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39 AIS Faculty Named Among World’s Top 2% Scientists 2026 by Stanford University
22/10/2026
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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)

 

Prof. CHAN Wan

Professor, Division of Environment and Sustainability; Department of Chemistry
 

Expertise: Analytical chemistry; Bioanalytical chemistry; Chemical toxicology; Food chemistry; Mass spectrometry

 

 

Prof. CHEN Fei

Associate Head and Chair Professor, Division of Environment and Sustainability

Expertise: Land-atmosphere interactions; Land-surface and hydrologic process; Development of community land-surface, weather prediction, and climate models; Urbanization and its impacts on weather and climate; Agriculture management modelling in land-surface models; Regional climate modelling and assessment

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Prof. CHEN Guanghao

Chair Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Division of Environment and Sustainability

 

Expertise: Environmental engineering

 

Prof. CHEN Qifeng

Associate Professor, Division of Arts and Machine Creativity; Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering

Expertise: Computer vision; Machine learning; Computer graphics

 

Prof. Laurence DELINA

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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Prof. GUO Song

Chair Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design; Department of Computer Science and Engineering


Expertise: Edge AI; Machine learning; Cloud computing; Distributed systems; Mobile computing

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Prof. HUI Pan

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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Prof. LI Mo

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

 

Prof. LIANG Haining

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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Prof. QI Ye

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

 

Prof. SONG Yangqiu

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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Prof. TAN Ping

Professor, Division of Arts and Machine Creativity; Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering

 

Expertise: Computer vision; Computer graphics; Robotics

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Prof. TSUI Chi-Ying

Director of Entrepreneurship Education 
Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design; Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering

 

Expertise: AI hardware accelerator; Baseband application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC); Computer architecture; Embedded systems; Energy harvesting; Integrated circuits and systems

Prof. WEN Weijia

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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Prof. XIONG Hui

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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Prof. YANG Liuqing

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;
Synergy of communications, sensing, and information processing; Theory and applications of wireless communications and networking

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Prof. Masaru YARIME

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

 

Prof. YEUNG King-Lun

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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Prof. YU Jianzhen

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

 

Prof. ZHANG Qian

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

 

Prof. ZHANG Xin

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

 

Prof. ZI Yunlong

Associate Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design at HKUST; Thrust of Sustainable Energy and Environment at HKUST(GZ)

 

Expertise:
Triboelectric energy harvesting and nanogenerator; Biomimetic multi-modal tactile sensing; Tribo-induced electroluminescence

Self-powered wireless sensing; Triboelectric charge generation and discharge; Nanomaterials and devices

 

Single-year Impact (in alphabetical order by surname)

 

Prof. FAN Mingming

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)

 

Prof. FU Hongbo

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

 

Prof. GAN Jianping

Chair Professor, Division of Environment and Sustainability; Department of Mathematics; Head and Chair Professor, Department of Ocean Science (OCES)
 
Expertise: Ocean circulation and ecosystem modeling; Computational fluid dynamics; Physical oceanography; Ocean circulation and ecosystem; Regional climate change modeling

 

Prof. Stuart GIETEL-BASTEN

Professor, Division of Public Policy; Division of Social Science

 

Expertise: Demography; Social policy in Asia

 

Prof. Alex HE Jingwei

Professor, Division of Public Policy

 

Expertise: Health policy; Policy design and innovations; Population aging; Social policy

 

Prof. HU Wenqi

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

 

Prof. Kei May LAU

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

 

Prof. Kathy LEUNG

Associate Professor, Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas

 

Expertise: Infectious disease modeling; Epidemiology; Digital medicine; AI application in medicine; Microbiology

 

Prof. LIU Yuan

Assistant Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design

 

Expertise: Computational design; 3-dimensional (3D) reconstruction; Computer graphics; Computer animation; Geometry processing

 

Prof. LUO Wenhan

Associate Professor, Division of Arts and Machine Creativity; Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas; Division of Electronic and Computer Engineering


Expertise: Creative AI; Generative models; Image and video generation; Content restoration; Computer vision

 

Prof. QU Huamin

Dean, Academy of Interdisciplinary Studies

Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

 

Expertise: Information visualization, Big data, Human-computer interaction, Artificial intelligence, Mobile augmented reality

 

 

Prof. SONG Shenghui

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)

 

Prof. WANG Dan

Professor, Division of Environment and Sustainability

 

Expertise: Computing for Sustainability; Sustainable Computing; AI for Weather and Climate Systems; Edge AI

 

Prof. WU Xun

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

 

Prof. Sai-Kit YEUNG

Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design; Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Department of Ocean Science


Expertise: Computer vision; Computer graphics; Computational design; Marine AI and Systems Design; Computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM)

 

Career-long Impact (in alphabetical order by surname)

 

Prof. CHAN Chi-Ming

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

 

Prof. LI Zexiang

Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design; Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering
 
Expertise: Motion control and manufacturing; Robotics

 


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