The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Biography

Prof. Gan conducts hard-core scientific study of ocean circulation, marine ecosystem dynamics and numerical ocean modeling in the China Seas. The research inter-links the processes over estuary-shelf-open ocean basin. Interdisciplinary research in coupled physical-biogeochemical dynamics through numerical modeling, field measurement and process study in the ocean are developed.

Research Interests

Ocean circulation and ecosystem modeling; ocean dynamics and coastal oceanography

Awards & Honors

• Professor Jianping GAN was awarded a HK$ 87.147 million by the Research Grants Council (RGC)’s Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme 2023/24   (2023)
• Professor Jianping GAN and His Research Team Discover “Hotspots” of Three-layered Alternatively Rotating Circulation in South China Sea   (2022)
• Second Class, 2014 State Natural Science Award   (2014)

For details, please visit https://www.math.hkust.edu.hk/people/faculty/profile/magan/

Dr. Wenting QIU 邱文婷
PhD in Chemistry

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Prof. Shi obtained his B.S. degree from Nanjing University (Acoustics) in 2010, and M.S. degree from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2012. In 2015 he obtained PhD degree in the Department of Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London, with an award of Unwin Prize for the best PhD thesis. After graduation, he worked as a postdoc research associate at Imperial College before joining in HKUST in 2019 as an assistant professor.

His current research interests include acoustics, nondestructive evaluation (NDE), ultrasonic material characterisation, advanced ultrasonic imaging, numerical modeling of elastic waves and metamaterials. His industrial partners include nuclear and aerospace companies, such as EDF Energy, Rolls Royce Submarine, China Nuclear Power Corporation, and the Wood Group.

Prof. Dan Tsang is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Pao Yue-Kong Chair Professor in the State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization at Zhejiang University in China. A trailblazer in environmental engineering and sustainability, Prof. Tsang has over two decades of research and professional experience. With more than 650 publications in leading international journals, over 75,000 citations, and an h-index of 152, he has been recognized among Stanford University’s Top 2% Scientists (lifetime) and Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers in both the engineering and the environment and ecology categories. He also holds fellowships from the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE), Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), and Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE). In addition, with a strong commitment to advancing the engineering profession and contributing to public service, Prof. Tsang serves as the founding Editor-in-Chief of npj Materials Sustainability (Nature Portfolio), as well as Chairman of the Hong Kong Waste Management Association (2023–2025) and Waste Management Subcommittee Chair (2023 & 2024) of the Advisory Council on the Environment of the Hong Kong SAR Government.

Prof Yang’s main research area at present is the experimental elastic metamaterials. He participated in the study of the original locally resonant sonic metamaterials (coated spheres), and invented the membrane type metamaterials, based on which a number of novel structures and properties have been discovered. These include (i) the anti-resonance based decorated membrane resonator (DMR) which by itself serves as a strong transmission loss sound blocker even at frequencies around 100 Hz, (ii) doubly negative metamaterials based on DMR, (iii) dark acoustic metamaterials which are perfect sound absorbers and highly efficient vibration absorbers over a broad frequency range from a few thousand to near 50 Hz, (iv) hybrid resonant super absorption metamaterials that can totally absorb low frequency sound beams with cross section area many times larger than the physical area of the metamaterials. In the application side, he is the inventor of a number of light weight, thin, highly efficient sound proof panels that can block or absorb noise, and equally effective sound blocking blankets that are flexible and can be rolled up when not in use, and rolled out to cover the noise sources or quiet room entrance. These metamaterials have extremely wide range of applications in residential and commercial buildings, trains, ship, aircraft, factories, power plants, satellites and spacecraft, etc.

He has also worked on semiconductor quantum structures and interfaces, polymer dynamics, electromagnetic metamaterials, etc., but is no longer working in these areas anymore.

Prof Yang had served as the chairman of the Hong Kong Physics Olympiad Committee and head coach of the Hong Kong physics Olympiad team from 2003 to 2013. During the period, the HK team had won ten gold medals in International Physics Olympiads (IPhO’s), and two gold medals in Asia Physics Olympiads (APhO’s), including the 3rd place overall standing in APhO 2012. In their debut in IPhO 2004, the HK team became the first in IPhO history since it became a global event to win gold medal in their first participation of IPhO’s.