AIS Faculty Ranked among the World’s Top 2% of Most-cited Scientists 2024 by Stanford University

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AIS Faculty Ranked among the World’s Top 2% of Most-cited Scientists 2024 by Stanford University

03/10/2024

#shiningwithoutboundaries

17 faculty members from HKUST’s Academy of Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS) have been ranked among the world’s Top 2% most-cited scientists for 2024, according to the latest metrics compiled by Stanford University, published on September 16, 2024.

The number of AIS faculty members listed in the report accounts for 36% of our regular faculty. 5 of them have been featured on both lists of career-long and single-year impact. The listing of our faculty members spans across diverse scientific fields, namely Chemistry, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Economics & Business, Enabling & Strategic Technologies, Engineering, Information & Communication Technologies, Physics & Astronomy, and Social Sciences.

This recognition underscores AIS’ strength in driving interdisciplinary research and new pedagogy, and the diverse expertise of our faculty members. Applause for our top-notch faculty members for their contributions and influence in their respective fields!

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

Image	Prof. CHEN Fei Associate Head, Division of Environment and Sustainability Professor, Division of Environment and Sustainability PhD, Blaise Pascal University 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
Image	Prof. Laurence DELINA Assistant 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. WU Xun Professor, Division of Public Policy PhD, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Expertise: Health policy; Water resource management; Anti-corruption; Policy design and innovations; Technology policy
Image	Prof. YU Jianzhen Chair Professor, Division of Environment and Sustainability; Department of Chemistry PhD, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Expertise: Aerosol chemistry; Analytical chemistry; Atmospheric applications; Environmental analysis Atmospheric science; Environmental chemistry/instrumentation; Urban ozone formation chemistry
Image	Prof. ZHANG Qian Acting Head, Division of Integrative Systems and Design Tencent Professor of Engineering Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering PhD, Wuhan University Expertise: Computer networking; Wireless systems; Cyber-physical systems; Mobile computing; Cybersecurity

Single-year Impact (in alphabetical order by surname)

Image	Prof. Alex Jingwei HE Associate Professor, Division of Public Policy PhD, National University of Singapore Expertise: Health policy; Policy design and innovations; Population aging; Social policy
Image	Prof. Alexis LAU Head and Chair Professor, Division of Environment and Sustainability Chair Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD, Princeton University 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 PhD, Rice University Expertise: Compound semiconductor materials and devices; III-V on Si integration by epitaxy; Photonics devices; Power semiconductor devices
Image	Prof. LUO Wenhan Associate Professor, Division of Arts and Machine Creativity; Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas PhD, Imperial College London Expertise: Creative AI; Generative models; Image and video generation; Content restoration; Computer vision
Image	Prof. QU Huamin Dean, Academy of Interdisciplinary Studies Head, Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas Chari Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering PhD, The State University of New York at Stony Brook Expertise: Information visualization, Big data, Human-computer interaction, Artificial intelligence, Mobile augmented reality
Image	Prof. XU Dongfang Research Assistant Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design DEng, University of Erlangen–Nuremberg Expertise: 6G network design; Wireless communication techniques; Optimization theory; Machine learning-based communication
	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
Image	Prof. ZHU Pengyu Associate Professor, Division of Public Policy PhD, University of Southern California Expertise: Big data and urban planning, Sustainable transportation, Economic development policy, Housing and land use policy, Migration and employment

Career-long Impact (in alphabetical order by surname)

Image	Prof. CHAN Chi Ming Co-founder, Dual Degree Program in Technology & Management Co-UG Program Coordinator, Division of Integrative Systems and Design Professor Emeritus, Division of Environment and Sustainability PhD, California Institute of Technology Expertise: Surface and interface science; Polymer blends and alloys; Conductive composite polymers; Crosslinking of polymers; Adhesion phenomena
Image	Prof. TSUI Chi Ying Director of Entrepreneurship Education Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design; Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering PhD, University of Southern California Expertise: AI hardware accelerator; Baseband application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC); Computer architecture; Embedded systems; Energy harvesting; Integrated circuits and systems
Image	Prof. YEUNG King Lun Professor, Division of Environment and Sustainability; Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering PhD, University of Notre Dame Expertise: Environmental pollution treatment; Nanoporous and nanostructured materials; Biomedical engineering (BME)
	Prof. Nevin ZHANG Co-director, Dual Degree Program in Technology & Management Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering PhD, The University of British Columbia Expertise: Bayesian networks; Artificial intelligence; Machine learning

About World’s Top 2% of the Most-cited Scientists by Stanford University 2024
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-2023 and single recent year data pertain to citations received during calendar year 2023.

Click here to read the latest metrics published on September 16, 2024: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/7