Meet Our Distinguished Scholars

 

Prof. Lei SUN has 25 years of research and application development experience in medical ultrasound technology, including system development, signal/image processing and biomedical applications. He holds more than ten US and Chinese patents, either granted or filed. As a Principal Investigator, he has led research projects in Hong Kong and Chinese mainland with total funding of over HK$76 million HK dollars, from funding bodies that include the Collaborative Research Fund (CRF), General Research Fund (GRF), Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF), Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF), the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). 

He is a Senior Research Fellow of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council and, at PolyU, Director of the Research Centre for Non-invasive Brain Computer Interface, Deputy Director of the Centralised Animal Facility, member of the University Council, and member of the Staffing Committee and Research Committee of the Faculty of Engineering. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed journal articles and international conference proceedings, in journals including Nature Communications, PNAS, Advanced Science, Biomaterials, Cell Reports, Brain Stimulations, npj Regenerative Medicine, Acta Biomaterialia and iScience.

He is the general chair of the Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation Conference 2025 (FUN25) and has hosted scientific sessions at various other conferences. At PolyU, he has won the Merit Award in Research, as well as Scholarly Activity and Research Grant Achievement Awards from the Faculty of Engineering.