cheung, K.W. and Murch, R.D. (1998) "Optimizing Indoor Base-station Locations inCoverage- and interference-limited indoor Environments", IEEE Proceedings-Communications, 145 (6): 445-450.

Cheung, K.W., Sau, J.H.M. and Murch, R.D. (1998) ", A New Empirical model for IndoorPropagation Prediction", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 42 (4): 596-599.

Au, W.S., Murch, R.D. and Lea, C.T. (in press) "Comparision of the spectrum efficiencybetween SDMA systems and Sectorized Systems", Wireless Communications.

LI QIU

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Toronto (1990)Research Associate, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota(1992-93)


Systems control theory; signal processing; motor control; process control.


General multirate building blocks and their application in nonuniform filter banks

DAG DAG97/98.EG05 HK$50,000 Jan 1998

Fundamental limitations in tracking performance



CRC CRC98/01.EG02 HK$3,000,000 Mar 1999

Robust identification, model validation and control in the graph topology

JRS JRS99/37 HK$74,640 Mar 1999

Towards A Comprehensive Theory Of Multirate Systems


Infinite Horizon Model Predictive Control



Bai, E.W., Qiu, L. and Tempo, R. (1998) "Unfalsified weighted least squares estimates inset-membership identification", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems, Part I: FundamentalTheory and Applications, vol. 45, 41-49.

Gu, G. and Qiu, L. (1998) "Connections of multiplicative or relative perturbation in coprimefactors and gap metric uncertainty", Automatica, vol. 34, 603-607.

Qiu, L. and Tan, K. (1998) "Direct state space solution of multirate sampled-data H2optimal control", Automatica, 34, 1431-1437.

Chen, T., Qiu, L. and Bai, E. (1998) "General multirate building blocks and their applicationin nonuniform filter banks", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems, Part II: Analog andDigital Signal Processing, 45, 948-958.

Qiu, L. and Chen, T. (1999) "Multirate sampled-data systems: all H oo suboptimalcontrollers and the minimum entropy controller", IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, 44,537-550.

Chen, J., Qiu, L. and Toker, O. (2000) "Limitation on maximal tracking accuracy", IEEETrans. on Automatic Control, 45, 326-331.

JOHNNY K O SIN

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Toronto (1988)Senior Member of Research Staff, Philips Laboratories, New York (1988-91)


Microelectronic devices and IC technology: power semiconductor devices and ICs, thin-filmtransistors, integrated sensors, and RF power devices and technology for integratedmicrosystem applications.


Low-temperature polysilicon TFT devices and technology for display systems on glass


Silicon-On-Diamond Technology For Fully Integrated Single-Chip Portable WirelessSystems


Gate dielectrics for poly-silicon thin-film transistors

CERG HKU7290/99E HK$200,000 Sep 1999

Establishment of a semiconductor-product analysis and design enhancement center

ITC ITS/124/00 HK$14,913,000 Dec 2000


Tan, Y., Kumar, M., Sin, J.K.O., Cai, J. and Lai, J. (2000) "A LDMOS TechnologyCompatible with CMOS, and Passive Components for Integrated RF Power Amplifiers",IEEE Electron Device Letters, 21 (2): 82-84.

Tan, Y., Kumar, M., Sin, J.K.O., Shi, L. and Lau, J. (2000) "A 900 MHz Fully-IntegratedSoI Power Amplifier for Single Chip Wireless Transceiver Applications", IEEE Journal ofSolid-State Circuits, 35(10): 1481-1483.

Wu, Y., Sin, J.K.O., Kang, B.W., Guo, Z.T. and Cheng, X. (1999) "Determination of theExcess Carrier Lifetime in the Collector Region of Silicon Power Bipolar Transistors", IEEETrans. Electron Devices, 46 (8): 1782-1787.

Zhu, C.X. and Sin, J.K.O. (1999) "A P-channel Poly-Si/SiGe/Si Sandwiched ConductivityModulated Thin-Film Transistor", IEEE Electron Device Letters, 20 (9): 470-472.

Zhu, C.X., Sin, J.K.O. and Ng, W.T. (1999) "Characteristics of P-Channel PolysiliconConductivity Modulated Thin-Film Transistor", IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, 46 (7):1406-1410.

Chen, Q., You, B., Huang, A. and Sin, J.K.O. (2000) "A New Trench Base-Shield BipolarTransistor", IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, 48(8): 1662-1666.

BERTRAM EMIL SHI

Associate Professor




Analog VLSI neural networks; cellular neural networks, neuromorphic engineering, imageprocessing; computer vision; speech recognition.



RCA CA97/98.EG02 HK$3,900,000 Mar 1998

Active pixel input to CMOS smart vision sensors

DAG DAG97/98.EG06 HK$50,000 Jun 1998

Sub-threshold current mode design for low power cellular neural networks



CRC CRC98/01.EG02 HK$3,000,000 Mar 1999


Hui, K.F. and Shi, B.E. (1999) "Distortion in analog networks for image filtering", IEEETransactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, 46 (10):1161-1171.

Shi, B.E. (1999) "A 1D CMOS focal plane array for Gabor-type image filtering", IEEETrans. CAS-I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, 46 (2): 323-327.

Shi, B.E. (1999) "Focal plane implementation of 2D steerable and scalable Gabor-typefilters", Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, 23 (2/3): 319-334.

Shi, B.E. (2000) "A low power orientation selective vision sensor", IEEE Trans. Circuits andSystems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, 47 (5): 435-440.

Shi, B.E., Gao, L.N. and Lau, K.K. (2000) "A resistor/transconductor network for linearfitting", IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, 47 (4):322-331.

Lu, Z.Y. and Shi, B.E. (2000) "Visual tracking with subpixel resolution using an analogVLSI computational sensor", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, SanFrancisco, CA, Apr., 2:1676-1681.

DANNY H K TSANG

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Pennsylvania (1989)Asst. Professor of Mathematics, Statistics & Computing Science, Dalhousie University(1989-92)


BISDN/ATM networks; congestion controls; VBR video modeling; routing in high-speednetworks; broadband applications; wireless ATM; quality of services guarantee in Internet.




Dynamic multicast routing for single-rate loss networks

DAG DAG98/99.EG10 HK$75,000 May 1999

Design And Analysis Of Packet Scheduling Schemes With Per-Flow Queueing For TCP


Internet Telephony support in virtual private networks CRC

HKT HKT99/00.EG02 HK$100,000 Jan 2000


Tsang, D.H.K. and Kuehn, P.J. (2000) Broadband Communications: Convergence ofNetwork Technologies, Kluwer Academic Publisher, MA, USA.

Cheung, C.C., Tsang, D.H.K. and Gupta, S. (in press) "Dynamic Multicast Routing Basedon Mean Number of New Calls Accepted Before Blocking for Single Rate Loss Networks",IEEE Trans. on Networking.

Cheung, C.C., Tsang, D.H.K. and Gupta, S. (in press) "Modified Least Load MulticastRoutings for Fully-Connected Single Rate Loss Networks", Telecommunication Systems.

Huang, H., Tsang, D.H.K., Sigle, R. and Kuehn, P.J. (2000) "Hierarchical Scheduling withAdaptive Weights for W-ATM", IEICE Transactions on Communications, E83-B (2):

313-320.

Liu, X.M., Bensaou, B., Tsang, D.H.K. and Liu, L. (1999) "Tight Upper Bounds for CellLoss Probabilities and Required Bandwidth Estimation in ATM Multiplexers", EuropeanTransactions on Telecommunications, 10 (1): 33-43.

Tsang, D.H.K., Bensaou, B. and Lam, S.T.C. (1998) "Fuzzy Based Rate Control forReal-Time MPEG Video", IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 6 (4): 504-516.

DCHI-YING TSUI

Associate Professor




VLSI design and CAD algorithms for energy efficient high-performance microprocessors;power analysis and optimization of CMOS circuits; low-power embedded systems.



ITC AF/264/97 HK$14,733,000 Jan 1998

Real time media annotation


System and software level power estimation for designing mobile and personalcommunication systems using embeded processor


Turbo code codec design for next generation wide-band CDMA Standard

MI MI98/99.EG02 HK$592,000 Sep 1998


CRC CRC98/01.EG03 HK$3,000,000 Mar 1999

Designing low power applications considering both hardware, software and the batterysystem

DAG DAG99/00.EG13 HK$53,738 Dec 1999


He, Z.L., Liou, M., Chan, P.C.H. and Tsui, C.Y. (1998) "Generic VLSI Architecture forBlock-Matching Motion Estimation Algorithm", International Journal of Imaging Systemsand Technology, 9 (4): 257-273.

He, Z.L., Tsui, C.Y., Chan, K.K. and Liou, M.L. (in press) "Low Power VLSI Design forMotion Estimation Using Adaptive Pixel Truncation", IEEE Transactions on Circuit andSystems on Video Technology.

Lea, C.T., Tsui, C.Y., Li, B., Kwan, C.Y., Chan, S. and Chan, A. (1999) "A/I Net: ANetwork That Integrates ATM and IP", IEEE Network, 13 (1): 48-55.

Tsui, C.Y. and Pedram, M. (1998) "Accurate and Efficient Power Simulation Strategy byCompacting the Input Vector Set", Integration-The VLSI Journal, 25 (1): 37-52.

Tsui, C.Y., Cheng, S.K. and Ling, C. (in press) "Low Power Rake Receiver and ViterbiDecoder Design for CDMA Applications", International Journal on Wireless PersonalCommunications.

Tsui, C.Y., Pedram, M. and Despain, A. (1998) "Low Power State Assignment TargetingTwo- and Multi-level Logic Implementations", IEEE Transactions on Computer-AidedDesign of Integrated Circuits & Systems, 17 (12): 1281-1291.

MAN WONG

Associate Professor


PhD, Stanford University (1988)Technical Staff, Semi-conductor Process and Design Center, Texas Instruments (1989-92)


Advanced device fabrication technology; thin-film transistors and general device physics;micro-electro-mechanical systems.


Areas of Excellence in Sensor and Actuator

AOE AOE97/98.EG07 HK$200,000 Mar 1998

China Program on Beida/CAS MEMS Cooperative Research Program

CP CP98/99.EG01 HK$300,000 Apr 1999

Applications Of Metal Induced Laterally Crystallized Polycrystalline Silicon To ActiveMatrix Liquid Crystal Displays



ITC AF/150/99 HK$8,600,000 Oct 1999


CRC CRC98/01.EG08 HK$1,440,000 Mar 2000

Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Micro-Electromechanical Switch

HUAK HUAKO99/00.EG03 HK$192,000 Sep 2000

Applications Of Metal Induced Laterally Crystallized Polycrystalline Silicon To IntegratedMicro-systems



Li, B., Xiong, B., Jiang, L., Zohar, Y. and Wong, M. (1999) "Germanium as a VersatileMaterial for Low Temperature Micro-Machining", Journal of Micro-Electro-MechanicalSystems, 8 (4): 366-372.

Meng, Z., Wang, M. and Wong, M. (2000) "High Performance Offset Metal-InducedUnilaterally Crystallized Polycrystalline Silicon Thin-Film Transistors for System-on-PanelApplications", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 47 (2): 404-409.

Wang, M., Meng, Z. and Wong, M. (2000) "Anisotropic Conduction Behavior inMetal-Induced Laterally Crystallized Polycrystalline Silicon Thin Films", Applied PhysicsLetters, 76 (4): 448-450.

Wong, M., Jin, Z., Bhat, G., Wong, P. and Kwok, H.S. (2000) "Characterization of theMIC/MILC Interface and Its Effects on the Performance of MILC Thin-Film Transistors",IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 47 (5): 1061-1067.

Zin, Z.-H., Bhat, G.-A., Yeung, M., Kwok, H.-S. and Wong, M. (1998) "Nickel InducedCrystallization of Amorphous Silicon Thin Films", Journal of Applied Physics, 84 (1):194-200.

Wang, M., Meng, Z., Zohar, Y. and Wong, M. (2000) "A New Polycrystalline SiliconTechnology for Integrated Sensor Applications", Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Conferenceon Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, ASME/IEEE, Miyazaki, Japan, 23 Jan, 114-119.

BING ZENG

Associate Professor


PhD, Tampere University of Technology (1991)


Digital signal and image processing; linear and nonlinear digital filter design; statistical andstructural approaches to signal/image processing; neural networks; image/video coding andtransmission.


Time-frequency representation of economic fluctuations

CERG HKUST6176/98H HK$637,000 Jul 1998

Arbitrarily-shaped image/video coding

DAG DAG00/01.EG13 HK$50,000 Dec 2000


Zeng, B. (1999) "Reduction of blocking effect in DCT-coded images using zero-maskingtechniques", Signal Processing, 79, 205-211.

Zeng, B. and Venetsanopoulos, A.N. (1998) "Image interpolation based on median-typefilters", Optical Engineering, 37 (9): 2472-2482.

Li, R., Zeng, B. and Liou, M.L. (2000) "Reliable motion detection/compensation forinterlaced sequences and its applications to deinterlacing", IEEE Transactions on Circuitsand Systems for Video Technology, 10 (1): 23-29.

Wen, Y. and Zeng, B. (1999) "A simple nonlinear filter for economic time series analysis",Economics Letters, 64, 151-160.

Lee, C.M. and Zeng, B. (1999) "A novel interpolation scheme for quincunx-subsampledimages", 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, IEEE, Orlando,USA, May/June 1999.

Shen, G., Zeng, B. and Liou, M.L. (in press) "A new padding technique for coding ofarbitrarily-shaped image/video segments", 1999 IEEE International Conference on ImageProcessing, IEEE, Kobe, Japan, October.

OSCAR C AU

Assistant Professor


PhD, Princeton University (1991)Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University (1991-92)


Video compression (including MPEG I/II/IV) ; watermarking for digital files in variousformats (such as image, video, text, and executable programs); speech recognition forPutonghua and Cantonese.


Summary extraction from MPEG bitstream for quick browsing and transmission overlow-bit-rate channels



RCA CA97/98.EG02 HK$3,900,000 Mar 1998

Arbitrary Shape Motion Estimation Techniques Based On Joint Optimization Of Rate AndDistortion


Image and video watermarking for authentication, copyright protection and data-hiding:Design and applications

DAG DAG99/00.EG10 HK$53,738 Dec 1999


Wong, J.W.C. and Au, O.C. (in press) "Efficient Motion Estimation Algorithm forResolution Down Conversion of Compressed Video", IEEE. Trans on Circuits and Systemsfor Video Technology.

Wong, P.H.W. and Au, O.C. (1999) "Modified One-Bit Transform for Motion Estimation",IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 9 (7): 1020-1024.

Au, O.C. (1999) "Fast ad-hoc Inverse Halftoning using Adaptive Filtering", Proc. of IEEEInt. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Society,Phoenix, AZ, USA, 15-19 Mar, 6:2279-2282.

Au, O.C. and Fung, C. (in press) "Improved Acoustic Modelling for Speech RecognitionUsing Transformation Techniques", Int. Conf. On Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP),Acoustical Society of America, Beijing, China, 16-20 Oct 2000.

Au, O.C. and Lam, K.H. (1998) "Evaluation of Objective Speech Measures for Analog andDigital Cellular Phone Quality Assessment", working paper.

Au, O.C., Wan, W., Keung, C.L. and Yim, C.H. (1999) "Sinusoidal Representation andAuditory Model-based Parametric Matching and Smoothing and Its Application in SpeechAnalysis/Synthesis", 6th European Conf On Speech Communication and Technology(Eurospeech), European Speech Communication Association (ESCA), Budapest, Hungary,5-9 Sept., 5:2287-2290.

MANSUN CHAN

Assistant Professor




Nanometric device physics; CMOS image sensors; system-on-a-chip; high-speed and lowpower IC; 3D IC integration; RF devices and technology; biosensor for genechip;multimedia technologies.


Advanced CMOS compatible silicon image sensors fabrication and modeling

CERG HKUST6055/98E HK$1,272,000 Sep 1998

Emerging High Impact Area of Biochip Program

HIA HIA98/99.SC05 HK$3,775,000 Jan 1999

Embedded FLASH EEPROM Technology On SOI Substrate



ITC AF/150/99 HK$8,600,000 Oct 1999

Technologies for system-on-a-chip on SOI substrate including logic circuits, memories, andRF communication front end


Technology Development And Device Design For 3-D Vertical Integration



Chan, V.W.-C., Chan, P.C.-H and Chan, M. (2000) "Three dimensional CMOS integratedcircuits on large grain polysilicon films", IEEE International Electron Device Meeting(IEDM) Technical Digest, 10-13 Dec, 161-164, San Franciso, USA.

Chan, M., Wang, H. and Jagar, S. (2000) "Performance of submicron large-grainpolysilicon-on-insulator (LPSOI) MOSFETs formed by crystallization of amorphoussilicon", Extended Abstract of 2000 International Conference on Solid State Devices andMaterials (SSDM 2000), 29-31 August, 546-547, Sendai, Japan.

Wang, H., Chan, M., Jagar, S., Wang, Y. and Ko, P.K. (2000) "Submicron super TFTs for3-D VLSI applications", IEEE Electron Device Letters, 21 (9), September, 391-393.

Wang, H., Chan, M., Jagar, S., Poon, V.M.C, Qin, Y., Wang, Y. and Ko, P.K. (2000) "Superthin-film transistor with SOI CMOS performance formed by a novel grain enhancementmethod", IEEM Trans. On Electron Devices, 47 (8), August, 1580-1586.

Zhang, W., Chan, M. and Ko, P.K. (2000) "Performance of floating gate/ body tied SOINMOSFET photo-detector on SOI substrate", IEEE Trans. On Electron Devices, 47 (7),July, 1375-1384.

Wang, H., Chan, M. and Ko, P.-K. (2000) "The Behavior of Narrow-Width SOI MOSFET'swith MESA Isolation", IEEE Transaction on Electron Devices, 47 (3): 593-600.

PASCALE FUNG

Assistant Professor




Speech and speaker recognition; understanding and dialogue strategies in speechrecognition; multilinguality in speech and language; machine translation; cross-languageinformation processing.


Dialog and domain-specific language models for interactive voice systems on the web

DAG DAG97/98.EG20 HK$50,000 Feb 1998


RCA CA97/98.EG02 HK$3,900,000 Mar 1998

Dialog and spontaneous speech understanding models for interactive voice systems on theweb


Multi And Cross-lingual Spoken Language Understanding For Information Access On theWeb


Large vocabulary flexible Chinese speech recognition for information retrieval

DAG DAG00/01.EG12 HK$50,000 Dec 2000


Cheung, C.S. and Fung, P. (1999) "Keyword / Filerword Modeling for Spontaneous SpokenMixed Language Query Processing", NLPRS'99, Beijing, China, 5-7 Nov, 4.

WING HUNG KI

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (1995)Senior Design Engineer, Micro Linear (1992-95)


Analysis and design of dimmable electronic ballasts; switch mode and switched-capacitorpower converters; low voltage switched opamp switched-capacitor circuits and fundamentalanalog integrated circuits.


Research in integrated switched-capacitor power converters


Research in integrated switched-capacitor power converters

DAG DAG98/99.EG26 HK$43,309 Mar 1999


Ki, W.-H. (1998) "Analysis of subharmonic oscillation of fixed frequencycurrent-programming switching mode power converters", IEEE Trans. On Ckts. & Sys., I, 45(1), 104-108.

Ki, W.-H. (1998) "Signal flow graph in loop gain analysis of DC-DC PWM CCM switchingconverters", IEEE Trans. On Ckts. & Sys., I, 45 (6), 644-655.

Ki, W.-H., Shi, J.Y., Yau, K.F., Mok, P.K.T. and Sin, J.K.O. (1999) "Phase-controlleddimmable electronic ballast for fluorescent lamps", Power Elec. Specialists Conf, IEEE, S.Carolina, USA, June, 1121-1125.

Leung, K.N., Mok, P.K.T., Ki, W.-H. and Sin, J.K.O. (2000) "Three-stage large capacitiveload amplifier with damping-factor-control frequency compensation", IEEE Journal of SolidState Circuits, 35 (2): 221-230.

Ki, W.-H. (2000) "Signal Flow Graph Analysis of Feedback Amplifiers", IEEE Transactionof Circuits and Systems, Part I, 47 (6): 926-933.

Cheung, V., Luong, H. and Ki, W.-H. (in press) "A 1-V CMOS switched-opampswitched-capacitor pseudo-2-path filter", IEEE Int'l Solid-State Ckts

CHI WAH KOK

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1997)Visiting Fellow, Keio University, Japan (2000)Visiting Scholar, Stanford University (1998-99)Senior Engineer, Sony US Research Labs (1998-99)


Signal processing and multirate techniques, and their applications in wireless andmulti-media communications.


Wavelet based multi-access digital communication system

DAG DAG99/00.EG28 HK$100,000 Jan 2000

Wavelets Based Multi-access Digital Communication System



Kok, C.W., Nagai, T., Ikehara, M. and Nguyen, T.Q. (2000) "Lattice Structures of LinearPhase FIR Paraunitary Filter Banks", working paper.

HOWARD C LUONG

Assistant Professor




Low-power, low-voltage, high-speed analog integrated circuits; RF circuits for wirelesscommunications.


Design and integration of a single-chip CMOS wireless receiver


Monolithic integration of a CMOS wireless transceiver


A 1-V 10.7-MHz band-pass filter using a novel switched-capacitor technique

DAG DAG99/00.EG29 HK$40,000 Jan 2000


Cheung, V.S.L, Luong, H.C. and Ki, W.H. (in press) "A 1-V Switched-OpampSwitched-Capacitor Pseudo-2-Path Filter", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.

Kan, T.K.K, Ma, D., Mak, K.C. and Luong, H.C. (in press) "Design Theory andPerformance of 1-GHz CMOS Downconversion and Upconversion Mixers", AnalogIntegrated Circuits and Signal Processing.

Luong, H.C. and Kwok, T.F. (1999) "Power Optimization for Pipeline Analog-To-DigitalConverters", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital SignalProcessing, 549-554.

Kan, T.K.K. and Luong, H.C. (2000) "A 2-V 1.8-GHz Fully-Integrated CMOS Dual-LoopFrequency Synthesizer", Symposium on VLSI Circuits 2000, VLSI Symposium, Hawaii,USA, June, 234-237.

Lo, C.W. and Luong, H.C. (2000) "A 1.5-V 900-MHz Monolithic CMOS Fast-SwitchingFrequency Synthesizer for Wireless Applications", Symposium on VLSI Circuits 2000,VLSI Symposium, Hawaii, USA, June, 238-241.

Luong, H.C. and Leung, D. (1999) "A Fourth-Order CMOS Bandpass Amplifier with HighLinearity and High Image Rejection for GSM Receivers", Proceedings of IEEE InternationalSymposium on Circuit and Systems 1999, ISCAS, Florida, USA, June.

PHILIP K T MOK

Assistant Professor




Analog integrated circuits for telecommunications and power electronics applications; powerintegrated circuits; VLSI device technology; circuit design.


Integrated Analog Display Driver Circuit Design For Poly-Si AMLCD On Glass



Leung, K.N., Mok, P.K.T., Ki, W.H. and Sin, J.K.O. (2000) "Three-Stage Large CapacitiveLoad Amplifier with Damping-Factor-Control Frequency Compensation", IEEE Journal ofSolid-State Circuits, 35 (2): 221-230.

Zhang, S.D., Sin, J.K.O. and Mok, P.K.T. (1999) "A Novel Ultra-Thin Elevated ChannelLow Temperature Poly-Si TFT", IEEE Electron Device Letters, 20 (11): 569-571.

Zhang, S.D., Zhu, C., Sin, J.K.O., Li, J.N. and Mok, P.K.T. (2000) "Ultra-Thin ElevatedChannel Poly-Si TFT Technology for Fully-Integrated AMLCD System on Glass", IEEETrans. Electron Devices, 47 (3): 569-575.

Lee, H., Mok, P.K.T. and Ki, W.H. (2000) "A Novel Voltage-Control Scheme forLow-Voltage DC-DC Converters with Fast Transient Recovery", IEEE InternationalSymposium on Circuits and Systems, IEEE, Geneva, Switzerland, 28-31 May, I:256-259.

Leung, K.N., Mok, P.K.T. and Ki, W.-H. (1999) "A Novel Frequency CompensationTechnique for Low-Voltage Low-Dropout Regulator", The 1999 International Symposiumon Circuits and Systems, IEEE, Orlando, FL, USA, 30 May, V:102-105.

Leung, K.N., Mok, P.K.T., Ki, W.-H. and Sin, J.K.O. (1999) "Damping Factor ControlFrequency Compensation Technique for Low-Voltage Low-Power Large Capacitive LoadApplication", IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, IEEE, San Francisco, CA,USA, 15 Feb, 158-159.

WAI HO MOW

Assistant Professor


PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1993)Visiting Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1994)Croucher Fellow, University of Waterloo (1995)Humboldt Fellow, Technische Universtät Mürchen (1996)Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University (1997-99)TAO Fellow, Kyoto University (2000)


Decoding and detection algorithms for wireless communications and storage applications;sequence design for radars and CDMA systems; communications, coding and information

theory.


Practical issues in hypertrellis-oriented design of a fully parallel iterative decoder

DAG DAG99/00.EG42 HK$100,000 May 2000


Mow, W.H. (2000) "Fully Parallel Iterative Decoder on Hypertrellis via Add-Min-AddOperations", Proc. International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications,Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 5-8 November, 42-45.

Mow, W.H. (2000) "Hypertrellis: a Generalization of Trellis and Factor Graph", Codes,Systems, and Graphical Models, IAM Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, vol.123 (ed. Marcus, B. and Rosenthal, J.), Springer-Verlag, July, 167-194.

Mow, W.H. (1999) "Even-Odd Transformation with Application to Multi-User CWRadars", IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 35, 1466-1470.

Mow, W.H. (1998) "A Tight Upper Bound on Discrete Entropy", IEEE Trans. onInformation Theory, vol. 44, March, 775-778.

Mow, W.H. (1998) "Multiuser Coding Based on Detecting Matrices forSynchronous-CDMA Systems", Cryptography and Coding VI, Lecture Notes in ComputerScience, vol. 1355 (ed. Darnell, M.), Springer-Verlag, 251-257.

Mow, W.H. and Li, S.-Y.R. (1997) "Aperiodic Autocorrelation and Crosscorrelation ofPolyphase Sequences", IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, vol. 43, May, 1000-1007.

VINCENT M C POON

Assistant Professor


PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1989)Product Specialist, Carl Zeiss Co. Ltd. (1987-88)Lecturer in Electronic Engineering, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong (1988-91)


Advanced microelectronic devices: physics, technology, modeling, characterization, designand fabrication.


High Performance Thin-film-transistors On Single Grain Silicon By Locally EnchancedCrystallization



Qin, M., Poon, M.C. and Yuen, C.Y. (2000) "Nickel silicide technology for MEMS",Sensors and Actuators A, 87, 90-95.

Wang, H.M., Chan, M., Jagar, S., Poon, M.C., Qin, M., Wang, Y.Y. and Ko, P.K. (2000)"High performance single grain TFT formed by MILC", IEEE Trans. Electron. Device, 47(8), August, 1580-6.

Poon, M.C., Deng, F., Chan, M., Chan, W.Y. and Lau, S.S. (2000) "Resistivity and thermalstability of nickel mono-silicide", Applied Surface Science, 157 (1-2): 29-34.

Han, P.G., Wong, H., Poon, M.C. and Wang, N. (1999) "Porous Polycrystalline siliconconductivity sensor", J. Vacuum Science & Technology, 17 (4): 1832-1835.

Wang, B.P., Huang, Z.P., Sin, J.K.O., Poon, M.C., Tang, Y.M., Wang, C., Xu, K.X. andTong, L.S. (1999) "A Novel Emitter-Sharpened Double-Gate Race-Track-Shaped FieldEmitter Structure", IEEE Electron Device Letters, 20 (12): 621-3.

Jagar, S., Chan, M., Poon, M.C., Wang, H.M., Qin, M., Ko, P.K. and Wang, Y.Y. (1999)"Single grain thin-film-transistor (TFT) with SOI CMOS performance formed bymetal-induced-lateral-crystallization", International Electron Device Meeting 1999 IEEEIEDM, Technical Digest, Washington, DC, USA, 5-8 December, 293-6.

JIANAN QU

Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Center for Medical DiagnosticTechnology


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)


Applications of optics in medicine; biomedical instrumentation; analytical laserspectroscopy; laser technology and optical design.


Concentration measurements of biological analytes by laser raman spectroscopy

DAG DAG97/98.EG16 HK$100,000 Feb 1998

Biomedical Optics Facility

RCA CA97/98.EG01 HK$2,700,000 Mar 1998

Near-infrared spectroscopy of biological tissue: Theory and development for selectedmedical applications

DAG DAG98/99.EG09 HK$75,000 Nov 1998

Design and instrumentation of a near-IR Raman system for rapid and reagentlessconcentration measurements of biological analytes and screening of therapeutical drugs andsubstances of abuse


Detection of early stage nasopharyngeal and other head and neck cancers by spectroscopicfluorescence endoscopy

DAG DAG99/00.EG12 HK$53,738 Dec 1999

Early Detection Of Nasopharyngeal Cancer By Fluorescence Endoscopy



Qu, J., Hua, J.W. and Huang, Z.J. (2000) "Correction of Geometrical Effects onFluorescence Imaging of Tissue", Optics Communications, 176, 319-326.

Qu, J., Huang, Z.J. and Hua, J.W. (2000) "Excitation and collection geometry insensitivefluorescence imaging of tissue-simulating turbid media", Applied Optics, 39, 3344-3356.

Qu, J., Yuen, P.W, Huang, Z.J., Kwong, D., Sham, J., Lee, S.L., Ho, W.K. and Wei, W.I.(2000) "Preliminary Study of in vivo Autofluorescence of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma andNormal Tissue", Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, 26, 432-440.

Qu, J., Huang, Z.J. and Hua, J.W. (2000) "Mapping the fluorescence yield on turbid media",Applied Physics Letters, 76, 970-972.

Qu, J., Yuen, P.W. and Wei, W.I. (2000) "In vivo Autofluorescence of NasopharyngealCarcinoma and Normal Tissue", SPIE Proc., SPIE, San Jose, USA, 11-28 Jan, 3917:9-15.

Qu, J., Wilson, B.C. and Suria, D. (1999) "Concentration Measurements of MultipleAnalytes in Human Sera by Near-Infrared Laser Raman spectroscopy", Applied Optics, 38,5491-5498.

PENGCHENG SHI

Assistant Professor




Visual information processing; medical imaging, computer vision, visualization.


Exploring geometrical and physical strategies in medical imaging

DAG DAG99/00.EG30 HK$100,000 Jan 2000

A Computational Framework For Non-invasive Recovery Of Material Properties FromImage Sequence: Applications To Cardiac Tissues



Shi, P., Sinusas, A.J., Constable, R.T. and Duncan, J.S. (1999) "Volumetric DeformationAnalysis Using Mechanics-Based Data Fusion: Applications in Cardiac Motion Recovery",International Journal of Computer Vision, 35 (1): 87-107.

Shi, P., Sinusas, A.J., Constable, R.T., Ritman, E. and Duncan, J.S. (2000) "Point-TrackedQuantitative Analysis of Left Ventricular Motion from 3D Image Sequences", IEEETransactions on Medical Imaging, 19 (1): 36-50.

Shi, P. and Sinusas, A.J. (2000) "Image Base Stochastic Mechanics Framework forNon-invasive Recovery of Myocardial Material Properties", Proceedings of the WorldCongress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Chicago, 23-28 July, 2000.

Papadmetris, X., Shi, P., Dione, D.P., Sinusas, A.J., Constable, R.T. and Duncan, J.S. (1999)"Use of Biomechanical Models for the Recovery of Soft Tissue Object Deformation from 3DImage Sequences", Information Processing in Medical Imaging, June.

Duncan, J.S., Shi, P., Constable, R.T. and Sinusas, A.J. (1998) "Physical and GeometricalModeling for Image-Based Recovery of Left Ventricular Deformation", Progress inBiophysics and Molecular Biology, 69(2-3), 333-351.

MAN HUNG SIU

Assistant Professor


PhD, Boston University (1998)Senior Scientist, BBN Corp. (1989-1999)


Speech recognition; segmental model of speech, language modeling, application of speechrecognition in education; neural networks.


Improved accuracy via combination of multiple recognition systems

DAG DAG98/99.EG14 HK$100,000 Feb 1999

A communicator between Cantonese and Putonghua speakers


Chinese Speech Recognition Using The Segmental Models



Siu, M.-H. and Gish, H. (1999) "Evaluation of Word Confidence for Speech RecognitionSystem", Computer speech and Language, 13 (4): 299-318.

Siu, M.-H. and Ostendorf, M. (2000) "Variable N-gram Language Modeling and Extensionsfor Conversational Speech", IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 8 (1):63-75.

Siu, M.-H. and Ostendorf, M. (2000) "Integrating a Context-dependent Phrase Grammar inthe Variable N-gram Framework", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and SignalProcessing, IEEE, Istanbul, Turkey, 5-9 Jun, 3: 1643-1646.

Chan, A., Siu, M.-H. and Mak, B. (2000) "Pruning of state tying tree using the Bayesianinformation criterion with multiple mixtures", International Conference on Spoken LanguageProcessing, 16-20 October, 4: 294-297.

Siu, M.-H., Jones, M. and Gish, H. (1999) "Using a Lange Vocabulary Continuous SpeechRecognizer for a Constrained Domain with Limited Training", International Conference onAcoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE, 15-19 March, Phoenix, USA, 1: 105-108.

Siu, M.-H., Wong, K., Lau, M. and Ching, R. (2000) "Computer-aided MandarinPronunciation Learning System", International Conference on Spoken Language Processing,16-20 October, 4: 77-80.

LI-XIN WANG

Assistant Professor




Intelligent control; fuzzy systems; industrial process control; data mining.


Fuzzy system compensators for backlash and deadzone


Fuzzy control of drum-boiler systems



CRC CRC98/01.EG02 HK$3,000,000 Mar 1999

Adaptive Fuzzy Control Of Nonlinear Systems : Further Studies



Wang, L.X. (1999) "Analysis and design of hierarchical fuzzy systems", IEEE Trans. onFuzzy Systems, 7 (5): 617-624.

Wang, L.X. (1999) "Automatic design of fuzzy controllers", Automatica, 35, 1471-1475.

Wang, L.X. and Wei, C. (2000) "Approximation accuracy of some neuro-fuzzyapproaches", IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems, 8(4): 470-478.

Wei, C. and Wang, L.X. (2000) "A note on universal approximation by hierarchical fuzzysystems", Information Sciences, 123, 241-248.

Wang, L.X. and Wan, F. (in press) "Structured neural networks for constrained modelpredictive control", Automatica.

Wang, L.X. (1998) "Stable and Optimal Fuzzy Control of Linear Systems", IEEE Trans. OnFuzzy Systems, 6(1): 167-143.

Department of Industrial Engineering and EngineeringManagement

Four guidelines are closely followed to identify our areas of research. (1) The Departmentwill focus its research efforts on areas of greatest interest to meet the needs and challenges ofthe economic communities of Hong Kong and South China. (2) We will exploit the maturingtechnologies that will provide the best conditions for forefront IE research. (3) The researchareas will be appropriate to the university environment, and likely to yield significantadvances in both academic and practical values. (4) The research work must be compatiblewith concentrations in the postgraduate programs. With these four guidelines in mind, wehave identified the following four focused areas:

Manufacturing Systems

Engineering Management

Systems Engineering

Human Factors Engineering

FacilitiesSome fundamental building blocks of IE include manufacturing processes, materialhandling, quality control, ergonomics, and flexible manufacturing and computerapplications. Based on the focus of the Department, a host of laboratories have beendesigned to provide our students and faculty with state-of-the-art facilities to support theirresearch needs. The labs include:

Information System Lab

Quality Lab

Rapid Response Assembly Systems Lab

Material Handling Lab

Manufacturing Process Lab

Industrial Automation lab

Human Factors Lab

System Design Lab

Virtual Teaming/Virtual Reality Lab

Research Profile

MITCHELL M. TSENG


NEVILLE K. S. LEE

Associate Professor, Assoicate Department Head

OTTO CHUI-CHAU LIN

Professor and Vice-President for Research and Development

RAYMOND CHEUNG

Associate Professor

RAVINDRA S. GOONETILLEKE

Associate Professor

VERNON HSU

Associate Professor

CHUNG LUN LI

Assistant Professor

LIMING LIU

Assistant Professor

VINCENT DUFFY

Assistant Professor

AJAY JONEJA

Assistant Professor

JIYIN LIU

Associate Professor

RICHARD H. Y. SO

Assistant Professor

FUGEE TSUNG

Assistant Professor

YAT-WAH WAN

Assistant Professor

BENJAMIN YEN

Assistant Professor

Research Profile

MITCHELL M. TSENG

Professor and Department Head; Director, Advanced ManufacturingInstitute



Manager, Manufacturing Technology, Xerox Corp. (1977-82)

Group Manager, Applied Intelligent Systems Group (1982-90)

US Area Engineering Manager, Digital Services (1990-93)


Systems design; virtual teaming; mass customization; business process reengineering;systems integration.


An IDEF3 based high level interface for building a virtual environment from a physicalenvironment

FMC FMC97/98.EG01 US$25,000 Jan 1998

Evaluation of market and distribution requirements to determine personal audio-cassetteplayer positioning strategy for Yusan in the USA

YI SJP97/98.EG02 HK$150,000 Jan 1998

System integration engineering

RAHK RAHK97/98.EG01 US$150,000 Jan 1998

DAG DAG97/98.EG30 HK$49,066 Jun 1998

Electronic commerce front end for Hong Kong apparel industry community

ITC AF/13/98 HK$3,260,000 Jul 1998

Emerging High Impact Area of Advanced Manufacturing Institute

HIA HIA98/99.EG05 HK$1,600,000 Jan 1999

A prototype sole mould design and manufacturing system for the shoe industry

ITC AF/162/99 HK$3,558,200 Aug 1999

Modeling Product Family Architecture For Mass Customization


Conceptual design of home environmental management appliances

HCPL HCPL99/00.EG01 HK$100,000 Feb 2000

Globalization of customer service in global business clearing house

AAPG AAPGL99/00.EG01 HK$150,000 Feb 2000


Jiao, J., Tseng, M., Ma, Q. and Zhou, Y. (2000) "Generic bill-of-materials-and-operationsfor high-variety production management", Concurrent Engineering: Research andApplication, vol. 8, no. 4, 1-25.

Jiao, J. and Tseng, M. (2000) "Understanding Product Family for Mass Customization byDeveloping Commonality Indices", Journal of Engineering Design, vol. 11, no. 3, 225-243.

Tseng, M. and Jiao, J. (2000) "Fundamentals of product family architecture", IntegratedManufacturing Systems, vol. 11, no. 7, 469-483.

Tseng, M., Ma, Q. and Su, C.J. (1999) "Mapping Customers' Service Experience forOperations Improvement", Business Process Management Journal, vol. 5, no. 1, 50-64.

Chen, Y., Tseng, M. and Yien, J. (1998) "Economic view of CIM system architecture",Production Planning and Control, vol. 9, no. 3, 241-249.

Lei, M., Yang, X., Tseng, M. and Yang, S. (1998) "A CORBA-based agent-driven designfor distributed intelligent manufacturing system", Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, vol.9, no. 7, 457-465.

NEVILLE K. S. LEE

Associate Professor, Associate Department Head



Senior Consultant Engineering and Technical Program Manager, Digital Equipment Corp.(1989-94)


Manufacturing technology; precision manufacturing; non-traditional manufacturingprocesses; manufacturing equipment and instruments; management of change inmanufacturing technology.


Development of new advanced manufacturing technologies and equipment for the disk driveindustry

ITC AF/134/98 HK$2,340,000 Jul 1998

Development of new advanced manufacturing technologies and equipment for the disk driveindustry

LCML LCML98/99.EG01 HK$130,000 Jul 1998

Study of mechanical alignment process for manufacturing: Moving towards micron accuracyand beyond


Study of mechanical alignment process for manufacturing: Moving towards micron accuracyand beyond

DAG DAG98/99.EG27 HK$43,309 Jun 1999


Lee, N.K.S., Hon, K.K.C., Cheung, V.P.Y. and Joneja, A. (in press) "Effect of DatumSecuring Method on Precision of Mechanical Alignment System", ASME Journal of Mfg.Science and Engineering.

Joneja, A. and Lee, N. (1998) "MPATS: A Modular, Parametric Assembly Tool Set forMass Customization", IIE Transactions, vol. 30, 923-931.

Lee, N. (1998) "Remote fine tracking mechanism for optical flying head", IEEETransactions on Magnetics, vol. 34, 423-425.

Lee, N., Linn, R., Li, V. (1997) "Thermal management for the robustness improvement ofdouble sided SMT solder reflow", Journal of Electronics Manufacturing, vol. 7, 187-198.

Lee, N., Cai, Y., Joneja, A. (1997) "A high resolution multi-dimensional displacementmonitoring system", Journal of Optical Engineering, vol. 36, 2287.

Lee, N. and Joneja, A. (1997) "A method to improve manufacturing precision in thepresence of workpiece imperfections", Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering,vol. 119, 616-622.

OTTO C-C. LIN

Professor and Vice-Presidenet for Reseach and Development



R&D Engineer, E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., (1967-83)

Professor, Director and Dean of Engineering, National Tsing-Hua University (1977-95)

General Director, Vice President and President, Industrial Technology Research Institute,Taiwan (1983-94)

Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore (1996-97)

Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

Member, Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences


Management of R&D and innovation; science, technology and national competitivity;technology transfer; polymers for electronics.


A program for enhancing technology and economic development of Hong Kong

RIG RG97/98.RD01 HK$3,646,078 Jun 1998


Lin, O.C.C. (1999) "Technology and Sustainability of Hong Kong", Asia Society HongKong Center, 6 September.

Lin, O.C.C. (1999) "Science and Technology Development of China", Salzburg SeminarCore Session, 373, December.

Lin, O.C.C. (2000) "The Role of Technology in Industrial and Economic Development ofHong Kong", in Science,Technology and Innovation Policy (eds. Conceicao, P., et al.),Quorum Books.

Lin, O.C.C. (2000) "National Innovation System and Economic Development", HKAcademy of Engineering Science Symposium, October, Hong Kong.

RAYMOND CHEUNG

Assistant Professor



Asst Lecturer in Mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnic (1985-87)

Asst Professor of Industrial Engineering, Iowa State University (1993-96)


Transportation and logistics systems management; network optimization; dynamic andstochastic optimization.


Study group on HK as a regional transportation and shipping centre

BPF BPF98/99.EG01 HK$55,000 Mar 1999

Models And Solutions Methods For Dynamic Resource-task Assignment For CargoHandling


Research on logistics/freight

HIA HIA98/99.EG03-A HK$300,000 Mar 2000

A multi-attribute labeling approach for resource routing and scheduling in freighttransportation

DAG DAG00/01.EG14 HK$50,000 Dec 2000


Cheung, R.K. (1998) "Stochastic Network Models and Solution Methods for Dynamic FleetManagement Problems", Transportation Networks: Recent Methodological Advances,Pergamon, Oxford, 209-222.

Cheung, R.K. (1998) "Iterative Methods for Dynamic Stochastic Shortest Path Problems",Naval Research Logistics, 45, 769-789.

Cheung, R.K. and Muralidharan, B. (2000) "Dynamic Routing for Priority Shipments inLess-than-truckload service networks", Transportation Science, 34, 86-98.

Cheung, R.K. and Powell, W.B. (2000) "SHAPE: A Stochastic Hybrid ApproximationProcedure for Two-Stage Stochastic Programs", Operations Research, 48 (1): 73-79.

Wan, Y., Cheung, R.K., Liu, J. and Tong, J. (1998) "Warehouse location problems forair-freight forwarders", Journal of Air Transport Management, 4, 201-207.

Powell, W.B., Snow, W. and Cheung, R.K. (2000) "Adaptive labeling algorithms for thedynamic assignment problem", Transportation Science, 34, 50-66.

RAVINDRA S. GOONETILLEKE

Associate Professor


PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo (1990)

Senior Ergonomist, Biomechanics Corporation of America (1990-91)

Human Factors Manager/Researcher, NIKE Sports Research Lab (1991-94)


Ergonomics; human-computer interaction; usability; footwear design; product design andsafety.


Effect of force and contact area on human perception

DAG DAG98/99.EG11 HK$75,000 Feb 1999


ITC AF/162/99 HK$3,558,200 Aug 1999

Effective icon representations

DAG DAG99/00.EG14 HK$53,738 Dec 1999

Foot Shape Modelling For Improved Fit



Goonetilleke, R.S. (1999) "Footwear Cushioning: Relating Objective and SubjectiveMeasurements", Human Factors, 41 (2): 241-256.

Goonetilleke, R.S. (in press) "The Comfort-Discomfort Phase Change", InternationalEncyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors, Taylor and Francis, London, 10-14.

Goonetilleke, R.S. and Feizhou, S. (in press) "Optimum Seat Depth for the South ChinaPopulation", International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics.

Goonetilleke, R.S. and Rao, B.G. (1999) "Forward Sloping Chair Effects on Spinal Shapein the Hong Kong and Indian Populations", International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics,23, 9-21.

Goonetilleke, R.S., Shih, H.M., Hung, K.-O. and Fristch, J. (in press) "The design of iconsand their effectiveness", International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.

Shih, H.M. and Goonetilleke, R.S. (1998) "Effectiveness of Menu Orientation in Chinese",Journal of Human Factors, 40 (4): 569-576.

VERNON HSU

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Iowa (1993)

Assistant to Associate Professor, School of Management, George Mason University(1994-00)


Models in manufacturing/ service operations; logistics management; e-business,e-commerce; management of information technology.


DeMatta, R., Hsu, V.N. and Feng, J. (in press) "An Efficient Approach to Evaluate theLoading of Flexible Manufacturing Systems under Abnormal Disturbances", Annals ofOperations Research.

Hsu, V.N. and Lowe, T.J. (in press) "Dynamic Economic Lot Size models withPeriod-Pair-Dependent Backorder and Inventory Costs", Operations Research.

Hsu, V.N. (2000) "Dynamic Economic Lot Size Model with Perishable Inventory",Management Science, vol. 46, 1159-1169.

DeMatta, R., Hsu, V.N. and Lowe, T.J. (1999) "The Selection Allocation Problem", NavalResearch Logistics, vol. 46, 707-725.

DeMatta, R., Hsu, V.N. and Lowe, T.J. (1999) "The Capacitated Selection Problem", NavalResearch Logistics, vol. 46, 19-37.

Hsu, V.N., Chhajed, D. and Lowe, T.J. (1998) "Tool Design Problems in a Punch PressFlexible Manufacturing System", IIE Transactions, vol. 30, 331-340.

CHUNG LUN LI

Associate Professor


EngScD, Columbia University (1990)

Assistant Professor, Washington University (1990-95)

Associate Professor, Washington University (1995-99)


Combinatorial optimisation; sequencing and scheduling; inventory control; logisticsmanagement.


Resequencing issues in deterministic scheduling

DAG DAG99/00.EG39 HK$100,000 Mar 2000


Wan, G. B., Yen, P.-C. and Li, C.-L. (in press) "Single Machine Scheduling to MinimizeTotal Compression Plus Weighted Flow Cost is NP-hard", Information Processing Letters.

Li, C.-L. and Kouvelis, P. (1999) "Flexible and Risk-Sharing Supply Contracts under PriceUncertainty", Management Science, 45 (10): 1378-1398.

Li, C.-L. and Cheng, T.C.E. (1999) "Due-Date Determination with Resequencing", IIETransactions, vol. 31, no. 2, 183-188.

Li, C.-L., Cai, X. and Lee, C.-Y. (1998) "Scheduling with Multiple-Job-on-One-ProcessorPattern", IIE Transactions, vol. 30, no. 5, 433-445.

Li, C.-L., Erlebacher, S.J. and Kropp, D.H. (1997) "Investment in Setup Cost, Lead-time,and Demand Predictability Improvement in the EOQ Model", Production and OperationsManagement, vol. 6, no. 4, 341-352.

Eynan, A. and Li, C.-L. (1997) "Lot-splitting Decisions and Learning Effects", IIETransactions, vol. 29, no. 2, 139-146.

LIMING LIU

Assistant Professor



Research Associate, University of Toronto (1992)


Production and inventory control; manufacturing systems; production planning; queuingtheory; reliability and maintenance.


Bottleneck Analysis And Operational Capacity Deployment In Multi-stage AssemblySystems


Design And Control Of Multi-site Service Systems With Customer Balking



Liu, L. and Liu, X.(1998) "Dynamic and static job allocation for multi-server systems", IIETransactions in Operations Engineering, 30, 845-854.

Liu, L. and Lian, Z.-T. (1999) "(s,S) continuous review models for inventory with fixedlifetimes", Operations Research, 47 (1): 150-158.

Liu, L. and Shi, D.-H. (1999) "Inventory systems of finite storage lifetimes", NavalResearch Logistics, 46, 39-56.

Liu, L. and Yang, T. (1999) "An (s,S) random lifetime inventory model with a positive leadtime", European Journal of Operational Research, 113, 52-63.

Liu, L. and Yuan, X.-M. (2000) "Coordinated replenishments in inventory systems withcorrelated demands", European Journal of Operational Research, 123, 490-503.

Lian, Z. and Liu, L. (in press) "Continuous review perishable inventory systems: models andheuristics", IIE Trans. in Operations Engineering.

VINCENT DUFFY

Assistant Professor



Institute for Interdisciplinary Engineering Studies, Purdue University (1992-94)

Research Assistant, Human Factors and Ergonomics Group, (1994-96)


Integration for concurrent engineering; organizational ergonomics; safety management;human-computer systems; virtual reality integration into the manufacturing enterprise.


Assessment of virtual teaming technology for remote integrated product development

DAG DAG97/98.EG08 HK$50,000 Jan 1998

Improving safety and reducing risk: Modeling the workplace through empirical studies ofStevens' power law in virtual and real work environments


Modeling risk reduction and industrial performance based on the impact of training in thevirtual environment



Duffy, V.G. and Salvendy, G. (2000) "Concurrent engineering and virtual reality for humanresource planning", Computers in Industry, 42, 109-125.

Duffy, V.G. and Salvendy, G. (1999) "Relating company performance to staff perceptions:the impact of concurrent engineering on time to market", International Journal ofProduction Research, 37 (4): 821-834.

Duffy, V.G. and Salvendy, G. (1999) "The impact of organizational ergonomics on workeffectiveness with special reference to concurrent engineering in manufacturing industries",Ergonomics, 42 (4): 614-637.

Ho, D.C.K., Duffy, V.G. and Shih, H.M. (1999) "An empirical analysis of effective TQMimplementation in the Hong Kong electronics manufacturing industry", Human Factors andErgonomics in Manufacturing, 9 (1): 1-25.

Duffy, V.G. (1999) "Impact of an intelligent tutor on risk and sound perception in CNCmachining", IEEE Proceedings on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE, Tokyo, Japan,12-15: 1091-1094.

Duffy, V.G. and Salvendy, G. (1998) "Concurrent engineering diagnostic model integratingpeople, organization and technology", International Journal of Computer IntegratedManufacturing, 11 (5): 461-474.

AJAY JONEJA

Assistant Professor



Research Assistant, NSF Engineering Research Center for Intelligent ManufacturingSystems, Purdue University (1988-93)


Computer-aided manufacturing; computer-aided process planning; industrial automation.


A study of inter-course linkages via online tutors

ALP ALP96/97.EG01 HK$160,250 Jan 1998


ITC AF/162/99 HK$3,558,200 Aug 1999


Joneja, A. and Lee, N.K.S. (1998) "MPATS: A Modular, Parametric Assembly Tool Set forMass Customization", IIE Transactions, 30 (10): 923-932.

Joneja, A. and Chang, T.C. (1999) "Setup and Fixture Planning in Automated ProcessPlanning Systems", IIE Transactions, 31 (7): 653-65.

Joneja, A., Pang, K.W., Lam, D.C.C. and Yuen, M.M.F. (in press) "A CAD/CAM Systemfor Vector-Based Layered Manufacturing Systems", Intl. Journal of CIM.

Pang, K.W., Joneja, A., Lam, D.C.C. and Yuen, M.M.F. (in press) "A CAD/CAM Systemfor Process Planning and optimization in LOM", IIE Transactions.

Rao, B.G., Joneja, A. and Lee, N.K.S. (in press) "MPATS: A New Strategy for DesigningAutomation Hardware for Mass Customization", I. J. Robotics and Automation.

Lee, N.K.S, Chen, J.Y. and Joneja, A. (in press) "Effects of Surface Roughness onMulti-Station Mechanical Alignment Process", ASME Journal of Mfg. Science andEngineering.

JIYIN LIU

Assistant Professor


PhD, Nottingham University (1993)

Lecturer, Northeastern University, China (1987-89)


Scheduling in production and transportation systems; heuristic algorithms; flexiblemanufacturing.


Effective hoist scheduling to maximize throughput of electroplating lines

DAG DAG99/00.EG31 HK$40,000 Jan 2000


Liu, J. and MacCarthy, B.L. (1999) "General heuristic solution procedures and strategies forFMS scheduling", International Journal of Production Research, 37 (14): 3305-3333.

Liu, J. and Reeves, C.R. (in press) "Constructive and composite heuristic solutions toP//SumCi scheduling problem", European Journal of Operational Research.

Liu, J., Linn, R. and Kowe, P. (1999) "A study on heuristic methods for PCB drilling routeoptimisation", International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications andPractice, 6 (4): 289-296.

Tang, L., Liu, J., Rong, A. and Yang, Z. (2000) "A Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem Model for Hot Rolling Scheduling in Shanghai's Baoshan Iron & Steel Complex", EuropeanJournal of Operational Research, 124 (2): 267-282.

Tang, L., Liu, J., Rong, A. and Yang, Z. (2000) "A mathematical programming model forscheduling steelmaking-continuous casting production", European Journal of OperationalResearch, 120 (2): 423-435.

Liu, J. (1998) "The impact of neighbourhood size on the process of simulated annealing:Computational experiments on the flowshop scheduling problem", Computers and IndustrialEngineering, 37 (1-2): 285-288.

RICHARD H. Y. SO

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Southampton (1995)

Research Fellow, Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, UK (1995)


Sensory interfaces and operator performance with virtual reality systems; spatial hearing andsurround sound effects; decision making process with e-commerce.


Quantifying the relative contributions of sensory interfaces to task performance in a virtualenvironment: a hierarchical experimental study


Quantifying the relative contributions of sensory interfaces to task performance in a virtualenvironment: a hierarchical experimental study

DAG DAG98/99.EG28 HK$36,180 Mar 1999

Towards A Cybersickness Dose Value (CSDV): A Theory Development And ExperimentalStudy (A Contract Extension Of HKUST738/96E)


Optimizing spatial sound presentation with non-individual HRTFs: Quantifying the benefitsof visual spatial cues

G-HK G-HK99/00.EG03 HK$17,056 Sep 2000

Customer Behavior In Web-based Mass-customization Systems: An Experimental Study OnThe Buying Decision-making Process Over The Internet



So, R.H.Y. and Griffin, M.J. (2000) "Head Tracking Performance with Helmet-mountedSights and Displays: Effects of a Target Movement Direction Cue", Ergonomics, 43 (3):360-376.

So, R.H.Y., Chung, K.M. and Goonetilleke, R. (1999) "Target-directed head movements inan immersive virtual environment: predicting the effects of lags using Fitts' law", HumanFactors, 41 (3): 474-486.

So, R.H.Y., Lo, W.T. and Ho, A.T.K. (2000) "Scene movement: an important cause ofcybersickness", Seminars on Virtual Reality: selected tools and applications, (ed. Khalid,H.M.), Academics Press, London, 99-119.

Chung, K.M. and So, R.H.Y. (1999) "Effects of hand movement lags on discrete manualcontrol task performance in virtual environments", Proceedings of the 43rd AnnualConference of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Human Factors and ErgonomicsSociety, Houston, Texas, 27 Sept-1 Oct, 1:1210-1213.

Lo, W.T. and So, R.H.Y. (1999) "Quantifying scene movement with 'spatial velocity and itseffects on cybersickness", Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Human Factorsand Ergonomics Society, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Houston, Texas, 27Sept-1 Oct., 1: 1219-1222.

So, R.H.Y. and Lo, W.T. (1999) "Cybersickness: An Experimental Study to Isolate theEffects of Rotational Scene Oscillations", Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality '99Conference, IEEE Computer Society, Houston, Texas, 13-17 March, 237-242.

FUGEE TSUNG

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1997)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan (1997)

Research Engineer, R&D, Rockwell International (1994)

Quality Engineer, Powertrain Quality Office, Ford Motor Company (1995-96)


Quality engineering and management; statistical process control; design of experiments;Taguchi methods and robust design.


Multivariate SPC techniques for automatic-controlled process quality improvement

DAG DAG97/98.EG17 HK$100,000 Apr 1998

Quality improvement for correlated processes and feedback-controlled processes using SPC


Quality improvement through multistage information sharing

DAG DAG99/00.EG33 HK$40,000 Jan 2000

Quality Control For A Multistage Process Combining SPC And APC



Tsung, F. (1999) "Improving Automatic-Controlled Process Quality Using AdaptivePrincipal Component Monitoring", Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 15,135-144.

Tsung, F. and Shi, J. (1999) "Integrated Design of Run-to-Run PID Controller and SPCMonitoring for Process Disturbance Rejection", IIE Transactions, 31: 517-527.

Tsung, F., Shi, J. and Wu, C.F.J. (1999) "Joint Monitoring of PID Controlled Processes",Journal of Quality Technology, 31, 275-285.

Tsung, F., Wu, H. and Nair, V.N. (1998) "On Efficiency and Robustness of DiscreteProportional-Integral Control Schemes", Technometrics, 40, 214-222.

Tsung, F. (2000) "Statistical Monitoring and Diagnosis of Automatic Controlled ProcessesUsing Dynamic PCA", International Journal of Production Research, 38, 625-637.

Tsung, F. (2000) "Impact of Information Sharing on Statistical Quality Control", IEEETransactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 30 (2): 211-216.

YAT-WAH WAN

Assistant Professor



Lecturer in Manufacturing Engineering, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong (1991-93)


Applied stochastic processes; queuing theory; simulation; stochastic modeling andscheduling; transportation logistics management.


A multi-grid dynamic programming approach for the solution of continuous-time,continuous-state Markov decision processes

DAG DAG97/98.EG31 HK$49,066 Jun 1998

Development of neural network based classification model

HIT HIT98/99.EG07 HK$137,800 Dec 1998

Competitive Dynamic Pricing For Make-to-order Firms



Cheung, R., Liu, J. and Wan, Y. (in press) "Education Initiatives on Supply ChainManagement for Logistics Service Providers", POMS special series in Technology andOperations Management on Teaching Supply Chain Management.

So, W.P. and Wan, Y.-W. (2000) "A Multi-Grid Size Dynamic Programming Approach forthe Production Control of a Random-Speed Machine", International Journal of ProductionEconomics, 63 (3): 267-275.

Wan, Y.-W., Cheung, R.K., Liu, J. and Tong, H.J. (1998) "Warehouse Location Problemsfor Air Freight Forwarders: a Challenge Created by the Airport Relocation", Journal of AirTransport Management, 4, 201-207.

Zhang, C., Wan, Y.-W., Liu, J. and Linn, R.J. (2000) "Dynamic Crane Deployment inContainer Storage Yard", working paper.

Chen, H., Wan, Y.-W. and Zhong, J. (2000) "Price and Time Competition of Two IdenticalMake-to-Order Firms", Proceeding of 2000 MSOM Conference, University of Michigan,,Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, June 26-27.

Chen, H., Wan, Y.-W. and Zhong, J. (2000) "Price and Time Competition ofMake-to-Order Firms", working paper.

BENJAMIN YEN

Assistant Professor



NSF Research Assistant, Center of Telecommunication Research, Columbia University(1992-95)


Intelligent scheduling systems; simulation; information technology; interactive optimizationsystems; scheduling description languages; electronic commerce.


System integration engineering

RAHK RAHK97/98.EG01 US$150,000 Jan 1998

Electronic commerce front end for Hong Kong apparel industry community

ITC AF/13/98 HK$3,260,000 Jul 1998

Electronic commerce in publishing industry

TEIL TEIL99/00.EG01 HK$500,000 Jan 2000

Agent-based Distributed Scheduling



Yen, B.P.-C. (in press) "The Design Issues of Resource Management Information Systems",International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management.

Ma, Q.H., Tseng, M.M. and Yen, B.P.-C. (in press) "A generic model and designrepresentation technique of service products", Technovation.

Linn, R.J., Yen, B.P.-C. and Zhang, W. (in press) "Just-in-time Scheduling and MachiningEconomics for Single Machine Turning Process", Journal of Manufacturing Systems.

Wan, G., Yen, B.P.-C. and Li, C.-L. (in press) "Single Machine Scheduling to MinimizeTotal Compression Plus Weighted Flow Cost is NP-Hard", Information Processing Letters.

Ye, L., Yen, B.P.-C., Su, C.J., Lin, F. and Duffy, V.G. (in press) "Knowledge modelling

methodology for intelligent virtual reality based industrial training systems", Asian Journalof Ergonomics.

Yen, B.P.-C. and Ng, K. (2000) "Web-based Virtual Reality Catalog in ElectronicCommerce", IEEE Proceedings of 33rd Hawaii International Conference of System Science(HICSS-33), Hawaii, January.

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical engineering research has seven major research foci. These areas are describedbelow:

Design & Manufacturing: Mechanical design and manufacturing are at the heart ofmechanical engineering in which engineers conceive, design, build and test innovativesolutions to “real world” problems. Research work is being conducted in the areas ofelectronic packaging, polymer processing, geometric modeling, intelligent design andmanufacturing systems, manufacturing process modeling and optimization, in-processmonitoring of manufacturing processes, rapid part manufacturing.

Energy & Thermal Engineering: Research in thermal and energy engineering includes theimproved design of heat pipes and cryocoolers for electronic cooling, innovative design ofadvanced air-conditioning systems and dehumidifiers for indoor environmental control, thedevelopment of new thermally assisted methods for materials processing and clean energysources such as fuel cells, waste heat management and effective use of energy in support oflocal manufacturing industries.

Environmental & Fluid Engineering: Research activities in this area include technicalassessments of environmental pollution, computer modeling of air pollution, studies ofthermal discharges into ocean, and development of new technologies to improvewaste-treatment methods for the reduction of the discharge of pollutants, and to halt thedegradation of and/or to rejuvenate already polluted surroundings. Field work is undertakento collect critical data needed to evaluate systems, concepts and models.

Materials Characterization & Processing: Materials engineering focuses on characterizingand processing new materials, developing processes for controlling their properties and theireconomical production, generating engineering data necessary for design, and predicting theperformance of products. Research topics include: smart materials; biomaterials; thin films;composites; fracture and fatigue; residual life assessment; materials issues in electronicpackaging; materials recycling; plastics flow in injection molding; advanced powderprocessing and desktop manufacturing.

Mechatronics & Control: Research topics in this area include servosystem control,robotics, mechatronics, prime-mover system control, sensor technology and measurementtechniques, control systems for manufacturing integration, in-process monitoring ofmanufacturing processes, inspection systems, and multi-media interfacing for automatedmechanical systems.

Microsystems Engineering: Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) is an emergingmulti-disciplinary research filed which promises to have a major impact on our daily life.Fundamental and applied research work is being conducted in this area. Basicmicromechanics such as fluid and solid mechanics, heat transfer and materials problemsunique to micromechanical systems are studied. New ideas to produce microsensors andmicro actuators are explored. Technology issues related to the micro fabrication of thesedevices are being investigated.

Solid Mechanics & Dynamics: Research in this area entails the application of mathematics,theoretical mechanics and computational skills to the design and analysis of mechanicalcomponents and systems. Research activities include technical assessments, theoreticalmodelling and testing the behaviour of structures under static and dynamic loading, themechanical behaviour of both conventional and new engineering materials, computationalmechanics for analyzing solids and structures, and the study and control of failure ofmechanical components and systems.

Research Profile

PING CHENG

Professor and Department Head; Director, Center for Energy and Thermal Systems

JAY-CHUNG CHEN

Professor and Director, Centre of Coastal and Atmospheric Research

PIN TONG

Professor

TONGXI YU

Professor

LILONG CAI

Associate Professor

CHIN-TSAU HSU

Associate Professor

JANG-KYO KIM

Associate Professor

SEE-CHUN KOT

Senior Lecturer

RICKY SHI-WEI LEE

Assocaite Professor

STEVE HON-KEUNG LEE

Associate Professor

YANG LENG

Associate Professor

HUIHE QIU

Associate Professor

QING-PING SUN

Associate Professor

MATTHEW M F YUEN

Associate Professor; Director, CAD/CAM Facility and Director, Technology TransferCenter

TONG-YI ZHANG

Associate Professor

YITSHAK ZOHAR

Associate Professor

CHRISTOPHER YU HANG CHAO

Assistant Professor

YONGSHENG GAO

Assistant Professor

DAVID CHUEN CHUN LAM

Assistant Professor

WAI MING TO

Assistant Professor

JINGSHEN WU

Assistant Professor

TIANSHOU ZHAO

Assistant Professor

Research Profile

PING CHENG

Professor and Department Head; Director, Center for Energy andThermal Systems



Research Scientist, New York University (1965-67)

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaii (1974-94)

Visiting Professor of Petroleum Engineering, Stanford University (1976-77)

Guest Professor of Thermodynamics, Technical University of Munich (1984)

Chairman of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaii (1989-94)

Visiting Professor, University of Paris 6 (1998)


Convection, boiling, and condensation in porous media; oscillatory flow and heat transfer;geothermal energy conversion; numerical methods.


Heat transfer characteristics of bi-dispersed metal porous structure heat sinks for high heatflux applications


Areas of Excellence in energy and thermal systems

AOE AOE97/98.EG11 HK$200,000 Mar 1998

Performance of a novel reciprocating flow porous combustor


Emerging High Impact Area of Energy and Thermal System Lab

HIA HIA98/99.EG04 HK$1,625,000 Jan 1999

Performance of a novel reciprocating flow porous combustor

DAG DAG98/99.EG29 HK$43,309 Mar 1999

Heat Transfer And Fluid Flow Characteristics In A Thermocoustic Prime Mover


Symposium on energy engineering in the 21st century

KCWE KCWEF98/99.EG01 HK$78,000 Jan 2000

Representative Recent publications:

Hsu, C.T., Fu, H.L. and Cheng, P. (1999) "On Pressure-Velocity Correlation of Steady andOscillatory Flows through Regenerators Made of Wire Screens", J. of Fluid Engineering,121: 52-56.

Lu, G.Q. and Cheng, P. (2000) "Friction Factor and Nusselt Number for ThermoacousticTransport Phenomena in a Tube", J. of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 15: 566-573.

Teng, H., Cheng, P. and Zhao, T.S. (1998) "Instability of Condensate Film and CapillaryBlocking in Small-Diameter Thermosyphon Condensers", Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 42(16): 3071-3083.

Xu, J.L., Cheng, P. and Zhao, T.S. (1998) "Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow Regimes inRectangular Channels with a Mini Gap", Int. J. Multiphase Flow, 25 (3): 411-432.

Zhao, T.S. and Cheng, P. (1998) "A Numerical Study of Laminar Reciprocating Flow in aPipe of Finite Length", Applied Scientific Research, 59 (1): 11-25.

Zhao, T.S., Cheng, P. and Wang, C.Y. (2000) "Buoyancy Induced Flows and Phase-ChangeHeat Transfer in a Vertical Capilliary Structure with Symmetric Heating", ChemicalEngineering Science, 5 (14): 2653-2661.

JAY-CHUNG CHEN

Professor and Director, Center for Coastal and Atmospheric Reseach



Technical Staff, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (1966-89)


Structural dynamics; system identification; aviation technology; environmental studies.


Wong, L.A. and Chen, J.C. (2000) "Damage Identification of Nonlinear Structural System",AIAA, 38 (8): 1444-1452.

Wong, L.A. and Chen, J.C. (2000) "Nonlinear and Chaotic Behavior of Structural SystemInvestigated by Wavelet Transform Techniques", International Journal of Non-LinearMechanics, vol. 36, issue 2, 221-235.

Yin, K., Harrison, P., Chen, J., Huang, W. and Qian, P.Y. (1999) "Red Tides during

Spring 1998 in Hong Kong: Is El Nino Responsible?", Marine Ecology Progress Series, 187,289-294.

Chen, J.C. (1998) "Recent Advances of Structural Control Research in Chinese Mainlandand Taiwan", Proceedings of 2nd World Conference on Structural Control (KeynoteLecture), International Association of Structural Control, Kyoto, Japan, 28 June-2 July 1998,1:71-80.

Chen, J.C. (1998) "Monitoring Hong Kong Urban Air Pollutions", First InternationalSymposium on Geoenvironmental Changes and Biodiversity in Northeast Asia, SeoulNational University, Seoul, Korea, 16-19 Nov. 1998.

Kot, S.C., Chim, K.S., Lau, K.H. and Chen, J.C. (1998) "Planetary Boundary LayerParameterization in Micro-alpha Scale Domain", Proceedings of IASTED InternationalConference on Applied Modelling and Simulation, Int'l. Asso. of Sci. & Tech. forDevelopment, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 12-14 August 1998, 241-245.

PIN TONG

Professor



Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology (1966)

Senior Engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1966-67)

Assoc Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1971-74)

Chief, Structures and Dynamics Division, Transportation Systems Center, USDepartment of Transportation (1974-90)


Finite-element and large-scale computation methods; structural integrity microstructures ofmaterials; fracture mechanics; biomechanics; failure analysis; electronics packaging.


Application of piezoelectric composites for linear and rotary actuators


Areas of Excellence in advanced material

AOE AOE97/98.EG14 HK$200,000 Mar 1998

Development of fracture criterion for interfacial adhesive fracture in electronic packages


A novel technique for delamination detection


Study Of Mechanical Properties Of Multilayered Thin Film Using The Microbridge Testing



Fung, Y.C. and Tong, P. (2000) Classical and Computational Solid Mechanics, WorldPublishing Co, USA.

Tong, P., Chen, X.H. and Wang, R. (1998) "Nonequilibrium Thermodynamic Theory forViscoelasticity of Polymers", J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 46 (1): 139-152.

Zhang, T.Y., Qian, C.F., Wang, T.H. and Tong, P. (2000) "Interaction of an edgedislocation with a thin-film-covered crack", Int. J. of Solids and Structures, 37, 5465-5492.

Chen, P., Runesha, H., Nguyen, H. and Tong, P. (2000) "Sparse Algorithms For IndefiniteSystems of Linear Equations", Computation Mechanics Journal, 25 (1): 33-42.

Cui, X., Leng, Y., Tong, P. and Mak, F.T. (2000) "Computer aided numerical analysis forthe design of osseointegrated prosthesis for amputees", Biomedical Eng. Applications, Basis& Communications, 12, 33-42.

Shi, G. and Tong, P. (1999) "A New Model for In-Plane Buckling Analysis of HoneycombCellular Structures", Computer Modeling and Simulation in Eng., 4 (1): 50-57.

Wang, S.M., Zhao, G.X., Tong, Z.K. and Tong, P. (1999) "FEA of rubber with novel strainenergy functions", Chinese J. of Aeronautics, 12 (4): 205-211.

TONGXI YU

Professor


PhD (1983), ScD (1995), Cambridge University

Research Associate, Brown University (1984)

Reader in Mechanical Engineering, University of Manchester Institute of Science andTechnology (1992-95)

Professor and Head, Solid Mechanics Division, Peking University (1984-91)

Reader, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (1992-95)


Impact mechanics; engineering plasticity; structural crashworthiness and failure; mechanicsof metal forming; sandwich and laminate structures; energy-absorbing materials.


Dynamic failure of imperfect and pre-loaded structures under impact or pulse loading

CERG HKUST811/96E HK$1,036,000 Nov 1996

Improving safety in Hong Kong's construction industry by proper selection and use of hardhats - study of head-neck injuries in respect to hard hat design and weathering effect

OSHC OSHC96/97.EG01 HK$272,000 Mar 1998

Cellular textile composites with high energy-absorbing capacity


Cellular textile composites with high energy-absorbing capacity

DAG DAG98/99.EG33 HK$43,309 Mar 1999

Sponsorship of AEPA2000

CF CF99/00.EG03 HK$100,000 Dec 1999

Collision between two deformable structures - modelling and verification

CERG HKUST6035/99E HK$1,022,000 Dec 1999

Light weight safety helmets with super impact protection

ITC UIM/10 HK$2,558,000 Apr 2000

Collaboration with Institute of Mechanics, CAS

CMI CMI99/00.EG06 HK$200,000 Apr 2000

An engineering study for safety and reliability of bamboo scaffoldings

OSHC OSHC99/00.EG02 HK$380,000 Jun 2000

Energy-absorption of cellular materials and cellular structures under dynamic loading: --experiments and modelling



Yu, T.X., Sun, Q.P. and Kim, J.K. (2000) Advances in Engineering Plasticity, Trans TechPublications, Zurich, Switzerland.

Xue, P., Yu, T.X. and Tao, X.M. (2000) "Effect of cell geometry on the energy-absorbingcapacity of grid-domed textile composites", Composites Part A - Applied Science andManufacturing, 31, 861-868.

Yu, T.X. and Chen, F.L. (2000) "Failure of Plastic Structures under Intense DynamicLoading: Modes, Criteria and Thresholds", Int. J. Mech. Sci., 42 (8): 1537-1554.

Yu, T.X. and Chen, F.L. (2000) "A further Study of Plastic Shear Failure of ImpulsivelyLoaded Clamped Beams", Int. J. Impact Engng., 24, 613-629.

Yu, T.X., Tao, X.M. and Xue, P. (2000) "Energy-absorbing Capacity of Grid-domed TextileComposites", Composite Science and Technology, 60, 785-800.

Reid, S.R., Yu, T.X. and Yang, J.L. (1998) "An elastic-plastic hardening-softeningcantilever beam subjected to a force pulse at its tip: a model for pipe whip", Proc. R. Soc.Lond., A454, 997-1029.

LILONG CAI

Associate Professor



Asst. Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University (1990-93)


Control of nonlinear systems; instrumentation and measurement; robotics; automation ofmanufacturing processes.



CRC CRC98/01.EG02 HK$3,000,000 Mar 1999

A New Method For Numerical Reconstruction Of A 3-D Object From Its Hologram



Tang, X.Q., Cai, L.L. and Huang, W.Q. (2000) "A learning controller for robotmanipulators using Fourier series", IEEE T. Robotic Autom., 16 (1): 36-45.

Zhang, H.G., Cai, L.L. and Bien, Z. (2000) "A fuzzy basis function vector-basedmultivariable adaptive controller for nonlinear systems", IEEE T. Sys. Man. Cy. B, 30 (1):210-217.

Zhou, W. and Cai, L. (1998) "A phase jump phenomenon in interferometry", AppliedPhysics Letter, 73 (23): 3339-3341.

Zhou, W. and Cai, L. (1999) "An improved angle interferometer based on total internalreflection", Applied Optics, 38 (7): 1179-1185.

Zhou, W.D. and Cai, L.L. (2000) "Edge location by use of optical phase variation", AppliedOptics, 39: (16): 2569-2576.

Zhou, W.D. and Cai, L.L. (1999) "Optical readout for optical storage with phase jump",Applied Optics, 38 (23): 5058-5065.

CHIN-TSAU HSU

Associate Professor



Research Associate, Stanford University (1977-78)

Senior Research Scientist, Space and Technology Group, TRW Inc. (1978-91)


Heat and mass transfer in porous media; sediment transport; air-sea interaction; thermalprocess in manufacturing; remote sensing.


Areas of Excellence in coast science/engineering

AOE AOE97/98.EG12 HK$200,000 Mar 1998

Performance of cool storage systems with packed capsules encapsulating phase-changematerials

DAG DAG97/98.EG32 HK$49,066 Jun 1998


RCA CA97/98.SC01 HK$2,300,000 Jul 1998

The interaction of ocean waves with erodible sand beds


An energy efficiency certification program for electric appliances

ITC AF/173/99 HK$1,950,000 Aug 1999


Li, Z.J., Mu, B., Chang, P.T.Y. and Hsu, C.T. (1999) "Prediction of the overall tensionbehavior of short fiber reinforced composites", Int. J. of Solids and Structures, 36,4071-4087.

Hsu, C.T. (1999) "A closure model for transient heat conduction in porous media", ASME J.Heat Transfer, 121 (3): 733-739.

Hsu, C.T., Fu, H. and Cheng, P. (1999) "On pressure-velocity correlation of steady andoscillating flows in regenerators made of wirescreens", ASME J. Fluids Engineering, 121,52-56.

Qiu, H.H., Jia, W., Hsu, C.T. and Sommerfeld, M. (2000) "High Accuracy Optical ParticleSizing in Phase-Doppler Anemometry", J. of Physics E: Measurement Science andTechnology, 11: 142-151.

Hsu, C.T., Lu, X.Y. and Kwan, M.K. (2000) "LES and RANS studies of oscillating flowsover flat plate", ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 126 (2): 186-193.

Hsu, C.T. (2000) "Heat Conduction in Porous Media", Handbook of Porous Media (ed.Vafai, K.), Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, 171-200.

JANG-KYO KIM

Associate Professor



Lecturer, Australian National University (1993-94)

Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney (1992-93)

Manufacturing Engineer, Korean Air (1979-83)


Manufacturing and characterization of composite materials and laminates; Failure analysisand mechanics of interface bonds; Damage and fracture in advanced engineering materials;Structure-properties relationships; Characterization of thin films and coatings; Reliability,failure analysis and life prediction of electronic packages and assemblies; Electronicmaterials; Smart materials.


Moisture absorption and popcorning phenomenon in plastic encapsulated microcircuits


Optimization Of Design And Material Variables In Reinforced Concrete Bonded With FibreReinforced Plastic (FRP) Sheets


Student symposium on electronic materials and packaging 2000

PSCG PSCG00/01.EG02 HK$47,600 Nov 2000

Process, material optimization and reliability of flip chip on board packages

DAG DAG00/01.EG18 HK$50,000 Dec 2000


Kim, J.K. and Mai, Y.W. (1998) Engineered Interfaces in Fibre Reinforced Composites,Elsevier Publishers, Oxford, UK.

Dai, Y. and Kim, J.K. (1998) "Numerical Study of the Single Fibre Push-out Test. Part I:Mechanics of the Test", Compos. Interfaces, 5, 323-343.

Gao, S.L. and Kim, J.K. (1999) "Scanning Acoustic Microscopy as a Tool for QuantitativeCharacterisation of Damage in CFRPs", Compos. Sci. Technol., 59, 345-354.

Kim, J.K. (2000) "Recent Developments In Impact Damage Assessment Of FibreComposites", Impact Behaviour of Fibre-reinforced Composite Materials and Structures,eds. Reid, S.R. and Zhou, G., Woodhead Publishing Ltd, Cambridge, UK, 33-74.

Kim, J.K. and Sham, M.L. (2000) "Impact And Delamination Failure Of Woven FabricComposites", Composites Science & Technology, 60: 745-761.

Kim, D.H., Kim, J.K. and Hwang, P. (2000) "Anisotropic Tribological Properties Of TheCoating On A Magnetic Recording Disk", Thin Solid Films, 360: 187-194.

SEE-CHUN KOT

Senior Lecturer



Research Assistant, Cornell University (1971-72)

Research Assistant, Warwick University (1972-74)

Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong(1974-90)


Computational fluid dynamics; environmental fluid dynamics; atmospheric dispersion;wind-tunnel modeling; airport wind shear.


Experiments on fluid-airfoil/blade interactions in uniform and non-uniform flow

CERG POLYU5128/98E HK$190,500 Jan 199


Fang, M., Zheng, M., Wang, F., Chim, K.S. and Kot, S.C. (1999) "The long-range transportof aerosols from northern China to Hong Kong-a multi-technique study", AtmosphericEnvironment, 33, 1803-1817.

Kot, S.C. and Song, Y. (1998) "An Improvement of the Louis Scheme for the surface layerin an Atmospheric Modelling System", Boundary-layer Meteorology, 88 (2): 239-254.

RICKY SHI-WEI LEE

Associate Professor



Postdoctoral Research Associate, Purdue University (1992-93)

Asst. Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1993-99)

Visiting Asst. Professor, Purdue University (1993)


Electronics packaging and surface mount technology; smart materials and mechanics forsensors and actuators; composite materials and structures.


Characterization and analysis of thermal creep fatigue behaviors of solder joints in plasticball grid array assembly


Experimental Investigation On The Strain-Rate Dependent Mechanical Behaviors Of SolderMaterials Under Impulsive Shear Loading


A pilot study on the development of a damage evolution model for the computationalanalysis of solder joint reliability

DAG DAG99/00.EG34 HK$40,000 Jan 2000

Board level reliability of PBGA assemblies with lead-free solders

AIT AIT00/01.EG01 HK$180,000 Jul 2000

Assessment On The Effects Of Electroless Nickel Plating On The Reliability Of Solder Ball

Attachment To The Bond Pads Of Plastic Ball Grid Array Substrate



ITC ITS/196/00 HK$8,258,000 Oct 2000

Student symposium on electronic materials and packaging 2000

PSCG PSCG00/01.EG02 HK$47,600 Nov 2000


Lau, J.H. and Lee, S.-W.R. (1999) Chip Scale Packages (CSP): Design, Materials, Process,Reliability and Applications, McGraw-Hill, New York.

Lee, S.-W.R. and Lau, J.H. (2000) "Solder Joint Reliability of Plastic Ball Grid Array withSolder Bumped Flip Chip", Soldering & Surface Mount Technology, 12 (2): 16-23.

Zhang, X. and Lee, S.-W.R. (1998) "Critical Issues in Computational Modeling and FatigueLife Analysis for PBGA Solder Joints", International Journal of Microcircuits & ElectronicPackaging, 21 (3): 253-261.

He, G., Nguyen, C.C.T., Hui, J.C.M., Lee, S.-W.R. and Luong, H.C. (1999) "Design andAnalysis of a Microgyroscope with Sol-Gel Piezoelectric Plate", Smart Materials &Structures, 8 (2): 212-217.

Lau, J.H. and Lee, S.-W.R. (2000) "Temperature-Dependent Popcorning Analysis of PlasticBall Grid Array Package During Solder Reflow with Fracture Mechanics Method", Journalof Electronic Packaging, ASME Transactions, 122 (1): 34-41.

Lau, J.H., Chang, C. and Lee, S.-W.R. (2000) "Failure Analysis of Solder Bumped Flip Chipon Low-Cost Substrates", IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing, 23(1): 19-27.

STEVE HON-KEUNG LEE

Associate Professor


PhD, Rutgers University (1993)

Visiting Asst. Professor, Rutgers University (1994)


Experimental and computational fluid dynamics; heat transfer; transport during materialsprocessing; electronic packaging.


Fundamental heat transfer study of powder systems for industrial applications


Fundamental heat transfer study of powder systems for industrial applications

DAG DAG98/99.EG31 HK$43,309 Mar 1999

Fundamental Heat Transfer Study Of The Optical Fiber Coating Process


Fundamental Heat Transfer Study For Powder Systems With Small Length Scales



Siu, W.W.M. and Lee, S.H.K. (1999) "Transient temperature computation for a system ofmultiply contacting spheres in 180-Degree orientation", Journal of Heat Transfer, vol. 121,no. 3, 739-742.

Siu, W.W.M. and Lee, S.H.-K. (1999) "Multi-Spatial-Temporal Grids forThree-Dimensional Transient Conduction Problems", Numerical Heat Transfer,Fundamentals, 36 (2): 163-181.

Zhao, C.Y. and Lee, S.H.-K. (1999) "Physical Considerations of a Pressurized Optical FiberCoating process", Journal of Materials Processing and Manufacturing Science, vol. 8, no. 1,53-73.

Choudhury, S., Jaluria, Y. and Lee, S.H.-K. (1999) "A Computational Method forGenerating the Free-surface Neck-down Profile for Glass flow in Optical Fiber Drawing",Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A, 35, 1-24.

Siu, W.W.M. and Lee, S.H.-K. (2000) "Transient Effect on the Constriction Resistancebetween Spheres", Computational Mechanics, vol. 25, no. 1, 59-65.

Wu, A.K.C. and Lee, S.H.-K. (2000) "Multiple-Rays Tracing Technique for RadiativeExchange within Packed Beds", Numerical Heat Transfer, Fundamentals, vol. 37, no. 4,469-488.

YANG LENG

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Virginia (1989)

Research Associate, University of Virginia (1989-91)

Research Engineer, Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Chongqing (1982-84)


Mechanical behavior of engineering materials; biomedical materials; composite technology;novel materials processing.


Injection modeling LCP reinforced thermoplastics


Large deformation of beams for electronic packaging and orthodontic applications


Large deformation of beams for electronic packaging and orthodontic applications

DAG DAG98/99.EG32 HK$43,309 Mar 1999


Kang, F.Y., Leng, Y. and Zhang, T.Y. (1997) "Electrochemical Synthesis andCharacterization of Formic Acid-Graphite Intercalation Compound", Carbon, vol. 35, no. 8,1089-1096.

Shan, Z.H. and Leng, Y (1999) "Fracture and Fatigue of Sintered Steel at ElevatedTemperatures: Part I. Fracture Toughness", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A,30A, 2885-2893.

Shan, Z.H. and Leng, Y. (1999) "Fracture and Fatigue of Sintered Steel at ElevatedTemperatures: Part II. Fatigue Crack Growth", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A,30A, 2895-2904.

Wen, J., Leng, Y., Chen, J.Y. and Zhang, C.G. (2000) "Chemical Gradient inPlasma-Sprayed HA Coatings", Biomaterials, 21, 1339-1343.

Zhang, C.G., Leng, Y. and Zhang, X.D. (2000) "In vitro Stability of Plasma-SprayedHydroxyapatite Coatings on Ti-6Al-4V Implants Under Cyclic Loading", Journal ofBiomedical Materials Research, 50, 267-275.

Cui, X., Leng, Y., Tong, P. and Mak, F.T. (2000) "Computer Aided Numerical Analysis forthe Design of Osseointegrated Prosthesis for Amputees", Journal of BiomedicalEngineering-Applications, Basis and Communications, 12, 33-42.

HUIHE QIU

Associate Professor


PhD, Erlangen-Nuremberg University (1994)


Advanced laser technique and its applications in heat transfer and fluid mechanics;multi-phase flow instrumentation; electronic cooling.


Deformation, heat transfer and solidification in droplet impingement on substrates


Evaporation of multicomponent droplets in spray pyrolysis

DAG DAG98/99.EG12 HK$75,000 Jun 1999


ITC AF/173/99 HK$1,950,000 Aug 1999

Interfacial Heat Transfer, Remelting And Resolidification In Microcasting


Coalescence, Heat Transfer And Recondensation In Evaporating Dense Spray



Qiu, H.-H. and Jia, W. (1999) "High-Resolution Optical Particle Sizing in an OptimizedOrientation", Optical Engineering, 38 (12): 2104-2113.

Qiu, H.-H. and Jia, W. (2000) "Effect of Refractive Index in Optical Particle Sizing byUsing Spatial Frequency Method", Optics Communications, 178, 199-210.

Qiu, H.-H., Jia, W., Hsu, C.T. and Sommerfeld, M. (2000) "High Accuracy Optical ParticleSizing in Phase-Doppler Anemometry", Measurement Science and Technology, 11, 142-151.

Qiu, H.H. and Hsu, C.T. (1999) "Method of Phase-Doppler Anemometry Free From TheMeasurement-Volume Effect", Applied Optics, 38 (13): 2737-2742.

Qiu, H.H. and Hsu, C.T. (1998) "Optimization of EPDA Parameters for Accurate MaterialRecognition in Multiphase Flow", Optics and Laser in Engineering, 30, 3-16.

Qiu, H.H. and Hsu, C.T. (1998) "Minimum Deviation of Spatial Frequency in LargeParticle Sizing", Applied Optics, 37 (28): 6787-6794.

QING-PING SUN

Associate Professor


PhD, Tsinghua Univer-sity (1989)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Tsinghua University (1989-91)

Assoc. Professor, Tsinghua University (1991-94)

Professor, Tsinghua University (1994)

Visiting Professor, University of Metz (1994, 96, 98)


Shape memory alloys and thin films; material instability and propagation in solids;modelling and simulation of fabric materials.


Microstructure design of intelligent shape memory alloy composites


Influence of thermomechancial coupling on the response of shape memory alloy structureswith propagating strain discontinuities

G-HK G-HK98/99.EG09 HK$26,420 Apr 1999

Fabrication and Modelling of Thin Film Shape Memory Alloy Micromechanical Resonator


Micromechanics modeling of the martensite fatigue behaviour of shape memory alloys -interaction between plasticity and phase transformation

F-HK F-HK99/00.EG01 HK$28,000 Jan 2000

Size and shape effect on the response of shape memory alloy structures with propagatingstrain discontinuities

G-HK G-HK99/00.EG06 HK$12,000 May 2000

Experimental Study on the Deformation and Instability of Superelastic TiNi Shape MemoryAlloy Micro-tubing



Chen, M.X., Sun, Q.P., Wu, Z. and Yuen, M.F. (in press) "A Wrinkled Membrane Modelfor Cloth Draping with Multigrid Acceleration", ASME, J. of Manufacturing Science &Engineering.

Song, G.Q. and Sun, Q.P. (in press) "Effect of Microstructure on the Mechanical Behaviorof NiTi Shape Memory Alloy Reinforced Aluminum Matrix Composite", J. of SmartMaterials and Structures.

Song, G.Q., Sun, Q.P. and Cherkaoui, M. (1999) "Role of microstructure in thethermomechanical behavior of SMA composites", ASME Journal of Eng. Materials andTech., 121 (1): 86-92.

Sun, Q.P., Xu, T. and Zhang, X.Y. (1999) "Some Aspects of p-m Interfaces in SingleCrystal Shape Memory Alloys and Related problems", ASME J. of Eng. Materials and Tech.,121 (1): 38-43.

Wang, B., Sun, Q.P. and Xiao, Z. (1999) "On the dynamic growth of a sphericaltransformation inclusion in infinite elastic domain", ASME Journal Applied Mechanics, 66,879-884.

Zhong, Z. and Sun, Q.P. (2000) "On the axisymmetric deformation of a rod containing asingle cylindrical inclusion", Int. J. Solids and Structure, 37, 5943-5955.

MATTHEW M F YUEN

Associate Professor; Director, CAD/CAM Facility and Director,Technology Transfer Center



Senior Design Engineer, Babcock & Wilcox (1978-79)

Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, University of Hong Kong (1979-91)


Geometric modeling; CAD/CAM; electronic packaging; polymer processing.


3D digital mannequin database

ITC AF/167/99 HK$2,800,000 Sep 1999


ITC AF/222/98 HK$8,314,000 Jan 1999

Feature-based optimized tool path for layered manufacturing


Multi-media CD-ROM on three-dimensional pattern concept grading system

ITC AF/227/98 HK$2,185,000 Jan 1999


Shum S.S.P., Lau, W.S., Yuen, M.M.F. and Yu, K.M. (2001) "Solid reconstruction fromorthographic views using 2-stage extrusion", Computer-Aided Design, 33(1): 91-102.

Mak, C.K.Y., Lam, D.C.C., Yuen, M.M.F. and Joneja, A. (2000) "Deformation predictionof the laminated object modelling composite laminates", Journal of Materials ProcessingTechnology, 103(2): 261-266.

Joneja, A., Pang, A., Lam, D. and Yuen, M.M.F. (2000) "A CAD/ CAM system forvector-based layered manufacturing systems", International Journal of Computer IntegratedManufacturing, 13(5): 388-400.

Yeung, D.T.S., Lam, D.C.C. and Yuen, M.M.F. (2000) "Specimen design for mixed modeinterfacial fracture properties measurement in electronic packages", Journal of ElectronicPackaging, 122(1): 67-72.

Au, C.K. and Yuen, M.M.F. (2000) "A semantic feature language for sculptured objectmodelling", Computer-aided Design, 32 (1): 63-74.

Tan, K.H. and Yuen, M.F. (2000) "A Fuzzy Multiobjective Approach for Minimization ofInjection Molding Defects", Polymer Eng. and Science, 40 (4): 956-971.

TONG-YI ZHANG

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Science & Technology, Beijing (1985)

Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow, University of Göttingen (1986-88)

Assoc Research Scientist, Yale University (1990-93)


Defects of crystals and microstructures of materials; environmental effect on materials;hydrogen in metals; thin films; fracture of piezoelectrics and ferroelectrics.


Study of failure mechanism of piezoelectric ceramics under combined mechanical-electricalloadings


Mechanical characterization of piezoelectric films for Mems applications


Measurement Of Residual Stress, Elastic Constant, Yield Strength And Flexural Strength OfThin Films By Novel Microbridge Testing


A failure criterion for conductive cracks in piezoelectric ceramics under combinedmechanical and electrical loading

DAG DAG99/00.EG35 HK$40,000 Jan 2000


Fu, R. and Zhang, T.-Y. (2000) "Effect of an Applied Electric Field on the FractureToughness of Poled Lead Zirconate Titanate Ceramics", Journal of the American CeramicSociety, 83, 1215-1218.

Fu, R. and Zhang, T.-Y. (2000) "Influences of Temperature and Electric Field on theBending Strength of Lead Zirconate Titanate Ceramics", Acta Materialia, 48, 1729-1740.

Fu, R., Qian, C.F. and Zhang, T.-Y. (2000) "Electric Fracture Toughness for ConductiveCracks Driven by Electric Fields in Piezoelectric Materials", Applied Physics Letters, 76,1215-1218.

Zhang, T.-Y., Qian, C.F., Wang, T.H. and Tong, P. (2000) "Interaction of an EdgeDislocation with a Thin-Film-Covered Crack", International Journal of Solids andStructures, 37, 5465-5492.

Zhang, T.-Y., Su, Y.J., Qian, C.F., Zhao, M.H. and Chen, L.Q. (2000) "MicrobridgeTesting of Silicon Nitride Thin Films Deposited on Silicon Wafers", Acta Materialia, 48,2843-2857.

Zhang, T.-Y., Zhao, M.H. and Qian, C.F. (2000) "The Effect of Substrate Deformation onthe Microcantilever Beam-Bending Test", Journal of Materials Research, 15, 1868-1871.

YITSHAK ZOHAR

Associate Professor



Research Associate, University of California, Los Angeles (1991-92)


Micro-electro-mechanical systems: microsensors, microactuators, micromechanics;electronic packaging; wind engineering: turbulent shear flows, unsteady aerodynamics.


Micro fluidic systems



ITC AF/150/99 HK$8,600,000 Oct 1999

Micro Heat Pipes


Collaboration with Shanghai Institute of Metallurgy, CAS

CMI CMI99/00.EG07 HK$100,000 Apr 2000

Microfluidic Devices For Capillary Electrophoresis



Chu, R.K.-H. and Zohar, Y. (2000) "A Class of Discrete Kinetic Solutions forNon-Boundary-Driven Gas Flow", Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, 25 (1):49-62.

Jiang, L., Wang, Y., Wong, M. and Zohar, Y. (1999) "Fabrication and Characterization ofa Microsystem for Microscale Heat Transfer Study", Journal of Micromechanics andMicroengineering, 9 (4): 422-428.

Jiang, L., Wong, M. and Zohar, Y. (1999) "Micromachined Polycrystalline Thin FilmTemperature Sensors", Measurement Science and Technology, 10 (8): 653-664.

Jiang, L., Wong, M. and Zohar, Y. (1999) "Phase Change in Micro-channel Heat Sinkswith Integrated Temperature Sensors", Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems: 16/18),8 (4): 358-365.

Li, B., Xiong, B., Jiang, L., Zohar, Y. and Wong, M. (1999) "Germanium as a VersatileMaterial for Low-Temperature Micromachining", Journal of MicroelectromechanicalSystems, 8 (4): 366-372.

Li, X., Lee, W.Y., Wong, M. and Zohar, Y. (2000) "Gas Flow in ConstrictionMicrodevices", Sensors and Actuators A, 83 (1-3): 277-283.

CHRISTOPHER YU HANG CHAO

Assistant Professor


PhD,University of California, Berkeley (1994)

Asst Professor, Hong Kong Polytechni University (1995-97)


Indoor environmental quality in buildings; combustion and fire safety science.


Flame spread over solid fuels in premixed flow

DAG DAG97/98.EG18 HK$100,000 Feb 1998

Measurement of microbe count in an indoor market

EMSD EMSD97/98.EG01 HK$160,800 Sep 1998

Indoor air quality research in air-conditioned buildings

WINST WINSTON98/99.EG01 HK$192,000 Sep 1998

An experimental study of smoldering combustion in cellulosic materials


Study of indoor particulate level in domestic buildings

ECWW ECWW97/98.EG03 HK$642,000 Jan 1999

Updating and maintenance of the cooling tower geographical information system

EMSD EMSD98/99.EG01 HK$580,000 Mar 1999


ITC AF/173/99 HK$1,950,000 Aug 1999

Combustion Characteristics Of Liquid Fuels Soaked In Porous Materials


R & D Project on IAQ Measurement Protocol

EMSD EMSD99/00.EG01 HK$110,000 Nov 1999

Environmental study

GEHK GEHKL99/00.EG01 HK$50,000 May 2000

Development of an advanced ventilation technology R&D facility in Hong Kong and China

ITC UIM/7 HK$7,000,000 Jun 2000

Research and quality control support for an air quality survey for nineteen covered publictransport interchanges in Hong Kong

EMSD EMSD00/01.EG01 HK$271,000 Oct 2000

Quantification of volatile organic compound emission sources from mechanically ventilatedbuildings

DAG DAG00/01.EG16 HK$50,000 Dec 2000


Chao, C.Y.H. (1999) "Study of Indoor Radon Levels in High-Rise Air-Conditioned OfficeBuildings", Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 14 (12): 811-818.

Chao, C.Y.H. and Law, A. (2000) "A Study of Personal Exposure to Nitrogen DioxideUsing Passive Samplers", Building and Environment, 35, 545-553.

Chao, C.Y.H. and Tung, T.C.W. (1999) "Radon Emanation of Building Material - Impact ofBack Diffusion and Difference between One-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional Tests",Health Physics Journal, 76 (6): 675-681.

Chao, C.Y.H., Tung, T.C.W., Niu, J.L., Pang, S.W. and Lee, R.Y.M. (1999) "IndoorPerchloroethylene Accumulation from Dry Cleaned Clothing on Residential Premises",Building and Environment, 34, 319-328.

Wang, J.H. and Chao, C.Y.H. (1999) "Flame Spread Over Solid Fuels Coated with a Layerof Non-Combustible Porous Material", Journal of Fire Science, 17, 307-328.

Tung, T.C.W., Chao, C.Y.H. and Burnett, J. (1999) "A Methodology to Investigate theParticulate Penetration Coefficient Through Building Shell", Atmospheric Environment, 33,881-893.

YONGSHENG GAO

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Birmingham (1992)

Research Fellow, University of Birmingham (1992-94)

Lecturer, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (1987-88)


Manufacturing process control; grinding technology; tolerances and measurementtechnology; precision engineering.


Surface profile measurement assisted by transparent fluid during grinding


Multi-actuator based composite control during surface grinding


Multi-actuator based composite control during surface grinding

DAG DAG98/99.EG30 HK$43,309 Mar 1999

An improved measurement technique for medical respiratory diagnosis

JRS JRS00/11 HK$60,554 Mar 2000


Gao, Y. and Jones, B. (1999) "Fast time constant estimation for plunge grinding processcontrol", Int. J. Machine Tools & Manufacture, 39 (1): 143-156.

Gao, Y., Zhang, D. and Yu, C. (in press) "Dynamic modeling of a novel workpiece table foractive surface grinding control", Int. J. Machine Tools and Manufacture.

Xia, X., Wang, Z. and Gao, Y. (2000) "Estimation of non-statistical uncertainty using fuzzyset theory", Measurement Science and Technology, 11 (4): 430-435.

Gao, Y. and Chen, Q. (2000) "Wavelet-based frequency switch for composite control duringprecision machining", Proc. 8th Int. Conf. Metrology and Properties of Eng. Surfaces,University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, 26-28 April, 1-6.

Gao, Y. and Yu, P.C.W. (1998) "Capacitive sensor based workpiece table for active surfacegrinding control", Proc. of the 6th ISMQC IMEKO Symposium on Metrology for QualityControl in Production, ISBN 3-901888-02-0, TU Wien, Austria, 8-10 Sept., 1:169-173.

Lu, S., Gao, Y. and Li, Z. (2000) "A wavelet-fractal-based approach for compositecharacterization of engineering surfaces", Proc. 4th Int. Conf. on Frontiers of Design andMfg., Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 17-19 June, 683-688.

DAVID CHUEN CHUN LAM

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of California (1991)

Research Staff, Hitachi Research Lab, Hitachi Ltd (1991-94)


Relations between processing and mechanics in interfacial phenomena; high order straingradient phenomena; embedded science and technologies in electronics packaging.


Experiments and modelling of electro-mechanical failure in direct chip attach usinganisotropic conductive film (ACF)

DAG DAG97/98.EG09 HK$50,000 Jan 1998

Areas of Excellence in rapid prototyping

AOE AOE97/98.EG13 HK$200,000 Mar 1998


ITC AF/222/98 HK$8,314,000 Jan 1999

A program for delamination control in electronic packages

ACP ACP98/99.EG01 HK$90,000 Jan 1999

Development of fracture criterion for interfacial adhesive fracture in electronic packages


Interfacial Stress-Assisted Hydration Failure In Electronic Packages


Advanced badminton technology project

ITC UIM/28 HK$1,850,000 Sep 2000

Characterization And Modeling Of Strain Gradient Plasticity Effect In Crack Tip In Polymer



Lam, D.C.C. (1999) "Densification Model for Powder Compacts", J. Mater. Sci., 34, [23],1, December, 5879-84.

Lam, D.C.C., Yang, F. and Tong, P. (1999) "Chemical Kinetic Model of InterfacialDegradation of Adhesive Joints", IEEE Trans-CPMT-A, 22(2), June, 215-210.

Lam, D.C.C. and Chong, A.C.M. (1999) "Indentation Model and Strain Gradient PlasticityLaw for Glassy Polymer", J. Mater. Res., 14(9), September, 3784-3799.

Chong, A.C.M. and Lam, D.C.C. (1999) "Strain Gradient Plasticity Effect in IndentationHardness of Polymers", J. Mater. Res., 14 (10): 4103-4110.

Lam, D.C.C. and Chong, A.C.M. (2000) "Effect of Cross-Link Density on Strain GradientPlasticity in Epoxy", Mater. Sci. Eng. A, 281 (1-2): 156-161.

Lam, D.C.C., Chong, I.-T. and Tong, P. (2000) "Parametric Analysis of Steam DrivenDelamination in Electronic Packages", IEEE Trans. On Electronics PackagingManufacturing, 23(3), July, 208-13.

WAI MING TO

Assistant Professor


PhD, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, University of London (1991)

Projects Engineer, Vipac Engineers and Scientists Ltd. (1991)


Architectural and room acoustics; environmental noise; transportation noise; acousticboundary element analysis; model updating; experimental model analysis; sensitivityanalysis of mechanical structures.


Finite element model updating for bridges


Characterization of sand/epoxy composite for noise barriers

JRS JRS99/35 HK$60,297 Mar 1999

Modeling of sound absorption in a porous composite

DAG DAG99/00.EG15 HK$53,738 Dec 1999


To, W.M. and Chan, T.M. (in press) "The noise emitted from vehicles at roundabouts",Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

To, W.M. and Yung, S.M. (1999) "Power Estimation of Sound Sources on Low-SpeedElectric Trains using a Deconvolution Approach", Journal of the Acoustical Society ofAmerica, 105 (4): 2350-2358.

Brennan, M.J. and To, W.M. (2000) "A simplified model for sound absorption inrigid-frame granular materials", Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, Institute ofAcoustics, England, 17-18 April, 22:351-358.

Brennan, M.J. and To, W.M. (in press) "Modelling of rigid-frame materials - a simple

approach", International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, American Societyof Mechanical Engineers, Florida, USA, 5-10 November.

Tian, J., To, W.M. and Chang, C.C. (1998) "Experiments on Adaptive Active Control ofStructural Vibrations", Internoise 98, New Zealand Acoustical Society, Christchurch, NewZealand, 16-18 November, Paper No. 50.

JINGSHEN WU

Assistant Professor



Australian Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (1994-95)


Processing-morphology-property relationships of polymer alloys; toughening of polymersand polymer composites; plastics recycling; characterization and failure analysis ofelectronic packaging materials.


Improving safety in Hong Kong's construction industry by proper selection and use of hardhats - study of head-neck injuries in respect to hard hat design and weathering effect

OSHC OSHC96/97.EG01 HK$272,000 Mar 1998

Toughening recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) by functionalized elastomers

G-HK G-HK97/98.EG06 HK$36,920 Apr 1998

Feasibility study of composite containers

CIMC CIMC98/99.EG01 HK$80,000 Aug 1998

Toughening recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) from soft drink bottles withfunctionalized thermoplastic elastomers

DAG DAG98/99.EG13 HK$75,000 Apr 1999

Toughening Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) From Soft Drink Bottles WithFunctionalized Thermoplastic Elastomers


Characterization and processing optimization for PBGA solder ball joint

ASAT ASAT99/00.EG01 HK$429,600 Jan 2000


ITC ITS/196/00 HK$8,258,000 Oct 2000


Li, J.-X., Wu, J.S. and Chan, C.-M. (2000) "Thermoplastic Nano-Composites", Polymer(Communication), 41, 3.

Wu, J.S., Chan, C.-M. and Mai, Y.-W. (1999) "Study on Morphology and TougheningMechanisms in Polymer Blends by Microscopical Technique", Polymer Blends and Alloys,Marcel Dekker, Inc, New York, NY, USA, 44.

Wu, J.S., Xue, P. and Mai, Y.-W. (2000) "Processing Condition-Morphology-PropertyRelationships of Poly(ethylene terephthalate)/ Polycarbonate (PET/PC) Blends, Part 1,Blending Sequence, Morphology and Impact Toughness", Polymer Engineering and Science,40, 12.

Wu, J.S., Yu, D., Chan, C.-M., Kim, J. and Mai, Y.-M. (2000) "Effect of FiberPretreatment Condition on the Interfacial Strength and Mechanical Properties of WoodFiber/PP Composites", Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 76, 11.

Wu, J.S., Yu, D., Mai, Y.-W. and Yee, A.-F. (2000) "Fracture Toughness and FractureMechanisms of PBT/PC/IM Blends, Part-4 Impact toughness and Failure Mechanisms ofPBT/PC Blends without Impact Modifier", Journal of Materials Science, 35, 9.

Yu, D.-M., Wu, J.S., Zhou, L.M., Xie, D. and Wu, S. (2000) "Dielectric, Mechanical andRheological Properties of Potassium Titanate Whisker Reinforced PA6/PP Composites",Composite Science and Technology, 60, 10.

TIANSHOU ZHAO

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Hawaii (1995)

Lecturer, Tianjin University (1986-91)


Boiling heat transfer in a confined space; phase-change flow in capillary structures;oscillatory fluid flow; heat transfer; electronic cooling; heat pipes; advanced air conditioningand refrigeration systems.


Boiling rheology and heat transfer characteristics in micro-channels


Flow patterns and condensation heat transfer in miniaturized non-circular channels


Flow patterns and condensation heat transfer in miniaturized non-circular channels

DAG DAG98/99.EG34 HK$43,309 Mar 1999


ITC AF/173/99 HK$1,950,000 Aug 1999

Heat Transfer of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide in Mini/Micro Channels


Heat Transfer Characteristics of Micromachined Silicon Inverted-meniscus Evaporators



Liao, Q. and Zhao, T.S. (1999) "Evaporative Heat Transfer in a Capillary Structure Heatedby a Grooved Block", AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 13 (1): 126-133.

Liao, Q. and Zhao, T.S. (2000) "A Visual Study of Phase-Change Heat Transfer in aTwo-Dimensional Porous Structure with a Partial Heating Boundary", Int. J. Heat MassTransfer, 43 (7): 1089-1102.

Teng, H. and Zhao, T.S. (2000) "An the Extension of Darcy's Law to Non-Stokes Flow inPorous Media", Chemical Engineering Science, 5 (14): 2727-2735.

Zhao, T.S. (1998) "Coupled Heat and Mass Transfer of a Stagnation Point Flow in a HeatedPorous Bed with Liquid Film Evaporation", Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, 42 (5): 861-872.

Zhao, T.S. and Liao, Q. (2000) "On Capillary-Driven Flow and Phase-Change HeatTransfer in a Porous Structure Heated by a Finned Surface: Measurements and Modeling",Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 43 (7): 1141-1155.

Zhao, T.S., Liao, Q. and Cheng, P. (1999) "Variations of Buoyancy-Induced Mass Fluxfrom Single-Phase to Two-Phase Flow in a Vertical Porous Tube with Constant Heat Flux",Journal of Heat Transfer, 121 (3): 646-652.

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The research mission of the School of Business and Management is to conduct rigorous research thatpushes the frontiers of global business knowledge. In the first decade since its establishment, it hasobtained recognition for its research capabilities by international standard.

In 2001, the Financial Times selected the top 100 business schools in the world, in which the Schoolranked 33rd in research. In 1999, Economic Inquiry ranked HKUST as the most productive ineconomics research in East Asia. Its Information Systems division was ranked second in Asia andone of top 25 in research productivity worldwide by Decision Line in 1998.

Faculty members in the School of Business and Management contribute to society by clarifyingimportant business and economic issues and by raising the quality of policy deliberation. They alsoincorporate their research findings into their teaching materials, thereby enriching the contents ofboth postgraduate and undergraduate courses.

Currently, the School has four research centers: The Center for Economic Development, the Centerfor Asian Financial Markets and the Hang Lung Center for Organizational Research and the Centerfor Experimental Business Research. These state-of-the-art research centers cultivate close ties withregional business, financial, and policy communities by organizing conferences and workshops. Theestablishment of the Shui On Center for China Business and Management promises to propel theSchool into prominence.

The Center for Economic Development coordinates and promotes research programs that focus onthe transition of Asia-Pacific economies. Emphasis is given to the study of topics such as China'seconomic reform and open door policy; the economic integration of Hong Kong and the Pearl RiverDelta; the emergence of regional economies in China, in particular the region comprising thesouthern coastal provinces.

The Center for Asian Financial Markets studies the growth and development of financial markets inthe region, along with issues relevant to regional business operations. It is formed to develop a dataand knowledge base on Asian financial markets to facilitate research and to disseminate knowledge.It will also provide an academic interface with government and business. Regular activities includepublication, provision of expertise, development of new data and teaching materials, a bi-annualnewsletter, a working paper series, seminars and public lectures, executive education, consultingservices and contract research.

The Hang Lung Center for Organizational Research aims to improve the practice of management inChinese and multinational firms doing business in Greater China, by conducting rigorous researchand using the results to improve management practices.

The Center for Experimental Business Research aims to promote the use of experimental methods inbusiness research, expand experimental methodology through research and teaching, and thismethodology to solve practical problems.

Advanced Facilities

Advanced laboratories of the School of Business and Management are available for learning andresearch. They include:

A Multi-media Lab consisting of advanced audio-visual equipment, 4 high performance SGIworkstations and peripherals, high-end Pentium PCs and PowerMacs with large storage space, allhoused in a specially designed acoustic room;

A Behavioural Lab having 21 Pentium PCs spread through 12 case-style study rooms to supportsmall group discussions;

A Case Lab where Network Connections are available for hooking up high-end Pentium-II PCs,PowerMac, Sun workstations and PC notebooks for multimedia presentations;

A Faculty Research Lab which has nine Sun workstations, one HP workstation and three PentiumPCs, all of which are attached with either single or dual CE-ROMs for accessing on-line financial andeconomic databases;

A Financial Markets Lab in which 30 Pentium PCs are networked together to simulate a real-timetrading floor using a specially developed software package;

A Multi-media Lab having four high performance SCI workstations and peripherals, high-endPentium PCs and PowerMacs;

A PC Lab that houses 65 Pentium-III PCs and two high speed HP LaserJet printers; and

A Simulation Lab having 37 Pentium-II PCs with 15" color displays and one HP LaserJet printer.

DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING LAW PROGRAMMEDEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICSDEPARTMENT OF FINANCEDEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION & SYSTEMS MANAGEMENTDEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT OF ORGANISATIONSDEPARTMENT OF MARKETING

Department of Accounting

Accounting, as “the language of business,” is fundamental to virtually every business andmanagement decision. As a result, accounting research spans a wide range of academic andprofessional disciplines, including economics, finance, information technology, managementscience, psychology, auditing, law, and taxation.

In only ten years, the Department of Accounting of HKUST has achieved a research recordthat is both top in Asia, and ranks among the very best in the world.

HKUST accounting faculty members publish regularly in the world’s premier academicjournals in accounting, economics, finance, and management. They also are experts in theinstitutions and issues facing Hong Kong, China, and the Asia-Pacific, and they offeracademic and executive seminars throughout the region and world.

Unique in Asia, HKUST accounting faculty are all Ph.D.s. Importantly, they also arerecruited from the world’s top business schools, including Berkeley, Chicago, Illinois,London Business School, UCLA, USC, Washington, and Yale. Areas of faculty researchexpertise include valuation, earnings management, performance measurement,principal-agent theory, auditing, law, taxation, and China and Hong Kong accounting.

In addition to active research workshops and presentations by prominent visitors, theaccounting faculty hosts the widely-respected HKUST Summer Symposium on AccountingResearch. The Symposium annually brings to Hong Kong 50 of the world’s leadingaccounting scholars for four days of research presentations and collaborations.

Up-to-date descriptions of faculty research interests, publications, and current researchactivities can be found on our web page at: http://www.bm.ust.hk/acct.

Research Profile

GARY BIDDLE


KEVIN CHEN

Professor

CHUL W PARK

Associate Professor

T J WONG

Associate Professor

CHIH-YING CHEN

Assistant Professor

DEREK KWOK-WING CHAN

Assistant Professor

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PETER CHEN

Assistant Professor

YEW MING CHIA

Assistant Professor

JONG HAG CHOI

Assistant Professor

JAMES R FREDERICKSON

Assistant Professor

CHUNG KWEON KIM

Assistant Professor

SABRINA KWAN

Assistant Professor

HYUN KOO LEE

Assistant Professor

AILI LI

Assistant Professor

SUIL PAE

Visiting Assistant Professor

DINGBO XU

Assistant Professor

ANDREW YIM

Assistant Professor

SEUNG-WEON YOO

Assistant Professor

GUOCHANG ZHANG

Assistant Professor

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Research Profile

GARY C. BIDDLE




Professor of Accounting, University of Washington (1984- )

Assistant Professor, University of Chicago (1980-84)


Securities pricing; financial statement analysis; information content tests; economic valueadded; management performance measures; foreign stock listings; inventory accounting;audit sampling; cost allocations; auditor decision making.


Further evidence on the usefulness of EVATM

DAG DAG97/98.BM80 HK$58,839 Apr 1998

Areas of Excellence in financial services

AOE AOE97/98.BM02 HK$300,000 May 1998

Management compensation and EVATM

DAG DAG98/99.BM63 HK$68,806 Apr 1999

Investment and information dynamics in the residual income model

DAG DAG99/00.BM66 HK$13,096 May 2000

Who Benefits More From EVA®: Shareholders Or Executives?

CERG HKUST6026/00H HK$453,817 Dec 2000


Biddle, G.C., and Saudagaran, S. (1995) "Foreign Listing Location: A Study of MNCs andStock Exchanges in Eight Countries", Journal of International Business Studies, SecondQuarter: 319-341.

Biddle, G.C., Bowen, R.M. and Wallace, J.S. (1997) "Does EVA® Best Earnings? Evidenceon Associations with Stock Returns and Firm Values", Journal of Accounting & Economics,24 (3): 301-336.

Biddle, G.C., Seow, G. and Siegel, A. (1995) "Relative Versus Incremental InformationContent", Contemporary Accounting Research, Fall: 1-23.

Biddle, G.C., Bowen R.M. and Wallace, J.S. (1999)"Evidence on EVA®", Journal ofApplied Corporate Finance, 12(2): 8-18, or http://www.ssrn.com.

Biddle, G.C., Chen, P. and Zhang, G. (in press) "When Capital Follows Profitability:Non-Linear Residual Income Dynamics", Review of Accounting Studies.

KEVIN C. W. CHEN

Professor


PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1985)

Asst. and Assoc. Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick (1989)


Accounting information and securities pricing; use of accounting information in contractenforcement and regulation.


The informational value of financial statements based on International Accounting Standards(IAS): The case of China's A- and B-share experiment

DAG DAG97/98.BM11 HK$65,532 Jun 1998

The effectiveness of accounting-based regulation: The case of china securities regulatorycommission's efforts to restrict stock rights offerings

CERG HKUST6171/98H HK$332,000 Sep 1998


Chen, K.C.W. and Schoderbek, M.P. (in press) "The 1993 Tax Rate Increase and DeferredTax Adjustments: A Test of Functional Fixation", Journal of Accounting Research.,

Chen, K.C.W. Schoderbek, M.P. (1999) "The Role of Accounting Information in SecurityExchange Delisting", Journal of Accounting & Public Policy, 18 (1): 31-57.

Chen, K.C.W and Schoderbek, M.P. (2000) "The 1993 Tax Rate Increase and Deferred TaxAdjustments: A Test of Functional Fixation", Journal of Accounting Research, 38 (1): 23-44.

Chen, K.C.W. and Yuan, H.Q. (2000) "Earnings Management and Resource Allocation:Evidence From China's Accounting-Based Regulation Of Rights Issues", working paper.

http://www.ssrn.com/

CHUL W PARK

Associate Professor


PhD, Washington University (1994)


Earnings management; CEO performance evaluation and corporate governance; analysts'forecasts; equity valuation.


Analyst reputation and the market reaction to forecast revision announcements

DAG DAG98/99.BM12 HK$40,000 Jan 1999

The reversal of abnormal accruals and the market valuation of earnings surprises

DAG DAG99/00.BM07 HK$38,000 Nov 1999

Does The CEO Bear A Cost From Missing An Earnings Target?



Park, C.W. and Lee, J. (2000) "Intraday Stock Price Reactions to Interim-Quarter versusFourth-Quarter Earnings Announcements",Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 27:1027-1046.

Park, C.W. and Stice, E.K. (2000) "Analyst Forecasting Ability and the Stock PriceReaction to Forecast Revisions",Review of Accounting Studies, , 5:259-272.

Defond, M.L. and Park, C.W. (in press) "The Reversal of Abnormal Accruals and theMarket Valuation of Earnings Surprises", The Accounting Review.

Park, C.W. and Pincus M. (2001) "Internal Versus External Funding Sources and EarningsResponse Coefficients",", Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 16: 33-52.

Defond, M.L. and Park, C.W. (1999) "The Effect of Competition on CEO Turnover",Journal of Accounting and Economics, 27: 35-56.

Defond, M.L. and Park, C.W. . (1997) "Smoothing Income in Anticipation of FutureEarnings", Journal of Accounting and Economics, 23: 115-139.

T J WONG

Associate Professor



Asst. Professor of Accounting, University of Maryland (1990-94)


Accounting and corporate finance issues in China, East Asia and US.


Dividend policy as an instrument of earnings shifting: The case of Chinese listed companie


The Impact Of Improved Auditor Independence On Audit Market Concentration In China



Aharony, J., Lee, J. and Wong, T.J. (2000) "Financial Packaging of IPO Firms inChina",Journal of Accounting Research,38 (1): 103-126.

Defond, M., Francis, J. and Wong, T.J. (1999) "Auditor Industry Specialization and MarketSegmentation: Evidence from Hong Kong", Auditing: A Journal of Theory and Practice,49-66.

Teoh, S.H., Wong, T.J. . and Rao, G. (1998) "Are Accruals During An Initial PublicOffering Opportunistic?", Review of Accounting Studies, 3, 175-208.

Teoh, S.H., Welch, I. and Wong, T.J. . (1998) "Earnings Management and theUnderperformance of Seasoned Equity Offerings", Journal of Financial Economics,October, 63-99.

Teoh, S.H., Welch, I. and Wong, T.J. . (1998) "Earnings Management and Long-termUnderperformance of Initial Public Offerings",Journal of Finance, December, 1935-1974.

CHIH-YING CHEN

Assistant Professor



Asst. Professor, National Taiwan University (1997-00)


Accounting information and security valuation; capital market research.


Investment opportunities and the market valuation of executive stock options

DAG DAG00/01.BM02 HK$45,000 Sep 2000

DEREK KWOK-WING CHAN

Assistant Professor



Instructor, University of British Columbia (1994)


Economic analysis of audit markets; equilibrium models of regulation of auditors;information economics.


Auditor mergers and public interests

DAG DAG97/98.BM01 HK$30,000 Jan 1998

The impact of non-audit services and legal damage on auditor effort and report decisions

DAG DAG98/99.BM06 HK$40,000 Jan 1999

The impact of SFAS no. 2 on R&D expenditures

DAG DAG99/00.BM14 HK$38,000 Nov 1999


Chan, D.K. (1999) "Low-balling and Efficiency in a Two-Period Specialization Model ofAuditing Competition", Contemporary Accounting Research16 (4): 609-42.

Chan, D.K. and Wong, K.P. (1999) "CVP under Uncertainty and the Manager's UtilityFunction Revisited", Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 12 (2): 159 -170.

Chan, D.K. and Pae, S. . (1998) "An Analysis of the Economic Consequences of theProportionate Liability Rule", Contemporary Accounting Research, 15 (4): 457 - 480.

Chan, D.K. . (2000) "An Analysis of the Joint Provision of Audit and Nonaudit Services",The 2000 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Summer Symposium onAccounting Research Conference, Accounting Department, HKUST, 19-22 June.

Chan, D.K. and Pae, S. (1998) "An Analysis of the Economic Consequences of theProportionate Liability Rule", International Conference on Contemporary AccountingIssues, , National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, July 3-6, 4.

Chan, D.K. and Wong, K.P. (2000) "Scope of Auditors' Liability, Audit Quality and CapitalInvestment", ", Second Globalization Conference, Cambridge University, England, July15-17.

PETER CHEN

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Alberta (1998)

Instructor, University of Alberta (1996-98)


Financial statement analysis and valuation; corporate governance and financial reportingissues for banks.


The effects of CEO turnover and management incentives on divestitures

DAG DAG98/99.BM01 HK$60,000 Dec 1998

The incremental usefulness of segment data in equity valuation: An empirical investigation

DAG DAG99/00.BM13 HK$38,000 Dec 1999

Segment Reporting By Hong Kong Listed Companies: Current Practices And Management

Motives

CERG HKUST6023/00H HK$307,817 Aug 2000


Biddle, G., Chen, P.F. and Zhang, G. (in press) "When Capital Follows Profitability:Non-Linear Residual Income Dynamics", Review of Accounting Studies.

Chen, P. (1999) "The Usefulness of Segment Information in Predicting Divestitures",working paper.

Chen, P. and Zhang, G. (1999) "Manipulation of Segment Earnings, Misvaluation andDivestment", working paper.

Chen, P. ., Mehrotra, V., Sivakumar, R. and Yu, W. (in press) "Layoffs, Shareholder'sWealth and Corporate Performance", Journal of Empirical Finance

Chen, P. and Daley, L. (1996) "Regulatory Capital, Tax, and Earnings Management Effectson Loan Loss Accruals in the Canadian Banking Industry", Contemporary AccountingResearch, 13(1): 91-128.

YEW MING CHIA

Assistant Professor


PhD, Griffith University (1992)

Sessional Lecturer/ Tutor, Griffith University (1989-92)


Financial controls; management accounting systems design for organizations; behavioralaccounting research; accounting education.


A regional comparison of the career drivers of accounting students in HKSAR and Shanghai

DAG DAG97/98.BM73 HK$30,000 Apr 1998

An international comparison of career drivers among accounting students in HKSAR,Singapore and Australia

DAG DAG99/00.BM68 HK$18,000 May 2000

Job offers of accounting students: An exploratory study of the effects of academicperformance and emotional intelligence

DAG DAG00/01.BM03 HK$25,000 Nov 2000


Chia, Y.M. (2000) "The Effects of Compensation Incentives on Job Satisfaction: AnExploratory Study of the Moderating Roles of Information Asymmetry and ManagementAccounting Systems Design", Accounting and Business Review, 7(2): 243-268.

Chia, Y.M. . (1999) "Predicting Three-Way Interaction Effects on Performance withInformation Asymmetry, Tolerance for Ambiguity and Compensation Scheme: A SingaporeStudy", Journal of Asian Business, 16(2): 25-47.

Chia, Y.M. (1999) "An Exploratory Study of the Career Driver Scores of Accounting-majorStudents in Hong Kong", Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting, 6 (1): 111-130.

Chia, Y.M. (1998) "Motivation and Junior Supervisors' Performance: The Moderating Roleof Work-Group Cohesion", ", International Journal of Management, 15 (4): 441-453.

Wong, D.S.N. and Chia, Y.M. (1996) "English Language Mathematics and First YearFinancial Accounting Performance: A Research Note", Accounting Education, 5(2):183-189.

Chia, Y.M. . "Decentralization, Management Accounting System (MAS) InformationCharacteristics and Their Interaction Effects on Managerial Performance: A SingaporeStudy", Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 22(6): 811-830.

JONG HAG CHOI

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2000)


Accounting information and capital market; voluntary disclosures, analysts' earningsforecasts.


A reexamination of bias in management earnings forecasts

DAG DAG99/00.BM63 HK$45,000 Mar 2000

The timing of management earnings forecasts as a signal of persistence/significance of thenews

DAG DAG00/01.BM04 HK$25,000 Nov 2000


Choi, J.H. (1998) "The Difficult of Achieving Economic Reality Through Foreign CurrencyTranslation", The International Journal of Accounting.

JAMES R FREDERICKSON

Assistant Professor



Asst. Professor, Indiana University (1990-96)

Visiting Asst. Professor, University of Utah (1996-97)


Judgement and decision making in accounting contexts, with particular interest in integratingeconomic and behavioral perspectives.


Reliance on decision aids: The effects of incentive compensation and feedback

DAG DAG97/98.BM07 HK$45,000 Jan 1998

The independent and interactive effects of information asymmetry and environmentaluncertainty on top-down budgeting

DAG DAG98/99.BM08 HK$40,000 Feb 1999

Learning in principal-agent settings

DAG DAG99/00.BM11 HK$30,000 Nov 1999


Frederickson, J.R. ., Peffer, S.A. and Pratt, J. (1999) "Performance Evaluation Judgments:Effects of Prior Experience Under Different Performance Evaluation Schemes and FeedbackFrequencies", Journal of Accounting Research, 37 (1): 151-165.

Cloyd, C.B., Frederickson, J.R. . and Hill, J.W. (1998) "Independent Auditor Litigation:Recent Events and Related Research", Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 17 (2):121-142.

Fisher, J., Frederickson, J.R. and Peffer, S.A. (2000) "Budgeting: An ExperimentalInvestigation of the Effects of Negotiation",", The Accounting Review, 75 (1): 93-114.

Frederickson, J.R. and Cloyd, C.B. (1998) "The Effects of Performance Cues, SubordinateSusceptibility to Social Influences, and the Nature of the Subordinate's Private Informationon Budgetary Slack", Advances in Accounting, , 16: 89-115.

CHUNG KWEON KIM

Assistant Professor



Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh (1990-94)


Income tax reporting behavior; empirical analysis of incentive-related issues; informationissues in experimental economics.


The interaction of culture and equity in tax compliance: Experimental investigation in HongKong and the U.S.A.

DAG DAG97/98.BM10 HK$30,000 Apr 1998

The role of fairness in ultimatum games

DAG DAG98/99.BM09 HK$40,000 May 1999

The role of honest taxpayers to strategic taxpayers' compliance decisions: Theory andexperiment

DAG DAG99/00.BM10 HK$38,000 May 2000

Effect Of Ambiguity On Tax Compliance: An Experimental Assessment



Kim, C. (1999) "Does fairness matter in tax reporting behavior?", working paper.

Kim, C.K. (1998) "Does fairness matter in tax reporting decisions?", working paper.

Kim, C.K. (1999) "The Curse of knowledge in ultimatum games: an experimentalevidence", working paper.

Kim, C.K. ., Evans, J.H., and Moser, D. (1998) "The effect of public transfers and tax ratechanges on reported income: An experimental approach", working paper.

Kim, C. Evans, J.H. and Moser, D.V. (2000) "The influence of perceived exchange inequityon reporting behavior", working paper.

SABRINA KWAN

Assistant Professor


PhD, London Business School (1996)

Auditor, Deloitte, Haskins and Sells (1985-88)


Accounting and capital markets; international accounting; taxation.


Tax-motivated earnings management in a transitional economy: The case of ForeignInvestment Enterprises in China

DAG DAG97/98.BM12 HK$30,000 Feb 1998

Tax-motivated earnings management in a transitional economy: The case of the "doubleholiday triple reduction" policy in china

CERG HKUST6170/98H HK$436,000 Oct 1998


Brealey, R.A. and Kwan, S. . (1999) "Personal Taxes and the Time Variation of StockReturns: Evidence from the UK", ", Journal of Banking & Finance, , 23 (11): 1557-1577.

HYUN KOO LEE

Assistant Professor




Empirical research on compensation and contracts; accounting information and capitalmarkets.


Inside performance information and compensation: A case of employee stock options

DAG DAG98/99.BM02 HK$60,000 Jan 1999

The characteristics and ownership consequence of reload option users

DAG DAG99/00.BM15 HK$38,000 Nov 1999

The relationship between equity incentive and managers' private information

DAG DAG00/01.BM05 HK$25,000 Dec 2000


Lee, H.K. . (1999) "Competition and Equity Incentives", working paper.

Lee, H.K.(2000) "The Relevance of Software Development Cost in CEO Compensations",working paper.

Lee, H.K.., Kang, S.K. and Kumar, P. (1998) "Does Executive Compensation AffectInvestment? The Role of Compensation Structure in Agency Problems and CorporateInvestments", working paper.

AILI LI

Assistant Professor




Capital market efficiency; fundamental analysis; behavior of financial analysts; internationalharmonization of accounting principles.


Errors in analysts' long-term earnings growth forecasts and their implications for the B/P andE/P anomalies

DAG DAG98/99.BM04 HK$60,000 Nov 1998

Persistence in financial distress and the differential information content of cash flows

DAG DAG99/00.BM09 HK$38,000 Nov 1999

Over-reactions in analysts' forecasts and the VIP anomaly

DAG DAG00/01.BM07 HK$25,000 Nov 2000

SUIL PAE

Assistant Professor




Role of accounting information in organization and markets; economics of auditing.


Costs and benefits of disclosure policies in the presence of private demand and costinformation

DAG DAG98/99.BM11 HK$40,000 Nov 1998

Optimal disclosure policy in oligopolistic markets: A rationale for reporting disaggregateinformation

DAG DAG99/00.BM08 HK$38,000 Nov 1999

Discretionary disclosure, signal informativeness, and efficiencies

DAG DAG00/01.BM08 HK$25,000 Nov 2000


Chan, D.K. and Pae, S.. (1998) "An Analysis of the Economic Consequences of theProportionate Liability Rule", Contemporary Accounting Research, 15 (4): 457-480.15 (4):457-480.

Pae, S.(2000) "Information Sharing in the Presence of Preemptive Incentives: EconomicConsequences of Mandatory Disclosure", ", Review of Accounting Studies, 5(4): 331-350.

Pae, S.. (1999) "Acquisition and Discretionary Disclosure of Private Information and ItsImplications for Firms' Productive Activities", ", Journal of Accounting Research, 37 (2):465-474.

Pae, S.and Yoo, S.W. (in press) "Strategic Interaction in Auditing: An Analysis of Auditors'Legal Liability, Internal Control System Quality, and Audit Effort", Accounting Review.

DINGBO XU

Assistant Professor




Coordination of communication in a decentralized system; the role of financial disclosure tocapital markets.


An equilibrium analysis of unsolicited credit ratings

DAG DAG98/99.BM15 HK$40,000 Jan 1999

Modelling bargaining powers in a supply-chain

DAG DAG99/00.BM17 HK$38,000 Dec 1999

Individual accounts in incentive contracts

DAG DAG00/01.BM09 HK$25,000 Dec 2000


Li, L. and Xu, D. (1997) A modern accounting approach to China's reform of old-ageinsurance system, China Economics Publishing House.

Li, L. and Xu, D. . (1999) "Three-Generation Family and Pension Reform ", Social SecurityReform in China, China Economic Science Press, Beijing, 176-189

Li, L., Xu, D. . and Yuan, P. (2000) "Controlling Agency Cost: The Role of IndividualAccounts", working paper.

Xu, D.. (1998) "Long-term Commitment and Information Sharing", working paper.

Xu, D. (1998) "Taiwan's capital markets and requirements for financial informationdisclosure", Raising International Competitiveness, China Economics Publishing House,158-180.

Jordan, J. and Xu, D.. " On the communication complexity of expected-profitmaximization", Journal of Economic Theory,86, 185-202.

Xu, D..(2000) "An equilibrium analysis of unsolicited credit ratings", working paper.

ANDREW YIM

Assistant Professor



Lecturer, University of Hong Kong (1992-95)


Analytical accounting theory; managerial accounting.


Tax compliance game with uncertainty-sensitive taxpayers: an application and refinement ofthe Choquet expected utility theory

DAG DAG97/98.BM13 HK$30,000 Jan 1998

Ambiguity aversion and optimally incomplete contract

DAG DAG98/99.BM17 HK$40,000 Jun 1999

Tax compliance enforcement with the taxpayer population and audit budget constraint inmind

DAG DAG99/00.BM05 HK$33,000 Jan 2000


Yim, A. T.. (1999) "Reduced Cost of Law Enforcement", ", 1999 North America SummerMeetings of the Econometric Society, Econometric Society, Madison, WI, USA, 23-27 June.

Yim, A. T.(2000) "Tax Audit Strategy with the Audit Budget and Taxpayer Population inMind", working paper.

SEUNG WEON YOO

Assistant Professor


Ph.D, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1997)


Role of managerial accounting information in a changing manufacturing environment;strategic interactions among managers, auditors and investors.


Optimal incentives in teams

DAG DAG98/99.BM16 HK$40,000 Dec 1998

Collusion and moral hazard problems of a tax inspector

DAG DAG99/00.BM04 HK$38,000 Dec 1999

Optimal authority allocation for teams

DAG DAG00/01.BM11 HK$25,000 Dec 2000


Pae, S. and Yoo, S.-W.(in press) "Strategic Interaction in Auditing: An Analysis of Auditors'Legal Liability, Internal Control System Quality, and Audit Effort", The Accounting Review.

Yoo, S.-W.. (1999) "Separability of Cooperation Activities and Productive Activities inTeams", working paper.

Yoo, S.-W.(1999) "Information Systems and Teams", working paper. Che, Y.-K. and Yoo,S.W. (in press) "Optimal Incentive for Teams",American Economic Review.

Matsumura, E.M., Yoo, S.-W.and Tucker, R. (2001) "Choosing the Level of ClientScreening and Settlement Offers to Manage Litigation Risk: An Analysis", working paper.

GUOCHANG ZHANG

Assistant Professor



Asst. Professor, University of Waterloo (1991-93)


Accounting information and equity valuation; the effect of corporate disclosure on capitalmarkets; the roles of accounting and finance in resolving a firm's agency conflicts within thefirm; management accounting in China.


The costing system and managerial uses of cost information in the Shanghai petrochemical

company: A field study

CERG HKUST6207/97H HK$223,100 Jan 1998

A theoretical examination of the impact of private information and public disclosure on thecost of capital

DAG DAG99/00.BM03 HK$38,000 Nov 1999

Capital investment decisions and the incremental value impact of segment accounting data:A theoretical analysis

DAG DAG00/01.BM52 HK$30,000 Dec 2000


Zhang, G. . (in press) "Private Information Production, Public Disclosure, and the Cost ofCapital: Theory and Implications", Contemporary Accounting Research.

Zhang, G.(in press) "Regulated Managerial Insider Trading as a Mechanism to facilitateShareholder Control", Journal of Business Finance and Accounting.

Zhang, G.. (2000) "Accounting Information, Capital Investment Decisions, and EquityValuation: Theory and Empirical Implications", ", Journal of Accounting Research 28(2):271-295.

Zhang, G.G (1998) "Ownership concentration, risk aversion, and the effect of financialstructure on investment decisions", ", European Economic Review, 42(9): 1751-1778

Zhang, G.. (1997) "Moral hazard in corporate investment and the disciplinary role ofvoluntary capital rationing", Management Science, 43(6): 737-750.

FLETCHER O. LEEAdjunct Associate Professor of Law

Visiting Fellow and Life Member, Clare Hall,

College of Advanced Studies, University of Cambridge


A.B. (Hons.), Harvard; M.A., Yale;

PhD, (summa cum laude) University of Freiburg im Breisgau;

JurisDr., University of Pennsylvania; LLM, University of Virginia

Selected Previous Appointments:

1st career: Carnegie Study of New Nations Fellow, University of Chicago

Assoc. Professor and Asst. Director, East Asian Center, Washington University

2nd career: Graduate Law Fellow, University of Virginia

Associate, Wall Street law firm of Brown and Wood, New York

Current Research Area: The impact of legal, political and economic development oninternational trade, business, investment, and finance.


Mergers, acquisitions, and economic performance in China: Institutional change and firmstrategy


Human resources management in China since the labour law reform of 1994

mailto:[email protected]

DAG DAG99/00.BM16 HK$25,000 Sep 1999

Access to the courts and labour tribunals under the PRC Labour Law Reform of 1994

DAG DAG00/01.BM06 HK$57,000 Jul 2000


On the Emergence of Law and Public Policy in China and Hong Kong:

Lee, O. (2001) “Media Alarm and the Handover: The 'Right of Abode' Decisions andConstitutional Crisis in Hong Kong”, 10-2000 Humboldt Forum Recht (HumboldtUniversity of Berlin) , http://www.humboldt-forum-recht.de/10-2000 .

Lee, O. and Jonty Lim (2001) “Progressive Capitalism or Reactionary Socialism? Progressive Labour Policy, Ageing Marxism, and Unrepentant Early Capitalism in theChinese Industrial Revolution”, 10.2 Business Ethics (University of Cambridge), abstract:http://pluto.bids.ac.ukTemp-pages/r_UJT2R_.html.

Lee, O. (2000) “Put Teaching on an Even Footing with Research? Teaching and LearningPolicy Review in Hong Kong and the U.S., 8.48 Education Policy Analysis Archives, http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v8n48.html .

Lee, O. (2000) “ 'I.T.', Law, and Verbal Skills”, 2000 (1) Journal of Information Law &

Technology, http://www.law.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/00-1/lee.html .

Lee, O. (1997) Hong Kong Business Law in a Nutshell: Cases and Materials on Law andBusiness Practice (New York: Juris Publishing), .abstract:http://www.pacificrimlaw.com/books/hongkong.htm .

Lee, O. (1997) “What Ever Became of Socialist Law? Back to the Industrial Revolution in

China’s Joint Ventures,” in Sally Stewart and Anne Carver, eds., Coming of Age:

Developments in Sino-Foreign Joint Ventures, Vol. 5 of Advances in Chinese

Industrial Studies (Greenwich , Conn.: JAI Press).

http://www.humboldt-forum-rechtde/10-2000

http://pluto.bids.ac.uktemp-pages/r_UJT2R_.html

http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v8n48.html

http://www.law.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/00-1/lee.html

http://www.pacificrimlaw.com/books/hongkong.htm

Department of Economics

The mission of the Department of Economics is to become one of the best economicsdepartments in East Asia by the turn of the century. It aims to attain international recognitionthrough the quality of its teaching programs, research output, and public service.

The Department emphasizes frontier academic research, as well as the application ofrigorous and systematic analysis to important economic issues of the day. It plans to buildcore research groups in: (1) econometrics, (2) economic growth and development, (3)industrial organization and theory of the firm, and (4) international economics. In addition,researchers in applied and theoretical microeconomics and macroeconomics will focus ontopics of particular interest to the Asia-Pacific region, especially China.

The faculty will provide public service based on their expertise and research findings.

Research Profile

LEONARD K CHENG


SOO HONG CHEW

Professor

LUNG-FEI LEE

Professor

JUSTIN YIFU LIN

Professor

FRANCIS T LUI

Professor and Director, Center for Economic Development

SIU FAI LEUNG

Associate Professor

DAVID D LI

Associate Professor and Associate Director and Center for Economic Development

DANYANG XIE

Associate Professor

PAUL J BREWER

Associate Professor

SONGNIAN CHEN

Associate Professor

WOON GYU CHOI

Associate Professor

TIMOTHY K CHUE

Associate Professor

DAVID COOK

Associate Professor

SON KU KIM

Associate Professor

JAE HYON HAHM

Associate Professor

LARRY D QIU

Associate Professor

TRIDIP RAY

Associate Professor

SUSHENG WANG

Associate Professor

WEN ZHOU

Associate Professor

CHANGQI WU

Associate Professor

KANGOH YI

Associate Professor

YAN YU

Associate Professor

Research Profile

LEONARD K CHENG



PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1980)Assoc Professor of Economics, University of Florida (1985-92)Reader in Economics, HKUST (1992-94)Visiting Professor, Fudan University (1998)


International trade and investment; market structure and applied game theory; innovation andimitation.


An economic analysis of Hong Kong's container handling industry


Areas of Excellence in China business & management

AOE AOE97/98.BM01 HK$525,000 May 1998

The Nansha IT community as a magnet for technology transfer: A case study

DAG DAG97/98.BM85 HK$55,830 Jun 1998

Emerging High Impact Area of China Business and Management

HIA HIA98/99.BM01 HK$4,670,000 Jan 1999

Study of the appropriate S & T indicators for Hong Kong

ITC ID98/99.HSS01 HK$530,000 Apr 1999

Attacks On The Hong Kong Dollar: Fundamentals, Contagion Effects, Or InstitutionalLoopholes?



Cheng, L. and Wu, C. (1998) Competition Policy and Regulation of Business, City U. ofHK Press (Chinese by Commercial Press), Hong Kong.

Cheng, L. and Wu, C. (in press) "Hong Kong's Reversion to China: Implications forCompetition and Competition Policy", Pacific Economic Review.

Cheng, L. and Kwan, Y.K. (2000) "What are the Determinants of the Location of ForeignDirect Investment? The Chinese Experience", Journal of International Economics, vol. 51,no. 2, 379-400.

Cheng, L. and Tao, Z. (1999) "The Impact of Public Policies on Innovation and Imitation:The Role of R&D Technology in Growth Models", International Economic Review, 40,187-207.

Cheng, L. (in press) "Economic Benefits to China and Impact on Hong Kong Firms", ChinaEconomic Review.

Cheng, L. and Wu, C. (in press) "Determinants of the Performance of Foreign InvestedEnterprises in China", Journal of Comparative Economics.

SOO HONG CHEW

Professor




Economics of uncertainty.


ganization and governance

DAG DAG99/00.BM22 HK$20,000 Nov 1999

LUNG-FEI LEE

Professor


PhD, University of Rochester (1977)Professor, University of Minnesota (1984-91)Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1991)


Econometrics; microeconomics; statistics; applied economics.


Lee, L.F. (in press) "Simulation Estimation of Polychotomous-Choice Sample SelectionModels", Nonlinear Statistical Inference, Cambridge U Press, Massachusetts.

Lee, L.F. (2000) "A Numerical Stable Quadrature Procedure for the One-FactorRandom-Component Discrete Choice Model", Journal of Econometrics, 95 (1): 117-129.

Lee, L.F. (in press) "Self-selection", Companion in Econometric Theory, Basil Blackwell,New York, 30.

Lee, L.F. (1999) "Statistical Inference with Simulated Likelihood Functions", EconometricTheory, 15, 337-360.

Lee, L.F. (in press) "Estimation of Dynamic and ARCH Tobit Models", Journal ofEconometrics.

Lee, L.F. (1999) "Estimation of dynamic limited-dependent rational expectations models",Analysis of Panels and Limited Dependent Variable Models, University Press, Cambridge,35.

JUSTIN YIFU LIN

Professor




Chinese economy; economic development; economic history; agricultural economics.


Price changes and supply response in Chinese agriculture

DAG DAG97/98.BM18 HK$54,000 May 1998

Jobs and the returns to education: An empirical study

DAG DAG98/99.BM21 HK$50,000 Mar 1999

Population And Rural Development In China

CERG HKUST6006/99H HK$1,100,000 Oct 1999

Economic transition and village economy in China

CFED CFED00/01.BM01 HK$400,000 Nov 2000


Lin, J. and Liu, Z. (2000) "Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth in China",Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 49, no. 1, October, 1-20.

Lin, J. (1998) "How did China Feed itself in the Past? How will China Feed itself in theFuture?", Second Distinguished Economist Lecture, CIMMYT, Mexico.

Lin, J.Y. (2000) Institution, Technology and Agricultural Development in China, II, PekingUniversity Press, Beijing.

Lin, J.Y., Cai, F. and Li, ZH. (2000) China's State-owned Enterprise Reform (Zhongguo deGuoyu Qiye Gaige), Linking Press, Taipei.

Lin, J.Y., Cai, F. and Li, ZH. (2000) China's Economic Reform and Development(Zhongguo de Jingji Gaige yu Fazhan, Linking Press, Taipei.

Lin, J. (2000) "Food Availability, Entitlements and the Chinese Famine of 1959-61",Economic Journal, vol. 110, January, 136-58.

FRANCIS T LUI

Professor and Director, Center for Economic Development




Economic growth; social security; corruption; Chinese economy; macroeconomics.


Hong Kong as an international and national financial center

CSS CSS98/99.BM01 HK$414,000 Mar 1999

Attack on the Hong Kong Dollar: Fundamentals, Contagion Effects, or InstitutionalLoopholes

RGC HKUST6212/OOH HK$412,817 Dec 2000


Lui, F.T. (1998) Retirement Protection: A Plan for Hong Kong, City University of HongKong Press, Hong Kong.

Lui, F.T. (2000) "Hong Kong's Economic Structural Changes", Blueprint for the 21stCentury Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, Hong Kong, 65-76.

Ehrlich, I. and Lui, F.T. (1998) "Social Security, the Family, and Economic Growth",Economic Inquiry, 36 (3): 390-409.

Ehrlich, I. and Lui, F.T. (1999) "Bureaucratic Corruption and Endogenous EconomicGrowth", Journal of Political Economy, 107 (6): S270-S294.

Kwan, Y.K. and Lui, F.T. (1999) "Hong Kong's Currency Board and Changing MonetaryRegimes", Changes in Exchange Rates in Rapidly Developing Countries, University ofChicago Press, Chicago, USA, 403-429.

Kwan, Y.K. and Lui, F.T. (2000) "Deregulation, Profit, and Cost in Commercial Banking:The Case of Hong Kong", Deregulation and Interdependence in the Asia-Pacific Region,NBER-East Asia Seminar on Economics, volume 8, University of Chicago Press, Chicago,USA, 305-324.

SIU FAI LEUNG

Associate Professor




Microeconomics; economics of human behavior; labor economics; econometrics.


A hazard analysis of drug use

DAG DAG97/98.BM21 HK$52,600 Jan 1998

Alcohol use among family members

DAG DAG98/99.BM25 HK$62,000 Jan 1999

An analysis of the determinants of marital dissolution by rank estimation

DAG DAG99/00.BM26 HK$60,000 Jan 2000

The Measurement Of Crime In Hong Kong : Official Crime Statistics, Crime VictimizationSurvey, And The Social Cost Of Crime



Leung, S.F. and Yu, S. (1996) "On the Choice between Sample Selection and Two-partModels", Journal of Econometrics, 72: 197-229.

Leung, S.F. and Yu, S. (2000) "How Effective are the RESET Tests for OmittedVariables?", Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 29 ( 4): 879-902.

Leung, S.F. and Yu, S. (2000) "Collinearity and Two-step Estimation of Sample SelectionModels: Problems, Origins, and Remedies", Computational Economics, 15: 173-199.

Leung, S.F. (2000) "Why Do Some Households Save So Little? A Rational Explanation",Review of Economic Dynamics, 3: 771-800.

Leung, S.F. and Yu, S. (in press) "The Sensitivity of the RESET Tests to DisturbanceAutocorrelation in Regression Analysis", Empirical Economics.

Leung, S.F. (in press) "The Life-cycle Model of Saving with Uncertain Lifetime andBorrowing Constraint: Characterization and Sensitivity Analysis", Mathematical SocialSciences.

DAVID D LI

Associate Professor and Associate Director and Center for EconomicDevelopment


PhD, Harvard University (1992)President-elect (for 2001-02), Chinese Economists SocietyMember of the Editorial Board, Journal of Comparative Economics, The China Review andEconomics Bulletin.


The impact of ownership and managerial reforms on the performance of state-ownedenterprises; empirical analysis of the impact of WTO accession; the emergence of the rule oflaw in the developing economies; the reform of bureaucracy in transition.


An empirical study of the impact of the soft budget constraint

DAG DAG99/00.BM24 HK$92,234 Nov 1999

Changing ownership vs. improving management: An empirical study of China's stateenterprise reform

HIA HIA98/99.BM01-C HK$135,000 Apr 2000

Expropriation and incentives in team production

CERG HKU7135/00H HK$100,000 Aug 2000

A study of the political economy of foreign direct investment: Evidence from WTOaccessions

DAG DAG00/01.BM19 HK$100,000 Nov 2000


Li, D. and Liang, M. (1998) "Causes of the soft budget constraint: Evidence on threeexplanations", Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 26, no. 1, 104-116.

Li, D. (1998) "Changing Incentives of the Chinese Bureaucracy", American EconomicReview, vol. 88, no. 1, 393-7.

Gordon, R. and Li, D. (1999) "The Effects of Wage Distortions on Transition: Theory andEvidence from China", European Economic Review, vol. 43, no. 1, 163-183.

Li, D. (1998) "Insider Control and the Soft Budget Constraint: A Simple Theory",Economics Letters, vol. 61, no. 3, 307-11.

Li, D. (2000) "Chinese State-Owned Enterprises under the Dual Influence of theGovernment and the Market", in The Dragon Millennium (ed. Richter, F.J.), GreenwoodPublishing Group, Westport, Conn., 341-356.

Bai, C., Li, D., Tao, Z.G. and Wang, Y.J. (in press) "A Multi-Task Theory of StateEnterprise Reform", Journal of Comparative Economics.

DANYANG XIE

Associate Professor




Economic growth; macroeconomic theory.


Monetary policy in a multi-task environment

DAG DAG98/99.BM27 HK$50,000 Jan 1999

The Real Impact Of Financial Crisis: A Quantitative Analysis



Xie, D., Zou, H. and Davoodi, H. (1999) "Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth inthe United States", Journal of Urban Economics, 45 (1): 228-239.

Rebelo, S. and Xie, D. (1999) "On the Optimality of Interest Rate Smoothing", Journal of

Monetary Economics, 43 (2): 263-282.

PAUL J BREWER

Associate Professor




Industrial organization; electronic commerce design of smart computer-assisted markets;experimental laboratory techniques.


Issues in the design of application-specific smart markets and trading robots

DAG DAG98/99.BM23 HK$75,000 Oct 1998

Electronic Commerce Based On Smart Markets And Software Agents: An ExperimentalEconomics Approach



Brewer, P.J. (in press) "Zero Intelligence Robots and The Double Auction Market",Handbook of Results in Experimental Economics, Elsevier, North-Holland, 13.

Brewer, P.J. (1999) "Decentralized computation procurement and computational robustnessin a smart market", Economic Theory, 13 (1): 41-92.

SONGNIAN CHEN

Associate Professor




Econometrics.


Estimation of a location parameter for a binary choice model

DAG DAG97/98.BM17 HK$42,000 Jun 1998

Estimation of a binary choice model


WOON GYU CHOI

Associate Professor




Macro and monetary economics; applied econometrics; international finance.


The inverted Fisher hypothesis, inflation forecastability, and asset substitutions

DAG DAG98/99.BM26 HK$50,000 Sep 1998

Asymmetric effects of fiscal policy across different real interest rates

DAG DAG99/00.BM21 HK$44,000 Oct 1999

Monetary Policy And Adjustment Of Corporate Liquid Assets And Inventories



Choi, W.G. (1999) "Asymmetric Liquidity Effects Across Monetary Policy Stances",Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 31 (3): 386-416.

Choi, W.J. (1999) "Estimating the Discount Rate Policy Reaction Function of the MonetaryAuthority", Journal of Applied Econometrics, 14 (4): 379-401.

Choi, W.G. and Wen, Y. (2000) "Measuring Interest Rates as Determined by Thrift andProductivity", 2000 Society for Economic Dynamics and Control Meeting, Society forEconomic Dynamics and Control, Costa Rica, 29 June 00.

Choi, W.J. and Oh, S. (1999) "Endogenous Money Supply and Money Demand", FarEastern Meeting of Econometric Society 1999, Econometric Society, Singapore, 1 July 99.

TIMOTHY K CHUE

Associate Professor


PhD, Harvard University (1999)


International finance; asset pricing.


Where do the benefits of international diversification come from?

DAG DAG99/00.BM18 HK$68,000 Nov 1999

The Role Of International Portfolio Holdings In The Propagation Of Shocks AcrossCountries, And The Benefits From Financial Integration



Chue, T.K. (2000) "Correlation of International Stock Returns and the Benefits fromDiversification", CEPR Conference on International Finance and Economic Activity, CEPR,Greece, 11-12 June 2000.

Chue, T.K. (in press) "Investor Home Bias and the Correlation of International StockReturns", Journal of International Money and Finance.

DAVID COOK

Associate Professor




Macroeconomics and monetary economics; economic growth; econometrics.


Growth and cycles in the international economy

DAG DAG99/00.BM23 HK$54,000 Nov 1999

Leverage And Business Cycles In The Open Economy



Cook, D. (1999) "The Liquidity Effect and Money Demand", Journal of MonetaryEconomics, 43 (2): 377-390.

Cook, D. (in press) "Dynamic Complementarities and the Liquidity Effect", MacroeconomicDynamics.

Cook, D. (in press) "Time to Enter and Business Cycles", Journal of Economic Dynamics &Control.

Cook, D. (in press) "Market Entry and the International Transmission of Business Cycles",Journal of International Economics.

Cook, D. (in press) "World War II and Convergence", Review of Economics & Statistics.

Cook, D. and Devereux, M. (2001) "The Macroeconomic Effects of Financial Panics",working paper.

SON KU KIM

Associate Professor




Microeconomics; uncertainty and information; game theory; industrial organization.


The first-order approach vs. the second-order approach to principle-agent problems

DAG DAG98/99.BM18 HK$30,000 Oct 1998

The principal's ex-ante information vs. ex-post information

DAG DAG99/00.BM50 HK$40,000 Dec 1999


Kim, S.K. and Wang, S. (1998) "Linear Contracts and the Double Moral-Hazard", Journal ofEconomic Theory, 82, 342-378.

Kim, S.K. (2000) "Should Principals have Information Ex-Ante or Ex-post?", workingpaper.

Kim, S.K. and Pae, S. (2000) "Optimal Reporting Frequencies in a Dual Agency Model",working paper.

Kim, S.K. and Ryu, K.K. (2000) "Joint Determination of Internal Organizational Design:Decision-Making, Task Allocation, and Incentive Scheme", working paper.

JAE HYON HAHM

Associate Professor




Micro-theory; industrial organization.


A durable goods monopolist with endogenous R & D

DAG DAG00/01.BM14 HK$65,000 Nov 2000

LARRY D QIU

Associate Professor




International trade; industrial organization; China's foreign trade and investment.


Local Content Requirement And Its Implications For International Trade And Foreign DirectInvestment



Qiu, L.D. (1997) "On the dynamic efficiency of Bertrand and Cournot equilibria", Journal ofEconomic Theory, 75(1), 213-229.

Qiu, L.D. and Tao, Z. (1998) "Policy on international R&D cooperation: subsidy or tax?",European Economic Review, 42, 1727-1750.

Qiu, L.D. (1999) "Credit Rationing and Patterns of New Product Trade", Journal ofEconomic Integration, 14 (1): 75-95.

Qiu, D. (2000) "Case study: People's Republic of China", Asian Exports, Oxford UniversityPress, Hong Kong, 167-206.

Spencer, B. and Qiu, L.D. (in press) "Keiretsu and Relationship-Specific Investment: ABarrier to Trade?", International Economic Review.

Cheng, L., Qiu, L.D. and Wong, K. (in press) "Antidumping measures as a tool ofprotectionism: A mechanism design approach", Canadian Journal of Economics.

TRIDIP RAY

Associate Professor




Development economies; industrial organization; China's foreign trade and investment.


Testing the predictability of tax-rate changes: A generalized spectral density approach

DAG DAG99/00.BM25 HK$68,000 Nov 1999

A B2B procurement auction under supplier unreliability

DAG DAG00/01.BM16 HK$45,000 Dec 2000


Basu, K, Ghosh, A. and Ray, T. (1997) "The Babu and the Boxwallah: ManagerialIncentives and Government Intervention in a developing economy", Review of DevelopmentEconomics, 1(1), 71-80.

Ray, T. (1999) "Share tenancy as strategic delegation", Journal of Development Economics,58(1), 45-60.

Ray, T. and Singh, N. (in press) "Limited Liability, Contractual Choice, and the TenancyLadder", Journal of Development Economics.

Ray, T. (1999) "Sharecropping, Land Exploitation and Land Improving Investments",working paper.

SUSHENG WANG

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Toronto (1991)Lecturer of Mathematics, Nankai University (1985-)Asst Professor of Economics, Concordia University (1991-93)


Information theory; agency models.


Neoclassical growth with trade: An overlapping generations approach

DAG DAG97/98.BM22 HK$30,000 Jan 1998

Saving and wealth

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Wealth accumulation and distribution

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Wang, S.S. (2000) "The Determinants of Aggregate Wealth", Macroeconomic Dynamics, 4(1): 22-41.

WEN ZHOU

Associate Professor


PhD, Duke University (2000)


Industrial organization; microeconomics; game theory.


Intertemporal pricing

DAG DAG00/01.BM17 HK$65,000 Sep 2000

CHANGQI WU

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Leuven (1990)


Industrial economics; economics of R&D; competitive strategy; China's industries.


Market structure, competition and dynamics of China's industries

DAG DAG98/99.BM20 HK$80,000 Nov 1998


ITC ID98/99.HSS01 HK$530,000 Apr 1999

Performance and organization of foreign invested enterprises in China

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Mixed market and foreign direct investment: The case of China

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Cheng, L. and Wu, C. (2000) "Competition and competition policy", Pacific EconomicReview, 5 (2): 279-290.

Wu, C. and Cheng, L. (2000) "Hong Kong's Business Regulation in Transition",Deregulation and interdependence in the Asia-Pacific Region, University of Chicago Press,Chicago, 157-194.

Wu, C. and Wei, K.C. (1998) "Cooperative R&D and the Value of the Firm", Review ofIndustrial Organization, 13 (4): 425-446.

Cheng, L. and Wu, C (in press) "Determinants of the Performance of Foreign InvestedEnterprises in China", Journal of Comparative Economics.

Wu, C. and Cheng, L.K. (1998) "Why Responsive Pricing Mechanism Fails: Analysis of the

Scheme of Control Regulation in Hong Kong", 25th Annual Conference of the EuropeanAssociation for Research in Industrial Economics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen,Denmark, 27-30 Aug.

KANGOH YI

Associate Professor


PhD, University of California, San Diego (1999)


Bounded rationality; learning; coordination; bargaining.


A quantal response equilibrium model of ultimatum bargaining games

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Equilibrium selection of boundedly national model

DAG DAG00/01.BM56 HK$40,000 Jan 2001


Yi, K.O. (1999) "A Quantal Response Equilibrium Model of Order Statistic Games",working paper.

YAN YU

Associate Professor


PhD, Duke University (1999)


Microeconomics; theory of firm; the Chinese economy.


Equitable allocations in production economy

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Multiple units public goods provision

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Yu, Y. (2000) "Strategy-proof mechanisms for the cost-sharing of multiple public goods",working paper.

Yu, Y. (2000) "Corruption: its role in public ownership and Transitional Economies",working paper.

Department of Finance

The mission of the Department of Finance is to teach and conduct research on the financialmarkets and the investment and financial decisions faced by individuals and corporations.While striving to be one of the top finance programs in the world, the Department placesspecial emphasis on developing expertise on Asian financial markets. The Department hasestablished a Center for Asian Financial Markets to develop data and knowledge bases andattract the necessary people to build a research center on Asian financial markets similar tothose that currently exist for Europe, Japan, and the United States.

Research Profile

K C CHAN

Professor, Department Head and Associate Dean of Business and Management

KALOK CHAN

Professor

YUK-SHEE CHAN

Professor and Dean of Business and Management; Director, Shui On Center for ChinaBusiness & Management

JIN-CHUAN DUAN

Professor

K C JOHN WEI

Professor and Director, Center for Asian Financial Markets

SUDIPTO DASGUPTA

Associate Professor

CHUAN-YANG HWANG

Associate Professor

CHU ZHANG

Associate Professor

TIM R ADAM

Associate Professor

KEEHONG BAE

Associate Professor

ANDREW CARVERHILL

Associate Professor

YEUNG LEWIS CHAN

Associate Professor

MAURICE EWING

Associate Professor

JOSEPH P H FAN

Associate Professor

VIDHAN KRISHAN GOYAL

Associate Professor

ANGELA NG

Associate Professor

CHEOL PARK

Associate Professor

WILSON H S TONG

Associate Professor

STEVEN X WEI

Associate Professor

TAKESHI YAMADA

Associate Professor

Research Profile

K C CHAN

Professor, Department Head and Associate Dean of Business andManagement


PhD, University of Chicago (1985)Assoc. Professor, Ohio State University (1991-94)


Stock market pricing model and testing; market microstructure; portfolio management.


Areas of Excellence in financial services

AOE AOE97/98.BM02 HK$300,000 May 1998

Investigation of the behavior of the Hong Kong Stock Market and Stock Index FuturesMarket around the 1997 October financial crisis

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The relationship between margins and liquidity in the Hang Seng index futures market

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Chan, K.C. (1999) "The Hong Kong Currency Board: Crisis, Reform and Future Prospects",International Conference on Exchange Rate Regimes, Asian Development Bank Institute,Tokyo, 17-18 December 1999.

Chan, K.C. (2000) "Comments on Currency Options and Central Bank Operations",working paper.

Chan, K.C. and Hwang, C.Y. (1998) "The Impact of Tick Size on Market Quality: AnEmpirical Investigation of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong", working paper.

Chan, K.C. and Hwang, C.Y. (2000) "The Impact of Tick Size on the Quality of a PureOrder-Driven Market: Evidence from the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong", working paper.

KALOK CHAN

Professor


PhD, Ohio State University (1990)Assoc. Professor, Arizona State University (1995-97)


Dynamics of asset prices; market micro-structure; derivatives; international financialmarkets.


The price impacts of trade size in NYSE, NASDAQ, and the Hong Kong stock market


International Portfolio Allocation During Asian Financial Crisis: Evidence From The U.S.Closed-end Fund



Bailey, W., Chan, K. and Chung, Y.P. (2000) "Depository Receipts, Country Funds, and thePeso Crash: The Intraday Evidence", Journal of Finance, vol. 55, 2693-2717.

Chan, K. and Fong, W.M. (2000) "Trade Size, Order Imbalance, and the Volatility-VolumeRelation", Journal of Financial Economics, vol. 57, 247-273.

Chan, K., Hameed, A. and Tong, W. (2000) "Profitability of Momentum Strategies in theInternational Equity Markets", Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, vol. 35,153-172.

Bae, K., Chan, K. and Cheung, Y. (1998) "Bid-ask spread and arbitrage profitability: astudy of the Kong Kong Index future and options market", Journal of Futures Market, vol.18, 743-763.

Bessembinder, H. and Chan, K. (1998) "Market efficiency and the returns to technicalanalysis", Financial Management, vol. 27, no. 2, 5-17.

Chan, K., McQueen, G. and Thorley, S. (1998) "Asian stock market bubbles", Pacific-BasinFinance Journal, 1998, vol. 6, 125-152.

YUK-SHEE CHAN

Professor and Dean of Business and Management; Director, Shui OnCenter for China Business & Management


PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1982)Justin Dart Term Professor of Finance, University of Southern California (1990-93)


Corporate finance; financial institutions; contract and agency theory; bank regulation.


Deposit insurance and banking regulation

DAG DAG97/98.BM75 HK$50,000 Jun 1998


Chan, Y-S, Greenbaum, S.I. and Thakor, A.V. (in press) "Reprint of article 'Is Fairly PricedDeposit Insurance Possible?' Journal of Finance", March 1992, pp.227-245, The Regulationand Supervision of Banks, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., United Kingdom, In Press.

Bajaj, M., Chan, Y.-S. and Dasgupta, S. (1998) "The Relationship between Ownership,Financing Decisions, and Firm Performance: A Signalling Model", International EconomicReview, 39 (3): 723-744.

JIN-CHUAN DUAN

Professor


PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1986)Assoc. Professor, McGill University (1992-96)


Option pricing theory and numerical methods; financial time series modeling; banking.


Equilibrium Term Structure Of Interest Rates: Short Vs. Long Memory



Duan, J.-C. and Simonato, J.-G. (1998) "Empirical Martingale Simulation for Asset Prices",Management Science, 44 (9): 1218-1233.

Duan, J.-C. and Simonato, J.-G. (in press) "American Option Pricing under GARCH by aMarkov Chain Approximation", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

Duan, J.-C. and Simonato, J.-G. (1999) "Estimating Exponential-Affine Term StructureModels by Kalman Filter", Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 13 (2):111-135.

Duan, J.-C. and Wei, J. (1999) "Pricing Foreign Currency and Cross-Currency Optionsunder GARCH", Journal of Derivatives, 7 (1): 51-63.

Duan, J.-C. and Yu, M.-T. (1999) "Capital Standard, Forbearance and Deposit InsurancePricing under GARCH", Journal of Banking and Finance, 23 (11): 1691-1706.

Duan, J.-C., Gauthier, G. and Simonato, J.-G. (1999) "An Analytical Approximation for theGARCH Option Pricing Model", Journal of Computational Finance, 2 (Summer): 75-116.

K C JOHN WEI

Professor and Director, Center for Asian Financial Markets


PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana (1984)Assoc. Professor of Finance, Indiana University (1989-92)


Asset pricing theories; Empirical asset pricing.


Firm characteristics and past return trading strategies


The Capital Investment Puzzle: Investment Opportunities Vs. Agency Costs?



Daniel, K., Titman, S. and Wei, K.C.J. (in press) "Explaining the cross-section of stockreturns in Japan: factors or characteristics?", Journal of Finance.

Chan, Y.-C. and Wei, K.C.J. (in press) "Price and volume effects associated with derivativewarrant issuance on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong", Journal of Banking and Finance.

Chiu, A.C.W., Titman, S. and Wei, K.C.J. (2000) Corporate groups, financial liberalizationand growth: The case of Indonesia, MIT Press, Boston.

Wei, K.C.J., Lee, C.F., and Lee, A. (1999) "Linear conditional expectation, returndistributions and capital asset pricing theories", Journal of Financial Research, 22, 471-487.

Titman, S. and Wei, K.C.J. (1999) "Understanding stock market volatility: The case ofKorea and Taiwan", Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 7, 41-66.

Chui, A. and Wei, K.C.J. (1998) "Book-to-market, firm size, and the turn-of-the-year effect:Evidence from Pacific-Basin emerging markets", Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 6, 275-293.

SUDIPTO DASGUPTA

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Southern California (1987)Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics, University of Southern California(1987)


Corporate finance; auction theory; industrial organization; game theory.


Do business groups create value? Evidence from the Indian corporate sector

DAG DAG99/00.BM55 HK$72,000 Jan 2000

Corporate cash holdings and investment behaviour

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Dasgupta, S. and Shin, J. (in press) "Managerial Risk-Taking Incentives, Product MarketCompetition, and Welfare", European Economic Review.

Dasgupta, S. and Tao, Z. (in press) "Bargaining, Bonding, and Partial Ownership",International Economic Review.

Dasgupta, S. and Tsui, K. (2000) "A Matching Auction for Targets with HeterogeneousBidders", working paper.

Dasgupta, S., Goyal, V. and Tan, G. (2000) "Corporate Focus, Divestitures, and Divisional

Cross- Subsidies", working paper.

Dasgupta, S., Tsui, K. and Zhou, L. (2000) "Auctions with Cross-Shareholdings", workingpaper.

Bhandari, L., Dasgupta, S. and Gangopadhyay, S. (2000) "Development FinancialInstitutions as Financial Intermediaries: Evidence from the Indian Corporate Sector",Western Economic Association, Western Economic Association, USA, Vancouver, Canada,29 June, 2000.

CHUAN-YANG HWANG

Associate Professor


PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (1988)Asst. Professor, University of Pittsburgh (1988-96)


Market microstructure; insider trading; futures and options contracts; signaling andasymmetric information; investment; corporate governance.


Central clearing and the ex-dividend date effect

DAG DAG98/99.BM64 HK$48,476 Apr 1999

Tick Size And Market Quality


Central Clearing And Ex-dividend Date Effect



George, T. and Hwang, C.Y. (1998) "Endogenous market statistics and security pricing: Anempirical investigation", Journal of Financial markets, 1 (3): 285-319.

Chan, K.C. and Hwang, C.Y. (2000) "The impact of tick size on a pure order-driven market:Evidence of the stock exchange of Hong Kong", working paper.

D'mello, R., Ferris, S. and Hwang, C.Y. (2000) "Tax-Loss, Price Pressure and Investors'Trading Behavior at the Turn-of-the-Year", working paper.

Dunbar, C., Hwang, C.Y. and Shastri, K. (1998) "Underwriter Analyst Recommendations:Conflict of Interest or Rush to Judgement?", working paper.

Geroge, T. and Hwang, C.Y. (in press) "Information flow and pricing errors: A unifiedapproach to estimation and testing", Review of Financial Studies.

CHU ZHANG

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Chicago (1992)Asst. Professor and Associate Professor, University of Alberta (1991-97)


Theory and empirical study of investments.


Mutual fund style and performance measures

DAG DAG99/00.BM29 HK$40,000 Jan 2000

Efficient Estimation Of The Relation Between Stock Returns And Firm-specific Variables InLarge Cross Sections



He, J., Ng, L. and Zhang, C. (1999) "Asset pricing specification errors and performanceevaluation", European Finance Review, 3, 205-232.

Kan, R. and Zhang, C. (1999) "Two-pass tests of asset pricing models with useless factors",Journal of Finance, 54 (1): 203-235.

Kan, R. and Zhang, C. (1999) "GMM tests of stochastic discount factor models with uselessfactors", Journal of Financial Economics.

Mehrotra, V., Yu, W. and Zhang, C. (1999) "Market Reactions to the Financial Post's HotStock Column", Canadian Journal of Administrative Science, 16 (2): 118-131.

TIM R ADAM

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Virginia (1995)Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (1994-95)Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Michigan (2000-01)


Risk management; corporate finance; capital budgeting; derivatives; gold mining industry.


Do firms use derivatives to reduce their dependence on external capital markets?

DAG DAG97/98.BM24 HK$65,276 Jan 1998

Do market-to-book ratios measure growth opportunities?: Evidence from the mining industry

DAG DAG98/99.BM29 HK$63,476 Nov 1998

Do Market-to-Book Ratios Measure Growth Opportunities? Evidence From The MiningIndustry



Adam, T.R. (1999) "Do Firms Use Derivatives to Reduce their Dependence on ExternalCapital Markets?", 9th Annual Derivatives Securities Conference, Boston, MA (USA),April, Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, Financial Management,Association, Orlando, USA, October and 4th Annual Meeting of the Asia Meeting of theAsia Pacific Finance Association and the 5th Annual Meeting of the Nippon FinanceAssociation, Asia Pacific Finance Association, Tokyo, Japan.

Adam, T.R. (1998) "Derivatives and Debt in Dynamic Corporate Finance", 5th AnnualMeeting of the German Finance Association, German Finance Association, Hamburg, 25September.

Adam, T.R. and Goyal, V.K. (1999) "The Investment Opportunity Set and its ProxyVariables: Theory and Evidence", German Finance Association Annual Meeting, GermanFinance Association, Aachen, Germany, September.

KEEHONG BAE

Associate Professor


PhD, Ohio State University (1993)Asst. Professor, City University of Hong Kong (1993-96)Research Fellow, Korea Institute of Finance (1996-97)Asst. Professor, City University of Hong Kong (1997-98)


Asia-Pacific finance.


Informational effects of option trading on equity markets around public disclosures: Amarket microstructure analysis

DAG DAG98/99.BM28 HK$63,476 Nov 1998

Merger and spin-off: Market microstructure approach

DAG DAG98/99.BM32 HK$33,476 Feb 1999

Is A Diversified Business Group An Efficient Form Of A Business Organization?: EvidenceFrom International Mergers



Bae, K.-H. (in press) "Limit Orders, Depth and Volatility: Evidence from the StockExchange of Hong Kong", Journal of Finance.

Bae, K.-H., Cha, B. and Cheung, Y.-L. (1999) "The Transmission of Pricing Information ofDually-Listed Stocks", Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 26 (5): 709-723.

ANDREW CARVERHILL

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Warwick (1983)Senior Research Fellow, Warwick Business School (1987-91)Visiting Asst Professor, University of Indiana, Bloomington (1994-95)


Options on the term structure of interest rates; dynamic equilibrium in capital markets;efficient valuation of financial options; dynamic risk management.


Carverhill, A.P. (1998) "Commodity Futures and Forwards: the HJM Approach",Quantitative Methods in Finance Conference, Sydney, Australia, 14 - 17 December.

Carverhill, A.P. (1999) "Commodity Futures and Forwards: the HJM Approach", Capitalmarkets: Pricing, Regulation and Market Structure, Centre for Economic Policy Research,University Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 20 - 21 June.

Carverhill, A.P. (2000) "Predictability and the Dynamics of Long Forward rates", workingpaper.

Carverhill, A.P. (2000) "Price Production Storage and Futures Markets", working paper.

Carverhill, A.P. and Dyrting, S. (2000) "The Information Content of Implied Volatility forCME Japanese yen and S&P500 Futures Options", Derivatives 2000 Conference, CornellUniversity and Queens University, Boston, 28, 29 April.

Carverhill, A.P. and Chan, A.W.-H. (2000) "Jardine Matheson Group's delisting from theStock Exchange of Hong Kong: Evidence on International MarketIntegration/Segmentation", working paper.

YEUNG LEWIS CHAN

Associate Professor


PhD, Harvard University (2000)Teaching Fellow, Harvard University (1997-99)Research Assistant, National Bureau of Economic Research (1997-00)


Optimal portfolio allocation; heterogeneity in financial markets; term structure models;information and learning.


Catching up with the Joneses: Heterogeneous preferences and the dynamics of asset prices

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Chan, Y.L., Stock, J. and Watson, M. (2000) "A Dynamic Factor Model Framework forForecast Combination", Symposium on: New Theories of Economic Forecasting, SpanishEconomic Review, vol. 1, issue 2.

MAURICE EWING

Associate Professor


PhD, Princeton University (1998)Researcher, Board of Governors of Federal Reserve System (1993)Research Fellow, Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1996-97)


Banking and international finance; economics of financial crisis; economics of contracts;cooperative game theory.


Systemic risk, sovereign risk and financial crisis

DAG DAG98/99.BM34 HK$63,476 Dec 1998

Systemic Risk, Sovereign Risk And The Asian Financial Crisis



Ewing, M.A. (2000) "Property Rights, Disorderly Workouts and Coordinated Liquidation",CEMAF/ISCTE 5th anniversary Finance Meeting, CEMAF, Lisbon, Portugal, 16 March.

Ewing, M.A. (2000) "Coordinated Liquidation and Security Design", EFMA AssociationConference, European Financial Management Association, Athens, Greece, 28 June.

JOSEPH P H FAN

Associate Professor




Corporate finance; corporate governance; organizational economics.


The performance and governance of diversified firms


Diversification And Firm Productivity In Asia



Fan, J.P.H. (in press) "Price Uncertainty and Vertical Integration: An Empirical

Examination of Petrochemical Firms", Journal of Corporate Finance.

Fan, J.P.H. and Lang, L.H.P. (2000) "The Measurement of Relatedness: An Application toCorporate Diversification", Journal of Business, vol. 73, no. 4, October, 629-660.

Fan, J.P.H. and Lang, L.H.P. (1999) "The Nature of Diversification", The 1999 ASSAMeeting, Association of Financial Economists, New York, NY, U.S.A, 3 Jan 99.

Claessens, S., Djankov, S., Fan, J.P.H. and Lang, L.H.P. (1999) "Diversification andEfficiency of Investment by East Asian Corporations", The 1999 Western FinanceAssociation Annual Meeting, Western Finance Association, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A, 21June 99.

Claessens, S., Djankov, S., Fan, J.P.H. and Lang, L.H.P. (1999) "The Rationale for Groups:Evidence from East Asia", NBER Summer Conference on Corporate Finance, NationalBureau of Economic Research, Boston, August 2, 1999.

Claessens, S., Djankov, S., Fan, J.P.H. and Lang, L.H.P. (2000) "Ultimate OwnershipStructure and Corporate Performance in East Asia", American Economics AssociationAnnual Meeting, American Economics Association, Boston, 6 Jan 2000.

VIDHAN KRISHAN GOYAL

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Pittsburgh (1994)Visiting Asst. Professor of Finance, State University of New York at Buffalo (1994-95)


International corporate finance; corporate restructuring and governance; valuation, mergersand acquisitions; contracts banking.


Growth opportunities and investment policies in the U. S. defense industry

DAG DAG97/98.BM26 HK$55,000 Jun 1998

Investment opportunities, corporate financing, investment and dividend policies in the U.S.defense industry


Asset Valuations, Liquidity And Investment: Evidence From Japan


Charter Values And The Structure Of Bank Subordinated Debt Contracts



Goyal, V.K. and Park, C.W. (in press) "Board Leadership Structure and Chief ExecutiveTurnover", Journal of Corporate Finance.

Goyal, V.K., Gollapudi, N. and Ogden, J. (1998) "A Corporate Bond Innovation of the 90s:The Clawback Provision in High Yield Debt", Journal of Corporate Finance, 4 (4): 301-320.

Cai, J., Cheung, Y.L. and Goyal, V.K. (1999) "Bank Monitoring, Liquidity Risk, and theMaturity Structure of Japanese Corporate Debt Issues", Pacific Basin Finance Journal, 7(3-4): 229-250.

Adam, T.R. and Goyal, V.K. (1999) "The Investment Opportunity Set and Its ProxyVariables: Theory and Evidence", German Finance Association Meetings, German FinanceAssociation, Aachen, Germany, 24 September 1999.

Goyal, V.K. (2000) "Market Discipline of Bank Risk: Evidence from Subordinated DebtContracts", Western Finance Association, Western Finance Association, Sun Valley, Idaho,U.S, June 22-24, 2000.

Cai, J., Cheung, Y.L. and Goyal, V.K. (1998) "Bank Monitoring, Liquidity Risk, and theMaturity Structure of Japanese Corporate Debt Issues", Tenth Annual PACAP-FMAConference/The Annual Meeting of the Pacific Basin Financial Management Society, PacificBasin Financial Management Society, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 1998.

ANGELA NG

Associate Professor




International finance; empirical asset pricing; emerging equity markets; Asian financialmarkets.


Volatility spillover effects from Japan and the U.S. to the Pacific Basin

DAG DAG97/98.BM72 HK$50,000 Feb 1998

Return volatility and trading volume: The case of the pacific basin equity markets

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Market Integration And Contagion



Ng, A. (2000) "Volatility Spillover Effects from Japan and the US to the Pacific-Basin",Journal of International Money and Finance, 19, 207-233.

CHEOL PARK

Associate Professor




Corporate finance; financial markets and institutions; contract theory.


The effect of trading on the form of contracts

DAG DAG98/99.BM62 HK$33,476 Nov 1998

WILSON H S TONG

Associate Professor


PhD, Arizona State University (1992)


Foreign currency market; Asian security markets; empirical market microstructure; empiricalfinance.


Tong, W. (in press) "Currency co-movements and forecasting", Journal of Business Financeand Accounting.

Sun, Q. and Tong, W. (2000) "The Effect of Market Segmentation on Stock Prices: theChina Syndrome", Journal of Banking and Finance, vol. 42, no. 12, 1875-1902.Tong, W.(2000) "International Evidence of Weekend Anomalies", Journal of Financial Research, vol.23, no. 4, 495-522.

Sun, Q. and Tong, W. (2000) "The Effect of U.S. Trade Deficit Announcement on the StockPrices of US and Japanese Automakers", Journal of Finance and Quantitative Analysis, vol.23, no. 1, 15-43.

Chan, K., Hameed, A. and Tong, W. (2000) "Profitability of Momentum Strategies in theInternational Equity Markets", Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, vol. 36 no. 2,153-172.

Lam, H. and Tong, W. (1999) "Interdaily volatility in a continuous order-driven market",Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, vol. 27, no. 7&8: 1013-1036.

STEVEN X WEI

Associate Professor




Empirical finance; investment; econometrics.


Regime shifting and volatility of the Fed's open market operations

DAG DAG98/99.BM33 HK$53,476 Dec 1998

Measuring The Economic Significance Of The Stock-return Predictability - EmpiricalEvidence From The US Stock Markets



Wei, X. (1999) "A Bayesian Approach to Dynamic Tobit Models", Econometric Reviews,18, 417-439.

Wei, X. (2000) "A Censored-GARCH model of Asset Returns with Price Limits", workingpaper.

Wei, X. and Zhang, C. (2000) "Statistical and Economic Significance of Stock ReturnPredictability: A Mean-Variance Analysis", working paper.

Wei, X. and Chen, M. (2000) "Examining the Economic Significance of ConditionalHeteroskedasticity in Stock Returns", working paper.

TAKESHI YAMADA

Associate Professor


PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1993)Economist, Daiwa Securities (1979-83)Assoc. Professor, Hosei University (1987-94)


Empirical asset pricing; market microstructure; corporate finance.


Stock Holding Preference And Performance By Different Types Of Investors

CERG HKUST6013/99H HK$585,000 Oct 1999


Kang, J.-K., Shivdasani, A. and Yamada, T. (2000) "The effect of bank relations oninvestment decisions: An investigation of Japanese takeover bids", Journal of Finance, vol.55, no, 5, 2197-2218.

Goyal, V.K. and Yamada, T. (2000) "Asset price bubbles, liquidity and investment:Evidence from Japan", National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)-CEPR-EIJS-CIRJEJapan Project Meeting, Tokyo, 22-23 September.

Goyal, V. and Yamada, T. (2000) "Asset Price Bubbles, Liquidity and Investment:Evidence from Japan", Sixth Biennial Symposium, Crisis Events in Financial Intermediationand Securities Markets, Indiana University, Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, 25 Feb.

Goyal, V. and Yamada, T. (2000) "Asset Price Bubbles, Liquidity and Investment:Evidence from Japan", Annual Meeting of the American Finance Association, AmericanFinance Association, Boston, MA, 7 Jan.

Kang, J.-K., Shivdasani, A. and Yamada, T. (1999) "The Effect of Bank Relations onInvestment Decisions: An Investigation of Japanese Takeover Bids", National Bureau ofEconomic Research, Japan Project Meeting, National Bureau of Economic Research, Tokyo,15 Dec.

Cai, J., Chan, K.C., and Yamada, T. (1997) "The performance of Japanese mutual funds",The Review of Financial Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, 237-273.

Department of Information and Systems Management

There are two main streams of research in the Department of Information and SystemsManagement. They are Information Systems (IS) and Operations Management (OM). Thediscipline of Information Systems is concerned with the application of informationtechnology to achieve the management objectives of profit-oriented and non-profitorganizations. In modern society, a major portion of business activities involves thecollection, analysis, processing, management, and distribution of information. Computer andtelecommunication technologies, if properly applied, have proved to be instrumental inleveraging an organization's effectiveness. As organizations are increasingly faced withchallenges of rapid technology advances in the ever-changing marketplace, there is a strongdemand for research in this field.

Operations Management provides the basis for undertaking the work of an organisation andcontrolling it to a successful completion by means of skills to break work down into tasks,and evaluate the time and resources needed. Included within this area of research are theidentification of management problems, modelling and solution of the technical components,interpretation and use of the solution, and solution maintenance.

Research Profile

JAMES CHRISTOPHER WESTLAND

Associate Professor and Department Head

INCHI HU

Professor

ALBERT Y LO

Professor

KAR YAN TAM

Professor, Associate Dean of Business and Management and Director of Centre forE-Commerce

KI LING CHEUNG

Associate Professor

THEODORE H CLARK

Associate Professor

SHU MING NG

Associate Professor and Deputy Head

SHAO-HUI ZHENG

Associate Professor

DAVID A BODOFF

Associate Professor

CHRISTOPHER K CARTER

Associate Professor

PAUL W FORSTER

Associate Professor

HARESH GURNANI

Associate Professor

SE-JOON HONG

Associate Professor

JAMES KWOK

Associate Professor

KARL R LANG

Associate Professor

MIKE KA PUI SO

Associate Professor

JAMES Y L THONG

Associate Professor

CHI-MING DAVY WONG

Associate Professor

SAMUEL P WONG

Associate Professor

YAN XU

Associate Professor

HONGTAO ZHANG

Associate Professor

Research Profile

JAMES CHRISTOPHER WESTLAND

Associate Professor and Department Head


PhD, University of Michigan (1987)Assoc. Professor of Information and Operations Management, University of SouthernCalifornia (1987-96)


Electronic commerce; IT microeconomics; software development and re-engineering; ITsecurity.


Moser, S., Henderson-Sellers, B. and Misic, V.B. (1999) "Cost estimation based on businessmodels", Journal of Systems and Software, 49 (1): 33-42.

INCHI HU

Professor


PhD, Stanford University (1985)Asst. Professor of Statistics, University of Pennsylvania (1986-92)


Sequential analysis; stochastic control; stochastic process; statistical inference.


A Bayesian version of Kiefer-Wolfwitz Scheme for searching the maximum of a regressionfunction

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Bootstrap And Stochastic Approximation



Chen, K. and Hu, I. (1998) "On Consistency of Bayes Estimates in a Certainty EquivalenceAdaptive System", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 43, 943-947.

Chen, K., Hu, I. and Ying, Z. (1999) "Strong Consistency of Maximum LikelihoodEstimator in Generalised Linear Models with Fixed and Stochastic Designs", Annals ofStatistics, 27, 1155-1163.

Hu, I. (1998) "On Sequential Designs in Nonlinear Problems", Biometrika, 85, 496-503.

Cabrera, J. and Hu, I. (1999) "Bias Reduction through Target Estimation and StochasticApproximation", working paper.

Fuh, C.D. and Hu, I. (in press) "Asymtotically efficient strategies for a stochastic schedulingproblem with order constraints", Annals of Statistics.

Fuh, C.D. and Hu, I. (in press) "Importance resampling for Bootstrap confidence regions",working paper.

ALBERT Y LO

Professor


PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1978)Assoc Professor of Statistics, State University of New York at Buffalo (1985-93)


Bayesian statistics; curve estimations; resampling methods; missing data problems.


Seating algorithms and bayesian mixture models


Statistical analysis of multistate models

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Lo, A.Y., Brunner, L.J. and Chan, A.T. (2000) "Weighted Chinese Restaurant Processes andBayesian Mixture Models", working paper.

Bertail, P. and Lo, A.Y. (2000) "Accurate Approximate Posterior Inference", working paper.

Brunner, L.J. and Lo, A.Y. (2000) "Bayesian Classification", working paper.

KAR YAN TAM

Professor, Associate Dean of Business and Management and Directorof Centre for E-Commerce


PhD, Purdue University (1988)Asst. Professor of Information Systems, University of Texas, Austin (1987-92)Research Scientist, Electronic Data Systems (1991)


Electronic commerce; micropayment; information technology investment.


On the interaction effects between behavior, online shopping environment, task, and usercharacteristics in electronic commerce



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Chau, P.Y.K., Au, K.G. and Tam, K.Y. (2000) "Impact of Information Presentation Modeson Online Shopping: An Empirical Evaluation of a Broadband Interactive ShoppingService", Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, vol. 10, no. 1,1-21.

Lee, H.G, Clark, T. and Tam, K.Y. (1999) "Can EDI Benefit Adopters?", InformationSystems Research, 10 (2): 186-195.

Tam, K.Y. and Hui, K.L. (1999) "Price Elasticity and the Growth of Computer Spending",IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 46 (2): 190-200.

Tam, K.Y. (1999) "Analysis of Firm-Level Computer Investments: A Comparative Study ofThree Pacific Rim Countries", IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, vol. 45, no.3, 276-286.

Tam, K.Y. (1998) "Impact of Information Technology Investments on Firm Performanceand Valuation: Evidence from Newly Industrialized Economics", Information SystemsResearch, vol. 9, no. 1, 85-98.

KI LING CHEUNG

Associate Professor


PhD, Stanford University (1990)Management Consultant, Teknekron Corporation (1990-92)Material Analyst, Sun Microsystems Inc. (1990)


Total quality management; supply chain management; production and operationsmanagement.


The impact of shipment coordination in a supply chain

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Vendor-managed inventory programs in a supply chain

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Cheung, K.L. (1998) "A Continuous Review Inventory Model with a Time Discount", IIETransactions, 30 (8): 747-757.

Cheung, K.L. (1998) "On the Benefits of Coordinated Replenishments via SupplierConsolidations", Global Supply Chain and Technology Management, POMS Series inTechnology and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society,U.S.A, 193-204.

Cheung, K.L. and Leung, K.F. (2000) "Coordinating Replenishments in a Supply Chainwith Quality Control Considerations", Production Planning and Control, 11(7): 697-705.

Cheung, K.L. and Hausman, W.H. (2000) "An Exact Performance Evaluation for theSupplier in a Two-Echelon Inventory System", Operations Research, 48(4): 646-653.

Cheung, K.L. and Zhang, A.X. (1999) "The Impact of Inventory Information Distortion dueto Customer Order Cancellations", Naval Research Logistics, 46 (3): 213-231.

Yuan, X.-M. and Cheung, K.L. (1998) "Modelling Returns of Merchandise in an InventorySystem", OR Spektrum, 20 (3): 147-154.

THEODORE H CLARK

Associate Professor


DBA, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration (1994)Electrical Engineer, IBM (1982-84)Management Consultant, McKinsey and Company (1985-90)


Telecommunications policy and strategy; EDI; interorganizational systems; process redesign.


Exploratory study of economic models of electronic commerce success

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Cross-cultural Field Studies Investigating GSS Effectiveness And Barriers To Adoption InHong Kong And US



Clark, T.H. and Hammond, J.H. (1998) "Reengineering Channel Reordering Processes toImprove Total Supply-Chain Performance", Global Supply Chain and TechnologyManagement, Production and Operations Management Society, Miami, U.S.A, 112-129.

Clark, T.H. and Lee, H.G. (in press) "Performance, Interdependence and Coordination inBusiness-to-Business Electronic Commerce and Supply-Chain Management", Information,Technology & Management.

Clark, T.H., Croson, D.C. and Schiano, W. (in press) "A Hierachical Model ofSupply-Chain Integration: Information Sharing and Operational Interdependence in the U.S.Grocery Channel", Information Technology & Management.

Lee, H.G., Clark, T.H. and Tam, K.Y. (in press) "Can EDI Benefit Adopters?", InformationSystems Research.

SHU MING NG

Associate Professor and Deputy Head


PhD, Carnegie Mellon University (1986)Asst Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Southern California(1987-92)


Modeling and improvement of manufacturing and management systems; discreteoptimization; mathematical programming; supply chain management.


Responsiveness, co-ordination and information sharing in supply chains

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Ha, A.Y., Li, L. and Ng, S.M. (2000) "Price and Delivery Logistics Competition in a SupplyChain", working paper.

Lee, C.Y., Li, L., Ng, S.M., Yip, A.C.Y. and Chung, T.M. (1998) "Machine Scheduling inLiquid Crystal Display Manufacturing", working paper.

Cheung, K.L., Ng, S.M., Leung, K. and Kopczak, L. (2000) "A Survey on Supply ChainManagement among Hong Kong Companies", case study.

SHAO-HUI ZHENG

Associate Professor


PhD, Columbia University (1994)Instructor, Columbia University (1994)


Quality control; Supply chain management; Markov decision programming; queuingsystems.


Dynamic approaches for software release problems

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Inventory Systems With Substitution And Unreliable Supply Sources



Zheng, S. (in press) " Dynamic Release Policies for Software Systems with a ReliabilityConstraint", IIE Transactions.

Chen, J., Yao, D.D. and Zheng, S. (in press) "Optimal Replenishment and Rework withMultiple Unreliable Supply Sources", Operations Research.

Zheng, S. (2000) "Dynamic Quality Control In An Assembly Line", IIE Transactions, 32(9),797-806.

Yao, D.D. and Zheng, S. (1999) "Sequential Inspection Under Capacity Constraints",Operations Research, 47: 410-421.

Yao, D.D. and Zheng, S. (1999) "Coordinated Quality Control in a Two-Stage System",IEEE Transactions On Automatic Control, 44 (6): 1166-1179.

Chen, J., Yao, D.D. and Zheng, S. (1998) "Quality Control for Products Supplied withWarranty", Operations Research, 46: 107-115.

DAVID A BODOFF

Associate Professor


PhD, New York University (1999)


Information retrieval; electronic corporate disclosure.


Information technology and market design innovations: The effects of electronic hybridtrading institutions on market competition

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Empirical models of the reliability of database indexes, user search terms, and relevancyassessments

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Winners and losers in data aggregation

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CHRISTOPHER K CARTER

Associate Professor


PhD, University of New South Wales (1994)Asst. Professor, University of New South Wales (1995)


Bayesian statistics; Markov chain; Monte Carlo methods; nonparametric regression; timeseries analysis.


Efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for dynamic mixture models

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Non-Gaussian filtering methods

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Bayesian Model Selection And Diagnostics For Financial Time Series


Efficient MCMC methods for switching and mixture models

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Gerlach, R., Carter, C.K. and Kohn, R. (2000) "Efficient Bayesian Inference for dynamicmixture models", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 95(451): 819-828.

Gerlach, R, Carter, C. and Kohn, R. (1999) "Diagnostics for time series analysis", Journalof Time Series Analysis, 20 (3): 309-330.

PAUL W FORSTER

Associate Professor


PhD, University of California Irivine (2000)


The impact of interorganizational information systems on supply chain performance,contingency theory, order fulfilment in electronic commerce and international air cargo.


The impact of interorganizational information systems (IOS) on supply chain performance:IOS use and on-time performance in U.S.-international air cargo operations

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HARESH GURNANI

Associate Professor



Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories (1989)


Logistics management; supply chain inventory and operations management;manufacturing/marketing interface; total quality management.


Decentralized supply management in assembly systems with uncertain supply

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Internet-based software dissemination pricing strategies

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A B2B bargaining model with supply unreliability

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Gurnani, H. (1999) "Assessing the Implementation of TQM: The Case of a Hong KongCompany", Total Quality Management, 10 (2): 201-220.

Gurnani, H. and Drezner, Z. (2000) "Deterministic Hierarchical Substitution InventoryModels", Journal of Operational Research Society, 51 (1): 129-133.

Gurnani, H. and Tang, C.S. (1999) "Optimal Ordering Decisions with Uncertain Costs andDemand Forecast Updating", Management Science, 45 (10): 1456-1462.

Gurnani, H., Akella, R. and Lechoczky, J. (2000) "Supply Management in AssemblySystems with Random Yield and Random Demand", IIE Transactions, 32, 701-714.

Gurnani, H. and Karlapalem, K. (1999) "Optimal Pricing Strategies for Internet-BasedSoftware Dissemination", International Symposium on Electronic Commerce, IBM(Canada), Beijing, PRC, 19 May 99.

Gurnani, H., Karlapalem, K., Ng, C. and Yeung, L.P. (1998) "Experiences with CORBASupported Buyer-Supplier Interaction for JIT Inventory Management", InternationalConference on Management of Data, Comad, Hyderabad, India, 16 Dec 98, 75-87.

SE-JOON HONG

Associate Professor

(2358 7638; [email protected])



Human factors in IT; user behavior on IS products; electronic commerce.


Consumer behavior in a software component market

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Naïve online investors - exploratory study of information processing costs in online stocktrading

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Hong, S.J. (2000) "Information Processing Costs in On-line Stock Trading", working paper.

Hong, S.J. and Lerch, J. (2000) "An Exploratory Study of Consumer Behavior in a SoftwareComponents Market", working paper.

JAMES KWOK

Associate Professor


PhD, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London (1997)


Image database management; multimedia database management; copyright and intellectualproperty protection; digital watermarking; electronic commerce.



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Digital audio watermarking for copyright protection

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Investigation of information retrieval support in online shopping systems

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Yang, C.C and Kwok, S.H. (2000) "Gamut Clipping in Colour Image Processing",Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2000), September.

Kwok, S.H., and Wong, K.C., Tsang, K.F., Cheung, S.C. and Tam, K.Y. (2000) "DigitalRights Management in Internet Open Trading Protocol (IOTP)", Proceedings of theInternational Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2000), August, 179-185.

Kwok, S.H. and Tsang, K.F. (2000) "Adaptive Audio Watermarking Scheme for CopyrightProtection", Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS2000), 225-237.

Kwok, S.H., Yang, C.C. and Tam, K.Y. (2000) "Watermark Design Pattern for IntellectualProperty Protection in Electronic Commerce Applications", HICSS'33, January.

Kwok, S.H., Tsang, K.F. and Constantinides, A.G. (2000) "A parallel recursive shortestspanning tree in distributed computing environment for image segmentation", Journal ofParallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 56, no. 3, 181-207.

Kwok, S.H., Tsang, K.F. and Constantinides, A.G. (2000) "Adaptive Temporal DecimationAlgorithm with Dynamic Time Window", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems forVideo Technology, vol. 8, no. 1, 104-111.

KARL R LANG

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Texas, Austin (1993)Visiting Scholar, New York University (1993-)Asst. Professor, Free University of Berlin (1994-95)


DSS/AI; qualitative modeling and qualitative reasoning; distributed organizationalcomputing; workflow management systems.


IT supported collaborative learning

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The impact of electronic commerce on economic growth

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Digital distribution of information goods: The Hong Kong consumer market

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Lang, K.R. and Zhao, J.L. (1998) "Designing Computer Supported Collaborative WorkEnvironments for Distance Learning", Journal of of Design Sciences and Technology, 6 (2):85-102.

Lang, K.R. and Whinston, A.B. (1999) "A design of a DSS intermediary for electronicmarkets", Decision Support Systems, 25 (3): 181-197.

Lang, K.R. and Zhao, J.L. (2000) "The Role of Electronic Commerce in the Transformationof Distance Education", Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, 10(2): 103-128.

MIKE KA PUI SO

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Hong Kong (1996)Assistant Lecturer, University of Hong Kong (1994-96)


Nonlinear time series analysis; financial time series; market volatility; prediction and profitevaluation; modeling the dynamic structure of economic data; chaos study in financialmarkets.


Robust tests for long memory

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Bayesian analysis of time series with additive noise

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Posterior mode estimation in state space models

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So, M.K.P. (1999) "Time Series with Additive Noise", Biometrika, 86, 474-482.

So, M.K.P. and Li, W.K. (1999) "Bayesian Unit Root Testing in Stochastic VolatilityModel", Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 17, 491-496.

So, M.K.P., Lam, K. and Li, W.K. (1999) "Forecasting Exchange Rate Volatility usingAutoregressive Random Variance Model", Applied Financial Economics, 9, 583-591.

So, M.K.P. (2000) "Long-term Memory in Stock Market Volatility", Applied FinancialEconomics, 10, 519-524.

Kwan, J.W.C., Lam, K., So, M.K.P. and Yu, P.L.H. (2000) "Forecasting and TradingStrategies based on a Price Trend Model", Journal of Forecasting, 485-498.

So, M.K.P., Lam, K. and Li, W.K. (1998) "A Stochastic Volatility Model with MarkovSwitching", Journal of Business & Economics Statistics, 16, 244-253.

JAMES Y L THONG

Associate Professor


PhD, National University of Singapore (1997)


Information technology adoption and implementation; IT in small businesses; computerethics; IT personnel management; electronic commerce.


Empirical tests of an ethical decision-making model

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Thong, J.Y.L. and Yap, C.S. (2000) "Information Systems and Occupational Stress: ATheoretical Framework", Omega: The International Journal of Management Science, 28(6),681-692.

Thong, J.Y.L., Yap, C.S. and Seah, K.L. (2000) "Business Process Reengineering in thePublic Sector: The Case of the Housing Development Board in Singapore", Journal ofManagement Information Systems (JMIS), 17(1), 245-270.

Thong, J.Y.L. (1999) "An Integrated Model of Information Systems Adoption in SmallBusinesses", Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), 15(4), 187-214.

Thong, J.Y.L. and Yap, C.S. (1998) "Testing an Ethical Decision-Making Theory: The Caseof Softlifting", Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), 15(1), 213-237.

Setiono, R., Thong, J.Y.L., and Yap, C.S. (1998) "Symbolic Rule Extraction from NeuralNetworks: An Application to Identifying Organizations Adopting IT", Information &Management, 34(2), 91-101.

Thong, J.Y.L., Yap, C.S. and Raman, K.S. (1996) "Top Management Support, ExternalExpertise and Information Systems Implementation in Small Businesses", InformationSystems Research (ISR), 7(2), 248-267.

CHI-MING DAVY WONG

Associate Professor


PhD, University of New South Wales (1995)


Nonparametric regression; Markov chain/Monte Carlo algorithms; statistical computing;modeling and forecasting electricity load.


An efficient algorithm to generate from reduced conditonals

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Multiplicative nonparametric regression models

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Short-term forecasting of electrical load using the Markov chain Monte Carlo method

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Wong, C.M. and So, M.K.P. (2000) "On conditional moments of GARCH models, withapplication to multiple period Value at Risk estimation", working paper.

Smith, M., Wong, C.M. and Kohn, R. (1998) "Additive nonparametric regression withauto-correlated errors", Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Ser. B, 60, 311-331.

Wong, C.M. and Kohn, R. (1996) "A Bayesian approach to additive semiparametricregression", Journal of Econometrics, 74, 209-235.

SAMUEL P WONG

Associate Professor




Financial time series analysis and forecasting; nonparametric regression and classification;business applications of neural networks and other artificial intelligence techniques.


Urn games, survival analysis and computer data structure

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Random frequency effect in multivariate time series analysis

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Wong, S.P. and Lai, T.L. (2000) "Statistics and Finance: An Interface", Statistics andFinance: An Interface, Imperial College Press, London: UK, 279-301.

Wong, S.P. and Lai, T.L. (1999) "Stochastic Neural Networks with Applications toNon-Linear Time Series", working paper.

YAN XU

Associate Professor


PhD, Strathclyde University (1997)


Telecommunications regulations and policy; organizational management oftelecommunications operation.


Theoretical framework of telecommunications regulation in China

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Consumption behaviour of IDD service subscribers

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Telecommunications universal service in China

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Potential impact of foreign direct investment on China's telecommunications industry and itsimplications

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Xu, Y., with Kelly, T. et al, (2000) "Chapter 3: From Handyphone to I-mode" Asia-PacificTelecommunication Indicators, International Telecommunication Union: Geneva, 21-34.

Xu, Y. (2000) " Mobile Fixed Network Interconnection in Hong Kong and China", CaseStudy for International Telecommunication Union, August. (http://www.itu.int/interconnect).

Xu, Y. and Pitt, D.C. (1999) "Chapter 15: Competition in the Chinese Cellular Market:Promise and Problematic", The Future of Telecommunications Industry: Forecasting andDemand Analysis, Kluwer Academic Publications, Boston, London, 249-64.

Pitt, D.C., Levine, N. and Xu, Y. (1999) "Unity of Objective, Diversity of Approach:Deregulatory Telecom Developments in Hong Kong and China", IEEE Communications,1999 (October): 100-105.

Xu, Y. and Pitt, D.C. (1999) "Convergence Auditing: The Context of Improved BillingService - with reference to the experience of British Telecom", Managerial Auditing Journal,14 (6-7): 312-316.

Xu. Y. and Pitt. D.C. (1999) "One Country, Two Systems - Contrasting Approaches toTelecommunications Deregulation in Hong Kong and China", Telecommunications Policy,vol. 23, no. 3/4, 245-260.

HONGTAO ZHANG

Associate Professor


PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1990)Management Consultant, CSC Consulting (1990-94)


Coordination in production and service systems; service planning with general variability;information sharing in supply chains management; coordination of global operations;analysis and control of stochastic systems.


Production Coordination Of Global Manufacturing Networks



Li, L. and Zhang, H. (2000) "The Multi-Stage Service Facility Startup and CapacityModel", Operations Research, 48(3): 490-497.

Bodoff, D. and Zhang, H. (2000) "Corporate Disclosure Dissemination: When More isLess", working paper.

Li, L. and Zhang, H. (2000) "Information Sharing in a Vertical Chain with HorizontalCompetition: The Case of a Make-to-stock Supplier", working paper.

Zhang, H. (2000) "Vertical Information Exchange In a Supply Chain With DuopolyRetailers", working paper.

Li, L., Porteus, E.L. and Zhang, H. (1999) "Optimal Operating Policies For Multi-PlantStochastic Manufacturing Systems In a Changing Environment", working paper.

Department of Management of Organisations

The responsibility of managers is the effective and efficient management of individuals andgroups in business firms, governments and non-profit organizations. Management ofOrganizations, therefore, deals with the many aspects of the administration of anorganization such as the formulation of goals including long- and short-term planning, theestablishment of decision-making processes, the design of organizational structures, theunderstanding of human motivations, and the development of human resources. Research inthe Department includes analysis of organizational behavior, negotiation, management inChinese contexts, human resources management, change management, strategicmanagement, and international management.

Research Profile

LARRY J L FARH

Professor and Department Head; Co-director, Hang Lung Center for OrganizationalResearch

ANNE S TSUI

Professor and Department Head; Director, Hang Lung Center for OrganizationalManagement

KENNETH SHING-KEUNG LAW

Associate Professor

JIA-TAO LI

Associate Professor

ANDREW DELIOS

Associate Professor

GARY J KATZENSTEIN

Associate Professor

TAI-YOUNG KIM

Associate Professor

STEPHEN NASON

Associate Professor

HONG-SEOK OH

Associate Professor

DOUGLAS Y PARK

Associate Professor

DOUGLAS J SEGO

Associate Professor

KATHERINE R XIN

Associate Professor

Research Profile

LARRY J L FARH

Professor and Head of DepartmentCo-director, Hang Lung Center for Organizational Research


PhD, Indiana University (1983)Assistant Professor of Management, Louisiana State University (1984-87)Associate Professor of Management, Louisiana State University (1988-1993)


Management issues in Chinese contexts: Guanxi and networking; organizational justice andcitizenship behavior; values and business ethics; Leadership and organizational culture;cross-cultural management.


The nature, antecedents and consequences of loyalty to supervisor in PRC

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Chinese management quarterly journal

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Farh, J.L., Early, P.C. and Lin, S.C. (1997) "Impetus for action: A cultural analysis ofjustice and organizational citizenship behavior in Chinese society", Administrative ScienceQuarterly, 42, 421-444.

Farh, J.L., Tsui, A.S., Xin, K.R. and Cheng, B.S. (1998) "The influence of relationaldemography and Guanxi: The Chinese case", Organization Science, 9 (4): 471-488.

Farh, J.L., Leong, F. and Law, K. (1998) "On the cross-cultural validity of Holland's modelof vocational choices in Hong Kong", Journal of Vocational Behavior, 52: 425-440.

Farh, J.L. and Cheng, B.S. (1999) A cultural analysis of paternalistic leadership in Chineseorganizations (eds. Li, J.T., Tsui, A.S. and Weldon, E.), Macmillan, London, 84-127.

Farh, J.L., Zhong, C.B. and Organ, D.W. (2000) "Organizational citizenship behavior in thePeople's Republic of China", Academy of management proceedings, OB: D1-D6.

Chen, X.P. and Farh, J.L. (in press) "Transformational and transactional leader behavioursin Chinese organizations: Differential effects in People's Republic of China and Taiwan",Advances in Global Leadership (eds. Mobley, W.H. and McCall, M.), vol. II, JAI Press, Inc.,Stamford, Connecticut.

ANNE S TSUI

Professor and Department Head;Director, Hang Lung Center for Organizational Management


PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (1981)Assoc. Professor of Management, University of California, Irvine (1988-95)


Leadership and managerial effectiveness; self-regulation and feedback processes; strategichuman resource management; demographic diversity; employee-organization relationships.


Areas of Excellence in China business & management

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Emerging High Impact Area of China Business and Management

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Organizational culture, employee commitment, and organizational performance

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Chinese management quarterly journal

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Employment relationship and firm performance in Chinese organizations

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Employment relationship and firm performance in Chinese organizations

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Li, J.T., Tsui, A.S. and Weldon, E. (Eds.) (2000) Management and organizations in theChinese context: Current issues and future research directions, London, UK: MacmillanPress.

Li, J.T., Xin, K.R., Tsui, A.S. and Hambrick, D. (1999) "Building Effective InternationalJoint Venture Leadership Teams in China", Journal of World Business, 34 (1): 52-68.

Farh, J.L., Tsui, A.S., Xin, K. and Cheng, B.S. (1998) "The influence of relationaldemography and guanxi: The Chinese case", Organization Science, 9(4): 472-788.

Tsui, A.S., Pearce, J.L., Porter, L.W. and Tripoli, A.M. (1997) "Alternative approaches toemployee-organization relationships: Does "mutual investment" provide any advantage fororganizations?", Academy of Management Journal, 40: 1089-1121.

Tsui, A.S. and Farh, J.L. (1997) "Where guanxi matters: Relational demography and guanxiin the Chinese context", Work and Occupations, 24: 56-79.

KENNETH SHING-KEUNG LAW

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Iowa (1990)Lecturer, Australian Graduate School of Management (1991-93)


Human resources management; research methodology; organizational behaviors.


Organizational justice perceptions and their impact on individual outcomes in Hong Kongand China


Effects of e-mail adoption on power distribution, group dynamics, and employeeproductivity

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Localization Of Expatriate Positions In The PRC



Behling, O. and Law, K. (2000) Translating Questionnaires and Other Research Instruments:Problems and Solutions, Sage Publication, Thousand Oaks, California, 70.

Hui, C., Law, K.S. and Chen, Z.X. (1999) "A Structural Equation Model of the Effects ofNegative Affectivity, Leader-Member Exchange and Perceived Job Mobility on In-Role andExtra-Role Performance: A Chinese Case", Organizational Behavior and Human DecisionProcesses, 77, 3-21.

Law, K.S., Wong, C.S. and Leong, F. (in press) "The cultural validity of Holland's modeland its implications on human resource management: The case of Hong Kong", InternationalJournal of Human Resource Management.

Hui, C., Lam, S.K. and Law, K.S. (in press) "Instrumental values of organizational

citizenship behavior for promotion: A quasi-field experiment", Journal of AppliedPsychology.

Lam, S.K., Hui, C. and Law, K.S. (in press) "Organizational Citizenship Behavior:Comparing perspectives of supervisors and subordinates across four international samples",Journal of Applied Psychology.

Wong, C.S and Law, K.S. (in press) "Managing localization of human resources in the PRC:A practical model", Journal of World Business.

JIA-TAO LI

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Texas, Dallas (1992)


International strategy; competitive strategy; organization theory; alliances/ joint venturesuccess in China; international and competitive management.


International joint venture leadership teams in China



Li, J.T. and Tsui, J.T. (2000) "Management and Organizations in the Chinese Context: AnOverview", Management and Organizations in the Chinese Context, Macmillan, London,1-25.

Li, J.T., Xin, K., Tsui, A.S. and Hambrick, D. (1999) " Building Effective International JointVenture Leadership Teams in China", Journal of World Business, 34 (1): 52-68.

Rand, T. and Li, J.T. (1998) "Global Resource Flows and MNE Network Integration",Multinational Corporate Evolution and Subsidiary Development, Macmillan, London,76-101.

Shenkar, O. and Li, J.T. (1999) "Knowledge Search in International Cooperative Ventures",Organization Science, 10 (2): 134-143.

Li, J.T. (1999) "International Joint Ventures in China", Strategic Management Society 19thAnnual International Conference, Strategic Management Society, Berlin, October 5-8, 1999.

Li, J.T. and Tsui, A.S. (1999) "Multi-cultural Leadership Teams in International JointVentures", AMJ, Academy of Management, Chicago, August 9-12, 1999.

ANDREW DELIOS

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Western Ontario (1998)Instructor, University of Toronto. (1997)


Japanese foreign direct investment; foreign entry mode and location strategies; survival andperformance of foreign subsidiaries.


Locational and ownership decisions of Japanese foreign investors

DAG DAG98/99.BM51 HK$90,000 Nov 1998

The evolution of foreign market strategies across time

DAG DAG99/00.BM45 HK$55,134 Nov 1999

Organizational And Environmental Determinants Of Foreign Subsidiary Strategy AndPerformance



Delios, A. and Beamish, P.W. (in press) "Survival and profitability: The roles of experienceand intangible assets in foreign subsidiary performance", Academy of Management Journal.

Delios, A. and Beamish, P.W. (1999) "Ownership strategy of Japanese firms: Transactional,institutional and experience influences", Strategic Management Journal, 20 (10): 915-933.

Delios, A. and Beamish, P.W. (1999) "Geographic scope, product diversification and thecorporate performance of Japanese firms", Strategic Management Journal, 20 (8): 711-727.

Delios, A. and Henisz, W.J. (2000) "Japanese firms' investment strategies in emergingeconomies", Academy of Management Journal, 43(3): 305-323.

Delios, A. and Bjorkman, I. (2000) "Expatriate staffing in the foreign subsidiaries",International Journal of Human Resource Management, 11 (2): 278-99.

Delios, A. and Ensign, P. (2000) "A sub-national analysis of Japanese direct investment inCanada", Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 17(1): 38-51.

GARY J KATZENSTEIN

Associate Professor




Managerial and organizational cognition; organizational learning; organizational theory;organizational processes and process redesign and international management.


(1) Breaking organizational rules: The roles of expectations and observability in processemergence(2) Making connections: The use of hypertext to support associative learning

DAG DAG97/98.BM83 HK$80,000 Apr 1998

Framing reality: A cognitive approach to problem formulation by Chinese and NorthAmerican managers

DAG DAG99/00.BM44 HK$77,400 Nov 1999

Framing Reality: A Cognitive Approach To Problem Formulation By Chinese AndAmerican Managers



Katzenstein, G.J. and Lerch, F.J. (in press) "Beneath the Surface of OrganizationalProcesses: A Social Representation Framework for Business Process Redesign", ACMTransactions on Information Systems.

TAI-YOUNG KIM

Associate Professor


PhD, Stanford (2000)Research Associate, Stanford Graduate School of Business (2000)


Organizational sociology; economic sociology, network analysis; cultural industries.


The longitudinal effects of population dynamics on individual job mobility: Theadvertisement industry in Korea, 1980-1999

DAG DAG00/01.BM43 HK$80,000 Nov 2000


Kim, T.Y., Dobrev, S. and Hannan, M. (in press) "Dynamics of Niche Width and ResourcePartitioning", American Journal of Sociology.

Kim, T.Y. (1999) "Niche Dynamics, Networks, and Organizational Mortality: An EventHistory Analysis", Korean Journal of Sociology, 33: 641-670.

Kim, T.Y., Son, J.G. and Jung, H.Y. (1998) "The Evolution of Publishers in Korea", KoreanSociological Review.

STEPHEN NASON

Associate Professor




International management and culture; domestic and international human resourcesmanagement; organizational learning and behavior.


Chen, X.P, Hui, C. and Sego, D.J. (1998) "The Role of Organizational Citizenship Behaviorin Turnover: Conceptualization and Preliminary Tests of Key Hypotheses", Journal ofApplied Psychology, 83 (6): 922-931.

HONG-SEOK OH

Associate Professor


PhD, Pennsylvania State University (2000)


Social capital of entrepreneurs; intra- and interorganizational networks; informationtechnology and organizational innovation; professional organizations; organizational control.


The antecedents of social capital and its effects on entrepreneurial success in Korea andHong Kong

DAG DAG00/01.BM42 HK$80,000 Aug 2000


Oh, H. and Kilduff, M. (1996) "Physicians' adoption of New Technology: The Effects ofDeskilling and Competition", Electronic Proc., the Academy of Management, Cincinnati,OH, U.S.A..

DOUGLAS Y PARK

Associate Professor




Sociology of markets; social networks; corporate governance.


The strategic management of social capital: Professional services firms in Hong Kong andChina

DAG DAG97/98.BM42 HK$80,000 Jan 1998

The strategic management of social capital: Professional services firms in Hong Kong andChina



Park, D.Y. and Podolny, J.M. (in press) "The Competitive Dynamics of Status and NicheWidth: US Investment Banking, 1920-1949", Industrial and Corporate Change.

DOUGLAS J SEGO

Associate Professor


PhD, Michigan State University (1994)


Training evaluation; team decision-making performance; cultural differences in internationaljoint ventures; impact of early job experience on performance.


An examination of the determinants of turnover in China: Adapting current turnover modelsto the Chinese context.

CERG HKUST591/96H HK$292,000 Feb 1998


Chen, X.P, Hui, C. and Sego, D.J. (1998) "The Role of Organizational Citizenship Behaviorin Turnover: Conceptualization and Preliminary Tests of Key Hypotheses", Journal ofApplied Psychology, 83 (6): 922-931.

KATHERINE R XIN

Associate Professor


PhD, University of California (1994)Asst. Professor, University of Southern California (1995-99)


Leadership, relational demography, and relationship management in the US and in China;international joint-venture management.


The impact of layoffs and perception of justice on employee-organization relationships instate-owned enterprises in China

DAG DAG98/99.BM70 HK$90,000 Jun 1999

The role of mentoring in expatriate adjustment

DAG DAG99/00.BM59 HK$20,000 Mar 2000

Organizational culture and executive leadership: Their relationship to employee motivation,commitment and organizational performance in the PRC

HIA HIA98/99.BM01-D HK$40,000 Apr 2000

Organizational Culture And Executive Leadership: Their Relationship To EmployeeMotivation, Commitment And Organizational Performance In The People's Republic OfChina



Hambrick, D.C., Li, J.T., Xin, K.R. and Tsui, A.S. (in press) "Compositional gap anddownward spirals in international joint venture management groups", Strategic ManagementJournal.

Pelled, L.H., Xin, K.R. and Weiss, A.M. (in press) "No es como mi: Relational demographyand conflict in a Mexican production facility", Journal of Occupational and OrganizationalPsychology.

Pelled, L.H. and Xin, K.R. (in press) "Relational Demography and Relationship Quality: AStudy of Supervisor-Subordinate Pairs in the United States and Mexico", OrganizationStudies.

Conger, H.A. and Xin, K.R. (2000) "Executive Education in the 21st Century: Voices fromthe Field", Journal of Management Education, 24 (1): 73-101.

Pelled, L.H. and Xin, K.R. (1999) "Down and Out: An Investigation of the Relationshipbetween Mood and Employee Withdrawal Behavior", Journal of Management, 25(6):875-895.

Pelled, L.H., Eisenhardt, K.M. and Xin, K.R. (1999) "Exploring the Black Box: An Analysisof Work Group Diversity, Conflict, and Performance", Administrative Science Quarterly, 44(1): 1-28.

Department of Marketing

The mission of the Marketing Department is to create a center of academic excellencefocusing on the creation and dissemination of knowledge in the crucial field of marketing,and provide intellectual leadership in research and stimulate open discussion of basicresearch questions. Academic quality and excellence is emphasized in every endeavor.

Marketing is an activity that facilitates exchange. As such, the success of an organization(whether for-profit or not-for-profit) often depends on the effectiveness of its marketingefforts. Therefore, marketing includes strategy decisions about the product or service tooffer, advertising and promotional methods for communication, prices to charge, and thedistribution system to utilize for delivery. Central to marketing is consumer behavior andmarketing research.

Research Profile

GERALD J GORN

Professor and Acting Department Head

JEONGWEN CHIANG

Professor

WILFRIED R VANHONACKER

Professor

KRISTIAAN HELSEN

Associate Professor

RAMI ZWICK

Associate Professor and Director, Center for Experimental Business

RASHMI ADAVAL

Assistant Professor

DONNEL A BRILEY

Assistant Professor

A V MUTHUKRISHNAN

Assistant Professor

LYDIA J PRICE

Assistant Professor

JAIDEEP SENGUPTA

Assistant Professor

MENGZE SHI

Assistant Professor

DILIP SOMAN

Assistant Professor

Research Profile

GERALD J GORN

Professor and Acting Department Head


PhD, Penn State University (1971)Advisory Council Professor of Consumer Behavior, University of British Columbia (1985-)


Effects of advertising; cross-cultural consumer behaviour; social marketing.


Cultural Universals And Differences In Color Preferences Among Consumers And AmongMarketing Managers


Promiscuous or confident?: Attributions made about condom purchasers

DAG DAG00/01.BM50 HK$23,000 Nov 2000


Gorn, G., Dahl, D.W. and Chattopadhyay, A. (in press) "Improving The New ProductDesign Process: The Role of Visual Imagery", Design Studies.

Gorn, G., Dahl, D.W. and Chattopadhyay, A. (1999) "The Use of Visual Mental Imagery inNew Product Design", Journal of Marketing Research, XXXVI (1999): 18-28.

Gorn, G., Dahl, D.W. and Weinberg, C.B. (in press) "The Effect of Coupon Promotions onCondom Sales", American Journal of Public Health.

Gorn, G.J., Sengupta, J. and Dahl, D.W. (in press) "Misrepresentation in the ConsumerContext", Journal of Consumer Psychology.

Gorn, G.J., Pham, M.T. and Sin, L.Y. (in press) "When Arousal Influences Ad Evaluationand Valence Does Not (And Vice Versa)", Journal of Consumer Psychology.

JEONGWEN CHIANG

Professor


PhD, University of Minnesota (1988)Asst. Professor, Washington University (1992-97)


Measuring promotional effects on consumer choice; shopping basket studies; new productdevelopment; customer satisfaction research.


Externalities with differentiated products: The case of the cellular phone industry in HongKong

DAG DAG97/98.BM35 HK$66,547 Feb 1998

The impact of mobile number portability on the Hong Kong mobile phone industry

DAG DAG98/99.BM72 HK$20,000 Jan 1999

Customer satisfaction, retention, and recovery: An integrated approach to customerrelationship management


The Impact Of "Mobile Number Portability" On Consumer Welfare: The Case Of TheMobile Phone Industry In Hong Kong



Chiang, J., Chib, S. and Narasimhan, C. (1999) "Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Models ofConsideration Set and Parameter Heterogeneity", J. of Econometrics, (89): 223-248.

Bell, D., Chiang, J. and Padmanabhan, V. (2000) "The Decomposition of PromotionalResponse: An Empirical Generalization", Marketing Science, 18:4, 504-526.

Kamakura, W., Wedel, M. and Chiang, J. (2000) "Heterogeneity and Bayesian Methods inChoice Modeling", Marketing Letters, 10:3, 219-232.

Chiang, J., Chung, C.F. and Cremers, E.T. (in press) "Promotions and Pattern of GroceryShopping Time", Journal of Applied Statistics.

Robinson, W. and Chiang, J. (in press) "Product Innovation Strategies for EstablishedMarket Pioneers and Later Entrants", Strategic Management Journal.

WILFRIED R VANHONACKER

Professor


PhD, Purdue University (1979)Professor of Marketing, INSEAD, Fontainebleau (1990-2000)


Dynamic choice modeling; choice set/consideration set formation process modeling;cross-cultural marketing issues, with special focus on the PRC


Effect of radicals on consumer behavior

DAG DAG99/00.BM56 HK$16,000 Feb 2000


Vanhonacker, W.R. and Capon, N. (1999) The Asian Marketing Casebook, Prentice Hall,Simon & Schuster (Asia) Pte. Ltd., Singapore.

Vanhonacker, W.R. and Weldon, E. (1999) "Operating a Business in China: Challenges forManagers and Management Researchers", Journal of World Business, Spring(1999), 94-107.

Vanhonacker, W.R., Bronnenberg, B. and Mahajan, V. (2000) "The Emergence of MarketStructure in New Repeat-Purchase Categories: A Dynamic Approach and an EmpiricalApplication", Journal of Marketing Research, February 2000, 16-31.

Vanhonacker, W.R. (1998) "Investment Strategies in China", BBA Seminar, HKUST,Hong Kong, 15 September, 1998.

KRISTIAAN HELSEN

Associate Professor


PhD, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (1990)Asst. Professor of Marketing, University of Chicago (1990-95)


New products; international marketing; promotions; marketing strategy.


The dynamics of advertising & price effects on trial/repeat of new products: An empiricalstudy



Helsen, K. (1999) "Marketing in euro-land", working paper.

Helsen, K. (1998) "Competitive price interactions to new entries: who will respond?",working paper.

Helsen, K. (2000) "The domain of competitive response to new product entry: The case ofrefrigerated orange juice", working paper.

Helsen, K. (2000) "Global marketing and the Internet", working paper.

Helsen, K. and Chiang, J.-W. (1999) "Do bonus pack promotions matter? An empiricalstudy", working paper.

RAMI ZWICK

Associate Professor and Director, Center for Experimental BusinessResearch


PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1987)Asst Professor of Marketing, Penn State University (1988-93)Senior Lecturer of Marketing, University of Auckland (1994-95)


Consumers and managerial judgment and decision making; e-commerce; experimentaleconomics; negotiation.


Areas of Excellence in experimental business research

AOE AOE97/98.BM03 HK$325,000 May 1998

Auction on the internet

NCR NCR98/99.BM01 HK$379,600 Aug 1998

Bargaining, coordination, and public good provision in experimental markets

RCA CA98/99.BM01 HK$2,000,000 Apr 1999

First Asian conference on experimental business research

PSCG PSCG98/99.BM01 HK$50,000 Dec 1999

Experimental Investigation Of Bargaining Efficiency Improvement



Budescu, D., Erev, I. and Zwick, R. (1999) Games and Human Behavior: Essays in honor ofAmnon Rapoport, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: New Jersey, USA.

Zwick, R. and Chen, X.P. (1999) "What Price Fairness? A Bargaining Study", ManagementScience, 45 (6): 804-823.

Zwick, R. and Lee, C.-C. (1999) "Bargaining and search: An experimental study", GroupDecision and Negotiation, 8 (6): 463-487.

Zwick, R., Erev, I. and Budescu, D. (1999) "The Psychological and EconomicalPerspectives on Human Decisions in Social and Interactive Contexts", Games and HumanBehavior: Essays in honor of Amnon Rapoport, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: New Jersey,New Jersey, USA, 3-20.

Zwick, R., Weg, E. and Rapoport, A. (2000) "Invariance failure under subgame perfectnessin sequential bargaining", Journal of Economic Psychology, 21, 517-544.

Bolton, G., Katok, E. and Zwick, R. (1998) "Dictator game giving: Fairness versus randomacts of kindness", The International Journal of Game Theory, 27(2), 269-299.

RASHMI ADAVAL

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1996)Visiting Asst. Professor and Research Associate, University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign (1996)


Consumer brand and price perceptions; representation of visual and verbal information inmemory; conflicting goals and consumer decision-making; variety-seeking behavior;consumption of hedonic products.


The priming of incidental emotions in advertisements

DAG DAG98/99.BM54 HK$26,000 Jan 1999


Adaval, R. and Wyer, R.S. (1998) "The Role of Narratives in Consumer InformationProcessing", Journal of Consumer Psychology, 7 (3): 207-245.

Adaval, R. and Wyer, R.S. (2000) "Social Cognition and Social Interaction: The Influenceof Individual Differences and Communication Norms on Interpersonal Behavior", workingpaper.

DONNEL A BRILEY

Assistant Professor




Culture and consumer decision making; behavioral decision theory; international marketing.


Cultural priming and consumer behavior

DAG DAG98/99.BM55 HK$75,000 Dec 1998

Understanding the processes underlying cultural influence on decision making

DAG DAG99/00.BM46 HK$50,000 Nov 1999

Influence of price deliberation on choice stability

DAG DAG99/00.BM75 HK$13,920 May 2000

The Influence Of Culture, Situations And Values On Intrapersonal And InterpersonalDecisions



Briley, D. and Wyer, R. (in press) "Transitory Determinants of Values and Decisions: TheUtility (or Non-utility) of Individualism-Collectivism in Understanding CulturalDifferences", Social Cognition.

Briley, D., Morris, M. and Simonson, I. (in press) "Reasons as Carriers of Culture: Dynamicvs. Dispositional Models of Cultural Influence on Decision Making", Journal of ConsumerResearch.

Briley, D. (1999) "A Dynamic Perspective on Cultural Influence", Association forConsumer Research, Paris, France, 24 Jun 99.

Price, L. and Briley, D. (1999) "Culture, Education and Cognition: A Review andDiscussion of Chinese versus American Cognitive Styles", Seventh Cross-cultural Consumerand Business Studies Research Conference, APA, Cancun, Mexico, December, 1999.

Price, L. and Briley, D. (2000) "Beyond Individualism-Collectivism", Asia-PacificConference, Association for Consumer Research, Gold Coast, Australia, March, 2000.

A V MUTHUKRISHNAN

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Florida (1993)Asst. Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University (1993-95)


Consumer decision making.


Context effects on consumer choice

DAG DAG97/98.BM40 HK$56,547 Jan 1998

Context effects on consumer choice: Implications for marketing strategy

DAG DAG98/99.BM58 HK$45,000 Jan 1999

Illusion of validity in market-place choices

DAG DAG98/99.BM71 HK$20,000 Mar 1999

Weighing costs and benefits in intertemporal decisions

DAG DAG99/00.BM74 HK$24,000 May 2000

The Effects Of Framing Product Bundles



Muthukrishnan, A.-V and Ramaswami, S (1999) "Contextual Effects on the Revision ofEvaluative Judgments: An Extension of the Omission Detection Framework", Journal ofConsumer Research, 26 (1): 70-84.

Muthukrishnan, A.V., Pham, M.T. and Mungale, A. (1999) "Comparison Opportunity and

Judgment Revision", Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 80 (3):228-51.

Muthukrishnan, A.-V. and Ramaswami, S (1998) "Information Format and JudgmentUpdating", Marketing Science, TIMS/ORSA, Paris, 15 July 98.

Muthukrishnan, A.-V. and Kardes, F (1999) "The Role of Context and Product Experiencein the Formation of Attribute Loyalty", working paper.

Muthukrishnan, A.-V., Warlop, L. and Alba, J. (1999) "Piecemeal as a Form ofComparison Advertising", working paper.

Ramaswami, S and Muthukrishnan, A.-V. (1998) "The Effects of Outcome Delay on RiskyChoice", Judgment and Decision Making Annual Conference, Judgment and DecisionMaking Society, Austin, TX, November 1998.

LYDIA J PRICE

Assistant Professor


PhD, Columbia University (1988)Asst. Professor of Marketing, INSEAD (1988-93)Visiting Asst. Professor of Marketing, New York University (1993-94)


Consumer psychology; consumer judgments of product quality; cross-cultural marketing;applied marketing research.


Chinese culture and consumer cognition: A review and discussion

DAG DAG97/98.BM38 HK$52,000 Feb 1998

Culture and cognition: How cognitive styles in Chinese and North American culturesinfluence consumer behavior


Electronic subject pool maintenance system

DAG DAG00/01.BM46 HK$34,000 Nov 2000


Price, L.J. and Briley, D. (1999) "Culture, Education and Cognition: A Review andDiscussion of Chinese versus American Cognitive Styles", working paper.

JAIDEEP SENGUPTA

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (1996)Marketing Executive, ANZ Grindlays Bank (1991)


Attitude strength; low involvement persuasion; consumer lying; internet commerce.


Match vs. Mismatch : The interaction of processing instructions and available cues on theattitude-behavior link

DAG DAG99/00.BM77 HK$44,000 Jun 2000


Sengupta, J. and Fitzsimons, G. (2000) "Disruption vs. Reinforcement: The Effects ofAnalyzing Reasons for Brand Preferences", Journal of Marketing Research, 37(3), 318-330.

Sengupta, J. and Johar, G. (in press) "Contingent Effects of Anxiety on MessageElaboration and Persuasion", Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Sengupta, J., Dahl, D.W. and Gorn, G.J. (in press) "Misrepresentation in the ConsumerContext", Journal of Consumer Psychology.

Aaker, J. and Sengupta, J. (2000) "Additivity versus Attenuation: The Role of Culture in theResolution of Information Incongruity", Journal of Consumer Psychology, 9 (2): 67-82.

Sengupta, J., Goodstein, R. C. and Boninger, D.S. (1997) "All cues are not created equal:obtaining attitude persistence under low involvement conditions", Journal of ConsumerResearch, vol. 4, 351-361.

MENGZE SHI

Assistant Professor




Database marketing; dynamic structural model; competitive analysis on marketing strategies;law and economics.


Salesforce incentive schemes and consumer inferences



Gonul, F., Kim, B.D. and Shi, M. (2000) "Mailing Smarter to Catalog Customers", Journalof Interactive Marketing, 14 (2): 2-16.

Gonul, F.-S. and Shi, M.-Z. (1998) "Optimal Mailing of Catalogs: A New MethodologyUsing Estimable Structural Dynamic Programming Models", Management Science, 44 (9):1249-1262.

Rhee, B.D. and Shi, M.Z. (1999) "Competitive Implications of Customer SatisfactionIndex", Marketing Science, University of Syracuse, Syracuse, New York, May 22.

Shi, M., Chiang, J. and Rhee, B. (2000) "Impact of MNP on Mobile Phone Service Pricing",Marketing Science Conference, INFORMS, UCLA, 22 June 2000.

DILIP SOMAN

Assistant Professor


PhD, University of Chicago (1997)Asst. Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder (1996-99)


Consumer and managerial choice and decision processes; mental accounting; intertemporalchoice; behavioral economics; consumer credit usage.


Modeling and measuring the effects of path characteristics on judgments: When highsatisfaction might not imply high choice

DAG DAG99/00.BM47 HK$50,000 Nov 1999

Consumer choice amongst wide assortments: The effects of nominal and ordinal assortmentson decision-making, sales and profits

DAG DAG99/00.BM76 HK$21,700 May 2000

Consumer Debt And Financing Decisions



Soman, D. (in press) "Effects of Payment Mechanism on Spending Behavior: The Role ofRehearsal and Immediacy of Payments", Journal of Consumer Research.

Soman, D. and Gourville, J.T. (in press) "Transaction Decoupling: How Price BundlingAffects the Decision to Consume", Journal of Marketing Research.

Soman, D. and Cheema, A (2001) "The Effect of Windfall Gains on the Sunk Cost Effect",Marketing Letters, 12(1), 49-60.

Dhar, S.K., Gonzalez-vallejo, C. and Soman, D. (1999) "Modeling the Effects of AdvertisedPrice Claims: Tensile versus Objective Claims", Marketing Science, 18 (2): 154-177.

Soman, D. (1998) "The Illusion of Delayed Incentives: Evaluating Future Effort-MoneyTransactions", Journal of Marketing Research, 35(4), 427-437.

Gourville, J. and Soman, D. (1998) "Payment Depreciation: The Behavioral Effects ofTemporally Separating Payments from Consumption", Journal of Consumer Research, 25(2):160-174.

[HUMA] [SOSC]

DIVISION OF HUMANITIESDIVISION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE

Division of Humanities

Unlike the single-discipline departments in the University, the Division of Humanitiesfocuses on a range of fields including literature, history, art history, linguistics, philosophy,religion, and cultural anthropology. A significant focus of interest is on studies relating toHong Kong, China and the wider Asia-Pacific region.

The Division of Humanities is interdisciplinary and comparative in orientation for bothteaching and research. Asia is approached not in isolation as a region but from acosmopolitan perspective which promotes critical self-awareness in a global context. It isalso noteworthy that the Humanities Division stands as an institutional locus for creativedialogue and interaction between faculty and students with different disciplinary interests.

Facilities

The University Library constitutes the primary resource for faculty, staff, and students inHumanities. Presently, the Library has about 500,000 volumes of printed materials, morethan 20,000 titles in audio-visual collection, 40,000 titles in microform, and over 150electronic databases. Approximately 55% of the library collections of books, media, andmicroforms are in the subject areas of Humanities and Social Sciences. The Library OnlineSystem provides effective unified access to Library collections as well as remote access toother resources world-wide via the Internet.

The Division of Humanities itself is home of the South China Research Center, which hasstarted a collection of folk documents relating to South China. The collection has beengrowing steadily and, recently, it has also been enhanced by loaned databases. The Centerhas also sponsored annual conferences and workshops, the results of which have beenpublished as a series of occasional papers.

The Humanities Audio-visual Room has been an important site for many of the Division'steaching and research activities. The room boasts sophisticated equipment, including twovideo-editing systems, one non-linear video-editing system, and various handy and visualequipment. The facilities are of crucial importance to faculty and students, especially foranthropological field research, drama presentation, film showing, and many other AV events.

Research Profile

HUNG-NIN SAMUEL CHEUNG

Professor and Division Head

HAO CHANG

Professor

CHANG-TAI HUNG

Professor and Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Science

KARL S Y KAO

Professor

WILLIAM TAY

Professor

TING PANG-HSIN

Professor and Dean of Humanities and Social Science

KWOK KOU LEONARD CHAN

Senior Lecturer

CHI-CHEUNG CHOI

Associate Professor and Director, South China Research Center

YIU-MING FUNG

Associate Professor

ANGELINA CHUN-CHU YEE

Associate Professor and Director, Center for Cultural Studies

MIN ZHANG

Assistant Professor

CHARLES WING-HOI CHAN

Assistant Professor

LI-FEN CHEN

Assistant Professor

SIU-WOO CHEUNG

Assistant Professor

CECILIA LEE-FANG CHIEN

Assistant Professor

LI-TSUI FLORA FU

Assistant Professor

VIRGIL K Y HO

Assistant Professor

KAM TAK SING

Assistant Professor

BOCKJA KIM

Assistant Professor

DAVID PETER LAWRENCE

Assistant Professor

TIK-SANG LIU

Assistant Professor

ZONGLI LU

Assistant Professor

LING-TUN NGAI

Assistant Professor

JOWEN TUNG

Assistant Professor

XINYANG WANG

Assistant Professor

SIMON M H WONG

Assistant Professor

KAM-MING YIP

Assistant Professor

Research Profile

HUNG-NIN SAMUEL CHEUNG

Professor and Division Head


PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1974)Professor of Chinese and Chair, Department of East Asian Languages, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley (1997-98)

Current Research Activities:Chinese linguistics; Cantonese linguistics; Chinese language pedagogy; vernacular Chinesefiction.


Cantonese of the 19th Century

DAG DAG97/98.HSS20 HK$68,284 Jun 1998

China Program on Early Modern Chinese grammar: An historical investigation

CP CP98/99.HSS01 HK$100,000 Apr 1999

Linguistic hybridity: Writing commercials in post-colonial Hong Kong

DAG DAG98/99.HSS23 HK$50,000 May 1999

Collaboration with Beida (Early modern Chinese grammar)

CMI CMI99/00.HSS01 HK$80,000 Apr 2000


Cheung, H.S. (1998) "Songs and Rhymes: Cantonese Phonology as Reconstructed fromPopular Songs", Studia Linguistica Serica, Language Information Sciences Research Center,City University of Hong Kong, 103-127.

Cheung, H.S. (1998) "Linguistic Awareness: Chinese Language Education in Hong Kong"Writings on the Chinese Language Education in Hong Kong, Chinese University of HongKong, 1-17.

Cheung, H.S. (1999) "Fifteen Strings of Cash: Reconstructing Truth in Cuo Zhan CuiNing", Chinese Oral and Performing Literature Papers, 20-22, 85-96.

Cheung, H.S. (1998) "Tone Sandhi in Early Cantonese", In Memory of Professor LiFang-kuei: Essays of Linguistic Change and the Chinese, Taiwan: Institute of Linguistics,Academic Sinica and Seattle: University of Washington, 319-336.

Cheung, H.S. (in press) "The interrogative Construction: (Re)Constructing Early CantoneseGrammar" Sinitic Grammar: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives, Oxford UniversityPress, 191-231.

HAO CHANG

Professor


PhD, Harvard University (1966)Professor of History, Ohio State University (1974-98)


Intellectual history of modern China; history of Chinese political thought.


A study of Confucian "Statecraft" thought from the seventeenth to the late-nineteenthcentury, a period when "Statecraft" thought reached its highest development and spawned aleading discourse in the Confucian tradition

DAG DAG98/99.HSS03 HK$96,550 Jun 1999


Chang, H. (2000) "The Intellectual Breakthroughs during the Axial Age in the East andWest (in Chinese)", Tseng Yueh-nung Distinguished Memorial Lecture Series on Easternand Western Civilizations, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan, 26 May 00.

Chang, H. (2000) "Playing God, Deification of Man in Modern Chinese Thought",International Conference on Sinology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 30 Jun 00.

CHANG-TAI HUNG

Professor and Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Science


PhD, Harvard University (1981)Professor of History, Carleton College (1992-98)Jane and Raphael Bernstein Chair Professor of Asian Studies, Carleton College (1993-98)


Twentieth-century Chinese cultural history; Chinese popular and folk culture; contemporaryChinese rituals and politics.


Redesigning Beijing: Politics and national identity in the early years of the People's Republic

DAG DAG98/99.HSS24 HK$50,000 May 1999


Hung, C.-T. (in press) "Revolutionary History in Stone: The Making of a Chinese NationalMonument", The China Quarterly.

Hung, C.-T. (2000) "Festivals Celebrating Life and Death: The Popular Political Culture ofthe Chinese Communist Party" (in Chinese), China and the World in the Twentieth-Century,Taipei: the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica.

Hung, C.-T. (2000) "Repainting China: New Year Prints (Nianhua) and Peasant Resistancein the Early Years of the People's Republic", Comparative Studies in Society and History,42.2, October, 770-810.

Hung, C.-T. (1999) "Modern Art and Politics: The Predicament in Liao Bingxiong'sCartoons" (in Chinese), in Wenyi lilun yu tongsu wenhua (Literary and Artistic Theories andPopular Culture) (ed. Peng, H.Y.), Inst. of Chinese Lit. & Philo., Academia Sinica, Taipei,279-345.

Hung, C.-T. (1998) "Popular Culture and the War of Resistance: Cartoons and History" (inChinese), in Minjian wenhua jiangyanji (Lectures on Folk Culture) (ed. Zhong, J.W.)(Guangxi minzu chubanshe), 89-111.

Hung, C.-T. (1997) "Two Images of Socialism: Woodcuts in Chinese Communist Politics",Comparative Studies in Society and History, 39.1, January, 34-60.

KARL S Y KAO

Professor


PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1979)Asst. Professor, Yale University (1979-86)Assoc. Professor, University of Alberta (1989-97)


Traditional Chinese fiction; Chinese rhetoric; China-West comparative literature; literarytheory.


The formation of axiological discourse: Fengshen, yanyi as a case study

DAG DAG98/99.HSS25 HK$35,000 Jun 1999


Kao, K.S.Y. (1999) "The Ideology of Metaphor: East and West", Comparative LiteratureNow: Theories and Practice, (eds. Tötösy de Zepetnek, S. and Dimic, M.V.), HonoreChampion Éditeur, Paris, 117-128.

WILLIAM TAY

Professor


PhD, University of California, San Diego (1977)Professor of Literature and Director of Graduate Studies, University of California, SanDiego (1990)


Critical theory; cultural criticism; twentieth-century Chinese literature.


Tay, W.S., Lo, W.L. and Wong, K.C. (2000) "Dialogues on Hong Kong LiteraryPhenomena of the Fifties and Sixties", Chung-Wai Literary Monthly, March 2000, 11-39.

Tay, W.S., Lo, W.L. and Wong, K.C. (1999) An anthology of creative writings by localHong Kong and Mainland émigré writers during the Chinese Civil War period, Hong Kong:Cosmos.

Tay, W.S., Lo, W.L. and Wong, K.C. (1999) An anthology of background materials onKong Kong literature during the Chinese Civil War period, Hong Kong: Cosmos.

Tay, W.S. (1999) An anthology of World literary masterpieces, Taipei: Hung-fan.

Tay, W.S. (1999) The global village of literature, Shanghai: Joint.

Tay, W.S., Lo, W.L. and Wong, K.C. (2000) A chronology of Hong Kong vernacularliterature, 1950-1969, Hong Kong: Cosmos.

TING PANG-HSIN

Professor and Dean of Humanities and Social Science


PhD, University of Washington (1972)Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica (1975-89)Director, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sincia (1985-89)Professor, University of California, Berkeley (1989-94)Agassiz Professor of Chinese Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley (1994-98)


Chinese linguistics; Chinese phonology; Chinese dialectology; Sino-Tibetan linguistics.


Emerging High Impact Area of Chinese Linguistics

HIA HIA98/99.HSS04 HK$335,000 Jan 1999

Cognates In Sino-tibetian Languages and the Reconstruction of Proto-sino-tibetian

CERG HKUST6097/00H HK$1,107,817 Sep 2000


Ting, P.H. (1999) "Morphophonemic variations of the perfective suffix in the RugoDialect", Studies on Chinese Historical Syntax and Morphology: In Honor of Mei Tsu-Lin,Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France, 241-246.

Ting, P.H. (1999) "Reflexes of Archaic Chinese *g and *? in the Min Dialects", Journal ofChinese Linguistics, 14, 247-261.

Ting, P.H. (1999) "The Origin of seven-syllable poems", Guoxue Yenjiu (Studies onSinology), 6, 319 - 326.

Ting, P.H. (1999) (ed) "Contemporary studies on the Min Dialects", Journal of ChineseLinguistics, Monograph Series no. 14, 261.

Ting, P.H. (2000) ""Reverse word order in the morphological construction of compounds inChinese dialects", Fangyen, 3:194-197.

Ting, P.H. (2000) "An analytical review of the theories that study the generic relationshipamong Sino-Tibetian Languages", Zhongguo Yuwen, 6: 483-489.

KWOK KOU LEONARD CHAN

Senior Lecturer


PhD, University of Hong Kong (1988)Head of Department of Chinese, Hong Kong Baptist University (1991-93)


Chinese literary criticism; theory of literary history; classical and modern Chinese poetry;classical and modern Chinese fiction.


Anthologizing heterophonies: A critical study of anthologies of Tang Poetry in the late MingPeriod

DAG DAG98/99.HSS04 HK$53,330 Nov 1998


Chan, K.K.L. (1998) "The Significance of Li Panglong's View of Pentasyllabic AncientVerse of the Tang Period", Studies on Literature of the Tang Dynasty, Vol. VI, GuangxiNormal University Press, Guailin, China, 873-888.

Chan, K.K.L. (2000) "Politics of Poeticality and Sentimentality: The Doomed Quest inSima Changfeng's Writing of Literary History", Chung-wai Literary Monthly, 28 (10):70-129.

Chan, K.K.L. (1999) "Fusing Horizons of the Past and the Present: A Study of Tang ShiGui", Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies, 1, 375-416.

Chan, K.K.L. (1999) "Fusion of horizons between the poets of the past and the presentreaders: A study of Tang Shigui", International Seminar on Late Ming and Late QingLiterature, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 16-17 July 99.

Chan, K.K.L. (1999) "Nostalgia for the Home Country: A Critical Study of SimaChangfeng's Literary Historical Narration", International Conference on Hong KongLiterature, CUHK and HK Arts Development Council, Hong Kong, 15-17 Apr 99.

Chan, K.K.L. (1999) "A Study of the Poetic Concept Gediao", Seminar on Chinese CriticalConcepts, National Cheng-chi University, Taiwan, 19 Jan 99.

CHI-CHEUNG CHOI

Associate Professor and Director, South China Research Center


DLitt, Tokyo University (1989)Asst. Professor, University of East Asia (1989-91)


Chinese social and economic history; lineages and societies in Hong Kong, South China andoverseas Chinese settlements; Chinese festivals and customs; ethnicity and social mobility;Chinese business history.


South China Research Center

AOE AOE97/98.HSS02 HK$200,000 Jun 1998

Teaching Hong Kong history, culture, and society

UCA CA95/98.HSS01 HK$1,003,000 Jul 1998

Emigrant communities and overseas connections: Chaozhou district and Chaozhoumerchants, 1850-1950


Emerging High Impact Area of South China Research Center

HIA HIA98/99.HSS01 HK$750,000 Jan 1999

Documenting inscriptions from local ethnic Chinese (Hao) religious buildings in Ho ChiMinh city: a folk-document research on the history and society of the ethnic Chinese (Hoa)community in Vietnam

JF JF98/99.HSS01 HK$220,878 Jul 1999

Hong Kong material culture database - study of museum collections (phase I)

HMLC HMLCD00/01.HSS01 HK$49,970 Nov 2000


Choi, C.C. (2000) Da Jiao: Xianggang di jieri yu diyu shehui yanjiu (Jiao Festival: a studyof festival and local societies in Hong Kong), Joint Publishing Co. Ltd., Hong Kong.

Choi, C.C. (1999) "Centrality in the Periphery: Fusion and Segmentation of Lineages in theZhujiang Delta", Center and Periphery in China: Views from Anthropological Fieldwork (in

Japanese), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, 41-55.

Choi, C.C. (1999) "Development of Family Business in Modern Chaoshan Area: a Viewfrom Wills, using the Chens of Qiantailong in Hong Kong and Hongli in Bangkok asExample", Journal of Resources for Hong Kong Studies, 1, 70-79.

Choi, C.C. (2000) "Xiupu: zongzu di tonghe yu fenzhi, yi xiangshan xushi zongpu weili(Compiling genealogy: lineage unification and segmentation, a case study of the Genealogiesof the Xus in Xiangshan)", Zheng Qinren Jiaoshou Rongtui Jinian lunwen ji (Edited volumein commemoration of Prof. Cheng Chinren's retirement), Daoxiang chubanshen, Taipei,351-362.

Choi, C.C. (1999) "Jindai Chaozhou shangren yu shangye: keti yu ziliao (Chaozhoumerchants and business in Modern China: themes and sources)", Conference on 20thCentury South China, Zhongshan Univ., Economic Society of Guangdong Prov., ZhongshanUniv, 18-20 Dec. 99.

Choi, C.C. (1999) "Surviving the 1934 financial crisis in Swatow: reconsidering rural-urbanrelations in the early 20th century China", Conference on Chinese TransnationalEntrepreneurship in Prosperity and Adversity: South China and Southeast Asia during theTwentieth Century, CAS, HKU and IIAAS, Leiden, Hong Kong Univ., 26-27 Aug. 99.

YIU-MING FUNG

Associate Professor


PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1984)Research Fellow, Institute of East Asian Philosophies, Singapore (1985-87)Assoc. Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1995-97)


Neo-Confucianism; the logic of Chinese language; comparative philosophy; philosophicalproblems of cognitive science.Active Projects as Principal Investigator:The myth of'Transcendent Immanence': An analytic perspective on contemporary new Confucianism

DAG DAG99/00.HSS06 HK$55,000 Jan 2000


Fung, Y.M. (2000) Kung-sun Lung Tzu, Tung Tai Book Company, Taipei.

Fung, Y.M. (1998) "The Neo-Confucian World of the Dracula (the Alien): A ThoughtExperiment", Twenty-First Century Bimonthly, (No.48): 8/1998.

Fung, Y.M. (2000) "Contemporary Neo-Confucianists' Concept of 'Self'", ContinentMagazine, 101(4): 1-21.

Fung, Y.M. (1999) "Essentialism and Confucian Tradition", Continuation andTransformation of Culture and Tradition, The Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, 17-52.

Fung, Y.M. (1999) "Lao Sze-kwang and Neo-Confucianists", Universitas: Monthly reviewof Philosophy and culture, 26 (8): 712-720.

Fung, Y.M. (2000) "Thought Experiments in Chinese and Western Philosophy",Universitas: Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture, 27(6): 514-521.

ANGELINA CHUN-CHU YEE

Associate Professor and Director, Center for Cultural Studies


PhD, Harvard University (1986)Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University (1989-90)Asst. and Assoc. Professor, University of Maryland (1990-95)


Classical and modern fiction and drama; cultural criticism; coloniality and post-colonialstudies; gender studies.


Emerging High Impact Area of Center for Cultural Studies

HIA HIA98/99.HSS02 HK$575,000 Jan 1999


Yee, A.C. (in press) "The Evolution of Taiwan's Literature", Taiwan in the 20th Century,China Quarterly, Taipei, 14-15 Dec 99.

MIN ZHANG

Associate Professor


PhD, Peking University (1991)Senior Lecturer and Lecturer, National University of Singapore (1993-99)


Chinese linguistics; Chinese historical grammar; Chinese dialectology; cognitive grammar ofChinese.


The diminutive tone change in Cantonese as a diffusional phenomenon

DAG DAG99/00.HSS13 HK$56,277 Apr 2000


Zhang, M. (1999) "Guanyu Renzhi Yufa (On Cognitive Grammar)", Yuyan Zhexue Duihua(Dialogues on Philosophy of Language), Yuwen Chubanshe, Beijing, China, 323-347.

Zhang, M. (in press) "Syntactic Change in Southeastern Mandarin: How Does GeographicalDistribution Reveal a History of Diffusion?", Linguistic Change and the Chinese Dialectsfrom the Perspective of Historical Documentation and Language Contact: In Memory ofProf. Li Fang-kuei, Academia Sinica, Taipei, pp.40.

Zhang, M. (2000) "Grammaticalization of Give across Chinese Dialects: A CognitiveApproach", The 9th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics (The 9th AnnualMeeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics), National University ofSingapore and IACL, Singapore, 26 June 2000.

Zhang, M. (1999) "Xinjiapo Huaren Chengzan-yu Yingdui Moshi de Jiliang Yanjiu(Patterns of Response to Compliment among Chinese Singaporeans: A QuantitativeAnalysis)", The 1999 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Guangdong, TheLinguistic Society of Guangdong, Zhaoqing, Guangdong, China, 27/11/2000.

CHARLES WING-HOI CHAN

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Toronto (1994)Lecturer, University of Western Ontario (1993-94)


Classical Confucianism; Sung and Ming Neo-Confucianism; Tokugawa Japanese thought;Sino-Japanese intellectual and cultural relations.


Ogyu Sorai's critique of the Chu Hsi orthodoxy revisited

DAG DAG97/98.HSS11 HK$85,000 Apr 1998

Ogyu sorai's critique of the chu hsi orthodoxy revisited



Chan, W.H. (1998) "Chu Tzu Chung-yung Shou-chang Sho Shih-shih", Chieh-wang Pien,Tung-tai Publishing Co, Taipei, 407-488.

Chan, W.H. (1999) "Ogyu Sorai's Critique of the Chu Hsi Learning: A Critical Review ofMaruyama's Thesis", Confucianism in Contemporary East Asia: Japan, 181-217.

Chan, W.H. (1998) "On Ogyu Sorai's Critique of Chu Hsi's Program of Learning to be aSape", Monumenta Serica, vol. XLVI, 195-232.

Chan, W.H. (1998) "Chu His's Interpretation of the Chuag-yung", European-NorthAmerican Conference on "The West and East Asian Values", Toronto, July 31-Ausust 2.

Chan, W.H. (1996) "Confucius and Political Loyalism: The Dilemma", Monumenta Serica,vol. XLIV, 25-99.

LI-FEN CHEN

Associate Professor




Literary theory and cultural criticism; fiction; modern literature.


Translation and culture: A case study of Taiwan's translation industry

DAG DAG98/99.HSS19 HK$35,000 May 1999


Chen, L.F. (2000) Modern Literary and Cultural Imagination: From Taiwan to Hong Kong,Bookman Books, Ltd, Taipei.

Chen, L.F. (2000) "The Cultural Turn in the Study of Modern Chinese Literature: ReyChow and the Diasporic Self-Writing", Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, 12(1):43-80.

Chen, L.F. (1999) "Social Reality in Wang Chen-ho's Fiction (discussant commentary)",Applications of Methodologies in Chinese Classical and Modern Literature, University ofHong Kong, 289-291.

Chen, L.F. (in press) "Hong Kong Cultural Discourses in the Age of Theory", AnnualMeeting of Association for Asian Studies, Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, 9-12March 2000.

Chen, L.F. (in press) "Fatal Attraction: The Quest of Taiwan", Love, Sexuality, Cultures,Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1-2 December 99.

SIU-WOO CHEUNG

Associate Professor




Ethnicity and ethno-historical processes in South and Vietnam China; subject-identityconstitution and representation; cultural politics among border peoples; anthropology oftourism.



UCA CA95/98.HSS01 HK$1,003,000 Jul 1998

Documenting inscriptions from local ethnic Chinese (Hoa) religious buildings in Ho ChiMinh City: A folk-document research on the history and society of the ethnic Chinese (Hoa)community in Vietnam

MG MG98/99.HSS01 HK$65,450 Apr 1999

Documenting inscriptions from local ethnic Chinese (Hao) religious buildings in Ho ChiMinh city: a folk-document research on the history and society of the ethnic Chinese (Hoa)community in Vietnam

JF JF98/99.HSS01 HK$220,878 Jul 1999

Ethnic Reincarnation in Southwest China : "Miao" identities and indigenous writings in therepublican period

DAG DAG99/00.HSS03 HK$85,000 Dec 1999




Cheung, S.W. (1999) "From Imposed Representation to Self-Representation : The

Exploration and Practice of Ethnic Identity among Miao Intellectuals in China during theRepublican Period", Center and Periphery in China: Views from Anthropological Fieldwork,Fukyosha Publishing Inc., Tokyo, 331-359.

Cheung, S.W. (1998) "Miao Rebellion and Discursive Construction of Ethnic Identity", TheBulletin of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, National Taiwan University,53, 12-56.

Liu, T.S. and Cheung, S.W. (1998) "Reference Community: Anthropological Experience ofResearch, Teaching and Friendship in Tai-O, Hong Kong", On the South China Track:Perspectives on Anthropological Research and Teaching, Hong Kong Institute ofAsia-Pacific Studies, CUHK, Hong Kong, 225-244.

Cheung, S.W. (in press) "The Conception of Miao Identity in Western Guizhou: A MiaoIntellectual's Exploration and Practice of Ethnic Identity in China during the RepublicanPeriod", First International Workshop on Hmong/ Miao in Asia, IRSEA-CNRS, Universityof Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France.

Cheung, S.W. (2000) "Grafting Ethnicity in Southwest China: Miao Identities andIndigenous Writing in the Republican Period", The Annual Meeting of the Association forAsian Studies, The Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, 9-12 March 2000.

Cheung, S.W. (2000) "Regional development and cross-border cultural linkage: The case ofa Vietnamese community in Guangxi, China", in Where China Meets Southeast Asia: Socialand Cultural Change in the Border Regions (eds. Evans, G., Hutton, C. and Eng, K.K.),Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 277-311.

CECILIA LEE-FANG CHIEN

Associate Professor




Pre-modern Chinese cities, urbanization, and political economy; Song dynasty governmentmonopoly and bureaucracy; merchants and trade under a Confucian bureaucraticgovernment.


Chien, C.L.-F. (in press) "With a Grain of Salt: An Annotated Translation of the Treaties onthe Government Salt Monopoly in the Song Dynasty (960-1279)", in the EconomicMonograph of the Songshi, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies.

Chien, C.L.-F. (1995) "Review of Hugh, R. Clark, Community, Trade, and Networks:

Southern Fujian Province from the Third to the Thirteenth Century", Journal of OrientalStudies, 33.2: 297-299.

Chien, C.L.-F. (1988) "Translation of Yang Weisheng, 'A Brief Survey of Song Studies inChina over the Past Ten Years'", Bulletin of Sung-Yuan Studies, no. 20, 1-18.

LI-TSUI FLORA FU

Associate Professor




Ming and Qing Chinese painting; twentieth-century Chinese painting; landscape paintings ofspecific places.


Landscape discourse and the formation of cultural identity: Paintings representing specificplaces in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan since 1949

DAG DAG97/98.HSS15 HK$84,289 Jun 1998


Fu, L.T. (2000) "Network and Identity: The Spread and Development of the LingnanSchool", Proc. Symp. on Area and Network, National Taiwan University, July 1-3.

Fu, L.T. (1999) "Landscape Discourse and National Identity: Political Meanings inRepresentations of Specific Places in China and Taiwan 1911-1970", Chinese CultureCentenary, National Historical Museum, Taipei, 93-134.

Fu, L.T. (1999) "Lines, Details, and Places - On Sun-chuen Lo's 'Hong Kong: a MacroVision'", Artist Magazine, 291(1999.8): 443-447.

Wang, W.J. and Fu, L.T. (1999) "Painting Shanghai - City Representation and City Image",Dialogue, 23 (February/ March): 150-156.

Fu, L.T. (1997) "Paintings of Four Famous Views by Xie Shichen: The Vogue of Travel inthe Second Half of the Ming Dynasty", Taida Journal of Art History, 4 (March): 185-222.

Fu, L.T. (1997) "Studies of Patronage in Chinese Painting", Journal of Humanities East/West, 15 (December): 55-80.

VIRGIL K Y HO

Associate Professor


DPhil, Oxford University (1995)Research Fellow, IASSA, Gothenburg University (1989-94)


Social and cultural history, historiography, popular culture, and symbolisms of modernChina; perceptions and aspects of life in Republican Canton; social and culturaltransformation in rural South China.


Visualizing history: Revolutionary monuments and their socio-cultural meanings

DAG DAG97/98.HSS09 HK$50,000 Jan 1998


Aijmer, G. and Ho, V.K.Y. (2000) Cantonese Society in a Time of Change, The ChineseUniversity Press, Hong Kong.

Ho, V.K.Y. (1998) "Whose Bodies? Taming Contemporary Prostitutes' Bodies in OfficialChinese Rhetorics", China Information, XIII (2/3): 14-35.

Ho, V.K.Y. (in press) "'To Laugh at a Penniless Man Rather Than a Prostitute': TheUnofficial Worlds of Prostitution in Late-Qing and Early-Republican South China",European Journal for East Asian Studies.

Ho, V.K.Y. (1999) "Revolutionary Martyrs or Ghosts: Imperfect Modernity and the SpiritualRealm in an 'Atheistic' State, 1910s-1930s", Ghosts and Modernity in East Asia organized byIIAS, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands, 8-10 July 99.

Ho, V.K.Y. (2000) "Butchering Fish and Executing Criminals: Public Executions and theMeanings of Violence in Late Imperial and Modern China", Meanings of Violence: A CrossCultural Perspective (eds. Aijmer. G. and Abbink, J.), Berg, Oxford.

Ho, V.K.Y. (1993) "Selling Smile in Canton: Prostitution in the Early Republic", East AsianHistory, no. 5: 101-32.

KAM TAK SING

Associate Professor


PhD, Harvard University (1994)Instructor, Harvard University (1990)


Ming-Ching history; Inner Asian history; Altaic philology.


A standard romanization of Manchu: A proposal

DAG DAG98/99.HSS01 HK$46,984 Jan 1999

BOCKJA KIM

Associate Professor


PhD, Boston University (1993)Lecturer, Boston University Cosmopolitan College (1992-93)


Comparative philosophy of religion; history of western philosophy; comparative mysticism;comparative ethics; Greek philosophy; German idealism; Korean Buddhism.


A comparative idea of self as relationality: Korea, Japan and China

DAG DAG98/99.HSS02 HK$23,000 Nov 1998


Kim, B.J. (1998) "Ontology without Axiology? -- A Review of Masao Abe's Account of theProblem of Good and Evil from Western Philosophical Perspective", The Journal of EasternBuddhist, 31 (1): 85-108.

Kim, B.J. (in press) "Transcendental Freedom: The goal of human activities - Buddhism and

Christianity", Transcendence and Immanence: Comparative and MultidimensionalPerspectives, New Asian College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Kim, B.J. (1999) Morality as the End of Philosophy, University Press of Amerce, Durham,USA.

Kim, B.J. (1998) "The Dialectics of Emptiness and Compassion: A Reflection on KoreanZen Buddhism for Western Philosophical Perspective", The Journal of Acta Korean A, I,1-17.

DAVID PETER LAWRENCE

Associate Professor




Comparative philosophy and philosophy of religion; problems of cross-culturalinterpretation and relativism; monistic Kashmiri Saivism; Indian linguistic theory; Buddhistlogic.


Further research in monistic saiva thought

DAG DAG98/99.HSS20 HK$30,000 Jun 1999


Lawrence, D.P. (1999) Rediscovering God with Transcendental Argument: AContemporary Interpretation of Monistic Kashmiri Saiva Philosophy, State University ofNew York Press.

Lawrence, D.P. (in press) "Aspects of Abhinavagupta's Theory of Scripture", translated intoGerman in Polylog: Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren 5.

Lawrence, D.P. (in press) "The Plurality and Contingency of Knowledge and itsRectification according to the Pratyabhijna", Perspectives on Abhinavagupta (ed. Rastogi, N.and Rastogi, N.), Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi.

Lawrence, D.P. (in press) "The Dialectic of Transcendence and Immanence inContemporary Western and Indian Theories of God", Transcendence and Immanence:Comparative and Multi-Dimensional Perspectives (eds. Liu, S.H. et al.), New Asia College,Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Lawrence, D.P. (1998) "The Mythico-Ritual Syntax of Omnipotence", Philosophy East andWest, 48 (4): 592-622.

Lawrence, D.P. (1998) "Siva's Self-Recognition and the Problem of Interpretation",Philosophy East and West, 48(4): 197-231.

TIK-SANG LIU

Associate Professor




Family and kinship; popular religion in South China; ethnicity; ecological anthropology;visual anthropology.


Creation and revitalization: Popular religion in the Pearl River Delta in south China

DAG DAG97/98.HSS18 HK$70,000 Jun 1998


UCA CA95/98.HSS01 HK$1,003,000 Jul 1998

Frontier communities' maritime network in South China

DAG DAG99/00.HSS08 HK$43,000 Apr 2000




Liu, T.S. (1999) "Organization of the Weak: A Fluid Community in Hong Kong's NewTerritories (in Japanese)", Studying Chinese Society and Culture from the Periphery,Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures, Tokyo, 57-82.

Liu, T.S. (1999) "The Construction of Local Identity: The Cultural Interpretation of TianHou Cult in Hong Kong (in Chinese)", Daoism and Popular Religion, Xuefeng WenhuaShiye, Hong Kong, 118-134.

Liu, T.S. and Cheung, S.W. (1998) "Reference Community: Anthropological Experience ofResearch, Teaching, and Friendship in Tai-O, Hong Kong", On the South China Track:Perspectives on Anthropological Research and Teaching, Hong Kong Institute ofAsia-Pacific Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 225-244.

Liu, T.S. (2000) "Ritual, Context, and Identity: The Lingmu Ritual of the Liangshan Yi

People in Sichuan", working paper.

Liu, T.S. (2000) The Cult of Tian Hou ("Empress of Heaven") in Hong Kong (in Chinese),Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Co., Ltd..

Gillette, M. and Liu, T.S. (1999) "Holiday Eating and the Maintenance of Kinship Networksin Hong Kong", Research Workshop on Commensality and the Family Meal in China:United We Eat Together?, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University andDepartment of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 28-30 Jun 1999.

ZONGLI LU

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1995)Assoc. Professor and Section Vice-Director, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (1988-89)Lecturer, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1990-95)


Chinese political and intellectual history from early to early medieval periods; Chinesecultural history; political institutions and systems; classical textual studies; popular beliefsand religions.


Lu, Z.L. (1999) A Hero from the Lower: Cursing in the Portraying of Wei Xiaobao, YuanliuPublishing Company, Taipei, 237-270.

Lu, Z.L. (in press) "The Historicity of the Accounts in the 'Basic Annual of the FirstEmperor of the Qin' in The Grand Scribe's Records Reconsidered", Beida shixue [PekingUniversity Journal: Historiography].

Lu, Z.L. (in press) "Miraculous Birth Myths in the Legitimation of Imperial Throne in theHan", Eighth International Conferencce of the Association for Qin and Han Studies, China,Association for Qin and Han Studies, China, Kunming, China, Aug 99.

LING-TUN NGAI

Associate Professor




Modern Chinese fiction; comparative literature; literature of Hong Kong and Macau.


Twentieth-century Chinese martial arts fiction

DAG DAG98/99.HSS17 HK$35,000 Jun 1999

From the Yan'an talks to the Shanghai forum: The molding of a communist literary model

DAG DAG99/00.HSS09 HK$15,000 Jun 2000


Ngai, L.T. (2000) "Xuehong de wu ren zhi jing: shi lun Huang Biyun de Wenrou yu baolie(Bloody Domain of Death: Notes on Huang Biyun's Tenderness and Violence)", Chung WaiLiterary Monthly, 28 (10): 162-184.

Ngai, L.T. (1999) "Yang Guo he ta de wen ti (Yang Guo and His Problems)", Proceedingsof the International Conference on Jin Yong's Novels, Center for Chinese Studies, ChinaTimes, Yuan-liou, Taipei, Taiwan, 4-6 September 98, 271-292.

JOWEN TUNG

Associate Professor




Feminist cultural critique; gender politics in traditional Chinese discourse; gender andChinese modernity; modern Chinese poetry; classical Chinese poetry and political allegory.


Deep colonization: The Chinese condition

DAG DAG98/99.HSS22 HK$30,000 May 1999

XINYANG WANG

Associate Professor


PhD, Yale University (1988)Research Fellow, Institute of East Asian Philosophies, Singapore (1988-90)Asst. Professor, Washington State University (1991-95)


Modern Chinese history; Chinese diaspora history; history of Sino-foreign relations;US-China relations.


Distinguishing coolies from free migrants

DAG DAG98/99.HSS18 HK$34,000 Jun 1999

A comparative study of the Chinese immigrants in New York City and in San Francisco,1850-1965

DAG DAG99/00.HSS12 HK$30,000 Feb 2000


Wang, X.Y. (1999) "Group Loyalties in the Workplace: The Chinese Immigrant Experiencein New York City, 1890-1970", New York History, 80 (3): 279-304.

SIMON M H WONG

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Toronto (1996)Instructor, Wilfrid Laurier University (1993)


Confucianism; Neo-Confucianism; Taoism; Chinese Buddhism.


Liu Tsung-chou: His doctrine of "Vigilant solitude" (II)

DAG DAG98/99.HSS21 HK$33,120 May 1999


Wong, S.M.H. (1998) "A Critique of Huang Tsung-hsi's Interpretations of the FourMaxims", Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, 28 (4): 487-504.

Wong, S.M.H. (1998) "On the Four Sentences of Liu Tsung-chou", Newsletter of theInstitute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, 8 (3): 105-116.

Wong, S.M.H. (in press) "Tsung Lun-yu hsueh-an kan Liu Tsung-chou tsao-chi ssu-hsiang(A study of Liu Tsung-chou's thought in his early years from the Lun-yu hsueh-an)",International Conference on the Learning of Confucius, Legein Society, National CentralUniversity, Taipei, Taiwan, 28-29 September, 1999.

KAM-MING YIP

Associate Professor


PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1993)Lecturer, Hong Kong Baptist University (1993-95)


Philosophy of language; Chinese logic; contemporary Chinese philosophy; methodology ofthinking; analytic philosophy.


A case study of the language of Zen

DAG DAG98/99.HSS13 HK$30,000 May 1999


Yip, K.M. (in press) "Mountain Metaphysics", Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science,Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/ Boston/ London.

Yip, K.M. (in press) "Turing Functionalism and Quan Zhen Taoism", Transcendence andImmanence: Comparative and Multidimensional, New Asia College, Chinese University ofHong Kong.

Yip, K.M. (2000) "Criticisms of D.T.Suzuki's Classification of Koan", Journal ofPhilosophical Study, no. 11, 48-52.

Yip, K.M. (2000) "Seventeen Paradoxes", Mou Wu Qiu Bi, Chinese Academy of Social

Science, Beijing, 303-312.

Yip, K.M. (1998) "A Critical Analysis of the Inner Alchemical Theory of Lu Tung Pin",Second International Conference on Taoist Culture, Beijing University and Hong KongTaoist College, Guang Zhou, 28-30.

Yip, K.M. (1997) Logical Thought and Philosophy of Language (ed.), Xuesheng BookCompany.

Division of Social Science

The Division of Social Science seeks to create a center of excellence in academic researchand scholarly productivity. Faculty members are expected to maintain a lively intellectualenvironment where new ideas are explored, frontiers are pushed, and a genuine commitmentis made to contribute relevant, innovative, and significant scholarship to the social sciences.

The focus of the Division is interdisciplinary with areas of research in economics,geography, political science, psychology and sociology and STS (science, technology andsociety). The Division has a strong faculty in the study of contemporary China and in thestudy of economic development and social change, broadly defined. Many of our facultymembers are internationally well-known for their research on the sociological, political, andeconomic transformation of Mainland China and Hong Kong. Other faculty colleagues areleaders in the study of Asian demography, geography, psychology, and the interactionsamong science, technology, and society in Asia.

Facilities

The Division of Social Science has established the following research and teaching facilities:

The Archives of China's Socioeconomic and Political Data is funded through a universityprovided infrastructure grant. The Archives aim at acquiring major statistical data thatpertain to economic development, political changes, and social science research.

The Survey Research Center houses 24 stations of computer assisted random digit dialinginterview facilities known as CATI. It has so far been used in both teaching and inconducting political polls that were associated with the transition in 1997.

The primary resource for staff in the School of Humanities and Social Science is theUniversity Library. Planned for a total capacity of 1.2 million volumes, the Library openedin October 1991 with a collection of approximately 100,000 items of printed materials andmore than 30 electronic databases. Approximately 40 percent of the book collection is in thesubject areas of the humanities and social sciences. The library's on-line catalogue providesunified access to books, journals, media resources, electronic publications, and-viainternational telecommunication links-libraries and databases throughout the world.

Research Profile

ALVIN SO

Department Head and Professor

JUDITH BANISTER

Professor

HSI-SHENG CH'I

Professor

ERIK BAARK

Associate Professor

YANJIE BIAN

Associate Professor

X L DING

Associate Professor

YING YI HONG

Associate Professor

JAMES KAI-SING KUNG

Associate Professor

BARRY SAUTMAN

Associate Professor

JOW-CHING TU

Senior Lecturer

DAVID ZWEIG

Associate Professor

CECILIA CHENG

Assistant Professor

IRENE ENG

Assistant Professor

GREG FELKER

Assistant Professor

ROBERT FERGUSON

Assistant Professor

JULIAN MCALLISTER GROVES

Lecturer

GAOCHAO HE

Assistant Professor

CARSTEN A HOLZ

Assistant Professor

AGNES SHUK-MEI KU

Associate Professor

LIN YI-MIN

Assistant Professor

NGOK MA

Assistant Professor

JOHN Z MA

Assistant Professor

GOVINDAN PARAYIL

Assistant Professor

GERALD R PATCHELL

Assistant Professor

TIM TIAN ZHU

Assistant Professor

Research Profile

ALVIN SO

Department Head and Professor



Professor of Sociology, University of Hawaii (1993-98)


Economic development; social class; democracy in Hong Kong, South China and East Asia.


The Chinese Triangle of Mainland-Taiwan-Hong Kong: A comparative institutional analysis

DAG DAG97/98.HSS21 HK$68,284 Jun 1998

The South China Silk District (II): The impact of the depression, World War II, and theCommunist Revolution

DAG DAG98/99.HSS26 HK$93,017 Jun 1999


So, A.Y., Lin, N. and Poston, D. (2001) The Chinese Triangle of Mainland-Taiwan-HongKong: Comparative and Institutional Analyses. Westport: Greenwood.

So, A.Y. and Chiu, S. (2000) "East Asia in World-Systems Perspectives.", in TheWorld-System Readers, (ed. Thomas D.H.) Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield.

So, A.Y. (2000) "Hong Kong's Problematic Democratic Transition", Journal for AsianStudies, 59 (2): 359-381.

So, A.Y. (1999) Hong Kong's Embattled Democracy: A Societal Analysis, Baltimore, JohnsHopkins University Press.

Lee, Y.S. and So, A.Y. (1999) Asia's Environmental Movements: Comparative Perspective,Armonk, M.E.Sharpe.

So, A.Y. (1999) "China Under the Shadow of Asian Financial Crisis", Asian Perspective, 23(2): 83-110.

JUDITH BANISTER

Professor



Chief, International Programs Center, US Bureau of the Census (1994-97)


Demography and related socio-economic topics; contemporary China and all Asia.


Migration in Hong Kong's current and future population

DAG DAG97/98.HSS02 HK$94,000 Jan 1998

China's poor counties: Mortality under economic reform



Banister, J. (1998) "Population, Public Health, and the Environment in China", The ChinaQuarterly, (156): 986-1015.

Banister, J. (in press) "Impacts of Migration to China's Border Regions", Moving Targets:Demography and Security, Berghahn Press, Oxford, England, 101-142.

Banister, J. (in press) "Population Growth in China and its Economic Implications", China'sIntegration in Asia: Economic Security and Strategic Issues, Curzon Press, Surrey, England,56-72.

Banister, J. (in press) "Hong Kong Population and Social Development", SocialDevelopment of Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, Hong Kong.

Banister, J. (1999) "Hong Kong Migration Reality and Policy", Academic Conference forDemographers from the Chinese Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, Hong KongUniversity of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, Oct.

Banister, J., Gao, J. and Rao, K.-Q. (2000) "Survival and Health in Rapidly DevelopingChina", Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Population Associationof America, Los Angeles, Mar.

HSI-SHENG CH'I

Professor



Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina (1984-93)


International politics; Chinese politics and foreign policies; democratization process.


Chinese language citation index of humanities and social science publications

RIG RG97/98.RD01-B HK$600,000 Jun 1998

ERIK BAARK

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Lund (1986)

Dr.phil., University of Copenhagen (1998)

Assoc. Professor, Technical University of Denmark (1988)

Director, Institute of Social Sciences, Technical University of Denmark (1992-94)


Science and technology in society; technology assessment; science and technology policiesin China. Representative Recent Publications:


Emerging High Impact Area of Technology Policy Research

HIA HIA98/99.HSS05 HK$355,000 Jan 1999

Innovation Processes In A Knowledge Intensive Service Industry: The Case Of Engineering

Consultancy In Hong Kong



Baark, E. (1999) "Engineering Consultancy: An Assessment of IT-enabled InternationalDelivery of Services", Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 11 (1): 55-74.

Baark, E. (2000) "Wires, Codes and People: The Great Northern Telegraph Company inChina, 1870-1890", China and Denmark, 1732-1994: Political, Economic and DiplomaticRelations, NIAS, Copenhagen, 119-152.

Baark, E. (2000) "The Making of Science and Technology Policy in China", InternationalJournal of Technology Management, vol.21, no. 112, 1-21.

Baark, E. (2001) "The Commercialization of Technology in China" Remaking China'sPublic Management, Policy Quorum Books, Westport, CT, 183-206.

Baark, E. and Heeks, R. (1999) "Donor-funded information technology transfer projects:evaluating the life-cycle approach in four Chinese science and technology projects",Information Technology for Development, 8, 185-197.

Jamison, A. and Baark, E. (1999) "National Shades of Green: Comparing the Swedish andDanish Styles in Ecological Modernisation", Environmental Values, 8 (2): 199-218.

YANJIE BIAN

Associate Professor and Director, Survey Research Center


PhD, State University of New York at Albany (1990)

Asst. and Assoc. Professor, University of Minnesota (1991-97)


Social stratification and mobility; social networks; methods and statistics; contemporaryChina.


Social and demographic analysis

AOE AOE97/98.HSS03 HK$200,000 Jun 1998

Social network and job searches in mainland China and Hong Kong

CERG HKUST6052/98H HK$1,235,000 Jul 1998

Emerging High Impact Area of Survey Research Center

HIA HIA98/99.HSS03 HK$610,000 Jan 1999

Social change in Guangdong: A pilot social survey

DAG DAG98/99.HSS05 HK$87,250 Mar 1999

Analyzing a pilot Guangdong general survey

DAG DAG99/00.HSS01 HK$92,418 Dec 1999

Social Capital And Competitive Advantage: A Study Of Chinese Firms

CERG HKUST6007/00H HK$1,108,817 Jul 2000


Bian, Y. and Bian, Y. (1999) "1. Market Transition and Social Stratification 2. SocialNetworks and Job Searches", Social Changes in Reform-Era China: Syntheses of WesternSociological Research on Post-Mao China, Oxford U Press, HK., 250.

Bian, Y.J. (1999) "Social Networks and Job Searches", Social Change in China's ReformEra, Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 274.

Bian, Y.J. (2000) "Getting a Job through a Web of Guanxi in Urban China", Networks in theGlobal Village, Westview, Boulder, CO, 370.

Bian, Y.J., Logan, J. and Shu, X.L. (2000) "Wage and Job Inequalities in the WorkingCareers of Men and Women in Tianjin", Redrawing Boundaries: Gender, Households, andWork in China, University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 350.

Bian, F.-Q., Logan, J. and Bian, Y.-J. (1998) "Intergenerational relations in urban China:proximity, contact, and help to parents", Demography, 35, 115-124.

X L DING

Associate Professor



Research Fellow, Australian National University (1996-98)


Transition studies; comparative capitalisms; state-society relations; Chinese social history.


The early stages in the formation and implementation of the "Disconnect state organs fromcommercial operations" policy in post-Deng China

DAG DAG98/99.HSS07 HK$74,000 Mar 1999

Toward A Regulatory State? State-rebuilding In Transitional China



Ding, X.L. (2000) Examining China from the Outside World, Chinese I&C United Press,Beijing.

Ding, X.L. (in press) Some Non-Economic Problems in the Economic Development ofChina, Economic Management Press, Beijing.

Ding, X.L. (1999) "Who Gets What, How? When Chinese State-Owned Enterprises BecomeShareholding Companies", Problems of Post-Communism, 46 (3): 32-41.

Ding, X.L. (2000) "Informal privatization through internationalization", British Journal ofPolitical Science, 30 (1): 121-146.

Ding, X.L. (2000) "The illicit asset stripping of Chinese state firms", The China Journal, (43): 1-28.

Ding, X.L. (2000) "Some of the institutional implications of English linguistic hegemonismin the academic world", Tsinghua Sociological Review, 1 (1): 243-271.

Ding, X.L. (2000) "Systemic irregularity and spontaneous property transformation in theChinese financial system", The China Quarterly, 163: 655-676.

YING YI HONG

Associate Professor




Social psychology of intergroup relations; person perception; culture and self; motivationand emotion.


Group process and action beyond 1997: The role of implicit beliefs


Social loafing across cultures

DAG DAG98/99.HSS09 HK$98,000 Mar 1999

Post-1997 Intergroup Contact In Hong Kong: The Role Of Need For Affective Closure InIntergroup Experiences



Hong, Y., Morris, M.W., Chiu, C. and Benet-Martinez, V. (2000) "Multicultural minds: Adynamic contructivist approach to culture and cognition", American Psychologist, 55,709-720.

Chiu, C., Morris, M., Hong, Y. and Menon, T. (2000) "Motivated cultural cognition: Theimpact of implicit cultural theories on dispositional attribution varies as a function of needfor closure", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 247-259.

Hong, Y., Chiu, C., Dweck, C.S., Lin, D. and Wan, W. (1999) "Implicit theories,attributions, and coping: A meaning system approach", Journal of Personality and SocialPsychology, 77, 588-599.

Hong, Y. (1999) "Ideals of human development", Contemporary Psychology, 44, 83-84.

Hong, Y., Abrams, D and Ng, S.H. (1999) "Social Identifications during Political Transition:The Hong Kong 1997 Experience", International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 23,177-185.

Hong, Y., Chiu, C., Dweck, C.S. and Sacks, R. (1997) "Implicit theories and evaluativeprocesses in person cognition", Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 33, 296-323.

JAMES KAI-SING KUNG

Associate Professor



Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis (1990-92)

Senior Lecturer in Economics, Hong Kong Polytechnic (1992-94)


Economics of institutions and development; China's village economy.


The cause(s) of China's 1958-61 famine revisited

DAG DAG97/98.HSS17 HK$62,000 Jun 1998

Communal dining and China's great leap famine: An empirical analysis

DAG DAG98/99.HSS10 HK$97,700 Apr 1999

The distributive consequence of commercial development in pre-communist China

DAG DAG99/00.HSS07 HK$72,000 Jan 2000

Property Rights And Economic Changes In Rural China



Kung, J.K.S. (1999) "The Evolution of Property Rights in Village Enterprises: The Case ofWuxi County", eds. Oi, J.C. and Walder, A.G., Property Rights and Economic Reform inChina, Ch. 5, Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Kung, J.K.S. (1998) "A Comprehensive Review of the Causes of China's Great LeapFamine (in Chinese)", Twenty-First Century (Ershiyi Shiji), 48 (8): 14-21.

Kung, J.K.S. (2000) "Common Property Rights and Land Reallocations in Rural China:Evidence from a Village Survey", World Development, 28 (4): 701-719.

Kung, J.K.S. and Cai, Y.S. (2000) "Property Rights and Fertilizing Practices in Rural China:Evidence from Northern Jiangsu", Modern China, 26(3): 276-308.

Kung, J.K.S. and Lee, Y.F. (in press) "So What If There is Income Inequality? TheDistributive Consequence of Nonfarm Employment in Rural China", Economic Developmentand Cultural Change.

Kung, K.S. and Zhou, F. (1999) "Land Reallocations in Contemporary Rural China: A CaseStudy (in Chinese)", Twenty-First Century (Ershiyi Shiji), (55): 136-147.

BARRY SAUTMAN

Associate Professor



Visiting Asst. Professor, University of Utah (1990)

Visiting Asst. Professor Johns Hopkins/Nanjing University Center (1991-92)


Chinese politics; minority studies; international law; human rights.


Tibet's cashmere industry: Economic & social effects of internationalized indigenousdevelopment

DAG DAG97/98.HSS08 HK$64,000 Jun 1998

Ethnic relations in Hong Kong: an empirical study

DAG DAG98/99.HSS16 HK$31,872 Jun 1999

Ethnic autonomy in comparative perspective

JRS JRS00/13 HK$29,457 Mar 2000

The new Tibetan middle class

DAG DAG99/00.HSS10 HK$62,600 Jun 2000

Ethnic relations in Hong Kong: an empirical study

G-HK G-HK99/00.HSS01 HK$20,500 Aug 2000

Ethnic autonomy in China and the world

MG MG00/01.HSS01 HK$120,000 Dec 2000


Sautman, B. (in press) Relations in Blood: China's Racial Nationalism, University ofWashington Press, Seattle.

Sautman, B. (in press) "Peking Man and the Politics of Paleoanthropological Nationalism inChina", Journal of Asian Studies, 60: 1.

Sautman, B. (in press) "Association, Federation and 'Genuine' Autonomy: the Dalai Lama'sproposals and Tibet independence", China Information, 14: 1.

Sautman, B. (2001) "Resolving the Tibet Question: problems and prospects", Journal ofContemporary China, 10: 26.

Sautman, B. (2000) "Is Xinjiang an Internal Colony?", Inner Asia, 2: 2, 438-471.

Sautman, B. (1999) "The Tibet Question in Post-Summit Sino-American Relations", PacificAffairs, 72 (1): 7-21.

JOW-CHING TU

Senior Lecturer


PhD, University of Tennessee (1983)

Research Associate, Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, State University of NewYork (1980-92)


Recent population changes and policy implications in Taiwan, China, Singapore and HongKong; family demography; population aging and its social and economic implications.


China Program on population aging and its economy in China's future

CP CP98/99.HSS02 HK$100,000 Apr 1999

Demographic effects on household structure and caregiving needs in aging societies

DAG DAG99/00.HSS11 HK$95,000 Dec 1999

Analyzing a pilot Guangdong general survey

DAG DAG99/00.HSS01 HK$92,418 Dec 1999

Migration And Replacement In Low Fertility Population


DAVID ZWEIG

Associate Professor


PhD, University of Michigan (1983)

Assistant Professor, Florida International University, Miami (1982-84)

Post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard University (1984-85)

Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (1985-86)

Assoc Professor of International Politics, Fletcher School, Tufts University (1986-96)


China's trans-national relations; rural democracy and development; the role of overseasreturnees in China.


Democracy, conflict, and economic development in rural China

DAG DAG97/98.HSS19 HK$78,000 Jun 1998

TVEs under crisis: External pressures vs. domestic institutions

DAG DAG99/00.HSS14 HK$55,000 Jan 2000


Zweig, D.S. (1999) "Institutional Constraints, Path Dependence, and Entrepreneurship:Comparing Nantong and Zhangjiagang, 1984-1996", In Agents of Development:Sub-Provincial Cities in Post-Mao China (ed. Chung, J.H.), Routledge, London, 215-255.

Zweig, D.S. (1999) "Undemocratic Capitalism: China and the Limits of Economism", TheNational Interest, Summer (no. 56): 63-72.

Zweig, D.S. (1999) "Distortions in the Opening: 'Segmented Deregulation' and WeakProperty as Explanations for China's 'Zone Fever' of 1992-1993", USC Seminar Series, (No.14): 1-18.

Zweig, D.S. (2000) "The 'Externalities of Development': Can New Political InstitutionsManage Rural Conflict?", In Contemporary Chinese Society: Change, Conflict andResistance (eds. Perry, E.J. and Selden, M.), Routledge, London and New York, 120-142.

Zweig, D.S. (2000) "Foreign Aid, Domestic Institutions, and Entrepreneurship: FashioningManagement Training Centres in China", Pacific Affairs, vol. 73, no. 2, July: 209-232.

Zweig, D.S. (1997) Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era,Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.

CECILIA CHENG

Assistant Professor




Social competence and emotional intelligence; stress and coping; mental health of adults,adolescents, and psychosomatic patients.


Toward a psychosocial interactionist theory of psychosomatic disorders: Dynamics betweenpsychological risk factors and social resource factors


Development and validation of a new measure on coping flexibility

DAG DAG98/99.HSS06 HK$94,000 May 1999

Exploring risk and resource factors of occupational stress in the service industry: A test ofthe person-environment interactionist model

OSHC OSHC98/99.HSS01 HK$232,000 Jun 1999

The processing of relational information in subclinically depressed individuals

DAG DAG99/00.HSS02 HK$53,000 Dec 1999

Motivational Bases And Cognitive Mechanisms Of Coping



Cheng, C. (1999) "Gender-role Differences in Susceptibility to the Influence of SupportAvailability on Depression", Journal of Personality, 67 (3): 439-467.

Cheng, C. (1998) "Getting the Right Kind of Support: Functional Differences in the Typesof Social Support on Depression for Chinese Adolescents", Journal of Clinical Psychology,54 (6): 845-849.

Cheng, C. (in press) "Seeking Medical Consultation or Not: Perceptual and BehavioralCharacteristics Distinguishing Consulters and Nonconsulters with Functional Dyspepsia",Psychosomatic Medicine.

Cheng, C., Hui, W.-M. and Lam, S.-K (2000) "Perceptual Style and Behavioral Pattern ofIndividuals with Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders", Health Psychology, 19 (2): 146-154.

Cheng, C., Hui, W.-M. and Lam, S.-K (1999) "Coping Style of Individuals with FunctionalDyspepsia", Psychosomatic Medicine, 61, 789-795.

Cheng, C. (2000) "Coping Flexibility in Life Transitions: A New Conceptualization", 12thAnnual Convention of the American Psychological Society, American Psychological Society,Miami, Florida, U.S.A, 9 Jun.

IRENE ENG

Assistant Professor



Visiting Asst. Professor, Oklahoma State University (1991-92)


Urban and regional development in East Asia; industrial growth and upgrading in East Asia.


Tibet's cashmere industry: Economic & social effects of internationalized indigenousdevelopment

DAG DAG97/98.HSS08 HK$64,000 Jun 1998


Eng, I. (1998) "Historical contingency and commercialization in Xishuangbanna, China",Journal of Economic and Social Geography, 89 (4): 13.

Eng, I. (1999) "Agglomeration and the Local State: The Tobacco Economy of Yunnan,China", Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 24 (4): 315-329.

Eng, I. and Patchell, J. (2000) "University-Industry Research Centers and RegionalDevelopment", Regional Studies, 34(5): 494-499.

Eng, I. (in press) "Technology Districts", In International Encyclopaedia of the Social andBehavioral Sciences (eds. Smelser, N.J. and Baltes, P.B.), Elsevier Science, UK.

GREG FELKER

Assistant Professor




Southeast Asian politics and development; industrial and technology policies; comparativepolitics; development theory; international political economy.


Upwardly global? The political economy of technology development in Malaysia andThailand

DAG DAG97/98.HSS13 HK$55,000 Jun 1998


ITC ID98/99.HSS01 HK$530,000 Apr 1999

The regionalization of innovation in Southest Asia : Multinational strategies and host-stateinfluences

DAG DAG99/00.HSS05 HK$65,000 Jun 2000

The Regionalization Of Innovation In Southeast Asia: Multinational Strategies And

Host-state Influences



Jomo, K.-S. and Felker, G. eds. (1999) Technology, Competitiveness, and the State:Malaysia's industrial technology policies, Routledge, London.

Felker, G. (1999) "Malaysia's innovation system: actors, interests, and governance",Technology, Competitiveness, and the State: Malaysia's industrial technology policies,Routledge, London, 98-147.

Felker, G. (1999) "Malaysia in 1998: A Cornered Tiger Bares its Claws", Asian Survey, 39(1): 43-54.

Felker, G. (2000) "Malaysia in 1999: Mahathir's Pyrrhic Deliverance", Asian Survey, 40 (1):49-60.

Felker, GREG and Jomo, K.S. (in press) "Changing Approaches to Investment Policy in theASEAN 4", Southeast Asia's Ersatz Industrialization, St. Martin's, London.

Felker, G. (2000) "ASEAN and Southeast Asia's Systemic Challenges", In 21st CenturyWorld Order and the Asia-Pacific, (eds. Hsiung, J.C.) St. Martin's Press, New York.

ROBERT FERGUSON

Assistant Professor




History of science and technology; business history; technological and organizational changein the aerospace industry.


Beyond the factory: Institutional and regional contexts for aircraft production during WorldWar II

DAG DAG97/98.HSS14 HK$70,000 Jun 1998

Assembling an industry: American aircraft manufacture and mobilization for world war II



ITC ID98/99.HSS01 HK$530,000 Apr 1999


Ferguson, R.G. (1999) "Airframe Manufacture and Engineering Exchange", AtmosphericFlight in the 20th Century (Galison, P. and Roland, A, eds.), Boston: Kluwer AcademicPublishers: 259-285.

JULIAN MCALLISTER GROVES

Lecturer


PhD, University of North Carolina (1992)


Sociological theory; social movements; science, technology and society.


Globalization and its intimate others: The hidden worlds of expatriate and migrant women inHong Kong

DAG DAG97/98.HSS12 HK$73,700 Apr 1998


Arluke, A. and Groves, J. (1998) Pushing the Boundaries: Scientists in the Public Arena,Oxford University Press, New York, 145-164.

Groves, J. and Chang, K. (1999) "Romancing Resistance and Resisting Romance:Ethnography and the Construction of Power in the Filipina Domestic Worker Community inHong Kong", Journal Of Contemporary Ethnography, 28 (3): 235-265.

Groves, J. (in press) "Animal Rights and the Politics of Emotion: Folk Constructs ofEmotions in the Animal Rights Movement", Political Passions, University of Chicago Press,Chicago.

Chang, K. and Groves, J. (2000) "Neither Saints nor Prostitutes: Sexual Discourse in theFilipina Domestic Worker Community in Hong Kong", Women's Studies InternationalForum, 23 (1): 73-87.

GAOCHAO HE

Assistant Professor




Chinese politics; political economy; applied rational choice and game theory; developmentand democracy; philosophy of explanation.


Crucial choice: Class analysis and radicalization of land reform in Northern China,1946-1948

DAG DAG97/98.HSS16 HK$89,000 May 1998

CARSTEN A HOLZ

Assistant Professor




Development economics; China's economy; applied macroeconomics and monetaryeconomics.


Explaining informal finance in China

DAG DAG98/99.HSS08 HK$63,800 Apr 1999


Holz, C.H. (in press) "The Impact of Competition and Labor Remuneration on Profitabilityin China's Industrial State-owned Enterprises", Journal of Contemporary China.

Holz, C.H. (in press) "Economic Reforms and State Sector Bankruptcy in China", The ChinaQuarterly.

Holz, C.H. and Zhu, T. (in press) "Banking and Enterprise Reform in the People's Republicof China after the Asian Financial Crisis: An Appraisal", Asian Development Review.

Holz, C.H. (2000) "The Changing Role of Money in China and Its Implications",Comparative Economic Studies, 42, no. 3, 77-100.

Holz, C.A. (in press) "China's Monetary Reform: The Counterrevolution from theCountryside", Journal of Contemporary China.

Holz, C.H. (1999) "Contractionary Investment Policies in China 1988/89: Accounting forthe Implementation Difficulties and Successes", The China Quarterly, 160: 881-918.

AGNES SHUK-MEI KU

Associate Professor



Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (1993-00)


Cultural sociology; civil society and public sphere; Hong Kong culture and politics; genderissues.


The social construction of "new migrant" in Hong Kong

DAG DAG00/01.HSS03 US$70,000 Jan 2001


Ku, A.S. (in press) "The 'Public' Up Against the State - Credibility Crisis and NarrativeCracks in Post-Colonial Hong Kong", Theory, Culture and Society.

Ku, A.S. (2000) "Revisiting the Notion of 'Public' in Habermas's Theory - Toward a Theoryof Politics of Public Credibility", Sociological Theory, 18(2): 216-240.

Ku, A.S. (2000) "Public Sphere and Civil Society", Ming Pao Monthly, January.

Ku, A.S. (1999) Narratives, Politics and the Public Sphere - Struggles over Political Reformin the Final Transitional Years in Hong Kong (1992-94), Aldershot: Ashgate.

Ku, A.S. (1999) "Hong Kong Culture - A Review on How Local Studies Construct theIdentity Images and Political Positioning of 'Hong Kong People'", Occasional Paper, no. 7,Department of Applied Social Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Ku, A.S. (1998) "Boundary Politics in the Public Sphere - Openness, Secrecy and Leak",Sociological Theory, 16(2): 172-192.

LIN YI-MIN

Assistant Professor



Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at Berkeley (1991)

Current Research Activities:Organizational behavior; political economy; contemporary Chinese economies and societies.


Western sociological perspectives on social change in post-Mao China

FF FF98/99.HSS01 US$10,000 Jul 1998


Lin, Y.M. (in press) Between Politics and Markets: Firms, Competition, and InstitutionalChange in Post-Mao China, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge & New York.

Lin, Y.M. (2000) "Rethinking China's Economic Transformation", Contemporary Sociology,29(4): 608-613.

Tu, J.C. and Lin, Y.M. (1999) Social Change in China: Syntheses and Critiques of WesternSociological Perspectives, Oxford University Press, Hong Kong.

Lin, Y.M. and Zhang, Z. (1999) "The Private Assets of Public Servants", Property Rightsand Economic Reform in China, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 20.

NGOK MA

Assistant Professor



Lecturer, City University of Hong Kong (1999-00)


Comparative politics; political economy; Hong Kong Government and politics;post-communist transformation in Eastern Europe.


Ma, N. and Choy, C.K. (1999) "The Evolution of the Electoral System and Party Politics inHong Kong", Issues and Studies, 35, 1: 167-194.

Ma, N. and Choy, C.K. (1999) "Party Competition Pattern: A Comparison of the 1995 and1998 Campaigns", In Power Transfer and Electoral Politics: The First SAR LegislativeElections in Hong Kong (eds. Kuan, H.C. et al.), Hong Kong: Chinese University Press,71-104.

Ma, N. (1999) "The Daya Bay Opinion War: An Analysis of a Multi-level Conflict", InPress and Politics in Hong Kong: Case Studies from 1967 to 1997 (eds. So, C.Y.K. andChan, J.M.), Hong Kong: Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese University of HongKong, 335-371.

Ma, N. (1999) "Who's the Master? Interest Redistribution in Eastern Europe in the PastDecade", Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences, no. 14: 81-99.

Ma, N. (1998) "Privatization in Eastern Europe: Lessons for China's SOE Reforms", HongKong Journal of Social Sciences, no. 13: 139-160.

Ma, N. (1997) "The Sino-British Dispute over Hong Kong: A Game Theory Interpretation",Asian Survey, 37, 8: 738-751.

JOHN Z MA

Assistant Professor


PhD, McMaster University (1993)

Research Affiliate, Yale University (1992-)

Research Associate, University of Quebec (1993-94)


Internal migration in China, regional development, urbanization; immigration transition inHong Kong SAR and the region; quantitative methods; Geographical Information Systems(GIS).


Hong Kong's immigration in transition: Brain drain and its reversal

DAG DAG98/99.HSS14 HK$91,500 Jun 1999


Ma, Z. (1999) "Temporary migration and regional development in China", Environment andPlanning A, 31, 783 - 802.

Ma, Z. (in press) "Urban Labor Force Experience as a Determinant of Rural OccupationChange: Evidence from Recent Urban-rural Return Migration in China", Environment andPlanning A.

Ma, Z. and Tsang, Y.C. (2000) "Immigration Transition in Hong Kong in the 1990s",Proceedings of the International Workshop on International Migration and Human ResourceDevelopment in the APEC Member Economies, Chiba, Japan, January 19-22.

GOVINDAN PARAYIL

Assistant Professor


PhD, Virginia Tech (1990)

Asst. Professor, Virginia Tech (1990-91)

Asst. Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (1991-92)

Rockefeller Fellow, Cornell University (1993-94)


Science, technology and society; techno-logical change; philosophy of science andtechnology; history of technology; environment and sustainable development.



ITC ID98/99.HSS01 HK$530,000 Apr 1999


Parayil, G. (in press) Kerala's Development Experience: Reflections on Sustainability andReplicability, Zed Books, London and New York.

Parayil, G. (1999) Conceptualizing Technological Change: Theoretical and EmpiricalExplorations, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, MD and Oxford, UK.

Parayil, G. (2000) Kerala: The Development Experience: Reflections on Sustainability andReplicability, Zed Books, London and New York.

Parayil, G. (in press) "Introduction: Is Kerala's Development Experience a 'Model'?",Kerala's Development Experience: Reflections on Sustainability and Replicability, ZedBooks, London and New York, in press.

Parayil, G. (in press) "Sustainable Development and Environmental Management",Environmental Management in Developing Countries, Greenleaf Publications, Sheffield,UK.

Parayil, G. (1998) "The Perils of Trying to be Objective Without Being Reflexive: TheKerala-Model Revisited", Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 30 (2): 28-31.

GERALD R. PATCHELL

Assistant Professor


PhD, Simon Frazer University (1991)


Economic and cultural geography; diffusion of organizations; creation of regional economiesbased on mutual development relationships; business environment.


Patchell, J. (1999) "Creating the Japanese electric vehicle industry: the challenges ofuncertainty and cooperation", Environment and Planning A, 31 (6): 997-1016.

TIM TIAN ZHU

Assistant Professor


PhD, Northwestern University (1995)

Industry analyst, First Chicago Bank (1994-95)


Economics of the firm; China's economic transition.


Corporate governance in China's corporatized enterprises.

DAG DAG97/98.HSS06 HK$70,000 Jan 1998

Corporate governance in China's corporatized enterprises



Zhu, T. (1999) "Contingent versus Noncontingent Contracts", Journal of EconomicResearch, 4 (1): 89-102.

Zhu, T. (1999) "China's Corporatization Drive: An Evaluation and Policy Implications",Contemporary Economic Policy, 17 (4): 530-539.

Zhu, T. (2000) "Holdups, Simple Contracts and Information Acquisition", Journal ofEconomic Behavior and Organization, 42 (4): 549-560.

Fang, X. and Zhu, T. (1999) "Institutional Imperfection and Transition Strategies",Economic Systems, 23 (4): 331-348.

Tao, Z. and Zhu, T. (2000) "Agency and Self-Enforcing Contracts", Journal of ComparativeEconomics, 28 (1): 80-94.

Zhang, J.-Z and Zhu, T. (2000) "Verifiability, Incomplete Contracts and DisputeResolution", European Journal of Law and Economics, 9 (3): 281-290.

Language Centre

As an academic service unit, the Language Centre has no formal research commitments. Staffmembers in this unit have, however, successfully procured grant funding, undertaken pure and appliedresearch, and produced publications. Listed below are the research projects and research output fromstaff members who have current research funding.

Research Profile

GREGORY C. A. JAMES

Director of Language Centre

LYNN J. FLOWERDEW

Senior Instructor

JOHN C. MILTON

Senior Instructor

NICHOLAS S NOAKES

Senior Instructor

RICHARD PEMBERTON

Senior Instructor

KENNETH K P CHAN

Instructor

AMY M. L. CHI

Instructor

SHIN KATAOKA

Instructor

LAM, JACQUELINE KAM-MEI

Instructor

LINDA Y O MAK

Instructor

SHING CHU TAM

Instructor

SARAH TOOGOOD

Instructor

Research Profile

GREGORY C. A. JAMES

Director of Language Centre


PhD, 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)


Applied linguistics; lexicography and lexicology; languages in education; South Asianlanguages.


James, G.C. (2000)Colporul. A History of Tamil Dictionaries, Cre-A, Chennai.

James, G. (1998)"Towards a Typology of Bilingualised Dictionaries ", Shuangyu CidianxueZhuanji, Lexicorgraphical Society of China, Xiamen, 16 July 96, 29-46.

Hartmann, R.R.K. and James, G.(1998) Dictionary of Lexicography , Routledge, London &New York.

LYNN J. FLOWERDEW

Senior Instructor


MA, University of Birmingham (1984)

Coordinator, Language Centre, Sultan Oaboos University, Oman (1986-90)

Coordinator, English Division, Medical Faculty, Kuwait University (1984-86)

Coordinator, English Division, Science Faculty, Garyounis University, Libya (1981-82)


Textlinguistic analysis of computerized corpora of technical writing; macro-organization andlinguistic structures of academic and workplace reports with application to languageteaching.


Flowerdew, L.J. (in press) "Corpus-based analyses in EAP: state-of-the-art", AcademicDiscourse, Longman, London

Flowerdew, L.J. (in press) "The exploitation of small learner corpora in EAP materialsdesign", The use of Small Corpora in the Teaching of Language,John Benjamins,Amsterdam, not known.

Flowerdew, L.J. (2000)"Investigating referential and progmatic errors in a learner corpus",Rethinking Language Pedagogy from a Corpus Perspective, Peter Lang. Frankfurt am Main,145-154.

Flowerdew, L.J. (2000) "Using a genre-based framework to teach orgranisational structurein academic writing", ELT Journal, 54(4):369-378.

Flowerdew, L.J. (1998) "Corpus Linguistic Techniques Applied to Textinguistic", System,26(1): 545-556.

Flowerdew, L.J. (1998) "Intergating expert and interlanguage computer corpora findings oncausality: discoveries for reachers and students", English for Specific Purposes,17(4):329-345.

JOHN C. MILTON

Senior Instructor


PhD, Lancaster University (2001)

Senior Lecturer, Acting Director and Assistant Director of English Center, The University ofBahrain, Bahrain (1982-91)

"Foreign Expert", Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electrical Engineering, Hubei, P.R.C.(1981-82)


Analysis of the writing of non-native speakers of English; development of InformationTechnology for language learning and instruction.


Milton, J. (1998) "Exploiting Ll and Interlanguage Corpora in the Design of an ElectronicLanguage Learning and Production Environment", in Learner English on Computer (Ed. S.

Granger). Harlow: Longman. 186-198.

Milton, J. (1999) "Lexical thickets and electronic gateways: making text accessible bynovice writers", ", Writing: Texts, Processes & Practices, Longman, Harlow: UK, 221-243.

Milton, J. (1999) "Bringing the Text Closer", IMELT Conference, Hong Kong PolytechnicUniversity, Hong Kong, Nov 99.

Milton, J.(2000) "An Online Vocabulary Tool", The British Council Conference Interface2000, British Council, Hong Kong, 30 Apr 2000.

Milton, J.(2000) "An Online Grammar Tutorial", The British Council Conference Interface2000, British Council, Hong Kong, 1 May 2000.

NICHOLAS S NOAKES

Senoir Instructor


MEd, University of Sheffield (2000)

MA, University of Reading (1994)

Manager, English Language Centre, British Council, Bangkok (1992-94)

Senior Teacher, Business Unit, British Council, Hong Kong (1989-92)


Online Learning; eModerating; teacher education; learning portfolios; web-based portfoliosystem for key skills development.


Noakes, N. (2000) "Small Cascades", 6th International Conference on Technologysupported Learning and Teaching (Online Education), Berlin, Germany 28 November - 1December 2000.

Noakes, N. (2000) "Case Study: Starting Small", Online Tutoring Skills (OTIS) InternationalE-Workshop Developing Online Tutors, Heriot-Watt University and the Robert GordonUniversity, Edinburgh, Scotland, 8-12 May 2000.

Noakes, N. (2000) "Empowering Online ESL Learners in", Proceedings of the SecondInternational Conference On Networked Learning: Innovative Approaches to Lifelong andHigher Education, University of Sheffield & University of Lancaster, England, 17-19 April2000.

McConnell, D., Noakes, N., Rowe, P. and Stewart, W. (2000) "The Practice of NetworkedLearning: Experiences of Design and Participation", Proceedings of the Second International

Conference On Networked Learning: Innovative Approaches to Lifelong Learning andHigher Education, University of Sheffield & University of Lancaster, England, 17-19 April2000, 193.

Noakes, N. (2000) "Helping Teachers to Develop as Online Facilitators", 5th AnnualTeaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference, A Virtual Odyssey: What's Aheadfor New Technologies and Learning?, University of Hawai'i, Hawai'i (online), 12-14 April2000.

Noakes, N. (2000) "The Key Elements of Collaboration and Community Online", 4thAnnual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference, Best Practices inDelivering, Supporting, & Managing Online Learning, University of Hawai'I-KapiolaniCommunity College and the Teaching in the Community Colleges (electronic) Journal.

RICHARD PEMBERTON

Senior Instructor


MA, Leicester University (1986)

Lecturer, Language and Communication Studies Dept., University of Technology, Lae,Papua New Guinea (1987-90)

Head of ESL, John Ellis Community College, Leicester, UK (1990-91)

Current research activities:

Self-directed language learning; the role of listening in second language vocabularyacquisition.

Representative recent publications:

Pemberton, R. (1999) "Factors in Listening Difficulty: some evidence from transcriptions",Vocabulary Acquisition Research Group Conference, CALS, University of Wales, Universityof Wales, Swansea, UK, 26 June 99.

Pemberton, R. and Kasten, K. (in press) "Language Learning in Language ExchangePartnerships: an exploratory study", Language Analysis, Description and Pedagogy,Language Center, HKUST/English Dept, Lingnan C, Lingnan College, 27 June 96.

Pemberton, R. and Lee, J. (2000) "Looking at Others to See Yourself: PromotingReflection in Self-Access Video Materials", LT2000, Language Centre, HKUST, HKUST,Hong Kong/Tsinghua University, Beijing, 19-23 June 00.

Pemberton, R. and Toogood, S. (1999) "Approaches to Advising for Self-directedLanguage Learning", 12th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, International Associationof Applied Linguistics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 1-6 August 99.

Pemberton, R.and Milton, P. (1999) "An Interactive Multimedia Package for DevelopingEnglish Communication Skills in Job Interview Situations", ITMELT 99, English Centre,Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 7-8 Nov 99.

Pemberton, R., Ho, S., Lam, J. and Toogood, S. (in press) "Developing a Self-DirectedEnglish Language-Learning Programme for Postgraduate Students", Experiments andEvaluation in Self-Access Language Learning, HASALD, Hong Kong PolytechnicUniversity, 5 Sept 98.

KENNETH K P CHAN

Instructor


MEd, University of Hong Kong (1997)


The construction of a corpus-based service list of academic words from university textbooks and thedevelopment of a multi-media software tool for the learning of these words

LF G/E/165/98 HK$424,116 Apr 1999

AMY M. L. CHI

Instructor


MA, University of Exeter (1992)


Pedagogical lexicography; teacher and learner training.


Chi, M.L.A. (1998) "Teaching dictionary skills in the classroom", EURALEX '98 Proceedings, EURALEX- European Association for Lexicography, University of Liege, Belgium, 4-8 August 98, II: 565-577.

Chi, M.L.A. and Leung, S. (1998) "A case study of the use of dictionaries to assist the teaching andlearning of English in Hong Kong", Applied Linguistics: Focus on second language learning/teaching,selected papers, Linguistics Society of the Philippines, De La Salle University, Manila, 25-26 April 97,36-52.

SHIN KATAOKA

Instructor


MSc, University of Edinburgh (1994)


Japanese-language teaching materials donation program

JF JF99/00.LC01 149,000 May 2000


Kataoka, S. (1999) "An Imagined Community Realised by Written Cantonese: One Country Two Systemsin terms of Treatment of Written Chinese in Hong Kong", Studies in Comparative Culture, (44): 11-21.

Kataoka, S. (2000) "An Imagined Community Realised by Written Cantonese: One Country Two Systemsin terms of Treatment of Written Chinese in Hong Kong",Collected Articles on China vol. 41 (1999),Ronsetsu Shiryo Hozonkai, Tokyo, Japan, 11-21.

Kataoka, S. and Toyoda, M (in press) "Analysis of the Use of Japanese Second Person Pronoun Anata inJapanese Elementary Textbooks", Fourth International Symposium on Japanese Language Education andJapanese Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 20 Nov 1999.

Kataoka, S. and Lee, Y.-P. (2000) Laai Maai Tin Cheung,Greenwood Press, Hong Kong.

Chishima, E. and Kataoka, S. (2000) Kantongo Bunpo (Japanese translation of Cantonese Matthew S. andYip, V. (1994) A Comprehensive Gramma, Routledge, London & New York), Toho-shoten, Tokyo, Japan.

He, C.-Y. and Kataoka, S. (2000) "Non major Japanese courses in Hong Kong tertiary institutions - A caseof The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (original in Chinese)", in Changing Languages:Language Education in the Era of Transition, (eds. Mak, L. and Keung, M.), Language Center, Hong KongUniversity of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 145-152.

LAM, JACQUELINE KAM-MEI

Instructor


PhD, University of Exeter (2000)

Program Director, Nota Penna Ltd. (1986-88, 1992-93)

Teaching/ Computer Assistant, Development Office, University of Exeter (1990-91)

Acting Principal, Yau Jong Morninghill School (1986)

Assistant Mistress, Yau Jong Morninghill School (1984-86)


Lam, J.K.M. and Kachru, B. (1999) "Asia's Englishes and World Englishes (reprinted from the Hong KongLinguist, issue 19-20, pp.1-7)", English Today: The international review of the English Language, 61 (1):17-22.

Lam, J.K.M. (1998) "A corpus-based subject-specific glossary for computer science related texts",Lexicography in Asia, Password, Tel Aviv (Israel), 190.

Lam, J.K.M. (1998) "Hong Kong language policy", English Today, 14 (3): 63.

Lam, J.K.M. and Park, K. (1998) "Knowers' workshop: Empowering SAC advisers' counselling skills",Newsletter of the Hong Kong Association for Self-Access Learning and Development, 1997 (September):9-11.

Pemberton, R., Ho, S., Toogood, S. and Lam, J. (1999) "Developing a Self-directed EnglishLanguage-learning Programme for Postgraduate Students", Experiments and Evaluation in Self-AccessLanguage Learning: Selected papers from the 2nd HSALD conference 5th September, 1998, Hong KongAssociation for Self-Access Learning &, Hong Kong, 5 September 99.

LINDA Y O MAK

Instructor


MA, Institute of Education, University of London (1989)

Instructor, the English Language Teaching Unit, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1991-95)

English Subject Panel, Immanuel Lutheran College, Tai Po (1985-89)


Mak, L. (1999) "Starting Small: How to Use the Internet in Language Classrooms", Recruit, 177 (6): 6.

Mak, L. and Sussex, R. (1998) "Learning of ESL on Electronic Networks: Verifying the Claims and theEvidence", CALL to Creativity. Proceedings of the World-CALL Conference, The Horwood LanguageCentre, University of Melbourne, 1998, 137-9.

Mak, L.Y.O. and Mak, S.W.K. (2000) "CALLing towards the 21st century in Hong Kong", Proceedings ofAsiaCALL Conference, Japan English Teachers Association, Kyoto, Japan, 21-25 May 1999, 63-67.

SHING CHU TAM

Instructor


MPhil, University of Hong Kong (1996)


Tam, S.C., Tang, Z.X. and Hau, X. (2000) "Language Dislocation Phenomenon in Hong Kong PutonghuaTeaching Materials under Multiple Language System", World Chinese Teaching Journal, Third Quarter,99-109.

Tam, S.C., and Lau, Y. (2000) "Teaching of Spoken Words in Putonghua Teaching", The FirstInternational Bilingual Seminar, Research on Bilingual, The Quarter Journal of National EducationResearch, May, 285-589.

Tam, S.C., and Zhu, R.K. (1999) Modern Chinese Linguistics History,Shantou University Publication,Shantou University, China.

Tam, S.C., (1999) "Suspension and Request in Language Teaching", International Confluence on TeacherEducation - Teaching Effectiveness and Teacher Development in the New Century, The Hong Kong Instituteof Education, Hong Kong, 22-24 Feb 99.

Tam, S.C.,(1999) "Management of Putonghua Recitation Materials and Notes on Recitation", RecitationTraining Course for Secondary and Primary School Teachers, Hong Kong Teacher's Centre, Hong Kong, 6Mar 99.

Tam, S.C., (1999) "Discussion on Special Presentation in Spoken Language, Reminder", Journal of AppliedLinguistics, April, 43-50.

SARAH TOOGOOD

Instructor



Pemberton, R, Toogood, S, Ho, S and Lam, J (in press) "Learner and Adviser Expectations in aSelf-Directed Language-Learning Programme", International CercleS Conference, CercleS, Bergamo Italy,17 Sept 98.

Pemberton, R, Toogood, S, Ho, S and Lam, J (in press) "Advising for Self-Directed Language-Learning:Expectations and Approaches", HKUST & GUFS International Conference. Second Language Teaching:Reading, Writing & Discourse, HKUST Language Centre & GUFS, HKUST & GUFS, 22 June 99.

Pemberton, R, Toogood, S, Ho, S and Lam, S (in press) "Running a Semester-Long Self-DirectedLanguage-Learning Project", HASALD Seminar, HASALD, HKPU, 8 June 98.

Pemberton, R, Toogood, S, Ho, Sand Lam, S (in press) "Learners and Advisers: What Do They ReallyWant From Each Other?", ", HASALD Conference, HASALD, HKPU, 5 Sept 98.