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38% AIS Faculty Named Among World’s Top 2% Scientists 2025 by Stanford University

09/10/2025

Thumbnail — Kudos to our exceptional AIS faculty for their outstanding contributions!

Kudos to our exceptional AIS faculty for their outstanding contributions!

#shiningwithoutboundaries

In a notable achievement, 31 faculty members from HKUST’s Academy of Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS) have been recognized as “World’s Top 2% Scientists” for 2025 according to the latest metrics compiled by Stanford University. This recognition nearly doubles last year’s figure, underscoring AIS’s commitment to excellence and relentless pursuit of knowledge through interdisciplinary research.

This representation constitutes 38% of our regular faculty, reflecting a sustained dedication to research quality. Notably, 14 faculty members have been featured in both career-long and single-year impact lists, demonstrating their enduring influence in their respective fields.

Spanning a wide array of disciplines—including Artificial Intelligence, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Economics & Business, Enabling & Strategic Technologies, Engineering, Industrial Engineering & Automation, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences, Physics & Astronomy, and Political Science & Public Administration—this accolade highlights the AIS’s strength in fostering innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Kudos to our stellar faculty members for their exceptional contributions in their fields!

Career-long and Single-year Impact (in alphabetical order by surname)

Image	Prof. CHAN Wan Professor, Division of Environment and Sustainability; Department of Chemistry Expertise: Analytical chemistry; Bioanalytical chemistry; Chemical toxicology; Food chemistry; Mass spectrometry
Image	Prof. CHEN Fei Associate Head, Division of Environment and Sustainability 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
	Prof. Laurence DELINA Associate Professor, Division of Environment and Sustainability PhD, The University of New South Wales Expertise: Renewable energy; Environmental sustainability; Global and planetary change; Policy evaluations
Image	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
Image	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
Image	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
Image	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
Image	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
Image	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, Big Data Analytics of Human Resources, Mobile Computing, Business Intelligence, Information Asurance
Image	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
Image	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)
Image	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, 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
Image	Prof. ZI Yunlong Associate Professor, ISD at HKUST; Thrust of Sustainable Energy and Environment at HKUST(GZ) Expertise: High-performance mechanical energy harvesting through triboelectric nanogenerator; Tribo-photonics toward novel self-powered wireless solution; Triboelectric mechanism and breakdown discharging; Multi-modal tactile sensing; Nanomaterials and nano-electronics

Single-year Impact (in alphabetical order by surname)

Image	Prof. CHEN Guanghao Chair Professor, Division of Environment and Sustainability; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Expertise: Environmental engineering
Image	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
Image	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. Alex HE Jingwei Professor, Division of Public Policy Expertise: Health policy; Policy design and innovations; Population aging; Social policy
Image	Prof. Arash KAZEMIAN Research Assistant Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design Expertise: Renewable energy systems; Solar technologies; Optimization; Predictive analytics; Energy analysis; Nanotechnology applications
	Prof. Alexis LAU Head and Chair Professor, Division of Environment and Sustainability Tang Junyuan Professor of Environmental Science Chair Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Expertise: Air quality analysis, forecasts and management, Air pollution exposure and health impact assessment, Climate adaptation and resilience, Sustainable urban environment, Green and sustainable finance
Image	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
Image	Prof. LI Jia Assistant Professor, Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas at HKUST; Thrust of Data Science and Analytics at HKUST(GZ) Expertise: Graph Learning, Data Mining, AI for Science
Image	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 Expertise: Creative AI; Generative models; Image and video generation; Content restoration; Computer vision
	Prof. QU Huamin Dean, Academy of Interdisciplinary Studies Head, Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Expertise: Information visualization, Big data, Human-computer interaction, Artificial intelligence, Mobile augmented reality
	Prof. XU Dongfang Research Assistant Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design Expertise: 6G network design; Wireless communication techniques; Optimization theory; Machine learning-based communication
Image	Prof. YANG Liuqing Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design at HKUST; Thrust Head, Thrust of Intelligent Transportation 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
	Prof. Sai-Kit YEUNG Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design; Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Department of Ocean Science PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Expertise: Computer vision; Computer graphics; Computational design; Marine AI and Systems Design

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

Prof. Nevin ZHANG
Co-director, Dual Degree Program in Technology & Management
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Expertise: Bayesian networks; Artificial intelligence; Machine learning

About World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University 2025
The “science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators” compiled by Stanford University is based on the top 100,000 scientists by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field, using Scopus data. Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields according to the standard Science-Metrix classification. Career-long data are updated to end-of-2024 and single recent year data pertain to citations received during calendar year 2024.

Click here to read the latest metrics published on September 19, 2025:

https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/8

Kudos to our exceptional AIS faculty for their outstanding contributions!