Hong Kong's collegiate research university in Sha Tin, where world-changing medicine, mathematics, and Chinese scholarship share one mountainside campus.
8 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. A small, growing selection, not a roster of the faculty. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
Vice-Chancellor and President, Li Ka Shing Professor of Medicine
Office of the Vice-Chancellor
Thank you for discovering fetal DNA in a mother's blood and turning it into non-invasive prenatal testing used by millions of families, and for now giving that same devotion to leading your university.
Provost and Wei Lun Professor of Statistics and Data Science
Office of the Provost
Thank you for years of quiet leadership in teaching and learning at CUHK, and for bringing a statistician's honesty about evidence to the work of running a great university.
Chairman and Li Shu Fan Professor of Clinical Oncology
Department of Clinical Oncology
Thank you for the trials that made genetic testing and targeted therapy the standard of care in lung cancer, changing what a diagnosis means for patients across Asia and the world.
Professor of Chemical Pathology
Department of Chemical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine
Thank you for turning cell-free DNA into practical tests, from safer prenatal screening to earlier cancer detection, and for showing young clinician-scientists in Hong Kong what is possible.
Patrick Huen Wing Ming Professor of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
Thank you for decades of work on multilingual speech and language technology, and for founding the labs that taught computers to listen to Cantonese, Mandarin, and English with equal respect.
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education) and Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Thank you for research spanning machine learning and social computing that has stood the test of time, and for pouring the same energy into e-learning so that good teaching scales as well as good algorithms.
William M.W. Mong Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
Thank you for deep results on the nonlinear equations of fluid flow, including the Prandtl equations, and for anchoring analysis in Hong Kong for generations of students.
Emeritus Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Thank you for a lifetime spent studying Hong Kong society itself, and for building the survey research tradition that lets the city understand its own people with data rather than guesswork.
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A celebration of the faculty and academic leaders of Chinese University of Hong Kong, assembled entirely from public information as an act of credit and gratitude. It is not a claim of endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, or partnership by anyone featured or by the university. Every person is real and publicly documented, with a cited source of truth on their card; we never invent a person or a claim, and we prize accuracy over speed. Anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed at any time. Names and marks belong to their owners.