A total of 39 faculty members from HKUST’s Academy of Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS) have been named to the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2026, according to the latest citation metrics compiled by Stanford University. This recognition marks an increase of 26% compared to last year, underscoring AIS’s expanding global research excellence and leadership in high-impact interdisciplinary scholarship.
Since its establishment in 2023, AIS has strategically recruited world-class scholars dedicated to pioneering cross-disciplinary research and innovative pedagogy. These honorees represent 36% of our tenure-track faculty including joint appointments, reflecting a sustained dedication to research quality across our Divisions. Notably, 22 of them have been featured in both career-long and single-year impact lists, demonstrating their contributions and lasting influence in their respective fields.
Spanning a diverse spectrum of fields—including Artificial Intelligence, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Enabling & Strategic Technologies, Engineering, Information & Communication Technologies, Physics & Astronomy, Psychology & Cognitive Sciences, and Social Sciences—this accolade highlights AIS’s unique strength in bridging disciplines to drive transformative discoveries.
We extend our warmest congratulations to our stellar faculty members for their exceptional achievements, dedication, and continuing leadership in their respective fields!
Career-long and Single-year Impact (in alphabetical order by surname)
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Professor, Division of Environment and Sustainability; Department of Chemistry Expertise: Analytical chemistry; Bioanalytical chemistry; Chemical toxicology; Food chemistry; Mass spectrometry
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Associate Head and Chair Professor, Division of Environment and Sustainability |
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Chair Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Division of Environment and Sustainability
Expertise: Environmental engineering |
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Associate Professor, Division of Arts and Machine Creativity; Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering |
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Associate Professor, Division of Environment and Sustainability Expertise: Environment and society; Global and planetary change; Environmental sustainability; Renewable energy; Developing countries |
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Chair Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design; Department of Computer Science and Engineering
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Chair Professor, Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas at HKUST; Thrust of Computational Media and Arts at HKUST (GZ)
Expertise: Mobile computing; Computer networking; Data analytics; Human-computer interaction |
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Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design; Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Expertise: Wireless and mobile computing; Smart city and urban data analytics; Low altitude systems and communications; Internet of Things (IoT) and AIoT |
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Associate Professor, Division of Arts and Machine Creativity at HKUST; Thrust of Computational Media and Arts at HKUST (GZ)
Expertise: Human-Computer Interaction; Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality; Gaming Technologies; Visualization Technologies |
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Chair Professor, Division of Public Policy at HKUST; Thrust of Innovation, Policy and Entrepreneurship and Thrust of Carbon Neutrality and Climate Change at HKUST(GZ)
Expertise: Climate change and Environmental policy and governance; Sustainability science and applications |
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Associate Professor, Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas; Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Expertise: Artificial intelligence; Language modeling; Data mining; Machine learning; Knowledge representations |
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Professor, Division of Arts and Machine Creativity; Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering
Expertise: Computer vision; Computer graphics; Robotics |
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Director of Entrepreneurship Education
Expertise: AI hardware accelerator; Baseband application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC); Computer architecture; Embedded systems; Energy harvesting; Integrated circuits and systems |
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Chair Professor, Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas at HKUST; Dean, Function Hub at HKUST (GZ); Chair Professor, Thrust of Advanced Materials at HKUST (GZ); Thrust of Bioscience and Biomedical Engineering at HKUST (GZ)
Expertise: Condensed matter physics; Advanced Materials |
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Chair Professor, Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas at HKUST; Thrust of Artificial Intelligence and Thrust of Innovation, Policy and Entrepreneurship at HKUST(GZ)
Expertise: Data Mining and knowledge discovery; Big Data Analytics; Mobile Computing; Business Intelligence; Information Asurance |
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Chair Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design at HKUST; Thrust Head, Thrust of Intelligent Transportation; Chair Professor, Thrust of Intelligent Transportation; Thrust of Internet of Things, and Thrust of Innovation, Policy and Entrepreneurship at HKUST(GZ)
Expertise: Multi-entity intelligence with applications to transportation and energy systems; |
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Associate Professor, Division of Public Policy; Division of Environment and Sustainability
Expertise: Policy design and innovations; Emergence of the innovation systems approach; Energy policy and technology development; Climate change and global environmental governance; Big data and social science research |
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Chair Professor, Division of Environment and Sustainability; Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Expertise: Environmental pollution treatment; Nanoporous and nanostructured materials; Biomedical engineering (BME) |
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Chair Professor, Division of Environment and Sustainability; Head and Chair Professor, Department of Chemistry
Expertise: Aerosol chemistry; Analytical chemistry; Atmospheric applications; Environmental analysis; Atmospheric science; Environmental chemistry/instrumentation; Urban ozone formation chemistry |
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Head and Chair Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design; Tencent Professor of Engineering; Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Expertise: Computer networking; Wireless systems; Cyber-physical systems; Mobile computing; Cybersecurity |
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Chair Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design; Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Swire Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Expertise: Aeroacoustics; Aerodynamics; Aerospace engineering; Aircraft engineering; Aircraft and aeronautical engineering |
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Associate Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design at HKUST; Thrust of Sustainable Energy and Environment at HKUST(GZ)
Expertise: Self-powered wireless sensing; Triboelectric charge generation and discharge; Nanomaterials and devices |
Single-year Impact (in alphabetical order by surname)
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Associate Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design at HKUST; Thrust of Computational Media and Arts at HKUST (GZ)
Expertise: Human-Centered AI Human-AI Collaboration (for Education, Learning, Collaboration, Creativity Support); Multi-Agent Interactive System Design (for Education, Learning, Collaboration, Creativity Support); Human-Robot Interaction (e.g., companion robot); Accessible Computing (novel assistive technology design for older adults and people with disabilities); Multi-Sensory (e.g., haptic, olfactory) interaction design; Virtual Reality (VR) / Augmented Reality (AR) / Mixed Reality (MR); Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous computing techniques and applications; Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) |
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Acting Head and Professor, Division of Arts and Machine Creativity; Professor, Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas; Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Expertise: Computer graphics; Human-computer interaction; Computer vision |
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Chair Professor, Division of Environment and Sustainability; Department of Mathematics; Head and Chair Professor, Department of Ocean Science (OCES) |
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Professor, Division of Public Policy; Division of Social Science
Expertise: Demography; Social policy in Asia |
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Professor, Division of Public Policy
Expertise: Health policy; Policy design and innovations; Population aging; Social policy |
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Assistant Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design; Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Expertise: Miniature robots; Soft robots; Surgical robots; Underwater robots; Implantable medical devices; Multi-material microfabrication |
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Research Professor, Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas
Expertise: Compound semiconductor materials and devices; III-V on Si integration by epitaxy; Photonics devices; Power semiconductor devices |
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Associate Professor, Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas
Expertise: Infectious disease modeling; Epidemiology; Digital medicine; AI application in medicine; Microbiology |
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Assistant Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design
Expertise: Computational design; 3-dimensional (3D) reconstruction; Computer graphics; Computer animation; Geometry processing |
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Associate Professor, Division of Arts and Machine Creativity; Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas; Division of Electronic and Computer Engineering
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Dean, Academy of Interdisciplinary Studies
Expertise: Information visualization, Big data, Human-computer interaction, Artificial intelligence, Mobile augmented reality |
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Associate Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design; Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering
Expertise: Machine learning for communications (model and data-driven approaches); Integrated sensing and communication; Wireless communications and machine learning with focus on distributed intelligence (federated learning) |
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Professor, Division of Environment and Sustainability
Expertise: Computing for Sustainability; Sustainable Computing; AI for Weather and Climate Systems; Edge AI |
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Professor, Division of Public Policy at HKUST; Thrust of Innovation, Policy and Entrepreneurship at HKUST (GZ)
Expertise: Water Resource Management; Health Policy; Anti-Corruption; Policy Design and Innovations |
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Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design; Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Department of Ocean Science
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Career-long Impact (in alphabetical order by surname)
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Professor Emeritus, Division of Environment and Sustainability; Co-founder, Dual Degree Program in Technology & Management
Expertise: Surface and interface science; Polymer blends and alloys; Conductive composite polymers; Crosslinking of polymers; Adhesion phenomena |
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Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design; Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering |