Academic Staff

PhD (PolyU), BSc (1^st class honours, PolyU)

MIEEE, MIET, AIAA, MRAeS, MRMetS, FHKMetS

Brief Biosketch

Prof. Kam K.H. Ng is currently Associate Head and Associate Professor in the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR. He is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), the Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS), and the Hong Kong Meteorological Society (HKMetS), as well as a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

His research interests encompass air traffic management, unmanned aircraft system traffic management, aviation meteorology, operations research, and deep learning. Key contributions include prescriptive optimisation under uncertainty and deep learning models for wake vortex decay and weather nowcasting. His work has demonstrated significant real-world impact, particularly in dynamic wake vortex prediction and separation standards. Utilising LiDAR data, flight tracks, and meteorological inputs—often drawn from observations at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA)—this research directly supports enhanced runway throughput and safety. By leveraging local LiDAR observations in collaboration with stakeholders such as the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO), it advances operational efficiency, especially in the context of HKIA's three-runway system expansion and efforts to characterise wake vortex behaviour under local meteorological conditions.

Prof. Ng is ranked among the World’s Top 2% Scientists. He has secured major grants from the Research Grants Council, Hong Kong SAR, and his research team has obtained over HK$44 million (~ USD $5.6 million) in external funding over the past five years. His accolades include the 2025 INFORMS Air Transportation Section Best Dissertation Runner-up award (for a supervisee) and the 2025 AIAA Best Paper Award. He has authored and co-authored numerous papers in leading journals, such as Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Journal of Air Transport Management, and Transport Policy.

伍淦鴻教授現任香港理工大學航空及民航工程學系副系主任、副教授。他是英國皇家航空學會（RAeS）、英國皇家氣象學會（RMetS）及香港氣象學會（HKMetS）的會士（Fellow），同時也是美國航空航太學會（AIAA）和電氣與電子工程師協會（IEEE）的會員。

Areas of specialisation

• Air traffic control, air traffic flow management and aviation management
• Operations research and data-driven modelling
• Deep-learning in aviation meteorology and weather hazard prediction
• Urban traffic management in future air mobility
• Aviation safety

Highlights of emgerging ATM research areas in my group

• Data-driven dynamic aircraft wake decay prediction
• Weather hazard prediction, advanced radar meteorology and flight trajectory optimisation
• Space-base surveillance for contrails prediction and climate aware air transportation
• Clear air turbuluence prediction by global weather forecasts, ground instrutmentation and aircraft operational data
• Prescriptive analytics and smart-prediction in runway and airfield operations
• Low-level wind fields, micro-weather phenomena and air corridor design and lower-level airspace management

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4959-0502

Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57188646976

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=zh-TW&user=vZiFMAkAAAAJ

Editorship (International journal)

• International Editorial Board, Journal of Air Transport Management (2025 – onwards)
• Editorial Board, Journal of the Air Transport Research Society (2025 onwards)

Professional affiliations/committees

• Corporate Member (2025/26 – present), Hong Kong Aviation Industry Association (HKAIA)
• Civilian Instructor (2021/22 – 2025/26), Hong Kong Air Cadet Corps (HKACC)
• Fellow (2022/23 – present), Hong Kong Meteorological Society (HKMetS)
• Fellow (2025/26 - present), Member (2022/23 – 2025/26), The Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS)
• Fellow (2025/26 – present), Member (2022/23 – 2025/26), The Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS)
• Senior Member (2025/26 – present), Member (2021/22 – 2025/26), The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
• Member (2016/17 – 2025/26), The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
• Member (2015/16 – present), The Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Corporate Member (2022/23 – present), the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (HKSTS)

Professional affiliations and community services

• Communication Chair (2025/26 - present), Air Transportation Section (ATS), Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
• Observer (2026), Co-opt member (2024 – 2025), Aircraft Division Committee, The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.
• Chairman (2022/23- 2023/24), Treasurer (2021/22 – 2022/23), Committee member (2017/18 – 2021/22), Co-opt member (2017/18), Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering Section, IET Hong Kong (2022/23 – 2023/24).

Research grants – RGC/NSFC (PI and PC only)

• NTL-RAM-DOM synergy: a learning-and-optimising framework of multi-modal transit solutions for time-critical and imbalanced passenger flows in regional airport clusters. Research Fund 2026, Research Grants Council, HK $902,986.00, 01/2027 – 12/2029.